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According to Livesteez, the Black Friday fiasco that we reported on Friday, with one man being killed and a pregnant lady being injured is being investigated:

Police are investigating the incident of a Wal-Mart worker, after he was trampled to death by post-Thanksgiving shoppers. Nassau County police are reviewing surveillance videos of the stampede, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges. Authorities and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said no new information was available Saturday on the employee’s brutal death, which rattled shoppers even as they flocked to the Valley Stream store a day later. “It felt a little freakish,” customer Ellie Berhun, 48, told the New York Daily News. “Some man lost his life because a VCR was on sale? Please. It’s just too sad for words.” Police said the temporary worker, Jdimytai Damour, was mowed down as about 2,000 bargain-hunters surged into the store at Friday’s 5 a.m. opening, leaving a metal portion of the door frame crumpled like an accordion. Damour, 34, came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at the store, Wal-Mart said. Other workers were knocked to the ground as they tried to rescue Damour, and customers simply stepped over him and kept shopping even as the store announced it was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said. At least four other people, including a woman eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or treatment for minor injuries. The store, about 20 miles east of Manhattan, closed for several hours but reopened Friday afternoon, as reported by USAToday. The day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday because it has traditionally marked the point when a throng of shoppers pushes stores into profitability for the year. Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart said it added staffers and outside security workers and put up barricades to try to prepare for the consumer rush. But police spokesman Detective Lt. Michael Fleming said Friday that security was inadequate for a scene he called “utter chaos.” Criminal charges are possible, but identifying anyone in the store’s videos may prove difficult, Fleming said.

They are going to have to round up hundreds of people if they want to make some arrests. They should also investigate the Walmart heads who did not have better security in line along with a more reasonable and logical way of handling all those shoppers.  SMH

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People went crazy this morning in Long Island to save about $40 bucks. Come on y’all, killing someone?

A 34-year-old man was trampled to death in a rush of Black Friday shoppers at a Long Island mall today, police said. Long lines of shoppers thronged outside the Wal-Mart at the Green Acres mall in Valley Stream before it opened for post-Thanksgiving business at 5 a.m. “When the doors opened, all hell broke loose,” .He was rushed to a local hospital but declared dead at 6:03, police said. Four other people were hospitalized, including a 28-year-old pregnant woman. She was knocked to the store floor a short distance from where the 34-year-old man was trampled and her fate was unclear. The other three people taken to hospitals suffered minor injuries. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Bentonville, Ark., called the incident a “tragic situation” and said the employee came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at the store.

Jesus take the Wheel. SMH

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Sh*t is hitting the fan, and we really need Jesus to take the wheel, for all of us. Major stores are closing down around the U.S., Dillards, Mervyns,  and the Gap are just a few out of the 30 something listed.

We have a list under the hood of all the major store closures..and we are in trouble people. SMH. We are in a recession, please start protecting/saving your stacks! Continue »

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In Montecito, Yorba Linda, Corona, and Brea, California, fires have been blazing out of control for 2 days now and hundreds of homes have been lost:

Southern Californians weathered a second straight day of devastation Saturday as wind-blasted wildfires destroyed hundreds of homes, shut down major freeways and forced thousands of residents in the path of flames to flee to safety. Montecito, ranked by Forbes magazine in 2006 as the seventh most expensive area in the US, with an average home price of $2.9m (£1.9m), is a popular retreat for the rich and famous. Celebrities such as talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey and Hollywood actors Michael Douglas, Jeff Bridges and Rob Lowe all own property in the area.

A wildfire stoked by powerful Santa Ana winds damaged or destroyed at least 42 homes in Yorba Linda and Corona Saturday and charred more than 1,000 acres.The fire forced thousands to evacuate the area, while streets and freeways were snarled with traffic.A smaller fire also burned in Brea, near Carbon Canyon and Olinda Village.

It is rumored that the fire was started by an ex-owner of a home. Apparently, it made more sense for him to set that b*tch ablaze once it foreclosed.

We have several pictures from the fire below.

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On this Sunday’s Slip we decided to go hard to help you get over that hangover you got from last night’s libations. Jocelyn Wildenstein is the epitome of trying to achieve a Hollyweird image and why you’re better off making the most of what you’ve been blessed with. SMH

Is this who Kim is aiming to look like?

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Katt Williams has that blank stare for a reason:

Actor and comedian Katt Williams, of movies “First Sunday” and “Norbit” fame, apparently has made a stop in Sumter. Unfortunately it was not for one of his stand-up comedy routines but rather a visit with family members that allegedly ended with a psychiatric evaluation at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. On Friday, he turned up in Sumter and allegedly underwent a mental health evaluation for a possible hospital commitment, at the urging of local family members. This was after run-ins with both city and county law enforcement. Sumter Police Department Maj. Perry Herod said officers responded to a call in reference to suspicious behavior by Williams, 35, on Friday morning at the Mount Vernon Inn.

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Crackhouse wasn’t hiding from the One-Time, she was just trying to get those rocks up off her boyfriend:

Amy Winehouse went on a wild rampage around Camden last night, screaming for her husband and banging on the door of her old flat some 100 meters from her current home. The troubled star appeared to be completely out of it and was worryingly emaciated again, with sores all over her face. The wild-eyed singer - still without her trademark beehive and minus her trademark sweep of black eyeliner – then made her way back to her flat clutching a liter bottle of vodka via a building site, signing autographs on the way.

Amy then handed a bottle of vodka to waiting snappers, before shouting through a window: “It’s hard going for a year without sex,” Her drug-addict husband Blake Fielder-Civil is due to rejoin his wife tomorrow, having gone straight to rehab from prison where he served time for GBH and perverting the course of justice.

We really feel sorry for this chick these days because this is just getting out of hand now. She literally looks like a zombie walking around with her face bleeding like that. SMH

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A obsessed fan and former American Idol reject, Paula Goodspeed, was stalking Paula Abdul, and committed suicide outside of the judge’s home last night:

We’ve learned the identity of the dead woman, Paula Goodspeed, who appeared on Season 5 in 2006. During her audition she said she’s an artist and the first pic she ever drew was of Paula Abdul. “Idol” produced a 3 minute and 40 second featurette on Goodspeed and her passion for Paula. She did not make the cut, after Ryan Seacrest proclaimed, “And the love affair is over.”

It’s painfully obvious from her MySpace page, the woman who was found dead in front of Paula Abdul’s house had an obsession with “American Idol”, and was seriously affected by her embarrassment on the show.

On the chick’s Myspace page it shows that she was a actress that was tore up in the head and had over dosed at Paula’s before. Paula released a statement saying she was, “Shocked and Saddened”.

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In southern Alabama, a party with their LSU rivals went horribly wrong. The defeated LSU fan exacted his revenge and smoked two Bama fans after the game:

Authorities say an argument over Saturday’s Alabama-LSU football game led to the shooting deaths of a couple at a home in south Alabama. A man and woman were shot dead after an argument that witnesses said started over an Alabama-LSU football game, but sheriff’s investigators said Monday they continued to investigate the motive. The Conecuh County sheriff’s office identified the victims as Dennis James Smith, 41, and Donna Kaye Hall Smith, 39, of Brewton. The two were shot to death about 7 p.m. Saturday in the rural community of Owassa in southern Alabama. Michael W. Williams, 28, was arrested and charged with two counts of murder over the shooting at his home, where he had watched the game. He was being held Monday without bond. A sheriff’s investigator handling the case did not know if he had an attorney. An investigator said Monday that people watching the game at Williams’ home said the dispute was over the game, which Alabama won 27-21 in overtime Saturday, but an investigation into the motive was not complete. The investigator also said alcohol may have been a factor.

That was a heartbreaking loss in overtime for LSU fans, but it was a personal loss for Michael Williams. We can understand being a die hard fan, but this here totally exceeds the expectations of one. SMH

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An 8 year old boy in Arizona smoked his dad and another man:

A man who police believe was shot and killed by his 8-year-old son had consulted a Roman Catholic priest about whether the boy should handle guns and had taught him how to use them, the clergyman said Saturday. The father, Vincent Romero, 29, was from a family of avid hunters and wanted to make sure the boy wasn’t afraid of guns and knew how to handle them, said the Very Rev. John Paul Sauter of St. Johns Catholic Church. The boy’s stepmother had suggested he have a BB gun, the priest said. Romero taught his son how to use a rifle to kill prairie dogs, Sauter said. Police say the boy used a 22.-caliber rifle Wednesday to kill his father and another man, Timothy Romans, 39, of San Carlos. The priest did not say how he advised the couple or whether they decided to buy him a gun but said Saturday that the boy “was just too young.” “That child, I don’t think he knows what he did, and it was brutal,” said Sauter, who presided at the wedding of the father and stepmother. Continue »