A man dressed in a cow costume crawled on all fours as he robbed a Stafford County, VirginiaWalmart store of 26 gallons of milk. The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Friday night when the 18-year-old man entered the store in full costume. He obtained a cart and loaded it with gallons of milk. As Walmart staff became suspicious, he left the store on all fours, trying to mimic cattle. There is no word on how he managed to sneak the milk out the store.
Later, witnesses reported the man handing out the milk to random people outside of the Walmart. Police were called to the scene and located the man— without the cow suit— at a local McDonalds. A search of the suspect’s car led police officers to the costume….
This clip, which may or may not be real, comes from Brazil. It shows a man crossing a road in the middle of a storm when a sudden bold of lightning strikes him.
There are between 200 and 1000 instances of people being struck by lightning annually. Do you think this is real or handy camera work?
Take a look at the happy couple’s first kiss and then look at the bottom left corner. Someone wasn’t happy. Update: her name is Grace Van Cutsem, and she is the great-great-great-granddaughter of William Waldorf Astor.
At least 250 people have died in 6 southern states as a string of vicious tornadoes leveled property and left a swath of destruction in their path. Alabama was the hardest hit of the states with at least 162 confirmed fatalities. Governor Robert Bentley said, “We had a major catastrophic event.” Tornadoes also caused fatalities in Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia and Kentucky. Each of the states affected has declared a state of emergency.
The tornadoes moved in rapidly and devastated urban areas like Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Residents had little time to flee or prepare for the storms. The National Weather Service said it received reports of 137 tornadoes from the storm. An estimated 1 million people are without power and several hundred people were injured in the storm. A nuclear power plant was shut down in the aftermath of the storm.
Residents produced some absolutely incredible and terrifying videos of the disaster. In this clip, an obviously terrified videographer records as the tornado tears up trees in a nearby parking lot.
Entire neighborhoods were destroyed by the tornadoes.
Here’s video from storm chasers of four different tornadoes that touched down during the storms.
You can see how terrified the newscasters are as they report the storm live. The weatherman is clearly in shock and trying to keep it together.
This photo just captures the sheer size of one of the storms.
In this footage (posted by the AP), you get a real sense of just how wide these storms were.
Look at the sheer size of the storm as it approaches. Also, note that it is right downtown, in a highly populated area.
This video was shot from inside a car during the storms. You can see just how large the storm is and watch as it jumps across the highway.
I have no idea why anyone would be outside when they can see this so close to them.
This photo is perhaps most shocking of them all. The tornado is just tearing about an urban area.
Will update as new images/ videos become available.
Worried that an increasing amount of press coverage of the “birther” movement was crowding out the debate on other important issues, President Barack Obama released a long-form certificate of birth this morning. The document clearly shows that the President was born in a Hawaiian hospital on August 4, 1961.
The White House released the document early this morning, per the President’s order. He arrived at 9:45 a.m. for a statement where he criticized members of the press for their silliness.
On Friday, the President wrote to Loretta J. Fuddy, the director of health at the State of Hawaii, requesting two copies of his original certificate of live birth. She complied. The President’s counsel took a trip to Hawaii, paid for out of the President’s personal account, to retrive the copies and they were released shortly thereafter.
“I know that there is going to be a segment of people for which no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest,” Obama said. “But I am speaking for the vast majority of the American people as well as for the press. We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We have better stuff to do. I have got better stuff to do. We have got big problems to solve.”
Real estate mogul and potential Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has been largely responsible for the issue returning to the public conscience in recent weeks, applauded the decision and took personal credit for it.
“Today I’m very proud of myself, because I’ve accomplished something that no one else has been able to accomplish,” said Trump on the release of the president’s birth certificate, according to NBC News. “I want to look at it, but I hope it’s true. … But he should have done it a long time ago.”
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