The Story of Ricky is one of the most entertaining movies I’ve seen in a long time. It is about a man with super strength, Ricky, that is sent to prison: His girlfriend got killed, so he avenged her death. The prison that Ricky is sent to is run like a business; the warden uses the prisoners as slaves and kills them without any hesitation. There are Four gangs in the prison and each of them have their own boss. When Ricky notices how corrupt the prison is, he uses his two fists to clean it up.
My synopsis is basically the whole storyline. I would rate the story 6/10, because a lot of things didn’t make sense; however, it doesn’t matter, because Story of Ricky is all about extreme violence and cheesy effects. This movie was made in 1991, so there was limited special effects; as a result, the action scenes seem unrealistic. Whenever Ricky fights, his fists usually rip through the opponent’s body and just tears them up. The best thing about this movie is how much fake gore it has; in one scene Ricky puts somebody into a meat grinder, and after they directed that scene there was so much fake blood that the actor couldn’t wash himself off for 2 days.
In conclusion, if you like movies that have no storyline, but are entertaining because of it’s unique special effects, Story of Ricky is a must watch!
This is 1/9 of the full movie. You can watch the rest on youtube!
The man once called the “Baddest man on the planet” is now working his was to the “Fattest man on the planet.” The youngest heavyweight champ ever who once knocked out 12 out of 19 men in the first round is now knocking out plate after plate at Mr. Chow’s. The man who was once known for biting off ears is now know for biting off juicy chunks of chicken.
OK, that’s enough of that, but this is truly one of the sad stories of the last 20 years. Mike Tyson used to be the most feared boxer on the planet, but after being jailed for rape for 3 years in 1992 he never really recovered. He had reportedly blown a fortune of over $300 million after filing for bankruptcy in 2003.
It was rumored that Tyson was on an intense detox diet, planning on returning to the ring against Evander Holyfield for the first time in 10 years. It has also been rumored that he will become a cage fighter after his experience reffing one. Now both look far from reach, and who knows where he’ll be in the next 5 years.
If you are thinking of going to China for the Olympics, you might not want to fly the Chinese airlines.
A pilot for a Chinese carrier requested permission and landed at FRA (Frankfurt, Germany) for an unscheduled refueling stop. The reason became soon apparent to the ground crew: The Number 3 engine had been shutdown previously because of excessive vibration, and because it didn’t look too good. It had apparently been no problem for the tough guys back in China: as they took some sturdy straps and wrapped them around two of the fan blades and the structures behind, thus stopping any unwanted wind-milling (engine spinning by itself due to airflow passing thru the blades during flight) and associated uncomfortable vibration caused by the suboptimal fan.
Note that the straps areseat-belts…how resourceful! After making the “repairs”, off they went into the wild blue yonder with another revenue-making flight on only three engines! With the increased fuel consumption, they got a bit low on fuel, and just set it down at the closest airport (FRA) for a quick refill.
That’s when the problems started: The Germans, who are kind of picky about this stuff, inspected the malfunctioning engine and immediately grounded the aircraft. (Besides theseat-belts, notice the appalling condition of the fan blades.)The airline operator had to send a chunk of money to get the first engine replaced (took about 10 days). The repair contractor decided to do some impromptu inspection work on the other engines, none of which looked all that great either.The result: a total of 3 engines were eventually changed on this plane before it was permitted to fly again.
For anybody who is not familiar with a jet engine, a jet fan blade should be perfectly smooth. And we were worried about lead paint!
Jerome Kerviel the former Societe General rouge trader who accrued nearly €5 billion, or $7.7 billion has been released from jail after just over one month. He is still under investigation and surely will be going back to jail for a long time, but he will probably be bringing some friends with him.
So far the prosecution believes Kerviel worked alone, but many think this is impossible due to significance of the fraud. They say he began creating fictitious trades in 2006 and early 2007 that were relatively small, but got a little power hungry and the trades increased drastically. He eventually made illegal trades totaling $63.5 billion!
Some have described him as a computer genius while others have said he was nothing special. He was a smart guy though. He had a salary of about $90,000 in 2006 and earned a bonus $76,000 and in 2007 he was expected to get bonuses of at least $381,000.
To cover up his early gains Kerviel created fictitious trades that actually showed losses to cover up the massive gains. Obviously this is bad for the company because it is illegal, but many traders say their bosses will look the other way if it’s not too outrageous. The fact that he was caught almost two years after he began the fraudulent trading when he hadlost money, rather than make money is suspicious. This is not something that could possibly go unnoticed unless soemone turned their heads. It seems to me that he started out well and they pretended they didn’t notice, but once he got out of control and the company got scared of being caught, they “caught” him. The business world can be hard, but it sure does look fun!
By the way, he was just hired after his release from prison by Lemaire Consultants and Associes, an information-technology consultancy specializing in IT networking and security. I don’t know if you want this guy to work on your security, but maybe they just wanna get a piece of that fraudulent trading!
