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Something that made me go WTF and will also make you say the same thing. Read the following article:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1082525.html
Guilty plea given in slaying
RALEIGH - A man who once had delusions that he was the sixth member of the family pop group the Jackson Five pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday in a June 2001 shooting in Southeast Raleigh.
Dwayne Haywood, 29, has been at Dorothea Dix Hospital since his arrest seven years ago because he was considered too mentally ill to be tried until recently.
Haywood pleaded guilty to fatally shooting Abraham "Blackie" Payne, 22, in Payne's home at 324 Maple St. on June 19, 2001. Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson Jr. sentenced Haywood to a prison term of 13 to 16 years, giving him credit for the seven he has spent at Dix.
The night of the shooting, Haywood came out of the duplex where the shooting occurred and crossed Maple Street to a rooming house, according to police accounts. There, he abducted a man at gunpoint and made him drive to Raleigh-Durham International Airport, police said.
At the airport, Haywood threw a gun into a trash can and was arrested by airport police.
The connection between Payne and Haywood was not clear, but both men were from Brooklyn, N.Y.
Haywood confessed to the shooting in 2001, telling police he was upset about an assault that had occurred outside of North Carolina, Wake Assistant District Attorney Howard Cummings said in court Thursday. It appeared that Payne came to Raleigh to sell drugs, Cummings said. A week before the shooting, Haywood had been in New York where he was receiving mental health treatment.
History of instability
Haywood's mental stability had been uncertain since a young age, and he had long exhibited violent behavior and delusions, according to a psychiatrist's report submitted to court Thursday.
Born in North Carolina, Haywood moved to New York when he was 6 years old. He was classified as "emotionally disturbed" in 1990, when he was 11, and placed in special education classes. In 1998, he was imprisoned for an attack at a Rite-Aid pharmacy where he ransacked the store and then slashed three people in the faces with a box-cutter, causing one victim to need 120 stitches, according to the report written by Nicole Wolfe, a forensic psychiatrist at Dix.
He was hospitalized in a psychiatric center in 2000 in central New York, where he spoke of being the "creator."
In 2001, Haywood was arrested on armed robbery charges and went back to a psychiatric hospital in New York after he became delusional while in jail. He told psychiatrists there that he thought he was the Jackson 6, the biological brother of Michael Jackson. He thought the iconic family of pop musicians gave him away at a young age. He also thought he was the "Chosen One" and was diagnosed as being bipolar and having an antisocial personality.
Haywood was released on parole May 30, 2001, and left a New York psychiatric residence center June 11, 2001. Eight days later, he shot Payne.
Sent to Central Prison, Haywood began telling the prison staff that his stepmother made him eat his heart, that he was God and that his father was Albert Einstein, Wolfe's report said. He went to Dix after he was declared incompetent to stand trial, but his mental illness did not warrant an insanity defense, Wolfe wrote. He has been taking medication for years to stabilize his mental state and no longer has delusional beliefs, Wolfe wrote. On Thursday, Hudson designated him competent to stand trial and then accepted Haywood's guilty plea.
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/entertainment/19166954.html
The only thing that didn’t really work for me were the costumes. Aida’s dresses were lovely as were the rest of the Nubian wardrobe. I even liked the Marilyn Monroe-take on Egyptian garb worn by Princess Amneris and her handmaidens. But Radames and his fellow soldiers/back-up dancers’ costumes looked like G.I. Joe dressed in bondage. And Radames’ jacket looked a bit too much like something Michael Jackson would wear. Although I understand they were meant to be edgy, it just ended up being distracting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/b...bl&ex=1211688000&en=2f1c1073322ca17f&ei=5087
The Acostas lived on meager rations in a building with no running water, its walls crawling with termites. Carlos spent his days obsessing about soccer, stealing fruit and swimming in the “noxious waters” of the forest reservoir. Then the ’80s came, along with the break-dancing craze. Carlos fell in with a gang of Michael Jackson mimics and at his first big rumble took top prize: “a trophy with a picture of Lenin surrounded by the hammer and sickle
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/429119
From the outset, Cook provided just enough outside-the-box behaviour – see his rendition of Chris Cornell's version of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" – to keep viewers cooking up votes for him every week. Neither Cook nor Archuleta was ever a low vote-getter.
http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/kimosvegas_article/kimos_vegas323/
OVER THE YEARS, Las Vegas has accumulated many nicknames, including Sin City, The Strip, City of Entertainment, City of Lights, Neon City, The Entertainment Capital of the World and, if you include Downtown, Glitter Gulch. But the city may be well on its way to adding another to this lengthy list ... Comeback City, if the rumors about Britney Spears and Michael Jackson come true.
http://www.gogirlfriend.com/reviews/finland-dancing-under-midnight-sun-11320
Next to the eating area, a stage boasted hot Finnish acts like the award-winning Kwan, Accu (known as being a mix between Abba and Yello), and the highlight of the evening, Hemma Beast. Playing an eclectic mix of classics with their own twist - like "Simply the Best" by Cher and "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson - Hemma Beast succeeded in getting everyone dancing... and away from the fortune tellers
Something that made me go WTF and will also make you say the same thing. Read the following article:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1082525.html
Guilty plea given in slaying
RALEIGH - A man who once had delusions that he was the sixth member of the family pop group the Jackson Five pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday in a June 2001 shooting in Southeast Raleigh.
Dwayne Haywood, 29, has been at Dorothea Dix Hospital since his arrest seven years ago because he was considered too mentally ill to be tried until recently.
Haywood pleaded guilty to fatally shooting Abraham "Blackie" Payne, 22, in Payne's home at 324 Maple St. on June 19, 2001. Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson Jr. sentenced Haywood to a prison term of 13 to 16 years, giving him credit for the seven he has spent at Dix.
The night of the shooting, Haywood came out of the duplex where the shooting occurred and crossed Maple Street to a rooming house, according to police accounts. There, he abducted a man at gunpoint and made him drive to Raleigh-Durham International Airport, police said.
At the airport, Haywood threw a gun into a trash can and was arrested by airport police.
The connection between Payne and Haywood was not clear, but both men were from Brooklyn, N.Y.
Haywood confessed to the shooting in 2001, telling police he was upset about an assault that had occurred outside of North Carolina, Wake Assistant District Attorney Howard Cummings said in court Thursday. It appeared that Payne came to Raleigh to sell drugs, Cummings said. A week before the shooting, Haywood had been in New York where he was receiving mental health treatment.
History of instability
Haywood's mental stability had been uncertain since a young age, and he had long exhibited violent behavior and delusions, according to a psychiatrist's report submitted to court Thursday.
Born in North Carolina, Haywood moved to New York when he was 6 years old. He was classified as "emotionally disturbed" in 1990, when he was 11, and placed in special education classes. In 1998, he was imprisoned for an attack at a Rite-Aid pharmacy where he ransacked the store and then slashed three people in the faces with a box-cutter, causing one victim to need 120 stitches, according to the report written by Nicole Wolfe, a forensic psychiatrist at Dix.
He was hospitalized in a psychiatric center in 2000 in central New York, where he spoke of being the "creator."
In 2001, Haywood was arrested on armed robbery charges and went back to a psychiatric hospital in New York after he became delusional while in jail. He told psychiatrists there that he thought he was the Jackson 6, the biological brother of Michael Jackson. He thought the iconic family of pop musicians gave him away at a young age. He also thought he was the "Chosen One" and was diagnosed as being bipolar and having an antisocial personality.
Haywood was released on parole May 30, 2001, and left a New York psychiatric residence center June 11, 2001. Eight days later, he shot Payne.
Sent to Central Prison, Haywood began telling the prison staff that his stepmother made him eat his heart, that he was God and that his father was Albert Einstein, Wolfe's report said. He went to Dix after he was declared incompetent to stand trial, but his mental illness did not warrant an insanity defense, Wolfe wrote. He has been taking medication for years to stabilize his mental state and no longer has delusional beliefs, Wolfe wrote. On Thursday, Hudson designated him competent to stand trial and then accepted Haywood's guilty plea.
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/entertainment/19166954.html
The only thing that didn’t really work for me were the costumes. Aida’s dresses were lovely as were the rest of the Nubian wardrobe. I even liked the Marilyn Monroe-take on Egyptian garb worn by Princess Amneris and her handmaidens. But Radames and his fellow soldiers/back-up dancers’ costumes looked like G.I. Joe dressed in bondage. And Radames’ jacket looked a bit too much like something Michael Jackson would wear. Although I understand they were meant to be edgy, it just ended up being distracting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/b...bl&ex=1211688000&en=2f1c1073322ca17f&ei=5087
The Acostas lived on meager rations in a building with no running water, its walls crawling with termites. Carlos spent his days obsessing about soccer, stealing fruit and swimming in the “noxious waters” of the forest reservoir. Then the ’80s came, along with the break-dancing craze. Carlos fell in with a gang of Michael Jackson mimics and at his first big rumble took top prize: “a trophy with a picture of Lenin surrounded by the hammer and sickle
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/429119
From the outset, Cook provided just enough outside-the-box behaviour – see his rendition of Chris Cornell's version of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" – to keep viewers cooking up votes for him every week. Neither Cook nor Archuleta was ever a low vote-getter.
http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/kimosvegas_article/kimos_vegas323/
OVER THE YEARS, Las Vegas has accumulated many nicknames, including Sin City, The Strip, City of Entertainment, City of Lights, Neon City, The Entertainment Capital of the World and, if you include Downtown, Glitter Gulch. But the city may be well on its way to adding another to this lengthy list ... Comeback City, if the rumors about Britney Spears and Michael Jackson come true.
http://www.gogirlfriend.com/reviews/finland-dancing-under-midnight-sun-11320
Next to the eating area, a stage boasted hot Finnish acts like the award-winning Kwan, Accu (known as being a mix between Abba and Yello), and the highlight of the evening, Hemma Beast. Playing an eclectic mix of classics with their own twist - like "Simply the Best" by Cher and "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson - Hemma Beast succeeded in getting everyone dancing... and away from the fortune tellers
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