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South Florida has the best odd news.
Homeless man sleeping in Dumpster survives trash compactor
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/05/07/0507dumpster.html
Woman, 83, was forced to smoke crack in ID scam
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/gen/ap/FL_Elderly_Woman_Crack.html
abcdefz
05-07-2007, 01:16 PM
Woman, 83, was forced to smoke crack in ID scam
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/gen/ap/FL_Elderly_Woman_Crack.html
Huh? "Forced" to smoke? That doesn't make sense.
South Florida has the best odd news.
Homeless man sleeping in Dumpster survives trash compactor
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/05/07/0507dumpster.html
"I want to find this gentleman and have him buy my lottery tickets because he is one lucky dude," Kaplan said.
hell yeah, homeless, sleeping in a dumpster, too fucked up to notice that you're being dumped into a trash compactor, if that's not a lucky guy, i don't know who is
abcdefz
05-07-2007, 01:24 PM
Maybe he's at peace with everything.
Otis Driftwood
05-07-2007, 01:43 PM
"Hathaway and a witness told investigators that Stanley-Morgan forced Hathaway to smoke a lit crack pipe — telling her it was the "hooty, " the report said."
(y)
Here is an update on the homeless dumpster guy...........
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A 44-year-old homeless man who fell asleep in a trash bin was dumped into the back of a garbage truck and survived being crushed repeatedly before a worker saw him.
Robert Baswell said he screamed each time a load of trash was crushed against his body and felt sure he would be killed after being dumped into the truck early Monday.
He said he was crushed against hamburger leftovers, dead rats and other refuse at least seven times. He tried to cushion one blow from the truck's compressor with a dead opossum, but it splattered against him.
"I screamed one last breath," Baswell told the Palm Beach Post from his hospital bed. The trash collector, tossing in one more box, happened to look down and saw him. Firefighters spent almost a half hour pulling pieces of trash out by hand to free him.
Baswell, who had bedded down in a brush-filled trash bin Sunday night to get out of the rain, suffered broken legs and ribs. But he considers himself lucky.
"I'm so happy to be here, as bad as I'm hurt," he said.
The trash collector told Baswell he was amazed to find him alive. West Palm Beach Fire Rescue spokesman Phil Kaplan said Baswell is fortunate to have survived.
"I want to find this gentleman and have him buy my lottery tickets because he is one lucky dude," Kaplan said.
Otis Driftwood
06-10-2007, 09:01 AM
Marshalltown Police: Woman Stole Toilet Paper From Courthouse
Police Chief Says Butts Caught In Act
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa -- A Marshalltown woman faces charges of stealing three rolls of toilet paper from the local courthouse and could get prison time.
NewsChannel 8's Katie Piper caught up with the woman accused of stealing the toilet paper.
Courthouse employees said they thought something was up.
"They said they seem to go through a lot of toilet paper at the courthouse," said Marshalltown Police Chief Lon Walker.
Marshalltown police said one of the employees caught Suzanne Marie Butts, of Marshalltown, taking the two-ply from the women's bathroom and called police.
The courthouse parking lot attendant said he knew about toilet paper going missing.
"I've heard they call it the toilet paper caper," said parking lot attendant Gene Seim.
Police said they caught up with Butts outside the courthouse Friday, and she was hiding the toilet paper in her shirt.
Butts told NewsChannel 8 that it was the first time she had stolen toilet paper and that her attorney said not talk.
"He told me not to ask any questions until he's with me," Butts said.
The courthouse workers told police they suspected something was up.
"She's facing three years incarceration for three rolls of toilet paper," Walker said.
"Normally, that would be a simple misdemeanor," Walker said.
Police said that on Friday, Butts was arrested on charges of stealing $30 from a family member.
That makes four theft charges against her. A judge will decide what punishment fits this crime.
It makes sense that a woman named Butts needed toilet paper.
More odd news from Florida......
Jumping sturgeon injures woman in Fla.
ROCK BLUFF, Fla. (AP) -- A woman was injured over the weekend by a leaping sturgeon, the latest incident involving the flying fish on the Suwannee River, officials said.
Tara Spears, 32, of Bell, was knocked unconscious by the animal on Sunday while boating on the river north of Rock Bluff, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported.
She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and was expected to recover, the agency reported.
The large, prehistoric-looking sturgeon have hard plates along their backs. They can grow up to 8 feet long and up to 200 pounds.
In April, a leaping sturgeon severely injured a 50-year-old woman from St. Petersburg who was riding a personal watercraft on the Suwannee River. She suffered a ruptured spleen and had three fingers reattached by surgeons, but she lost her left pinkie finger and a tooth.
avignon
06-13-2007, 05:00 AM
You should have saved these for 'Germany or Florida'!
I welcome odd news from anywhere in the world. When I lived in Florida I always thought the sun baked people's brain. Strange happenings always seem to happen in Florida. I am sure that Germany has much to offer in the way of oddities.
Otis Driftwood
06-13-2007, 11:07 AM
Except for penis-cannibals and serial baby-killing moms, Germany news is not worth the bother since the days after the reunion. Back then, the papers were full of East-germans buying motorless cars and outdoor radiators and then whining about it.
More Odd News from Florida......
Vietnam veteran strangles rabid bobcat that attacked him
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — A 62-year-old Vietnam veteran said he was acting on instinct when he strangled a rabid 25-pound bobcat that attacked him on his back porch.
Dale Rippy endured the bobcat's slashes and bites until it clawed into a position where he could grab it by the throat. Then he strangled it.
Rippy said it was clear the crazed bobcat had to be stopped.
"I was bleeding everyplace," Rippy said of the May 30 attack. "If that cat had attacked a child, it would've been really bad. It wouldn't have quit."
Rippy's neighbors in the suburban central Florida neighborhood called for help. Tests showed the dead bobcat was rabid. Rippy was treated for exposure to rabies, and several bites and cuts.
Authorities praised Rippy for clear thinking under pressure.
"We give this guy a lot of credit for what he did," said Pasco County Animal Control Manager Denise Hilton. "The man was definitely using his head when he did that. If he let the cat go, we could have had more victims.
More Odd News from Florida......
The poor Lotto winner...........................
RIVIERA BEACH — In September 2001, a very lucky ex-con named David Lee Edwards arrived in Palm Beach County with $27 million and a history of drug abuse.
The money was his take, after taxes, from the multistate Powerball lottery. Edwards was 46 and had been laid off shortly before buying his ticket - one of four winners of an advertised $295 million jackpot - at Clark's Pump N Shop in Ashland, Ky., a blue-collar town on the Ohio River.
Edwards had been in and out of prison beginning in the early 1980s - on charges ranging from armed robbery to violating parole to drug possession - and was finally out for good in 1997.
With his sudden wealth, Edwards bought a $1.2 million home in Palm Beach Gardens' BallenIsles community, a $240,000 Bentley and a $250,000 Lamborghini. In December 2001, he married his fiancée, Shawna Renae Maddux, in Hawaii and bought her a $250,000 electric-blue Ferrari.
And then Edwards' troubled past apparently began to catch up with his would-be wealthy future.
In November 2005, he was charged with possession of cocaine and heroin. Edwards pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics paraphernalia, a first-degree misdemeanor, and the cocaine charge was dropped.
A court hearing is scheduled July 24 to determine the status of the heroin charge, according to the state attorney's office.
Last July, Edwards' $1.2 million home was auctioned for $400,000.
And Saturday, much of the home's contents will go on the auction block at a Riviera Beach warehouse where Edwards spent his final days in Palm Beach County.
"It's a no-reserve auction," said Doug Holladay, the Jupiter auctioneer who will open the bidding at 11 a.m. "If the highest bid is a dollar, it sells for a dollar. Everything goes on Saturday."
'Supposedly' superb items
As he spoke, Holladay moved among Edwards' 120 "luxury furnishings and outdoor architectural pieces" with a bottle of lemon Pine-Sol and a polishing cloth, clearly amused by Edwards' taste.
In describing the furnishings, Holladay said it might be wise to use the word supposedly a lot.
"That's supposedly a King Louis tortoise-inlay dresser," he said. "He supposedly paid $140,000."
Not far away, a 10-foot hand-carved white marble fireplace mantel lay on the concrete floor. Huge wrought-iron gates, supposedly by Versace, leaned against one wall. Sphinxes with pedestals awaited a doorway, giant granite urns a garden.
There are figured urns that are real bronze, Holladay said, no supposedly about it. But the medieval shields, battle-ax and armor gauntlets are not, in fact, medieval.
Not far from the fake Tiffany lamps, a framed poster of Frank, Dean, Sammy and the rest of the Rat Pack posing in Las Vegas also will be up for bid.
"Gaudy," Holladay said, and he wasn't referring to the Rat Pack portrait alone.
On the other hand, the large partner desk is in almost perfect condition, and the marble-topped rosewood buffet is neither fake nor gaudy.
The entire collection probably cost about $500,000, Holladay said, and will bring in $70,000 to $100,000.
"I got a couple of 93-year-old women coming," he said with a chuckle. "I couldn't get off the phone with them."
If the women do attend, they'll find an industrial warehouse that has undergone a good deal more cleaning than a mere bottle of Pine-Sol could provide.
"We found filthy clothes 3 feet high throughout the unit," said John Lutzon, vice president of leasing for the warehouse complex. "There were needles, so somebody in there was apparently using drugs. Whether they were legal or illegal I don't know, but people said his condition was horrible."
Edwards rented the unit several years ago, Lutzon said, but was chronically late with the rent. The company would start eviction proceedings, then Edwards would pay up.
"We would change the locks and give him back new keys, and a month later he'd default again," Lutzon said.
Finally, the owners claimed the contents, which are being auctioned to pay his debt.
"The word I got from surrounding tenants is that they would see him there day and night," Lutzon said, "so one could assume the guy had been sleeping there."
One of those tenants is Dana Martin, owner of Restoration by Nefco, a classic car restoration firm.
"I knew he was living here because I'd come in early in the morning and they'd be outside," Martin said. "It went on for months like that."
When they first met, Martin said, Edwards was storing the Ferrari and Lamborghini in the unit while trying to sell them.
"He was liquidating his assets," Martin said. "I think he trusted a lot of people and was talked into some business investments that were not good investments, and when he lost his home he moved here."
Edwards and his wife had been sleeping in a small office.
"The last time I saw him, they were on the way back to Kentucky," Martin said. "He was in pretty bad health. We had to pick him up and put him in the back seat of the car to the airport."
The dirty clothes and discarded needles filled a 30-foot garbage bin, Holladay said. Supposedly.
"I threw out two needles this morning," he said. "His wedding album's back in the office if you want to see it."
Sitting alone on a table in the otherwise empty room where Edwards slept, the album is only slightly moldy and filled with professional photographs of David and Shawna Edwards smiling on a Hawaiian beach at sunset.
Inside, along with the pictures, are two faded receipts from a local pawnshop.
On Oct. 2, Edwards was given $40 each for an air compressor and a miter saw. The next day, he went back and was given $30 each for two swords.
One was copper, one brass.
abcdefz
07-13-2007, 08:44 AM
"I screamed one last breath," Baswell told the Palm Beach Post from his hospital bed.
Well, apparently not.
insertnamehere
07-13-2007, 07:57 PM
It's too bad that somebody had to win the lottery that would fuck up so badly and lose it all. Karma is weird.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Passengers aboard Spirit Airlines Flight 180 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to New York's LaGuardia International Airport had an unexpected travel companion Wednesday: a small monkey.
A passenger who originally departed from Lima, Peru, and connected in Fort Lauderdale had been hiding the small monkey in his ponytail, under his hat, according to Spirit Airlines spokeswoman Alison Russell.
During the flight, the monkey crawled out of its hiding spot, forcing the owner to hold it in his hands, where the unexpected visitor was soon spotted by fellow passengers and crew members, Russell said.
The Port Authority Police Department was contacted by Spirit Airlines, and officials met the owner and the monkey at the gate.
Port Authority spokesman Pasquale DiFulco released a statement saying the monkey was never loose in the airport, as originally reported.
"We've contacted health officials, and man and monkey will be turned over to appropriate officials. He was never on the loose in the airport," DiFulco said.
TurdBerglar
08-22-2007, 06:12 PM
A 14 year old boy from Brevard, North Carolina was nearly killed Sunday while trying to stop his Xbox 360 from overheating.
The boy’s mother told local news that his Xbox 360 kept turning itself off after about 5 minutes. Her son had read online that he could stop it from cutting off by cooling the power supply. “I saw him put the cord on top of a box in the living room”, said the boy’s mother. “When I left to go next door he was playing a game but when I got back he was laying on his back on the floor and unconscious”.
While his mother was away the boy had taken the power supply and wrapped it in plastic and tape. In an attempt to cool it off, he submerged it into a pan of water with the cord still plugged in. The boy had regained consciousness by the time paramedics had arrived. He was taken to the Transylvania Community Hospital in Brevard where he spent the night.
what a dumb fuck. he deserves to die.
That kid might be related to the guy that went out to his car in the middle of winter. His car would not start. He decided because of the frigid temperature it would help if he siphoned the gasoline and heated it up on the stove. I think that guy was from Ohio but it has been many years since I read of his numbnut escapade.
TurdBerglar
08-27-2007, 11:13 PM
SUTTON, Mass. - Thirteen-month-old Dominic Klatt stopped banging the furniture in the verandah, looked at his mother and clasped his right hand around his left wrist to signal that he needed to go to the bathroom.
His mother took the diaper-less tot to a tree in the yard, held him in a squatting position and made a gentle hissing sound — prompting the infant to relieve himself on cue before he rushed back to play.
Dominic is a product of a growing “diaper-free” movement founded on the belief that babies are born with an instinctive ability to signal when they have to answer nature’s call. Parents who practice the so-called “elimination communication” learn to read their children’s body language to help them recognize the need, and they mimic the sounds that a child associates with the bathroom.
Erinn Klatt began toilet training her son at birth and said he has not wet his bed at night since he was six months old.
“The nice part is ... really getting the majority of poops in the toilet versus having to clean that,” Klatt said. “I don’t have to wake up at night and change diapers or have wet sheets anywhere. That’s really nice.
“And being able to travel without a big, bloated diaper bag is terrific,” she said.
Critics skeptical
Some parents and toilet training experts are skeptical.
“They teach them from birth? Oh, my God!” said 40-year-old Lisa Bolcato, as she held her 5-month-old daughter, Rose, at a park on Boston Common. “When you’re getting two hours of sleeps between feedings, I don’t think that you have the time to do it. You just make sure that your child’s healthy and happy and well-fed.”
Still, the practice is common in many parts of rural Africa and Asia where parents cannot afford diapers.
In the United States, many of the parents are stay-at-home-moms, but there are also working mothers. Some meet in online groups, at homes and in public parks to share experiences and cheer each others’ efforts.
Experts at the Child Study Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center say children younger than 12 months have no control over bladder or bowel movements and little control for 6 months after that.
But some parents begin going diaper-free at birth, and the infants can initiate bowel movements on cue as young as 3 to 4 months, said Elizabeth Parise, spokeswoman of DiaperFreeBaby.org, a network of free support groups promoting the practice.
And unlike some methods of toilet training, there are no rewards or punishment associated with it.
Dr. Mark Wolraich, professor of pediatrics and director of the Child Study Center, said the practice essentially conditions young children to go to the bathroom at predictable times or show clear signs when they must go.
“To be truly toilet-trained, the child has to be able to have the sensation that they need to go, be able to interpret that sensation and be able to then tell the parent and take some action,” said Wolraich, who is also editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ book on toilet training.
“And that’s different from reading the subtle signs that the child is making when they have to go to the bathroom.”
Yetra Flam
09-05-2007, 11:22 PM
best headline i've seen in a while:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/schoolgirl-guilty-of-testicle-attack/2007/09/06/1188783376505.html
FARMINGTON, Maine (AP) -- A 65-year-old woman who went into a Farmington supermarket to buy wine was turned away because she didn't have an ID with her. But Barbara Skapa of Mount Vernon says that won't happen again.
"I'll be bringing my driver's license with me from now on," Skapa said.
She normally carries her license. But with her leg in a cast, Skapa was being driven by a friend when she went into the Hannaford Bros. market last week in and picked up several items, including a few bottles of wine.
The cashier told her it was policy to check for identification, said Skapa, who believes "no one would mistake me for 30 or even 40." Skapa asked if her friend could buy the wine for her, but that was disallowed too because it's considered "third-party" purchasing. Skapa asked to see the manager.
A spokeswoman for the supermarket chain, Rebecca Howes, said Hannaford's new policy is to check IDs of anyone who looks under 45 and wants to buy alcohol. The previous policy was to check for proof of age of those who look younger than 30.
abcdefz
09-06-2007, 01:55 PM
That's pretty hardcore liquor sales.
Here is an update on the homeless dumpster guy...........
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A 44-year-old homeless man who fell asleep in a trash bin was dumped into the back of a garbage truck and survived being crushed repeatedly before a worker saw him.
Robert Baswell said he screamed each time a load of trash was crushed against his body and felt sure he would be killed after being dumped into the truck early Monday.
He said he was crushed against hamburger leftovers, dead rats and other refuse at least seven times. He tried to cushion one blow from the truck's compressor with a dead opossum, but it splattered against him.
"I screamed one last breath," Baswell told the Palm Beach Post from his hospital bed. The trash collector, tossing in one more box, happened to look down and saw him. Firefighters spent almost a half hour pulling pieces of trash out by hand to free him.
Baswell, who had bedded down in a brush-filled trash bin Sunday night to get out of the rain, suffered broken legs and ribs. But he considers himself lucky.
"I'm so happy to be here, as bad as I'm hurt," he said.
The trash collector told Baswell he was amazed to find him alive. West Palm Beach Fire Rescue spokesman Phil Kaplan said Baswell is fortunate to have survived.
"I want to find this gentleman and have him buy my lottery tickets because he is one lucky dude," Kaplan said.
We had a compactor at a supermarket i used to work in wayyy back in 2004, and you'd get guys on the backshift regularly going into it trying to find all sorts of stuff. It was meant for just degredable stuff but you'd get people chucking all sorts of shit in, computers and laptops and the like from before the supermarket was taken over (Co-Op to Sainsburys). In fact the thing was pretty clean, no smell or anything.
Dodgy as fuck though.
SANFORD, Fla. -- A homeowner in Seminole County, Fla., faces possible animal abuse charges over accusations he asked a construction worker to bury his horse in a grave while it was still alive.
Sheriff's deputies were called to a home in Sanford Friday after a construction worker called to report that he was asked to use a tractor to dig a hole for a horse on a nearby property.
The construction worker said he refused to help the homeowner and called for help after he realized the owner wanted him to bury the horse alive.
"The owner or caregiver of the animal requested that he put dirt on top of the animal while it was still alive," Seminole County sheriff's Lt. Dennis Lemma said. "They saw a horse that was obviously sick, lying in a shallow grave in direct sunlight without food or water. It couldn't get up. It is an alarming situation."
Officers snapped several photos of what they believe to be animal abuse and neglect, including several of the animal lying in a shallow grave.
Deputies called animal control officers to the house, who then were forced to euthanize the animal, they said.
"We believe there was some kind of respiratory problem and colic," Lemma said.
The state attorney's office will determine if the owner will be charged with animal neglect, which is a second-degree misdemeanor.
SNELLVILLE, Ga. -- Police questioned an armless man Monday about the death of his neighbor.
Relatives of Charles Keith Teer, 47, claim he died after the armless man, William Russell Redfren, head-butted and kicked Teer during a fight.
The two men lived across the street from each other on Pine Street in the Atlanta suburb.
Teer's relatives told police the men were arguing over a woman.
"He's dating my brother's ex-girlfriend," said Teer's sister Lynn Elliot. "My neighbor left my brother for this guy, so it's a verbal argument between them the whole time."
Elliot said the armless man attacked her brother.
"They got into a big confrontation, a verbal confrontation and a fist fight and he came after my brother, he came with full force, and head butted him as hard as he could," said Elliot.
She said Teer collapsed and died a short time after the fight.
"There's an ongoing investigation but he died within five minutes," said Elliot. "They took off running right after he got hit. He (my brother) was still standing when they left, but my daughter was here, and he leaned against the truck and said, 'I'm about to faint,' and he hit the my driveway before anything could be done."
Police questioned Redfren, and will decide by Tuesday afternoon if any charges will be filed, according to Lt. Robert Stevens of the Snellville Police Department.
"I hope the guy pays for what he's done to my brother because my brother had a kind heart," said Elliot.
TurdBerglar
09-18-2007, 11:30 AM
maybe the guy had it coming for him
That one armed man could probably beat up the one legged man that is always busy in an ass kicking contest.
jabumbo
09-18-2007, 08:44 PM
"They got into a big confrontation, a verbal confrontation and a fist fight and he came after my brother, he came with full force, and head butted him as hard as he could," said Elliot.
is that supposed to be ironic or something?
Loppfessor
09-19-2007, 06:43 AM
hell yeah, homeless, sleeping in a dumpster, too fucked up to notice that you're being dumped into a trash compactor, if that's not a lucky guy, i don't know who is
LOL that's the funniest shit I"ve read in a long time
My favorite rag that features Bat Boy and Ed Anger went out of business. I will miss seeing the Weekly World News while in the grocery checkout line.
Luckily they will continue their website so let the odd news continue.
http://weeklyworldnews.com/
abcdefz
09-19-2007, 08:56 AM
From CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/17/internet.death.ap/index.html):
BEIJING, China (AP) -- A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday.
The 30-year-old man fainted at a cyber cafe in the city of Guangzhou Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.
Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe, it said. The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.
The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing.
The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."
China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the U.S.. It is one of the world's biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for hours in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.
Several cities have clinics to treat what psychiatrists have dubbed "Internet addiction" in users, many of them children and teenagers, who play online games or surf the Web for days at a time.
BangkokB
09-23-2007, 08:19 AM
Wrong Platform
TurdBerglar
09-23-2007, 04:55 PM
MAHOPAC, N.Y. - It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool — and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.
They wore sandwich boards proclaiming, "Give Us Our Just Desserts" and "They're Carbs, Not Contraband."
At issue is a decision to refuse free doughnuts, pies and breads that were being donated to senior centers around Putnam County, north of New York City. Officials were concerned that the county was setting a bad nutritional precedent by providing mounds of doughnuts and other sweets to seniors.
The picketers said they were objecting not to a lack of sweets but that they weren't consulted about the ban.
"Lack of respect is what it's all about," said Joe Hajkowski, 75, a former labor union official who organized the demonstration. He said officials had implied that seniors were gorging themselves on jelly doughnuts and were too senile to make the choice for themselves.
C. Michael Sibilia said, "I'm 86, not 8."
Inside, some seniors said they missed the doughnuts but others said they were glad to see them go.
"It was disgusting the way people went after them," said 80-year-old Rita Jorgensen. "I think the senior center did them a favor by taking it away."
Stan Tuttle, coordinator of nutritional services for the county's Office for the Aging, said the program had gotten out of control. As many as 16 cases of breads, cakes and pastries were delivered, by various means, to the William Koehler Memorial Senior Center each day. Some were moldy and some had been stored overnight in the trunks of volunteers' cars, he said.
Tough balance
Caregivers there and elsewhere say the doughnut debate illustrates the difficulty of balancing nutrition and choice when providing meals to the elderly.
"Senior citizens can walk down to the store and buy doughnuts. Nobody's stopping them," said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington.
But he notes that older people have high rates of heart disease and high blood pressure and says senior citizen centers, nursing homes and assisted-living centers should not be worsening the health problems of seniors.
At the North East Bronx Senior Citizen Center, lunch is served five times a week (suggested contribution $1.50).
"We don't tell them what to do, we don't force them to eat what's good for them. But we certainly don't give them anything that's bad for them," said center director Silvia Ponce.
The church-basement senior center, one of 325 under the New York City Department for the Aging, has a mostly Italian-American clientele, a Naples-born cook and a menu that includes eggplant parmigiana, linguini with clams and manicotti.
"We try to give them what they like," said the cook, Stella Bruno.
The lunches have to supply one-third of the federal minimum daily requirements in such categories as calories, protein, vitamin C and vitamin A, said Chris Miller, spokesman for the department.
The Bronx center offers coffee, tea, bagels and rolls in the morning, but nothing in the doughnut family.
"The sweetest thing here is the raisin in the raisin bagel," said Nicholas Volpicella, 87.
Maureen Janowski, director of nutrition resources for Morrison Senior Dining in Atlanta, which provides meals at more than 370 senior living communities, says residents' food preferences depend somewhat on their age. Those born between 1901 and 1925 generally prefer meat and potatoes, and those born between 1925 and 1942 are "a little more trendy, a little more adventurous, a lot more nutrition-savvy," she said.
"They have choices, and we show them how to make good choices," she said.
At the Bronx center, Bruno said she tries to help the seniors avoid the bad buffet choices when they take a trip to Atlantic City. As a group was departing, she handed them bag lunches — with a roast beef sandwich, cranberry juice and carrot sticks.
"Protein, vitamin C, vitamin A," she said.
let the old fucks eat what they want! christ!
that's just insulting. c'mon now
TurdBerglar
09-23-2007, 04:55 PM
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/87a41292-bb6c-469e-bcba-42aa5749008a.hmedium.jpg
Loppfessor
09-24-2007, 03:04 AM
^yeah if I ever wind up in a rest home pretty much just waiting to die I sure hope I can eat what the fuck I want
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A Denver man who witnesses say ripped the head off a tame duck that lived in a pond in a hotel lobby is under arrest in St. Paul.
A police officer said that Scott Clark, a guest at the Embassy Suites hotel, cornered the duck early Saturday, ripped its head off and turned to onlookers and said: "I'm hungry. I'm gonna eat it."
"He was allegedly drunk," St. Paul police Sgt. John Wuorinen said.
He's being held on suspicion of felony animal cruelty. If convicted he could face up to two years in prison and be fined $5,000. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday to be charged.
A humane society official called the incident "unconscionable," but also criticizes the hotel for keeping live ducks in the lobby.
"I think Embassy Suites needs to take another look at this and review how they keep ducks safe, or use fish like most hotels would use," said Tim Shields. "This sort of behavior by someone is very troubling. Someone who would attack a duck in a public place like that, an animal in a public place like that, supposedly announce they're going to eat it is a pretty serious matter. And in fact, in Minnesota it would be a felony."
Milwaukee group wants to bronze The Fonz
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Fonz in bronze? It could happen. Visit Milwaukee, a group that promotes the city as a tourism and convention destination, is leading an effort to raise money for a bronze sculpture of the character played by Henry Winkler on TV's "Happy Days," which was set in Milwaukee.
Some $45,000 has been raised toward a goal of $85,000 to commission the statue.
"It's an honor," says Winkler. "But it is so bizarre to think there should be a statue."
"If it helps the city, a city that has been so supportive and warm to me over the years, then I am so OK with it," the 61-year-old actor says.
Winkler played Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the family comedy, which aired from 1974 to 1984.
Otis Driftwood
09-27-2007, 12:04 PM
MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.
After clinging on for the entire 1300-kilometer (808-mile) flight to Vnukovo Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto the tarmac. His arms and legs were so severely frozen that rescuers were at first unable to remove his coat and shoes, the radio station said.
The airport did not confirm the report. "We have no information on this," the Vnukovo press service told RIA Novosti.
However, Moscow's air and water transport control department said the radio's claim was true. A department spokesman said the incident occurred on Friday, and that the boy's parents were immediately informed, and flew to the capital the same day.
Doctors said it was nothing short of a miracle that Andrei survived the flight, with temperatures hitting minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit), the radio station said. The Boeing-737 has a cruising speed of 900 kmh (560 mph).
The boy reportedly made the journey after a commonplace domestic dispute. Angry with his father, who reportedly has a drinking problem, and with his mother for siding with her husband in family rows, Andrei ran away to the neighboring village, where his grandmother lives. On reaching the village, he decided to go on, and hitched a 220-km (137-mile) ride to the regional center, Perm, where he was dropped off at the airport.
It remains unclear how Andrei was able to climb on a plane wing un-noticed, and the Perm Airport security service is being asked some serious questions, the radio station said.
Andrei is now being treated in a Moscow hospital, Radio Mayak said.
Doctors said it was nothing short of a miracle that Andrei survived the flight, with temperatures hitting minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit), the radio station said. The Boeing-737 has a cruising speed of 900 kmh (560 mph).
I read about this the other day. This is crazy. I still have a hard time believing it is true. Superman would have a hard time pulling this off.
Otis Driftwood
09-27-2007, 12:09 PM
Musta been some good vodka insulation!
Fuck the Fonz this kid should be bronzed.
Otis Driftwood
09-27-2007, 12:35 PM
THESE X-ray images show the leg of a chair embedded into the eye socket of a Melbourne teenager who miraculously survived a random attack outside a city nightclub earlier this year.
The images of teenager Shafique el-Fahkri at the Royal Melbourne Hospital were taken as a team of five surgeons prepared for the complex three-hour operation that would save his life and his eye.
After leaving intensive care, Mr Fahkri spent a month in hospital and today has 95 per cent of his sight back.
The former Xavier College student, now 20, told The Age yesterday that his eye remained very blurry, his body was weak and his neck was stiff after the incident. "I feel all right at the moment, actually, but I am too weak for work," he said in a raspy voice, a consequence of the chair leg passing through his throat.
But he holds no grudges against 20-year-old Liam Peart, who yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of negligently causing serious injury on January 21.
"I forgive him, totally," Mr Fahkri said, a sentiment confirmed by Peart's barrister Duncan Allen, SC, in the Melbourne Magistrates Court.
Police prosecutor Senior Constable Brooke Sheers also told the court Mr Fahkri declined to make a victim impact statement because he "bears no malice towards the defendant in relation to this incident". She said Mr Fahkri was injured after a brawl erupted outside the Metro nightclub in Bourke Street at 2.45am.
About 45 minutes later, with isolated assault incidents continuing, Peart picked up a metal-framed chair as he ran towards the nightclub.
Senior Constable Sheers said Peart raised the chair above his head and threw it at Mr Fahkri, who tried to protect himself by raising his hands.
The leg of the chair penetrated Mr Fahkri's left eye socket, moved his eyeball to the side and continued into his neck.
With the agreement of police, the charge was amended from recklessly to negligently causing serious injury, while four other charges were struck out.
Magistrate Peter Reardon agreed with Mr Allen that it was a miracle Mr Fahkri did not die.
Mr Allen described Peart, who had reacted to an assault on his younger brother by another person, as by nature responsible and considerate. He had apologised to Mr Fahkri and was ashamed by his offence, he said.
The hearing resumes on Monday.
Image: http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/19/JTSKULL_wideweb__470x285,0.jpg
MAIDEN, N.C. -- A man who stored his severed leg in a barbecue smoker that was later auctioned off is locked in a custody dispute with the man who found it.
John Wood's leg was amputated near the knee after a 2004 airplane crash. He asked doctors to give it to him so he could be buried as a whole man when he died.
The limb, which Wood had kept in the smoker at a storage facility after he lost his home, was bought by Shannon Whisnant last Tuesday in an auction of items from units that were behind on rent.
Whisnant initially gave it to police, who subsequently turned it over to a funeral home when it became clear it was not the result of foul play.
But Whisnant, who put a sign on the empty smoker charging adults $3 and children $1 for a look, wants it back.
"He's making a freak show out of it," Wood, of Greenville, S.C., told The Charlotte Observer. "He wants to put money in his pocket with this thing."
Whisnant tried unsuccessfully to get the leg from the funeral home. He has consulted with a lawyer and decided his best move was to persuade Wood to share custody and profits.
"It's a strange incident and Halloween's just around the corner," Whisnant said. "The price will be going up if I get (a stake in) the leg."
Wood, who is heading to Maiden to pick up his leg, said the two men can meet, but he is not interested in using the leg to make money.
"I just think it's despicable," he said. "I don't mind having the 15 minutes of fame, but I'm not looking to really profit off this thing."
hpdrifter
10-01-2007, 12:46 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/01/phoenix.airport.death/index.html
UK - Scottish doctors have diagnosed what may be the longest hangover .. in the history of binge beer drinking.
A 37-year old man admitted himself into a hospital emergency room in Glasgow last October .. complaining of wavy vision and a non-stop headache lasting four weeks.
British journal The Lancet reports doctors were initially stumped by the symptoms .. because the patient had no history of head injury or loss of consciousness .. and was taking no medication.
But when an eye specialist was called in .. it was found the man had developed a rare condition caused by severe dehydration.
It was revealed he'd consumed 60 pints .. or roughly 35 litres of beer over a four day period .. following a domestic crisis.
After more than six months of long-term blood-thinning treatment .. the man's vision was restored to normal and the headache was finally gone.
MAIDEN, N.C. -- Authorities say a South Carolina man who mistakenly lost his amputated leg when it was sold in a barbecue smoker at a public auction will get the appendage back.
John Wood had been battling to regain custody of the leg from Shannon Whisnant. Whisnant found the leg in a barbecue smoker he purchased at an auction of Wood's belongings last week.
Whisnant first turned the leg over to police but later claimed ownership of it, saying he wanted to charge admission for people to see it.
Wood's leg was amputated three years ago after an airplane crash. He had been keeping the leg so it could be cremated with him when he dies.
Capt. Tracy Ledford of the Maiden Police Department says Wood, of Simpsonville, S.C., has arranged to pick up the leg.
abcdefz
10-04-2007, 11:48 AM
UK - Scottish doctors have diagnosed what may be the longest hangover .. in the history of binge beer drinking.
A 37-year old man admitted himself into a hospital emergency room in Glasgow last October .. complaining of wavy vision and a non-stop headache lasting four weeks.
British journal The Lancet reports doctors were initially stumped by the symptoms .. because the patient had no history of head injury or loss of consciousness .. and was taking no medication.
But when an eye specialist was called in .. it was found the man had developed a rare condition caused by severe dehydration.
It was revealed he'd consumed 60 pints .. or roughly 35 litres of beer over a four day period .. following a domestic crisis.
After more than six months of long-term blood-thinning treatment .. the man's vision was restored to normal and the headache was finally gone.
Fuck.
that's only 20 (12 ounce) beers a day...i can see doing that pretty easily if you start early (which this guy was presumably doing)
Really? 20 beers a day for 4 days would be rough. I would be a total wreck.
One or two days maybe but 4?
abcdefz
10-04-2007, 12:24 PM
Dedication.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Customs officers discovered nearly 10.5 ounces of ecstasy tablets hidden inside a Mr. Potato Head toy sent to Australia from Ireland, the agency said Thursday.
Upon opening the parcel, the officers were greeted with the smiling face of the popular children's toy, which features a potato-like head and removable facial features. But when they removed a panel from the back of the toy, the officers found 10.34 ounces of ecstasy in a plastic bag.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_POTATO_HEAD_ECSTASY?SITE=FLPAP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
abcdefz
10-05-2007, 08:34 AM
This isn't hugely weird, but:
From CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/05/owner.suicide.ap/index.html)
CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A business owner shot and killed himself during a City Council meeting Thursday night after members
voted against his request to rezone his property, witnesses said.
Ronald "Bo" Ward, owner of Bo's Barber Shop, had told the council his business would go under if he couldn't get his home rezoned
as commercial. After the 5-7 vote Thursday night, Ward stood and walked toward the council.
"Y'all have put me under. ... I'm out of here," he said before shooting himself in the head with a small handgun.
...okay, now... how in the hell does someone in a post-9/11 America get a handgun into a city council meeting? Hell, I had
to go through a metal detector in Fremont just to get to the traffic fines window.
TurdBerglar
10-08-2007, 10:21 PM
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS (WWLP) Cruisers lined the area in front of Clifton Avenue just after 10:30 Sunday night as officers looked for evidence in a shooting. Captain Peter Dillion told 22News a man was shot in the upper thigh by a shotgun.
He ran to a nearby house to get help but what he found was more pain. The man was bit by a rottweiler at that home. So, not only was he treated for a gunshot wound, but also a severe dog bite at Baystate Medical Center.
We're told the victim will recover from his wounds.
i don't know if this is odd or just funny
BOYNTON BEACH — A Boynton Beach man was arrested for trying to drown, beat, and tase a possum to death Monday. Police caught John Linsen, 55, using a shovel to beat the animal, which was still breathing at the bottom of a trash bin in the 100 block of Southeast First Street. "I've tried the stun gun and drowning," he told an animal control officer who caught him in the act. The officer asked him to stop, then seized his stun gun. Police hauled Linsen off to the county jail on a charge of causing cruel death to an animal. They also took the possum, which they planned to give a proper burial, a police report states.
TurdBerglar
11-17-2007, 03:55 PM
AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS (WWLP) Police arrested 22-year-old Daniel Moses after he allegedly tried to ship a large amount of Marijuana to North Carolina through a UPS package. Moses is charged with possession of a Class D substance with the intent to distribute. He is expected to be arraigned Monday in Easter Hampshire District Court.
smooth, jackass.
Otis Driftwood
12-17-2007, 07:45 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20071212/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_germany_vodka_quaff;_ylt=AvE31C5INtBT lYP1NWtxdW6s0NUE
BERLIN - A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a liter (two pints) of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry-on rules, police said Wednesday.
The incident occurred at the Nuremberg airport on Tuesday, where the 64-year-old man was switching planes on his way home to Dresden from a holiday in Egypt. New airport rules prohibit passengers from carrying larger quantities of liquid onto planes, and he was told at a security check he would have to either throw out the bottle of vodka or pay a fee to have his carry-on bag checked as cargo. Instead, he chugged the bottle down — and was quickly unable to stand or otherwise function, police said.
I bet that is just in the news cause the cops wanna spite that guy... :cool:
Randetica
12-17-2007, 07:51 AM
oh this!!!
Otis Driftwood
12-17-2007, 09:09 AM
Oh, baby... ;)
This is not exactly news, but certainly odd:
Further, in the course of the eighteenth century, the peculiar fashion of false stomachs, 'pads' or 'paddies', was revived. These were used for a time at the end 'fifties, and were seen again in the 'nineties. Archenholtz says: 'This was the most senseless invention, against all decency and delicacy, and disfiguring the female body; it caused a deformity which is only seen in the female sex during pregnancy. These decorations were called pads, and the smaller ones paddies; they were usually made of tin, and were therefore called "tin pinafores". These artificial stomachs were in great favour, particularly with unmarried women, which caused the wits to say that a revolution had taken place amongst the signs of the Zodiac, and the Twins had come too near Virgo. But above all, these pads were the butt of jokers, who used them unmercifully, and their use soon had to be discontinued. Such a fashion was in too bad taste to last long. It was in existence in London in February 1793, but by the end of the spring it was over in England and went to Dublin, where it was welcomed by the women. During the migration which took place as a result of the French war, it was taken to Germany by refugee English women, but was not copied there.'
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2007_12_01_archive.asp
abcdefz
12-27-2007, 09:57 AM
Ha ha ha ha ha Michael...
Jackson Has 'Surgery' After Hit by Son
Michael Jackson reportedly underwent emergency surgery after his young son accidentally punched him in the face. The Thriller hitmaker -
who has undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries on his face in the past - was recently photographed in a Los Angeles bookstore wearing
numerous bandages around his mouth. But sources tell Finditt.com the singer's son, Prince Michael II, caused the injury: "He was
whacked in the face accidentally by his younger son Prince Michael II while playing around and part of Jackson's upper lip collapsed.
"That mishap led a hysterical Jacko to make a beeline for the plastic surgeon for a bit of quickie repair work."
See, Americans are not the only flabby beings on the planet.
LONDON, England (AP) -- From baggy briefs to the ultimate hotpants: A British woman's underwear saved the day by doubling as an emergency fire blanket when her kitchen caught fire.
John Marsey and his cousin Darren Lines were frying bread in Jenny Marsey's kitchen in Hartlepool, northeast England, on Sunday when their meal caught fire.
Lines grabbed the nearest thing from a pile of laundry to put it out: his aunt's billowing, powder blue, size XL underpants.
He ran them under the faucet and tossed them onto the flames, successfully smothering the fire, a spokesman for the Cleveland Fire Brigade said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.
Lines' swift thinking saved the kitchen -- but left his aunt's underwear slightly scorched.
"It could have been a lot worse," she said. "My family could have been in hospital but the knickers saved the day. I'm just grateful to the boys."
The fire official said the general principle of using a large, wet cloth to cover a grease fire was a sound one.
As for using underwear: "Clearly it depends on what size you are -- but I don't want to go there."
abcdefz
01-09-2008, 10:07 AM
I like this.
From CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/01/09/mean.mom.ap/index.html):
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Jane Hambleton has dubbed herself the "meanest mom on the planet."
After finding alcohol in her son's car, she decided to sell the car and share her 19-year-old's misdeed with everyone -- by placing
an ad in the local newspaper.
The ad reads: "OLDS 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don't love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for
three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life found booze under front seat. $3,700/offer. Call meanest mom on the planet."
Hambleton has heard from people besides interested buyers since recently placing the ad in The Des Moines Register.
The 48-year-old from Fort Dodge says she has fielded more than 70 telephone calls from emergency room technicians, nurses,
school counselors and even a Georgia man who wanted to congratulate her.
"The ad cost a fortune, but you know what? I'm telling people what happened here," Hambleton says. "I'm not just gonna put the
car for resale when there's nothing wrong with it, except the driver made a dumb decision.
"It's overwhelming the number of calls I've gotten from people saying 'Thank you, it's nice to see a responsible parent.' So far there
are no calls from anyone saying, 'You're really strict. You're real overboard, lady."'
The only critic is her son, who Hambleton says is "very, very unhappy" with the ad and claims the alcohol was left by a passenger.
Hambleton believes her son but has decided mercy isn't the best policy in this case. She says she set two rules when she bought
the car at Thanksgiving: No booze, and always keep it locked.
The car has been sold, but Hambleton says she will continue the ad for another week -- just for the feedback.
It is kind of weird that the woman is selling her 19 year old son's car.
He is 19! He needs to get out of his Momma's house.
abcdefz
01-09-2008, 10:57 AM
Yeah. Sounds very much like a "my house, my rules" kinda thing.
Hell, my loser brother moved back in when he was about 27.
Sharing MY room!
That was a drag.
This is fantastic! You gotta love roommates.
Corpse Wheeled to Check-Cashing Store Leads to 2 Arrests
AP: January 9, 2008
Even for the once-notorious Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, it may have been a first: Two men were arrested on Tuesday after pushing a corpse, seated in an office chair, along the sidewalk to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man’s Social Security check, the police said.
When Virgilio Cintron, 66, died at his apartment at 436 West 52nd Street recently, his roommate and a friend saw an opportunity to cash his $355 check, the police said.
They did not go about it the easy way, the police said, choosing a ruse that resembled the plot of “Weekend at Bernie’s,” a film about two young men who prop up their dead employer to pretend that he is alive.
“Hell’s Kitchen has a rich history,” said Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, “but this is one for the books.”
There was no sign of foul play in Mr. Cintron’s death, he added.
The roommate, James P. O’Hare, and his friend, David J. Dalaia, both 65 and unemployed, placed Mr. Cintron’s body in the chair and wheeled it around the corner, south along Ninth Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, the police said. The men parked the chair with the corpse in front of Pay-O-Matic at 763 Ninth Avenue, a check-cashing business that Mr. Cintron had patronized.
They went inside to present the check, but a clerk said Mr. Cintron would have to cash it himself, and asked where he was, the police said.
“He is outside,” Mr. O’Hare said, indicating the body in the chair, according to Mr. Browne.
The two men started to bring the chair inside, but it was too late.
Their sidewalk procession had already attracted the stares of passers-by who were startled by the sight of the body flopping from side to side as the two men tried to prop it up, the police said. The late Mr. Cintron was dressed in a faded black T-shirt and blue-and-white sneakers. His pants were pulled up part of the way, and his midsection was covered by a jacket, the police said. While the two men were inside the check-cashing office, a small crowd had gathered around the chair. A detective, Travis Rapp, eating a late lunch at a nearby Empanada Mama saw the crowd and notified the Midtown North station house.
Police officers and an ambulance arrived as the two men were trying to maneuver the corpse and chair into the check-cashing office.
The two men were taken into custody and questioned. The police said they were considering charging them with check-cashing fraud.
Mr. Cintron’s body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner’s office said its preliminary assessment was that he had died of natural causes within the past 24 hours.
abcdefz
01-09-2008, 11:30 AM
Our paper ran the first half of that story today. That's bizarre.
Haven't they ever heard of third party checks? :D
Otis Driftwood
02-21-2008, 06:36 AM
Czech police wonder where bridge has gone
Police in the Czech republic are trying to find out who stole a 4 tonne railway bridge from the border town of Cheb.
The company which was responsible for looking after the bridge raised the alarm when, ever alert, they noticed that the bridge wasn't there any more.
The bridge was on a disused stretch of line just outside Cheb.
Martina Hruskova, a spokeswoman for the Czech police, commented to AFP: 'We are not sure if it was taken for personal use or for its scrap value.' Exactly what that 'personal use' might be was left unsaid.
'It is the first time we have dealt with this type of theft,' she added.
Of course, it's not the first time some light-fingered bridge enthusiast has made off with a bridge. At least two bridges have been nicked in Russia in the past six months, and a pair of bridge thieves appropriated two Macedonian bridges last February.
from: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=100140&in_page_id=2
abcdefz
02-21-2008, 10:32 AM
If you believe that, I've got a bridge I can sell ya.
I read about this woman last week. Having your skin grow around a toilet seat is beyond comprehension. Now her boyfriend is being charged. He he took her food.:eek:
NESS CITY, Kansas (AP) -- A man whose girlfriend authorities say spent nearly two years in a bathroom in their house, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered to her body, has been charged with mistreatment of a dependent adult.
Kory McFarren, 37, was charged Monday in Ness County District Court.
McFarren called the Ness County Sheriff's Office in late February to say something was wrong with his girlfriend. When authorities arrived at the home, they found Pam Babcock, 35, stuck to the toilet, which they think she had sat on for about a month.
McFarren told authorities that Babcock feared leaving the bathroom and may not have left it in two years, although said he was unsure how long she was in there. He said that he took her food and water daily, and that he repeatedly asked her to come out but that she usually replied "maybe tomorrow."
"The only thing I am guilty of is I didn't get her help sooner," McFarren told The Associated Press nearly a week ago.
Ness County Attorney Craig Crosswhite said the mistreatment charge most closely fit the situation.
"I looked at the statutes and spoke to the attorney general's office," he said. "This was a very unusual set of circumstances, and this is the law that most closely applied to the situation."
Phobia caused woman's bathroom stay
Woman stuck on toilet for two years, police say
Authorities said Babcock sat on the toilet so long that open sores developed and caused her to become attached to the seat. Sheriff Bryan Whipple has said that he used a pry bar to remove the seat from the toilet, and that the woman was taken to the hospital with the seat still attached.
"She would have to be sleeping on the toilet," Whipple said.
Doctors at a Wichita, Kansas, hospital where Babcock was taken told McFarren that an infection in her legs had damaged her nerves and could leave her in a wheelchair. She was still at the hospital Wednesday night.
McFarren's first court appearance will be in April, Crosswhite said
Witch hunts are strange.
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- An Indian woman accused of being a witch was tied to a tree and beaten by a mob, with television footage of the incident aired in India on Friday.
Villagers tied the woman to a tree after a man accused her of practicing black magic.
Nishant Tiwari, a police official in northeastern India, said a journalist who filmed the beating called him Thursday to report the incident, which took place in the village of Dumaria in central eastern Bihar state.
He arrived to find the woman tied to a tree, her hair partially cut and her complexion ruddy from being being slapped. She had no serious injuries.
"I was appalled at what I saw because people should be more socially responsible than to do this," Tiwari said.
Authorities arrested six people, including the man who admitted to hiring her services as a witch. They were due to appear before a magistrate on Friday.
Ram Ayodhya, who could face up to seven years in prison for his role in the attack, told police he was justified in beating the woman, Tiwari said.
Ayodhya said he paid her to use magic and prayer to improve his wife's health.
When his wife's condition deteriorated, Ayodhya accused her of performing black magic, Tiwari said, and a crowd soon gathered and tied her to the tree.
The woman seen being attacked is expected to testify when the suspects appear before the magistrate.
Tiwari said he was disturbed by the fact that a journalist filmed the incident before contacting authorities.
"The media filmed the incident, then called the police -- instead of the police first," Tiwari said.
CNN's partner network, CNN-IBN, reported that the incident took place close to the local police station.
It reported that there had been other such occurrences of mob justice in the state.
In Bhagalpur district in August 2007, a man caught trying to snatch a woman's chain was beaten up, with police looking on, and later tied to a motorcycle and dragged around by a police officer.
In September, in Lucknow's Wazirganj area, an angry mob beat a man to death after a two-and-a-half-year old girl was allegedly found sexually assaulted and murdered in his house.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/india.beating/index.html
Two-Headed Baby Triggers Shock and Awe
Some Think Baby, Born With Two Heads, Is a Reincarnation of a God
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4549608&page=1
venusvenus123
04-01-2008, 05:13 PM
children find human head on beach !!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7324591.stm
abcdefz
04-02-2008, 10:19 AM
Children conspire to bind and stab teacher!
WELCOME TO THIRD GRADE (http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8781630?nclick_check=1)
abcdefz
04-11-2008, 02:47 PM
Denver Channel (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15851207/detail.html)
Parents Fight Over What Gang Four Year-old Should Join
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted
in the father's arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday.
On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked
over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said.
After he ran out of the store, police were called and the 19-year-old was arrested at his home.
His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother,
who is black, is a member of the Crips. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman said.
"They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would
'claim,'" Sandoval said.
NoFenders
04-12-2008, 11:39 AM
They still have time to decide, so I'm not sure why they're fighting over this now. We waited til our children were 3 til we decided what gang they were going to run with. Then again, it's good to get them on the waiting list now.
:rolleyes:
:cool:
There is an alligator in my kitchen!
Listen and look at the slides.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/22/gator.911/index.html
abcdefz
04-22-2008, 12:16 PM
They still have time to decide, so I'm not sure why they're fighting over this now. We waited til our children were 3 til we decided what gang they were going to run with. Then again, it's good to get them on the waiting list now.
:rolleyes:
:cool:
I really think the Jets are the better dancers.
na§tee
04-23-2008, 08:41 AM
Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi assault (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7360871.stm)
A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan, who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard.
Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin Michael with a metal crutch. They suffered minor injuries.
Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted "Darth Vader!"
Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: "I hope the force will soon be with him." (LOL DO YOU SEE WHAT HE DID THERE?)
In the event, Hughes turned up and the case at Holyhead magistrates court resumed.
The court heard he had jumped over a garden wall wearing the bin bag before the attack.
Outlining the case againt Hughes, prosectutor Nia Lloyd said Barney Jones had recently started the Jedi church in Holyhead - in honour of the Star Wars' good knights.
It had about 30 members locally and "thousands worldwide".
The cousins had been filming themselves playing with light sabres in the garden before the attack.
Hughes admitted two charges of common assault.
The court heard he has a "chronic alcohol problem" and had drunk the best part of a 10 litre box of wine. (yikes!)
Mrs Lloyd said: "He was wearing a black bin bag and a cape and had a metal crutch in his hand."
Mrs Lloyd said he was shouting "Darth Vader".
She added that Hughes hit Barney Jones over the head with the crutch, leaving him with a headache.
He then laughed and hit Michael Jones in the thigh, causing bruising.
Both men were left upset by the incident and they believed it was pre-planned.
She added that the pair believe "very strongly in the church and their religion".
Hughes could not remember the incident and only realised what had happened when he read about it in local newspapers, the court told.
Defending, Frances Jones said alcohol was "ruining his life" and he had no idea where he got the crutch from.
The court head Hughes had previous convictions, including affray, assault and disorderly behaviour.
The judge warned Hughes that jail remained a possibility before adjourning for pre-sentence reports until 13 May.
paul jones
04-24-2008, 05:29 PM
PENIS SNATCHERS!!!!!!
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2319603620080424?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
Videodrome
04-24-2008, 06:38 PM
Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi assault (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7360871.stm)
that made me smile (y)
abcdefz
05-09-2008, 10:00 AM
Kids dug up a grave, turned skull into a bong (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/09/corpse.abuse.ap/index.html)
Wow. I guess in Texas, you really are on your own.
hpdrifter
05-09-2008, 10:39 AM
Gross.
Green puppy?
Green puppy.
http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&vid=077df511-df88-415b-bd5e-f991e6a99a9c&playlist=videoByTag:tag:viral:ns:Gallery:mk:us:sf: ActiveStartDate:vs:1&from=MSNHP&tab=m137>1=42003 http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&vid=077df511-df88-415b-bd5e-f991e6a99a9c&playlist=videoByTag:tag:viral:ns:Gallery:mk:us:sf: ActiveStartDate:vs:1&from=MSNHP&tab=m137>1=42003
abcdefz
05-09-2008, 10:40 AM
Just for a few weeks...
hpdrifter
05-09-2008, 10:42 AM
I can't watch the video so I'm not sure what it said about it. I just saw the picture and thought of the Odd News thread.
abcdefz
05-09-2008, 10:49 AM
It's a pretty nasty looking little pup.
The amniotic fluid basically just stained it green, and it'll grow out in a few weeks.
hpdrifter
05-09-2008, 10:51 AM
Ah, okay. Yeah in the picture it looked like someone dyed it with manic panic or something. Its kind of splotchy and uneven color.
Oh well, I think he's an adorable little puppy.
abcdefz
05-09-2008, 11:33 AM
Blind man bowls 300 (http://www.kcci.com/sports/16201286/detail.html)
taquitos
05-09-2008, 11:36 AM
Blind man bowls 300 (http://www.kcci.com/sports/16201286/detail.html)
(y) good for him. what a badass.
na§tee
06-11-2008, 09:10 AM
Mud phobia pig gets its own boots (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/7448006.stm)
A piglet scared of wallowing in mud has overcome its fears with the help of some Wellington boots.
Six-week-old Cinders appears to suffer from mysophobia, a fear of dirt, after refusing to join her siblings as they splashed around in the mud.
Owner Andrew Keeble from Thirsk, North Yorks, said his daughter Ellie, 12, suggested kitting her out in the tiny footwear which had been on a key ring.
"Lo and behold they fitted her like a glove," Mr Keeble said.
"She's scared of mud, but her brothers and sisters are quite happy in it.
"We've never come across this before. They are born really to go and explore, but she never really liked going in the mud."
Mr Keeble and wife Debbie, both 42, run a sausage company and keep about 200 pigs on their 1,000-acre farm.
But the father-of-four said there was no chance that Cinders would be slaughtered.
"She's more of a pet really now and she's going to live a very long and happy life," he said.
The young saddleback has been chosen by the couple as a mascot for their campaign to raise money for the Farm Crisis Network, which supports struggling farmers.
PICTURE! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1213191251/img/1.jpg)
Lyman Zerga
06-11-2008, 04:10 PM
hmm stylish (y)
*steals boots* NOW THEY ARE MINE!
abcdefz
06-13-2008, 02:05 PM
A school announced to their students that a bunch of kids died in alcohol-related auto accidents.
Not.
A bunch of students were hysterical, etc., and later in the day it was announced that the kids, in fact, were alive and well and this was all
to put fear into the kids as graduation parties were coming up.
That's fucking nuts.
Here's the story. (http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9573414?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com)
Moooo
http://www.wlwt.com/cnn-news/17589970/detail.html
My 3 year old can be a whiner at times and I do yearn for a cold Harp from time to time. Hmmm...................
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CHICOPEE, Mass. - Authorities say a Massachusetts man offered to give his 3-month-old daughter to a maintenance man outside a gas station convenience store in exchange for a pair of 40-ounce beers.
Chicopee police say 24-year-old Matthew Brace of Northampton made the offer on Monday. The maintenance man called police, who found Brace hiding with the girl behind a trash container.
State child welfare officials took the baby into custody.
Police say Brace was not arrested but will be summoned to court to face a charge of reckless endangerment of a child. A phone number for him could not immediately be found.
The child's mother was in the store at the time buying cigarettes. She has not been charged.
Teen boys are being treated after cringe-worthy attacks in which they’re slapped or punched in the groin, sometimes causing serious harm requiring surgery, doctors say.
An msnbc.com poll of 100 urologists, conducted by Truth On Call, showed that 30 percent of the doctors had seen or treated pre-teen and teen boys for testicular trauma in the past year, including severe injuries caused by so-called “sack-tapping”.
The good old days of knee buckling nad smacking is soon to be a thing of the past.
yeahwho
06-04-2010, 12:17 AM
Bob Newhart told reporters that he has smoked weed daily since 1968. One of his longtime weed smoking companions was Bob Denver (before he died) star of Gilligans Island.
yeahwho
06-04-2010, 12:20 AM
As an act of revenge to his cheating spouse, a Goodyear Tire Co. executive programmed the electronic reader board on the Goodyear Blimp to repeat over and over, Joni You Are A Cheating Bitch!!!
yeahwho
06-04-2010, 12:22 AM
According to his college yearbook, Vice President Joe Biden won a raw Oyster eating contest in 1964 by successfully downing 24-1/2, 12 ounce jars in less than 30 minutes.
TurdBerglar
06-04-2010, 12:25 AM
My 3 year old can be a whiner at times and I do yearn for a cold Harp from time to time. Hmmm...................
__________________________________________________ _________
CHICOPEE, Mass. - Authorities say a Massachusetts man offered to give his 3-month-old daughter to a maintenance man outside a gas station convenience store in exchange for a pair of 40-ounce beers.
Chicopee police say 24-year-old Matthew Brace of Northampton made the offer on Monday. The maintenance man called police, who found Brace hiding with the girl behind a trash container.
State child welfare officials took the baby into custody.
Police say Brace was not arrested but will be summoned to court to face a charge of reckless endangerment of a child. A phone number for him could not immediately be found.
The child's mother was in the store at the time buying cigarettes. She has not been charged.
haha that's the next town over!
yeahwho
06-04-2010, 12:28 AM
AP Newswire: Oregon St: Ben Jerginit, a skier in Oregon State has been technically taken off the Worlds Record longest jump list. It was found that he illegally aided the jump by putting flammable hydrogen in his hollowed out skis and then igniting them while mid-air, covering up the exhaust with shave ice hidden in his Parka.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/06/porn.actor.death/index.html
Porn actor, wanted for murder, dies after falling off cliff
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A porn actor, who was accused of killing a coworker with a sword, died after falling off a cliff Saturday when police used a stun gun to subdue him.
Police said Stephen Clancy Hill attacked three coworkers with a samurai-style sword at the scene of a pornographic film shoot on Tuesday. One of the men later died.
When police caught up with Hill on Saturday, he kept them at bay for eight hours atop a cliff in West Hills, said Officer Bruce Borihanh.
To take Hill into custody, officers used their stun guns on him - at which point he fell, Borihanh said.
Police said Hill jumped, but also added it was unclear what caused his death.
On Tuesday night, West Valley police were called to a home on Hayvenhurst Avenue following reports of an assault with a deadly weapon.
The home was being used to make pornographic films, but shoots had ended for the day.
Authorities said Hill was at the house, socializing with some coworkers. Then, without provocation, Hill grabbed a sword -- typically used as a prop -- and attacked one of the men, police said.
When two men tried to intervene, Hill attacked them too, police said.
He then left the scene, and eluded police -- until they spotted him Saturday.
This is more sad than odd.......
Ron Wayne is usually just another gambler at the Nugget Hotel & Casino in Nevada. He comes here a couple of days a week to try his luck on the video poker machine. But on this trip, he drew some curious onlookers, as he was escorted by a CNN camera crew. A gift-shop worker asked him if he's famous.
"Well, I'm one of the founders of Apple Computer," Wayne responded.
Wayne, 76, is used to the puzzled looks. He said people assume that he must be living in a mansion.
"I'm living off my Social Security and I do a modest trade in collectors' stamps and coins," he said.
The irony of being inside a casino is not lost on Wayne. After all, if his short-lived career at Apple had gone differently, he would be holding a different kind of winnings: 10 percent of Apple's stock.
Today, that stock would be worth $22 billion.
Wayne left Apple for only $800.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/24/apple.forgotten.founder/index.html
hpdrifter
06-25-2010, 01:18 PM
This one even has weird news in the URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37916652/ns/us_news-weird_news/
hpdrifter
06-25-2010, 01:21 PM
In the grand tradition of selling your baby:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37912228/ns/us_news/
My god what people are capable of.
Christie Brinkley is getting long in the tooth but she in no dog.
AVENTURA — An Aventura man was arrested on Friday and charged with having sex with his dog, a Great Dane named Christie Brinkley.
Armand M. Pacher, 64, a former insurance executive, was booked into a Miami-Dade jail on a charge of animal cruelty, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Pacher's veterinarian in Gainesville reported him to police after an office worker called him to reschedule eye surgery for the 2 ½-year-old dog and Pacher talked about sex, according to an arrest warrant.
"She doesn't seem to enjoy it as much when we have sex. Maybe it's because I haven't been as energetic lately and that's why she's not enjoying it," he allegedly told the staffer when she asked about the dog's health, the arrest warrant said.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/aventura-man-accused-of-having-sex-with-dog-808256.html
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/mom-arrested-for-posting-facebook-picture-of-baby-861714.html
DELANO, Calif. — A man who was at an illegal cockfight in central California died after being stabbed in the leg by a bird that had a knife attached to its own limb, officials confirmed Monday.
Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, of Lamont, Calif., was declared dead at a hospital about two hours after he was injured in neighboring Tulare County on Jan. 30, the Kern County coroner said.
An autopsy concluded Ochoa died of an accidental “sharp force injury” to his right calf.
Sheriff's spokesman Ray Pruitt said it was unclear if a delay in seeking medical attention contributed to Ochoa's death.
“I have never seen this type of incident,” Sgt. Martin King, a 24-year veteran of the sheriff's department, told the Bakersfield Californian.
Ochoa and the other spectators fled when authorities arrived at the scene of the fight, King told the newspaper. Deputies found five dead roosters and other evidence of cockfighting at the location, he said.
No arrests were made at the cockfight.
Cockfighting is a sport, illegal in the United States, in which specially bred roosters are put into a ring and encouraged to fight until one is incapacitated or killed.
According to Kern County Superior Court records, Ochoa paid $370 in fines last year after pleading no contest to one count of owning or training an animal for fighting, according to the newspaper.
Attending or organizing a cockfight, or training an animal to participate in one, are all misdemeanors under California law, although a second offense is a felony.
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