Mall Santa Apologizes After Being Fired For Wearing Trump Hat While On Duty I Thought It Was Harmless Fun

Frank Skinner has played Santa at The Mall at Waycross Shopping Center in Waycross, Georgia, for the past 14 years, First Coast News reported. But Skinner recently sparked controversy after a picture that showed him wearing a Trump 2020 hat with his Santa costume during his shift started circulating on Facebook. The mall’s manager said he became aware of the picture after it was sent to him on social media on Friday....

January 29, 2023 · 3 min · 479 words · Kimberly Gomez

Man Accused Of Fatally Shooting Florida Deputy Captured After 4 Day Manhunt

Authorities have been looking for McDowell, 35, since the Friday morning shooting at a traffic stop that resulted in the death of Deputy Joshua Moyers, 29. Moyers, who was shot in the face and back, died on Sunday at a Jacksonville hospital. At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said that they followed up on tips that led them to McDowell in the town of Callahan....

January 29, 2023 · 2 min · 300 words · Eloise Phillips

Man Accused Of Killing 4 Muslims Told Cab Driver To Call Police To Arrest Him Company Head Says

Yellow London Taxi President Hasan Savehilaghi told the Associated Press that one of his company’s drivers was having a cigarette and coffee by his taxi in an empty strip mall parking lot on Sunday evening when a black pickup truck stopped abruptly behind him. The man accused of killing four people, Nathaniel Veltman, began haranguing and swearing at the taxi driver, according to Savehilaghi, who said his employee was extremely upset by what the events....

January 29, 2023 · 3 min · 466 words · Emily Nunez

Man Accused Of Starving Dogs Tried To Drink Detergent To Avoid Jail Police

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said in a press conference that the man, Joseph Farkas, drank liquid detergent when police arrived in an attempt to “avoid jail,” but the plot was unsuccessful. He was arrested and charged with two counts of felony animal cruelty and two counts of unlawful confinement. Animal Cruelty in Florida According to the Law Office of Roger P. Foley, a Florida-based law firm, there are “two types of animal cruelty” in Florida—misdemeanor and felony animal cruelty....

January 29, 2023 · 3 min · 569 words · Mabel Stock

Man Allegedly Strangled Newborns Until They Were Blue In Hospital Attack

According to a police report obtained by Newsweek, on October 3, Marcus McCowan was found to have been choking infants in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU). He also shoved a nurse and resisted the officers who responded to the scene. At one point, police said McCowan reached for one officer’s duty-issued pistol. Attempted capital murder, assault on a public servant and possession of a controlled substance are among the charges McCowan faces....

January 29, 2023 · 3 min · 612 words · Young Fairbanks

Man Backed After Realizing His Friends Introduced Girlfriend As A Joke

One man found this out the hard way, after discovering his friends originally set him up with his long-term girlfriend “as a joke.” Posting to Reddit’s True Off My Chest forum on August 11, user u/TheThrowawayBuddy explained he’d met his girlfriend through friends the summer after graduating from high school. The relationship has been “the greatest four years of his life,” and he’s planning to propose to her later this year....

January 29, 2023 · 4 min · 725 words · James Cason

Man Beats Person To Death Outside Strip Club Police Say

Jesus Torres, of Crescent City, is facing a second-degree murder charge, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The 43-year-old was arrested in Flagler County on Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff’s office said, after deputies spent three days working to track the man down. The sheriff’s office said the victim, 44-year-old Vicente Alejo Verdel, of DeLeon Springs, was discovered unresponsive in the parking lot of Dixie’s Gentlemen’s Club near DeLand on Saturday night....

January 29, 2023 · 3 min · 453 words · Jerry Neuman

Man City Not Currently Interested In Dortmund Striker Aubameyang

Aubameyang was a target for City last summer, but like Juventus’ Leonardo Bonucci, Athletic’s Aymeric Laporte and Arsenal’s Hector Bellerin, he is far from the top of Pep Guardiola’s wishlist this time around. Alves may live to regret City quip City identified their top targets several months ago, and after signing Bernardo Silva from Monaco and Ederson from Benfica they are now working on deals for four full-backs. It is understood Dani Alves is currently the most likely to become the Blues’ third signing of the summer, though director of football Txiki Begiristain is still trying to sign Tottenham right-back Kyle Walker and left-backs Benjamin Mendy, of Monaco, and Ryan Bertrand, of Southampton, as quickly as possible....

January 29, 2023 · 3 min · 450 words · Darrell Swanagan

Man City Target Mendy Limps Off For France In England Friendly

The Monaco defender, who Goal revealed to a target for City last week, suffered a knee problem around the 20th minute after a collision with Raheem Sterling and hobbled off the field. While he walked away without assistance, he did not return as Barcelona full-back Lucas Digne was substituted in his place a minute later. Barca confident on Messi contract Though Mendy is not yet a City player, that the collision with Sterling caused the injury is reminiscent of another incident last week, which featured Gabriel Jesus suffering a fractured eye socket as a result of an elbow from City team-mate Nicolas Otamendi....

January 29, 2023 · 1 min · 159 words · Anthony Conners

Man Confronts Woman Who Allegedly Called Him A Racial Slur In Video Viewed 3M Times

The incident is just one recent example of what’s become a widespread internet phenomenon over the past year, in which white people—often women—are captured on camera threatening or otherwise targeting Black individuals with hate speech, racial slurs, and/or unnecessary police intervention. JAMALY’s video begins after the alleged altercation, with the musician following the woman into a Brooklyn pizza shop. On-screen captioning provided viewers with relevant context: “I was just minding my business walking home and this white lady called me the [n-word] and told me to go back to Africa....

January 29, 2023 · 2 min · 370 words · James Carter

Man Dragged For Leaving Partner Stranded Outside Apartment While Gaming

In a viral Reddit post published on r/AmITheA**hole, Redditor u/eldenr1ng (otherwise referred to as the original poster, or OP) explained that their key fob for their apartment broke over the weekend, and detailed the ensuing events that left them stuck in their building’s lobby as a result. Titled, “[Am I the a**hole] for leaving my husband ‘stranded’ at our apartment after he left me locked out for 45 minutes playing Elden Ring,” the viral post has received nearly 10,000 votes and 1,300 comments in the last day....

January 29, 2023 · 4 min · 772 words · Steven Fugate

Man Finds Sister Dead In Bed Loses Nearly All His Family To Covid 19 Within Weeks

John Delarue’s mother collapsed on December 11, prompting him to call 911 because he thought she was having a heart attack. At the hospital, she learned she had COVID-19 and after being in the Intensive Care Unit for days, she passed away. By December 31, Delarue also lost his sister and his father. While his mother was intubated at the hospital, the rest of the family attempted to recover from COVID-19 at home....

January 29, 2023 · 4 min · 692 words · Kerry Morgan

Man Fined 560 For Farting Loudly At Police In Austria

The title of the Reddit post stated: “It’s a miracle that the policeman didn’t grab the poufs right away! We must not be ‘suppressed’: let the intestinal wind escape for everyone!” The fine said that in the incident in Bennoplatz, Vienna, the person violated a regulation by violating public decency or for an unduly disturbing noise. More specifically, according to the fine, “they violated public decency by loudly blowing a bowel in front of police officers....

January 29, 2023 · 3 min · 549 words · Eric Lightfoot

Man Gets Trapped Inside Oklahoma Stadium Chasing Pokemon

Oklahoma alumnus Steven Zoeller and two others trapped themselves inside OU’s Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Monday night while chasing a Pokemon on the popular phone app Pokemon Go. MORE: Top 40 players for 2016 season Zoeller and his companions began their search for the Pokemon in question, a Squirtle, by looking in the stadium’s bathrooms. “I’ll do a lot of things for a Squirtle — a lot of things I’m not proud of,” Zoeller told OU Daily....

January 29, 2023 · 1 min · 198 words · Dewey Klein

Man Gives Stranger Sitting Next To Him On Plane A Tattoo Mid Flight

Asher, from California, boarded a flight and sat next to a woman who was worried about finding a tattoo parlor at their destination. Luckily for her, Asher offered to ink a design on her arm there and then, some thousands of feet in the sky. Tattoos have soared in popularity in recent years, with 2020 statistics from Comparecamp.com stating Americans spend $1.65 billion a year on body art. The data revealed 36 percent of U....

January 29, 2023 · 3 min · 542 words · Sherry Kolter

Man Headbutts Referee During Middle School Basketball Game Gets Banned From League

The incident occurred in St. Paris, Ohio, during a fifth-grade girls basketball game between Graham and Troy Middle School. The St. Paris Police Department identified the man as the parent of one the girls playing in the game, WHIO-TV reported. In the video posted by WHIO, the referee, Doug Thompson, walks over to the bleachers and speaks to fans. The man, who has not been identified by authorities, then walks onto the court and headbutts the referee....

January 29, 2023 · 2 min · 410 words · Martin Nelson

Man In Mcdonald S Suddenly Stabbed Multiple Times By Random Stranger Police

The 32-year-old man told police he was at the Rock ’n’ Roll McDonald’s in the 600 block of North Clark Street in the city’s River North neighborhood when he was approached by an unknown male. The stranger came towards him and started yelling before pulling out an object and launching his attack, Fox32 Chicago reported. Police said the unknown attacker stabbed the victim several times in the arm, hip and chest, according to the outlet....

January 29, 2023 · 2 min · 423 words · Andrew Watkins

Man Kills Wife Injures Son For Taking Too Long To Serve Salad

According to multiple reports, the crime took place on Monday night in the Shamli district when the accused—45-year-old Murli Singh—demanded that his wife serve him a salad with his dinner. Caught up with other work, his wife Sudesh took longer than he anticipated to prepare and serve the salad, causing Singh to get angry with her. The Hindustan Times says that the delay led to an altercation between the couple that quickly took a turn for the worst....

January 29, 2023 · 2 min · 374 words · Phillip Delafuente

Man Makes Stardew Valley Inspired Pop Up Book To Propose Charms Internet

Shared by Garrett Frickey (the_goop2526), the Reddit post has received over 40,000 upvotes (and counting) in the r/StardewValley subreddit. “I proposed to my girlfriend on our 5 year anniversary with a Stardew Valley themed pop-up book I made. (she said yes!),” the post read. The user attached eight images of the book in question as well as a photo of the newly engaged couple posing with their dog. Each page of the book was customized by the user to reflect on their relationship with a ton of puns and references to the farmlife-based RPG....

January 29, 2023 · 3 min · 619 words · Leo Barry

Man Makes Millions Using Cow Poop To Run Cryptocurrency Mining Firm

In a profitable effort to utilize sustainable energy, the British entrepreneur has developed a cryptocurrency mining machine that runs only on manure, according to the BBC. Josh Riddett, the 30-year-old managing director at Easy Crypto Hunter in Manchester, England, has reportedly established a system of harvesting energy from the fecal matter of cows, specifically to mine for cryptocurrency. To harvest cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Dogecoin, computers must process digital transactions on the existing blockchain....

January 29, 2023 · 5 min · 955 words · Thomas Higgins