Fifth Avenue Forum

Road rage is no joke. I witnessed some yesterday on 65 just past the stadiums. Dude went around someone on the left shoulder which is about 6 feet wide and then brake checked the dude. Of course he rear ended him. I stopped and gave the rear driver my info as a witness. But the front driver was insane.

**** meow'd. This is in response to the article about the boy who was killed.

One person is charged with disorderly conduct following a brawl at Miami International Airport which was captured on video and has since gone viral.

Miami-Dade Police have identified him as Jameel Decquir, one of several people involved in the chaos on concourse D, gate 12, in the American Airlines terminal.

The passengers were waiting on their flight to Chicago when a group of people started fighting after being told there were just three standby seats available for their party of four.
Video posted on social media shows the melee and people trying to stop it, after it spread to two locations.

According to police, the people who were attacked, were not with the group trying to get on standby. Investigators don’t know what caused the violent fight.

WILKES-BARRE — A Luzerne County attorney who had been serving as president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association was charged with soliciting a prostitute who, in turn, threatened to post a video of their sexual encounter if she didn’t receive more cash, according to court records filed Tuesday.

County detectives charged David Eric Schwager, 58, of Kingston, with patronizing a prostitute; and charged Emily Ann Merth, 25, with promoting prostitution, theft by extortion and sexual extortion. The charges were filed with District Judge Rick Cronauer in Wilkes-Barre.

Schwager resigned his position as PBA president on Tuesday after the charges were filed.

According to the criminal complaints:

Schwager contacted county detectives on Dec. 30, 2019 saying he was the victim of an extortion scheme by a woman, identified as Merth, whom he met at 237-1/2 Carey Ave. in Wilkes-Barre.

Schwager claimed he responded to an advertisement for a female escort and was directed to the Carey Avenue address. The advertisement stated the woman accepted payment by cash or PayPal, was available 24/7 and indicated she was in the Wilkes-Barre area, also highlighting that she had no tattoos or piercings.

Schwager told detectives he sent a text message to the number listed on the advertisement. More text messages followed, discussing service prices and exchanging payment for sex, the complaints say.

Schwager claimed he arrived at the Carey Avenue residence that afternoon and learned the woman could not meet him because her landlord was home. They arranged to meet later on Dec. 30.

When Schwager returned to the address, he told detectives he was directed to a neighboring residence, where he said a completely naked Merth opened the door. Schwager claimed Merth was African American and not the same woman who appeared in the advertisement, the complaints say.

Merth asked Schwager if he was a “cop,” and Schwager asked Merth if she was a police officer. Both denied being law enforcement.

After Schwager entered the residence, cash was exchanged and the pair began to engage in sexual activity, an affidavit states.

During the sexual encounter, Schwager told detectives he noticed Merth recording their acts with a mobile device, the complaints say.

Schwager asked Merth what she was doing and she replied she also records pornography and sells the videos for money. Schwager told the woman he wanted no part of being recorded and Merth refused to stop, saying she would only record audio of their sexual encounter, according to the complaints.

Schwager told detectives he got dressed and left.

A short time after leaving, Schwager claimed he received a text message from Merth advising if he didn’t pay her $1,000, she would post the video “everywhere,” the complaints say.

Schwager told Merth to stop threatening to release the video and she lowered her demand to $700. Schwager made arrangements to drive to the residence to bring Merth the money.

As Schwager returned to the residence, detectives set up surveillance of the home and allegedly witnessed Merth exit the home and approach Schwager’s vehicle.

When detectives approached Merth, she ran away but was arrested after a brief foot chase.

Merth told detectives during an interview she created the escort advertisement and used her cell phone to communicate with clients. She admitted to making arrangements with Schwager to engage in sexual activity for money and using her cell phone to record their sexual act, the complaints say.

Merth allegedly claimed after Schwager left the residence, she used his number to find out his full name and business address and sent a text message to extort more money from Schwager by threatening to release the video of their sexual encounter.

Detectives said the video involving Schwager was located on Merth’s cell phone.

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Does that mean the glue he’ll be turned into will be in the same section of the store as dented canned goods?

Does that mean the glue he’ll be turned into will be in the same section of the store as dented canned goods?

Super glue

A 12-year-old child reportedly died after being punched by one of his classmates in exchange for one dollar, according to local reports.

Police said Romy Vilsaint, a fifth-grader, informed his family that he was punched in the head by a fellow student at his school in Brooklyn, New York, PS 361, WABC-TV reported. His family told the outlet that Vilsaint said the student was offered a dollar to punch him.

New York Post reported that Vilsaint went to the nurse's office at school after the attack because he had a headache. He left a voicemail for his father in the office, stating that someone "hit me real hard."

Vilsaint became so ill that he started vomiting and was transported to a local hospital, where he later died, the report said. The cause of the child's death is not yet known.

"They beat my son in the school. They kill him," the boy's father, Romain Vilsaint, told the NY Post. "Oh God, I lost my son, I lost my son."

The family told WABC-TV that his mother sent him to New York from Haiti in 2017 "for a better life."

Does that mean the glue he’ll be turned into will be in the same section of the store as dented canned goods?

Super glue

It looks like "cancel culture" didn't cause Medina Spirit's positive test for betamethasone after all. It may have been trainer Bob Baffert himself.

In a statement released Tuesday morning, Baffert admitted to treating Medina Spirit with an ointment that contained betamethasone before he won the Kentucky Derby. Trainers are required to stop administering betamethasone 14 days before a race, but Baffert said that Medina Spirit was given the ointment up until the day before the Derby.

“Following the Santa Anita Derby, Medina Spirit developed dermatitis on his hind end,” Baffert wrote in a prepared statement via the Louisville Courier Journal. “I had him checked out by my veterinarian who recommended the use of an anti-fungal ointment called Otomax. The veterinary recommendation was to apply this ointment daily to give the horse relief, help heal the dermatitis and prevent it from spreading.

“My barn followed this recommendation and Medina Spirit was treated with Otomax once a day up until the day before the Kentucky Derby. [Monday], I was informed that one of the substances in Otomax is betamethasone. While we do not know definitively that this was the source of the alleged 21 picograms found in Medina Spirit’s post-race blood sample, and our investigation is continuing, I have been told by equine pharmacology experts that this could explain the test results. As such, I wanted to be forthright about this fact as soon as I learned of this information."

If a second test confirms the presence of betamethasone, Baffert and Medina Spirit will be disqualified and stripped of their Derby win.

Major departure from Monday's claims

Baffert's statement on Tuesday is a total about-face from the comments he made on Fox News just 24 hours earlier. In an interview on Monday, Baffert claimed that he never uses betamethasone, and had never given Medina Spirit betamethasone. Then he blamed the positive test and his suspension from Churchill Downs on "cancel culture."

That was likely the first time in history a horse was supposedly a victim of "cancel culture." Baffert admitting that he'd given Medina Spirit an ointment with betamethasone marked another historical moment: the first time a trainer tried to cancel their own horse.

Baffert not admitting defeat

Baffert may have admitted to administering the ointment, but he's not admitting defeat. Medina Spirit's Derby win won't be invalidated unless a second, more extensive test (known as a split sample) comes back positive. Even though the ointment could have caused the positive, Baffert is continuing his investigation.

“As I have stated, my investigation is continuing and we do not know for sure if this ointment was the cause of the test results, or if the test results are even accurate, as they have yet to be confirmed by the split sample. However, again, I have been told that a finding of a small amount, such as 21 picograms, could be consistent with application of this type of ointment. I intend to continue to investigate and I will continue to be transparent.”

We may not know the results of the test for weeks, so until then only one thing is certain: After wasting so much breath blaming "cancel culture" on Medina Spirit's positive test, Baffert owes "cancel culture" an apology.

Nearly twenty buildings in Philadelphia are dimming their lights this spring after thousands of birds perished in the city's largest mass collision in recent history.

The voluntary measure has been coordinated by "Bird Safe Philly" and continues until May 30 with the purpose of sparing the lives of some of the 100 million birds passing over the City of Brotherly Love on their semiannual migrations.