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[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by sweetwater

The stick or the smashed skull?

The smashed skull could be easily expertly repaired and mounted. The bears head would be on the wall, fur and all, the skulls are not kept inside a wall mounted trophy.

[TheMercenary]

It was a shark! I just know it!

http://www.wftv.com/news/17672556/detail.html

[TheMercenary]

Don't make fun of my strawberry shortcake backpack or I'll put a cap in ya. (WTF did you expect?) How gay is this?

http://www.wftv.com/news/17687386/detail.html

[classicman]

Sheriff: Family cremated mom on BBQ, kept benefits

October 15, 2008

The family of a dead elderly woman cremated her remains on a makeshift barbecue and continued collecting her retirement checks amounting to more than $25,000, authorities in Northern California said. Ramona Allmond's daughter and grandson were arrested Sunday on suspicion of embezzlement, elder abuse and disposing of a body without a permit.

Allmond, 84, likely died of natural causes, though investigators were still trying to determine the exact cause of death, said Tehama County sheriff's Capt. Paul Hosler.

Allmond's daughter, Kathleen Allmond, 50, and Allmond's grandson, Tony Ray, 30, told investigators their relative died in December. They left her body on her bedroom floor for a week before cremating the remains in their backyard fire pit, Hosler said.

Investigators said the two kept collecting Allmond's monthly retirement checks, amounting to more than $25,000. Sheriff's Detective Richard Knox said they may have been trying to honor Allmond's desire to die at home and be cremated.

The two were arrested after Allmond's son grew suspicious about her whereabouts.

Both were in jail in lieu of bail, with arraignment scheduled for Thursday. The sheriff's department said they do not yet have attorneys.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[HungLikeJesus]

The AP article left out the best part:

Authorities said Kathleen Allmond later took a picture of herself wearing a necklace made from pieces of her mother's skull and posted it on her MySpace page, reported KNVN-TV in Chico, Calif.

[Cicero]

That's terrible.

HLJ. I'm going to have to start calling you "sunshine". lol!

[HungLikeJesus]

She was just honoring her mother's wishes to have pieces of her skull made in to jewelry, with photographs posted on the internet.

[Cicero]

Oh that's better. Did her mom also wish to have blood drunk from her skull? And a posthumous wild orgy? Gotta do the do, ya know

[Sundae]

I just hope they respected her wishes not to be served with mustard...

[Crimson Ghost]

Human is usually best with soy sauce ....

Not that I've ever partaken ....

[classicman]

Copper thefts leave youth sports scrambling

TUCKER, Georgia (CNN) -- Last Thursday around dusk, Granite Park soccer field in suburban Atlanta was more crowded than usual.
With lights not working, the Optimist Club of Fort Worth, Texas, was forced to play all games on Saturday.

With lights not working, the Optimist Club of Fort Worth, Texas, was forced to play all games on Saturday.

Makeshift goals had been erected to accommodate five extra teams from the Tucker Youth Soccer Association. On the sidelines, groups of giggly kids waited their turns on the field while soccer moms and dads mined the crowded green space in search of a place to park their lawn chairs.

The atypical arrangement was caused by thieves who had ripped out copper wiring from light poles at nearby Henderson Park field, causing about $6,000 in damage, displacing teams that practiced under the lights and making the TYSA players the latest victims of a nationwide epidemic.

"It's annoying that we have to drive all the way here. It takes away time from homework and talking to friends," said Lizzie Howell, 15, who had to leave home earlier than usual to make it to practice by 7 p.m.

Her friend and teammate, Jessie Spencer, worried that the cramped quarters might affect her game.

"I'm kind of upset that we didn't get to practice on the same field and we have to be all crowded out here," said Spencer, 15.

TYSA fared well compared with its neighboring league, the Gwinnett Soccer Association, whose teams sought refuge at Granite two weeks earlier under similar circumstances. The vandals who hit the GSA's field in Lilburn stole about $100 worth of copper wiring from their field and caused about $8,500 in damage.

Those losses paled in comparison to the $25,000 in damage caused by thieves who hit Norcross Soccer Academy's field in Pinckneyville, Georgia.

[glatt]

That's just wrong. They should make a law that you can't steal stuff.

[Sundae]

Okay I've lifted this from snopes, which I wouldn't usually do (enough people here read it). But the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud - hard. In the correct use of the word, it's so random.

Claim: A Fisher-Price talking doll utters the phrases "Islam is the light" and "Satan is king."
Status: False.
[snip]
Other toys that speak have been the focus of similar misunderstandings. The 2006 talking book Potty Time with Elmo had some folks hearing its "Uh-oh! Who has to go?" phrase as "Uh-oh! Who wants to die?" — a negative toilet-training message if there ever was one.

In 1982 similar problems plagued "Baby Darling," a doll manufactured in Hong Kong. American consumers mistook its Spanish "Quiero a mami" (meaning "I want mommy" or "I love mommy") as "Kill mommy."

Check out the link to the sound file at the bottom of the snopes page.
I can clearly hear, "Islam is light" now I've been told it's there. But perhaps it's, "Islam is lite" in fact a criticism of the religion. FWIW I can't hear anything about Satan at all.

[Scriveyn]

A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet.

The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.

...

"He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off,"

...

read on at BBC news

[Cicero]

I would have totally done that....I will be advised. I'm not one to let my electronics die in toilets, even if the hope of salvation is minimal. I'm so glad that wasn't me, right now.