A woman in Florida made a startling discovery over the weekend when she found her boyfriend stuck in her houses cat door, News4Jax.com reported.
The girlfriend of Charles Tucker Jr., 33, had reportedly kicked him out of her St. Augustine home. Hours later, she found the man stuck in the small door and called police. When they arrived four minutes later, the man was dead.
"He's a big guy. I don't even know how he could fit through there," Tuckers friend, Will Elliot told News4Jax.com. "Probably to get in and unlock the door. They said he had one arm through there and his head was caught in there like he was to reach up and unlock the door because there's no way he could fit through there."
Cops are currently awaiting autopsy results.
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The cat couldn't be reached for comment and calls were not returned.
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. . . and she's still dead.
. . . and boy was she pi$$ed! Next time she'll opt for cremation.
. . . and she has no idea where wife #4 is, either.
. . . she still thinks it's all W's fault.
. . . whereupon she told the medical examiner "I told you so, a$$hole!"
Anyway, in all seriosity, that medical examiner needs to have his head removed and examined. So should the system that put him in that position in the first place. The list of injuries she sustained are way too extensive to have been caused by a fall in the shower. She even had contusions around her wrist! Abrasions and bruises in several places, front and back, arms and legs. Laceration on her scalp. Other contusions. Blood-soaked hair that wasn't wet. There was no water in the tub. Who in their right mind is going to get in a dry tub and then turn on the water just to freeze until it starts running warm? Duh.
I suspect some sort of collusion here. I'd sure like to hear the arguments as to why this death didn't look suspicious. If things are as I have heard so far, it ought to be a criminal offense to screw something like this up so flagrantly. It should at least have been labeled suspicious and investigated. Some heads need to roll on this one. It shouldn't have even been handled by a local examiner due to the obvious conflicts of interest in the case. I hope they take another expert, reputable examiner (or three) with no conflicts of interest to review the autopsy results.
Ira Levin, playwright and author of the suspense classics Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil, and The Stepford Wives, has died at his home in Manhattan following a heart attack. Levin, 78, who also wrote for television and Broadway, saw his novels - and their cinematic interpretations - gain cult followings, paving the way for the modern popularity of the horror genre.
His best known work, Rosemary's Baby, a tale of modern day satanism in Manhattan's upper west side, was made into a film starring Mia Farrow and directed by Roman Polanski. The Stepford Wives, published in 1972, is a satire that depicts the lives of a group of submissive, fawning wives in suburbia and has twice been made into a film.
Four years later, The Boys from Brazil, became one of the earliest works of science fiction to deal with the issue of cloning when it focused on an attempt to replicate Adolf Hitler. His 1978 play Deathtrap was also made into a Sidney Lumet-directed film, starring Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve.
Stephen King described Levin as "the Swiss watchmaker of suspense novels", adding: "He makes what the rest of us do look like cheap watchmakers in drugstores."
Levin is survived by three sons and three grandsons.
Intimate show at drying out facility goes horribly wrong
Queens Of The Stone Age were forcibly removed from a California rehab facility last week. Josh Homme's desert rockers' plan to perform a six-song show for in-patients at an unnamed Los Angeles drying out clinic came to an abrupt and chaotic end when the band were cut off before the end of the first song and manhandled out of the building by heavy security, NME.COM has learned.
The rehab show was intended as a light-hearted, intimate performance in their home city of Los Angeles. But a spokesman for the band informed NME.COM that when the band opened the show with classic 'Feel Good Hit Of The Summer', staff at the clinic were so unimpressed that they pulled the plugs and had security remove them straight away without negotiation.
The song's lyrics famously run: "Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol... c-c-c-c-c-cocaine".
Ironically, the song is used by the Colorado Police Department as the soundtrack to their instructional videos demonstrating the consequences of drink driving.
Queens Of The Stone Age, whose 'Duluth Tour' arrives in the UK next week, have yet to make a comment.
MANSON, Wash. -- A Chelan County fire chief says a couple were lucky they weren't killed by a cow that fell off a 200-foot cliff and smashed their minivan. It's a cowmakaze!
District 5 Chief Arnold Baker says they missed being killed by a matter of inches Sunday as they drove on Highway 150 near Manson.
The 600-pound cow fell about 200 feet and landed on the hood of the minivan carrying Charles Everson Jr. and his wife Linda of Westland, Mich., who were in the area celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary. They were checked at Lake Chelan Community Hospital as a precaution.
The van was heavily damaged, including a broken windshield. Charles Everson says he kept repeating, "I don't believe this. I don't believe this." The year-old cow had been reported missing by a breeder. It was euthanized at the scene. It survived the fall? One tough cow.
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It was euthanized at the scene.
Tough luck for that poor, not very sure-footed beast; does anyone remember the cow-euthanizing scene in "Me, Myself & Irene"?
An Australian football fan's tattoo tribute to his team went horribly wrong when the tattooist got the words day and gay mixed up.
The Geelong Cats supporter wanted a permanent reminder of the team's AFL triumph and decided to get a tattoo done on a celebratory trip to Thailand. The supporter, called Neville, had 15 cans of beer to ease the pain and it took five-and-a-half-hours work.
He had asked for "Day Premiers 2007" to be written on his arm but instead the Thai tattooist wrote "Gay Premiers 2007". His instructions for each arm were also taken literally as he now has "left arm" and "right arm" tattooed on the appropriate limb.
He had paid $150 for the artwork and to make sure the Phuket tattooist got it right, he wrote down exactly what he wanted under the headlines "right arm" and "left arm".
Neville told 3AW radio: "I couldn't believe it.
"I gave them a piece of paper and wrote down on the right arm, I wanted the new Geelong emblem they've got out now ... and Day Premiers 2007."
"I gave them a week to work it all out. And on the left arm side I wrote "left arm" and the two grandkids names and Night Premiers 2006"
"When I first walked in he showed me the picture of the thing, and I just looked at a picture and didn't really take notice of the words.
"My son-in-law walked in halfway through it ... and told me what happened, and I thought 'you're joking!
"Once they'd written right arm, I told them you might as well have left arm on the other one and make it a bit fun."
a Nov. 13 story, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that Paris Hilton was praised by conservationists for highlighting the problem of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India. Lori Berk, a publicist for Hilton, said she never made any comments about helping drunken elephants in India.
Dang. I was hoping the video would show up on the internet soon!
An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A.
Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.
The welts spread across his body unchecked and soon he was left unable to carry out everyday household tasks.
Sacked from his job and deserted by his wife, Dede has been raising his two children - now in their late teens - in poverty, resigned to the fact that local doctors had no cure for his condition.
To make ends meet he even joined a local "freak show", parading in front of a paying audience alongside victims of other peculiar diseases.
Although supported by his extended family, he was often a target of abuse and ridicule in his rural fishing village.
But now an American dermatology expert who flew out to Dede's home village south of the capital Jakarta claims to have identified his condition, and proposed a treatment that could transform his life.
After testing samples of the lesions and Dede's blood, Dr Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland concluded that his affliction is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a fairly common infection that usually causes small warts to develop on sufferers.
Dede's problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system, meaning his body is unable to contain the warts.
The virus was therefore able to "hijack the cellular machinery of his skin cells", ordering them to produce massive amounts of the substance that caused the tree-like growths known as "cutaneous horns" on his hands and feet.
Dede's counts of a key type of white blood cell are so low that Dr Gaspari initially suspected he may have the Aids virus.
But tests showed he did not, and it became clear that Dede's immune condition was something far rarer and more mysterious.
Warts aside, he had enjoyed remarkable good health throughout his life - which would not be expected of someone with a suppressed immune system - and neither his parents nor his siblings have shown signs of developing lesions.
"The likelihood of having his deficiency is less than one in a million," Dr Gaspari told the Telegraph.
Dr Gaspari, who became involved in the case through a Discovery Channel documentary, believes that Dede's condition can be largely cleared up by a daily doses of a synthetic form of Vitamin A, which has been shown to arrest the growth of warts in severe cases of HPV.
"He won't have a perfectly normal body but the warts should reduce in size to the point where he could use his hands," Dr Gaspari said.
"Over the course of three to six months the warts should be come smaller and fewer in number. He will be living a more normal life."
The most resilient warts could then be frozen off and the growths on his hands and feet surgically removed.
Dr Gaspari hopes to get the necessary drugs free of charge from pharmaceutical firms. They would then be administered by Indonesian doctors under his supervision.
Still intrigued by the origins of Dede's peculiar immune condition, the doctor would like to fly him to the United States for further examination, but fears the financial and bureaucratic barriers would prove too difficult to overcome.
"I would like to bring him to the US to run tests on where his immune condition has come from, but I would need funding and to get him a visa as well as someone to cover the costs of the tests," he said.
"I've never seen anything like this in my entire career."
GLEN ST. MARY, Fla. -- Mysterious ape sightings are bringing excitement to a sleepy Florida town. Residents have been hearing screeches in the night and stories of sightings echo on every corner.
The local newspaper even ran a story about the sightings.
"There is kind of that 'I've seen a bigfoot' type of feel to it," said resident Eric Lawson. "They said it made a nest in that tree, so it's probably somewhere here in the area."
Some believe the mysterious animal is an orangutan -- one local family had found what looked to be an orange ape up high in a tree. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigator who answered the original complaint call on the orange ape said there was definitely something up in the top of the tree, but he really couldn't be sure what it was.
He said he took a pack of jelly donuts and left it at the bottom of the tree, hoping to lure the creature to the ground. He said he hasn't heard anything since. "The next morning, the people came out and it was, it was gone," Lawson said. Was there a police car nearby, that night?
If the mysterious animal was an ape, where did it come from? State officials said no one in Baker County is licensed to own an orangutan. "Right turn, Clyde."
Likely a bear or a bear dressed up as an Ape, or an escaped ape from Nassau County. Or a local taking care of his still in a Great Ape Suit.
Or one of Snowies friends.
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He said he took a pack of jelly donuts which just happened to be on the seat next to him.
The next morning, when he saw there was no tip, he knew he was dealing with a wild animal or an illegal.
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Is the license required for semi-automatic orangutans, or just the fully automatic ones?
When orangutans are outlawed...
Oh heck, it's probably just someone's trunk monkey, which isn't even an ape.
(wink wink, nudge nudge... since an ape would need a license, but a trunk monkey wouldn't. Oh, except in Noo Yawk, DC, Chicago, and California. No word on when they plan on going after seeing-eye flying lemurs, probably after the earthquakes subside).
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OMFG! For real? Sounds like they don't even bother to melt the things down before "recycling" them (for the 1001th time?). I hope they at least give them a good rinsing.
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I'm not sure there would be a market for such everlasting gums, they already tried the urinal cakes angle, and, believe me, those are the sourest cakes I've ever eaten (and I've eaten a lot of cakes in my lifetime).
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People could be infected with AIDS, (genital) warts, carbuncles, canker sores, pus lesions or other diseases if they hold the rubber bands or strings in their mouths while waving their hair into plaits or buns," the paper quoted a local dermatologist who gave only his surname, Dong, as saying.
Dr Dong... lotp! IMA SHocked! *Gasp*
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If a product says "Made in China" I re-shelve it.
(AKI) - A Pakistani man in Italy, Mohammed Saleem, and two male relatives, have been sentenced to 30 years in jail in the northern Italian town of Brescia for murdering his daughter, Hina Saleem. Hina's maternal uncle was also implicated in the crime and received a sentence of two years and eight months for helping to conceal her body.
In what has been termed an 'honour killing' the Pakistani girl was allegedly killed because she had "dishonoured" her family and refused an arranged marriage. Hina dressed in western clothes, wore make up, worked in a pizzeria in the northern town of Sarezzo and lived with her Italian boyfriend. She was found with her throat slit buried in the garden of her family home with her head facing Mecca in August 2006. Her father Mohammed confessed to her slaying.
When the sentence was announced in the court on Tuesday, Hina's mother broke down and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. The case shocked Italy and sparked a debate about the integration of Muslims in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.
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What? The murder was too quick, humane or painless? Do tell.
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I knew the name was vaguely familiar, so I had to go read about it. Governor of New York. TO make a long story short(er) - Mr. Spitzers plan touched off a national debate over whether issuing licenses to illegal immigrants would make the state more secure or improperly extend a privilege to them that should be reserved for legal residents.
Opposition to the proposal sent his poll numbers plunging and stalled his broader agenda.
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Not to worry the idiot in San Francisco is pushing to issue ID cards to illegals.
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Why all the publicity was given to "Spitzer's plan" while none is given to the continuing policy of New Mexico to give driver's licenses to illegals is beyond me.
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Local politicians across New York State immediately lined up to be interviewed saying they were against it, Anguper Hupomosing9418, and half the Dept. of Motor Vehicles clerks announced they would not give licenses to illegals who came to them. We were visiting Buffalo at the time, and I was surprised at how many city and county officials were featured on the 11 p.m. news speaking against Governor Spitzer's plan. Is a similar fuss being made in New Mexico?
Only one with the state name followed immediately by 'USA'. Experience has shown that your average county mountie doesn't even know there's a state between Texas and Arizona, so why would they treat the driver's license any different than any other foreign country? You're from Mexico right? Oh, here we go again...
Passengers on a U.S. Airways plane being boarded at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Tuesday morning were taken off the plane after smoke was spotted coming from a suitcase in the cargo area.
Authorities who checked the bag determined there were no explosives in the suitcase. Airport spokeswoman Julie Rodruigez said the Phoenix Fire Department is still investigating the source of the smoke.
Rodriguez said the A-17 gate area in Terminal 4 was evacuated as a precaution. She said the Phoenix Fire Department called in a hazardous materials team as a precaution, and she said the owner of the suitcase is being questioned by police.
The suitcase was in the cargo hold of the airplane headed to San Antonio when it started emitting smoke, said Claire Simeone, another airport spokeswoman. The airplane was moved to a less busy area while authorities investigated the suitcase on the tarmac. CBS affiliate KPHO reported that passengers were able to re-board the plane after it had been moved. The suitcase may have been screened elsewhere and not in Phoenix if it was being transferred onto a connecting flight, Simeone said.
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What! Someone seated the suitcase in the non-smoking section?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Ira Levin, playwright and author of the suspense classics Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil, and The Stepford Wives, has died at his home in Manhattan following a heart attack. Levin, 78, who also wrote for television and Broadway, saw his novels - and their cinematic interpretations - gain cult followings, paving the way for the modern popularity of the horror genre.
Intimate show at drying out facility goes horribly wrong
An Australian football fan's tattoo tribute to his team went horribly wrong when the tattooist got the words day and gay mixed up. 
GLEN ST. MARY, Fla. -- Mysterious ape sightings are bringing excitement to a sleepy Florida town. Residents have been hearing screeches in the night and stories of sightings echo on every corner.
(AKI) - A Pakistani man in Italy, Mohammed Saleem, and two male relatives, have been sentenced to 30 years in jail in the northern Italian town of Brescia for murdering his daughter, Hina Saleem. Hina's maternal uncle was also implicated in the crime and received a sentence of two years and eight months for helping to conceal her body.
