Archive for the 'Tacky & True' Category

You're killing us! Literally.

Previously, we reported that Tide Pods were a serious health concern for kids, and tons of children were becoming violently sick after eating the brightly colored pods because they were mistaking them for candy.

The hits keep coming.

An estimated 250 cases of health issues have been reported this year of children eating the pods. Scary!!!

Here's what a doctor said about the near epidemic:

"We're not quite sure why it's happening, but we've clearly had some kids who have become much more ill. We look at these pods as being clearly more dangerous than the standard detergent."

Clearly.

Our question remains, why do these things look so much like candy? How can we expect kids not to eat these when some adults might barely tell the difference?

A spokesperson for Tide said they plan to create a new double latch lid on tubs of Tide Pods "in the next couple of weeks."

Thank heavens.

Here's what one doctor said these pods can do to children:

"These pods are quite dangerous if ingested, mainly due to the risk of vomiting which can ultimately lead to aspiration of the product into the lungs with resulting difficulty breathing. The end result can potentially lead to children requiring a ventilator if the reaction to the detergent is severe enough."

So so scary!

PARENTS BEWARE.

It's been quite a tumble of days for the infamous couple who placed their toddler in a washing machine, locked it, and started the wash cycle.

People all over the United States (including us) blasted the irresponsible parents for doing such a terrible thing to their child.

Well, some good news. Those crazies were NOT the parents. They were only the baby-sitters.

The mother of the toddler, Sakia David, says she wants to take legal action against her baby sitter for allowing her male friend to put the child in the machine.

Good idea, Mom!

Mama said she had no idea about the incident in Camden until she saw the video on the news and received a phone call from the police.

We hope she fires this babysitter immediately!

Although her son was treated at a hospital for minor scrapes and bruises, the mother wants more tests. We honestly don't blame her!

To top it all off the babysitter didn't even own up to how the child was injured. She claimed he had fallen down some steps.

Ha! A likely story.

Police questioned the man who put the kid in the machine and he said he was unaware the machine would start automatically.

The case has been referred to Children's Welfare.

We guess not all babysitters are created equal.

Oh we just LOVE this!!

Apparently Brandi Glanville and Taylor Armstrong are really practicing their own meaning of gurl power these days!!

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills have been rumored to make a habit of dancing dirty with other women whenever they chug back the cosmos now!

Of course, this kind of behavior isn't as scandalous at a younger age, but clearly their peers are raising a brow or too because one source says:

[Image via WENN.]

Mark A. Traina is one sick and twisted man.

Seemingly suffering from a severe case of over-sheltering and bred-ignorance, the Louisiana school psychologist uses his freedom of speech to spread hate and the encouragement of violence toward a generalized group of people.

When George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin on his way home, he said George was the real victim.

[Image via AP Images.]

Facebook has been in the news, lately.

It's back in the spotlight again, but this time it's for all the wrong reasons!

The social media conglomerate banned pictures of Heather Walker's deceased infant son, Grayson, who was born with Anencephaly - a rare brain disorder which prevents the brain from fully developing.

Although the mother and father knew early on that their baby would not survive, they decided to give birth to him anyway even though they knew he'd only live for a short time.

Her story gained legs from a blog she kept on her family's experience, and professional photographers were sent in to the mother's hospital room to shoot pictures of her holding her deceased baby.

After Walker uploaded pictures of the emotional day on her Facebook profile to her friends and family she soon realized that Facebook wasn't interested in her sharing this emotional story and BANNED Walker's pictures and blocked her from the social media website for 24 hours.

Here's what Walker said:

"Facebook deleted them because of the 'content', they allow people to post almost nude pictures of themselves, profanity, and so many other things but I'm not allowed to share a picture of God's beautiful creation."

Walker executed a useful loophole on Facebook by posting the photos of Grayson on a newly created fan page, and after twenty four hours the pictures were back up on her profile which only her friends were able to see.

Afterwards, Walked posted on her blog an emotional written piece on her experience. She said:

"As I was watching Private Practice last night, I was taken back to that day for a moment. Amelia, one of the doctors, had a baby with anencephaly. As she voiced what she was feeling that day, I too can relate. I remember lying in the hospital bed wondering if he was going to be alive or how long he was going to live. I wondered what he was going to look like.  So many thoughts rushed through my brain that Wednesday morning. Of course he was perfect and fought for 8 hours. He was so beautiful and sweet."

This is an incredibly emotional and sad story, but we're so happy that Walker was finally able to show the world the photos of her love on Facebook.

We think it was a necessary step for her to overcome her great loss and subsequent grief.

All our regards to the Walker family.

[Image via Jessica Walker.]

This is terrible!

When a 12-year-old girl came home with bad grades from school, her mother and her boyfriend shaved the girl's head and forced her to run outside wearing only a diaper.

Horrible.

A crowd of 50 onlookers watched the girl run back and forth for almost a half hour before someone FINALLY called the police.

The parents were then arrested and are currently in jail. The girl and three other siblings have been placed in foster care.

Apparently as the parents were arrested they were laughing hysterically and thought it was downright crazy that the police were punishing them for the way they raise their children.

Ugh! There's a difference between teaching your kids right from wrong and being downright malicious!

The girl said she was punished for bringing home bad grades and failing to do her homework.

The police said:

"They told her if she didn't, they would shave her head and put her on 'diaper duty,' which I guess meant running up and down the street and cleaning up trash as a form of public humiliation, when the officer found her, she was crying and hysterical."

Poor girl.

Hopefully, things will get better now that she's away from her parents.

They sound awful!

[Image via WENN.]

Not everyone that goes to tanning salons look like Tanning Mom, that's for sure.

And the owner of City Tropics where Tanning Mom went for regular UV treatments is insisting that neither him nor his tanning beds are in any way responsible for the color of the infamous mom's skin.

He believes her dark tan was brought about by using a special sponge that bodybuilders use, and there's no way his business was the one who provided that to her.

The owner said:

"On stage [bodybuilders] look normal because the lights are so bright, but when they come outside it looks like tree bark."

He also thought his reliable customer looks like she was "dipped in chocolate."

Um.

That's a creative observation.

Tanning Mom paid $99 a month to have unlimited use of City Tropics tanning beds and it is estimated that she went approximately 20-25 times a month.

Damn, that's some tans!

The owner also said, contrary to what he reported earlier, that Tanning Mom's 5-year-old daughter was in the car with her father while the mom had her session.

We certainly hope so!

On Patricia Krentcil's (that's her real name, if you didn't know) ban from tanning salons, the owner mentioned he wouldn't ban her.

He said:

"I don't know if that's legal to do. So I wouldn't do it."

We're not sure if she wants to go back at this point.

Ha!