MAIDEN, North Carolina A man who bought a smoker at an auction of abandoned items might have thought twice had he looked inside first. Maiden police said Tuesday the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it, he found a human leg, cut off 2 to 3 inches (5 to 8 centimeters) above the knee.
The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility, so investigators contacted the mother and son who had rented the space where the smoker was found. The mother, Peg Steele, explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery "for religious reasons" she doesn't know much about.
"The rest of the family was very much against it," Steele said. Steele said her son, John Wood, plans to drive to Maiden, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) northwest of Charlotte, to reclaim his amputated leg, police said.
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Maybe this explains how Eric Rudolph was able to last so long without supplies before turning himself in to authorities in NC. Giving new meaning to living off the land or passerbys which ever presented itself first. Queue Deliverance Music.
Stolen bones and tissue allegedly have been implanted in hundreds of Americans, prompting recalls and producing a legal quagmire.
Jim Livingston, 44, of Weatherford, Texas, is one of the patients and he is suing in New York, claiming fraud and negligence by those involved in the matter, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram reported Tuesday.
Livingston has a transplanted bone in his neck that allegedly was stolen from a corpse, the newspaper said.
"How can you sell parts out of a body, just like parts from a stolen car?" he asked the Star-Telegram.
Criminal charges have been filed against Michael Mastromarino, owner of Biomedical Tissue Services in Brooklyn, who authorities say got funeral directors to remove body parts from cadavers without notifying families or screening for disease. Mastromarino allegedly doctored death certificates and forged consent forms. The body parts were then shipped to other companies nationwide and implanted in patients in 2004 and 2005.
Five tissue processors that received human parts from Biomedical Tissue Services issued voluntarily recalls. Medtronic, a Minneapolis distributor that received the parts and also is being sued by Livingston has voluntarily recalled about 16,000 bones, a company spokesman said.
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...IIRC, one of the cadavers that Mr. Mastromarino was accused of taking bones from was that of Alastair Cooke, the famed BBC journalist and probably the last friend the US ever had at that august institution.
Mike
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So this is what the Mafia is doing now? They can't make enough money doing it the approved way? The criteria for tissue donation is less stringent than solid organ transplantation. They usually never have problems getting approval, since being able to help others can give the donor's loved ones solace in a unique way.
Back in mid-summer 2004 a horrible misfortune happened where a man who died of rabies was mistakenly used as an organ donor.
5 people died, including a woman who got some vein tissue.
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Dave von Kleist, host of The Power Hour, a Missouri-based radio-talk show, said he wrote to military officials calling for action. I'm concerned about symbolism, he said. This is not the type of message America needs to be sending to the world.
1. Dave von Kleist ought to take a fuckin pill.
2. Who's Dave von Kleist?
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I saw it. Yeah, I'm sure that's the only government housing complex in the US with four L shaped buildings in it configured like that.
Here's an idea. Tear one of them down.
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Better yet, they shouldn't just camouflage the design, just 'fill it in', expand the facility into a "crossed square", we can always use another 'geometric' design like the pentagon. Simple logic.
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Are we really so hypersensitive that we are seeing swastikas in building design???! It looks like a good design to me. Everyone has a window with a view and good natural light. Half the offices look out over a courtyard.
Sheesh. You can't see it unless you are looking from above. Don't we have more important problems in the world than people who run around seeing Nazis under every tree.
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Crapadoodle, the arms even open in the correct direction (counter-clockwise). So, how many Jewish pilots are going to get a chance to be offended by this?
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WW2 started and ended six-plus decades ago, and the Swastika is also an ancient Native American symbol of the sacred, all powerful Thunderbird.
Get over it.
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Take two of the outside legs and reverse them, and then you will have the symbol for infinity. Will pi$$ off the Finite Community, but they are a limited number anyway.
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(CBS) NEW YORK America is well-known across the globe as a country with an obesity problem, a problem that's become so bad, our snacking habits have turned us into a so-called "Twinkie nation." Over 500 million of the popular golden cakes are sold each year, but what exactly are they made of? CBS 2's Dr. Holly Phillips decided to dissect the anatomy of a Twinkie, worshiped today on sites across the Web and even on the big screen.
Dr. Phillips says there are 39 ingredients packed into the dessert, and all but one are processed.
The ingredients cellulose gum, calcium sulfate, and polysorbate 60 are also used in sheetrock, shampoo, laundry detergent, and even rocket fuel. Author Steve Ettlinger spent five years tracking down the source of every ingredient found in a Twinkie.
"I was surprised that so many not only came from petroleum, but at least five came from rocks," Ettlinger says.
All 0.0001% of them.
The vitamins, artificial flavors, and colorings all come from petroleum. Phosphates from limestone make Twinkies light and airy. "Sorbic acid is made from natural gas. That really blew my mind," Ettlinger says.
Easily blown.
And the creamy middle?
"There is no cream in the cream, as they say. It's mostly Crisco," Ettlinger says.
Processed foods have been indicted as the main contributor to our childhood obesity epidemic. The 290 calories and nine grams of fat are less-than-friendly to our coronary arteries.
Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, issued a statement about the Twinkie's anatomy: "Deconstructing the Twinkie is like trying to deconstruct the universe. We think the millions of people would agree that Twinkies just taste great."
Ettlinger says there is no denying a Twinkie is far from a health food. "It is what it is. If you want healthy, if you want something good for you, eat your broccoli," he says.
And while snacking can help boost energy throughout the day, research shows that processed, high-sugar snacks give quick jolts followed by even more fatigue. When it comes to those guilty pleasures, moderation is key.
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I didn't even know what a twinkie was, but after reading the above article and the Esteemed Site Owner's link, then, I just know I must get one (or more) and eat it (or, more likely, them). An another bad thing for me to buy online.
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A5089, I'll be happy to send you a case. Think French customs will let them through?
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T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. is a series of experiments conducted during finals week, 1995, at Rice University. The tests were designed to determine the properties of that incredible food, the Twinkie.
Now this is a study the government should fund. I mean, have you seen Al Gore lately?
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Look for a store that stocks American foodstuffs, anonymous5089. If they don't already stock Twinkies, they'll be able to order it in for you. I do the reverse to get my favourite Dijon mustard with tarragon and schokoladehagel.
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Is there something wrong with rocks? Rocks play a very important role in not only our economy but in how our bodies work. Besides, a large part of soil is nothing more than rock.
Personally I like rocks. They're heavy, make good weapons and are very useful in daily life...like throwing rocks at your smelly neighborhood greenie. I mean, after all, you're just 'sharing' part of 'Gaia' with him. He should be happy for it.
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I'll bet they didn't even mention that dangerous chemical Dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). DHMO has been found in many disease causing agents and toxic subtances. DHMO is found in alcoholic beverages, which cause many drunk driving accidents, and is also found in sewage. See the link for more shocking information about this chemical.
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Sea, the website talks about their efforts to have the federal government do something about DHMO. For some reason, the FDA, EPA and other agencies just brush them off and refuse to regulate it!
I always like to use DHMO as an example with people who claim they never have any chemicals in their food. It's really fun, especially with the chemically illiterate.
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"For some reason, the FDA, EPA and other agencies just brush them off and refuse to regulate it!"
Bush, Cheney, Halliburton to blame, again.
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I'm with you on that, Bright Pebbles. yuck.
Rambler, the real outrage is that millions of Americans are walking around with massive concentrations of that chemical in their bodies!! -- and the Bush administration is doing nothing about it thanks to their corporate puppetmasters.
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It's worse than that, lotp. Dihydrogen monoxide is an addictive substance. If you remove DHMO from the diets of an addict, and then remove all possible substitutes, the withdrawal symptoms inevitably result in death within days.
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Even worse, there's a whole river of it that Israel has caused to flow right next to Jordan - an act of Zionist aggression that deserves great opprobation by the peaceloving world.
Not to mention the fact that they pipe it into Gaza and the West Bank. Is there nothing those criminals won't stoop to do against the poor Palestinian people?
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Are they talking about Twinkies (bleh) or a "Tasty Treat"?
They need to make up their minds.
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09/26/2007 19:12 Comments ||
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Remember: excessive consumption of Hostess Twinkies™ leads to the development of irrational behavior, up to and including homicide.
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09/26/2007 21:36 Comments ||
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When Twinkies are outlawed, only outlaws will have Twinkies.....someone had to say it..
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Ettlinger's book is actually a very good examination of food production and not an anti-Twinkie screed. In fact, he points out that only one of the ingredients is a preservative and the shelf life is measured in weeks, not months or years.
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Useful for those times when you need to show the imperialist gangsters the unstoppable might of single-hearted Army-Party unity and turn their ill-gotten empire into a sea of fire, but can't quite come up with the right words.
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"North Korean," my foot. The American Left says these things all the time.
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LAHORE: The Sukkur district administration has objected to the Pakistan Navys barbeque (BBQ) centre in Rohri city on the bank of River Sindh and asked the navy to shut down its BBQ business and return the plot, BBC Urdu reported.
According to the BBC, the navys commander in Sukkur, Bux Ali, has said that the BBQ business is not returning a profit and a proposal has been sent to Naval Headquarters to convert it into a play land or marriage garden.
Agreement violation: However, Sukkur District Nazim Nasir Shah told the BBC that he objected to the navy conducting business on the plot, as the organisation had no right to establish a business on it. He said the navy had agreed to use the plot for an amusement club or water sports purposes when it had acquired it from the district administration and its BBQ business was violating that agreement. Ali rejected the allegations leveled by the Sukkur administration and termed them baseless. He challenged the Sukkur district administration to reoccupy the plot if it could do so.
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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
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