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CBS News
3 days ago
- General
- CBS News
Man accused of hurling rocks, racial slurs at father and daughter fishing on Massachusetts lake
A father-daughter day on a lake in Lunenburg, Massachusetts ended with a 911 call they say because of a stranger who hurled rocks and racial slurs at them. Police said that stranger, David McPartlan, is now facing charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and assault to intimidate. With the catch of the day in hand, it should have been the perfect daddy-daughter day for Sheron Brown and his 10-year-old girl on Lake Shirley. Incident captured on video But their Memorial Day was marred by a man seen on video admitting he called them racial slurs and hurled rocks at them. "I was really angry," said Brown. "I'm sad that I had to deal with this with my daughter. I'm sad that I have to explain these things to her." "I didn't expect in our Zen, in our passion, in our field of play, in our home from home, that she would be confronted with a racist situation," added Brown. Sheron Brown said a man hurled rocks and racial slurs at him and his daughter while they were fishing in Lunenburg, Mass. CBS Boston Lunenburg police say McPartlan said the father and daughter were fishing too close to his dock and asked them to leave. However, Brown, a competitive fisherman since 1998 who's fished on the lake for years, wanted to be in the no wake zone because it was the safest place for his daughter to fish on a busy holiday weekend. "He just starts telling me, I can't fish here I shouldn't be here and I should go somewhere else and I'm like, but you didn't say anything to anybody else, I said there were three boats that were actually fishing close to your dock," said Brown. Words escalated to the frightening confrontation. "His mannerism was more aggressive, I don't know what he's going to do, he already threw the rock, so I'm recording him, and I said I'm going to call the police," said Brown. Investigators said, "Because of David's racial remarks combined with the assault on Sheron, and his minor child, his intent was to intimidate them due to their race." "Stand up to bullies" As painful as that experience was, Brown knows there's a lesson in there for all of us. "If anything, I'm showing my daughter you stand up to bullies, if someone harasses you and racism has no place in the world," said Brown. McPartlan has been summoned to Fitchburg District Court. He's expected to be arraigned June 16.
The Guardian
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
What's The Phoenician Scheme about? Everything you need to know about Wes Anderson's new film
The Phoenician Scheme is the story of Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), a character inspired by audacious, globetrotting capitalists and business magnates – he is an instantly iconic anti-hero. He has nine sons and one daughter, Liesel, a devoted art collector and lover of nature. He is dogged by accusations of profiteering, tax dodging, price fixing, bribery and, worse, is pursued by a clandestine bureaucratic government mission to monitor (and disrupt) his enterprise. But much to their chagrin, Korda seems unkillable. Korda's daughter is 21-year-old Liesl (Mia Threapleton). Having entered the convent as a child, she has had little to do with her father. However, Korda is intent on making her his heir, and promises that if she tags along with him he'll help her unearth a secret that she desperately wants to know. Is The Phoenician Scheme a globetrotting adventure about a seemingly incompatible father and daughter who end up bonding? Not exactly – Anderson is too wary of cliches. But certainly Korda and Liesl's gloriously strange chemistry echoes previous Anderson odd couples such as Max and Herman from Rushmore or Gustave and Zero from The Grand Budapest Hotel, while being something totally new. It's not a spoiler to say what the titular scheme is – it's the driving plot of the film. Anderson's Phoenicia is a made-up country, a Middle Eastern-coded equivalent to The Grand Budapest Hotel's similarly fictional Zubrowka (although Phoenicia is named after an ancient region). Korda's scheme is never actually spelled out in its totality, but in essence it's an ambitious multi-part attempt to industrialise Phoenicia via a series of gargantuan infrastructure projects and pocket 5% of revenue for the next 150 years. Korda has secured the investment to pay for it, but unfortunately the international bureaucrats manipulate the price of a vital construction component, making everything much more expensive. In essence, the story follows Korda – accompanied by Liesl and Michael Cera's hapless Norwegian tutor Bjorn – as he tries to extract more money from his investors as he enacts his grandest plan yet to protect his family fortune. In terms of real-life inspiration, it's based on the stories of real-life robber barons, although Anderson has not explicitly stated if there were any specific sources or historical events he drew upon. But in the same way The Grand Budapest Hotel is about the encroachment of fascism – that is to say, it is, but it doesn't lecture you about it – it's reasonably clear that The Phoenician Scheme has some roots in the story of the mid-20th-century rise of the Middle Eastern petrostates. Though, again, it isn't preachy. To find out more about Wes Anderson's new film The Phoenician Scheme, visit In cinemas from 23 May
