Dauphin County Steals Man's Identity Penn Live | Submitted by: anonymous Instead of fixing the error, the office changed the personal information on the case to match his, Tanner, his attorney, said in court documents... Yet it took The Patriot-News less than an hour to track down the real father, Andre Sharpe, who said the girl that Walter Sharpe has been paying support for has been living with him for the last four years."
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Starve A Child, Feed A Family WAPT | Submitted by: anonymous An insurance policy worth $10,000 was taken out on the boy, police said. The document was actually pinned to the wall of Watkins' room.... They'd let the other children eat in front of him, make him stand in one place, let them eat and drink with him just starving to death with nothing to eat."
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175,000 Gulf War Veterans Were Not Lying After All Reuters | Submitted by: Nero A report released on Monday concluded that Gulf War syndrome is a legitimate illness suffered by more than 175,000 U.S. war veterans who were exposed to chemical toxins in the 1991 Gulf War.... Symptoms include persistent headaches, widespread pain, cognitive difficulties, unexplained fatigue, skin rashes, chronic diarrhea and digestive and respiratory problems."
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Death and Peanut Butter New York Post | Submitted by: Lester Lipspray Slain Long Island teacher Leah Walsh's allegedly homicidal husband slathered peanut butter on her body before dumping her in a ditch in the hope that wild animals would get rid of the evidence, sources told The Post... When Leah's naked body was discovered Oct. 29, say Nassau County law-enforcement and medical-examiner sources, she was slathered in peanut butter."
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West Virginia Is For Fatties AP | Submitted by: GLUE KILL Nearly half the adults in Huntington's five-county metropolitan area are obese - an astounding percentage, far bigger than the national average in a country with a well-known weight problem. Huntington leads in a half-dozen other illness measures, too, including heart disease and diabetes. It's even tops in the percentage of elderly people who have lost all their teeth (half of them have)."
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Grandmother-Granddaughter Bonding Experience Canada.com | Submitted by: manitobamadman A 14-year-old girl teamed up with her grandmother to stab a guest 13 times after a fight broke out at a Winnipeg drinking party... Police said they have charged a 52-year-old woman and the teen girl each with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon."
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Law Student SMASH news.ktar.com | Submitted by: pedophobe Arizona State University student Alex Botsios said he had no problem giving a nighttime intruder his wallet and guitars. When the man asked for Botsios' laptop, however, the first-year law student drew the line."
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No Contest in Toilet Corpse Case Miami Herald | Submitted by: Lissie771 (The Death Hag) A woman accused of helping her religious leader hide a decaying corpse on her toilet so they could continue collecting her Social Security was convicted of a misdemeanor in a deal for her to testify against the leader, a prosecutor said Monday... Bushey told Lewis that God would revive Middlesworth, who friends and family said was from Washington state, investigators said."
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In today's issue of Toilet Fancy... Toronto Star | Submitted by: athenstexman poop! The divide is not insurmountable. The Japanese were once paper people who , after years of persuasion, have become water people... For George, the preference is clear: Paper cultures use the least efficient means of cleaning the dirtiest part of the body. "It's just a habit, really," she says on the phone from London, and not a very effective one. "How clean are we? I suggest we're not."
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Somali Pirates Seize $150M Saudi Supertanker, Oil Guardian | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em Out Sirius Star is three times the size of a US aircraft carrier and shows how they are successfully expanding their operations,'' Christensen said. He added the operation demonstrated a new level of sophistication as the attackers had to scale the 10-metre high sides of the vessel. Previous attacks have occurred within 200 nautical miles of land."
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Body Swap With A Mannequin Science News | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em Out People can experience the illusion that either a mannequin or another person’s body is their own body, says Valeria Petkova of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. She and Karolinska colleague Henrik Ehrsson call this reaction the body-swap illusion... Petkova and Ehrsson first confirmed that 16 male and 16 female volunteers experienced an illusory body-swap with a mannequin."
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Everest Poo Poo Platter Reuters | Submitted by: Jean Sherpa's team, during its month-long expedition, picked up 965 kg (2,100 pounds) of cans, gas canisters, kitchen waste, tents, parts of an Italian helicopter that crashed 35 years ago and remains of the body of a British climber who died in 1972... In addition, his team also brought down 65 kg of human waste produced by its 18 members, which it handed over to a local environment group at the base camp for management."
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Bees Give Residents "Love Heart" Stuff NZ | Submitted by: anonymous Resident Tracy Kilkelly said the bees first appeared on a tree in Wilton St yesterday morning and developed into a mass swarm shaped like a love heart... Ms Kilkelly said a council staff member had checked out the bees yesterday and told her they needed an apiarist to remove them." Pretty!
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Whale Feces Is Very Exciting BBC | Submitted by: davedou By seeing one of these animals poo and getting hold of some of that stuff, we can use sophisticated genetic techniques to look at the DNA in that sample to find out exactly what those animals have been eating." With rare footage of the shark pooping, and a fecoscientist way too excited about his job.
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Headless Albino in Burundi BBC | Submitted by: Brother Bru Bru A six-year-old albino girl in Burundi has been found dead with her head and limbs removed, in the latest killing linked to ritual medicine... Albinos in the region have been targeted because of a belief peddled by witchdoctors that their body parts can be used for magic potions."
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CIA and the Film Industry Guardian | Submitted by: Flag Hag The most common way for the CIA to exert influence in Hollywood nowadays is not through anything as direct as funding, or rewriting scripts, but offering to help with matters of verisimilitude. That is done by having serving or former CIA agents acting as advisers on the film, though some might wonder whether there is ever really such a thing a "former agent". As ex-CIA agent Lindsay Moran, the author of Blowing My Cover, has noted, the CIA often calls on former officers to perform tasks for their old employer."
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Ocean Dead Zones To Expand Nature | Submitted by: Pooty Poot Rising levels of carbon dioxide could increase the volume of oxygen-depleted dead zones in tropical oceans by as much as 50% before the end of the century -- with dire consequences for the health of ecosystems in some of the world's most productive fishing grounds."
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Girl Carves Swastika on Leg, Gets Award BBC | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em OutA German girl who won a "civic courage" award for allegedly defending an immigrant child from neo-Nazis has been found guilty of inventing the story. The 18-year-old, named as Rebecca K, had carved a swastika on her own thigh, the court concluded, rejecting her claim that neo-Nazis had done it. (Cute foto, I'd hit that)
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Woman Claims Zendejas Turned Her Into Anal Zombie Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | Submitted by: athenstexman The examiner, Malinda Wheeler, said the woman had a large tissue tear in her anus -- she said it was the largest she had seen in her career -- and more minor tissue damage in her vaginal area... [The Jane Doe] said the drinks put her in a zombie-like state, and her memory of the evening was hazy after about midnight."
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Second Life Divorce Explained Daily Mail | Submitted by: FattyPubes Then I realised he was having sex with another woman. I was so shocked that to this day, I can't recall if they were lying in a bed or on a sofa. I can just remember his arms around her and that awful realisation that he was cheating on me. When Amy then discovered that the buxom object of her husband's desires was a call girl, her humiliation was complete." Actually, the humiliation is completed when the couple's First Life pictures are seen, and the world realizes why a Second Life was so necessary.
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Sleepraping Daily Mail | Submitted by: SleepyPubes Jane McKenna, 33, was asleep at home when a friend's husband, who had been a guest at a barbecue, walked into the bedroom and started having sex with her... Jason Jeal, a 37-year-old roofer with no medical history of sleepwalking, admitted sex had taken place. But he was cleared of rape after he insisted he had been asleep and had no idea what he was doing."
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South Carolina Goes Pink For Prison Rape, Etc. Greenville News | Submitted by: furpo South Carolina prison officials will continue to discipline inmates who perform public sex acts by dressing them in pink after a lawsuit over the policy was dismissed, officials said Friday... While the case was being litigated, Ozmint changed the policy to affect only inmates who performed sex acts in public or committed sexual misconduct against a prison staffer."
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Sixteen Toes, Ten Fingers, But No Thumbs Shanghaiist | Submitted by: Bella Two new parents from Leizhou, Guangdong got a bit of a surprise last week when they discovered that their newborn baby boy had eight toes on each foot. The baby has the usual number of fingers (ten in total), but oddly enough, no thumbs at all."
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George W. Bush: Two in the Pink, One in the Stink The White House | Submitted by: anonymousIt is a gesture meant to indicate a sexual act, wherein the first and second fingers enter a vagina, while the errant pinky plunges into the anus; hence the "shock". The gesture, the province of minds quite filthy in nature, has taken on other, more explicit names: "Two in the pink and one in the stink", "two in the coot and one in the boot", "going to town with one in the brown."
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Tiny Shrimp Stuns Prey With 218 Decibels of Bang Daily Mail | Submitted by: anonymous Ben Marshall, a scientist at the aquarium, added: They are among the loudest marine animals. They simply snap their claw to make a loud noise, and it's 218 decibels. He said the level of noise made by the shrimps was comparable with that produced by a sperm whale. That is 40 tonnes, and this is 2cm, he added. The click of the claw stuns the victim for enough time for them to get on it and kill it -- from tiny shrimp to anything planktonic."
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Maybe Women Don't Care For Motherfuckers Stuff NZ | Submitted by: the dude A man who had sex with his wheelchair-bound mother after telling her no women seemed to want him could be released from a Darwin prison before the end of the month. The intercourse took place on the futon the woman had been lying on and lasted for about 17 minutes. He later had sex with her again."
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Adult Swim: Breastfeeding in the Public Pool Globe and Mail | Submitted by: robot badger The mother, Cinira Longuinho, is asking the Ontario Human Rights Commission to investigate whether her right to breastfeed was violated. The pool owner, Ellie Karkouti, says she was concerned for the baby's health and the health of other swimmers... Unlike urine and excrement, breast milk is sterile." That last sentence, though spoken by a doctor, is almost certainly false.
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Obama Voters: No Communion For You Boston Globe | Submitted by: DS The pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church in Greenville, SC, is urging parishioners who voted for Barack Obama not to present themselves for Communion unless they go to confession first because they have cooperated with intrinsic evil by voting for a candidate who supports abortion rights over a candidate who does not."
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Two Bad Eggs in Toronto Toronto Star | Submitted by: anonymous A 5-year-old girl was beaten bloody with a metal rod and had her face shoved in her own vomit before one final beating left her dead on the family's dirty basement floor... When the couple returned to find Phoenix's lifeless body, the boy said they didn't show any emotion. He was told to Watch your baby sister. We're going to the dump and bury her."
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