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Ghetto Fabalus · 10-09-2006, 06:22 PM

ERIE, Pennsylvania - A woman used her 4-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air and striking her boyfriend with the child, authorities said.

The boy was in serious but stable condition Monday at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, police said.

“Never, never, never. I can never remember anything like this,” District Attorney Bradley Foulk told the Erie Times-News.

Chytoria Graham, 27, of Erie, was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and simple assault. She was held Monday in the Erie County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail.

The infant, whose name was not released, suffered a fractured skull and some bleeding in the brain, authorities said. His head hit Graham’s boyfriend, the baby’s father, police Lt. Dan Spizarny said.

Authorities removed four other children from Graham’s home and placed them with the Erie County Office of Children and Youth, Foulk said.

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Weetzie · 10-12-2006, 07:38 PM

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Woman tries to sell mummy on eBay
Officials trying to track down the origins of the mummified human skeleton

PORT HURON, Mich. - Officials are trying to track down the origins of a mummified human skeleton that a Michigan woman tried to sell on eBay.

The St. Clair County medical examiner’s office confiscated the mummified remains Tuesday from the home of Lynn Sterling.

Sterling, 45, told police she got the remains from a friend who works in demolition and said he found them in a Detroit school he helped tear down nearly 30 years ago, police said. She said she had contacted an attorney before posting the remains for sale.

“It’s an anatomical, medical-use skeleton,” Sterling told The Times Herald of Port Huron. “I would never have put it on (eBay) if I thought it was anything other than an anatomical, medical thing.”

Sterling likely won’t face charges, Port Huron Police Capt. Don Porrett said, though officials said the remains will be sent to an anthropologist at Michigan State University for further examination.

St. Clair County Medical Examiner Daniel Spitz described the remains as an intact skeleton with mummified tissue. He said age, sex and race could not yet be determined, but said the remains appeared to be those of a child.

“It’s very, very old. It’s probably some type of anatomical dissection that was part of an anatomy class that over time got into the hands of somebody in the general public,” Spitz said.

Port Huron police were notified about the eBay posting by a caller from North Carolina who spotted the item on the online auction site, Porrett said.

EBay spokeswoman Catherine England said the posting was removed Wednesday because it violated a policy against selling human remains. The Web site allows the sale of skeletons for medical use, but not mummified remains.

Curiosity did attract at least one bid before the posting was removed.

“There was a bid on it for $500 from ‘Satan’s Child,”’ Porrett said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15239949/

*Dawn* · 10-12-2006, 11:15 PM

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...-13762,00.html

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Lightning exits woman's bottom

October 09, 2006 12:00am
Article from: The Australian

A WOMAN has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.

Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at in her home in the Croatian city of Zadar when lightning struck the building.

She said: "I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building.

"I don't remember much after that, but I was later told that the lightning had travelled down the water pipe and struck me on the mouth, passing through my body.

"It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then I don't remember much at all." Doctors at the city hospital where she was treated for burns to the mouth and rear said: "The accident is bizarre but not impossible."

She was wearing rubber bathroom shoes at the time and so instead of earthing through her feet it appears the electricity shot out of her backside," a medic told local newspaper, 24 Sata.

"It appears to have earthed through the damp shower curtain that she was touching as she bent over to put her mouth under the tap. If she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed by the blast."

24 Sata said the young woman had been released from hospital after being kept in overnight and was expected to make a full recovery.

lietome1221 · 10-16-2006, 08:18 PM

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If you're too busy being classy and swirling your brandy in a snifter by the fire to watch WWE, then read this your majesty, because it's all you need to know to enjoy the WWE Raw show that was taped last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and set to air tonight:

1. John Cena - star of "the Marine" - is cool, and looks exactly like Matt Damon would if he did a bunch of steroids.
2. John Cenas finishing move is called the "F U". It's basically what Brock Lesnar used to call the "F5".
3. No one gets up from the "F U", my friends. No one.
4. John Cenas victim of the "F U" tonight … is … wait for it … wait for it … Kevin Federline.

That’s right baby. KFed reportedly gets lifted onto John Cenas shoulders, then helicopter-ed down onto his face tonight on the USA Network at 9 PM eastern. Several sources all say the same thing: KFed comes out as a special guest, sings one of his big hit songs, then Cena (whose character on the show is/was a white rapper) comes out and drops his ass. I don’t happen to know any black people, but if I did, at that point I would nudge them and say, “about damn time someone dropped his cracker ass”. And then they’d think I was really cool, and respect how I was breaking down the color lines.

Preview!

EDIT: We have pictures!

*Dawn* · 10-19-2006, 11:49 PM

Stingray leaps into boat, stabs man in chest

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MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- A leaping stingray stabbed an 81-year-old Florida boater in the chest, authorities said Wednesday, leaving its poisonous stinger lodged close to his heart in an incident recalling the one that killed Australian TV naturalist Steve Irwin last month.

Daiyon · 11-05-2006, 01:05 AM

After reading cnn.com the last week, who needs to even go out and find these strange stories, just hit any of the big media outlets, the world is a circus right now. Would say it's going to get better, but think it's going to get worse first, amazing really.

*Dawn* · 11-09-2006, 10:30 PM

'My child probably ate her finger or maybe it was eaten by a cockroach...'

**PaleIsBeautiful** · 03-28-2007, 07:18 AM

Dog does heimlich on choking owner and saves her life....the part in the article where she says that dogs leave pawprints on her heart was so cute.

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Md. Woman Says Dog Performed Heimlich, Saved Her

(WJZ/AP) CALVERT, Md. A Cecil County woman claims her golden retriever saved her life by giving her the heimlcih maneuver when she was choking.

Kathryn Brown sat down with the woman and her pet at their Calvert home to discuss the details of the incredible story.

Forty-five-year-old Debbie Parkhurst said she can hardly believe it herself.

Parkhurst says she was at home alone eating an apple when a piece of the fruit got lodged in her windpipe. She started to choke and when her efforts to give herself the heimlich manuever failed she started to panic.

"Everything happened so fast and you're in such a panic mode I thought 'this can't be happening'," said Parkhurst.

When giving herself the heimlich failed, she says she started to beat on her chest trying to get the lodged piece of apple out of her clogged airway.

That was when Parkhurst said her 2-year-old golden retriever Toby came to her rescue.

Parkhurst does not know why or how Toby knew what to do, but she says as she lay on the floor pounding on her chest, the 75-pound dog began jumping on her.

"He started jumping on my chest until the apple came out and once the apple came out he crawled around and started licking my face," said Parkhurst.

The life-saving moment is only the latest link in a bond that Parkhurst says has always been strong.

Parkhurst rescued Toby from a dumpster when he was a puppy. According to Parkhurst, his lifesaving actions were more than enough to return the favor.

Parkhurst is still recovering from the incident. She's got serious bruising on her chest and stomach from Toby's big paws but says she knows she is lucky to be alive.

"They always say dogs leave pawprints on your heart--and he did!" said Parkhurst. "That's my joke he left a pawprint on my heart all right."

Parkhurst and Toby's story is attracting national attention.

Parkhurst says she has been asked to be on numerous shows including the Tonight Show with David Letterman, but she still has not decided whether to accept.

Squeefest · 07-30-2007, 09:59 AM

http://www.currentworldnews.net/2007...m-cell-phones/

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Doctors Finish Surgery During Blackout with Light from Cell Phones!

While doctors where in the process of an emergency appendix operation the power went out, but by using the light from cell phones surgeons were able to successfully complete the surgery.

Leonardo Molina was the man on the operating table when the hospital experienced the blackout. His brother, Ricardo Molina told reporters that the lights were out for a long time, and that then anesthesia was wearing off on his brother.

The blackout occurred at Policlinico Juan D. Peron, which is the main hospital in Villa Mercedes. A hospital spokesman said, “The generator, which should have been working correctly, didn’t work,” and that “the surgeons and anesthetists were in the dark…A family member got some cell phones together from people in the hallway and took them in to provide light.”

The hospital director, Dario Maurer, said that there was only 20 minutes during the surgery that they didn’t have light.

**Miles D** · 08-27-2007, 06:58 PM

A Republican US Senator has pled guilty to disorderly lewd conduct in the Men's Bathroom at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport.

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God, those Republicans... when will it ever end?

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Ghetto Fabalus Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a field of... no wait, a hollow... in a stranger's... GRR THEY'VE ALL BEEN TAKEN! I'll settle for Minnesota, I guess. Age: 23 Posts: 932 Points: 613.65 Bank: 179,309.59 Total Points: 179,923.24 Donate	"Mom" uses baby as bludgeon ERIE, Pennsylvania - A woman used her 4-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air and striking her boyfriend with the child, authorities said. The boy was in serious but stable condition Monday at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, police said. “Never, never, never. I can never remember anything like this,” District Attorney Bradley Foulk told the Erie Times-News. Chytoria Graham, 27, of Erie, was charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and simple assault. She was held Monday in the Erie County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bail. The infant, whose name was not released, suffered a fractured skull and some bleeding in the brain, authorities said. His head hit Graham’s boyfriend, the baby’s father, police Lt. Dan Spizarny said. Authorities removed four other children from Graham’s home and placed them with the Erie County Office of Children and Youth, Foulk said. --- source ...........

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Miles D Mirrors are creepy! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Memphis, TN Age: 30 Posts: 2,972 Points: 0.00 Bank: 201,549.09 Total Points: 201,549.09 Donate	A Republican US Senator has pled guilty to disorderly lewd conduct in the Men's Bathroom at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. Source God, those Republicans... when will it ever end? __________________ I recommend the new movie "Mirrors" ! ^Indeed!! I st-st-stuttered when you asked me what I'm thinkin' about!! My best friend Leslie said I'm just being Miles!

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