”Heart Attack Grill giant dead at 29”
River who stood 6 foot 8 and weighed about 575 pounds, gained a measure of fame in the past year as spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill, a west Chandler restaurant that specializes in thick hamburgers and fries. He died on Tuesday.
The 6-foot-8 River was a state heavyweight wrestling champion in 1999 at Payson High School and went on to play football at Mesa Community College.
Basso said River was a creative genius who had been planning to take part in the shooting of a promotional spot called, Heart Attack Grill: The Musical.
The restaurant has received notoriety for its promotion offering free food to customers weighing more than 350 pounds.
Justin Bieber celebrated his 17th birthday Wednesday night with his girlfriend, Selena Gomez. The couple was then swarmed by paparazzi while leaving a romantic dinner at Maggiano’s. Bieber was angered and gave the paparazzi the finger after getting in the car. He regrets his actions and took to his Twitter to express his feelings about the incident.First of all, Selena Gomez was not punched in the face. That rumor started after she put her hands in front of her face/mouth to block out the lights from the cameras. Photos seemed to reveal something on her lip that looks like a cold sore, and Bieber’s Twitter fans started telling people she’d been hit.Later on Twitter, the teen pop idol apologized for his gesture, “Had a great bday and at the end of the night we got surrounded by paps and i reacted in a way i know better. im sorry.” He went on explaining his feeling that night, “It’s not always easy but i know better than to react in anger.”
Bieber apologized for the middle finger, but I don’t think his fans were too offended.
For another look at what Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez go through, watch the super crazed fans in this video of Bieber and Gomez leaving a hotel together.
DJ Reggie Yates spent his £1.60 budget on watching a football match while living in an African slum.
The Radio 1 disc-spinner spent a week in the Kibera slum in Kenya as part of a charity fundraiser for Comic Relief, but forgot about the hardship he was set to face in his time there and spent his money on watching a Manchester United game.
He added to the Daily Star newspaper: “I knew living in the slums would be hard but I never knew people did things like this to survive.
“I don’t think it gets much worse than literally shovelling sh*t to make money so your kids can go to school. I thought I knew what poverty was until I came out to Kenya.”
‘Eastenders’ actress Samantha Womack is also taking part in the charity project, and recently revealed she was surprised when they were left in the slum overnight.
She said: “I have to say, I was sceptical. I thought they weren’t really going to leave us, but they did.
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Back in 1981, BYU was down by one point with just nine seconds left in an NCAA tourney matchup against perennial power Notre Dame. That’s when an undersized guard named Danny Ainge took an inbound base from the far baseline and went coast to coast via one of the most spectacular drives in NCAA basketball history. His layup with under two seconds remaining gave BYU the victory, and for that feat, Ainge’s name is the first one many would associate with BYU’s program.The reason of the suspension is still unclear. The school stated that he was released because he violated the BYU honor code, which include “must live a chaste and virtuous life.”BYU, affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, has an honor code which forbids students from engaging in premarital sex, and admonishes them to “live a chaste and virtuous life.” Not only religious schools have strict rules for students. At West Point, for instance, some Friday nights have mandatory study hours, and students reportedly aren’t allowed to sit on the same piece of furniture as someone of the opposite sex.
These things happen. When you fill a school with coming-of-age coeds and tell them not to have sex, guess what they are going to do. I will give you a hint. It ain’t origami. Yet, I have to give it to BYU. As archaic as their rules may be, they stuck to their guns. ]]>
The Army has filed 22 new counts against suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning.
Bradley Manning, the military intelligence analyst who is accused of leaking a trove of government files to WikiLeaks a year ago.
The new charges more accurately reflect the broad scope of the crimes that Pvt. 1st Class Manning is accused of committing,” Capt. John Haberland, a legal spokesman for the Military District of Washington, told CBS News.
The new charges, filed under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, include wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, knowing that it will be accessed by the enemy, that US officials have asserted could put soldiers and civilians at risk.
The charge sheet filed by the Army is quite vague and neither indicates what specifically Manning did to violate this provision nor the identity of the “enemy” to whom he is alleged to have given intelligence.
”Rodney King’s March 3, 1991, traffic stop and beating turned LA into a riot zone”
The beating of Rodney King 20 years ago Thursday marked the end of a 100-mph car chase and the beginning of a chain of events that would forever change Los Angeles,
Unaware they were being filmed by an amateur cameraman, four white LAPD officers beat an African American motorist named Rodney King.
The video played a central role in the criminal trial of four officers, whose not-guilty verdicts in 1992 triggered days of rioting in Los Angeles in which more than 50 people died.
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”Jim Carrey Not Dead in a Snowboard Accident”
Jim Carrey has died in a snowboarding accident.
News spread that Jim Carrey died and people got a little nervous, but once the Jim Carrey snowboard accident details came up, it was clear that it was another of those celeb deaths by snowboard!
The actor & novice snowboarder was vacationing at the Zermatt ski resort in Zermatt,
Switzerland with family and friends. Witnesses indicate that Jim Carrey lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed.
There is a internet hoax currently going around that Carrey died on a snowboarding trip in Switzerland.
”Jim Carrey died in a snowboarding accident? No. Twitter tries to kill another celebrity”
Jim Carrey’s death started popping up all over Twitter.
The newest victim of the Twitter snowboard death hoax is Jim Carrey. But don’t worry, he’s alive and well…somewhere.
As breathlessly tweeted, texted, and Facebooked earlier today:
Jim Carrey dies in snowboard accident. Actor Jim Carrey Dies In Snowboard Accident.
The actor & novice snowboarder was vacationing at the Zermatt ski resort in Zermatt, Switzerland with family and friends. Witnesses indicate that Jim Carrey lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed.
”Hugh Laurie ‘excited for common cold”
Hugh Laurie has confessed that he is excited to have come down with the common cold.
The House star insists he has baffled doctors for 50-plus years because he has never had a sniffle but now he’s ill.
Appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday Laurie was visibly sick and explained, It’s the first cold of my whole life.
Hugh who plays Dr Gregory House on the hit TV show joked,
And I’m excited because for so many years I believed basically nothing could live in this body because I was so addled with booze and cigarettes. ]]>
Jim Carrey dies in snowboard accident. Actor Jim Carrey Dies In Snowboard Accident. THIS STORY IS STILL DEVELOPING.There is a internet hoax currently going around that Carrey died on a snowboarding trip in Switzerland. So is it true? Did Jim Carrey really die?You may recall the previous snowboard accident deaths of Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler and Owen Wilson, to name a few.
Jim Carrey’s death hoax has us saying once again – it’s not funny to make up fake stories about people dying!
“Carrey lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed… [He] was air lifted by ski patrol teams to a local hospital, however, it is believed that the actor died instantly from the impact of the crash,” reads the bogus report.