The D.A. Of The Day - 1/15/16

NOSY TOURIST KISSES SNAKE:

It's hard to imagine any circumstance when kissing a python on the lips would be a good idea, but a Chinese tourist decided to ignore common sense and went in for a smooch anyway.

The 29-year-old woman visited an animal park in Thailand last weekend and tried to give the python a little peck. But the snake wasn't exactly interested in some lovin' -- and chomped down on the woman's nose and refused to let go. The incident was caught on video, and you can hear bystanders screaming in horror as two snake handlers tried to pry the snake's mouth open. 

NAKED PREACHER BUSTED AT WAFFLE HOUSE;

Police in Georgia arrested a naked woman who walked around a Waffle House restaurant preaching to customers and throwing punches and plates at them.

Witnesses say Jennifer Nicholson visited the Waffle House in Kennesaw, Georgia and preached to diners before stripping off her clothes and allegedly punching a woman in the nose, chest and arm. She then started throwing plates around. Another diner claims the woman grabbed him and put him in a bear hug. 

When police arrived, they found Nicholson naked on her knees next to a booth that a man was sitting at. When she noticed the officers, she started screaming and throwing plates at them, so they Tased her. But the probe came loose, and she attacked the officers and scratched one of them on the chin. She was eventually subdued and taken into custody.

She's been hit with a bunch of charges, including battery, indecent exposure, criminal damage to property, and obstruction of officers. 

CROOK GETS TEA-BAGGED

Trouble is brewing for a Florida man who's accused of crashing a stolen car he used in a home robbery -- then returning to the wreck to retrieve an iced tea bottle he thought might incriminate him.

Bryan Lindor is accused of breaking into the house with a 17-year-old accomplice, but fleeing the scene quickly after being scared off by a burglar alarm. They hopped into a hot Kia and sped away, but Lindor wrecked the vehicle and ran off on foot -- only to return a few minutes later when he remembered that he'd left the tea, with his fingerprints and DNA.

Lindor's mom insists that he's innocent and was using the phone at her home at the time of the crime -- to talk to his brother about getting a job as a security guard. 

STONER SON ATTACKS MOM OVER POT EATING PUP

Police in Florida arrested a man after he beat up his mother -- because her dog had eaten his marijuana.

25-year-old Mackenzie Freeman, a pothead who lives with his 57-year-old mother, became angry after her dog got into his stash and chowed down. Freeman is accused of pushing his mom to the ground and hitting her in the head with a pair of pants. He also allegedly punched several holes in the wall. 

As officers arrived at the home, Freeman took off running but was apprehended a short distance away. He admitted to pushing his mother to the floor but told cops that she deserved it. He was booked on charges of domestic battery, possession of drug paraphernalia, and resisting an officer. It's not known how much marijuana the dog ate or if it experienced any side effects other than the munchies.

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GRIZZLY ADAMS STAR DAN HAGGERTY DEAD AT 74

The actor who made Grizzly Adams one of TV's most distinctive faces of the late-'70s has died.

TMZ reported this morning that Dan Haggerty has died of cancer at his Southern California home. He was 74.

A former stuntman and animal trainer who made his acting debut in the Frankie-and-Annette movie Muscle Beach Party, Haggerty created the character of a wrongly accused outlaw with a remarkable bond with animals in a 1974 film The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. NBC turned it into a TV series three years later.

He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. Most recently, he'd appeared in the reality series American Pickers.

POWER RANGERS: FORMER STAR CHARGED WITH MURDER

A former Power Ranger has been charged with murder.

Ricardo Medina Junior, who played the red ranger in Power Rangers Wild Force and Power Rangers Samurai, has officially been charged in the murder of his roommate, about a year after the incident.

Medina allegedly stabbed Joshua Sutter several times with a sword at their Green Valley, California, house. The two were reportedly fighting about Medina's girlfriend.

He was arrested last year but released after claiming it was self-defense.

If convicted, Medina faces 26 years to life in prison. 

DEBRA MESSING SIGNS ON FOR ABC’S DIRTY DANCING

 

Debra Messing has signed on to portray the mother of Baby in the upcoming ABC remake of “Dirty Dancing.” Messing now stars in “The Mysteries of Laura, and was formerly in “Will & Grace.”

Her role as Marjorie Houseman has not been defined beyond what is known of the mother in the 1987 movie. The three-episode mini-series stars Abigail Breslin of “Scream Queens” fame as Baby.  She reprises the role of Jennifer Gray from the original movie. The role of Patrick Swayze’s Johnny has not yet been announced.

“Dirty Dancing” will be produced by Lionsgate TV in association with Allison Shearmur Productions. Allison Shearmur and Eleanor Bergstein will be executive producers. Bergstein wrote the screenplay for the original movie. Jessica Sharzer will write the adaptation and Wayne Blair will direct. Adam Anders and Peer Astrom will handle the music along with Andy Blankenbuehler as choreographer. No date has been announced for the series to air.

The musical will film in and around Asheville, North Carolina. The series differs from previous productions “Peter Pan Live” and “The Wiz” in that it will be filmed for presentation.

ADAM LAMBERT JOINS FOX’S ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

 

Adam Lambert has been added to the cast of Fox’s upcoming “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” He will portray Eddie, the ex-delivery boy who loves rock ‘n roll and who crashes the party at Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s eerie home.

The musical was released in 1975 and went on to become a cult classic.

“I grew up watching “Rocky Horror,” but could never imagine that I would be part of this new vision,” Lambert told “People.” The movie always made me feel like it was okay to celebrate my weirdness. Hallelujah, bless my soul!  I love that old time rock-n-roll!” 

Originally Lambert was one of the actors being considered for the Frank-N-Furter role, but it went to Laverne Cox of the popular “Orange Is The New Black.”

Fox’s two-hour “Rocky Horror Picture Show” will air this fall.

RENE ANGELIL IS DEAD

Rene Angelil, 73, has died at his home in Las Veags. He is the husband and former manager of Celine Dion, who announced his death on Thursday.

Angelil was born in Montreal, and began managing Dion when she was 12 at the request of her parents. According to “The Montreal Gazette,” he mortgaged his house to finance Dion’s first album. They were married in 1994, and had three children, Nelson, René-Charles and Eddy.

Dion, who has recorded 25 albums and toured world-wide, with recent residencies in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace since 2003, took time off to care for Angelil after he was diagnosed with throat cancer 2000. She began performing again last year but has cancelled her upcoming shows.

As early as last year, the singer told “USA Today” that she was preparing for her husband’s death.

"When it hits me, it's going to hit me," she told the newspaper in August 2015. "But my biggest job is to tell my husband, we're fine. I'll take care of our kids. You'll watch us from another spot."

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CERTIFIED PLATINUM – CARRIE UNDERWOOD

 

Carrie Underwood has earned a Platinum certification by the RIAA for her first compilation record, Greatest Hits: Decade #1. What makes this accomplishment even more exciting is the fact that Underwood is the only country artist – and one of only six all-genre artists – to release a Platinum album since the release of her Greatest Hits: Decade #1 record in December of 2014. The 25-song album features hits from the first 10 years of Carrie's career and also introduced two new #1 songs: the Grammy-winning "Something in the Water," as well as "Little Toy Guns," which is currently nominated for Best Country Solo Performance at the 2016 Grammy Awards. The 58th Annual Grammy Awards will be held February 15, 2016, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast live on CBS at 7PM.

Underwood earned her 7th Grammy Award at last year's show, winning for Best Country Solo Performance for "Something in the Water." Carrie -- who was pregnant at the time -- wasn't able to attend last year's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, but she did watch the show from her home in Nashville.  

THE ANTICS CONTINUE – LUKE BRYAN AND BLAKE SHELTON

Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton won't be exchanging their typical witty banter as co-hosts of the ACM Awards later this year, but that doesn't mean the two aren't going to continue their antics towards each other. Luke and Blake have both changed their respective profile pictures on Twitter this week to older photos of each other. Shelton changed his Twitter profile picture to an old photo of Bryan wearing a cowboy hat with his hands resting on a guitar, while Luke changed his profile picture to a throwback of Blake from his long-haired days. In December, Dierks Bentley was confirmed as Bryan's new co-host at the 51st Annual ACM Awards in Las Vegas this April. The show will air on Sunday, April 3 and will be broadcast live on CBS at 7:00 PM.

SCOTTY MCCREERY: CAROLINA BOY, NEW ENGLAND FAN

Scotty McCreery will sing the national anthem on Saturday when the New England Patriots take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Foxboro, Massachusetts for the divisional playoffs. 

He's a life-long Patriots fan, even though he's from North Carolina. 

Scotty tells Patriots.com that being a fan of team is in his genes -- his dad is from New England. "He grew up a Boston sports fan, so that’s all he knew, and he passed that down to me here in North Carolina. I’m like the lone wolf, but it’s fun to be a Patriots fan down here because most folks, they’re Pats haters for sure. That makes it more interesting."

Scotty has a lucky charm -- his Patriots toboggan knit hat. He says his team has been winning ever since he started wearing it. He even wore it when they played in Phoenix. He was burning up, but it was worth it. 

THROWBACK THURSDAY: CARRIE UNDERWOOD

On this day in 2006, Carrie Underwood's breakout hit “Jesus Take the Wheel” went number-one on the Billboard country chart. Here’s a throwback video of Carrie singing the song at her Grand Ole Opry induction in 2008.

 

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SHE MADE A LITTLE MCMISTAKE

A British woman is eating crow after she tried to do a good deed by buying a fast food breakfast for a homeless man -- only to find that the guy was just a badly-dressed dude who didn't need a handout at all.

Claire Varin saw the man, whose name was not released, sitting at a booth looking "disheveled and hungry," and when she saw him open a ketchup packet and eat a squiggle of the condiment, she decided to buy him a meal. But as soon as she walked over with the tray, an employee came over with the man's order, and she says, "He just looked confused. I was mortified. I felt like I was going to die of embarrassment."

Claire says she bolted without placing her own order, adding "My husband keeps laughing at me. He says he's going to follow me around from now on to make sure I don't buy strangers food." 

MAKING A MURDERER: HALF- BROTHER OF BRENDAN DASSEY RELEASES MURDER RAP.

One of the relatives of Making A Murderer star and accused murderer Brendan Dassey is hoping to help his brother beat the murder rap with a murder rap of his own -- literally.

While Brendan sits behind bars serving a life sentence, Brad is spitting bars of his own. The song, called "They Didn't Do It," proclaims the innocence of Dassey and Steven Avery. 

Jabs include lines like, "Not a fair trial, not a fair game. Whole thing's wack, just a lying shame."

Brad says he put 10 hours of his blood, sweat and tears into the track and that he hopes to play the song next time he visits his brother at the Green Bay Correctional Facility.

 

WONDER WHAT THE RETURN POLICY IS ON THIS?

Don't you just hate it when somebody gets your order wrong? Like you asked for no mayo and got a sandwich slathered in it. Or you said fries and got a baked potato. Or how about ordering a Kindle online and mistakenly being delivered a box with a tumor inside?

James Potten of England received a FedEx package that he assumed was the Kindle e-book reader he had ordered. But when he opened the box he immediately realized that his Kindle probably wasn't inside. The enclosed box was wrapped in a paper seal which read, "Specimen return kit -- Patient tumor specimen enclosed." 

Potten saw that the package was sent from an address in California and was intended for London’s Royal Free Hospital. He tried several times to get FedEx to come pick up the package, but couldn't get them to come. He says, "I've been trying to get FedEx to collect it as it is potentially a sample that needs to be tested and sent back with some urgency. I don't know where my Kindle is, but if it is at the Royal Free I'd be happy to do an exchange."

Eventually, the tumor specimen made its way to the hospital, and the next day, Potten received his Kindle. 

WELL HEY... NO MORE BEDBUGS..

A Detroit man successfully took care of a nagging bedbug problem, and simultaneously, proved he's one of the dumbest people on the planet.

The unidentified 30-year-old sprayed rubbing alcohol on his couch and his body to combat the annoying little critters. He then sat down and lit a cigarette, which he used to try to burn one of the insects. But of course, the alcohol-soaked couch caught fire and so did his alcohol-soaked body.

The fire then quickly spread to the rest of his eighth-floor apartment. He was able to escape the inferno, but suffered severe burns. Four other apartments were damaged in the fire and a dozen more suffered water damage. 

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BOWIE MAY HAVE FIRST NUMBER ONE WITH BLACKSTAR


The late David Bowie could possibly have his first number one album on “Billboard’s 200” with his just released “Blackstar.”

The album was released on Bowie’s birthday, January 8th, could sell 130-thousand albums in its first week of release, landing it at number one on the chart. Bowie died just two days after the album was released after battling cancer for 18 months.
 
Should he attain the number one spot, he will bump Adele, who has held that slot for seven consecutive weeks. 

 “His death was no different from his life – a work of Art,” says producer Tony Visconti via Facebook. “He made “Blackstar” for us, his parting gift."

ALAN RICKMAN: DEAD AT 69

Alan Rickman, the veteran English actor known for his roles as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies, as well as Hans Gruber in Die Hard and the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, passed away today in London. He was 69.

Rickman's family confirmed his death saying he died "surrounded by family and friends," and added that he had been suffering from cancer. Rickman is also remembered for his roles in Truly, Madly, Deeply, Sense and Sensibility, and Love Actually. He is survived by his wife Rima Horton, whom he met when he was 19.

GEORGE CLOONEY: HUGE ENGLISH ESTATE FLOODED

George Clooney better grab a bucket. His home in England is being destroyed by a great flood.

The River Thames has burst its banks and Clooney’s huge $15 million dollar estate is four acres adjacent to the river. His pool, gardens, and garage are threatened. Just a couple more feet of the river rising and his home will be inundated.

Clooney just got finished refurbishing the 17th century estate, too. 

NICK CARTER: ARRESTED IN KEY WEST

Nick Carter spent the night in jail after getting into a bar fight at a popular spot in Key West, Florida.

The former Backstreet Boys singer and Dancing With the Stars runner-up was arrested at the Hog's Breath Saloon after he and a friend were involved in a fight with bouncers. Nick and the friend were drunk and unruly and refused to leave the bar.Staffers kicked the two out of the club and Carter attempted to choke a bouncer. He was charged with battery and is still in custody.

This isn't his first arrest. Carter was busted in a bar fight in 2002 and also arrested for drunk driving in 2005.

FRIENDS: REUNION COMING TO NBC

Ross and Rachel are getting back together again, along with the rest of the Friends cast. 

NBC announced yesterday that the cast will reunite for a two-hour special paying tribute to James Burrows, the legendary television director who, aside from Friends, also directed episodes of Cheers, Taxi, Frasier and The Big Bang Theory. 

All six original cast members; Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer have all said they will take part in the special, although they may not all be together. The special will air on February 21st. 

THE D.A. OF THE DAY - 1/13/16 - PRESENTED BY LOWERY'S COMMERCIAL CLEANING

IT WASN'T ME....IT WAS MY TWIN

A suspect in a stabbing attack in Pennsylvania was able to get out of trouble because it wasn't him -- it was his evil twin brother. 

Police questioned everyone at the scene, including the nefarious Lance Greenwood. During police questioning, Lance provided his brother Leonard's driver's license. An investigation determined Leonard to be the prime suspect in the case and got a warrant for his arrest. They also circulated his name and photo to the press, and asked for help in apprehending him. 

After Leonard found out that he was a wanted man, he discovered that his identical twin Lance had given police his name. This was all straightened out at the police station after Leonard turned his brother in. 

The guilty twin was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, possession of an instrument of crime with intent, assault, recklessly endangering another person, and providing false identification to law enforcement. The 16-year-old victim is in the hospital in stable condition.

TALK ABOUT A HIGH SPEED CHASE:

A Florida man is likely to spend some time in the joint after leading cops on a long, high-speed chase -- while smoking a freshly-rolled joint!

Andrew Rawlston was tooling along down U.S. Highway 27 near the entrance to the Florida Turnpike when a patrolman noticed one of his pickup's headlights was out. The officer began a regular-speed pursuit, but when Rawlston noticed he was being followed, he floored it, going from 65 to 95 within a few seconds.

A second deputy managed to throw down stop sticks that slowed the vehicle, eventually causing Rawlston to pull over. And when the trooper got to the truck, Rawlston was calmly puffing on a joint, which his girlfriend said he'd lit up during the chase. According to the arrest report, the unidentified woman seemed frightened and angry at Rawlston, but the trooper said the driver didn’t seem to grasp the seriousness of the situation and “actually thought it was funny.”

SELFIE INCRIMINATING!

Picture this -- an Ohio fugitive was so focused on the bad mugshot cops circulated to help catch him that he took a photo he liked better and asked them to send that around instead.

Donald A. "Chip" Pugh had been out on bail after being arrested on arson charges, but decided to bail on his court date, making him a wanted man. Authorities in the town of Lima [pr: LYE-ma] put the 45-year-old's mugshot out on social media and television, which ticked him off since it apparently captured his bad side.

He texted cops a shot showing him behind the wheel, with the plea, "Here is a better photo, that one is terrible," adding "They just did me wrong. They put a picture that made me look like I was a Thundercat or something."

As of now, the new shot is circulating, and Pugh is still at large.