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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Chinese people paying strangers to drink alcohol. Why?

A Beijing tech company has created an app that allows users to pay for ‘surrogate drinkers’ and 100,000 people signed up within 24 hours of it’s launch.
The service was introduced on Thursday by eDaijia, China’s largest mobile-based designated driving service provider, reported the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
The app, called eDaihe, links 'surrogate drinkers' with users looking to hire. The user pays the drinker to follow them around for an evening, consuming their alcoholic beverages along the way.
Like Uber, eDaihe is location-based so users can choose their surrogates based on proximity, as well as how much liquor they can drink and their profile descriptions.
Residents wanting to make money as a surrogate can create a profile. That profile must include their name, gender, location, a photo and how much they can drink, along with a short introduction.

Chinese people paying strangers to drink alcohol. Why?

Foods That Could Lower Your Risk of Cancer

13 Foods That Could Lower Your Risk of Cancer

Doctor accused of reusing anal catheters on dozens of patients

Middlesex County surgeon has had his medical license temporarily suspended for allegedly reusing disposable one-use anal catheters on multiple patients, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced in a statement.

Dr. Sanjiv K. Patankar, an East Brunswick-based colon and rectal surgeon, allegedly washed and reused the small, flexible catheters that are "inserted into patients' rectums during medical procedures," the statement said.
During a Dec. 19 hearing, the state says documented evidence allegedly showed that although 82 procedures were performed in Patankar's office between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30, only five catheters were ordered in that period.

Doctor accused of reusing anal catheters on dozens of patients

Cities Are Giving Thousands of Homeless People One-Way Bus Tickets to Leave Town

How Cities Are Giving Thousands of Homeless People One-Way Bus Tickets to Leave Town

Children in conflict suffer from shocking levels of violence

A new report by the U.N. children’s fund finds 2017 has been a particularly brutal year for children caught in conflict, as children around the world have been subject to shocking levels of attacks by the warring parties.

Woman passenger saves bus after driver passes out

Women violating 'Islamic' dress code won't be arrested in Tehran

Women will no longer be arrested for violating the Islamic dress code in effect since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, said Tehran Police on Thursday.
According to a report by Associated Press, this move signaled a relaxation in punishments given for violating the conservative dress code. It may be noted the young and reformed Iranians who voted President Hassan Rouhani to power earlier this year, have been making this demand for a very long time.

Women violating 'Islamic' dress code won't be arrested in Tehran

Will Uterus Transplants Change the Way We Perceive Gender?

Will Uterus Transplants Change the Way We Perceive Gender?

Mormon cult leaders charged over child sex rituals

Unlicensed ‘christian counselor’ arrested for sexually assaulting clients

Unlicensed ‘christian counselor’ arrested for sexually assaulting clients

An unlicensed “christian counselor” in Dalton, Georgia has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting and attempting to coerce or solicit sex from clients.

Wingnut men are more likely to say they sexually harass women at work

'Who’s the snowflake?’

Car thief was picked up while wearing a deeply ironic t-shirt

A Virginia man wearing a “Trust Me” t-shirt showed he was just the opposite after being arrested along with an accomplice for stealing an unlocked car, police claim.
Wilmer Lara Garcia, 23, and Orlen Nunez, 24, of Falls Church both face charges of auto theft.
According to authorities, at approximately 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 23, a resident of Falls Church left a Honda Civic warming up on the street with the doors unlocked. It was missing by time she returned to the scene. The men were pulled over in the stolen care blocks away during a traffic stop, according to the Washington Post.
Police say they also discovered altered and forged checks in the car. Garcia, who was wearing the “Trust Me” shirt, is facing an additional two counts of forgery.

Man tries to electrocute pregnant wife

New Steven Avery test show he's innocent

Father shoots, kills son after mistaking him for truck thief

An Alabama father shot and killed his own son after mistaking him for a car thief on Xmas Eve. Logan Trammell, 22, drove away from his parents’ home that night in his father’s truck. His father did not know his son was taking the car and mistook him for a thief.
Logan’s father was recording music in an outside camper when he saw the truck driving away.
Logan’s father shot at the car as a warning, WIAT-TV reported. When that failed, he shot directly at the truck. When the truck stopped and he opened the door, he realized he had killed his own son.

Father shoots, kills son after mistaking him for truck thief

Innocent man instantly shot by police

Innocent man instantly shot by police after gamer feud over $2 results in ‘swatting’ prank at Kansas home

A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police responding to a possible homicide and hostage report — but gamers say the call was a “swatting” prank.

NYPD officers who callously investigated pregnant woman’s death suspended

Two officers of the New York Police Department were suspended without pay Thursday after admitting that they failed to check inside a Brooklyn apartment, causing a 22-year-old pregnant woman to be strangled to death.
After Tonie Wells called 911 and screamed, “He is going to kill me,” on December 27, two NYPD officers — Wael Jaber and Wing Hong Lau — were dispatched to Crown Heights residence on Sterling Place, Brooklyn, New York, where the distress call had come from, New York Daily News reported.
Upon reaching the potential crime scene, Jaber and Lau, both of whom have been on the task force for about a decade, took one glance at the three-story brownstone building and chose to drive off in their patrol car, instead of peeking inside the victim’s apartment.

NYPD officers who callously investigated pregnant woman’s death suspended