‘For 17 months, Jimmy Earl Adams battled heart problems as he prepared his defense on a charge of sexually assaulting a client at the cosmetic procedures center he owns in North Richland Hills, his attorney said.
On Friday morning, moments after a Tarrant County jury acquitted the 59-year-old, Adams was rushed to a local hospital, suffering what he said was a heart attack.
“My comment … my comment is that I’m in the emergency room,” Adams said in a telephone interview a few hours after the verdict. A woman who took the telephone from him said the family declined to make any additional comments.’
You’d think they’d teach people to steer before they put them in charge of large ocean going vessels.
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This is one of those games where you have to move the cursor through a maze type thing, without touching the walls.
Some of you may have no trouble when it comes to not being able to touch the sides.. 🙂
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‘Ryan Burke decided it would be a great idea to amass a crowd of 100s of UNC students to witness him breaking up with his girlfriend Mindy. (Valentines Day 2007)’
‘I’m not ready to make it right, I’m not ready to back down..’
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‘Anni Sheriffius said she was trying to wash off what she thought was dirt on her dog Jasmine’s ear when the ear fell off.
Sheriffius rushed her dog to the veterinarian to learn that the dog’s ear had been cut off by a dog groomer and super-glued back on.
“And I saw the ear float away, and it freaked me out,” Sheriffius said.’
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‘An Italian teacher has been suspended after this cell phone video surfaced of her allowing her male students to fondle her during class.’
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‘ELEANOR HALL: Now to South Australia, and a warning about this story: don’t try this at home.
It’s about a shark fisherman who uses his hands to catch a 1.3 metre shark.
Phillip Kerkhof from Louth Bay on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is the talk of the town, after wrestling the bronze whaler shark up onto a jetty, as Tim Jeanes reports.
TIM JEANES: It’s well-known people’s judgement can be somewhat clouded when under the influence of alcohol. [..]’
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This guy is very brave and very stupid.
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‘A New Zealand lawyer who took to wearing an Alice in Wonderland costume in court to highlight an alleged cover-up by the army has been found guilty of contempt.
But the conviction had nothing to do with Rob Moodie’s decision to use fashion as a form of protest.
Instead, he was convicted for publicly releasing a court-suppressed report about the fatal 1994 collapse of an army-built bridge on a property owned by his elderly clients.’
‘The Russian military is reported to be investigating claims that army conscripts were forced to work as male prostitutes in St Petersburg. [..]
Last year, an 18-year-old soldier was so badly beaten that he had to have his legs and genitals amputated. [..]
A spokeswoman for the Soldiers’ Mothers, Ella Polyakova, told the BBC that in St Petersburg there was “a network of clients” who would pay for sex with soldiers.
Older servicemen are said to have forced younger conscripts into prostitution and then taken the money for themselves.’
‘The man accused of killing his prison cellmate, then gutting him and hanging his intestines from a clothesline in his cell, has a history of brain injuries and untreated mental problems that would have made it difficult for him to think clearly, plot a murder or “resist impulses,” defense attorneys said today. [..]
In opening statements this morning, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brenda Taylor said the evidence is clear — and captured on a gruesome videotape — that William Sablan and his cousin Rudy Sablan killed Estrella. On the video, which guards began recording after they discovered Estrella dead in the cell, the Sablans are seen holding up Estrella’s organs, Taylor said. [..]
The 18 jurors, made up of 12 women and four men, are expected to see that video this afternoon.’
She loves those naughty, nasty little Germans.
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‘A Chinese woman says her pet dog has taken to peeing upside down.
Mrs Chen, of Changchun city, says 18-month-old ‘Baby’ began peeing in the new position just three months ago.
“He used to pee as other dogs do. But one day I found him putting both hind legs up onto the tree to pee,” she told East Asia Business News.
“I thought maybe that was only for the one day. But from then on, unexpectedly, he would pee in that acrobatic position.”
Chen says Baby’s other unusual trait is that he is a vegetarian.’
‘US immigration officials insisted the sufferer of an anal infection remove a small piece of medical thread which was being used by doctors to treat the condition. The man required treatment under general anaesthetic as a result.
The man had an anal fistula, which is a painful channel that can develop deep into the anus, caused by infection or digestive conditions such as Crohn’s disease. [..]
The seton was made of a blue braided medical suture material knotted and passed into the hole where the fistula surfaced. After one baffled immigration officer pulled “very hard” on the seton, the patient was given the choice by the baffled immigration officers of either getting on the next plane home, or submitting himself to a procedure to have it removed. [..]
The seton was duly removed by an airport doctor, who claimed to have no idea what it was. The man now requires treatment under general anaesthetic to have a replacement inserted.’
Trying to prevent wrinkles in the 80’s. Hooray. 🙂
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‘NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak stalked her romantic rival for two months before attacking her in a parking lot at Orlando International Airport Monday morning, a hand-written statement by the victim reveals.
Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman, stated that Nowak was an acquaintance of her “boyfriend” but the two had not met until the astronaut doused her with pepper spray.
Nowak drove from Houston to Orlando to “physically confront and assult (sic) me,” Shipman wrote when applying for a restraining order against Nowak.’
‘Blame global warming. An Albany, N.Y., man is accused of riding nude in a gondola at Stratton Mountain Resort on Dec. 15. William N. Barrett III, 46, pleaded not guilty to felony lewd and lascivious conduct and misdemeanor marijuana possession Tuesday in Vermont District Court.
A witness reported to lift attendants that Barrett was nude and touching himself inappropriately while riding the lift.
Barrett, who was fully clothed when he reached the bottom of the hill, denied being nude. He told police he had taken off his jacket and shirt because of the nice weather.’
‘Scores of police have been sent to the jungles of remote Papua New Guinea to hunt for a cult leader known as the Black Jesus, who is said to have sacrificed three young women to the devil and eaten their bodies.
In one case reported by villagers, a mother who had fallen under the cult leader’s spell led her 14-year-old daughter to his hideout, offered her to him as a virgin then stabbed her to death.
The Black Jesus, 31-year-old Steven Tari, started his cult last year after he was expelled from a Bible college for stealing from fellow students.’
‘A hospital van dropped off a paraplegic man on Skid Row, allegedly leaving him crawling in the street with nothing more than a soiled gown and a broken colostomy bag, police said.
Witnesses who said they saw the incident Thursday wrote down a phone number on the van and took down its license-plate number, which helped detectives connect the vehicle to Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
Police said the incident was a case of “homeless dumping” and were questioning officials from the hospital.’
‘The man arrested for shooting a snorkeler in the Smith River near here on Tuesday told police he believed he was shooting at a large rodent. [..]
Roderick told detectives he was house-sitting a home on Tuesday when he saw what he believed to be a nutria swimming in the river about 2 p.m. Roderick went onto the deck of the house and fired at the object with a .22-caliber rifle, police said.
When Roderick realized he had shot a person, he went to the shore and tried to get help for the snorkeler, 44-year-old John Chessman of Marcola. Chessman, who suffered one gunshot to the head, was listed in serious condition at OHSU in Portland on Wednesday.’
