news stories that make you throw up in your mouth

sweet tea

an angry open thread -- so many gross stories in the news right now!

here's mine for this morning:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/nyregion/13assault.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

grandmother of one of the boys accused in a gang broomstick rape, as qted in the nyt wrote: “It’s not a rape,” she said. “They didn’t force her to come over.”

mr. met

grandmother of one of the boys accused in a gang broomstick rape, as qted in the nyt wrote:
“It’s not a rape,” she said. “They didn’t force her to come over.”

moron

furrygreyboy

Can't get my head round this one - just way too crazy...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080312/ap_on_re_us/woman_in_bathroom

edited to fix yer tags. -- s.t.

mr. met

Can't get my head round this one - just way too crazy...

hahaha

no pictures! :evil:

drano

Here's mine. I hate this stuff: http://www.kpho.com/news/15579448/detail.html

alafairnadia

please post quotes, like sweet tea did, to entice me to click your link! thanks.

MOD

So I guess he had a second bathroom?
Or things could get messy

daver

Well, as balance to the weird annoying ones posted here, I offer a way to shut down Dick Cheney's heart wirelessly. Have fun storming the castle.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/business/12heart-web.html

To the long list of objects vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, add the human heart.

The threat seems largely theoretical. But a team of computer security researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker.

They were able to reprogram it to shut down and to deliver jolts of electricity that would potentially be fatal — if the device had been in a person. In this case, the researcher were hacking into a device in a laboratory.

drano

alafairnadia wrote: please post quotes, like sweet tea did, to entice me to click your link! thanks.

"Authorities described the home as being in horrible condition, with urine and feces covering the premises." There ya go!

daver

Drano wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]please post quotes, like sweet tea did, to entice me to click your link! thanks.

"Authorities described the home as being in horrible condition, with urine and feces covering the premises." There ya go!
I'm amazed that they only found three dead dogs out of 800. Usually you read these things and it is more like 220 dogs, with 80 dead or something.

Not to say that these people weren't obviously headed in that direction.

sweet tea

my favorite quote from that story is:

Deputies also found some 80 parrots caged inside the trailer on the city's northwest side.

how long before oprah does a show on a whole TOWN that hoards pets?

bklyntransplant

Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.

:shock:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/03/12/WomanInBathroom_A0615.html

daver

BklynTransplant wrote:

Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.

:shock:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/03/12/WomanInBathroom_A0615.html

You missed my favorite part:

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

bklyntransplant

^ I didn't want to ruin (?) the horrible, horrible (bleh) surprise.

daver

BklynTransplant wrote: ^ I didn't want to ruin (?) the horrible, horrible (bleh) surprise.

Bah. If movies are allowed to put all the best parts in the trailers, then we can put all the best (?) parts in the teaser, no?

daver

OK, here is a motley pair:

Every vote counts. But what happens when there are no votes at all?

That's the case in Tamarac. No voters showed up Wednesday night to cast a ballot in an annexation referendum for an unincorporated Broward County community.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jblYG-E0H_zCVU8kTQzGItpEF1GAD8VCL86O0

Broward County, eh? Perhaps those folks are just sick and tired of the whole voting thing by now.

An Orange County mother was shocked last fall to discover that someone had photographed her 13-year-old son in his tight-fitting swimsuit at a high school water polo meet and posted the image on an adult Web site that invited lewd comments.

Scouring the Internet, parents soon found other such photos, hundreds of them. But their horror turned to disbelief upon learning that police could do little to stop the practice.

http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/772824.html

Yeck. Yuck. Yipes!

raw

alafairnadia wrote: please post quotes, like sweet tea did, to entice me to click your link! thanks.

All you need is a quick glance at the headline and you'll barf.

By the way, did I read that correctly...800 -- two zeros -- dogs?

daver

raw wrote: By the way, did I read that correctly...800 -- two zeros -- dogs?

800 Chihuahuas, so that is like, two regular sized dogs. Or a hundred NYC rats. Saw a huge one last week in Battery Park, incidentally. It was a monster.

These folks were elderly "breeders" I guess, they really got out of control. Triple wide. I'm still amazed that they only found 3 dead out of the eight hundred. They got really lucky and caught these guys earlier in the spiral than they usually do.

edit: fixed quote tags. I suck at teh interweb.

drano

daver wrote: 800 Chihuahuas, so that is like, two regular sized dogs. Or a hundred NYC rats. Saw a huge one last week in Battery Park, incidentally. It was a monster.

Yeah the 800 number (heh) was what stood out to me. I mean, these hoarding stories are fairly common, but 800 dogs - even if they are tiny, that's still insane.

One of my friends claims he saw a sick mutant rat the size of a small cat in Central Park once. I trust the guy, but I gotta think he saw a possum or something.

daver

Drano wrote: One of my friends claims he saw a sick mutant rat the size of a small cat in Central Park once. I trust the guy, but I gotta think he saw a possum or something.

The one I saw was seriously locomoting, so I could be mistaken.

But I don't think so.

Definitely small cat sized though. The thing was big. Scared the tourists.

I think one wet himself.

sweet tea

i'm wholly willing to believe in giant nyc rats, alligators in the sewers, unholy ratagator hybrids, holy ratagator hybrids singing on the subways, etc.

i've certainly also seen muskrats in new york, though. they're big and ratty, and they thrive in areas with construction.

izisharp

the title of this thread alone makes me throw up in my mouth.

carnivore

I don't think this really even qualifies as "news" but it's so typically Fox...



Uhg!

caaahyoko

Carnivore wrote: I don't think this really even qualifies as "news" but it's so typically Fox...


Uhg!

Hmmm, I wonder if she has the same reaction when confronted with a man with...a...large.......oh nevermind. Don't answer that.

PS--I love how it was so bad it made you spell "Ugh" wrong. teehee.

carnivore

caaahyoko wrote: PS--I love how it was so bad it made you spell "Ugh" wrong. teehee.

Yeah.

Is it just me, or does Fox News seem like a frat house?

daver

daver wrote: [quote=BklynTransplant]

Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.

:shock:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/03/12/WomanInBathroom_A0615.html

You missed my favorite part:

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

Follow up:

A man whose girlfriend sat on a toilet for so long that the seat adhered to her body will spend six months on probation.

Kory McFarren pleaded no contest last month to a misdemeanor count of mistreatment of a dependent adult. A judge sentenced him Tuesday to six months in jail but granted the probation after the victim, Pam Babcock, asked for leniency.

"She didn't believe that her circumstances were his fault," Ness County Attorney Craig Crosswhite said.

AP.google