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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sheriff: Student murdered, burned on patio grill
HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- A 19-year-old Texas A&M University student was killed by her ex-boyfriend, who then dismembered and burned her body on a patio grill, authorities said Saturday...

What the hell is all this dismemberment stuff lately, anyhow? They putting something in the water??? Sheesh...
Posted by: Dave D. || 03/25/2007 12:08 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  burned her body on a patio grill

ya gotta keep an eye on it, don't let it flame up. Idiot
Posted by: Frank G || 03/25/2007 12:18 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if he used teriyaki sauce?
Posted by: RD || 03/25/2007 14:40 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't know what to make of this. I do know that in the future I'll read headlines like "Police Grill Suspect" with somewhat more interest...
Posted by: Dave D. || 03/25/2007 14:57 Comments || Top||

#4  RD this is Texas, unlikely he was a use a Herbatchi.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/25/2007 16:06 Comments || Top||

#5  I think there's more to this story. The sheriff refuses to state why there are no remains to be found.
Posted by: Seafarious || 03/25/2007 17:06 Comments || Top||

#6  "That's fiddle player."

"No, that's piccolo player."

"'Ow can you tell?"

"It's piping hot!"
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 03/25/2007 18:19 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Mouse Absconds With Maine Man's Dentures
WATERVILLE, Maine -- Never underestimate a mouse's determination. There's a mouse in Bill Exner's house that he says he has captured three times. Each time, the mouse escaped, and the last time the rodent made off with his lower dentures.
WTH is this-- Catch And Release??? Just kill the damn thing.
Exner, 68, said he and his wife Shirley scoured his bedroom after the dentures disappeared from his night stand.

"We moved the bed, moved the dressers and the night stand and tore the closet apart," he said. "I said, 'I knew that little stinker stole my teeth' -- I just knew it."

They found a small opening in a wall where they suspected the mouse was coming and going, and their daughter's fiance, Eric Holt, stepped in to help.

"He brought a crowbar and hammer and he sawed off a section of wood and pulled up the molding and everything," Exner said. "It was quite a job."

They retrieved the dentures, and Holt suggested his future father-in-law boil them in peroxide and whatever else he could find for to disinfect it.
Hint: be sure to get all the little black specks out...
The mouse apparently isn't done. It frequently comes out and stares at Exner, his wife said.
Mouse Psyops. Messin' with your heads, that's what he's doing.
"He's taunting him -- I swear he's taunting him," Shirley Exner said.
Mice: why do they-- nevermind...
Posted by: Dave D. || 03/25/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They need a cat. I think I'll send them Brynner. He corrals mouse into a corner, and then sits and watches the mouse get a hard attack from fright.
Wish he was a bit bigger and that I could convince him jihadis are shapeshifted mice.
Posted by: twobyfour || 03/25/2007 1:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, my cat is utterly insensitive to mouse's suffering. He seems to rather enjoy it. So what?
Posted by: twobyfour || 03/25/2007 6:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Wasn't this a Tom & Jerry cartoon?
Posted by: Mike || 03/25/2007 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  You mean the "Mouse Psyops"? You may be right. Either art imitates life or life imitates art in this case. It is possible that the mouse watched T&J cartoons peeking from its hole and "got ideas".
Posted by: twobyfour || 03/25/2007 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  We're in yur wallz
peein on yur teef
Posted by: Shipman || 03/25/2007 11:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Okay, here's what you do; first get a crossbow, a choke cable, and several clamps of different sizes, and some 2x4s.
Posted by: wxjames || 03/25/2007 12:46 Comments || Top||

#7  LOL Mr. James, now that's funny.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/25/2007 13:34 Comments || Top||

#8  I've got just the cat for the job. He doesn't play with his food - he kills it and eats it. He then goes out into the woodshed and upchucks all over the soft pine. Luckily I have half a cord of elm and some apple from a neighbor's blighted tree...
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/25/2007 15:01 Comments || Top||

#9  my mom's dentures were chewed up by our little dog when she left them on the bedside table.
It was terrible, as she never was able to get another set that fit her well.
Posted by: Jan || 03/25/2007 22:55 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pir Double Shah fails to drop Rs70 million by helicopter
Pir Double Shah is in the news again

A rumour that Rs70 million would be dropped on Wazirabad through a helicopter by a local pir triggered quite a stir among the residents of the city and attracted a large number of people from Wazirabad, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Hafizabad and surrounding villages.

People gathered at a slum near the Wazirabad Railway Station where the money was expected to be dropped. Sibtul Hassan Shah alias Pir Double Shah, famous for doubling people’s money in 70 days, was said to be distributing the money.

People gathered at the scene said that 10 days ago they heard that Double Shah was going to throw away Rs70 million to mark Pakistan Day celebrations. “I have come all the way from Kasoki (a village near Hafizabad) on Thursday night,” said Zafar Iqbal, who had come to the site along with his friends hoping to get some of the money. “We rented three coats because we had to spend the night out in the cold,” Iqbal said.

“My friends told me about the distribution three days ago,” said Zubair Mughal, also from a nearby village. Women also came to the site and a local motorcycle rickshaw driver, Mushtaq Ahmed, said he had had a busy day bringing people to the site. “I did not have time to sit down for a single minute today,” he said, adding that a large number of women were also his customers.

The shower of money was scheduled to happen at 3pm. However, the people were later told that the pir had gone to River Chenab for a holy bath. “My friend said that Shah and hundreds his followers have gone to the River Chenab and as soon as he returns, he would distribute the money,” said Faisal Noori, a man waiting for the money.

He said Shah had never deceived anyone in the past and this time too, he would fulfil his promise. “I invested Rs20,000 and got the double back. Now I have invested all the money again,” said Noori.

Fazli, resident of the slum, said, “Double gives the money or not, I will surely earn Rs500 by serving tea to the people standing here. I hope people keep on spreading such rumours.”

Malik Javed, who came to Wazirabad from Sialkot, said he had hired four people at Rs500 each for collecting the money and had suffered a loss of Rs2,500 because of the false rumour. “In addition to their wages, I also paid Rs500 for the four men’s food,” said an angry Javed.
Police officials were also patrolling the spot to control the mob and avoid any untoward incident. A policeman said at least 10,000 people had gathered at the site.

From a previous report...
Sibtul Hasan Shah, known as “Pir Double Shah” in Wazirabad, can “double” whatever sum is invested with him within 70 days, locals told Daily Times. Residents of the area said that Shah started this “business” some one-and-a-half years ago, and at that time he took only 15 days to double people’s money. They said that as his business grew, the number of days increased to 70.
Posted by: John Frum || 03/25/2007 08:23 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Malik Javed, who came to Wazirabad from Sialkot, said he had hired four people at Rs500 each for collecting the money and had suffered a loss of Rs2,500 because of the false rumour

Hey.. I could have nominated Mr Javed as Today's Idiot.
Pir Double Shah is allegedly throwing about one million US$ from a chopper, money from heaven, and you hire someone for 500 rupees to collect this money for you?
Posted by: John Frum || 03/25/2007 11:21 Comments || Top||

#2  p-p-p-p-ponzi!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/25/2007 11:33 Comments || Top||

#3  I swear to God I thought rupees could fly!
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 03/25/2007 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  thanks, Al-Herb, LOL!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/25/2007 12:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Hi everyone,
Rumours have no feet and reality travels on feet,
I know how the amount gets doubled, I didnt believe such economical formulas but at last I submit it right.... and about droping of money was a traditional rumour to make the bad image of pir double shah but he is secured, thanks a lot.
Feel free in knowing its reality or getting double amount after 70 days by writing in: yousafkamaal@yahoo.com
Take Care.
An economical analyst and educated person from the respective area, Sambrial.
Posted by: Yousaf Kamaal || 03/25/2007 21:34 Comments || Top||

#6  nigerian muslim troll aisle #5
Posted by: RD || 03/25/2007 21:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Ponzi troll, lol!
Posted by: RD || 03/25/2007 21:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Thank you for your report, Mr, Kamaal. But the fact that Mr. Shah has increased his payout period from a fortnight to almost five times that time makes me very nervous. I'll keep my money in more conservative investments.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2007 21:40 Comments || Top||

#9  A+
Posted by: RD || 03/25/2007 21:40 Comments || Top||

#10  And every word God's honest truth, RD dear. I've a limited understanding of matters financial -- Mr. Wife despairs of me sometimes, poor man -- but at least I'll never fall for a Ponzi scheme like that.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/25/2007 22:16 Comments || Top||

#11  “We rented three coats because we had to spend the night out in the cold,”

I wonder what they did with the three ... oh, coats.
Posted by: Zenster || 03/25/2007 23:37 Comments || Top||


Love marriage costs couple their lives
LAHORE: A woman was allegedly killed by her father, brother and a close relative for marrying the man of her choice, in the China Scheme area of Gujjarpura on Saturday night. The alleged killers also shot dead Neelam’s husband Abid and her brother-in-law Asif.

According to Gujjarpura police, Abid and Sahbnam fled their native district of Narowal after a reported love marriage. They shifted to Lahore, and had been living in China Scheme for a month.

On Saturday night, the girl’s father Ashraf, brother Yasir and a relative identified as Sahahzad broke into Neelam’s house, and killed all the residents: Neelam, Abid and Asif. Police said the killers had escaped, and no first information report had been lodged.
Posted by: Dave D. || 03/25/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  F*cking Jains!
Posted by: gromgoru || 03/25/2007 14:00 Comments || Top||

#2  This inability to recognize how love trumps all other ties is what will finally help to bring Islam to an end. Too many young Muslims growing up in the Internet age will discover the virtue of true heart-felt rapport with another individual. As that recognition spreads it will become increasingly difficult to be persuaded into accepting a total stranger for one's lifemate. One can only imagine how the loveless nature of Islamic matches is pure hell for its unsuspecting victims. Someday I'll have to try and summon up some sympathy for these idiotic cultists.
Posted by: Zenster || 03/25/2007 20:23 Comments || Top||



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  UNSC approves new sanctions on Iran
Sat 2007-03-24
  Iran kidnaps Brit sailors, marines
Fri 2007-03-23
  LEBANON: 200 KG BOMB FOUND AT UNIVERSITY
Thu 2007-03-22
  110 killed as Waziristan festivities enter third day
Wed 2007-03-21
  40 killed in Wazoo clashes
Tue 2007-03-20
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Mon 2007-03-19
  5000+ kilos of explosives seized in Mazar-e-Sharif
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Sat 2007-03-17
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