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Originally Posted by coderitr

Woman Fights Uncle Sam To Prove She's Alive



http://www.wsoctv.com/money/5815387/detail.html

Reminds me of the first time I tried to e-file my income taxes. The Social Security Administration had my date of birth as 5/8/1865. I had to go to the local SSA office with a copy of my birth certificate to straighten it out. When my turn came up, I explained to the humorless woman on the other side of the counter the situation and said "I must look really good to be 134 years old because our government just doesn't make mistakes like that." She didn't think that was very funny.

Oldly enough !

[eggplant43]

Now that's funny.

[Shadow Bea]

Lol! :d

[angelize56]

My basement is cluttered but not enough to suffocate me!

It took ten hours to find her body under all the clutter!

Wash. Woman Suffocates Under House Clutter
Police Chief: Clothes, Debris Piled 6 Feet High

10:37 am MST January 9, 2006

SHELTON, Wash. -- A Washington state woman who was reported missing was later found dead suffocated under a pile of debris in her home, police said.

Officers found the body of Marie Rose, 62, buried under clothes Thursday, reported KIRO-TV in Seattle.

Her husband reported her missing after he couldn't find her early Thursday morning.

Officers found clothing, dishes and boxes crammed from floor to ceiling in every room of the couple's house.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...73/detail.html

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Originally Posted by angelize56

My basement is cluttered but not enough to suffocate me!

It took ten hours to find her body under all the clutter!

Ten hours I can't even begin to imagine that.

[angelize56]

I couldn't either HS!

[angelize56]

Makes me wonder how her heart was broken.... How sad....

http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/p...601120322/1023

[Couriant]

Originally Posted by angelize56

Makes me wonder how her heart was broken.... How sad....

http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/p...601120322/1023

Interesting... probably a few of her closest people died?

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Originally Posted by The Mirror (London, England), Dec 7, 2005 p15

ASSAULT BY CHAINSAW. (News)

Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 MGN LTD

Byline: By STEVE McCOMISH

THIS is the moment a maniac wielding a chainsaw was captured on CCTV chasing down a rival after an argument in a bar.

Darren Reidy was caught on camera brandishing the weapon as terrified Bruno Mos cowers in the street. Yesterday Reidy, 39, began a 15-month sentence after the astonishing footage was played to a court.

Reidy is seen trying to start the saw as he runs through the centre of Lincoln. Miraculously, Mr Mos sustained only minor injuries when he fell over as a fled.

The attack on February 20 took place just 18 months after Reidy's release from a 10-year jail term for attempted murder.

Reidy, who pleaded guilty to affray and unlawful wounding at Lincoln crown court, said he only pretended to start the saw. Megan Rhys, defending, said he believed Mr Mos had a knife.

Judge Michael Heath said: "It was a fearsome-looking item, whether set going or not."

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Originally Posted by The Daily Mail (London, England), Jan 10, 2006 p5

Boy, 11, has a fit playing violent computer game.

Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2006 Solo Syndication Limited

Byline: DAN PARKINSON

A BOY of 11 collapsed unconscious minutes after starting to play a violent computer game.

Jack Tinn was taken to hospital having apparently suffered an epileptic fit while playing Resident Evil 4 on his PlayStation 2 console. (Why was playing it in the first place?)

The game, described as 'one of the most frightening and exciting experiences you will ever have', is marked for users aged 15 and above. (Angel, take note )

But the boy's mother and father, both teachers, say the dangers of such games should be made more clear to all ages.

Resident Evil 4 features scenes of exploding heads and gory battle scenes including what is described as 'an escape from a village filled with Texas Chainsaw Massacre extras'. (and it's rated 15?)

Jack's father claimed the hospital told the family that it had a similar case, involving a boy of the same age, on Christmas Day. (playing violent games?)

'There should be much better warnings on these games,' added Mr Tinn, 41 a maths teacher. 'When I looked for it, I couldn't find anything. (Was that before or after the seizure?)

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Ben le Rougetel, a spokesman for Capcom, which makes Resident Evil, stated:
'It is a very regettable incident that has happened to this young boy,' he said. 'We're glad to hear he's OK.' But he added: 'The game is intended for people aged 15 and over. There is a warning within the manual for Resident Evil, as there is for all video games, which does talk about the potential risks involved.' Sony spokesman Jonathan Fargher stressed that parents should not provide their children with games which are classified for older age groups.

'We are deeply saddened to hear the boy hasn't been very well but there is clear guidance in the manual.

'He was also playing a product that is categorically not aimed at his age group. That may also have been a factor.'

[angelize56]

What a psychopath!

Teen With Toy Gun Tries to Take Ark. Baby

Friday, January 13, 2006 3:57 p.m. ET

CAMDEN, Ark. (AP) -- A teenager holding a toy gun forced her way into a hospital nursery and snatched a newborn from a crib before the employees grabbed her and held her down, police said.

Neither the baby girl nor the workers were harmed, said C.C. McAllister, chief executive of Ouachita County Medical Center.

Nikenya Jicole Washington, 18, was in jail Friday. Authorities said she would be charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault.

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/s...toryId=1144068

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Student sets Rubik's Cube record at 11.13 seconds

Associated Press in San Francisco
Monday January 16, 2006
The Guardian


A California student set a world record for solving the Rubik's Cube puzzle, turning the tiles from scrambled to solved in just 11.13 seconds.

Link : http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/...687166,00.html

Wow ! It took me nearly one month to solve the puzzle !

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I hope for them the passengers are not too thursty !

[coderitr]

For the record, I debated for at least ten seconds whether to post this here or in the Upbeat News thread. This was the first one I came to.

Hamster, Snake Best Friends at Tokyo Zoo

TOKYO - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a four-foot rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name means "meal" in Japanese — to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.
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But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/...NlYwNzc3JlbA--

[DiSaidSo]

Originally Posted by coderitr

For the record, I debated for at least ten seconds whether to post this here or in the Upbeat News thread. This was the first one I came to.

Hamster, Snake Best Friends at Tokyo Zoo



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/...NlYwNzc3JlbA--

I think you picked the right thread. Cool story!