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-Lurid Crime Tales-
That ain't no hot dog, honey
Talk about "being in the moment"...
DELTONA -- A 27-year-old woman was charged with battery for biting her husband's penis, a Volusia County Sheriff's report shows.
Woah, there, honey! No teeth, okay?
After a night of drinking, Charris Bowers and her husband arrived at their Deltona home late Saturday and began having oral sex, the report says.
Ah, Ye Olde Night of Drinking...
But moments later as Bowers and her spouse, Delou, engaged in the act, she began biting down hard enough that Delou Bowers asked her to stop, the report says. When she refused, Delou Bowers started punching Charris Bowers in the head and face until she finally let go, the report says.
I usually like it when you get into it, honey, but...OUCH!
That wasn't enough, according to the report. Charris Bowers then attempted to punch her husband and he shoved her to the ground and left the room.
Awwww, honey. Don't go away mad...
Charris Bowers told deputies that she bit her husband because she did not want to have sex. But after the deputy saw Delou Bowers' injuries, he concluded charges were warranted.
Woah! Muldoon look at this!
Damn. That vacumn cleaner had teeth, sarge...

Charris Bowers was taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail Sunday morning and released a few hours later on her own recognizance after making her first appearance in court, jail officials said today.
So, maam, got any place you can go?
I will have once this story gets out...
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/29/2008 13:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Volusia County...first they were famous for the butterfly ballot and the hanging chad...and now this.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/29/2008 15:42 Comments || Top||

#2  I can't wait for the mug shot on Smoking Gun
Posted by: regular joe || 12/29/2008 16:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Bar-B-Q accessories
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 12/29/2008 18:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Mugshot


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 12/29/2008 18:53 Comments || Top||

#5  GolfBravo, I'm trying to decide if the damage to my marriage from having a pair of those hot dog cooking thingies would be offset sufficiently by their coolness factor.
Posted by: Jonathan || 12/29/2008 19:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Perhaps if you enticed wifey with a matching set of bun warmers.
Posted by: ed || 12/29/2008 20:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Mugshot at the link. Judging by the looks, I'd assume Charris had "skills". At least I hope so, for Delou's sake....
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/29/2008 20:48 Comments || Top||

#8  "I won't come in your mouth, honey, I promise..."
Posted by: gromky || 12/29/2008 22:50 Comments || Top||


More details in Santa murders
'Santa' Gunman's Marriage Dissolved When Wife Discovered He Abandoned Brain-Damaged Son
I'm reposting this, as it contains A LOT more detail about the attack. The Fox title does not do it justice
COVINA, California -- A man plotting revenge against his ex-wife dressed up like Santa, went to his former in-laws' Christmas Eve party, shot at partygoers and destroyed his former in-laws' house with a homemade device that sprayed flammable liquid, slaughtering at least nine people before killing himself hours later.
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Posted by: logi_cal || 12/29/2008 10:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shot an 8 yr old in the face?! What the fuck is wrong w/people. Burn in hell you fuck.
Posted by: Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 || 12/29/2008 12:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess we know now which side the kid inherited his brain damage from.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/29/2008 13:05 Comments || Top||

#3  had been employed at the radar division

I believe I read elsewhere that he was found ineligible for unemployment comp, which probably means he was fired for cause, and not 'downsized'.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/29/2008 13:08 Comments || Top||

#4  At least we won't have to feed the sick fuck for the rest of his life - and he won't be getting parole.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/29/2008 13:21 Comments || Top||

#5  The 8-year-old survived, BTW.
Posted by: mojo || 12/29/2008 15:40 Comments || Top||

#6  He may have been an engineer, but he couldn't design a good flamethrower since he BBQ'ed his own arms with it.

Good riddance you sick fuck.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/29/2008 15:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Total sociopath - can't understand anyone's feelings but his own. The idea that he was despicable because he abandoned his son...nope, his wife was the evil one for leaving him, and to his mind, his rampage was entirely justified.
Posted by: gromky || 12/29/2008 16:41 Comments || Top||


15 yr old Brox girl charged w/ 2 murders, dismemberment
A 15-year-old Bronx girl has been charged with two homicides including the death of a man whose dismembered body was found in a plastic bag. Sharell Butler was arraigned late Saturday and charged as an adult with murder in the deaths of 24-year-old Christopher Umpierre on Dec. 19 and 22-year-old John Hopkins-Drago on Dec. 21.
2 in 3 days. She was on a roll.
A Bronx building superintendent found Hopkins-Drago's body stuffed in a garbage bag. The medical examiner's office said the cause of death was stab wounds to his head, torso and extremities.

Prosecutors said Umpierre was shot in the chest during a home invasion robbery involving Butler and others.

Prosecutors do not believe that Butler was the shooter, but no one else had been charged in Umpierre's death as of Sunday, said Steven Reed, a spokesman for the district attorney's office.

Butler, whose street name is "Lady Red," was arraigned in Bronx criminal court and was being held without bail, Reed said. A lawyer for the teen, Xavier Donaldson, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Posted by: lotp || 12/29/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Huh. That's a scary schoolgirl.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 12/29/2008 10:05 Comments || Top||

#2  A reminder of why they no longer have "bat days" at Yankee Stadium...

Why hand a club to every punk thug in da Bronx?
Posted by: mojo || 12/29/2008 13:21 Comments || Top||

#3  My earlier comments have disappeared (mods?), but here is far more detail than in the original article

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/12/28/2008-12-28_teen_charged_in_savage_slayings_is_innoc.html
Posted by: logi_cal || 12/29/2008 17:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Did someone switch the source url?

What I read earlier was horribly lacking, and it was not Fox.
Posted by: logi_cal || 12/29/2008 17:41 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Detroit Lions Become NFL's First 0-16 Team
Posted by: lotp || 12/29/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In 1958 as a bitter Bobby Layne who had been traded by Detroit to Pittsburg said that the Lions would not win another championship for 50 years. The Layne Curse ended this season. Think they'll do better in the future? Me neither.

Posted by: GK || 12/29/2008 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Moving from Baltimore to Indianapolis wasn't an long term albatross to the Colts. Just saying....
Posted by: P2k on holiday || 12/29/2008 8:11 Comments || Top||

#3  History repeats itself:

The team made a habit of losing. The Buccaneers lost at least ten games in 17 of their first 21 seasons, including 12 straight from 1983 to 1994. After a particularly dismal effort in the late 1970's, longtime Buc's coach John McKay gave perhaps the quintessential comment on the organization's plight: A reporter asked McKay about his team's execution during the game. McKay responded "I'm in favour of it".

Posted by: Mike || 12/29/2008 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Things are always blackest just before the coach and worthless player firing.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/29/2008 9:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Gotta hit bottom before you can move back up. If they go 1-15 next year, it'll be progress.
Just be glad Millen's not around to blow that No. 1 draft pick.
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/29/2008 9:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Detroit and the Detroit Lions, in a neck-and-neck race for the bottom.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 12/29/2008 10:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe they should petition the guvm't for a bail-out.
Posted by: Free Radical || 12/29/2008 11:19 Comments || Top||

#8  I went home for X-mas w/the fam (west side of Detroit), after a game of drop-in hockey some old auto worker tried to tell me that William Ford really did want to win, he just didn't know how...the guy has had the team 50 yrs. They need to sell the lions to someone who cares more about winning then coaches and gm's kissing their ass.
Posted by: Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 || 12/29/2008 12:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Hey BH6, at least ole Bill had enuff brains to get Mullally for FMC, which he also was running to ground. So, maybe there's a glimmer out there for the Lions. Look at it this way, at least it's a record. And will probably remain in the books for a while. It's like 16-0, only backward.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 || 12/29/2008 12:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Yeah, it is "perfection". Kinda...
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/29/2008 12:26 Comments || Top||

#11  should use that first pick on a WR. That'll work
Posted by: Frank G || 12/29/2008 12:28 Comments || Top||

#12  Tebow won't come out. That leaves Bradford or McCoy. I think the Lions will go with McCoy since he is more mobile. Then they really need to do some serious FA deals and trades to boost the offensive line and bring in a good to semi-great all purpose back. If the Dolphins can do it - then so can Detroit (once they find a way to kidnap Parcells or clone him).
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 12/29/2008 12:50 Comments || Top||

#13  Detroit's problems start in the front office, and are just reflected on the field.

no amount of FA or drafting can make up for the lack of football sense in the front office. the city of Detroit aught to sue Bill Ford.. either turn over the franchise to a competent, or stop using the name Detroit... or move to another market so Detroit can rebuild their image.

on the upside, the lions are so bad, that it does give the city schools and PD a way to look good by comparison.

the lions are an embarassment to football
Posted by: Abu do you love || 12/29/2008 14:13 Comments || Top||

#14  The Lions have been in a depression for some time now (last playoff appearance 1999). There's nowhere to go but UP !! At least the Detroit fans still have the RedWings, Pistons, and Tigers. Those three franchises sports 8 championships since 1984.
Posted by: Tom- Pa || 12/29/2008 15:10 Comments || Top||

#15  Nonetheless, the KC Chiefs have the world's worst "Head" Coach. Given a year or two, Herm Edwards could single handedly dismantle the New England Patriots...
Posted by: borgboy || 12/29/2008 16:12 Comments || Top||

#16  Colt McCoy has already stated that he will return to Tejas for his senior year.
Posted by: bman || 12/29/2008 16:31 Comments || Top||

#17  Meh we only had 14 games.
Posted by: Macay alleged Coach || 12/29/2008 20:00 Comments || Top||

#18  They don't need Millen to screw up the draft picks. Remember Andre Ware?
Posted by: Mike N. || 12/29/2008 20:47 Comments || Top||

#19  The NFL should go to the same system as the European soccer leagues.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 12/29/2008 21:08 Comments || Top||

#20  Well, the Broncos found ways to lose their last three games and skip the playoffs. If they'd won any one of them, they'd have been in the running for a wild-card berth, at least. Maybe they're trying to give Detroit some competition.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 12/29/2008 21:11 Comments || Top||

#21  Sorry about that, OP. Go Chargers!
Posted by: Frank G || 12/29/2008 21:40 Comments || Top||

#22  The Bolts play the Colts, no?
Posted by: Mike N. || 12/29/2008 22:00 Comments || Top||

#23  yep - Saturday 5PM PST
Posted by: Frank G || 12/29/2008 22:03 Comments || Top||

#24  As a Bronco fan, I am glad they lost and got their butt kicked so thoroughly. We couldn't have stopped Indy as we are and we get a better draft pick. Plus, the defensive coach needs fired and the offensive play calling was horrible all year.

Broncos need a major re-tooling and the only way to get it is the complete ass-stomping they so richly deserved.

Although, it would be nice to see the Chargers go all the way. But their coach seems to choke in the playoffs for some reason every year.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/29/2008 22:33 Comments || Top||

#25  my disdain & almost maniacal rage toward the Ford's is like that of a rock throwing paleostinian...
Posted by: Cheash Bluetooth aka Broadhead6 || 12/29/2008 23:43 Comments || Top||


Tigress kills leopard to save its cubs
It was not a poacher's gun that killed a leopard in the Lakhimpur forest in Uttar Pradesh. The full-grown cat was mauled to death by a tigress during a fight.

"The incident took place on Saturday night when the tigress was playing with its cubs near Matera village in Lakhimpur and the leopard came there, sparking a fight between them," District Forest Officer RK Singh said. The fight between the two continued for hours in which the leopard was killed, he said. Senior officers of the Forest Department have reached the spot.

Meanwhile, in yet another rhino poaching in Assam, a full-grown female one-horned herbivore, of highly endangered species, was killed near Kaziranga National Park while its horn was taken away. Forest officials said the female rhino which had strayed out of the park along with two males last week, was shot dead by poachers at Kameri Chapori under Numaligarh forest beat office on the outskirts of the Park three days back. The decomposed carcass of the animal was dug out on Sunday by the police after the villagers informed them of foul smell.
Posted by: john frum || 12/29/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How the heck did a leopard survive for more than two minutes against a much larger opponent?
Posted by: gorb || 12/29/2008 1:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably speed on the part of the leopard. Doesn't say much for the leopards smarts though. It probably could have "disengaged" early in the fight.
Posted by: tipover || 12/29/2008 3:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Leopard was stoopid to attack cubs with Momma there. But he did make a nice meal for the litter.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 || 12/29/2008 12:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Wonder if the tigress toyed with the leopard before finishing it off? Teaching the youngsters how to fight perhaps?
Posted by: john frum || 12/29/2008 12:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Musta been a Chinese tiger - those Chinese restaurants have been known to serve meals of cat meat.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/29/2008 13:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Leopards are stronger than they look. Watch one carry a springbok up a tree sometime.
Posted by: mojo || 12/29/2008 15:44 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
300 illegal Bangladeshi migrants missing off Andamans
About 300 illegal migrants are feared to have drowned in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of India's Andaman and Nicobar islands. The migrants went missing after they jumped from a drifting boat and tried to swim ashore. More than 100 people have been rescued so far. A survivor told police that more than 400 people had been on the boat, trying to reach Malaysia. The migrants are thought to be from Bangladesh and Burma.

"One body has been recovered so far and search operations are still going on in nearby islands for survivors," Ranjith Narayan, Director General of Police in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, told the BBC. Indian coast guard officials said a group of 88 people were rescued from a small boat near Little Andaman island, about 90 km from south of the capital Port Blair. Another 11 men were found on nearby Sandy Point island. A survivor told officials that the boat had little food or water and only a plastic sheet for sail.

Preliminary investigations suggested the men had left for Malaysia in six motorised boats about 45 days ago. At some point in the journey, they changed vessels. One survivor, identified as Mohammad Ismail Arafat, said he and others had paid a Bangladeshi agent for promised jobs. "We were left to the mercy of God... after drifting for 10-15 days, when finally we saw a lighthouse, many jumped into the water," a statement by the Indian coast guard quoted him as saying.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands lie about 1,200km (750 miles) east of the Indian mainland.
Posted by: john frum || 12/29/2008 07:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Polls open in B'desh
DHAKA - Bangladeshis poured out in large numbers early on Monday to vote in a landmark parliamentary election to take their country back to democracy, after two years of emergency rule by an army-backed interim government.

Voting started at 8 a.m. (0200 GMT) in more than 35,000 polling centres across the South Asian nation and will close at 4 p.m. (1000 GMT). Security forces and election monitors were present in strength in an effort to assure the election went peacefully and the results were credible.
Credible? Hah ...
Posted by: Steve White || 12/29/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
500 more 'immigrants' arrive in Italy
ROME - More than 500 illegal immigrants arrived on Italian shores Sunday as opposition lawmakers attacked Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition government for failing to tackle the problem. Some 253 illegally entered the country on Sunday morning by arriving on the southern island of Lampedusa, with a further 300 arrving on the neighbouring island of Linosa later in the day.

"The government's strategy on illegal immigration has been a miserable failure," said Marco Minniti, a senior figure inside the Democratic Party. "This year, we have already seen more than double the amount of (illegal immigrants) compared to last year," he added.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini called on Libya Saturday to do more to stem the flow of illegal immigrants from its shores. He explained that an agreement between Italy and Libya to cooperate further on tackling illegal immigration could not yet be put into action as it had not yet been ratified by the Italian parliament.

But Ivano Strizzolo, a Democratic Party deputy, said the deal, struck in August, had proved "totally ineffective".

Even politicians belonging to Berlusconi's ruling coalition criticised the increasing numbers of illegal immigrants. "The arrival of these poor people in Lampedusa has been orchestrated by one person... Colonel Kadhafi, former financier of international terrorism," said Mario Borghezio, a European deputy with the populist Northern League.

Immigrant arrivals by sea to Italy have greatly increased this year, surpassing 24,000 from January to mid-September, compared to a little more than 14,000 over the same period in 2007, according to Italy's interior ministry.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/29/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are at least 500 selling handbags in Venice. Italy doesn't need anymore.

Posted by: Jack is Back! || 12/29/2008 12:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Oprah Burned By Holocaust Hoax
Truthiness gets an airing thanks to the original O

From TFA:


A heartwarming Holocaust memoir that is to become a big-budget film has been exposed as a hoax by a Jewish survivor in Britain only weeks before it was due to be published.

Herman Rosenblat's Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love that Survived, tells how he met his future wife as a girl when she threw apples to him over the barbed wire fence of the concentration camp where he was held.

Oprah Winfrey, who twice invited Mr Rosenblat on to her talk show, hailed the book as “the single greatest love story ... we've ever told on air”. The still-unpublished memoir became the basis for a children's book and $25 million (£17 million) feature film, The Flower of the Fence, which is due to start shooting in March.
Posted by: badanov || 12/29/2008 07:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oprah seems to get suckered on these to-good-to-be-true heartwarming stories on a fairly regular basis. Seems like it would pay her to check these stories out throughly before embarrassing herself again.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 12/29/2008 9:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Simply proves there ain't no fix'n stupid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2008 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  O has a problem in separating a 'good story' from facts or dealing with verifying claims of facts. It's the unfortunate half of elevating 'feelings' over the brains you were given. We saw the same problem manifested last month.
Posted by: P2k on holiday || 12/29/2008 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember, for Ms. O and her audience, a feelgood story is just as good as a real one.

Typical of liberals.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/29/2008 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  So Oprah got suckered and made to look like a fool?
I'd call that "heartwarming"...to me.
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/29/2008 9:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Yep. Oprah endorses a lot blowhards who turn out to be bogus. Kinda makes you wonder about her endorsement of Obama.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/29/2008 12:04 Comments || Top||

#7  I read about this yesterday and there is an opinion of some survivors that this is mostly true. Mr. Rosenblat stated that he related the events as he remembered them from the perspective of a child. He claims this is not a hoax but his best remembrance of the events as they happened.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/29/2008 12:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Surprised, shocked and amazed!


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 12/29/2008 12:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Wait until she finds out that Obama is a fake also and that Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams of My Father". Sort of like Rathergate. The story is fake but the narrative is true.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 12/29/2008 12:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Too bad nobody hooked her up with Madoff. She'd probably be living on food stamps and guvmint cheese by now.
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/29/2008 13:11 Comments || Top||

#11  you mean living on food stamps and government cheese again...
Posted by: Abu do you love || 12/29/2008 14:17 Comments || Top||



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