A woman charged with killing her son in a drunk-driving accident went to a bar instead of reporting back to jail

The woman was allowed out of jail to attend her son’s funeral, but failed to return when she was required.  Instead the woman was supposedly  a mile from the church in a local bar.

Howard has now been charged with escape in addition to involuntary manslaughter, drunken driving, child endangerment and other charges related to the crash. [Killer Mom via Yahoo]

(ABC) - man found asleep in a motorized wheelchair on a highway in northern Australia was charged with drunk driving, police said Monday.

Officers in a patrol car noticed the man slumped in the stationary chair about 10 a.m. Friday on an exit lane near the tourist city of Cairns, regional traffic Inspector Bob Waters said. Cars were swerving to get around him, Waters said.

The officers breath-tested the 64-year-old man, who registered a blood alcohol reading of 0.301 — more than six times the legal driving limit. He was charged with operating a vehicle while drunk and ordered to report to court on July 7, where he faces a stiff fine if convicted. 

"The vehicles that we normally hear about with drink driving are the family car, the truck, the motorbike," Waters said. "But there are also other classes of vehicles that are subject to drink-driving laws," including horses, bicycles, and motorized wheelchairs.

[DUI Chair via ABC]

We all get a little worried when we get our food and the order is wrong.  We struggle with ourselves wether or not we should send it back. This might make you think twice.

A cook pleaded guilty to a food-tampering charge after putting hair into a unsatisfied customer’s steak. Kropp was charged in Washington County Circuit Court with a felony of placing foreign objects in edibles, carrying up to 3 1/2 years in prison.

According to the complaint, a second kitchen worker told police Kropp had put a slit in the cooked steak and pushed something inside, then stated, "These are my pubes," referring to pubic hair.

[Hairy Steak via CBS]

Some idiot who calls themselves a pharmasist at a CVS in New York put a customer in the hospital after giving her the wrong medicine. The pharmasist gave the woman leukemia medicine in a dose higher than a person would take if they did have leukemia.  The woman is now being treated at her local hospital.

[Bad Drugs via Consumerist]

You should always check to make sure the medicines you get are the medicines you’re prescribed. Dorothy Enriquez learned this lesson the hard way when she began taking the leukemia drugs that CVS gave her instead of her actual prescription. Not only did the pharmacy give her the wrong drug, but at several times the recommended dose for someone who actually has leukemia.

She took the drugs because she thought she’d been given a generic for her normal prescription, but when she started feeling ill, she called CVS and asked them about the strange new drug. They told her it wasn’t a generic for her usual prescription, but they did offer to refill it for her. Finally, Dorothy looked up the drug on the internet. That’s when she found out it was a powerful chemotherapy drug.

Ms. Enriquez ended up in the hospital, and CVS ended up in Fox 5, New York’s “Hall of Shame.” Fox 5 went to the CVS with their camera crew and tried to interview the pharmacist who made the mistake. He wasn’t willing to talk, but they did notice that he was supervising more assistants than is allowed by law. When they asked him about the violation he smiled and answered, “You’re good!”

Art major Aliza Shvarts artificially inseminated herself just to giver herself an abortion.  She is calling it Art.

From Yale Daily News

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts’ project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock . saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for "shock value."

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Police in Utah are looking for three men who were involved in cooking human feces in a convenience store microwave oven.
Police say one of the men placed a one gallon plastic bag with human feces inside of it inside the oven and set the timer for ten minutes.
They say it happened on March 23rd at approximately 10:45 p.m. at the 7-11 at 2175 East 9400 South.
The men left the area, and after the bag exploded, it ruined the microwave costing approximately $3500.00 in damage. The store had to be aired out for a long period of time, causing lost profits.
Police released surveillance photos of the crime in hopes the suspects can be identified.

Two people have been charged for corrupting or endangering a child after police say the videotaped a toddler as they forcibly made it smoke marijuana.

Police received the video of the toddler on Monday.

According to federal court records, the videotape shows 18-year-old Melvin Blevins of Pataskala, holding a marijuana pipe to the mouth of the child. The child, who turned two this month, was not identified.

Earlier this month, 16-year-old Angel Dailey pleaded not guilty to charges of corrupting and endangering the child.

Police said Dailey was holding the toddler, who can be seen on the tape squirming to avoid the pipe. Police learned of the tape after a Columbus, Ohio pawn shop dealer found it in a camcorder.

A voice in the video says, "It is some good stuff," as a hand gives the choking toddler water.

In March, Blevins was indicted in a drug bust that police said included more than $3 million in cash and more than a ton of marijuana.
Pataskala Ohio Police Chief Chris Forshey says, "They were going through the hard drive on the camera, and came across the video images."
Police say the video shows an unidentified woman holding the toddler as an off camera man gives the toddler the pot pipe. The toddler inhales and then chokes on the pot, according to the video. After that, the video shows a man mimicking the toddler’s coughing.

Forshey says "You can tell that she’s inhaling some of it, and you can tell that she doesn’t want to. So it’s a pretty disgusting video."

[Toddler Toker via WLTX]

SAN DIEGO – A homeless amputee was beaten to death with his own crutch Monday night on a downtown sidewalk.

Several witnesses reported that the 41-year-old victim had gotten into an argument with another man on F Street near Eighth Avenue in the Core-Columbia neighborhood just before midnight, homicide Lt. Kevin Rooney said.

During the fight the man picked up the victim’s crutch and hit him with it, said Rooney.

Paramedics tried to revive him but he died about a hour later at a trauma center.

The attacker was described as Latino and in his 30s, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and 170 pounds with a mustache and a sparse beard, Rooney said.

He was last seen near Seventh Avenue and G Street.

Police said they don’t know why the men were arguing, if they knew each other or the motive for the attack.
The dead man’s name has not yet been released. Rooney said he had an amputated leg and used a wheelchair but also was able to stand. He was standing when he was hit with the crutch, he said.

The man was known to stay in an alcove in front of the building where the fight took place.

Anyone with information is asked to call homicide detectives at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.

[Homeless Beating via Perez Hilton]

A Yemeni court ordered the marriage of an eight-year-old girl terminated on Tuesday because she had not reached puberty.

The court also ordered the child’s family to pay about $250 in compensation to the 30-year-old ex-husband.

The girl’s lawyer and human rights activist Shatha Nasser said the minor had filed a suit in April asking for divorce and told the court that her husband had been physically abusing her and forcing her to have "sex with him after hitting her."

One of the people attending the trial volunteered to pay the compensation, the lawyer said, but did not explain the reason why the court ordered the compensation.

The ruling terminated the marriage instead of granting a divorce to prevent the husband from seeking to reinstate the marriage, according to the lawyer.

Many minor girls in Arab countries that observe tribal traditions are married to older husbands but not before puberty. Such marriages are also driven by poverty in countries like Yemen, one of the poorest countries outside Africa.

[Young Divorce via Reuters]

I was sent this one from the Internet  magazine BMEzine.com.  The story is about a man who always wanted his nose to be removed.  I’m not sure why he would want to do this, but after being turned down by multiple plastic surgeons, he finally got the nose he always wanted.

BME: Why did you want your nose removed?

WITZ: I don’t know, ever since I was a kid I imagined it. I don’t know if they have anything to do with it, because it’s the chicken and the egg, you know, but two things stand out. First, I remember watching Sesame Street episodes when I was very young, where Bert and Ernie would take their noses off, and it just really stuck with me, and I wished I could play that game… That, and my uncle always played “got your nose” with me and it was something I really remember fondly.

 

[Got Your Nose via BMEzine]

A man in South Australia reunited with his daughter 30 years after separating from her mother.  Just two weeks after the father and daughter met, they had begun having sex.

"John and I are in this relationship as consenting adults," Mrs Deaves told the Nine Network’s 60 Minutes tonight. "We are just asking for a little bit of respect and understanding."

If that wasn’t bad enough, the two have a nine-mouth-old child together!

From News.com.au:

Mr Deaves admitted that he "initially" thought having sex with his daughter was wrong.
"Emotions take over, as people no doubt realise, there are times during your life where emotions do rule the heart, it rules the head," he said.
"I knew it was illegal, of course I knew it was illegal but you know, so what."

The South Australian police have taken no action in the matter, but will continue to "monitor" the couple.

[Incestuous Sex via News.com.au]

Read the quotes, then read the story after the jump.

Police officer Matt Johnson said: ‘He was completely nude. He would use the hole from the umbrella and have sex with the table.’

Officer Johnson commented: ‘Once you think you’ve seen it all, something else comes around.’

Read The Story >> Metro.Co.Uk

This is considered the first attack over the Internet to cause physical harm. The hackers logged onto a site for those that suffer from epileptic seizures and changed the site to show flashing animations on the screen.

The group that is thought to have launched the attack is associated with anti-scientology attitudes. It is not clear why they would choose to take out their aggression on people suffering from epilepsy, but it was certainly misguided.

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