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Permalink Reply by LadyTruth®™ on April 6, 2008 at 2:56am

Escaped Inmate Chase Ends in Gunshots

Posted: April 5, 2008 11:27 PM

This is where it started .....Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nashville authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped early Tuesday morning from jail.

Rick Gentry, a spokesman for the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, said 31-year-old Joseph Bennett escaped from the Correctional Development Center around 3:30 a.m Tuesday.


Police said he stole a U-Haul from the facility and drove it to the I-24-Haywood Lane junction before leaving the vehicle there and probably fleeing on foot.

He is serving time for several charges of theft, possession of drug paraphernalia and evading arrest. Bennett's record shows more than 10 theft of property charges since December 2004.

Authorities said they did not consider him to be dangerous.


This is where it ended in my back yard almost!!
I was right there had to go around the police and all that!!!
I knew It was a chase you don't see police posted up like that
unless someones dead or seriously injured!!! Im trying to find the news cast to post
on witnesses!!!!I frequent this road daily.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn.- A helicopter rushes a carjacking suspect to the hospital after a police officer shot that suspect.

Investigators said the shooting appears to be justified, and the TBI has taken over the investigation.

Joseph Bennett is the suspect. He's an escapee from a Metro Nashville correctional complex. Investigators captured Bennett, but not without some trouble. His run from police came to an end Saturday afternoon. The suspect was captured just about a mile from the campus of Middle Tennessee State University. Bennett did not plan to surrender peacefully.

Police said he went on a rifle-toting rampage that ended on Middle Tennessee Blvd. He car-jacked a blue Honda and led police on a chase with speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. He slammed head-on into Nikki Peters's car.

"I just seen that long-black gun. When I saw that long-black gun it was over," said Peters.

Bennett's right front tire was deflated by officers' spike strips. He then tried to car jack another car with a man and his son inside. Murfreesboro officers foiled his get-a-way plan.

"As he was trying to get in to car-jack the vehicle, our officer fired several rounds at the suspect striking him an unknown number of times. He struck him. Our officer fired to protect not only the people who were still trying to get out of the car, but the public in general," Kyle Evans, Murfreesboro police.

Bennett was air-lifted to Nashville. Officers said the chase took them almost to the Cannon County Line.

"The suspect's vehicle at that point had some sort of mechanical difficulty, possibly blew and engine, and he was able to get out and car-jack another vehicle which was the light blue Honda four-door you see over there that is nose to nose with the brown car," said Dan Goodwin, Rutherford County Sheriff Department.

Joseph Bennett fired upon sheriff's deputies during the initial pursuit. The chase started when Bennett was spotted at a Murfreesboro gas station Saturday afternoon.

According to Vanderbilt, Bennett is surviving his gun shot wounds.
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Permalink Reply by LadyTruth®™ on April 6, 2008 at 3:17am

Police: Metro escapee shot following high-speed chase

An escapee from a Nashville jail was shot by a Murfreesboro police officer Saturday afternoon following a high-speed chase and two alleged carjackings, police said.

The unidentified man was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Murfreesboro Police spokesman Kyle Evans said it was not know how many times the man was shot or whether he had fired any shots first.

“He was a danger to the public at large as well as the people in that car,” said Evans, referring to a vehicle the suspect attempted to carjack on Middle Tennessee Boulevard near Diana Street around 3 p.m.

Lori Wallace said she was a few cars back on Middle Tennessee Boulevard when the suspect forced the driver from the vehicle after he crashed another car he had allegedly stolen.

“They (police) didn’t stop shooting until he hit the ground,” Wallace said.

The Murfreesboro Police Department received information that an escapee may have been in Murfreesboro, and they confronted the suspect at the Circle K near Main Street and Mercury Boulevard.

The suspect took off in his car, sideswiping a Murfreesboro police vehicle as he fled, according to Evans.

Murfreesboro police pursued the car to the city limits, at which point two Rutherford County sheriff’s vehicles took up the chase down John Bragg Highway at speeds in excess of 100 mph, Sheriff Department spokesman Sgt. Dan Goodwin said.

After his vehicle malfunctioned, the suspect allegedly carjacked an another vehicle, forcing the driver from the car with a long gun and headed back into Murfreesboro, traveling in the outbound lane, Goodwin said.

Authorities laid down spike strips near the intersection of South Rutherford Boulevard and John Bragg Highway, but after hitting the spikes, the driver continued on Mercury Boulevard and then turned left on to Middle Tennessee Boulevard.

Police said the suspect then collided with another vehicle and got out his car and attempted to carjack another vehicle.

That's when the unidentified MPD officer fired upon the suspect, police said.

Nikki Peters, who was in the car the suspect hit on Middle Tennessee Boulevard, said the man looked in her car with the gun, but moved on to another car when he saw her 10-month-old and 12-year-old daughters and her mother.

“That’s the only thing I was worried about — my babies,” she said.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is handling the incident.

Evans said he would not release the name of the officer who fired the shots Saturday, but that the officer would receive the normal stress counseling officers receive after a traumatic encounter.

Evans said Saturday the man had escaped sometime this week, although he did not know what he had originally been charged with.

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Permalink Reply by G-Unit Girl on April 6, 2008 at 8:33am

50 Cent/G-Unit Recap Of The Week

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Permalink Reply by GEEZNDAHOOD on April 6, 2008 at 10:52am

NEW T.I.- HUNT EM DOWN

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Permalink Reply by Badnews on April 6, 2008 at 11:08am

"Flashing Lights" By Badnews (New Interview with RAY J!!)
Posted at 4/04/2008 04:05:00 AM

This is the man beside the man, the dastardly kid Destro, coming back at you live, in living color. Yo, it's about 4 am in the morning, but hell, when I got a dope piece on deck, I can't sleep on it. Yesterday evening, BadNews, interviewed the controversial and shall I say, genius, Ray J. You may know him (William Ray Norwood Jr.) as Brandy's little brother and all, but fall back for a minute, he's definitely alot more than that. With the release of his infamous video with the vivacious Kim Kardashian (read here), his former romp with Whitney Houston, as well as the recent success of joints such as "Smoking Trees" featuring Snoop Dogg, "Where You At" feat. The Game and "Sexy Can I" featuring Yung Berg added with the future release of his tell all, memoirs called "Sex Machine" (read here), Ray J's proving that he's the industries new "Badboy"...move over Bobby B!! Well, without further adu, I invite, no, I encourage you to take about 5-10 minutes of your day to check out this spectular and quite candid convo with him and Badnews...

Ray J: WHAT UP PIMPIN’!

Badnews: Ray J, what’s the deal with you?

Ray J: Chilling man, just doing my thing you know, how you feeling?

Badnews: It's one of those days, you know how it goes…

Ray J: Yeah, I feel you.

Badnews: Okay, well let’s do it, I don’t want to hold you up.

Ray J: Oh nah, let's do it.

Badnews: Ok. Well you been doing this music thing a very long time, but before you got into that, you were in television and one of the first major things we seen you was in was a sitcom starring Sinbad. How did you get to meet Sinbad?

Ray J: Yeah man. Well, I was real young when we moved to Carson (California)…and I was just doing auditions for a while, my father would pick me up from school and drive like an hour and a half to go audition. Finally I got a call back to from the show and then I got on it. That was my first big break. I played a foster kid.

Badnews: Yeah I remember that. How old were you then?

Ray J: I was 13.

Badnews: That’s what’s up. Now a while back you had a run in with Pamela Anderson over your fur coat? What happened?

Ray J: Yeah she was trippin’! We were in the club and then she came at me and was like “I work with P.E.TA.” and “Come on, lets go throw this coat away, i'll give you your money back…"

Badnews: (Laughs) Damn!

Ray J: That was a $20,000 chinchilla, that was specially dyed. And then she just comes at me and tells me to give it away, she was straight trippin’. And she didn’t give me the money back! I still wear fur though; I still buy it and wear it.

Badnews: Damn hold up… she made you throw away a $20,000 chinchilla coat! Where I’m from, that’s two used Buicks (Laughs). I would have told Pam to fall back.

Ray J: Yeah. But you know how women are.

Badnews: Yeah, when there on to something, they’re on it.

Ray J: Yeah! When they mean it, you better do it.

Badnews: (Laughs) Ok. Well going back into music, growing up as an artist you were dubbed “Brandy’s little brother”, how difficult was it to step out of her shadow and become Ray J?

Ray J: I never really tried to step out of her shadow, I was having fun being her little brother. I was going to awards, getting on Moesha, to knowing her homegirls—and knowing her homegirls was a big plus. But as far as a career, I never tried to step out or outdo her. There was no compeition between us, that’s my family, I love her and I’ll always be there for her. It's just love all around.

Badnews: That’s what’s up. That’s what a brother is suppose to do.

Ray J: Right I love her and my whole family.

Badnews: Cool. Now you have the #3 or #4 song in the country right now with Yung Berg, it’s a crazy song. But how did you meet him or how did he meet you rather?

Ray J: His song Sexy Lady was playing crazy out here on the west coast, and we just gave each other a call and met up at a restaurant and he made a deal out where I do a song with him and he does a song for me. And while later, I was writing "Sexy Can I" in Lil’ Kim’s house with Shamel the producer from New York and I just gave that to him and he killed it. Then, we put out a video to it with the cameras and girls all in it, and then re-shot another video for BET to fit theie censors. It’s the #1 video right now on 106 and Park. It's #3 or 4 like you said on the charts. And it’s all a blessing. We did this all independent with Knockout entertainment as we did with One Wish. It was crazy that One Wish, did so well independently for it being a ballad. So then we got the deal with Koch, and the rest is history.

Badnews: Right. I you could never tell that the last two hit songs from you were independent. Now the first video for "Sexy Can I" with the girls and the cameras, that was a coincidence right… that wasn’t a idea of yours was it…

Ray J: (Laughs) Nah, that was just being creative. I got Shaq holding the camera and my people in the video I was just trying to make it creative that’s all (Laughs).

Badnews: Alright (Laughs). Now ,we’ve been seeing a lot of Yung Berg lately and he’s been referring to you as his big brother. Is it a big responsibility to maintain a proper image of being a “role model” to the younger artists that look up to you?

Ray J: I mean it’s just a blessing for people to look up to me period. Yung Berg is doing his thing and he’s the homie.

Badnews: That’s what’s up. Now we see you in the rumors 24/7. On websites, on the whack ass TMZ concerning, you know who. (Laughs). But, does it get difficult at times to handle the paparazzi and keep your composure when they are flashing cameras at you and asking you wild questions?

Ray J: You just have to deal with it and don’t let that affect you. They have a job, I have a job so you just have to do the best you can. But you don’t let that stuff affect, you just keep doing your thing.

Badnews: Ok. It’s cool to see that you can handle them like that, you know like not throwing water at them or something crazy. It looks like it gets real crazy. Now speaking of rumors, I heard that you’re featured on a single with Shar Jackson.

Ray J: Shar is family. We hosted that 25 freakiest people on BET. It’s cool to know that she can rap and I would love to work with her if she was trying to put out a single.

Badnews: So there’s no truth to a single being out right now?

Ray J: No, not yet

Badnews: Alright. Now you also have been in the media lately one in particular is Tyra’s show where you talked about the whole thing with the tape. Do you think that hurt or helped your mainstream image? Personally, I thought you were being honest.

Ray J: It put me out there more, whether it hurt or helped. People know I'm wild and crazy and they respect that. But whether it hurt or helped, it just put me out there. I was on Tyra!

Badnews: (Laughs) Kk. Now do you have any tour dates? Where can we catch you at?

Ray J: I just finished a promo tour. I talked to Snoop and some other people about touring but, I’m just busy promoting the album All I Feel out April 8th. Go get it.

Badnews: Ok. Now do you have any other music dropping or out right now before the 8th?

Ray J: I got the Mixtape out right now hosted by Kay Slay and that’s really it, until the album drops on the 8th.

Badnews: Ok. And did you decide to drop it on the 8th and not a week earlier on the 1st because it was April Fools?

Ray J: (Laughs) Nah… I didn’t even think about it like that though. I wanted to keep pushing it back, so I could at least get two songs out there. But the demand is high and I still want to treat this like an independent project.

Badnews: Ok that’s what’s up. Well thank you for the time. All I Feel is out on April 8th, the Mixtape hosted by Kay Slay is out now (click here to listen), your working on some tours with Snoop...everything is going great right now. One last question? What do you think about Kim Kardashian’s new show on the E! Channel?

Ray J: I love it… I love it. I think she’s found her way.

Badnews: (Pause and Laughs) Ok ,that’s what’s up. Well, thank you for your time.

Ray J: Hey! Let me know when this goes up now. I want to see this.

Badnews: No doubt, I'll let you know. It’s a Ray J interview why wouldn’t I? (Laughs)

Source: BadNews - Writer for HipHopRuckus

-If you have any questions or comments for Badnews, hit him up by E-mail, MySpace or AIM

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Permalink Reply by Badnews on April 6, 2008 at 11:12am

NICKI MINAJ

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"Somebody had to be the face of the new female rap and who better than Nicki Minaj a.k.a. Nicki Mistress."

Interviewed By: BadNews



Badnews: You’re doing your thing right now catching a lot of buzz, but for those that don’t really know you yet, what’s one word you can use to describe your style?

Nicki Minaj: Swag. That’s what most people compliment me on. I just carry myself a certain way. But if I have to only use one word I would say swag.

Badnews: Now you’re from Queens right?

Nicki Minaj: Yes.

Badnews: Well for the past couple of days I’ve seen you on the Come Up DVD’s and the best I heard from you yet is when you’re on a Biggie track. But growing up, who inspired you?

Nicki Minaj: Hmmm… Jay-Z, Salt-n- Peppa, DMX… I don’t know a lot of artists. And of course Kim, Foxy and Lauren Hill

Badnews: Ok, those are some good names. Now you’re the face of Lil’ Wayne’s label Young Money, but how did you get to meet Lil’ Wayne in the first place?

Nicki Minaj: Well he seen my segment on the Come Up DVD I was before his segment—we were on the same DVD, and he would always watch it for himself, then he would see me so he said “I have to meet her” so he called up my manager Fendi and we just got together like that.

Badnews: Damn Lil' Wayne came at you that’s a good sign. So basically he wanted you to be the face of Young Money. Did you feel like you were ready to take on that responsibility? How did you feel when he asked you that?

Nicki Minaj: Well for the first question, I knew I could handle it and the second question, I felt overwhelmed. It was surreal. I knew somebody had to do it. Somebody had to be the face of the new female rap and who better than Nicki Minaj a.k.a. Nicki Mistress.

Badnews: (laughs) ok. Now on a scale from 1 to 10, how does Nicki feel about hip hop right now?

Nicki Minaj: Hmm… I would say six. I feel like hip hop needs to be more spread out. It’s in a great place but as far as female MC’s, were in a drought. And we need someone to help us get it out of it and I feel this is right up my alley; like this is my turn. But as far as east coast, it’s too serious. Every artist out here takes this too serious. Like nothing is fun right now from the east coast. Hip Hop is in the south right now, and it feels like its not going to come back for a while

Badnews: Right. Now as far as the east coast, do you feel that if the artists out there sort of calmed down with beefing with each other—like the east coast rappers that are main stream for example, it will finally come back?

Nicki Minaj: It probably would. Like if you see a music video from a rapper in Miami, everybody from Miami is in it. So maybe that is it. Personally, the hip hop audience is younger. Like 12 to 13. Back in the day when Kim was out, she would get on a record talking s***, and the music was real mature. She wasn’t talking about high school stuff. Hip Hop now is real high school and if we sort of start making records that will cater to High School kids than we will have a chance. But east coast artists are just dropping music that catered to 25 and up and we sort of have to bring it back but still make the music mature.

Badnews: Now you being a female MC from New York, how hard was it for you to get in this business?

Nicki Minaj: Very difficult because I wasn’t being myself. Like I said its very serious out here, artist take themselves real serious, so when people seen me on the Come Up just being myself, this chick talking s*** and having fun, people started noticing like yo, this girl can actually spit. I’m on the DVD acting all cocky and spitting. People were noticing because I was having fun. I was doing that on the DVD but that’s not how I am in the streets. I mean that’s how I am, but not always. People come up to me in the streets and they feel like they know me because, they see me being myself. You see me squatting and licking a lollipop on my sites and that was done to get attention. That was the sole purpose.

Badnews: Right. Now let’s stay on the picture for a minute (laughs). The picture is real sexy and people really like that and of course it is drawing comparisons to the Lil’ Kim one. Are you getting a lot of hate from people for that? For example like “look at this chick trying to be Lil’ Kim”.

Nicki Minaj: Well we already knew before we even took the picture it was going to be compared to Lil' Kim. And I don’t get upset when people would and will say that. I’m being compared to the Queen of Hip Hop. That starts a conversation. It creates a forum. And at the end of the day you mentioned Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj in the same sentence.

Badnews: Ok. Now that brings me to my next questions for you… groupies and haters

Nicki Minaj: (laughs)

Badnews: Now what would Nicki Minaj do if she gets a groupie running up on her. And I mean a real thirsty ass dude. You tell him real nice to fall back, but his ass doesn’t get the hint.

Nicki Minaj: (laughs) If it’s a guy, then I would have my big dude escort him away. I can't be handling dudes like that (laughs). Now if it’s a girl who is my size, then it would be a lot easier (laughs)

Badnews: So all you thirsty ass Nicki fans let her breathe or you’re going to meet big dude

Nicki Minaj: (laughs) some of you girls to

Badnews: (laughs) you don’t play.

Nicki Minaj: (laughs)

Badnews: Now what about a hater. What does Nicki Minaj do when a hater-- and I mean a hater that doesn’t know you starts talking s***, runs on there little websites and starts popping off acting like a net thug (laughs)

Nicki Minaj: (laughs). Aw Man I laugh at hate. Hate makes me laughs. When they hate that means I’m doing my job. It makes the people run to the computer and type in Nicki Minaj in a search engine. Hate is the strongest response you can ever get. It a unique way to talk about me. I’ve always stood out, put me in a room with 10 girls and I’ll stand out.
And I think most people are intimidated by that. There’s no hater on the planet that would be cool with that. That whole sex appeal rubs them the wrong way. But its funny all that does is put my name in there mouths. I’m a girl with sex appeal that can rap, at the end of the day all people can say is she really knows how to rap. Forget about the sex stuff.

Badnews: Your right about that. If you couldn’t rap Lil' Wayne wouldn’t had tried so hard to get at you…

Nicki Minaj: Right! Yo, Lil’ Wayne can f*** a bad b**** a minute so why would he come at me and ask to be down with Young Money if it was just because I was sexy? People are just afraid of change. And I’m here to bring change. That is the whole reason why I’m out here

Badnews: That’s what’s up. Yo you do have swag (laughs). Now getting back to the music, for the past week or so I’ve heard a lot of you spitting on Biggie tracks, you have a cool song out featuring Jadakiss, but can we expect to hear you on some southern music in the future?

Nicki Minaj: People can cop the Sucka Free mixtape on my page, you can get the mixtape autographed by me, I got the sexy double sided jerk off poster for my horny niggas and b******, but I just got done doing my version of Young Joc’s Coffee Shop, mine is called the Coochie Shop… a couple of days ago, I got down on a very southern beat, I mean I heard it, and I just started writing right there—I write my own s*** (laughs)… but one thing I can do is switch up; I’m real versatile. I can get on any beat if it’s hot. But some southern songs I would love to get on are the Rick Ross/T-Pain track, some Usher and Polow Da Don… I’m on that Trina track. I killed that one yo. When Trina hears that she’s going to go crazy!

Badnews: S***, she’s probably on you page right now listening to it snapping her fingers and tapping her feet

Nicki Minaj: (laughs)

Badnews: I’m serious; if you can get Wayne to like you then it shouldn’t be a thing to get Trina to like you. And you write your own stuff that’s a plus. Now after you get the fame and the glory, what do you want to see out of this.

Nicki Minaj: Respect. I just want respect from my peers. I already did songs with Lil’ Wayne and Jadakiss, those guys are legends. Its way too east to get me misconstrued. I know how it feels to think you have no way out. I’m from South Side Queens, my mom raised us off $200 a week. But even after that, the money and all that is cool… it will make a nice success story, but I just want respect. It’s a male dominated industry, and I’m just getting use to it. I have a lot to say, this isn’t all that there is of me. I take this rap stuff serious. I’ve been writing since I was little, I took acting classes for four years I’m focused. But it goes to show it doesn’t matter where you came from, Talent and hard work will get you out of where you don’t want to be.

Badnews: That’s real. I can respect that. Now what can we expect from you in the future? Any new music coming out or will you be going on tour?

Nicki Minaj: The Sucka Free Mixtape with Lil’ Wayne is in stores now, or you can order it off of my myspace page (www.myspace.com/nickiminaj) it just came out and it’s a classic. I might be going on tour with Lil’ Wayne but right now I’m focused on this album. My fans will be able to get bulletins so they can check out where I’m going to be, but I won’t worry about that until the promoters get that paper up!

Badnews: I’m going to tell every promoter I see out here to get that paper up so we can check you out here. I’m based in Denver so as soon as I hang up; I'm going to get started

Nicki Minaj: (laughs)

Badnews: Well thank you for taking the time out to talk to me I know you’re busy as hell. So thank you again, and good luck with your career and hope to talk to you again

Nicki Minaj: Aww thank you. And shout out to Young Money, my fans and of course Hiphopbase.net they get it poppin’!

Badnews: You can slide in a little shout out to me if you like

Nicki Minaj: Shout out to my baby boy Badnews he gives the best head—oops, I mean he gives the best interviews (laughs)

Badnews: (laughs) Wow! If Nicki Minaj is saying that, then that means its certified ladies (laughs)

Nicki Minaj: (laughs)

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Permalink Reply by lilrican on April 6, 2008 at 12:06pm

iight u know that umma do me by rocko well this guy said rocko stole his rhymes. Read Below....

Yo what up allhiphop.com. I'm just dropping through to expose some light on this 1 hit wonder cat Rocko! He stole that whol Do Me concept from me!!!!! Me and my people performed the ORIGINAL version of it at the Almost Famous in Atlanta and his people was in the crowd. I aint hatin on dude or nothing but come on. I got the whole performance on tape! Dude took the concept and ran! He didn't bite it line for line but you can tell. You be the judge www.myspace.com/lethal2u! this aint a rumor this is all fact illseed! He dont wanna see me!!!!! Thats alright though. The truth will be exposed!!!!!! Tell him Lethal aka Naptown's finest told you so ya dig!

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Permalink Reply by GEEZNDAHOOD on April 6, 2008 at 1:20pm

HEART OF THE CITY AFTER PARTY TONIGHT, HOSTED BY TIGGA

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Permalink Reply by Amir Rasheed on April 6, 2008 at 1:21pm

www.myspace.com/yungclk89

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i gets busy fresh out of far rock they dont do it like me i know

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Permalink Reply by GEEZNDAHOOD on April 6, 2008 at 1:24pm

A DEELISHIS PIECE OF ASS!!!!!!! DAMN, YOU BETTER HAVE SOME LUBRICANT FOR THIS ONE

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Permalink Reply by GEEZNDAHOOD on April 6, 2008 at 1:55pm

50 to sign new group- PUNK OF THE SOUTH
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SIKE!! LOOK AT THIS DUMB S*** HERE

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Permalink Reply by mamacita on April 6, 2008 at 4:05pm

Witches filmed flying over Mexico!

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