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piko1 · 04-14-2006, 06:26 AM

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Danube Turns Into Sea

14 April 2006 | 09:40 |
The situation in the flooded municipalities along the Danube still remains critical.
The level of the river along the Bulgarian bank continues to rise. There are 24-hour patrols that monitor the critical points in the most threatened residential areas.

*Dawn* · 04-15-2006, 01:28 AM

Corpse lay next to TV for 3 years

...

Oh wow. http://www.kirotv.com/family/8529743/detail.html

Quote:

DETROIT -- A 6-year-old boy's 911 call for help was thought to be a prank, but the call was real and the boy's mother died, according to WDIV-TV in Detroit.

Robert Turner called 911 to get help for his mother, Sherel Turner, 46, whom he found lying unconscious on the kitchen floor of their Detroit apartment in February, the station reported.

"Then I had felt her tummy. She wasn't breathing. Then I had called 911," said Robert. "I told them to send an emergency truck right now."

911 Operator: "911. What's the problem?"

Robert: "My mom has passed out."

The 911 operator, however, did not take him seriously and told him to stop playing on the phone, the station reported.

911 Operator: "Where's the grownups at?"

Robert: (Inaudible)

911 Operator: "Let me speak to her before I send the police over there."

"I tried to tell them she wouldn't talk," said Robert.

Robert: (Inaudible)

911 Operator: "I don't care. You shouldn't be playing on the phone. Now put her on the phone before I send the police out there to knock on the door and you gonna be in trouble."

Robert: "Ugh!" (Hangs up.)

Kimberly Harris, the union president of AFSCME Local 1023, said more than a quarter of phone calls received by 911 operators are prank calls. She also said that everybody does not express their pain or emergencies the same way.

"That operator could have had five prank calls. Kids calling in prior to that call. And please, don't think that I am trying to make an excuse. That was a tragedy," said Harris.

Officials said the 911 operator will be disciplined, but because of her years of service she will not be fired.

"I know that operator. I know that she is a very good operator," said Harris. "She is very thorough."

Robert said every time someone talks about his mother, he starts crying.

Police continue to investigate.

That is just... *is speechless*
Poor boy.

**Miles D** · 04-15-2006, 10:46 AM

Here is a bit of good news...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060415/...ugitive_feline

Quote:

Originally Posted by Article

NYC Cat Finally Rescued After 14 Days By TIM McCAHILL, Associated Press Writer
20 minutes ago

After 14 days trapped in the innards of a Greenwich Village building, Molly the cat finally emerged wearing a look on her face that said, "What's all the fuss about?"

As a crowd of reporters and onlookers jostled for a glance, the 11-month-old black cat appeared docile and unscathed despite her ordeal, which came to a happy end on Friday after a volunteer pulled her to safety from a crawl space.

"I think you'll all agree that she is in great shape," said a proud Peter Myers, a delicatessen owner in the building who kept Molly in his store to catch mice.

Molly's distressed meows — audible from the sidewalk outside the building — became international news, and rescuers worked almost around the clock for her safe retrieval.

The activity began after the cat wandered into a narrow space between walls and got lost in the building's complex network of beams and pipes.

Those involved in the rescue effort drilled and hammered out bricks in the cellar of the 157-year-old edifice, trying everything from special cameras to traps to locate her and get her out. Kittens were used as bait to appeal to Molly's maternal side. A pet psychic and self-described "cat therapist" even stopped by to offer a hand.

But in the end, it was good old-fashioned elbow grease that got the job done.

Rescuers drilled a hole in the wall from inside the store, cutting through layers of brick to get to Molly, said Mike Pastore, field director for Animal Care & Control of New York City, a private organization with a city contract to handle lost, injured and unwanted animals.

Animal Care & Control will set up a link on its Web site for people to donate to help with repairs at the deli.

Molly was finally retrieved by Kevin Clifford, a tunnel worker at a project nearby who had been volunteering for the rescue effort.

"I gave what they needed, and lent a hand to it," he said.

The animal didn't come easily at first, said Pastore.

"It was twisting and turning, paws were flying everywhere," he said. "It took a little struggle to put her back in a cage."

Molly's first meal? Nibbles of roasted pork, sardines in oil and water, Myers said. Hearty fare, but perhaps not surprising for a feline who spends her time in Myers of Keswick, a deli specializing in meat pies, clotted cream and other British food specialties.

"I'm amazed at how well she looks," Myers said. "She always was a fit cat, otherwise she wouldn't have survived 14 days in that hole."

___

On the Net:

Animal Care & Control of New York City: http://www.nycacc.org/

Great teamwork and selflessness by the owners of the cafe! Kudos!!

Oayis · 04-16-2006, 03:38 PM

Ha, this sounds like a pretty cool class.

Academic Studies Starbucks Cultural Impact

And the plus side, I live in a suburb of Philadelphia. Score!

Aerdna · 04-16-2006, 07:48 PM

Okay, this dude is my friggin hero! Genius!

Quote:

'Trading Up' From a Paper Clip to a New House
With Salesmanship and Luck, A Man on a Mission Is Almost There
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP

(April 16) - Kyle MacDonald had a red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else - and so on and so on until he had a house?

After a cross-continental trading trek involving a fish-shaped pen, a town named Yahk and the Web's astonishing ability to bestow celebrity, MacDonald is getting close. He's up to one year's free rent on a house in Phoenix.

Not a bad return on an investment of one red paper clip. Yet MacDonald, 26, vows to keep going until he crosses the threshold of his very own home, wherever that might be.

"It's totally overwhelming, I'm not going to lie," he said by phone from Montreal, where he and his girlfriend, Dominique Dupuis, live with two roommates. "But I'm still trading for that house. It's this obsessive thing."

The story begins last July.

MacDonald had spent years backpacking, delivering pizzas and working other part-time jobs, suiting his jack-of-all-trades, restless nature. He paid his $300 share of the rent by occasionally promoting products at trade shows.

But he yearned for one piece of settled-down adulthood: a house, which he knew he could not afford.

It's clear, however, that MacDonald has a knack for promotion. Asked what he had talked up at all those trade shows, MacDonald slipped right into his spiel for the employer, TableShox.com. "You ever sat at a wobbly table at a restaurant?" he said.

Beyond a gift for advertising table stabilizers, he's a geography buff, keeps a blog and writes short stories. Random interactions with strangers and the rich kitsch of North Americana provide his favorite material.

Put it all together, and you have the outline of MacDonald's quest.

He advertised it in the barter section of Craigslist.org, the Web site teeming with city-specific listings for everything from job openings to apartment rentals. At first, MacDonald said merely that he wanted something bigger or better for his red paper clip. No mention of a house - he feared seeming flaky.

While he was visiting his hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia, two women gave him a fish-shaped pen for the paper clip.

Later that day, MacDonald headed to Seattle to catch a ballgame and a flight home. Before the airport, though, he stopped to see Annie Robbins, an artist who had just stumbled upon the Craigslist barter section. She admired its anticonsumerist vibe, she said, so she answered MacDonald's posting "on a lark."

MacDonald left her home the proud owner of a small ceramic doorknob with a smiley face, made by the son of an artist Robbins knows.

Next up was Shawn Sparks, who was packing up to move from Amherst, Mass., to Alexandria, Va.

Sparks, 35, is a huge fan of Craigslist barters, having acquired his 1993 Chevy Blazer in a trade for a used laptop.

Sparks offered MacDonald a Coleman camping stove. Sparks had two, and didn't want to lug both on his move. And he needed a new knob for his espresso machine.

Done. The men celebrated with a barbecue at Sparks' house.

MacDonald gave the camping stove to a Marine sergeant at Camp Pendleton, Calif., getting a generator in return.

East again. MacDonald swapped the generator for an "instant party package" - an empty beer keg, a neon Budweiser sign and a promise to fill the keg - proferred by a young man in Queens, New York City.

Before the trade, MacDonald left the generator in storage in his hotel. When he went to claim it, he was told it had been confiscated by the fire department because it was leaking gas.

"If there was ever a movie based on all that, that would be the closest to losing it all," he said, recalling his anguish.

But more on movies later.

MacDonald reclaimed the generator by tracking it to a firehouse in lower Manhattan, where he got a Tootsie Pop from the crew and petted their Dalmatian.

The beer package went to a Montreal disc jockey, in exchange for a snowmobile.

Here's where the project's grassroots purity may have gotten compromised. MacDonald's blog, http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com, was attracting attention, and MacDonald was invited onto Canadian television. Our wandering man was asked if there was anywhere he wouldn't go to trade the snowmobile.

An obscure place came to mind, so he spit it out: Yahk, a hamlet in the Canadian Rockies.

Some publicity-seeking ensued. A snowmobiling magazine offered an expense-paid trip to Yahk in exchange for the snowmobile. The trip went to Bruno Taillefer, Quebec manager for the supply company Cintas Corp. He got headquarters to let him give MacDonald a 1995 Cintas van that he had been planning to sell.

MacDonald gave the van - stripped of Cintas logos - to a musician seeking to haul gear. In turn, the musician, who works at a Toronto recording studio, arranged a recording contract, with studio time and a promise to pitch the finished product to music executives.

MacDonald handed the contract to Jody Gnant, a singer in Phoenix who owns a duplex.

And that is how Kyle MacDonald has turned a paper clip into a year of shelter in the desert.

Where it goes now, who knows. He says he has offers from Hollywood studios to turn his story into a film.

But he pledges not to accept gifts or overly lopsided trades that would undermine the peer-to-peer joy that he says has animated his journey. Asked what he has learned from all this, he responded:

"If you say you're going to do something and you start to do it, and people enjoy it or respect it or are entertained by it, people will step up and help you."

Now how does that thing called 'hard work' work again?

Awesome...

Cfw828 · 04-17-2006, 02:32 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crim...p-346578c.html

It's a shame that I can say that this is the kind of thing that happens all over the country and the world...but the worst part of this was the way that it happened and when it did....

Bx. gunfire kills boy
By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY, JESS WISLOSKI and MELISSA GRACE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Safely tucked into his car seat and dressed in his Easter Sunday best, a 2-year-old Bronx boy on his way to church was struck and killed by a stray bullet from streetcorner gunfire.

Slain toddler David Pacheco Jr.'s inconsolable mother collapsed last night as she described how the shot pierced the sliding door of her minivan and lodged in her little boy's chest.

"He was an angel - I just can't believe it," Joanne Sanabria, 28, sobbed to the Daily News as her husband, the child's father, held her in his arms. "God, wake me up."

She said she wished she could trade her life for her son's. "The bullet should have hit me," she said.

Her steel-gray Honda Odyssey was headed east on W. Tremont Ave. at Harrison Ave. about 2 p.m. yesterday when two gangs of hoodlums got into an argument on the corner, police said.

One of the toughs opened fire with a semi-automatic just as Sanabria's van passed by, carrying her, her daughters and son, and her sister's family to church.

The sound of gunfire exploded inside the Honda. Then came the .awful cry from one of Sanabria's daughters: "Mommy, the baby."

"He screamed out and I stopped the car," Sanabria said in a halting voice as her husband, David Pacheco Sr., cradled her at a relative's home. "I saw the bullet hole \[in the door\] and I looked in the seat. I saw the blood on him."

An off-duty emergency medical technician, Angelo Cruz, also heard the gunshots and raced to the scene from his Morris Heights apartment.

"The mother was holding the child in her arms - she was screaming, 'My baby's been shot! Somebody help me!' " he said.

The tot slumped in .Sanabria's arms but began breathing as Cruz gave CPR to the child, first on the minivan hood and then in the back of a livery cab that raced them to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital.

Despite the desperate attempt, the boy everyone called Didi was pronounced dead soon after he arrived at the emergency room.

Sanabria, who works as a customer service representative for a lighting company, tearfully praised Cruz for his heroic efforts. "He breathed life into him and gave me those last few seconds with my son," she said.

Cops were knocking on doors on Harrison Ave. last night, showing photos of a suspect, but had not made any arrests.

The toddler's family appealed for the public to turn in the shooter and condemned the gunplay, which also sent a bullet crashing through the window of a fourth-floor apartment.

"An innocent baby riding in his car, and for some sons of bitches \[to\] take his life - this is getting ridiculous," aunt Norma Navarro said.

Witnesses, who heard about five shots, were disgusted by the pointless bloodshed and saddened by the heartbreaking scene that followed. "They were dressed up," said Jeff Harkles, 43, who was visiting relatives nearby when he saw Sanabria's family spill out of the van.

"The mother had the baby in her hands, she was yelling. The baby's eyes were closed. It was like she was holding a rag doll."

Sanabria said she'd dressed her son in new clothes - a beige sweater, matching beige shoes and jeans - for what should have been a happy holiday afternoon with family.

She remembered that her little boy only had one thing on his mind as she got him ready.

"He said, 'Mommy, I want ice cream,' " she said. "That is what he really wanted today."

**TheLady** · 04-17-2006, 03:54 PM

Yes, it was on the news all day yesterday. How utterly sad, senseless, and pointless this all was. A baby on his way to church on Easter Sunday.....

I get tears in my eyes every time I see his mother on TV crying hysterically. It is all just so pointless....

Ghetto Fabalus · 04-17-2006, 09:08 PM

I can see the futuristic gloating already at the weekly D&D meetings. "Yeah well, I lost my virginity to CRVX-1412DD!"

Quote:

SAN FRANCISCO - When America's top sex researchers gathered recently to discuss the next decade in their field, some envisioned a future in which artificial sex partners could cater to every fantasy.

"What is very likely to be present before 2016 would be a multi-sensual experience of virtual sex," said Julia Heiman, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, Bloomington.

"There is a possibility of developing erotic materials for yourself that would allow you to create a partner of certain dimensions and qualities, the partner saying certain things in that interaction, certain things happening in that interaction."

A field dubbed "teledildonics" already allows people at two remote computers to manipulate electronic devices such as a vibrator at the other end for sexual purposes.

"People who use it are just blown away," said Steve Rhodes, president of Sinulate Entertainment, which has sold thousands of Internet-connected sex devices over the past three years. "This is not something that just the lunatic fringe does."

"The Iraq war ... was kind of a boom for our company."

Gina Lynn, who writes the "Sex Drive" column for Wired magazine, says she has used and enjoyed the Sinulator and says there is no reason to fear the technology.

"People are still really afraid of...any sort of combination of sex and technology and of the Internet," she said. "What people are missing here is the point, which is the human connection that we are facilitating through the technology."

"No one who is even inventing this stuff wants or even thinks that technology could ever replace human connection or sex."

Annie Sprinkle, a former adult film actress, prostitute and author of "Spectacular Sex," said teledildonics are a logical outgrowth of improvements in pleasure devices.

"Now people use vibrators like mad and rightly so; the technology of sex toys has vastly improved," she said. "The more options the better; I mean it can never replace body to body."

"Some people will love it more than anything else and others won't be into it." ...

I loved the impressive resume of Annie "Sprinkle." Porn star, prostitute, author. Rarely do the three come together so beautifully.

Just when you thought robot sex was safe. The follow up story...

Quote:

VALLEJO, Calif. - Noelle's given birth in Afghanistan, California and dozens of points in between. She's a lifelike, pregnant robot used in increasing numbers of medical schools and hospital maternity wards.

The full-sized, blond, pale mannequin is in demand because medicine is rapidly abandoning centuries-old training methods that use patients as guinea pigs, turning instead to high-tech simulations. It's better to make a mistake on a $20,000 robot than a live patient.

The Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, estimates that as many as 98,000 U.S. patients die annually from preventable medical errors.

"We're trying to engineer out some of the errors," said Dr. Paul Preston, an anesthesiologist at Kaiser Permanente and architect of the hospital chain's 4-year-old pregnancy-care training program, in which Noelle plays a starring role. "We steal shamelessly from everybody and everywhere that has good training programs."

Noelle, from Miami-based Gaumard Scientific Co. Inc., is used in most of Kaiser's 30 hospitals nationwide, and other hospitals are putting in orders. The Northwest Physicians Insurance Co. is sponsoring similar training programs in 22 hospitals in Oregon and Idaho, rolling out Noelle initially at five of them.

Other companies make lifelike mannequins to train paramedics in emergencies, but Noelle appears to be the only high-tech, pregnant model available.

Noelle models range from a $3,200 basic version to a $20,000 computerized Noelle that best approximates a live birth.

Programmed for complications
She can be programmed for a variety of complications and for cervix dilation. She can labor for hours and produce a breach baby or unexpectedly give birth in a matter of minutes.

She ultimately delivers a plastic doll that can change colors, from a healthy pink glow to the deadly blue of oxygen deficiency. The baby mannequin is wired to flash vital signs when hooked up to monitors.

The computerized mannequins emit realistic pulse rates and can urinate and breathe. ...

Robinwyn · 04-20-2006, 05:49 PM

Now if this isn't random, I don't know what is: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12396168/

Woman Found Alive Dumped in Landfill.

Updated: 10:22 p.m. ET April 19, 2006

KENNEWICK, Wash. - A Kennewick woman was pulled alive from a Northern California landfill after she reportedly was carjacked and kidnapped while driving to work.

Rebecca Huston, 32, was last heard from the evening of April 12. Friends and family began searching for her after she failed to show up for work at a veterinary clinic in Richland.

A landfill employee at the Ukiah Transfer Station in Ukiah, Calif., about 100 miles north of San Francisco on Highway 101, saw Huston's feet sticking out from a garbage pile Tuesday morning.

Huston spent Tuesday night at a hospital, where she was treated for a cut head, minor hypothermia and an undisclosed medical condition, the Tri-City Herald reported Wednesday.

Huston told sheriff's deputies in Mendocino County, Calif., that she was driving to work Thursday morning when a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun climbed into her car, demanding that she drive south. The next four nights, she told deputies, they drove through Washington, Oregon and California. They stopped occasionally at rest stops and service stations.

She told police the man forced her into a trash bin Monday night and told her not to get out. The container was emptied into a county garbage truck and the trash was transported to the landfill.

Deputies later found Huston's car in the parking lot of a grocery store in Ukiah. Mendocino County sheriff's deputies were expected to search the car for evidence, including fingerprints, Kennewick Detective Sgt. Randy Maynard said.

Maynard said it wasn't clear if Huston was knocked unconscious or had fallen asleep when she went into the trash bin. There was no indication she had been assaulted.

"I'm pretty overwhelmed emotionally," Tere Page, Huston's friend and former co-worker, said of her discovery. "This is the best news I've had in years."
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Oayis · 04-20-2006, 06:05 PM

Weird thing.

Will Smith Crashes Bar Mitzvah

Random.

04-16-2006, 03:38 PM	#364 (permalink)
Oayis Fledgling Post Monkey Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Philly, yo. Age: 18 Posts: 1,493 Points: 1,750.00 Bank: 318,072.66 Total Points: 319,822.66 Donate	Ha, this sounds like a pretty cool class. Academic Studies Starbucks Cultural Impact And the plus side, I live in a suburb of Philadelphia. Score! __________________ s i y a o Sucka.

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TheLady Debate Forum's Head Bitch Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Axe-Murderering everyone in The Underground! Age: 28 Posts: 3,208 Points: 8,271.52 Bank: 5,529,221.65 Total Points: 5,537,493.17 Donate	Yes, it was on the news all day yesterday. How utterly sad, senseless, and pointless this all was. A baby on his way to church on Easter Sunday..... I get tears in my eyes every time I see his mother on TV crying hysterically. It is all just so pointless.... __________________

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Robinwyn Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: neither here nor there.... but perhaps somewhere else maybe Age: 22 Posts: 112 Points: 250.00 Bank: 3,283.43 Total Points: 3,533.43 Donate	Now if this isn't random, I don't know what is: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12396168/ Woman Found Alive Dumped in Landfill. Updated: 10:22 p.m. ET April 19, 2006 KENNEWICK, Wash. - A Kennewick woman was pulled alive from a Northern California landfill after she reportedly was carjacked and kidnapped while driving to work. Rebecca Huston, 32, was last heard from the evening of April 12. Friends and family began searching for her after she failed to show up for work at a veterinary clinic in Richland. A landfill employee at the Ukiah Transfer Station in Ukiah, Calif., about 100 miles north of San Francisco on Highway 101, saw Huston's feet sticking out from a garbage pile Tuesday morning. Huston spent Tuesday night at a hospital, where she was treated for a cut head, minor hypothermia and an undisclosed medical condition, the Tri-City Herald reported Wednesday. Huston told sheriff's deputies in Mendocino County, Calif., that she was driving to work Thursday morning when a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun climbed into her car, demanding that she drive south. The next four nights, she told deputies, they drove through Washington, Oregon and California. They stopped occasionally at rest stops and service stations. She told police the man forced her into a trash bin Monday night and told her not to get out. The container was emptied into a county garbage truck and the trash was transported to the landfill. Deputies later found Huston's car in the parking lot of a grocery store in Ukiah. Mendocino County sheriff's deputies were expected to search the car for evidence, including fingerprints, Kennewick Detective Sgt. Randy Maynard said. Maynard said it wasn't clear if Huston was knocked unconscious or had fallen asleep when she went into the trash bin. There was no indication she had been assaulted. "I'm pretty overwhelmed emotionally," Tere Page, Huston's friend and former co-worker, said of her discovery. "This is the best news I've had in years." Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. __________________ Between me and my bro, I'm Teh Big Sis To everyone else, I'm just Robinwyn

04-20-2006, 06:05 PM	#370 (permalink)
Oayis Fledgling Post Monkey Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Philly, yo. Age: 18 Posts: 1,493 Points: 1,750.00 Bank: 318,072.66 Total Points: 319,822.66 Donate	Weird thing. Will Smith Crashes Bar Mitzvah Random. __________________ s i y a o Sucka.

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piko1 Member of the Banned PERMA BANNED Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: BUL,Sofia Age: 22 Posts: 61 Points: 190.65 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 190.65 Donate	No Comment Danube Turns Into Sea 14 April 2006 \| 09:40 \| The situation in the flooded municipalities along the Danube still remains critical. The level of the river along the Bulgarian bank continues to rise. There are 24-hour patrols that monitor the critical points in the most threatened residential areas.

04-17-2006, 02:32 PM	#366 (permalink)
Cfw828 Mega Post Monkey Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NYC and occasionally residing in Long Island. Age: 25 Posts: 6,432 Points: 68,408.33 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 68,408.33 Donate	http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crim...p-346578c.html It's a shame that I can say that this is the kind of thing that happens all over the country and the world...but the worst part of this was the way that it happened and when it did.... Bx. gunfire kills boy By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY, JESS WISLOSKI and MELISSA GRACE DAILY NEWS WRITERS Safely tucked into his car seat and dressed in his Easter Sunday best, a 2-year-old Bronx boy on his way to church was struck and killed by a stray bullet from streetcorner gunfire. Slain toddler David Pacheco Jr.'s inconsolable mother collapsed last night as she described how the shot pierced the sliding door of her minivan and lodged in her little boy's chest. "He was an angel - I just can't believe it," Joanne Sanabria, 28, sobbed to the Daily News as her husband, the child's father, held her in his arms. "God, wake me up." She said she wished she could trade her life for her son's. "The bullet should have hit me," she said. Her steel-gray Honda Odyssey was headed east on W. Tremont Ave. at Harrison Ave. about 2 p.m. yesterday when two gangs of hoodlums got into an argument on the corner, police said. One of the toughs opened fire with a semi-automatic just as Sanabria's van passed by, carrying her, her daughters and son, and her sister's family to church. The sound of gunfire exploded inside the Honda. Then came the .awful cry from one of Sanabria's daughters: "Mommy, the baby." "He screamed out and I stopped the car," Sanabria said in a halting voice as her husband, David Pacheco Sr., cradled her at a relative's home. "I saw the bullet hole \[in the door\] and I looked in the seat. I saw the blood on him." An off-duty emergency medical technician, Angelo Cruz, also heard the gunshots and raced to the scene from his Morris Heights apartment. "The mother was holding the child in her arms - she was screaming, 'My baby's been shot! Somebody help me!' " he said. The tot slumped in .Sanabria's arms but began breathing as Cruz gave CPR to the child, first on the minivan hood and then in the back of a livery cab that raced them to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. Despite the desperate attempt, the boy everyone called Didi was pronounced dead soon after he arrived at the emergency room. Sanabria, who works as a customer service representative for a lighting company, tearfully praised Cruz for his heroic efforts. "He breathed life into him and gave me those last few seconds with my son," she said. Cops were knocking on doors on Harrison Ave. last night, showing photos of a suspect, but had not made any arrests. The toddler's family appealed for the public to turn in the shooter and condemned the gunplay, which also sent a bullet crashing through the window of a fourth-floor apartment. "An innocent baby riding in his car, and for some sons of bitches \[to\] take his life - this is getting ridiculous," aunt Norma Navarro said. Witnesses, who heard about five shots, were disgusted by the pointless bloodshed and saddened by the heartbreaking scene that followed. "They were dressed up," said Jeff Harkles, 43, who was visiting relatives nearby when he saw Sanabria's family spill out of the van. "The mother had the baby in her hands, she was yelling. The baby's eyes were closed. It was like she was holding a rag doll." Sanabria said she'd dressed her son in new clothes - a beige sweater, matching beige shoes and jeans - for what should have been a happy holiday afternoon with family. She remembered that her little boy only had one thing on his mind as she got him ready. "He said, 'Mommy, I want ice cream,' " she said. "That is what he really wanted today."