Category: Strange News

Atlanta Man Pours Boiling Water On Gay Couple In Bed

Martin Blackwell, 48, was arrested and taken to the Fulton County Jail, charged with two counts of aggravated battery

According to Channel 2 Action News– A young couple is recovering from severe burns after police say a man threw burning water on them — because they are gay.

The victims told the Atlanta news station that they were sound asleep, resting after a long day at work, when they were attacked.

 

Marquez Tolbert was attacked by his mother’s boyfriend who threw hot water on he and his lover for being gay

Marquez Tolbert said:

“The pain doesn’t let you sleep. It’s just, like, it’s excruciating, 24 hours a day, and it doesn’t go anywhere.  It doesn’t dial down, anything. It’s just there.”

Tolbert believes that the second and third-degree burns along his neck, back and arms are scars of hate.

Tolbert asked:

“Why else would you pour boiling hot water on somebody?”

The 21-year-old and his boyfriend, Anthony Gooden, were severely burned last month when the men say Gooden’s mother’s boyfriend walked in on them sleeping in Gooden’s College Park apartment and poured scalding water all over them.
Tolbert said:

“I can barely think straight because the burning, the stinging is everywhere.”

Memorial Hospital undergoing surgery that took skin from his thigh to replace skin on his back.
Gooden got out the hospital on Friday.

Martin Blackwell, 48, remains in the Fulton County Jail, charged with two counts of aggravated battery.
Tolbert said:

“Martin pulled me up and said, ‘Get out of my house with all that gay. I couldn’t stop screaming.”

Even though he said he wouldn’t put up with the couple in his house, Blackwell did not live in that apartment. It belonged to Gooden and his mother, but Blackwell was frequently visiting.

According to a police report, Blackwell said he was disgusted by the men’s relationship:

“They’ll be all right. It was just a little hot water on them.”

Tolbert asked:

“Like, where was your head at? Why would you do this?”

An Atlanta Police Department LGBT liaison assisted in the case to make sure Blackwell did not make bond.
Although they don’t exist in the state of Georgia, the liaison said federal hate crime charges are a possibility in the case, and an upcoming hearing will address that.

See a picture of Anthony Gooden since the horrific attack.

Goodyear Eagle-360 Spherical Tire In Development 

This story has nothing to do with crime other than being a 100% pure dope concept.

According to Goodyear engineers, a kicked ball shaped tire could be coming our way in the future.

Who would’ve “thunk” it? 

Join the discussion.

 

 

Goodyear (GT) says its Eagle-360 tires would allow self-driving cars to navigate tight spaces, such as parking spots or busy city roads

Goodyear thinks if we are going to reinvent the car, we might as well reinvent the tires too.The tire maker has revealed a new concept: spherical rubber tires that can move in any direction. For a self-driving car without a steering wheel, why not try something radically different?

Goodyear (GT) says its Eagle-360 tires would allow self-driving cars to navigate tight spaces, such as parking spots or busy city roads. Instead of axles, they’ll connect to the car using magnetic levitation — potholes would no longer ruin your suspension, since your car would essentially float above its tires. Goodyear said magnetic levitation would deliver a remarkably smooth and quiet ride for passengers.

The spherical tires also have the advantage of having way more surface area than cylindrical tires, so your treads won’t wear out quite as quickly. And the tires could intelligently rotate themselves to provide even greater tread life.

Goodyear also envisions some new tricks embedded within the tires. For example, sensors inside the Eagle-360 tires could communicate weather conditions to the car’s traction control systems. And the tires themselves could stiffen in dry conditions and soften like a sponge in wet weather, adding traction on slippery roads.

Joseph Zekoski, Goodyear’s chief technical officer, said in a statement:

“By steadily reducing the driver interaction and intervention in self-driving vehicles, tires will play an even more important role as the primary link to the road.”

Goodyear acknowledged that the Eagle-360 tires are a far-off-in-the-future concept.

But self-driving cars are already being tested, and industry experts forecast that fully autonomous cars will go on sale by the end of the decade. Today’s cars have intelligence built in, communicating with other cars to sense accidents before they happen.

That’s why Goodyear has developed a near-term tire concept that it believes could become a fixture of cars in the next few years.

Read more and see video | Goodyear Is Working On Spherical Tire 

Cyber Thieves Attempt To Pull $1Billion Bangladesh Bank Heist

  

Thieves attempted to pull off one of the biggest cyber bank heists in history but a spelling mistake foiled the plan.

So far investigators have not found any proof that central bank staff in Bangladesh were involved, one of the officials said, but said the probe was continuing.

Security experts say that if insiders were not involved, the attackers likely had assistance from somebody close to the banking industry. They also may have spied on bank workers over an extended period to gain details about wire-transfer processes and other operations, they said.

It takes somebody with deep knowledge of the banking industry to perform these types of crime,” said Shane Shook, a security consultant who has investigated some of the biggest cyber breaches on record.

The Bangladesh central bank had billions of dollars in its current account, which it used for international settlements, officials have said. The stolen money made its way to various parts of the world.

Some $80 million are believed to have ended in the Philippines, and further diverted to casinos and then to Hong Kong, according to bank officials. One $20 million transaction was directed to a non-profit organization in Sri Lanka.

But the unusually large transaction for the island nation and a misspelling of the NGO’s name raised red flags that helped bring the robbery to light. The transaction was blocked as was another huge payment instruction that was for between $850 million and $870 million.

Wow! Is anything safe anymore?!

Read the entire article | Malware Suspected in Bangladesh Bank Heist