Question: Beleagured Ha Nam Ninh Closes Again

Beleagured Ha Nam Ninh Closes Again

Damage at Ha Nam Ninh on March 16, 2016. (Photo: Anh Nguyen)

Water damage has again brought down

the Tenderloin Vietnamese restaurant whose owners have weathered

According to Anh Nguyen, director of the Tenderloin Economic Development Project, leaks from the SRO that occupies the higher floors in the same building have just made the ceiling in Ha Nam Ninh’s dining room collapse. As the Chronicle documented in December, this is the third water-damage incident to afflict the restaurant in the past 18 months.

Nguyen says that the Nguyen family (no relation) who own Ha Nam Ninh estimate the restaurant will be closed for at least a week.

Summary: Water damage has again brought down Ha Nam Ninh, the Tenderloin Vietnamese restaurant whose owners have weathered lost leases, deaths in the family, skyrocketing rents and collapsing ceilings. Acco…


Justin Bieber Investigated for Reckless Driving

More trouble for Justin Bieber: The singer is under investigation for driving recklessly in his California neighborhood Monday night.

Two people in Bieber’s gated Calabasas community spotted someone they believed to be the star behind the wheel of his white Ferrari, driving “extremely erratically, at high rates of speed,” Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, told ABC News Radio. Local police responded after they received the call.

“Two witnesses have already come forward and filed a report,” Whitmore said. “We’re investigating [this] as misdemeanor reckless driving, and planning on presenting [the case] to the DA.”

Whitmore also noted that this was not the first time that Bieber had been accused of driving erratically in his neighborhood.

In March, Bieber allegedly got into an argument with a neighbor and spit on him, after the neighbor objected to the singer driving at high speeds in the neighborhood. Prosecutors are still reviewing the case.

Bieber’s rep did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment.

Summary: More trouble for Justin Bieber: The singer is under investigation for driving recklessly in his California neighborhood Monday night. Two people in Bieber’s gated Calabasas community spotted someone they believed to be the star behind the wheel of his white Ferrari, driving “extremely erratically, at high rates of speed,” Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, told ABC News Radio. Local police responded after they received the call. “Two witnesses have already come forward and filed a report,” Whitmore said. “We’re investigating [this] as misdemeanor reckless driving, and planning on presenting [the case] to the DA.” Whitmore also…


Clown porn viewing has soared thanks to the creepy clown craze

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LONDON — Searches for clown porn have increased by 213 percent since the recent "creepy clown" craze took off, according to the porn website Pornhub.

Social media has been replete with creepy clown sightings since August. The first sighting happened in South Carolina, where a group of children claimed that clowns tried to lure them into the woods.

As the craze sweeps across the world — including in the UK — children have been left terrorised by clown sightings and professional clowns are complaining that their livelihoods are being ruined.There has, however, been one upside.

Clown fetish porn is seeing a colossal boom and it's partly because of the recent clown furore.

In the past 30 days, there have been over 100,000 clown related searches on Pornhub. "The most popular search is 'clown porn' followed by 'clown girl' and 'clown gangbang'. The impact of media coverage can be seen with terms like 'crazy clown', 'scary clown' and 'killer clown' moving above longer-term fetish favourites like 'midget clown', 'birthday clown', 'clown feet' and let’s not forget — 'clown fart'," reads a blogpost on the site.

Pornhub's statisticians also say that women are 33 percent more likely to search for clown porn than men.

While searches for clown porn typically increase in the run up to Halloween, the porn site believes that the recent unprecedented rise in clown porn has been caused by the amount of media attention garnered by creepy clown sightings.

"We’ve discovered many times before that increased media coverage will often result in more searches on Pornhub," continued the blogpost.

Summary:
Answer: The latest twist in the creepy clown saga.