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Showing posts with label Animal Kingdom. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 15, 2013
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Photo Derek Medina Posted Of His Dead Wife, Jennifer Alfonso, Still Online As Facebook Helps In Miami Police Investigation
Police charged Medina, a property management supervisor in South Miami, with first-degree murder after he turned himself in willingly.
"I'm going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife love you guys miss you guys take care Facebook people you will see me in the news my wife was punching me and I am not going to stand anymore with the abuse so I did what I did I hope u understand me," the post from Medina at 11:11 a.m. read. He then posted the photo of his dead wife shortly after Thursday afternoon with the caption, “Rip Jennifer Alfonso.”
According to The Associated Press, the photo remained on Facebook for more than five hours before it was removed late Thursday afternoon. And according to a spokeswoman for the social networking site, Facebook is working with police in the investigation.
"The content was reported to us," the spokeswoman told The AP. "We took action on the profile - removing the content and disabling the profile, and we reached out to law enforcement. We take action on all content that violates our terms, which are clearly laid out on our site."
Miami-Dade Police said Medina did not call 911 but turned himself in to police after fatally shooting Alfonso at their South Miami home. Authorities went to the home and found Alfonso’s body as well as her 10-year-old daughter, who was unharmed upstairs.
Medina told police the couple got into an argument in the upstairs bedroom before her pointing a gun at her. He said Alfonso left the room and returned to declare she was leaving him, according to the report by Detective Jonathan Grossman. Medina said the argument travelled downstairs to the kitchen where she began punching him. He said he went to retrieve his gun upstairs and came down to see Alfonso holding a knife. Media told police he disarmed her, but she began punching him again so he shot her several times.
Police did not comment on the Facebook posts in the affidavit.
The AP reported Medina and Alfonso married in January 2010 before divorcing in February 2012 and remarrying three months later. The couple lived in a condo together in South Miami since March last year which police have now taped off as part of the investigation.
Colleagues of Alfonso’s said the couple frequently fought before Thursday’s events. “She would be bruised up,” Amanda Cooper told The AP, describing Medina as “controlling.” “He would always come back, begging her … come back,” Cathy LaBella said. “She would say he was going to change. She was in love with him.”
Before Medina’s Facebook page was suspended, he was an active social media user, posting videos of him working out. He identified himself as a supervisor at a property management company and said he acted in “Burn Notice.”
The Miami Herald reported that a man with the same name was the author of e-books on subjects for saving marriages and "humans who are gifted and can see the supernatural spirit ghost world we live in."The Miami Herald said Medina is likely to claim self-defense in the case.
Friday, June 21, 2013
The Sad Case Of The Florida Yeti
Florida is home to more than just Skunk Apes. The state has its own Yeti, too, and even though it may not stink like a Skunk Ape, its history certainly does. In fact, your chance of glimpsing the creature has become less likely than seeing the real thing.Here's a brief summary of the character's abominable history:
Ten years ago the Walt Disney Company sent its designers to the Himalayas to research a new thrill ride that would be literally "built around" the Abominable Snowman. It opened in 2006 as "Expedition Everest" in the company's Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando.
The roller coaster ride was engineered on tracks that wrapped around a replica Mt. Everest, which itself was constructed around the gigantic 22-foot-tall animatronic Yeti, the largest robotic character the company had ever produced.
There was a problem, though. The Yeti was supposed to reach down toward the passing tourists and just miss their vehicle as they escaped to the end of their journey. But the force of the monster's thrusting arm was so enormous that shortly after the ride opened, a crack developed in the figure's base that posed an immediate danger of collapse should the figure be operated again without repairing the damage.
That was easier said than done, however. Because the creature's size required that the ride be built around it, the entire mountain would have to be dismantled at a cost of millions of dollars and many months of downtime.
Disney opted instead to simply turn off the main lights in the Yeti's lair and install a strobe that flashed to simulate movement in the stationary figure, causing it to be nicknamed "Disco Yeti."
Unfortunately, though, the lighting doesn't even strobe effectively anymore. Now the figure is barely perceptible, and most riders barely notice a hint of orange fur above them as they pass beneath the creature.
That is all very unfortunate, because travelers passing through both the regular and "Fast Pass" lines see hundreds of fascinating real and replica artifacts collected or recreated by Disney researchers—including statues, footprint castings, and other memorabilia—all of which were intended to prime riders for their ultimate encounter with the impressive creation.
The Yeti itself was based on actual reports and legendary descriptions, and it has a more "authentic" reddish appearance than one would expect looking at all the white-fur Yetis featured in the ride's gift shop. Presumably the darker Yeti would confuse tourists conditioned to expect a white "Abominable Snowman" by depictions in popular culture. (American tourists in particular see a brown Yeti and think of something closer to home.)
Disney's Yeti is impressive enough that it's a shame it can't simply be enjoyed as a still figure. Is it really better to keep it hidden than to just show it to us for a few moments, immobile though it may be? If you must, hinge its mouth, or make its eyes open and close...anything to make you think it's worth showing to us again. It's too amazing to let it just lurk in the shadows...we already have Yetis that do that!
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