Singer Brandy faces charge in fatal car crash

The California Highway Patrol recommended Monday that Brandy be charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in a Los Angeles freeway crash that killed a female motorist last month, the city attorney’s office said.
“The (city attorney’s) office is currently reviewing the case and determining whether the evidence warrants the filing of a misdemeanor charge of vehicular manslaughter,” spokesman Nick Velasquez said.
The charge carries a maximum sentence of one year in county jail and a $1,000 fine, Velasquez said.

Brandy faces minor charge over fatal crash

The driver whose car Brandy rear-ended, Awatef Aboudihaj, 38, a married mother of one, was killed when her vehicle slammed into a third car, careened into the freeway's center divider and was hit broad-side by a fourth automobile.

Tang said the Highway Patrol referred the case to the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office for further review with the recommendation that the former star of the TV comedy Moesha be cited with a misdemeanour charge of vehicular manslaughter.

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$7500 buys a surfer's life

Australian sells own life on Internet

SYDNEY (AFP) - A 24-year-old Australian surfer who sold his life, including baggage from a painful break-up, on eBay says he is still not quite sure why he did it.
Nicael Holt sold his name, phone number and all his possessions, including clothes, CDs, a surfboard, a laptop, a wonky pushbike, childhood photos and a "nice lamp" given to him by an ex-girlfriend, on the internet auction site.

WHAT'S a life worth? $7500 apparently, if you sell it on eBay.

In his sales pitch, Mr Holt said the winner would be entitled to a four-week training course in how to be him - including lessons on how to surf, climb, skateboard, fire twirl and do handstands - as well as two months of on-call support afterward.
He also promised to introduce the winner to all his friends and potential lovers, including eight people he had been flirting with.

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Embarrassments: No one is getting a life

The hugs guy and the depressed guy should take heed of Nicael Holt's cautionary tale: internet auctions can be problematic.

Holt is the 24-year-old Wollongong man who tried to sell his life on eBay last week, only to find that the winning bid was invalid. "It's a huge flaw in the system at eBay," he says. "eBay only gave us the top two bids. One of them backed out. He said, 'I wanted to do it, now I'm a bit scared.' For the second bid we only got an email address, and there's been no response."

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO
HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF
AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER...

These are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail":

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a f ederal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff wh o created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damn mouths!"

Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.

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This is a real blast from the past I bet the kids entering collage this year never saw this on TV...

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David Beckham plays prince for Disney

When David Beckham announced his trade to the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer club, it seemed inevitable that he and his wife, Victoria Beckham, would settle into the Hollywood scene. The first true sign of the Beckham's entry into American pop culture came when Victoria and David were approached by Fox to star in their own reality TV series. Now, Beckham has landed another high-profile celebrity role as the Sleeping Beauty character Prince Phillip in a new advertising campaign for Disney.

Beyonce Knowles & Scarlett Johansson in a new Disney advertising campaign!

Singer Beyonce Knowles, actress Scarlett Johansson and footballer David Beckham are among the stars appearing in a new Disney advertising campaign.
Renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz shot the celebrities in various fairytale guises in a promotion for Walt Disney's theme parks.
Recruited by Disney to promote Disneyland and Walt Disney World's Year of a Million Dreams campaign, Leibovitz persuaded her famous friends to dress up as classic Disney characters. The first images in this ongoing series will appear in the March issues of Vogue, Vanity Fair, W, GQ, Conde Nast Traveller, Cookie and The New Yorker reports USA TODAY.

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