Video - Belgium Stage Collapses – At Least 6 Dead and Scores Injured

Six people are dead and at least forty others injured when multiple tents and stages collapsed in Belgium Thursday during an open air music festival called Pukkelpop.

The accident happened in the small town of Hasselt about 50 miles from Brussels.

Video shows the PA system swaying in 50 mph winds and pouring rain and hail shortly before the structure collapsed.

In another video, fans can be seen panicking and running for cover.



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The squall caused the Chateau Tent, where American band “Smith Westerns” was preparing to perform to collapse.

The band posted on twitter saying,

"Stage collapsed max almost got crushed by the tress, I hope Pukkelpop has insurance because all our stuff is broke."

Some 60,000 music fans were expected to turn out for the three day Pukkelpop festival that had performances on several stages throughout the festival grounds.

Reports say that four of the stages may have collapsed.

The remaining performances have been cancelled and an investigation is underway.

This is the second stage collapse resulting in multiple deaths in the last 5 days.

Last Saturday a stage at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis Indiana collapsed killing five people and injuring at least 50 others.

Related: Stage Collapses at Indiana State Fair - 5 Dead - Video

An industry insider said,

“This is way bands don’t like outside venues. It’s just too dangerous and these elaborate stage setups can be massive. On false move and it can all come tumbling down - weather is unpredictable.”

Word is slowly leaking out on the condition of those injured but it could be days before authorities know the full impact of the tragedy.

Other bands that were scheduled to perform at the festival were Good Charlotte, Fleet Foxes, Foo Fighters, Eminem, and Thirty Seconds to Mars.

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Video - Anderson Cooper Cracks Up on Air During Gérard Depardieu Story

Anderson Cooper is usually a very serious person.

Last night during a story on French actor Gérard Depardieu peeing in the aisle of an airplane while waiting for take-off on the tarmac, Cooper broke into giggles and just couldn’t stop.

Anderson’s segment titled “The RidicuList” was laced with pee jokes and inferences to poop and public urination.

It was actually pretty funny watching the normally stoic Anderson lose it and crack up in such an uncontrollable fashion.

But the funny puns finally cracked his usually serious personality – and he lost it.

Watch Anderson Cooper crack up on his show


The airline in questions was CityJet, and they responded via twitter saying,

“As you may have seen on the news we are busy mopping the floor on one of our planes this morning. We’d also like to remind our passengers that are jest are fully equipped with toilet facilities.”

Cooper later told his viewers that this was the first time he has ever lost it like that on camera.

That may be true.

However, we do have another video of Anderson being pranked by CNN producers when they put up a picture of him from elementary school during a live broadcast.

Related: Anderson Cooper pranked by CNN producers – Video

Coppers show on CNN has been lagging in the ratings this year, coming in almost last place behind idiot Piers Morgan.

Ever since revelations that Anderson was gay surfaced, and rumors about him marrying his same sex partner after New York changed their same sex marriage laws, critics have wondered if Copper would be able to stay at CNN.

Related: Anderson Cooper to marry gay boyfriend

But Cooper has a certain hard hitting style of journalism that critics say make him an important asset to the network even if it’s not with his current show.

We kind of like the guy and think he’s easy to watch and brings a sense of fair reporting to the news that we don’t see on other networks.

We say keep him.

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Video - Christine O'Donnell Walks Off Piers Morgan’s Terrible CNN Show

Poor Piers Morgan.

People hate him on America’s Got Talent and apparently people hate him on his CNN talk show as well.

Last night, Piers had Christine O’Donnell on his show and it was a disaster.

First, Morgan started the segment with a taped playback of O’Donnell’s now infamous MTV show where she talked about sex and masturbation.

It was indeed quite an embarrassing way to start the segment and you could tell O’Donnell was clearly uncomfortable from the first moment.

Second, Morgan could not seem to talk about anything else except her masturbation comments, views on abortion, views on same sex marriage, etc.

Instead of talking about current issues Piers seemed to be stuck in the past until O’Donnell had enough and walked off.

The condescending smugness in his voice almost made me sick – I really hate this guy.

Watch Christine O'Donnell Walk Off on Piers Morgan


It seems Piers is having a hard time of things these days.

He is now caught up in the News of The World phone hacking scandal, his CNN show has the lowest ratings of any CNN show ever, and people hate him as a judge on America’s Got Talent.

Related: Do Piers Morgan and Howie Mandel really hate each other? – Video

Poor Piers Morgan – everybody hates him.

We do - and think he is smug and pretentious.

What about you? Surely you agree.

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Video - Give 11-Year-Old Nick Smith His $50,000 for Making the Hockey Shot Heard Around the World!

Okay, we had to chime in on this one this morning.

Last Thursday, 11-year-old Nick Smith’s name was drawn in a raffle to participate in a hockey challenge worth $50,000.

All he had to do was make an 89 foot hockey shot and sink the puck into a three and a half inch cup.

And he did it!

But as it turns out, Nick was not the one that actually made the winning shot.

Nick Smith was outside the hockey rink when his name was called so his father substituted his identical twin brother Nate for the challenge.

11-Year-Old Nate Smith

They told the event organizer it was Nick, but later came clean and said it was really Nate who made the shot.

The organization then DECLINED to make the payout because it was not actually Nick at the stick.

There reason?

There might be insurance or legal problems since it was not really Nate.

Booooooo! Hiss!

Watch Nate Smiths $50,000 Winning Hockey Shot


We think the money should be paid out and that this was a cute and innocent harmless situation.

With $50,000, either of the children or their parents could hire a lawyer to “resolve” any issues that the organizers fear might arise.

See – this is why kids distrust grownups.

So let’s hear it fans! Chime in and root for Nate and Nick Smith to get their $50,000.

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