Let's Do The News! (October 4, 2013)

The big stuff today...

- In the third day of the US Government Shutdown, there was a shootout at the US Capitol in Washington D.C., after a high-speed car chase where the female suspect drove an Infiniti G37 and in an attempt to ram the barriers of the White House.

- A Russian-based toymaker is making special edition 1:18 scale figures of Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May at a price of over 500 US Dollars. For those who are very fortunate and in the urge of shut-up-and-take-my-money-itis (sorry, hopefully this should be in the Big Book of Boo-Boos for you and I), feel free to preorder here.

- Callaway Cars, tuner and creators of the C12, announced the Corvette C7 AeroWagon customization package and for 15,000 US Dollars, they can transform the all-new C7 Corvette Stingray into a three-door shooting brake or if you're unhappy, you can revert it back to normal.

Callaway AeroWagon

- Bugatti made a special one-off Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse for world-renowned pianist Lang Lang. You may remember Lang Lang as the one who did piano scores from the Gran Turismo 5 video game.

- The original Nintendo Wii console kicks the bucket because after 7 years, Nintendo reported that they will end production of the classic Wii console. Since its tenure, over 100 million units shipped worldwide.

- Voice PH winner Mitoy Yonting admitted that he once used illegal drugs during his youth years as a band member. Yes, he had a very bad past in his life but his talent of singing pushed his life afloat. Times are tough for Mitoy in the past and ever since he is the first to win The Voice of the Philippines last week, he now has a new lease in life as a singer.

- That video about three ladies crushing a poor puppy making rounds on the net is called a crush video, a different type of porn video where women killing animals. That article was reported by ABS-CBN two years ago where the most shocking fact is most of the crush videos were made in the Philippines. Thing is though, that video you just saw, that was just years ago and the people behind the crush video website, situated in La Union, were arrested before. Ugh...do I need to say it?

- A varsity player from the University of Santo Tomas is the latest victim of bullying. Yes, the victim's a male and he was once bullied by his fellow athletes and so far, due to his trauma, he's absent for three weeks because the more he's here, the worse he'll get bullied. Let's remember, the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013 is now a law but as of Sept. 19, 2013, there are 384 reported cases of bullying. Twice per day from May 2012 to September 2013.