Growing Number of 'Project X' Party Copycats Lead to Arrests Nationwide <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Multiple arrests have been made across the country as a growing trend of young people have tried to emulate "Project X," a new film about a high school house party that rages out of control. What sounds like the plot of almost every teen movie ever made, "Project X" is about a group of teenage nerds throwing a party to gain popularity, while their parents are out of town, only the party gets out of hand. Suddenly there are explosions, cars driving into swimming pools and a SWAT team. The film, which is meant to look like it was shot and pieced together by a hand-held camcorder, was produced by Todd Phillips of "Hangover" franchise fame and has grossed more than $40 million dollars at the box office. However, police say more and more teens have started emulating the film in real life with throwing "Project X parties."
Chuck E. Cheese: Family Feuds at Birthday Parties Turn into Violent Brawls <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Chuck E. Multiple fights have broken out at locations across the country, many captured on cell phone videos then posted on YouTube. One Chuck E. "A couple of problems we were able to diagnose," Martin told "Nightline." Martin said another incident happened when divorced parents and their extended family tried to come together for their child's birthday party. "There were uneasy feelings, a verbal altercation, which transitioned into a physical altercation," he said. Barbie Clifton, a mother of five, said she was at a different Chuck E. "All I remember was hitting the floor and being kicked again and again in the head," she told "Nightline." Clifton said she believes she was targeted because her children were taking too long in the photo booth. "My daughter threw up, and another one of the children wet their pants because they were so scared," she said. Chuck E.
A World Without People - In Focus For a number of reasons, natural and human, people have recently evacuated or otherwise abandoned a number of places around the world -- large and small, old and new. Gathering images of deserted areas into a single photo essay, one can get a sense of what the world might look like if humans were to vanish from the planet altogether. Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more. [41 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A tree grows from the top of a chimney in an abandoned factory yard in Luque, on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay, on October 2 , 2011. A bust of Confucius rests at an abandoned workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, 240 km (150 miles) southwest of Beijing, on December 7, 2011. Ivy grows over a street in Tomioka town, Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on August 19, 2011.