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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 01/18/2005 : 13:32:34
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http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp
Dr. Mary Holley, an obstetrician who heads Mothers Against Methamphetamine in Albertville, Ala., offered this assessment of meth at a December task force meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn. (presumably intending to discourage use of the drug): "The effect of an (intravenous) hit of methamphetamine is the equivalent of 10 orgasms all on top of each other lasting for 30 minutes to an hour, with a feeling of arousal that lasts for another day and a half." (But after about six months' use, the effects turn negative, she said.) [Associated Press, 12-3-04]
(1) Following the Dec. 5 Newtown, England, charity Santa Claus race (in which 4,000 Saint Nicks in full costume competed), police had to use noxious spray and nightsticks to break up a brawl of about 30 Santas when the festive spirit got out of hand.
Mr. Jerry Colaitis of Old Brookville, N.Y., died of complications from spinal surgery in 2001, and the next year, his family filed a $10 million lawsuit blaming everything on the Benihana Japanese restaurant chain. Benihana hibachi chefs engage in colorful hand acrobatics while skillfully slicing and grilling food at tableside, and on the night in question, Colaitis flinched at a shrimp the chef had tossed his way. The flinch jarred two vertebrae in his neck, which eventually required surgery and then a second surgery, after which complications developed, leading to Colaitis' death. In November 2004, a judge cleared the case for trial. [New York Law Journal, 11-23-04]
In February 2004, two 11-year-old boys cut classes at the Ronan Middle School in Ronan, Mont., found some alcoholic beverages, and hours later died of hypothermia in a snow-covered field. In November, the parents of the two filed a lawsuit, asking $4 million in damages from the local public schools for not preventing the truancy. School personnel should have known, according to the lawsuit, that the kids were of Native American heritage, with a high rate of alcoholism in the community, even though neither boy had any alcohol-related incident on his record. [Missoulian, 11-6-04]
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 13:55:00 [Permalink]
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| A direct link to News of the Weird can be found here. The archives (on the right side of the page) go back about six months. Good stuff. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 14:11:41 [Permalink]
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My husband is an Early Intervention Specialist (he deals with young people who abuse drugs and alcohol). One of the things he was required to do to obtain certification was watch a film that showed step-by-step how to make crystal meth.
If he ever puts that information together with Dr. Holley's lecture I fear I will be obsolete. 
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 15:33:25 [Permalink]
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This almost feels like stuff for legends, just as much as classic Darwin Awards.
Good find, BigPapaSmurf |
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