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Orlando Police Mistook Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze for Meth: Report



An Orlando man who was arrested after police officers mistook Krispy Kreme doughnut glaze for crystal meth has been cleared.
Daniel Frederick Rushing, 64, was arrested on a possession of methamphetamine charge after he was pulled over for speeding back in December, according to an Orlando police report.

During the stop, an officer noticed a "rock like substance" on the floor board of Rushing's car.
"I recognized, through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer, the substance to be some sort of narcotic," the report said.

According to the report, two separate field tests were performed and both came back positive for the presence of amphetamines.
Rushing was handcuffed, booked into county jail and strip searched, and it wasn't until a state crime lab did another test several weeks later that he was cleared, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

"It was incredible," he told the Sentinel. "It feels scary when you haven't done anything wrong and get arrested...It's just a terrible feeling."
His arrest came after he had dropped off a neighbor at the hospital for a chemotherapy session, and went to give another friend, who worked at a 7-Eleven, a ride home, he said.

"I kept telling them, 'That's … glaze from a doughnut. … They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth,'" he told the newspaper.
His arrest report confirms that he tried to explain to police that he didn't have any drugs.

"Rushing stated that the substance is sugar from a Krispie Kreme Donut that he ate," wrote the officer who made the arrest, Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins, an eight-year department veteran.
In a statement to the paper, Orlando police said the arrest was lawful but didn't explain why the two field tests were wrong.

Rushing has hired a lawyer and is seeking damages from the city.

They were just being pesky because there were no doughnuts left....

Yes, but what about the speeding charges?

Wait, which one made the arrest again? The one with 'eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer' (sounds like they need to re-evaluate their so-called 'training and experience')? Or the eight-year vet?

Sia and 13-year-old ingenue pay tribute to Orlando’s 49 victims




"A moving music video from Sia once again features Maddie Ziegler, a teen with fluid dance moves featured in four of the singer’s earlier works. But “The Greatest,” her new song, shows from the start that this one is different.

Ziegler is joined by 49 other young dancers, each representing one of the victims of the June 12 massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.

It’s an uplifting, inspiring and simultaneously emotionally draining combination of music, dance and art. “Don’t give up,” goes the chorus."

10 strange facts about the Kingdom Hearts franchise


Kingdom Hearts II was censored in the US

In the original Japanese release, Axel's death shows his body bursting into flames and burning away; this death was apparently too graphic for American audiences, which were treated to a flame-less scene. A scene involving Daisy spanking Donald was also removed from the U.S release, as was the green blood from the Hydra in Hercules's Colosseum. Most infamously, the violence in Port Royal ("Pirates of the Carribbean" World) was toned down with guns becoming cross bows and almost no blood or sword impalement whatsoever.

Kingdom Hearts has a weird obsession with the number "13"

Remember that awful Jim Carrey movie where he kept seeing the number "21" everywhere? Kingdom Hearts does the same thing with the number "13." In multiple instances throughout the series, "13" keeps popping up all over the place, and a lot of these examples are downright mind-blowing. Don't believe us?

Well, let's start the most obvious. Kingdom Hearts' main group of bad guys is called "Organization XIII," made up of the 13 members. "Kingdom Hearts" has 13 letters in the title. In the opening sequence of the first Kingdom Hearts, the "M" in the title zooms towards the screen - and M is the 13th letter in the alphabet. Still not convinced? Add up the sum of the number of letters in the names of the main trio - Sora, Kairi, and Riku. It's thirteen. Remember the Ultima Weapon from Kingdom Hearts II? Guess how many Orichalcum+ you need to create it. Thirteen. How many worlds are in Kingdom Hearts, KH2, and Birth By Sleep? THIRTEEN.

Kingdom Hearts II was also the last thing Pat Morita did

Pat Morita, better known as Mr. Miyagi from "The Karate Kid" (or Arnold from "Happy Days"), voiced the Emperor of the Land of Dragons (read: China) in Kingdom Hearts II, as he also did in Mulan and Mulan II. Afterward, Morita sadly passed away on November 24, 2005 at age 73.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days was the second-to-last thing Mickey Mouse voice actor Wayne Allwine did

The longtime Mickey Mouse voice actor (the longest-serving voice, actually) passed away in May 2009 at age 62. The English language version of Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days was dedicated to his memory. Bret Iwan took over the role for subsequent Kingdom Hearts games.

Lance Bass voiced Sephiroth

Yes, that Lance Bass, the one from boy band N'Sync (second from the left in the photo above). We know, it's crazy, especially when you consider the fact they cast more legitimate acting talent to provide the voices for the other characters. Haley Joel Osment headed up the cast as Sora, Mandy Moore voiced fan-favorite Aerith, and David Boreanaz of Bones and Angel fame voiced Squall/Leon. Kingdom Hearts II added the venerated Christopher Lee as Ansem the Wise and Brittany Snow who provided Namin‚'s voice. Granted, Sephiroth had roughly four lines the entire game, but still, you'd think they could have found someone a bit more appropriate for the role.

There's a boss named Kurt Zisa

Squaresoft held a contest where a fan could get their name in the game. The result is a secret bossed named Kurt Zisa - a giant crab you can find out in the Agrabah desert after completing the Hollow Bastion level in Kingdom Hearts for the first time. He's not as hard to beat as secret boss Sephiroth, but he is pretty tough.

It was conceived in an elevator

According to Kingdom Hearts producer Shinji Hashimoto, he got the idea for a Disney/Squaresoft crossover game while chatting with a Disney executive in an elevator - the two companies shared a building in Tokyo before Squaresoft became Square Enix and moved away.

Kingdom Hearts settled the "Aeris" vs. "Aerith" debate

For years, Final Fantasy fans argued back and forth about the correct pronunciation of Aeris' name. The character's actual name is "Aerith Gainsborough" but when crafting English subtitles for Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy Tactics, translators wound up spelling her name "Aeris," based on the phonetic pronunciation "Ea-ri-su." Strangely, it was Kingdom Hearts that finally broke the impasse by choosing the original pronunciation and enforcing it across worldwide release regions. So, say goodbye to "Aeris" and say hello to "Aerith".

Japan has five more Kingdom Hearts games than the US

Although most of the Kingdom Hearts games have had worldwide releases, a handful of titles never made it overseas - Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts coded, Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix, Kingdom Hearts Mobile, and the upcoming Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep Final Mix, giving Japan 13 releases to the US' five.

Granted, several of them are remakes and special editions, but they all contain some special weapons, brand-new cutscenes and hidden bosses that most gamers have never seen. If you want to see this stuff, you've got to import the games to get the full experience. Kingdom Hearts Mobile, the odd bunch of the group, is more an Internet hub than a game, where people can play mini-games, download game-specific content like ringtones, and snag limited-edition avatars.

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There was a Ratchet & Clank movie?

A cat?

For my lair?

13 Facts You Never Knew About Halloween

1. There's a $1,000 fine for using or selling Silly String in Hollywood on Halloween.

The prank product has been banned in Hollywood since 2004 after thousands of bored people would buy it on the streets of Hollywood from illegal vendors and "vandalize" the streets. The city ordinance calls for a maximum $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail for "use, possession, sale or distribution of Silly String in Hollywood from 12:01 AM on October 31 to 12:00 PM on November 1."
2. Dressing up on Halloween comes from the Celts.

Celts believed Samhain was a time when the wall between our world and the paranormal world was porous and spirits could get through. Because of this belief, it was common for the Celts to wear costumes and masks during the festival to ward off or befuddle any evil spirits.
3. The moniker "Halloween" comes from the Catholics.

Hallowmas is a three-day Catholic holiday where saints are honored and people pray for the recently deceased. At the start of the 11th century, it was decreed by the pope that it would last from Oct. 31 (All Hallow's Eve) until Nov. 2, most likely because that was when Samhain was celebrated and the church was trying to convert the pagans.
"All Hallow's Eve" then evolved into "All Hallow's Even," and by the 18th century it was commonly referred to as "Hallowe'en."




4. We should carve turnips, not pumpkins.
The origin of Jack-O-Lanterns comes from a Celtic folk tale of a stingy farmer named Jack who would constantly play tricks on the devil. The devil responded by forcing him to wander purgatory with only a burning lump of coal from hell. Jack took the coal and made a lantern from a turnip, using it to guide his lost soul.
The myth was brought over by Irish families fleeing the potato famine in the 1800s, and since turnips were hard to come by in the U.S., America's pumpkins were used as a substitute to guide lost souls and keep evil spirits like "Jack of the Lantern" away.
5. Halloween symbols aren't random.

Black cats, spiders, and bats are all Halloween symbols because of their spooky history and ties to Wiccans. All three were thought to be the familiars of witches in the middle ages, and are often associated with bad luck.
Bats are even further connected to Halloween by the ancient Samhain ritual of building a bonfire, which drove away insects and attracted bats.
6. Fears of poisoned Halloween candy are unfounded.

One of parents' biggest fears is that their child's Halloween candy is poisoned or contains razor blades.
In reality, this fear is almost entirely unfounded. There are only two known cases of poisoning, and both involved relatives, according to LiveScience. In 1970, a boy died of a heroin overdose. The investigators found it on his candy, but in a twist they later discovered the boy had accidentally consumed some of his uncle's heroin stash, and the family had sprinkled some on the candy to cover up the incident.
Even more horrifically, in 1974 Timothy O'Bryan died after eating a Pixy Stix his father had laced with cyanide to collect on the insurance money, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
7. Halloween and the candy industry supposedly influenced Daylight Savings Time.

Candy makers supposedly lobbied to extend daylight savings time into the beginning of November to get an extra hour of daylight so children could collect even more candy (thus forcing people to purchase more candy to meet the demand).
They wanted it so badly that during the 1985 hearings on Daylight Savings they put candy pumpkins on the seat of every senator, according to NPR. (The candy industry disputes this account, according to The New York Times.)




8. Candy Corn was originally known as "chicken feed."
Invented by George Renninger, a candy maker at the Wunderle Candy Company of Philadelphia in the 1880s, Candy Corn was originally called "butter cream candies" and "chicken feed" since back then, corn was commonly used as food for livestock (they even had a rooster on the candy boxes).
It had no association with Halloween or fall, and was sold seasonally from March to November. After World War II, advertisers began marketing it as a special Halloween treat due to its colors and ties to the fall harvest.
9. A full moon on Halloween is extremely rare.

Though a common trope in horror movies and Halloween decorations with witches flying across the full moon, the next full moon on Halloween won't occur until 2020.
The most recent Halloween full moon was back in 2001, and before that it was in 1955.
10. Halloween is still the Wiccan New Year.

Halloween originates from a Celtic tradition called Samhain, a festival that marked the end of the Celtic calendar year in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. They believed it was a time that spirits or fairies could enter our world, and the Celts would put out treats and food to placate the spirits — sometimes, a place at the table was even set for the souls of the dead.
Wiccans still celebrate Samhain as a New Year celebration today.
11. Trick-or-treating has been around for a long time.

Versions of trick-or-treating have existed since medieval times. In the past, it was known as "guising" where children and poor adults went around in costumes during Hallowmas begging for food and money in exchange for songs or prayers. It was also called "souling."



12. Trick-or-treating as we know it was re-popularized by cartoons.
Trick-or-treating was brought to America by the Irish and became popular during the early 20th century, but died out during WWII when sugar was rationed. After the rationing ended in 1947, children's magazine "Jack and Jill," radio program "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," and the "Peanuts" comic strip all helped to re-popularize the tradition of dressing up in costumes and asking for candy from door-to-door.
By 1952, trick-or-treating was hugely popular again.
13. Halloween is the second-most commercial American holiday of the year.

The candy industry in America rakes in an average of $2 billion annually thanks to Halloween (that's 90 million pounds of chocolate).
Americans spend an estimated $6 billion on Halloween annually, including candy, costumes, and decorations, according to History.com. (The most commercial holiday in the U.S. is obviously Christmas.)

Heh heh, loving the look on Harley's face

I need so many!!! The kitty army will be real!!! (Sort of)

And hi!

(((((((CC)))))). Don't worry I took that anticootie pill u gave me first

Have you been being smelly Mont?

Oh u know, the hero stink is hard to get rid of

Nothing new there