A working mother who has had a negative experience with law enforcement officials in the past took to her private Facebook account to express her thoughts on the matter — and was promptly fired for it.

Ashley Warden of Piedmont was a waitress at a local Chili's restaurant until her employer was alerted to a Facebook post in which she published a photo of three Oklahoma County Sheriff's deputies outside a Chili's along with the caption "Stupid Cops better hope I'm not their server FDP."

The post went viral on law enforcement sites and garnered significant outrage — significant enough that he employer was notified and she was summarily dismissed.

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Christina Aguilera is getting ready to return to The Voice by getting her body into amazing shape! If you missed it earlier this week, Amy James posted on how Aguilera will be returning as a judge next season (click here to read that story).
This week, Aguilera posted a photo showing off her new look!

TMZ reports former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle is dead ... apparently having taken his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  He was 71 years old.

Cops in North Carolina say Trickle shot himself at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Lincoln County at 12:02 PM today. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Trickle did leave a suicide note at the death scene. The contents of the note are unclear at this time.

Officials say they received a phone call before the shooting in which the caller said there would be a dead body at the cemetery and it would be his.

Multiple sources who knew Trickle tell us he had been sick for a while and depressed.  We're not sure what kind of illness Trickle had been suffering from.

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Official police press release on Dick Trickle's death

Lincolnton, NC - Retired race car driver Richard "Dick" Trickle, 71, died today from an apparent self inflicted gun shot wound.

The incident occurred at 12:02 p.m. at Forest Lawn Cemetery on Highway 150 East in Boger City.

The Lincoln County Communications Center received a call apparently from the victim that "there would be a dead body and it would be his ". Communications Center workers tried to place a return call to the number but did not get an answer.

The first emergency units arriving on the scene located the body lying near the victim's pickup truck.

Trickle was a Lincoln County resident and had lived here since the early 1990's

Classic shot of Trickle smoking during a race :)