'FEAR FACTOR' PRODUCERS Killing Donkey Semen Episode Was an Expensive Mistake
"Fear Factor" producers aren't just pissed NBC execs pulled the plug on their donkey semen episode because it's hilarious -- they're pissed because ANOTHER stunt on the show was extremely expensive to stage ... and now it's going to waste.
Sources connected with the show tell TMZ, in addition to the donkey semen stunt -- contestants had to jump a car through a moving train ... a stunt that cost roughly $150,000 to put together ... and now, will never see the light of day.
On top of the train disappointment -- we're told producers were baffled by NBC's decision to yank the episode ... because the semen challenge was "hands down the nastiest concept" out of the bunch of other stunts that were killed BEFORE coming to fruition.
As one source put it, "There's lots of other gross stuff, but how do you top donkey semen?" A good question.
Sources connected with the show tell TMZ, in addition to the donkey semen stunt -- contestants had to jump a car through a moving train ... a stunt that cost roughly $150,000 to put together ... and now, will never see the light of day.
On top of the train disappointment -- we're told producers were baffled by NBC's decision to yank the episode ... because the semen challenge was "hands down the nastiest concept" out of the bunch of other stunts that were killed BEFORE coming to fruition.
As one source put it, "There's lots of other gross stuff, but how do you top donkey semen?" A good question.
Police: Man Lived With Mother's Corpse
A Tucson, Ariz., man was arrested after a foul odor led police to discover he had been living with his mother's decomposing corpse.
"The person was found in a bathtub, I believe, and may have either been bound or was found in some circumstance [for police] to believe she may not have died naturally," Dr. Gregory Hess, Pima County's Chief Medical Examiner, told ABC affiliate KGUN-TV in Tucson, Ariz.
The gender and identity of the body was not immediately apparent to officers at the scene, given the state of decomposition.
The Pima County Medical Examiner's Office determined the body was that of Carmelita Aguilar, 47. Aguilar's son, Christopher, 25, had been living with her body for an unspecified period of time.
"He was aware that a person was deceased inside the apartment and concealed the death for some time while continuing to live in the apartment," Sgt. Maria Hawke of the Tucson Police Department said in a statement.
Aguilar was arrested on a charge of abandonment/concealment of a body. Authorities said they have not yet determined whether Aguilar was responsible for his mother's death.
"The person was found in a bathtub, I believe, and may have either been bound or was found in some circumstance [for police] to believe she may not have died naturally," Dr. Gregory Hess, Pima County's Chief Medical Examiner, told ABC affiliate KGUN-TV in Tucson, Ariz.
The gender and identity of the body was not immediately apparent to officers at the scene, given the state of decomposition.
The Pima County Medical Examiner's Office determined the body was that of Carmelita Aguilar, 47. Aguilar's son, Christopher, 25, had been living with her body for an unspecified period of time.
"He was aware that a person was deceased inside the apartment and concealed the death for some time while continuing to live in the apartment," Sgt. Maria Hawke of the Tucson Police Department said in a statement.
Aguilar was arrested on a charge of abandonment/concealment of a body. Authorities said they have not yet determined whether Aguilar was responsible for his mother's death.
Major snowstorm barrels down on Central Plains
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A major winter storm that dumped two feet of snow on the Denver area marched eastward on Saturday, buffeting the Central Plains with heavy snowfall and wind gusts of 25 miles per hour.
The snowstorm that pummeled eastern Colorado and western Nebraska on Friday - closing long stretches of Interstate 70 - moved into Nebraska, dropping roughly nine inches of snow on the Grand Island and Omaha areas, said National Weather Service Meteorologist Ken Harding.
Forecasters expect roughly three more inches of snow in the area.
The storm has targeted central and southwest Iowa, and is expected to drop up to 8 inches of snow through Saturday afternoon, Harding said.
Officials issued a winter storm warning as far east as Des Moines and Ames, Iowa, Harding said, and travel is difficult along a corridor of Interstate 70 in western Kansas and all of Interstate 80 from western Nebraska through Des Moines, Iowa.
"It is weakening as it moves farther east into some warmer air," Harding said. "It will bring less and less snow and it will turn into rain when it gets into Illinois."
There have been no major weather-related incidents on Saturday, Harding said.
The storm was caused when a warm, moisture-laden air mass from the Gulf of Mexico collided with colder northern air over southeastern Colorado to unleash the snowstorm east of the Continental Divide.
On Friday, that storm dropped a foot of snow on the Denver metropolitan area, with up to 2 feet reported in the foothills west of the city, causing over 600 flights to be canceled at Denver International Airport, Harding said.
The airport continued to experience delays on Saturday.
The storm also dumped heavy snow on parts of western Nebraska, with more than a foot measured on the ground in the Sand Hills region about 40 miles north of North Platte, the Weather Service reported.
The snowstorm that pummeled eastern Colorado and western Nebraska on Friday - closing long stretches of Interstate 70 - moved into Nebraska, dropping roughly nine inches of snow on the Grand Island and Omaha areas, said National Weather Service Meteorologist Ken Harding.
Forecasters expect roughly three more inches of snow in the area.
The storm has targeted central and southwest Iowa, and is expected to drop up to 8 inches of snow through Saturday afternoon, Harding said.
Officials issued a winter storm warning as far east as Des Moines and Ames, Iowa, Harding said, and travel is difficult along a corridor of Interstate 70 in western Kansas and all of Interstate 80 from western Nebraska through Des Moines, Iowa.
"It is weakening as it moves farther east into some warmer air," Harding said. "It will bring less and less snow and it will turn into rain when it gets into Illinois."
There have been no major weather-related incidents on Saturday, Harding said.
The storm was caused when a warm, moisture-laden air mass from the Gulf of Mexico collided with colder northern air over southeastern Colorado to unleash the snowstorm east of the Continental Divide.
On Friday, that storm dropped a foot of snow on the Denver metropolitan area, with up to 2 feet reported in the foothills west of the city, causing over 600 flights to be canceled at Denver International Airport, Harding said.
The airport continued to experience delays on Saturday.
The storm also dumped heavy snow on parts of western Nebraska, with more than a foot measured on the ground in the Sand Hills region about 40 miles north of North Platte, the Weather Service reported.
