Showing posts with label fireball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fireball. Show all posts

Sunday, July 10, 2011

JUST GONNA STAND THERE AND WATCH ME BURN





Sultry pop star Rihanna is known to heat things up, but things got a little too hot at her Dallas show Friday night, according to People.comDuring the performance of her latest single, "California King Bed," a small fire broke out in the lighting rigs above the stage, sending sparks near the performer. 
The stage crew quickly extinguished the fire, and the crowd of 12,500 were then evacuated from the American Airlines Center. No one was hurt. Rihanna tweeted about the incident later that night. "DALLAS!!! We set the stage on FYAH tonight!!! LITERALLY!!!," she wrote. "I'm so pissed, I was havin so much fun wit yall too!!! I gotta come back man!!" She added that she was meeting her tour crew to "to find out exactly what happened." Dallas fans will se her again soon however. "Glad you guys are safe!!!" she wrote. "I promise I'll be back!!!"

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Ryan Dunn: Drunk & Gone



Jackass star Ryan Dunn was drunk when he crashed his Porsche on a Pennsylvania highway while going as fast as 140 mph, according to police. 

Dunn, 34, died along with his friend Zachary Hartwell, 30, from West Chester, Pa. Both men suffered "blunt and thermal trauma" in the crash, which turned Dunn's car into a fireball, according to the autopsy report. 

Dunn was driving at twice the legal limit, with authorities saying toxicology results put his blood alcohol concentration at 0.196 percent, while the legal state limit is 0.08. 
Before the crash, the two men had been in a bar in West Chester; Dunn had Tweeted a photo of them drinking.

"The initial crash reconstruction investigation determined that Mr. Dunn's vehicle was traveling between 132-140 mph at the time of the collision," West Goshen Police Chief Michael Carroll said in a statement.