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An 18-year-old woman was shot in the head in Chicago’s East Chatham neighborhood Tuesday, and her uncle says her weave may have helped save her life.

“[Doctors] assumed that when the bullet kind of went in, it bounced out because she had the weave in her hair,” said Chantal Hammontree’s uncle Randy Berry. Doctors have not confirmed that the weave played any role in repelling the bullet.

The teen was sitting in a car when shots were fired in its back window, hitting her in the head, police said.

“She was coming home, and when her girlfriend let her out of the car, the guy walked up and just shot her,” Berry said.

Police said Hammontree was the only victim in the shooting just before 1:30 p.m. in the 900 block of East 83rd Street.

She was taken to University of Chicago Hospital in critical condition and was later transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital, according to police.

Family members said Hammontree is an “A” student and recent high school graduate with plans to join the military.

Berry told NBC Chicago Hammontree was conscious and talking at the hospital and is expected to survive.

He believes the shooting stemmed from an incident with another uncle, who was shot and paralyzed in May in a gang-related shooting.

“There was the ‘East Side, West Side’ type of thing going on,” Berry said. “[The shooter] told her that because she was affiliated with him, they were going to shoot her also.”

The shooting comes after holiday weekend gun violence in Chicago left at least 11 people killed and 67 shot in a spate of shootings Chicago police Supt. Garry McCarthy called “unacceptable.”

“We had basically the same level of shootings that we did last year, which is unacceptable because this year we put a ton of effort into preventing it,” the frustrated chief said Monday at his weekly press briefing to show off the illegal firearms taken off the streets in the previous days.

Still, Chicago’s top cop maintains the department’s overall crime strategy is working. He reiterated statistics indicating that this year is on track to have one of the lowest crime rates in decades.

Through Sunday, he said 11 fewer homicides have been recorded compared to the same time last year — 185 compared to 196 in 2013. Shooting incidents, however, are up by 46, he said.

There were eight incidents over the weekend when Chicago officers fired their weapons or were fired upon.

Residents held a prayer vigil in the city’s Roseland neighborhood to decry the violence Monday, some saying it isn’t just about guns.

I feel like it’s not the guns that’s killing people. It’s people behind the trigger,” said George Barron, who was shot in both legs in May. “Every shooting it’s gonna get worse. Everyone out for revenge.”

- NBC.com

Teenager Forced to Get an Erection So Police Can Take Pictures of his Penis For a 'Sexting' investigation Read Post

Teenager Forced to Get an Erection So Police Can Take Pictures of his Penis For a 'Sexting' investigation

A 17-year-old from Virginia may be forced to get an erection so police can take pictures of his penis.

Trey Simms faces felony charges of manufacturing and distributing child pornography in January for “sexting” his then-girlfriend, who was also a minor. The charges could land him in jail for several years and force him to register as a sex offender.

Both NBC News and the Washington Post have reported a bizarre new detail from the case: Last week, a local judge signed a search warrant that compels Simms to let Manassas City police photograph his erect penis.

Apparently, the police want to compare the photographs to the evidence they’re reviewing in his case. If police carry out the warrant, Simms could be taken to a hospital and given an injection to facilitate the process.

“I think it’s effectively child abuse, that’s what it is from my perspective,” Carlos Flores Laboy, Simms’ court-appointed guardian, told NBC.

Simms’ lawyer, Jessica Harbeson Foster, said this whole case started with Simms’ 15-year-old girlfriend sending photos of herself, the Washington Post reports. After Simms replied with a video of himself, the girl’s mother found out about it and filed a complaint.

Stacy Bigley, Simms’ aunt, said the police have already photographed her nephew’s genitals once. As Simms described it to her, after being arrested and taken to jail, Simms was forced to let police photograph his penis.

“They told him if he did not they would do it by force,” Bigley said.

The NBC News report below has more on this story, including interviews with Simms’ aunt and legal representatives.

RIDICULOUS: This Artist Sold Her Messy Bed For Ksh 300 Million Read Post

omg news, wierd news

RIDICULOUS: This Artist Sold Her Messy Bed For Ksh 300 Million

everytime you spread your bed in the morning you are just throwing millions of shillings down the drain.
Tracey Emin's controversial My Bed modern artwork has sold at auction for £2.2 million.

according to BBC:

The 1998 work, which features an unmade bed and a littered floor including empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts and discarded condoms, went under the hammer at Christie's in London tonight.
The 1999 Turner Prize shortlisted work had been put up for sale by millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi, with a guide price of between £800,000 and £1.2 million.

Emin was in the packed auction room as the work was sold, to applause from the crowd.
Saatchi, who paid £150,000 in 2000 for My Bed, one of the key works of the Young British Artist movement, sold it to support the work of the Saatchi Gallery Foundation.

Christies said that with buyer's premium My Bed went for £2,546,500, which is a world record for the Margate artist at auction.
Christie's said My Bed was bought by an anonymous bidder.

Wow i wonder how much Prezzo's super messy Bed Would Fetch: