News of the Weird / Pro Edition (12-14-2009 Extra)
News of the Weird/Pro Edition (Extra)
December 14, 2009
Still More Things to Worry About
Theodore Sypnier is about to be released from prison, and Buffalo, N.Y., is in a tizzy. "Mr. Sypnier is the personification of evil and should be removed from civilized society permanently, until the day he dies," said the local prosecutor. Sypnier has a long rap sheet as a child molester, yet is unrepentant. Nothing about himself needs changing, he says. (Bonus: He's 100 yrs old.) (Double Bonus: At least Sypnier didn't murder anyone, as this 98-year-old woman allegedly did.) Buffalo News /// Associated Press via Fox News
Update: Your Editor has reported before on the baby blessings at the Sri Santeswar temple in India's Karnataka state, in which good health and good luck will be dispensed to tots (mostly under age 2) who get tossed from the top of the 30-foot-high building. They always manage to catch the kids, but opponents are on the verge of having the ritual banned. Daily Telegraph (London)
Yitzhak Ganon, 85, finally went to see a doctor, in Petach Tikva, Israel, because of a life-threatening infection. It was his first doctor visit in 65 years, since he once had a bad experience (in Auschwitz, Germany, when Dr. Joseph Mengele removed one of his kidneys without anesthesia). Spiegel Online
Fine Points of the Law: Fast food restaurants can still keep mobility-scooter people out of the drive-thru lanes, on safety grounds, even though Ms. Ariel Wade, a 60-ish former stripper with a rough edge to her, disagrees [on the video]. City Pages (Minneapolis) /// Dlisted.com [video]
Gerald Cellette Jr., 44, accused of running a $53 million Ponzi scheme in Minnesota, must've had a sense of doom at the charges. He was found knocking on the door of a judge's chambers in Minneapolis, ready to go to prison, i.e., pre-arrest, pre-plea, pre-judgment, pre-sentence. Star Tribune
The District of Calamity: The D.C. Jail is so unsecured that guards just recently found a handgun lying around and have concluded that it has probably been lying around since 2003, when it was stashed as part of a notorious scheme in which guns were smuggled to inmates, who agreed to shoot themselves, in order to set up a big damages payout from the District. Washington Post
Here is the Med-ucation Blog's 25 Oddest Objects Ever Eaten (by Humans), and it looks like a pretty good job (and not a slide show!). Med-ucation
Daniel Shilts Jr., 36, Waldo, Wis., was sentenced (again) for DUI, but this one got him hard time, in that he pressure-peed the back of an officer's head in the squad car. Sheboygan Press via New York Daily News
Additional Newsrangers: Thomas Goodey, Jimmy Atkinson
December 14, 2009
Still More Things to Worry About
Theodore Sypnier is about to be released from prison, and Buffalo, N.Y., is in a tizzy. "Mr. Sypnier is the personification of evil and should be removed from civilized society permanently, until the day he dies," said the local prosecutor. Sypnier has a long rap sheet as a child molester, yet is unrepentant. Nothing about himself needs changing, he says. (Bonus: He's 100 yrs old.) (Double Bonus: At least Sypnier didn't murder anyone, as this 98-year-old woman allegedly did.) Buffalo News /// Associated Press via Fox News
Update: Your Editor has reported before on the baby blessings at the Sri Santeswar temple in India's Karnataka state, in which good health and good luck will be dispensed to tots (mostly under age 2) who get tossed from the top of the 30-foot-high building. They always manage to catch the kids, but opponents are on the verge of having the ritual banned. Daily Telegraph (London)
Yitzhak Ganon, 85, finally went to see a doctor, in Petach Tikva, Israel, because of a life-threatening infection. It was his first doctor visit in 65 years, since he once had a bad experience (in Auschwitz, Germany, when Dr. Joseph Mengele removed one of his kidneys without anesthesia). Spiegel Online
Fine Points of the Law: Fast food restaurants can still keep mobility-scooter people out of the drive-thru lanes, on safety grounds, even though Ms. Ariel Wade, a 60-ish former stripper with a rough edge to her, disagrees [on the video]. City Pages (Minneapolis) /// Dlisted.com [video]
Gerald Cellette Jr., 44, accused of running a $53 million Ponzi scheme in Minnesota, must've had a sense of doom at the charges. He was found knocking on the door of a judge's chambers in Minneapolis, ready to go to prison, i.e., pre-arrest, pre-plea, pre-judgment, pre-sentence. Star Tribune
The District of Calamity: The D.C. Jail is so unsecured that guards just recently found a handgun lying around and have concluded that it has probably been lying around since 2003, when it was stashed as part of a notorious scheme in which guns were smuggled to inmates, who agreed to shoot themselves, in order to set up a big damages payout from the District. Washington Post
Here is the Med-ucation Blog's 25 Oddest Objects Ever Eaten (by Humans), and it looks like a pretty good job (and not a slide show!). Med-ucation
Daniel Shilts Jr., 36, Waldo, Wis., was sentenced (again) for DUI, but this one got him hard time, in that he pressure-peed the back of an officer's head in the squad car. Sheboygan Press via New York Daily News
Additional Newsrangers: Thomas Goodey, Jimmy Atkinson
Comments
100 yrs old- more proof of the old saw 'only the good die young'
30ft baby toss- wonder if they'll get it into the olympics.
65yrs no doc- what an terrible thing to go through. i'm glad he went to the doctor in time to save his life.
scooters- but why not?
dc- they just don't do anything well in that town do they?
25 oddest- even i know that some things do not belong in your mouth and sometimes you should not swallow.
cop- i would have been sorely tempted to shoot the a-hole.
30ft baby toss- wonder if they'll get it into the olympics.
65yrs no doc- what an terrible thing to go through. i'm glad he went to the doctor in time to save his life.
scooters- but why not?
dc- they just don't do anything well in that town do they?
25 oddest- even i know that some things do not belong in your mouth and sometimes you should not swallow.
cop- i would have been sorely tempted to shoot the a-hole.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/15/09 at 05:43 PM
patty, I would have shot him. That's why I'm not a cop. And as for scooters, I guess they feel if they let scooters through they might as well let bikes or skateboards through, and then little kids would be showing up on big-wheels trying to score a happy meal and it would all just fall apart.
Posted by Nethie on 12/15/09 at 07:04 PM
yeah nethie, the kid on the big wheel would bring his piggy bank and everyone else would get back to work late from lunch while the teeny bopper at the window tried to count out $1.99 in loose change! :lol:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/15/09 at 10:54 PM
bill the baby toss thing is gross but hillarious! oh and i'm guessing you don't like drive throughs right? :lol:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/16/09 at 07:57 AM
I don't understand what anyone has against the baby toss. As I understand it; it's a search for a god(dess) that has taken human form. The test is simple: you toss the kid off the building. If it sprouts wings or floats gently on the breeze then you worship it. If not, hope the blanket holds.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/16/09 at 08:58 AM
oh i thought if the kid bounced it meant 6 more weeks of winter. :lol:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/16/09 at 03:29 PM
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