News of the odd and wierd

[coclarkson]

taken from www.cnn.com

Towel in women's body for seven years



CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Relatives of a woman whose surgeon left a rolled-up towel inside her chest have filed a lawsuit against the clinic where the surgery was performed.

Bonnie Valle often complained about an odd feeling in her chest in the years following a procedure at the Cleveland Clinic, family members said.

"She always said, 'On the left side, it feels like there's something there. It felt like something moved,"' said her daughter, Jeanne Clark.

Doctors told Valle the symptoms reflected the progression of her emphysema and that the benefits of the surgery would not last forever, Clark said.

Valle, a former nurse's aide, came to the Cleveland Clinic for lung-reduction surgery in October 1995. Smoking nearly two packs of cigarettes a day since the age of 15 had left her with emphysema and dependent on a constant supply of oxygen, Clark said.

When she died in June 2002, a day after her 60th birthday, Valle donated her body to the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. During dissection, a faculty member discovered a green surgical cloth the size of a large hand towel behind her left lung.

Clark filed a lawsuit last week seeking unspecified damages against the clinic and her mother's Canton-based physician, Jeffrey Miller. The lawsuit contends the towel produced costly complications and ultimately caused her mother's death.

"Her body was literally growing around it, trying to isolate it," said Clark's attorney, Mark Okey. "It's a foreign object, and her body was trying to fight it off."

Cleveland Clinic spokesman Cole Hatcher said the hospital had not seen the lawsuit yet and does not comment on pending litigation. Dr. Thomas J. Kirby, who performed the surgery, is no longer with the clinic.

A message left seeking comment from Miller was not immediately returned Friday.

In a letter to the medical school, Miller wrote that he did not think the towel affected the duration or quality of Valle's life.

"She lived seven years ... which is certainly as well as one would have expected her to survive given her severe emphysema and poor pulmonary function and overall condition," Miller wrote.

 

[coclarkson]

Man cuts off penis in sex protest

Sat Aug 7, 7:14 PM ET


RABAT (Reuters) - A 70-year-old Moroccan cut off his penis in protest at his wife's long refusal to have sex with him, hospital sources say.



The unidentified man severed his organ on Monday in the southern town of Ait Ourir and was taken to a hospital in the nearby city of Marrakesh for treatment.


"He didn't bring his penis with him. He has left the hospital well, but without his penis," a doctor from the Ibn Toufail hospital told Reuters on Saturday.

Maybe he can grow another one:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_376025.html

 

[Da' Pimp]

Man shot dead as bulletproof magic fails

March 14 2001 at 06:37PM

Accra - A Ghanaian man was shot dead by a fellow villager while testing a magic spell designed to make him bulletproof, the official Ghana News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Aleobiga Aberima, 23, and around 15 other men from Lambu village, northeast Ghana, had asked a jujuman, or witchdoctor, to make them invincible to bullets.

After smearing his body with a concoction of herbs every day for two weeks, Aberima volunteered to be shot to check the spell had worked.

One of the others fetched a rifle and shot Aberima who died instantly from a single bullet.

Angry Lambu residents seized the jujuman and beat him severely until a village elder rescued him, the report added.

Tribal clashes are common in Ghana's far north, where people often resort to witchcraft in the hope of becoming invulnerable to bullets, swords and arrows. - Reuters

 

[Zinista]

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Enraged by an old grudge, a blind man fatally stabbed his blind friend whom he found by feeling his way through a Philippine residence for the disabled and identifying the victim by voice, police said Wednesday.
Police said they would charge Edmundo Geraldiso, 55, with murder for the attack late Monday in the southern city Zamboanga. Geraldiso was identified by a witness, who is also blind, through his voice, investigator Tirso Cruz said. Geraldiso had accused the victim, Reynaldo Concordia, of sowing intrigue that prompted Geraldiso's girlfriend to leave him in 2000. Since then, he had tried to look for the victim to exact revenge, Cruz said.
Geraldiso learned Monday that Concordia was visiting relatives and friends at the residence for the disabled where the attacker lived.
Geraldiso made his way out of his room with a dagger, found the victim talking in a kitchen and stabbed him twice, Cruz said.
"I remembered his voice," Geraldiso said by telephone from a Zamboanga police station, where he was detained.
Geraldiso, who surrendered to police, said he only meant to harm his friend, not kill him.
"I regret what I did but I can't do anything now," he said.

 

[Duke E. Pyle]

awww yall ain't seen shit yet!!!! click this mofo'n link and be totally fuckin amazed!!

http://www.bmezine.com/news/people/A10101/addsub/

 

[scottbritt]

Wow Duke's link is really fucked up. The last paragraph about how they prepare to do some genital work is absolutley scary. Gross.

 

[Da' Pimp]

What I like to call......Gangsta' :wink:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5676057

 

[zou136]

wow pimp that was hilarious, that guy was truly original sure would like to meet him.

 

[jessicajoanne]

WASHINGTON — A Washington State man says a drug prescription error started turning him into a woman.
Keith Sabey claims the drugs that were supposed to save his life nearly killed him.

Instead of Testosterone, he mistakenly received Estrogen from a Wal-Mart pharmacist back in April. That is when Sabey says he started getting hot flashes and his body began to change.

Keith Sabey said, "His doctor, Dr. Conway, said I was growing breast tissue."

Sabey claims the pharmacist admitted the mistake.

Sabey has hired an attorney and says he may now sue the Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart has not commented on Sabey's allegations


http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/081204_nw_Prescription_Error.html

 

[Duke E. Pyle]

I read where every decent size city has lawyers whose only client is....Wal-Mart! Thats alot of lawsuits.

 

[OCC-402]

re

This could probably be filed under fucked up sex stories but I thought it was appropriate given the stories so far
Woman FUCKS Rottweiller and loves it!(sorry, I know it's in bad taste, but it's a great story)
http://www.actionlove.com/cases/case12137.htm

 

[The Mighty Z]

Re: re

This could probably be filed under fucked up sex stories but I thought it was appropriate given the stories so far http://www.actionlove.com/cases/case12137.htm

OCC, that was the most fucked up story I EVER read :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[Genetic]

Man shot dead as bulletproof magic fails

March 14 2001 at 06:37PM

Accra - A Ghanaian man was shot dead by a fellow villager while testing a magic spell designed to make him bulletproof, the official Ghana News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Aleobiga Aberima, 23, and around 15 other men from Lambu village, northeast Ghana, had asked a jujuman, or witchdoctor, to make them invincible to bullets.

After smearing his body with a concoction of herbs every day for two weeks, Aberima volunteered to be shot to check the spell had worked.

One of the others fetched a rifle and shot Aberima who died instantly from a single bullet.

Angry Lambu residents seized the jujuman and beat him severely until a village elder rescued him, the report added.

Tribal clashes are common in Ghana's far north, where people often resort to witchcraft in the hope of becoming invulnerable to bullets, swords and arrows. - Reuters

Hahaha, that is so fucking stupid.. What the heck was that guy thinking with, wasn't his head, or his dick....

 

[Count_Floyd]

OCC, that was the most fucked up story I EVER read

The people seem a bit fucked up, but at least the dog is having a good old time.

As Dice once said:

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to give her poor dog a bone.
But when she bent over, Rover took over!
She got a bone of her own.

 

[Count_Floyd]

MANILA, Philippines-- Four members of a family have been arrested and charged with murder for allegedly killing and eating a relative during a wedding reception -- and serving his flesh to unwitting party guests, police have said.
At the July 17 wedding of his daughter, Eladio Baule got angry with his cousin Benjie Ganay who tripped and accidentally touched the bride's bottom, said Senior Police Inspector Perla Bacuel, at Narra town in Palawan province, southwest of Manila.

A few hours later, Baule, his son Gerald, another cousin Junnie Buyot and a nephew, Sabtuari Pique, allegedly confronted Ganay, then drove him to a secluded place where they stabbed him to death, Bacuel said.

Buyot, who surrendered to police and is acting as a witness, told police they then roasted Ganay's body using coconut leaves and kerosene, Bacuel said.

Baule senior later forced Buyot to take a bite of Ganay's flesh, which he claims he threw up but was then forced at knifepoint to swallow, Bacuel said.

Buyot told police that the group returned to the party and served some of Ganay's cooked remains to guests who were still celebrating the wedding, Bacuel said.

"It was perhaps due to their drunkenness. They probably didn't know what they were eating," he said.

Buyot reported the incident several days later to a local village leader who took him to police. Pique also surrendered, and Baule and his son were arrested.

Superintendent Rey Lanada, Palawan provincial police chief, said cannibalism would be treated as an aggravating circumstance in the crime.

 

[Stingray]

Here are the Darwin Awards for 2004:

Yes, these are all true. They are finally out again. It's an annual honor given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.

Last year's winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to tip a free soda out of it. And the nominees this year in reverse order are:

7. A young Canadian man, searching for a way of getting drunk cheaply, because he had no money with which to buy alcohol, mixed gasoline with milk. Not surprisingly, this concoction made him ill, and he vomited into the fireplace in his house. This resulting explosion and fire burned his house down killing both him and his sister.

6. A 34-year-old white male found dead in the basement of his home died
of suffocation, according to police. He was approximately 6' 2" tall and
weighed 225 pounds. He was wearing a pleated skirt, white bra, black and white saddle shoes, and a woman's wig. It appeared that he was trying to create a schoolgirl's uniform look. He was also wearing a military gas mask that had the filter canister removed and a rubber hose attached in its place. The other end of the hose was connected to one end of a hollow tube approx. 12" long and 3" in diameter. The tube's other end was inserted into his rectum for reasons unknown, and was the cause of his suffocation. Police found the task of explaining the circumstances of his death to his family very awkward.

5. Three Brazilian men were flying in a light aircraft at low altitude
when another plane approached. It appears that they decided to moon the
occupants of the other plane, but lost control of their own aircraft
and crashed. They were all found dead in the wreckage with their pants
around their ankles.

4. A 22-year-old, Glade Drive, Reston, VA, man was found dead after
he tried to use octopus straps to bungee jump off a 70 foot railroad
trestle. Fairfax County police said Eric Barcia, a fast-food worker,
taped a bunch of these straps together, wrapped one end around one
foot, anchored the other end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park,
jumped, and hit the pavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman,
said investigators think Barcia was alone because his car was found
nearby "The length of the cord that he assembled was greater than
the distance between the trestle and the ground," Carmichael said.
Police say the apparent cause of death was "major trauma."

3. A man in Alabama died from rattlesnake bites. It seems that he and
a friend were playing a game of catch, using the rattlesnake as a ball.
The friend, no doubt a future Darwin Awards candidate, was hospitalized.

2. Employees in a medium sized warehouse in west Texas noticed the
smell of a gas leak. Sensibly, management evacuated the building,
extinguishing all potential sources of ignition; lights, power, etc.
After the building had been evacuated, two technicians from the gas
company were dispatched. Upon entering the building, they found they
had difficulty navigating in the dark. To their frustration, none of the lights
worked. Witnesses later described the sight of one of the
technicians reaching into his pocket and retrieving an object that
resembled a cigarette lighter. Upon operation of the lighter-like
object, the gas in the warehouse exploded, sending pieces of it up to
three miles away. Nothing was found of the technicians but the lighter
was virtually untouched by the explosion. The technician suspected of
causing the blast had never been thought of as 'bright' by his peers.

AND THE WINNER.....

1. Based on a bet by the other members of his threesome, Everitt Sanchez tried to wash his own "balls" in a ball washer at the local
golf course. Proving once again that beer and testosterone are a bad mix,
Sanchez managed to straddle the ball washer and dangle his scrotum in the machine. Much to his dismay, one of his buddies upped the ante by spinning the crank on the machine with Sanchez's scrotum in place, thus wedging them solidly in the mechanism. Sanchez, who immediately passed his threshold of pain, collapsed and tumbled from his perch. Unfortunately for Sanchez, the height of the ball washer was more than a foot higher off the ground than his testicles are in a normal stance, and the scrotum was the weakest link. Sanchez's scrotum was ripped open during the fall, and one testicle was plucked from him forever
and remained in the ball washer, while the other testicle was compressed and flattened as it was pulled between the housing of the washer, and the rotating machinery inside. To add insult to injury, Sanchez broke a new $300.00 driver that he had just purchased from the pro shop, and was using to balance himself. Sanchez was rushed to the hospital for surgery, and the remaining three some were asked to leave the course.

This last one wouldn't normally count, because the idiot didn't die.

But because he cannot reproduce as a result of his qualifying act of
stupidity, we have allowed it.

 

[The Young One]

my thoguths go ou tto that man. i will now be a lot more careful with my sack. thank you for sharing that "interestingly" painful story with us. ouch god damn how that must have hurt, id rather be dead

 

[war|forever]

A Little Porn Is 'Good For You'
By Emma-Kate Symons and Kate Mackenzie
August 17, 2004

PORNOGRAPHY is good for people, the academic leading a taxpayer-funded study of the subject said yesterday, as the Coalition and Labor traded jibes about an Opposition push to stop online porn reaching home computers.

'Positive' porn ... California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey vowed to wire the Governor’s Mansion with web cams and use the money to service State debt.
Alan McKee, who with academics Catharine Lumby and Kath Albury is conducting the Understanding Pornography in Australia study, said that a survey of more than 1000 porn-users must be taken into account as Labor considers forcing all internet service providers to automatically filter hardcore porn to protect children.

"The surprising finding was that pornography is actually good for you in many ways," Dr McKee said.

[Rest of the article here]

 

[coclarkson]

Sexually frustrated chimp takes up smoking

Sun Aug 29, 7:47 AM ET


BEIJING (Reuters) - Sexual frustration has turned a Chinese chimpanzee from a mild-mannered simian into a problem primate who smokes cigarettes and spits at visitors, the Xinhua news agency says.



Feili, a female chimp in the city of Zhengzhou in the central province of Henan, picked up her nasty habits by imitating visitors who behaved "improperly" around her, Xinhua quoted zoo director Liu Bing as saying on Sunday.


But, Liu said, the root cause of Feili's transformation from a "gentle girl" into a "shrew" lay with the inability to find her a satisfactory mate.


A male chimpanzee at the zoo has failed to live up to Feili's sexual demands, and she has snubbed other potential suitors.


Zoo officials said Feili was not addicted to nicotine, but the chimp has also demonstrated clever -- if not desperate -- behaviour to score a smoke.


"The chimp is spitting at tourists and smoking," Xinhua quoted a boy visiting the zoo. "Just now a tourist threw a cigarette butt to just outside the cage, she tried to get the butt with a stick."

 

[stu2906]

We Brits have put our finest academic minds together in the question of the best on-screen scientists. Here are the results

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040905/80/f1z8y.html