A gold Bugatti Veyron belonging to popular rapper Flo Rida has garnered praise and controversy after the hip-hop star decided to deck out the already expensive luxury car with a gold and chrome finish. The Bugatti Veyron is already one of the most expensive cars in the world, costing $1.7 million, leading some to criticize the lavish display as an exercise in excess.

The gold Bugatti Veyron was originally pearl white when Flo Rida, whose real name is Tramar Dillard, purchased it recently. The Miami-based rapper apparently wasn't satisfied, however, as he asked Hollywood, Fla. company Metro Wrapz to cover the car in 24-karat gold chrome, complete with a chrome wheels.

"I have very little time for Flo-rida's Gold Veyron. Surely it's like putting a moustache on the Mona Lisa," AutoBant tweeted. Some agreed, as the rapper's Bugatti Veyron is one of only 300 in the world- it's about as exclusive as you can get.

http://global.christianpost.com/news/gold-bugatti-for-rapper-like-putting-a-moustache-on-the-mona-lisa-photo-98626/

Yesterday, Justin Bieber was seen driving was seen driving away from Miley Cyrus’ house in an Audi R8 worth $200,000. But after this leopard-print-paint-job, it’s worth half that. The Biebs has crossed into the sports world as of late with his appearance at Heat-Pacers game 7, and his speeding around Keyshawn Johnson and Eric Dickerson’s neighborhood.

The R8 has a top speed of 199 mph, which should be enough to outrun the Prius with which Keyshawn chased after him and his goons, earlier this month. Let’s just hope Bieber doesn’t hit any pedestrians, it would really mess up the paint job.

http://www.sportsgrid.com/tabloid-fodder/justin-beibers-leopard-print-car-is-sure-to-make-his-athlete-laden-neighborhood-happy/

There was an outbreak of reefer madness in Times Square when a panhandler holding an “I Need Money for Weed” sign stabbed a rival holding an “I Need Beer” sign in the head with a pen.

Cops quickly cuffed the alleged stabber and charges were pending as they tried to determine what got “Weed” guy’s nose out of joint. “Beer” guy’s injuries were minor.

The two choosy beggers began brawling around 10:15 p.m. at 42nd St. near 7th Ave. as dozens of Broadway shows let out, witnesses said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/weed-guy-stabs-beer-guy-times-square-article-1.1379660#ixzz2WznoTr2V

Westboro Rainbow House, Equality House Same-Sex Wedding, Equality House Wedding, Gay Voices News

On Saturday night, Kimberly Kidwell, a 31-year-old EMT, married Katie Short in a wedding ceremony on the front lawn of the Equality House in Topeka, Kan. -- directly across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

Members of the church, who have travelled across the U.S. to promote their anti-gay message, didn't even need to leave their headquarters to protest, putting up some signs in their front yard and a banner over the wooden fence outside their property.

The brides hardly noticed. "I guess I was almost numb after seeing them for a minute. I knew the signs would be there, and I wasn't even angry about it. We were just so ecstatic to be getting married," said Kidwell, who wore a white pantsuit for the occasion.

The proximity to the WBC was no coincidence. Kidwell and Short were hitched in the front yard of the rainbow-painted residence owned by Aaron Jackson, one of the founders of the charity Planting Peace, whose intention is to confront Westboro and its history of anti-gay activism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/23/equality-house-wedding_n_3486814.html

The ad was simple enough: “Oak coffin on stand.”

And anyone interested in purchasing an oak coffin on a stand likely clicked on the ad running in the local antique section of a classified advertisement website.

What was not advertised in the headline is what the coffin contained, a full set of skeletal remains.

Dave Burgstrum of Council Bluffs posted the ad. Burgstrum said the coffin was used in a ritual conducted by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization that has a long history in Council Bluffs.

The organization was chartered in Council Bluffs in 1852 and Gen. Grenville Dodge was a member, but Burgstrum – who is a fifth-generation Odd Fellow – said the membership dwindled in the last two decades.

In fact, there are only three living members in the organization, Burgstrum, his wife, Linda, and his brother, Dan.

http://www.southwestiowanews.com/council_bluffs/news/local_news/ad-posting-of-coffin-skeletal-remains-draw-attention/article_f506279d-4c23-5fdd-ac4d-f5a6046df86d.html

A man was arrested in Florida last week after his plot to steal a car was foiled by his inability to operate a manual transmission.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said that 19-year-old Antoren “Chief Keef” Bell had been charged with theft, robbery and criminal mischief for an attempted May 18 carjacking.

According to WEAR-TV, the victim was driving down 50th Avenue in Escambia County when she was flagged down by three teens who said they needed a ride. The woman said that she stopped to help, but Bell pulled a gun and ordered her out of the car.

When Bell discovered that the car had a stick shift, he reportedly fled on foot.

Bell was arrested on Friday after being identified in a photo lineup. He was being held on $400,000 bond.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/20/florida-carjacking-at-gunpoint-fails-after-man-cant-drive-stick-shift/

The state's transport minister says he was stunned to hear a police patrol discovered the boy at the wheel of a car, which was driving without headlights on, about 3am (AEST) on Friday.

It will be alleged his father was drunk in the passenger seat beside him.

The 41-year-old NSW man failed a roadside breath test, but police couldn't confirm media reports he was three times over the legal blood alcohol limit.

"I shake my head and am shocked by the madness of this," Transport Minister Scott Emerson told the ABC.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/06/21/07/46/boy-7-drove-man-around-gold-coast

Passers-by watched in amazement as a woman dressed as a vagina stepped in to stop a man attacking a friend dressed as a giant penis.

According to the Central Somerset Gazette, a scuffle broke out in Glastonbury High Street between a man and a man dressed in a penis costume, while a woman dressed as a vagina tried to calm the situation down last Friday afternoon.

Members of the Nomadic Academy of Fools had been performing some street theatre to help promote two of the plays in their Fooling around: Four Days of Plays run at the town's Assembly Rooms.

But police were called after one man took offence to their costumes and took his frustration out on one of the actors.

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Woman-dressed-vagina-stops-attack-man-dressed/story-19342198-detail/story.html

A plot to design a radiation weapon that could fit in a small van and be used to silently kill humans was unraveled by an FBI task force that charged two men — a General Electric Co. industrial mechanic from Saratoga County and a computer software expert from Columbia County -— with conspiring to sell the weapon to Jewish groups or a southern branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

A federal complaint unsealed Wednesday in Albany said the vehicle-mounted radiation gear was intended to be remotely controlled and capable of aiming a high-energy lethal beam of radioactivity at human targets. The concept was that victims would mysteriously die from radiation poisoning within days.

The FBI on Tuesday arrested Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Providence, Saratoga County, and Eric J. Feight, 54, of Stockport, who are accused of developing "a radiation emitting device that could be placed in the back of a van to covertly emit ionizing radiation strong enough to bring about radiation sickness or death against Crawford's enemies," according to an FBI agent's sworn complaint.

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/2-wanted-device-used-on-enemies-officials-say-4609567.php#photo-4807479

As you have probably already heard by now, actor James Gandolfini has sadly and suddenly passed away at the age of 51. And to add just the right hint of commercialism to this tragic news, Amazon’s Facebook feed was there to remind everyone they can remember the late actor by purchasing DVD collections of The Sopranos.

The post seen above was published on Amazon’s Facebook page not long after news of Gandolfini’s passing had begun making the rounds.

Had the online giant merely posted the text and the photo, none of Amazon’s 19 million Facebook followers would have noticed, but adding a link to the Season One DVD collection struck more than a few people as crass.

The post has since been pulled (not before any number of people, including Consumerist

http://consumerist.com/2013/06/19/amazon-marks-the-passing-of-james-gandolfini-by-trying-to-sell-sopranos-dvds/