YouTube prankster thankful after rescue from microwave stunt
December 9, 2017 by admin
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Some may call Jay Swingler a blockhead — but at least he’s a grateful blockhead.
The British YouTuber recently made headlines after a prank — in which he tried cementing his head in a microwave oven — went horribly wrong. He responded to the mishap in a video on Friday.
“You don’t know how grateful I am, I was so scared,” Swingler, 22, said after firefighters rescued him.
“You guys (fire department) are awesome at your job, and so are the paramedics. I appreciate you guys a lot,” he added in his TGFbro YouTube channel post.
Swingler’s plan to cement his head in the microwave using spackling paste took an unexpectedly bad turn when the substance solidified faster than he anticipated.
“The plan was literally to set my head in there, but not let it set complete. At one point it was like a thick jelly and I could keep it on my head and I could move the microwave standing up,” he said. “But, if I really wanted to I could pull it off and it would slide off cause the [spackling paste] was kind of like a thick jelly around my head.”
In the video posted Thursday, Swingler is seen covering his head with a plastic bag and using a tube to breathe, before sticking his head into a microwave oven filled with the paste. His friend then uses a hairdryer to speed the paste-hardening process.
But Swingler’s breathing is cut off when he stands up with the microwave attached to his head after the paste has solidified. His friends are able to chisel away at the plaster just enough to provide some space for him to breathe until help arrives.
“I was panicking, and I was telling them, ‘I’m about to die.’” Swingler says in the video.
Swingler said he’s “never appreciated life so much,” after the fire department spent about an hour chiseling and hammering away at the hardened paste to free his head from the kitchen appliance.
To some, it may have seemed a funny scenario, but the first-responders were not amused.
“All of the group involved were very apologetic, but this was clearly a call-out which might have prevented us from helping someone else in genuine, accidental need,” said Watch Commander Shaun Dakin, officer in charge of the West Midlands Fire Service crew who responded, USA Today reported.
However, looking back on the whole escapade Swingler said it’s a story that people are going to remember.
“I had a damn microwave stuck to my head. Do you know how many people are going to remember that? In comparison to, do you know how many people are going to remember that news article that said, ‘Man stole toy from a shop, gets a fine,’” he said.
The YouTube star also addressed the backlash on social media, in which people called him anything from an “idiot” to a waste of emergency services time.
“Literally, 100 percent I should be fined and I’m expecting a fine,” Swingler said. “I don’t know whether that’s going to happen or not, but I’m expecting a fine. And I’m more than happy to pay it, and I’m more than happy to donate my money to the people that helped me that day.”
As of late Friday, the video of Swingler getting his head stuck in a microwave has been viewed nearly 2 million times.
Benjamin Brown is a reporter for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @bdbrown473.
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Court Rules Against Brendan Dassey, Subject of ‘Making a Murderer’
December 9, 2017 by admin
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“Today’s ruling contravenes a fundamental and time-honored position of the United States Supreme Court: Interrogation tactics that may not be coercive when applied to adults are coercive when applied to children and the mentally impaired,” they said. “Indeed, when such tactics are applied to vulnerable populations, the risk of false confession grows intolerably.”
Friday’s decision was the latest sharp turn in a legal battle that has attracted national attention after the 2015 release of the Netflix series.
Mr. Dassey, now 28, was 16 when Ms. Halbach was killed. His lawyers have argued that he was mentally unfit, that his confession was involuntary and that he had inadequate legal representation.
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In August 2016, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Wisconsin overturned Mr. Dassey’s convictions and ordered that he be released within 90 days. But prosecutors appealed the decision, and the United States Court of Appeals, which blocked his release one day before he was set to be free, ordered him to remain in Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wis., until his case was settled.
In June, Mr. Dassey then won a major victory when a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court ruled 2 to 1 that his confession was coerced. But the state appealed that decision to the full seven-judge court, which reversed the panel’s decision on Friday.
Brad Schimel, Wisconsin’s attorney general, said in a statement that he was gratified by the decision.
“Today’s decision is a testament to the talent of the attorneys at the Wisconsin Department of Justice who have worked tirelessly to deliver justice for the family and friends of Teresa Halbach over the last decade,” he said.
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Ilana Rovner said that Mr. Dassey was “subjected to myriad psychologically coercive techniques but the state court did not review his interrogation with the special care required by Supreme Court precedent.”
“His confession was not voluntary and his conviction should not stand, and yet an impaired teenager has been sentenced to life in prison,” she wrote. “I view this as a profound miscarriage of justice.”
Correction: December 8, 2017
An earlier version of this article misidentified the judge who wrote the majority opinion in the latest ruling involving the case of Brendan Dassey. It was David Hamilton, not Diane Wood.
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