KNOXVILLE, Tenn. In a tragic twist to a familiar story, a teenager who had sex with his married 30-year-old teacher was fatally shot outside the woman's home, and authorities have charged the woman's husband. "You see all this stuff with teachers involved with their students. It just comes up time after time on the national news," said Norman McLean, father of suspect Eric McLean. But this time, he said, someone "actually died over it." When you come right down to it, a teenager porking your wife still adds up to somebody other than you porking your wife.
Just goes to prove the old saying; "Guns don't kill people, spouses who come home early from work kill people"
McLean's wife, Erin, had completed half of a one-year teaching internship at West High School, where she met the 18-year-old Sean Powell last fall. Powell's mother, who gave him up for adoption a dozen years ago but re-established contact in 2005, said her son acknowledged having an affair with a teacher. "Huh huh! I been drillin' her lights out!"
"He wouldn't let me answer my cell phone," Debra Flynn recalled. "I said, 'Why?' He said, 'Well, Mom, I'm going out with this girl.' I said, 'So what?' He said, 'She is a counselor at school.' I said, 'Oh, my God, Sean."' "Is she married?"
Flynn, whose son sometimes stayed at her home in Nashville, said she later found text messages on her phone. "Come home. Baby, I love you. You are beautiful," they said. "I mean, my son only had the one talent..."
She believes Erin McLean preyed on her son. "Yeah! He wuz innocent!"
"These teachers are feasting on our children in school and something has to be done," Flynn said. He was a horny little beast, just like most 18-year-olds...
Powell "was a great kid, full of life," Flynn said. Not anymore, he's not...
He had taught himself to play guitar and just received his driver's license. His adoptive parents, Scarlett and Jack Powell, had just bought him a car. But he left school on Nov. 20 and did not return. School officials refuse to explain, citing privacy laws. Flynn said her son had a substance-abuse problem and went to rehab for less than a month. So he was a horny young druggy who was porkin' his teacher and somebody blew him away for it? Tusk tusk. My heart simply bleeds. [Urp!]
Norman McLean described his son, one of his eight children, as "an excellent person," who was not violent, but he acknowledged that his son "had a lot of burden on him for months now," referring to his wife's affair.
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A 30-yr old and an 18-yr old. Sounds like 2 adults having an affair to me.
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Start messing around with someone else's wife and you're very likely to die of lead poisoning. I'd not vote for anything greater than manslaughter here because the kid asked for it. The teacher should be in jail as well.
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Mac: The teacher didn't commit any crime except craving a younger man. She can get fired and her academic career is over I would guess, but 18 legal to have sex. Was it immoral? Yeah, but a druggy 18-year old probably didn't much care. I'm wondering the exact circumstances myself. Guy might be able to plead Temporary Insanity to killing the student.
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The couple have two kids ages 7 and 11. They are victims. I don't know what the hell this woman was thinking. There is some concern that she was having an affair with the boy when he was 17--this is being looked into.
The biological mother of the dead boy is making the talk show circuit. The real mother gave up the boy when he was young and he has adoptive parents.
The husband should not have killed the boy. The husband was being taken for a ride by his wife and this 18 year old.
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Yeah, but a druggy 18-year old probably didn't much care.
Not even enough to avoid doing something that positively guaranteed receiving a smackdown of major proportions. I only have sympathy for the husband and his two young children.
I'll second that nomination, all in favor, say "aye"
Three masked men have stolen a massive block of gold bullion on display in a museum in Japan. The gold bar, valued at $1.71m (1.27m euro; £0.87m), weighed about 220 pounds (100kg) and was kept in an open safe. The museum, in the central city of Takayama, said the gold was not protected by sensors as they wanted visitors to be able to touch it. Hmmm.
But the group of thieves went one step further, helping themselves to the precious metal and dragging it away. The gold was lugged past an employee alerted by the noise, ...
"Hey, what're you men doing?"
"Ummm, ... moving some stuff."
"Okay. Let me get the door for you."
... down a staircase and out of the museum where the three men were driven away by a fourth accomplice. "The gold was exhibited on the second floor, which was monitored by a security camera from the first floor," said 59-year-old Hisao Nakahagi, the former owner of the gold.
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I count five perps in the gang. The three who drug the bullion down the steps and out the door , the getaway driver, and the "alert' employee. Or as Doc Steve says, the guy who held the door open for the gold bar 'draggers'.
He has come all the way from England to join eunuchs in the temple town of Bechraji in the district, but Stephen, 28, an undergraduate from Ruskin College of Oxford University, is yet to gain entry into the fold.
For the time being Stephen, who is here for the last one week, roams around alone and at times with the local eunuchs, who are adamant that he would have to go through the rituals of castration before being declared a member of the group and follower of Goddess Bechraji.
Rituals or not, Stephen is sought-after by residents here for blessings for their newborns or being there on auspicious occasions.
When asked why he opted for Bechraji, Stephen said Gujaratis living in London advised him to visit the temple town.
"I have liked to dress up like women right from childhood. I also like Indian dresses and love the bindi on the forehead,"he added.
Stephen is determined to stay on in Bechraji and continue to offer prayers at the temple till the eunuchs reconsider their decision.
In the mean time, he is enjoying all the attention he has been getting from people, including devotees.
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who are adamant that he would have to go through the rituals of castration before being declared a member of the group
Oklahoma State University (OSU) announced today that it will benefit from more than $250 million in life insurance commitments to support athletic department initiatives through an innovative program entitled Gift of a Lifetime.
The announcement was made by OSU Athletic Director Mike Holder, who also serves as president of Cowboy Athletics, Inc. He said the money will be used to endow athletic scholarships, facilities and operations and will significantly advance the school's effort to be competitive in the Big 12 Conference...
...OSU's "Gift of a Lifetime" program involves selected alums in a broad age spread who have qualified for $10 million individual life insurance policies and agreed to name Cowboy Athletics the beneficiary. Cowboy Athletics is paying the premiums. So far, 25 alums have qualified for the program, which is a form of testamentary giving...
...It is believed to be the first time collegiate athletics has used a life insurance program on such a grand scale, Holder said... Universities around the country are watching this intently, hoping that maybe they can convince some of their alumni to have insurance policies taken out with the athletic department as beneficiary. It is a twist on the "dead peasant" insurance policies that some companies were taking out on their employees, without their knowledge.
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I can see it now. Tight end Breakinta Holmes driving around in his Escalade with a "Donated by the Estate of Billy Bob Oilmoney" plaque on the dashboard.
During his two tours in Iraq, Capt. Ray Spaulding battled insurgents, protected a power plant that provides Baghdad with 40 percent of its electricity and provided security for the legislative elections of January 2005, the country's first multiparty vote in more than half a century. He takes pride in those accomplishments. In our area, we had the highest percentage of voters, and we had no casualties with the civilians, said Spaulding, a graduate of Florida A&M University who lives in Tallahassee. We were very proud of it because there were a lot of folks who had never voted before.
The 18-year veteran of the Marine Corps says he welcomes the debate about America's role in Iraq, but he and other local veterans don't want their accomplishments to be forgotten or discounted.
Veterans in the Big Bend and elsewhere are getting together to make sure the good things they did are publicized. That way, the public will know what really went on in Iraq, said Spc. Dan Rosenthal, president of Florida State University's Collegiate Veterans Association. The association, which has about 50 members, was formed in 2005 to support college-age veterans and provide them services, advocacy and a social network, he said.
Pundits and politicians debate whether those accomplishments are worth the U.S. blood and money the war has cost - more than 3,100 troops killed and about $400 billion spent. But for the troops, those accomplishments give meaning to their sacrifices.
I feel very strongly about the work that we did over there, said Maj. John Croushorn, a Lincoln High School graduate who helped save lives as a medical officer attached to an Army combat aviation unit. My personal belief is that there are a lot of hearts and minds being changed. Croushorn, now an emergency-room doctor, flew all over Iraq, often seeing waves from the Iraqis on the ground. Those people believe more in freedom than some people in this country, he said, giving the example of what happens after a bombing kills Iraqis lining up to join security forces. They symbolically put a cardboard table over the blast hole, and there are 120 in line the next day, he said. It's a side of sacrifice that I don't think is clearly communicated back home sometimes.
Croushorn says there aren't enough reporters on the ground to provide news beyond the grisly bombings and death tolls. He pointed out that at one point last year, the number of journalists embedded with coalition troops dropped to nine - down from about 750 when the war began, according to the Pentagon.
Some soldiers have started telling their own stories to compensate for what they see as a lack of information about coalition accomplishments. They're writing books when they return or reporting from the front lines in e-mails and blogs. Others have formed organizations such as FSU's Collegiate Veterans Association, whose aims include community outreach. "We want the community to know who we are, said Rosenthal, a senior political-science major from Palm Beach Gardens who served with the National Guard in Iraq. There's a feeling that our stories aren't being told, and we want them to be told. Those stories include pride in their units' military accomplishments, from the initial push into Baghdad to toppling Saddam Hussein. We removed a regime that was a bloody dictatorship, said Spc. Josh Mears, a former member of the Florida National Guard. We weren't getting the right supplies or the right gear, but we found a way to make it happen.
The New York Times and CNN may refuse to tell the whole story, but those involved are ensuring the story is being told. Men and women trained to make clear objectives, then accomplish them, have set themselves the task of informing the public. What task will they set themselves next?
It has to do with bagels and a person's private body part. It's a newspaper ad in the Boise Weekly that has gotten a lot of extra attention. You rarely notice all the advertisements peppered throughout your morning newspaper. But, this one might make you stop and do a double take.
"What should they learn about their bodies?" asks a middle-aged man in a brown polyester suit. The picture on this film is sepia toned and jerky. You can hear the tell-tale pops from the old film quality as he continues, "As much as they can."
Sound familiar? It's one of those old school sex education films where we were told it's okay to use certain words. In one scene the teacher has students yell out all the names they can think of for male and female sex organs.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. In a tragic twist to a familiar story, a teenager who had sex with his married 30-year-old teacher was fatally shot outside the woman's home, and authorities have charged the woman's husband. "You see all this stuff with teachers involved with their students. It just comes up time after time on the national news," said Norman McLean, father of suspect Eric McLean. But this time, he said, someone "actually died over it."
Gold theft in a Japanese museum
