Snack Rage Hits England

March 07, 2011

In a trend that promises to put bakeries on guard worldwide, bizarre occurrences of tantrums over missing sweets has jumped from Girl Scout cookies in Florida to cupcakes in the UK.

An unidentified woman, rather ironically described as “a strawberry blonde,” walked into a cake shop in Cardiff knowing exactly what she wanted: the very popular treat known as the “sweet tooth” fairy cake.

Unfortunately, that particular cupcake had just sold out.

Before the proprietor could tell her that fresh cupcakes were ready for the baking, she reacted rather poorly to the news.

She smashed glass display cases. She threw (presumably less popular) cupcakes at other customers. She leaned over the counter and grabbed the owner's hair. And then, like that last sweet treat you try to hide in the back of your fridge – she was gone.

To add to the inappropriateness of the woman's actions, her display of ill temper was witnessed by two young children who accompanied her.

The cake shop owner could only muse afterward: “You expect a certain amount of risk running a bar or pub, but not in a cupcake shop.”

Of course, that was before this baffling outbreak of Dessert Dementia.

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The Trials of Amanda Knox

March 25, 2010

TLC will be premiering a film on Amanda Knox's trial this weekend. The film gives in-depth analysis to the extraordinary case, including unique access to Amanda Knox's family and her closest friends, as well as the prosecutors and lawyers who found her guilty of this vicious crime. "The Trials of Amanda Knox" will air on TLC March 28 at 8pm. Click here for the schedule.

Now that you've seen a sneak peek, be sure to click here to read an in-depth article on the case, written by true crime writers David Lohr and Gary C. King.

Murder Campaign Driving Gay Men Out Of Iraq

October 09, 2009

Although it is not common knowledge to the average reader, Iraq is, and has been for a very long time, an extremely homophobic society.  Gay men who live there with their sexual orientation do so at great risk, and are in near constant fear of being tortured or murdered because of their sexual preference.

Historically, the idea of making or allowing their same-sex preference to be publicly known has typically been out of the question, and still is.  But in the past year or so, things have gotten much worse for outing gay men in Iraq, regardless of whether the disclosure was of their own doing or otherwise.  There has been a marked increase in media condemnation of gays, in which conservative Iraqis commonly refer to gay men as the third sex, and they are now being routinely condemned in mosques.  The growing problem, however, goes far beyond mere condemnation for what many homophobes there call unnatural sexual intercourse.  An unparalleled campaign of organized murder seems to have taken hold there, and is not showing any signs of diminishing according to a recent report put out by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Although murders of gay men have occurred in Iraq in the past, now they are being gunned down in the streets by a variety of militia, mercenaries, or other armed soldier types, and videos are being made of the murders which are then circulated widely throughout the country via mobile phones and other methods.  In the past, such murders did not include the making of videos, and people typically did not talk about them.  Now, the murderous campaign is intended to literally put the fear of death into gay men, and it has been very successful in that regard.

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