While the pace of donations to Steven Colbert’s super PAC has slowed, “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” continues to bank contributions from supporters with rather curious names.
Federal Election Commission records show that Colbert’s committee has recently received two separate contributions (totaling $275) from one Oliver Urface of Knoxville, Tennessee. While Urface purportedly lives on Shane Lane, an actual street, no record of his existence could be found in various online databases.
The donations from Urface--whose full name could, of course, be mistakenly pronounced as “All Over Your Face”--follow prior contributions from Colbert supporters like Pat Magroin, Harry Ballsagna, Ibin Yerkinoff, and Frumunda Mabalz. The uniquely named quartet last year donated an aggregate total of $37 to the entertainer’s political committee.
4/10 UPDATE:Baltimore's police chief today said that the videotaped beating of a white tourist does not appear to be a hate crime, but rather "drunken opportunistic criminality" on the part of a gang of Charm City assailants.
In a radio interview, Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III urged Baltimore residents to "distinguish between criminality and racially motivated crime." Bealefeld, who is white, warned against "race-baiting" and "fear-mongering" in light of the Trayvon Martin shooting and other recent racially charged incidents.
"There's no doubt it's a crime," Bealefeld said of the March 17 assault. "We need to vigorously hold criminals accountable, and we have to be careful not to be pulled into this race-baiting."
As Baltimore cops investigate the videotaped beating of a tourist on St. Patrick’s Day, a second clip showing the brutal attack could help police identify members of the mob who knocked the victim to the ground, stole his belongings, and even tore his pants off.
The video, seen above, was shot by an onlooker outside a downtown courthouse, where the tourist was sucker-punched by an attacker. The victim, wearing a Mountain Dew shirt, crumpled to the sidewalk and hit his head.
While on the ground, the man was set upon by about ten attackers, who stole his Tag Heuer watch, money, iPhone, and keys to his Audi, according to police. The dazed and defenseless victim is also punched, kicked, and even hit with a shoe by several assailants. In a final indignity, the man is “teabagged” by a male attacker.
The 1:26 cell phone video--shot by a cameraman who cackled as the beating transpired--was first uploaded to the WorldStar Hip Hop web site on March 30. It was included as part of a 14:22 "fight compilation" of 12 clips showing assorted mayhem.
In a TV news report Friday (which included another view of the Baltimore attack), a detective pledged to hunt down the man’s attackers. “We want to bring these people to justice,” said Det. Nicole Monroe.
According to the report, investigators discovered drug paraphernalia and apparent narcotics residue in the Beverly Hilton Hotel room where Houston, 48, died on February 11. The entertainer “possibly overdosed on a narcotic substance, prescription medications, over the counter medications and alcohol.”
Houston, who was discovered face down in a bathtub by friends, had traces of cocaine, marijuana, and several prescription medications in her system at the time of her death, the cause of which has been listed as accidental drowning (with heart disease and chronic cocaine use as contributing factors in her demise).
Dated March 29, the report concluded that Houston's death was “due to drowning due to effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use. No foul play is suspected. The mode of death is accident.”
The report also notes that a criminalist actually "used a sexual assault kit" on Houston in the hotel room where she died. The investigator "later booked the pubic hair kit, the fingernail clippings, the hair standards, and the sexual assault kit at the Forensic Services Center as evidence."
The autopsy report does not reveal why such a rape kit was deemed necessary, beyond noting that it was "per Departmental Protocol" and that "nothing remarkable being noted."
And since such invasive reports leave no details unexamined, coroner's officials made sure to note that Houston had a "perforation of posterior nasal septum" and McGhan breast implants (size: 230 cc).
After being spotted last night wandering naked around an Indiana neighborhood, a 19-year-old man explained to cops that he was sans clothes because it was “opposite day,” according to a police report.
After Leonard Fodera provided an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer with that explanation (along with the claim that he “just wanted to be free”), the cop delivered his own “opposite day” retort.
“Fine, in that case, you are not going to jail for public indecency,” replied Officer Michael O’Connor.
Fodera, pictured in the above mug shot, was arrested and booked into the Marion County jail, where he remains locked up this afternoon.
Perturbed about the taste of a hamburger she purchased from Hardee’s, a Tennessee woman twice called police emergency operators to lodge a complaint about the fast food outlet’s “nasty” grub.
Those calls, of course, made Donna Marie Nichols, 50, the latest restaurant patron to get arrested for “Abuse of 911 system,” according to a criminal complaint filed last Thursday in Roane County’s General Sessions Court.
After Nichols made two 911 calls, a cop responded to her location, and was told that she “had purchased a meal from the Hardees in Rockwood and that the hamburger tasted funny.” Nichols, pictured in the above mug shot, added that before she contacted cops, she called Hardee’s, “and that they told her to return and they would refund her money.”
In one of her 911 calls (listen below), Nichols told a police operator that the Hardee’s food “is no good” and that, “I only took a small bite out of the burger and it’s nasty.”
Nichols was subsequently busted and booked into the county jail, where bail was set at $1500. She was released from custody yesterday evening.
Previously, customers have been popped for calling 911 to register dismay about Burger King lemonade, McDonald's McNuggets, and pizza.
During a vice operation late Friday evening, a Florida detective was trolling for hookers when he pulled up to a 47-year-old suspect and “asked if she wanted a ride.” The woman accepted the offer, got in the undercover vehicle, and “engaged in a conversation about sex,” according to a police report.
The cop explained that he was looking “to Fuck,” and asked the woman “if she wanted to help me out with that.”
The woman, the detective reported, replied that the pair “could go have sexual intercourse if I bought her two double cheese burgers off the dollar menu at McDonald’s.” The cop added, “I agreed to the deal and purchased the hamburgers for $2.75.”
In addition to the cheeseburgers, the woman told the undercover that he could also give her a tip. In response, the cop handed over $60. The woman kept $40, took the McDonald’s grub, and directed the cop to a vacant Bradenton parking lot “to park in to complete the deal.”
At this point, Christine Baker was arrested by a takedown team. Booked on a misdemeanor prostitution charge, she is scheduled for a May 1 court appearance.