Yeah, strange thing is he appears to have figured it out 5 years ago. Why is this all of a sudden being publicized?

Jury awards $3 million in man's sex death *| ajc.com

A Gwinnett County jury on Tuesday awarded $3 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit to survivors of a 31-year-old husband and father of two who died while having sex one day before he was scheduled to have a heart stress test.

The unusual lawsuit arose after the Lawrenceville man died on March 12, 2009, while engaging in a threesome with a friend and a woman who was not his wife. It was not immediately clear in the verdict whether the patient's wife or his two sons stand to benefit from the judgement.

Plaintiff's lawyers Rod Edmond and Tricia Hoffler, who represented the estate of William Martinez, argued that a doctor at Cardiovascular Group in Lawrenceville failed to take a proper medical history when Martinez consulted him about chest pains that were radiating into his arm. That appointment occurred a week before Martinez died.

Martinez had high blood pressure and other tests showed he was at high risk of having clogged heart arteries.

The attending cardiologist, Dr. Sreenivasulu Gangasani, scheduled a stress test for eight days later, but failed to inform the patient to stop all physical activity until the test was completed...

Saw this comment on another board and lol'd:

Turns out it was a regular guy who ate at Applebees and just had to get that taste out of his mouth.

Two Shot in Detroit after Argument Over Kool-Aid

One day we shall look upon the long rows of markers in remembrance of those lost in the great Kool-Aid wars of 2012.

"Brave Clarice. You will let me know when those lambs stop screaming, won't you?"

I was amazed at how this face attacker was getting a lot of "he was a sweet guy" defenses in the news. Is it denial for a family member to state that the guy was screwed up? Not saying he deserved to die, but he was eating someone's face and not complying with the officer.

Scarily, the Seattle spree killer unnerved me because my sister in law lives in Seattle. I had my wife call her to make sure she was okay and the incidents happened a block from her, and it's a path she walks to work an hour after the event occurred.

The father of that guy stated that his son was "disgruntled", which I think is an understatement but at least seems a more truthful statement.

It obviously has a lot of people rattled around here. Gun violence has been out of control recently. 21 shooting deaths alone this year, tying all of last year. IMO it isn't a coincidence that it coincides with all the federal investigations surrounding the police force. If you remove the police ability to do their jobs for fear of backlash from the NAACP, ACLU, etc... this is what you get. Hope the beeding hearts are happy. All the while our mayor tries to find more ways to build bike paths.

I used to go to school in that area, and while it can ba a bit sketchy certainly not the type of area you would expect this to happen. Car jackings also don't happen around here, allthough it sounds like the vicim was resisting giving up her car, which IMO isn't a smart move. Someone demands your car you give it to them unless your children are in the back of it.

Not sure I disagree with the jury. If the doctor indeed didn't tell the man to stop all physical activity and he waited 8 days to give the test I think there is some liability on the doctor. Who the man was having sex with is irrelivant

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1087539

This past season of Intervention had a kid who was addicted to "bath salts" - a former contestant on Endurance, the kid version of Survivor - and that was one of the scariest eps I've seen of that show. The dude had little memory left, was hallucinating and paranoid, etc. He'd talk to himself and to animals, climb walls inside the house and up on the roof, just crazy shit. And he'd only been addicted for like 6 months. I'm sure he was a decent kid before all that, too.

Here's a short clip of him:

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As somebody who has seen a lot of drugs and drug users, these bath salts are pretty fucked.

ARGH, ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Alexander Kinyua Ate Kujoe Agyei-Kodie's Brain, Heart In Maryland, Cops Say

It has begun.

Sharpen those machetes, stock up on food/water, set up those barricades and make sure you have more than one exit route planned out.

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Nice!

Or this could be one heck of a (no pun intended) viral campaign by AMC for the new season of The Walking Dead.

WTF are bath salts?

5/16: McArthur High School HazMat situation: Students and Teachers Decontaminated after breaking out in rash.
5/19: No confirmation on chemical at For Lauderdale International Airport.
5/21: Police: Man bites woman in Westchester.
5/23: I-285 re-opens after HazMat incident.
5/23: Man bites cousin’s nose off.
5/24: Second Broward school reports mystery rash.
5/25: HazMat called after kids exposed to pesticide on bus: HazMat and EMS respond to Lake County, FL School.
5/25: Disoriented passenger subdued on flight in Miami.
5/26: Naked man allegedly eating victim’s face, shot and killed by Miami Police.
5/26: Florida Doctor spits blood at Highway Patrolmen after DUI arrest.
5/27: Georgia contractor bites Lowes employees, resists arrest

RULE#1: CARDIO. GET TO THOSE MORNING RUNS PEOPLE CAUSE I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO DOUBLE TAP YA'LLS A FEW MONTHS FROM NOW.

I for one welcome our new zombie overlords and feel we shouldn't necessarily be so hasty in pursuing resistance to them.

Shit is getting super serial!!!!

I hope that duck can shoot.

Haha, it's from the graphic novel.

Looks like good training material. :D

They are these designer drugs that chemists cook up that cause things like a man trying to eat another man's face. The chemists are able to stay one step ahead of the authorities by slightly altering the chemical compositions. Just weird stuff.

Funny Story. I knew a guy who stayed in the same building as me this year and according to his roommate this guy had the habit of doing the same thing. So the roommate tells the guy he has guest coming over (i'm guessing to let him know not to rub one out while they are there or do it before) and the roommate apparently forgot... well you can imagine the rest.

Needlessly to say for the rest of the semester he was not getting any handshakes. Lol. Got so bad that we had a guest speaker come to speak and he went to shake the guys hand and got a pat on the back.

I think he might be transferring.

Not sure how he found time to consistently masturbate in school though.

Bath salts are some really scary stuff. There was a high school kid here who jumped out of a tree, broke many bones.

Also, I read where some woman was walking down the middle of the road with a towel and talking to it like it was her baby.

They were selling it here where I live and they finally banned it and shut down the shop selling it.

The crazy part is, they will just figure out another way around the law and it will be back out there under some different name.

"... won't get any help from local public authorities to help rub out the problem."

HA!

Local Man Arrested for Merchandise Tampering at Area Walmart | Country California

That is an awesome story!

On a related note, we went to Bed Bath and Beyond this past weekend, and when we went through the areas with college team-logo'd items such as cups, bathroom items, etc., the wife and I could not help but hide every damn UF Gators item on the shelf - either moved it behind another team, turned it around, or put it somewhere else where it couldn't be seen. I couldn't help myself.

You did catch that this was Onion-esque, right?

not at first, no, damn! Stupid late night incoherent facebook sharing.

Not to be outdone by a Parkway pig, bull and cow 'having relations' slow Route 28 traffic - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

And, the previous story the title references

Porkway traffic grunts along - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

He Godwin'd his own family: Judge orders ‘Adolf Hitler’ to be kept in child custody | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

Was it wrong of me to assume that this would be something from Japan?

I am NOT going to mess up and spoil that "other" epic thread. Not for the faint of heart.
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-new...d-prostitution

Don't go between the hedges.

Hungry Jack syrup truck spills onto Buttermilk Pike | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

Maybe he was distracted by Mrs. Buttersworth?

More of a strange headline:

Kids' genitals shocked by Syrian regime

Not sure what it's trying to convey. Are they surprised by the Syrian regime, or is the regime itself shocking them?

I'm shocked. Not sure if that helps though.

Heh, didn't realize this made the FOFC.

The general reaction around here has been "not surprised" ;)

Why did I click on that link?

I wasn't expecting pictures.

I'm not sure if this can be considered safe for work or not.

Wasn't this a South Park episode?

That was my first thought when I saw it. Randy bouncing down the street on his balls.

Haha! Yes and all the KFCs turned into medicinal pot dispensaries.

wtf?

Another Florida story...

Bank deposit accidentally includes marijuana | www.wokv.com

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1101840

Just real classy. I'm shocked, shocked to find this.

For those on the fence...

65 percent of Americans say Obama better suited to handle alien invasion than Romney



Okay.

But what about the coming zombie apocalypse?

Clearly there are some Romney supporters that are willing to concede that Obama will better be able to relate to aliens due to his own experience as an illegal alien coming to America.

This happened locally

Syrup spill erupts into gunfire in fight between brothers | www.ktvu.com

Fucking 1st World problems...

Pretty hilarious.

Sad that this still happens in the 21st century:

Alabama pastor holds ‘whites only’ conference | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

My favorite line: "Organizers say their ministry is not a hate group and that although there is a strong KKK presence, the Klan did not sponsor the event."

Nice to see a non hate group have such a large hate group presence.

Not related, but in the ignorance department...

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/04...f+gang+bangers

Ignore it, it'll go away.

He can finally get those teeth replaced!

Stay classy CoS: Church of Scientology asks followers to censor Web comments | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

To be fair, it's nothing more than what the American Family Association does. I'm no fan of Scientologists but I was expecting worse when I saw the headline stating censoring.

SI

Sounds like two world class organizations. "Let's try to silence any and all critics of our organizations". Hopefully the admins of those sites know what the Hubbardites are doing and don't enable the trolls.

Def Leppard Recording 'Forgeries' of Old Hits To Spite Label

Def Leppard got screwed over by Universal Music on compensation for its digital downloads and refuses to have anything to do with them until they pay the band a fair share of the money from iTunes, the Amazon MP3 store, and other digital distribution systems. In order to cut the label out of its earnings, the band has gone back to the studio to re-record its most popular tunes, producing what it calls "forgeries" -- note for note reproductions of the original studio cuts. The band can do this because of "compulsory licensing," which allows anyone to record and sell any song, on payment of a set royalty. But it's surprisingly hard to reproduce decades-old recordings, as Gary Graff writes for Billboard:

Linda Chase kept Charles Zigler's body in house 18 months so they could watch NASCAR together | Mail Online

Couple thoughts:

(1) This is from a UK newspaper, so I am sure that it just reinforces their stereotypes of what NASCAR watching Americans are like.

(2) It is a federal crime to keep collecting benefits from a deceased spouse. But I think that "I kept the body around" should be an affirmative defense.

Hahaha. Would it be worth spamming this on the bar exam?

This is what 50 shades does to people: Boyfriend assaults girlfriend with steak sauce over ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

I think this is a common tactic across the board lately, organized or no, to supress conflicting or undesired points of view. However, in this instance cited above, a quick google didn't yield results. Link?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Family_Association

In the 80s and 90s, they were big into trying to get shows yanked off tv if you said something they didn't like, mostly under the guise of "promoting decency". It's hard to find a lot of internet articles form back then, tho. But that says something about the time: there was no net to control, they went after the airwaves:
TV Sponsors Heed Viewers Who Find Shows Too Racy - New York Times

I guess nowadays try to organize fake boycotts whenever anyone supports anything remotely gay:
One Million Moms Condemns Oreo Cookies For Gay Pride Support
JCPenney Responds to Homophobic Boycott Calls with Gay Father's Day Ad

The last one is particularly funny:
AFA: "Stop promoting gays or we'll boycott"
JCP: "Enjoy this father's day ad with two dads. I think you can find our sale on 'shut the hell up' on page 8"

SI

I dunno which thread this fits in, so I'll try here
Headline reads Athens man asks for cop's bike, ends up in jail on drug charges
ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved

edit: in spite of the broken link warning, it appears that it actually works

Man takes baby to meet with prostitute - WTVM.com-Columbus, GA News Weather & Sports

Tuscaloosa, AL (WTVM) -
A man in Tuscaloosa may be charged with child endangerment after taking along his nine month old son during a meeting with a prostitute.

Police in Tuscaloosa County said the 29-year-old man took the baby with him to meet the woman at a motel because he didn't have anyone to babysit.

Once inside the motel room, another man entered and a fight broke out. Shots were fired while the baby was in the room, and a bullet grazed the father's head.

"The child was on the bed, he picked the child up, tried to leave, that's when he was shot at," said Captain Loyd Baker of the Tuscaloosa Police.

Hospital workers contacted police after the man sought treatment. The child was taken into protective custody.

Man sucks woman's toe at Walmart, bolts from store - WTVM.com-Columbus, GA News Weather & Sports

GROVETOWN, Ga. (AP) - A woman says a man claiming to be with a TV show sucked her toe inside an east Georgia Walmart after claiming everything she purchased that day would be free if she complied with the unusual request.

The Augusta Chronicle reports that the woman called sheriff's deputies Tuesday to describe the bizarre encounter in the Grovetown store, west of Augusta.

Columbia County sheriff's reports say the man asked the 18-year-old if her toenails were painted, whether she'd watched America's Funniest Home Videos and said he was with the show.

Authorities say he asked if he could kiss her foot as part of the prank, then started sucking on her big toe.

The woman said she screamed, the man said "it tasted so good, though" and then ran from the Walmart.

Okay, I had found this. When you said "nothing more than the AFA does" I took it to mean the exact same or very similar tactic. I am generally supportive of the AFA, and was concerned that they were employing tactics which are on the odd side (at best). Personally, however, I wouldn't put the actions you cited in the same category as those claimed in the Scientology article.

As an aside (not a slam at you), I tend to find most wikipedia articles touching on politics or religion to have a "tone", either pro or con to the subject at hand, and don't trust them to be unbiased.

Edit: trying to disagree without being confrontational and forgot to thank you for taking the time to respond. Thanks.

None at all taken. I remember more of their clout was wielded in ways I disagree with in the 80s and 90s when they tried to get a lot of things taken off the air that disagreed with their point of view. That was a lot more problematic back when that was the primary medium for people. It's one thing to say "I don't like sex/violence on tv"- that's a great exercise of free speech. But to organize boycots of those who expressed viewpoints who disagreed and try to silence dissent- that I didn't like.

SI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkpvON6IpNs

United Passengers Stranded for 3 Days in China - ABC News

what is really weird is people were fighting to get back to New Jersey

There's not a Feet of Wal-Mart site, is there? *shudders*

I would have at least set my sights a bit higher, like a Target.