DC sports bar owner says he will not show the Beijing Olympics due to China's 'despicable human rights policies'



Once the 2022 Beijing Olympics are underway next month, people all around the globe will tune in and watch the athletic spectacle on television — but they won't be watching at Dirty Water, a sports bar located in Washington D.C.

The Daily Caller reported that the bar's owner, Chris DeFelice, has decided not to show the Olympics at his establishment as a way of opposing China's human rights abuses.

DeFelice is also calling for other companies to do the same.

"I am formally announcing that Dirty Water will not show the 2022 Winter Olympics hosted in China. We cannot in good conscience support an event hosted in a place with such current despicable human rights policies. We ask and challenge other businesses like ours to join us," DeFelice told the Daily Caller in a statement.

"As a sports fan, the still current major questions about the well being of tennis star Peng Shuai and the activism of Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter Freedom basically woke me up to things I glossed over much like many others," he told the outlet in an interview. "I am as guilty as most in the western world to sort of ignore and lack concern for these atrocities that not only have taken place for years but are current! I ask again, where is Peng Shuai and why did she skip the ongoing Australian open? There’s only four majors in tennis and she skipped the one that exists on the Asia-Pacific side of the world. We have to ask why."

The U.S. has announced a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics, but some people, including DeFelice, believe there should be a total boycott.

"This isn’t easy for me because I know how damn hard these athletes work to have their moment in the sun once every four years. I support these American athletes and all athletes in their Olympic dream. The failure not to move the Olympics out of China falls on the IOC. However, four years of hard work isn’t of greater value than the lives of the oppressed in China," DeFelice told the outlet.

New Hampshire ‘gender reveal’ party features explosion so vast it shook homes across several towns



An out-of-control gender reveal party culminated in what some Kingston, New Hampshire, residents described as a "deafening blast" and even reportedly cracked a neighboring home's foundation.

What are the details?

According to the Washington Post, Sara and Matt Taglieri were enjoying dinner in their home when a "deafening blast knocked pictures off their walls and shook their house's foundation."

As it turned out, the blast originated from a nearby concrete plant and quarry near their home, and shook even nearby towns — but it was no construction accident.

Police say that a man detonated at least 80 pounds of explosives as an elaborate gender reveal stunt, shaking house foundations and reportedly turning local tap water brown.

The Kingston Police Department in a statement said that an "unidentified man" who reportedly set off the explosives turned himself in after the alarming incident and was cooperating with authorities' investigations. No charges have been filed at the time of this reporting, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.

No injuries were reported as a result of the blast, according to Kingston Police Chief Donald Briggs Jr.

The explosive substance was Tannerite, which is a legal, over-the-counter explosive often used in target practice, the Union Leader noted.

"On Wednesday, Briggs Jr. told the Union Leader police found a container filled with chalk and Tannerite and the ground covered in blue dust at the quarry," the Post added. "Police said those hosting the celebration chose the quarry because they thought it would be a safe location to set off the explosion."

What else?

Sara told the outlet, "We are all about celebrating happy moments like having a baby, but their celebration was felt and heard not only by different neighborhoods, but through different towns. It's not like we are upset because there was blue or pink confetti on our yard. It was such a large blast."

The Taglieris said that the blast even cracked the home's foundation, and hope that those responsible for the explosion will pay restitution for the after-effects of the discharge.

"To find out it was a gender reveal — it was extreme," Sara said. "You are not expecting pictures to fall off your wall at 7 p.m. while you're having dinner from somebody celebrating having a baby."

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