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A Florida dad will not face charges after he took the law into his own hands and beat up a teen he caught raping his son. The 35-year-old father, who police and the media are not identifying by name, found 18-year-old nextdoor neighbor Raymond Frolander in a compromising position with his 11-year-old kid around 1 a.m. on Friday. "I didn't proceed to ask him any questions sir," the father told the 911 dispatcher after he beat Frolander unconscious and left him in a pool of blood. "He is nice and knocked out on the floor for you. I drug him out to the living room." "Send an ambulance," he told the dispatcher. "He is going to need one." When asked by the dispatcher if any weapons were involved, the father said, "my foot and my fist." Frolander allegedly admitted to the abuse, which the child said started three years ago. Frolander also allegedly told police he had been the victim of abuse. Daytona Beach Police Chief Michael Chitwoo...

Two maintenance workers have been charged with the death of a woman whose body was found after she was trapped in an elevator for a month in central China. Two servicemen were called to an apartment building in Xi’an, China on January 30 to fix a broken elevator. When they discovered the elevator’s cable was broken, the workers reportedly banged on the door. After hearing no response, the men cut off power to the elevator, reported the BBC. However, a 43-year-old resident who has only been identified by her surname, Wu, was inside the carriage at the time. The Chinese New Year holiday delayed work on the elevator, which ended up being stuck between the building’s 10th and 11th floors for a month. Servicemen who returned to fix the elevator on March 1 discovered the victim’s body inside, along with scratch marks on the wall. According to the Los Angeles Times, the woman’s hands were also mangled from trying to pry open the doors. The government said that the maintenance wo...

Russian police detained a woman in a hijab brandishing the severed head of a child outside a Moscow metro station on Monday and charged her with murder. The incident, which occurred on Monday, Feb. 29, stirred fears of an Islamist terrorist attack and was caught on camera by passers-by. The woman, identified by local media as Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 39, is believed to be the nanny of the victim and is suspected of killing the child before setting fire to its parents' apartment. The child has also been identified by local media as 4-year-old Nastya M. Earlier in the day, reports emerged that police had found a child's headless body while extinguishing a fire at a Moscow apartment block. After the murder, Bobokulova was seen outside Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in northwest Moscow. According to Lifenews.ru, an online news portal with close contacts to the police, a policeman had first approached the woman to check her documents, and that was when the woman removed the...

In Germany an undertaker was shocked when one of his clients pushed open the coffin lid and asked where she was. In fact, he was so shocked, he passed out. After returning to his senses, the man realized it wasn’t the start of the zombie apocalypse and called emergency services. Paramedics arrived and confirmed that the 92 year old woman did indeed have a pulse. She was then rushed to hospital where she died ‘again’ 2 days later. The nursing home staff were interviewed and questioned how one of their resident came to be diagnosed as ‘dead’ when she in fact, wasn’t. One of the staff had reportedly discovered the elderly woman in the morning and contacted their local on staff doctor to check on her. The doctor pronounced her death and arrangements were made to move the elderly woman’s body to the morgue, where the undertaker got the shock of his life. Hopefully, the 92 year old grandmother won’t have a moment of deja vu, waking up in a coffin. Again.

Wife frogmarches 'husband's mistress' naked through the streets 'after catching them in bed together' This is the moment a furious wife gets revenge on her 'husband's mistress' by marching her through the streets naked. The Chinese woman is seen forcing her 'younger love rival' to parade around in public wearing only her bra and a handbag, after allegedly finding her in bed with her other half. Held by her hair, the young woman is pushed along nude in front of crowds of onlookers. She reportedly became suspicious when her husband would disappear once a week for several hours without contacting her. The woman asked her mother and auntie to join her when she followed the man to a small rented flat he was using to romp with his 'little third' girlfriend - a Chinese term for a mistress. The wife, who has not been identified, walked the younger woman down the stairs and into the street in Yibin provincial city, Sichuan province, Chin...

For most people, if you get shot in the head and are still standing, you'd probably get yourself to a hospital as quick as possible. That is unless you have the opportunity to film a selfie video first, which is what Compton rapper Teriq Royal did. Apparently the Compton rapper was in the vicinity of a shooting in which he claims an AK-47 was used. Teriq and some friends were at a gas station when he and a friend were hit in the heads with some bullet fragments. Luckily the fragments didn't penetrate his skull and get to his brain, but instead of getting to a hospital, he instead decided to first shoot a selfie video so he could post it up onto Facebook. The footage shows Teriq with blood streaming down his face talking on one phone, while he films the video with another phone where he tells the camera, "I got shot." One of his friends then appears in the video also with blood running down his face. After the incident he posted on Facebook, "Yes me and ...

Three ISIS leaders in Sirte, Libya were hunted down and killed by long range sniper shots over the course of ten days starting on January 23, The Daily Telegraph reported. The city of Sirte is full of rumors that the deaths are connected, and a mystery sniper is responsible for the string of high level assassinations. No one is sure if the shooter is one person, or a group of people. Following the first assassination of a Sudanese official sharia judge outside a local hospital, an eyewitness told the al-Wasat website: "A state of terror prevailed among the Isil ranks after his death. They randomly shot in the air to scare inhabitants, while searching for the sniper." On January 19, another ISIS leader was gunned down outside of his home in the coastal city of Sirte. The latest shooting, which claimed the life of an ISIS commander from southern Libya, happened outside a mosque in the city center on January 23, according to the Daily Telegraph. Guesses about who the s...

The World Health Organization just came out and said cell phones may cause cancer, listing them in the same category as lead, engine exhaust, and chloroform. Now, the jury is still out on whether cellphones pose a serious risk. But we do know that they emit radiation, which ain't a good thing. Here are the top 10 ways to reduce your exposure. 1. Use speakerphone or a headset Speakerphone is ideal. Using a headset is better than holding the phone against your face. But radiation still passes through both bluetooth and wired earpieces. A safer option is an "air tube" earpiece. Instead of using a radiation-conducting wire all the way from phone to brain, these sets deliver sound through a tube. 2. Carry the phone away from your body The best way to avoid exposure is to hold the cellphone away from the head or body. Carry your phone in your bag, purse, in a wagon - anywhere except in your pocket or on your belt where soft body tissues can absorb radiation. 3. Textin...

There is much public outcry after Harambe, a silverback gorilla, was shot and killed after a child fell into the gorilla exhibit the Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday. Some claim the gorilla appeared to be protecting the toddler and should not have been killed. However, the zoo maintains that authorities made the right decision, as it was a matter of life and death for the child. Harambe was a 17-year-old 400-pound silverback gorilla that was shot dead when a child fell into its enclosure on May 28. Witnesses say they heard the child ask if he could go in to swim with the gorillas, and that his mother had said no. However, the 4-year-old managed to get past a 3-foot-tall railing and bushes that were roughly 4 feet wide before falling into the animal enclosure. The child fell a distance of 15 feet into the moat below that was filled with water that was about a foot deep. Three gorillas were in the enclosure at the time, but zookeepers managed to call two of them inside. Video captured ...

An Indonesian man who may have been the oldest person to have ever lived passed away at his home in central Java. He is thought to have been 146 years old. He was Sodimejo Gotho, known to his family as Grandpa Gotho. His national ID card, the kind every Indonesian citizen carries, states Gotho’s birth as December 31, 1870. However, official Indonesian birth records only go back to 1900, so there’s some controversy family’s claim that he reached 146 years. Still, the Indonesian government says additional documents and earlier interviews with Gotho have satisfied them his birth date is accurate. If an additional, independent source is found to verify the Gotho family’s claim, Granddad may be able to posthumously cement his status as oldest human to have ever with a Guinness World Records entry. Record holder or not, Gotho certainly was old. He was also a lifelong chainsmoker and much loved in his town as a master storyteller, often regaling people with tales of battles against Du...

An escalator accident that killed a 30-year-old mother in China on Sunday could have been avoided because staff knew the escalator was broken but failed to prevent the woman from using it. Xiang Liujuan was at the AZG shopping mall in Jingzhou city in China's Hubei province with her husband and 2-year-old son on Sunday morning. She took the escalator up with her son, and when they reached the top of the stairs and stepped off, a faulty metal panel collapsed. Xiang became trapped in the moving escalator but managed to push her son out of harm's way right before she was killed. Three employees witnessed the incident, and one of them tried to pull Xiang out of the mechanism but failed. It took nearly four hours for rescue workers to disassemble the escalator and locate Xiang's remains. Staff at the mall noticed that the escalator was broken minutes before the accident, but they did not turn off the escalator or notify security. An investigation has determined that the ...

Shocking video has been released of a man almost being mauled to death by a couple of pit bulls on Belmont Avenue, in the Bronx, on Friday morning. 62-year-old Francesco Bove was walking to his job at a local church when he crossed paths with 55-year-old Cynthia Oliver and her two dogs. Bove says he thought the dogs were friendly because they were wagging their tails, but then Oliver released the animals. The pit bulls attacked Bove, biting him on the hands and legs, and even ripping off his right ear. When the dogs dragged the defenseless man to the side of the road, brave onlookers intervened to try and rescue him. But the dogs momentarily attacked them too, badly biting a 46-year-old man on the arm. When the priest at Bove's church heard what happened, he rushed to the scene and read Bove his last rites. Bove, a devout Catholic, says he gained strength from the priest's touch and managed to hang onto life. After seven minutes, firemen were able to corral the dogs with ...

An unidentified 35-year-old woman is dead after leaping over the railing of a parking garage at the Providence Place mall on the evening of Thursday, July 16. The woman had earlier been seen taking clothing items off racks and then bringing them to the counter to "return" the items for cash. A female security officer working for the Nordstrom store at the mall followed the woman and attempted to stop her from leaving the store. The suspect, however, went down an escalator and then into a parking garage before going up to the first level of the parking garage, which is located about 25 feet above the ground. Other security officers at the mall reported hearing a voice over the radio ordering someone to stay away from the edge. The edge in question turned out to be the barrier on the wall of the parking garage on to which the suspected shoplifter had climbed. Despite the security officers' attempts to dissuade the woman, for reasons unknown, the suspected shoplifter t...