Posted on May 12, 2008 by Anita V. Robeson
And now for some lighter reading…
Sean McGuire, a 20-year-old student at Drake U in Iowa, was arrested yesterday for assaulting a police officer.
His weapon of choice? M&Ms
The officer was investigating a hit-and-run accident involving McGuire’s friend, and, in an effort to “stick up” for his pal, he cast a few candies at the cop.
What he [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2008 by Anita V. Robeson
Now here’s a gender-bending story…
Thomas Beatie used to be a woman until he had gender reassignment surgery. And, now, the married Oregon man is pregnant and expecting a baby girl in July.
Mr. Beatie kept his female organs when he changed genders and, since his wife Nancy can’t have kids due to a hysterectomy, he decided [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by Anita V. Robeson
Now this is freaky!
A 55-year-old Michigan woman was sunbathing on a boat in the Florida Keys, when a 75-pound stingray leaped from the water and killed her!
An autopsy is being performed to determine whether the woman died from the stingray’s blow to her head, from being pierced by the creature, or from falling backward.
I had [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by Anita V. Robeson
Pam Babcock, a 35-year-old woman from Ness City, Kansas, was afraid to leave her boyfriend’s bathroom.
So, there she remained, for over two years, until the muscles in her legs atrophied and her skin formed around the seat of the toilet.
Boyfriend, 36-year-old, Kory McFarren, who’d been taking care of Babcock for 16 years, was quoted as [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2008 by Anita V. Robeson
Now, if only people could get along so well…
[video from bisonfilms]
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Posted on January 29, 2008 by Anita V. Robeson
Everyone knows that hospital food isn’t the greatest. In fact, it’s usually downright horrid. But still… you’d expect the kitchen staff would know the difference between a rodent and, say, a rutabega.
And yet, a patient in a Finland hospital “lost his appetite” after finding a mouse head gazing up at him from the steamed veggies [...]
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Posted on January 14, 2008 by Anita V. Robeson
Remember that guy who fired three employees because they were disruptive non-smokers?
Well, turns out the story was a hoax!
A hoax he was responsible for perpetuating, by the way.
The journalist who originally published the story, said the company owner, Thomas Joschko, later admitted to her it was a joke, but was not remorseful.
Apparently, he was on [...]
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