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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
 
A THIEF has been caught on camera stealing 28 pints of milk from a care home that helps look after elderly people with dementia.

Staff arrived at the Bakewells Care Home, in Junction Road, Deane, on Thursday morning to find no milk at the front door where it usually was for the cooks to use for that day's food and drink.

A call was placed to the dairy asking why it had not been delivered and was told that it had, so staff then checked the CCTV footage.

The images showed a man arriving around three minutes after the milk delivery at 5.10am.

He is seen standing by one of the gates and looking around the post.

The man is then seen coming up to the front door to look what was there before walking away and coming back again a minute later with a bag and putting the eight two litre bottles of milk inside before fleeing the scene.

Andy Morgan, managing director of Morgan Care, the company that runs the home, said: It is for their tea and everything. It is so annoying that these people have the nerve to do what they like. It is a care home for people with dementia. The most vulnerable people in our town. Where is people's moral sense in this day and age?"

Staff reported the incident to police on when they discovered that the milk had been taken on the CCTV.

A police spokesman confirmed that the incident has been reported to them and they are looking for a white man, in his twenties who was wearing a hoodie when the theft was carried out.

The milk was soon replaced but Mr Morgan was also concerned about the impact on staff.

He said: "It is also the fact that the staff feel a bit nervy. We have got staff in through the night and there is this guy creeping up to the door."

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news...milk_from_care_home_for_people_with_dementia/
 
Woman trapped in window while trying to retrieve poo
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Image copyrightLIAM SMITH
Image captionThe amateur gymnast got jammed in a toilet window trying to retrieve poo she had thrown out of a window
A woman who threw her poo out of her date's toilet window because it "would not flush" had to be rescued after she got stuck trying to retrieve it.

The amateur gymnast was on a first date with Bristol student Liam Smith when she "panicked" and threw the faeces out of the window.

It did not land in the garden, but became wedged between two non-opening windows.

After climbing in head first after it, she became wedged.

Mr Smith had to call the fire brigade for help.

The story appeared on a crowdfunding page, set up by the University of Bristol student.

Mr Smith, who is raising funds to fix his broken window, wrote that he was on a Tinder date with the woman and they went back to the shared house he lives in.

"We'd had a really nice evening," he said. "We'd had a meal at a well-known chicken restaurant, had a few beers and then gone back to mine for a bottle of wine and a film."

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Image copyrightLIAM SMITH
Image captionAfter the fire service had "composed themselves," Mr Smith said they set to work freeing his date from the window
He said the woman went to the toilet and when she came back she had a "panicked look in her eye" and told him what she had done.

He said the toilet window opened into a narrow gap separated by another double glazed window.

"It was into this twilight zone that my date had thrown her poo," he said.

He went to find a hammer to smash the window, but she decided to "climb in head first" after the "offending package" and became jammed.

"I was starting to grow concerned, so I called the fire brigade and once they had composed themselves, they set to work removing her from the window."

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Image copyrightLIAM SMITH
Image captionThe "offending package" was trapped between two "non-opening" double glazed windows
Although the woman was rescued unharmed, Mr Smith said his bathroom window was destroyed.

"I'm not complaining, they did what they had to do," he said.

"Problem is, I've been quoted north of £300 to replace the window and as a postgraduate student, that is a significant chunk of my monthly budget."

Mr Smith originally set a crowdfunding target of £200, but has already raised more than £1,200.

He said he and his date had decided to split the extra cash between two charities, one supporting firefighters and another that builds and maintains flushing toilets in developing countries.

Unsurprisingly, the woman does not want to be named but Mr Smith said he had seen her since and "who knows what the future holds".

"We had a lovely night on the second date but it's too early to say if she's the one. But we got on very very well and she's a lovely girl," he said.

"And we've already got the most difficult stuff out of the way first."

Avon Fire and Rescue service confirmed it had received a call and freed a woman trapped between external and double glazing.

It also confirmed that a "window was broken in the process".

Here is the BBC link

http://archive.is/1O0m7 <- and thats the Go Fund Me.
 
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