MCKEESPORT, Pa. (AP) -- A woman pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with a bizarre incident in February that resulted in a fake penis being microwaved at a convenience store.
WAUKEGAN, Ill. A coroner's jury has declared the death of a heart attack victim who spent almost two hours in a hospital waiting room to be a homicide.
Beatrice Vance, 49, died of a heart attack, but the jury at a coroner's inquest ruled Thursday that her death also was "a result of gross deviations from the standard of care that a reasonable person would have exercised in this situation."
A spokeswoman for Vista Medical Center in Waukegan, where Vance died July 29, declined to comment on the ruling.
Vance had waited almost two hours for a doctor to see her after complaining of classic heart attack symptoms nausea, shortness of breath and chest pains, Deputy Coroner Robert Barrett testified.
She was seen by a triage nurse about 15 minutes after she arrived, and the nurse classified her condition as "semi-emergent," Barrett said. He said Vance's daughter twice asked nurses after that when her mother would see a doctor.
When her name was finally called, a nurse found Vance slumped unconscious in a waiting room chair without a pulse. Barrett said. She was pronounced dead shortly afterward.
Barrett said he subpoenaed records after finding discrepancies in the hospital's version of events.
It wasn't immediately clear if the ruling would lead to criminal charges. Dan Shanes, a chief of felony review for the state attorney's office, said his division needed to review the case.
Vista Medical Center spokeswoman Cheryl Maynen said the hospital, just north of Chicago, cooperated with the coroner's investigation and had also investigated the incident. She declined to comment on the homicide ruling.
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Trying to think which variant of Law and Order this will show up on. I am interested in seeing just how far the records diverged from reality.
Mike
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My thoughts exactly, Mike. I wonder if the threat of criminal charges is to get more cooperation from staff who have a tendency to clam up in cases like this.
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I forget what blog it was on, but yesterday I was reading a post about Famous Last Words. One commenter said his elderly aunt got sick and went to the emergency room. Five hours later she stood up, said, "Well if they think I'm going to hang around here any longer, they've got another think coming," and promptly dropped dead.
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Now that tobacco settlement money has dried up, expect more things like this from the legal industry.
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My not so famous (almost) last words were, "I need to see a doctor like I need another hole in my head!" Just before I lost consciousness due to stroke-induced rising ICP. After a slight coma for a bit, a couple weeks in ICU and a spiffy new VP shunt (a permanent drainage tube insterted into a HOLE drilled into my skull, I was fine. Well, I walk a bit funny now. :)
Seriously, thank God my better half called 911 after I could no longer protest.
Hat tip African Crisis, home of the feel-good stories about South Africa.
Hilton resident Dennis Gramkow is fulsome in his praise of Amanzimtoti police and others who assisted him and his son after they were hijacked on Saturday. Gramkow, 42, a human resources development manager, and his eight-year-old son, Christopher, were returning home after a weekend fishing trip when they were hijacked, robbed and attacked.
Gramkow is still shocked after his ordeal at the hands of a mob near Umbumbulu. "My son and I were travelling along the Umbumbulu road that goes past Eston and exits at the N3 junction. "We rounded a bend and came across a mob of people and a truck stationary in the road. As we approached we were flagged to stop."
Gramkow said 30 to 40 men had suddenly charged towards them. He tried to reverse his Opel Corsa bakkie at high speed while some in the mob fired shots. He was unable to spin the bakkie around before they were mobbed. "My son's door was locked and they yanked mine open, grabbing my key and screaming for my cellphone and money. I raised my hands and told them they could have everything, but not to hurt my son.
"We were ordered to get out of the bakkie. My son, who was undoing his seatbelt and unlocking his door, was flung outside by about four men who kicked him. I was also hit on the head from behind," he said.
The bakkie was then driven to the roaring mob, where it was spun around in circles. Father and son were helped by the occupants of a taxi, parked some distance away, who had witnessed their ordeal.
Gramkow said the police later recovered his bakkie from the scene. "The police were fantastic. They assisted us by inspecting the car for damage caused by the bullet holes and accompanied us back to the Amanzimtoti Police Station. Immediately they called for a trauma counsellor to debrief my son and I. They assisted us with statements and went out of their way to make us feel secure." The usual stories about SA police are less complimentary, mebbe they were lucky.
Police told him a hijacker, who had been killed a week before, was to have been buried that day. They suspected his bakkie was to have been burnt at the funeral. Nicer than necklacing, I guess...
Sounds like the police did everything. Except arrest the assholes that did this.
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From what I hear, South African is slowly descending into chaos. Car jackings, rape, robbery, and assaults are the norm. The State Department doesnt paint a picture of safety and security. Good to see the ANC is doing well.
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I'm more and more inclined to believe that colonization and/or "occupation" is the best thing that ever happened to most of these $#!thole "nations".
Yet another example of having the right to remain silent, but not the ability....
Call it a case of "too much information."
A Mesa police officer was writing a citation for underage drinking to Nathan Palmer, 19, outside a party last week in the 1000 block of South Seton. When the officer looked into the brown paper bag and saw a 40-oz. bottle of Steel Reserve beer, he mentioned to Palmer that it was a cheap alcohol that many "tweekers," or meth users, drink.
Palmer protested. "Call me anything but a tweeker," he said, according to a police report. "I smoke weed sometimes, but I don't tweek."
The officer asked Palmer where his weed was, and the teenager pulled a plastic sandwich bag out of his pocket filled with "a green, leafy substance."
It tested positive for marijuana and Palmer was arrested for possession.
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Years ago I saw a batch of tweekers, identified as such by someone who knew them. After watching them for a minute, I had a horrible realization. Each and every one of them had acute lead poisoning. They even had the telltale "Burton's line", a noteworthy grey black line along their gums.
Somehow, in the process of manufacturing their drug, it is most likely that a large quantity of lead acetate was introduced. Before, this was known most commonly among moonshiners, when some novice had used a car radiator to condense his distillation.
My friend also pointed out the "paradox of the tweeker": many of them work overtime at their minimum wage jobs to afford their meth, and smoke their meth so they will be able to work overtime at their minimum wage job.
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reminds me of a psych eval I had to do a long time a go in grad school. . .
the guy was trying to put his best foot forward. he told me that he was committed to stop his use of PCP. He said, "I know I gotta stop. My uncle's a doctor...and he told me that if I don't stop using PCP, it'll affect my memory and, um, I forgot what else he told me. . . "
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My friend also pointed out the "paradox of the tweeker": many of them work overtime at their minimum wage jobs to afford their meth, and smoke their meth so they will be able to work overtime at their minimum wage job.
Police, returning fire, shot to death an armed man holding five hostages in a local post office west of Paris, officials said. The hostages were freed unharmed after their three-hour ordeal. The man, described as a 25-year-old local resident, tried to hold up the post office in Lemay, some 65 kilometers west of Paris in the Yvelines region, police said.
An official of the prefecture for the Yvelines region, Nathalie Colin, said police of the elite RAID rapid intervention force shot the man to death after he fired on them. The man, not identified by name, entered the post office at about 4 p.m, demanding money. He took five people hostage, at one point setting garbage cans on fire, police said.
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a 25-year-old local resident
and they wonder why nobody buys newspapers anymore. Any bets that his nickname was Mo?
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French msm golden rule : "No Name = Youth (IE north african, african or turkish up to late 30's)"
This is so evident it's almost a mockery obvious to everyone; the only time names are given, though I feel this has loosened a bit since a couple of years (?), is when the perp is named Jean-Jacques, Yves, Michel, Roger, etc, etc... you get my drift.
Ethnicity is a BIG no no; last year there was a serial rapist on the prowl (don't know what happened afterward); teevee warned the public, saying to "beware of an athletic young man with brown eyes and a baseball cap"... okay... only in english media, and in Euronews IIRC was the fact this gentleman was a black african mentioned.
And, yes, it is race and religion here; the msm takes no gloves for the eastern Europe gypsies gangs, who are named as such (french gypsies, 50% of whom have a criminal record IIRC as adult, are more sensitive, though they are named as such for the endemic construction material thefts or the organized art pillaging gangs).
I think it was "Le point", a very mainstream mag, who had a taboo-breaking article about the ethnicity of crime in France last year; supposedly, 70% of all those processed througgh the system come from the immigration; a police intelligence report which was criticized by "antiracist orgs" for taking ethnicity into account estimated that leaders of the french intifada waged in permanence by street gangs were 67% north african, 17% black african, and only 9% care "ethnic french".
An earlier (2002, I'd say) study by correction psychologists to establish the profile of gangrapists in France found that about 80% of them were either naturalized french from an african/north african background, or foreigners of the same background (survey in the Netherland has found a similar percentage, by the way IIRC).
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An another msm funny dilemna is when taboos collide. This is what happening with the money-motivated or not gay-bashing of the Youths; there was three cases in a row very recently, with one death (plus an another one probably not by a Youth in rural France). Guess who won? No mention was made of the fact that each time, the skels came from the 'hood, and you could only find that... in rightwing websites... ça alors!
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday to at least one criminal charge in an election-year congressional corruption investigation, Republican officials said Thursday night.
Seeya, scumbag.
Ney, whose ties with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff have long been under scrutiny by prosecutors, has consistently denied all wrongdoing. He announced this summer he would not seek re-election, a step he took reluctantly and at the prodding of party leaders fearful of the loss of his seat.
The Republican officials who described the legal developments said they did not know whether Ney intended to resign his seat in the House. Calls to Ney's home and congressional office were not immediately returned. The Justice Department declined to comment.
The Republican officials said they were not certain whether Ney intended to admit guilt to more than one charge, or precisely what offense would be involved in any plea agreement. They said a prison sentence was not out of the question. Two officials said Ney would admit to having filed a false disclosure report with the House of Representatives in connection with a 2002 golfing trip to Scotland that Abramoff paid for.
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Say Bob...say Hi to the Dukester for us will ya?
She wore a slinky black dress with silver sparkles, just like Cher. She had curly black hair, too. And canned music so she could sing along with Cher's greatest hits. But this was not your traditional impersonator. Because underneath it all, this lady was a man.
And that created a ruckus when she arrived at the Democratic Party convention in Atlantic City last week to sing and dance at the meeting of the gay caucus. "We said listen, this is Atlantic City and it's a pretty irreverent place," says Steve Goldstein, founder of Garden State Equality, the state's leading gay-rights organization. "So let's have a little fun, and be a little campy."
Goldstein had no idea what was coming. Party leaders were not about to let the gay caucus fix this image of the Democrats in the mind of the public. Certainly not during an election season. So as "Cher" walked the hallways at Bally's Hotel and Casino before her performance on Friday evening, the party sent young workers to tear down the posters advertising her show. Then Diane Legreide, the party's executive director, marched straight at Goldstein with a full-volume dressing down. She doesn't recall her exact words and says her major concern was that Cher's performance might make too much noise.
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"Among those dancing was Sen. Loretta Weinberg, a 71-year-old grandmother from Bergen County, who counsels her fellow Democrats to take a pill and relax. "Cher wasn't great," Weinberg says. "But I survived it. And I didn't catch anything. I'm still wearing women's clothes.""
And Stalin really didn't starve all those people in the Ukraine. And she survived that, too.
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"What is the Democratic Party supposed to mean if it isn't the party of all the people who are shut out?"
Who the hell do you think it is that shuts you out, dipshit?
Unless they need your money or your vote.
The modern Democratic party, for all their high-flown rhetoric about equality, is extremely racist/bigoted.
There used to be a saying regarding blacks (Negroes, back then) and their treatment in the North and the South: The South didn't care how close they got, as long as they didn't get too rich, and the North didn't care how rich they got, as long as they didn't get too close.
The Dems don't want minorities to be rich (might want to keep some of the money they earned, and vote Republican) or close (except for photo-ops close to elections, and for votes). :-(
Pfui.
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"What is the Democratic Party supposed to mean if it isn't the party of all the people who are shut out?"
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Camel jockeys represent one of the largest forms of institutionalized child labor and child abuse in the world. These kids are intentionally starved to keep their weight down for the races. Just one of many national disgraces for Saudi Arabia.
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Police, returning fire, shot to death an armed man holding five hostages in a local post office west of Paris, officials said. The hostages were freed unharmed after their three-hour ordeal. The man, described as a 25-year-old local resident, tried to hold up the post office in Lemay, some 65 kilometers west of Paris in the Yvelines region, police said. 
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday to at least one criminal charge in an election-year congressional corruption investigation, Republican officials said Thursday night.
She wore a slinky black dress with silver sparkles, just like Cher. She had curly black hair, too. And canned music so she could sing along with Cher's greatest hits. But this was not your traditional impersonator. Because underneath it all, this lady was a man. 
