Four days after a car crash off a New York parkway, a missing man was found seriously injured but still alive. Tomas Wopat-Moreau, 22, was last seen leaving a party on May 30. He drove off of the road and launched his car more than 400 feet into the woods. The New York state police found Tomas at 2:10 p.m. after tracking a signal from his cell phone. They found a three-mile radius where the phone call was coming from and they searched that area.
This is a bad incident that can happen to anyone. It just happened to happen to this guy after he was leaving a party. People need to be aware the dangers of driving after attending a party. It is too bad that it had to happen to this guy. It is a miracle that this guy is alive since he flew 400 feet into a woods. Hopefully he can fully recover from this incident and maybe he will learn from his mistake so that it won't happen to him again.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/03/new.york.missing.man.found/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
Friday, June 4, 2010
BP says oil flowing from ruptured well to ship on Gulf surface
The news came out that BP is going to close four vents atop the containment cap. Once the vents are shut they are hoping that very little oil will escape. Since the oil spill the oil has already hit islands off of Mississippi and Alabama. BP completed a complex underwater maneuver when it lowered a cap over the ruptured well after they cut off a piece of the damaged pipe. They didn't make a fine cut on the pipe so it is a possiblility that the cap won't be snug around the pipe and it may allow oil to still flow out.This is a great attempt to try to limit the amount of oil that is released into the Gulf of Mexico. It still won't repair the damage that has been made to the Gulf and US states around the Gulf. It has caused the animals to have to struggle to survive through the oily sludge. It has caused great damage to the Gulf and surrounding states and it will take many years for it to get back to it was like before this disaster.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Wounded taxi driver 'watched friend shot in face'
Twelve people were killed in a shooting rampage in the town of Whitehaven. Derrick Bird was the shooter and shot at Don Reed. Reed watched his fellow friend, Darren Rewcastle get shot in the face. Reed was previously in the military and he used his training to crawl over to where his friend was lying down. When he got to him his face was gone and he was dead. Bird drove away shooting at other taxi drivers and he eventually shot himself.This would be a horrible thing to witness. Seeing anyone shot in the face would be bad but when it is one of your friends it makes everything worse. It is probably going to haunt Reed for the rest of his life. He is going to replay that day when he saws his best friend get shot at and crawling over to him to see him lying there with no face and dead. I don't know how I would be able to handle it first getting shot at yourself but then seeing your friend's face getting blown up from the shot.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Feds have launched criminal oil spill investigation, AG says
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may have had a crime commited said U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder also said that they have launched a criminal and civil investigation. The investigations will cover all aspects of the spill including the death of 11 workers from the explosion and fire that started the oil leak. Holder said that there will be no rest until justice is done. If anyone is found responsible for this trajedy they must be held accountable.If someone is found guilty for this spill they should need to do something to repair the damage that is being done to the Gulf. This disaster has caused many changes to that area and they should have to repair it. This oil spill will take many years to get it back to what it was like before the spill. If someone commited a crime while creating the oil spill they should feel guilty and they should know that they changed the Gulf of Mexico forever.
Transcript reveals last moments of doomed flight
During a flight in April the pilots of a Tupolev-154 plane were warned that there was danger ahead. The pilots were warned about eight times that they should pull up and that there was terrain ahead of them. The pilot didn't listen and the plane crashed and killed 100 people one of which was the president of Poland, Lech Kaczynski. The president was on his way to Russia for the 70th anniversary of the massacre of Polish prisoners of war in Katyn.
This is a bad incident especially since the plane was warned that there was danger ahead of them. The pilot of the plane should have listened and pulled up. The pilot should have been more responsible knowing that his life was in danger but more importantly the lives of many others. He decided not to listen and he eventually killed 100 people and a president from Poland. Now there will be many families that will have to try to determine what the pilot was thinking and a country that will need to have a new person step in to be their president.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Holder: Pakistani Taliban helped direct Times Square plot
The man that was charged in result to the failed Times Square bombing was working with the Taliban movement in Pakistan. Attorney General Eric Holder says that evidence shows that the Pakistani Taliban directed the plot on Time Square. Faisal Shahzad was charged on May 1 for his attempted bombing. He attempted to set off a car bomb but the bomb failed to detonate. He was arrested while attempting to fly out of New York two days after the attempted bombing. Shahzad is a Pakistani-American and he had traveled to Pakistan many times in the last few years.This is another bad sign for our country. We need to try to find a way for our country to stop terrorist attacks from happening to our country. It is sad that a person who is recognized as a United States citizen tries plot a terrorist attack on his own country. We should try to monitor the people who are US citizens but have ties to the Middle East. We need to watch these people carefully so that they don't turn on their current country like Faisal Shahzad did.
Unheralded Braden keeps making us believe this is his defining year
The most important thing to know about Dallas Braden is that he was never considered a talented prospect. He was the 1,383rd player taken in the 2004 draft. He wasn't known coming out of high school. He went to a small college in Sacramento where the coach didn't even know him from his high school career. He had a stellar year and he was good enough to play for Texas Tech. He impressed enough people that the Oakland A's drafted him. Braden might have only been drafted because he had the ability to throw a knuckball which is very rare in the game today. He was voted the minor league teams player of the year and yet he was only the 19th best prospect in the organization. One of the main reasons that Braden is in the big leagues and pitching well is because he believes that he belongs in the league. He has struggled though the fact that his mom died when he was a senior in high school. He lived with his grandmother and Braden said that if she hadn't influenced him like she did, he would have probably ended up in jail.This is a great story for the MLB and for everyone who believes they can achieve when others think that they can't. This show that with hard work and the confidence that you can do it, a person can achieve just about anything. It is a great story in that Braden was never looked at as a great pitcher. He was average at best and he worked hard and he believed in himself that he could pitch in the major leagues. Now he will be remembered forever because he is now one of only nineteen pitchers in the history of the MLB to throw a perfect game. This should give him even more confidence and maybe other people will finally start to believe that he does belong in the MLB and that he will be a great pitcher for many years to come.
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