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[apache69yell]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080225/od_nm/monk_lawnmower_dc;_ylt=Ai838ClTqximmsxhyxuaXO3tiBI F

Runaway lawnmower kills monk
Mon Feb 25, 10:55 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - A Buddhist monk from Japan was killed after slipping and falling under the blades of his runaway tractor lawnmower, an inquest into his death has found.

The Reverend Seiji Handa, 50, was cutting the grass around his peace pagoda in the English city of Milton Keynes when the accident occurred last August.

He got out of the tractor to inspect something but the vehicle, which was pulling a multi-bladed grass cutting machine, slipped its handbrake.

The coroner's office in Milton Keynes, northwest of London, said it had recorded a verdict of accidental death.

Handa, from Niigata in Japan, came to Britain in 1978, when he began building a pagoda to promote peace. He had tended the pagoda with the help of nuns ever since. His main job was to trim the 12 acres of lawns around the monument.

(Reporting by Luke Baker; Editing by Charles Dick)

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http://news.theage.com.au/man-chokes-to-death-on-cupcakes/20080225-1unv.html

Man chokes to death on cupcakes
February 25, 2008 - 7:32PM

A man choked to death after gorging on cupcakes at a nightclub party in South Wales.

Adam Deeley, 34, collapsed after he began choking when five cupcakes got stuck in his throat.

Fellow revellers and nightclub staff tried to revive him, but were unable to clear his airways.

Deeley and a group of friends decided to stage a cupcake eating competition at the end of a party on Friday after discovering leftover buffet food.

"Quite a spread had been laid on and when the party finished there was quite a lot left over," one guest told The Sun newspaper.

"Someone suggested seeing how quickly they could eat the mound of fairy cakes that were left. But suddenly someone started choking."

[Only One Glass]

How about the Baptist (I think) preacher whose entire family with the exception of one of his children was killed in a car accident on their way to help tornado victims about a month ago?

I get pissed every time someone tries to talk like it's not that bad that a 5 year old was abducted, raped, and murdered by saying things like "he's in a better place now," and "it was god's choice." Sounds like god's an asshole and indifferent at best. What, is god up there helping Tarantino write scripts?

[Jennifer]

"Snakebite proves fatal to minister
JONESVILLE, VA - A preacher who refused medical treatment after a rattlesnake bit him during the serpent-handling part of an Easter service has died, authorities said. The Rev. Dwayne Long, 45, of Rose Hill was holding a rattlesnake when it bit him on the back of a finger, Lee County Sheriff Gary Parsons said. Parsons said the congregation prayed for Long, but no one sought medical treatment. Long died Monday at his home. "We don't anticipate any charges at this time," Parsons said. "That's their belief." Long was pastor of a Pentecostal church where members interpret serpent-handling as a form of obedience to God.

Snake-handlers believe that when people die of a snakebite they receive during a church service, it was simply their time to go. Long leaves a wife, five children and two grandchildren.

Copyright April 15, 2004 Kingsport Publishing Corporation."

right..........

[Only One Glass]

"Snakebite proves fatal to minister
JONESVILLE, VA - A preacher who refused medical treatment after a rattlesnake bit him during the serpent-handling part of an Easter service has died, authorities said. The Rev. Dwayne Long, 45, of Rose Hill was holding a rattlesnake when it bit him on the back of a finger, Lee County Sheriff Gary Parsons said. Parsons said the congregation prayed for Long, but no one sought medical treatment. Long died Monday at his home. "We don't anticipate any charges at this time," Parsons said. "That's their belief." Long was pastor of a Pentecostal church where members interpret serpent-handling as a form of obedience to God.

Snake-handlers believe that when people die of a snakebite they receive during a church service, it was simply their time to go. Long leaves a wife, five children and two grandchildren.

Copyright April 15, 2004 Kingsport Publishing Corporation."

right..........

I heard they believe that people that die from a snakebite didn't have enough faith...

Anyway, I like the idea of snakehandling. Any time a bunch of crazy religious people want to get together and risk their lives, I'm all for it. In fact, I would volunteer to drive around to any of these churches within a certain radius so I can shake the boxes these snakes are kept in to get them good and riled up!

[apache69yell]

I heard they believe that people that die from a snakebite didn't have enough faith...

Anyway, I like the idea of snakehandling. Any time a bunch of crazy religious people want to get together and risk their lives, I'm all for it. In fact, I would volunteer to drive around to any of these churches within a certain radius so I can shake the boxes these snakes are kept in to get them good and riled up!
We should start a new religion based on Russian Roulette

[Only One Glass]

We should start a new religion based on Russian Roulette

Hahaha, that would make the odds SOOOO much better! "You see, god enters the barrel of that gun and if you just have enough faith, he will stop that bullet!"

Do you remember that Simpsons episode where Homers joins that cult and Rev. Lovejoy is preaching and goes "Remember, this cult is nothing more than a bunch of brainwashing heathens that use crazy chants to take money from fools. Now let's all say the Lord's prayer, but first let's pass the collection plate!" I may have butchered it a bit but you get the idea.

Nanananananananana Batman, I mean leader!

[Jennifer]

does anyone see the big deal with executing VIOLENT retarded people? People say it's cruel and unusual and I say the only thing more dangerous than a violent criminal is a person who is unaware that he is a violent criminal. Don't people realize how much more dangerous that makes them?

perhaps we could work the russian roulette religion into that..... if its meant to be, its meant to be...

[Only One Glass]

perhaps we could work the russian roulette religion into that..... if its meant to be, its meant to be...

But then it'd have to be a Russian roulette machine because we can't trust these 'tards with guns...

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http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff127/tetrabinary/Two/xray_dildo.jpg
Says the doctor who took this:

A quite large dildo that is beyond the point of self-retrieval in the rectum and sigmoid of a patient.

These cases are more frequent than you might imagine. Many of these patients will state that "they fell on it" or use some accidental method of rectal penetration as an explanation for why they are in the ER. Some even go so far as to say things such as: "I was attacked by a group of men who did this to me" Nearly all of these types of cases are patients who were trying to achieve or enhance sexual gratification through anal and rectal stimulation. What I do appreciate, though, are the patients who are in this situation and just get brutally honest with you. "I was getting off on this thing in my ass and it went too deep" It's not that I don't respect the people that make excuses. I can't even imagine the horrific embarrassment of having to go to the ER to have a "still vibrating" dildo removed from your rectum. Definitely a very personal thing, no matter who you are, and many would be too mortified to tell the truth to strangers. It's just that every now and then someone comes in and says "I love these things in my ass, I got one stuck and I can't get it out, will you help me?" I respect that kind of honesty."

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Starving student blames stingy host family
Parents consider suing AFS after son was placed in Egyptian home

updated 4:43 p.m. ET, Wed., Feb. 27, 2008

HALLOWELL, Maine - Jonathan McCullum was in perfect health at 155 pounds when he left last summer to spend the school year as an exchange student in Egypt.

But when he returned home to Maine just four months later, the 5-foot-9 teenager weighed a mere 97 pounds and was so weak that he struggled to carry his baggage or climb a flight of stairs. Doctors said he was at risk for a heart attack.

McCullum says he was denied sufficient food while staying with a family of Coptic Christians, who fast for more than 200 days a year, a regimen unmatched by other Christians.

But he does not view the experience as a culture clash. Rather, he said, it reflected mean and stingy treatment by his host family, whose broken English made it difficult to communicate.

"The weight loss concerned me, but I wanted to stick out the whole year," he said in an interview at his family's home outside Augusta.

Friends and teachers at his English-speaking school in Egypt urged him to change his host family, but he stayed put after being told the other home was in a dangerous neighborhood of Alexandria.

After returning to the U.S., he was hospitalized for nearly two weeks. The 17-year-old has regained about 20 pounds, but his parents say he's not the same boy he was when he left under the auspices of AFS Intercultural Programs.

"He was outgoing, a straight-A student, very athletic. Now, he's less spontaneous and more subdued," said his mother, Elizabeth McCullum, who was shocked when she met her son at the airport on Jan. 9 and saw he had lost one-third his weight.

Parents: We weren't told of fasting
Jonathan McCullum's parents said the exchange program should have warned them that students placed with Coptic families would be subject to dietary restrictions.

Marlene Baker, communications director at AFS headquarters in New York, declined to discuss McCullum's experience. She referred calls to the program's lawyer in Portland, Patricia Peard, who said she could not comment on McCullum's case because of the potential for a lawsuit.

McCullum said his host family gave him only meager amounts of food, and his condition worsened during the last seven weeks, when the family observed a fast limiting the amount of animal protein he was given.

The host family was a couple with two younger boys and a daughter who was in the U.S. on an AFS exchange. McCullum said the parents gave him the smallest food portions, hid treats in their bedroom and complained that the cost of his upkeep was more than they spent for their daughter when she was home.

The host father, Shaker Hanna, rejected McCullum's story as "a lie," suggesting that he made it up because his parents were hoping to recover some of the money they paid for his stay as compensation.

"The truth is, the boy we hosted for nearly six months was eating for an hour and a half at every meal. The amount of food he ate at each meal was equal to six people," Hanna said. He added that the boy was active, constantly exercising and playing sports.

Hanna, an engineer, said his family went out of its way to prepare special foods, including fish and chicken, for McCullum during the fast periods.

McCullum disputes that. The family served meat early in his stay, he said, but that ended during the fast period.

He said he never got breakfast and his first food of the day usually was a small piece of bread with cucumbers and cheese that he would take to school for lunch. There was a late-afternoon dinner consisting of beans, vegetables and sometimes fish, and a snack of bread later in the evening.

McCullum sometimes bought food, but at one point was reduced to stealing it from a supermarket. He was caught, but the store accepted the small amount of money he had and let him go.

Still, McCullum did not complain to his parents. His father suspects he may have fallen victim to Stockholm syndrome, in which people start to feel a sense of loyalty to those who victimize them.

McCullum's parents first sensed that something was amiss shortly before Christmas, when they got e-mails from their son and one of his teachers about seeking a new host family. They also saw a picture of him on Facebook indicating he had lost a lot of weight.

In early January, the teacher sent another e-mail saying McCullum was "in bad shape" and "really, really NEEDS to go home."

The McCullums said AFS provided false assurances that he had seen a doctor and was in excellent health.

AFS, a nonprofit formerly known as American Field Service, is one of the largest and oldest organizers of student exchanges. Since its founding as an ambulance corps during World War I, the agency has arranged exchanges for 325,000 American and foreign students from more than 50 countries.

Contact was discouraged
The McCullums said AFS discourages parents from telephoning or e-mailing their kids abroad, believing the distraction would run counter to the program's goal of immersing them in local culture.

"They told us to have as little contact as possible, and we bought into it," Elizabeth McCullum said. She said she had confidence in AFS, regarding it as "the gold standard" of exchange programs, but now is aware that things can go terribly wrong.

The Committee for Safety of Foreign Exchange Students, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the exchange programs are rampant with instances of abuse and neglect.

"This is not an isolated incident. I'm aghast but I'm not shocked," the committee's director, Danielle Grijalva of Oceanside, Calif., said after hearing McCullum's story.

The McCullums are considering a lawsuit. David McCullum expressed concern about the long-term physical and psychological effects on his son. "Someone needs to be held accountable, and I would like someone to say, 'I'm sorry.'"

Jonathan McCullum is recovering and recently went snowboarding with friends. He plans to return to school in the fall, rejoin the soccer team and eventually study to be a doctor.

Despite the ordeal, he has not soured on foreign travel: He wants to visit Zimbabwe this summer as part of a volunteer program to build homes and trails.

[apache69yell]

"The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is considering an application by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) to grant online master's degrees in science education. And an advisory panel to the board has recommended that Texas should accept the application.

The ICR accepts the Bible as literal truth on all topics. According to its website, the palaeoclimatology class covers "climates before and after the Genesis Flood". Anatomy lab includes "limited discussion of embryology and accompanying histology, specifically in regards to evolutionary theory and its alternative — the creation of fully functional major groups of animals"."

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/28/india.baby.ap/index.html

Newborn survives fall through train toilet

This newborn baby girl fell through the toilet on a moving train and onto the tracks moments after her mother prematurely gave birth.

The child's mother, who uses the single name Bhuri, was traveling with relatives on an overnight train when she went to the bathroom shortly before midnight Tuesday and unexpectedly gave birth to a baby girl, said Arjun Kumar, her brother-in-law.

"Later, she fell unconscious and the baby fell through the toilet," he continued. "Two stations later, we knocked at the door."

Bhuri opened the door, soaked in blood.

"When we asked her about what happened, she said the baby had fallen through onto the tracks," Kumar said.

Toilets on Indian trains usually have holes that open directly onto the tracks, and there were no indications Thursday that authorities doubted Bhuri's story or planned to investigate the incident.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080227/od_afp/irelandbritainhealthoffbeat;_ylt=AlLIq2b30zWKmPncO wzUmrQuQE4F

Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye

DUBLIN (AFP) - An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.

The technique, pioneered in Italy in the 1960s, involves creating a support for an artificial cornea from the patient's own tooth and the surrounding bone.

The procedure used on McNichol involved his son Robert, 23, donating a tooth, its root and part of the jaw.

McNichol's right eye socket was rebuilt, part of the tooth inserted and a lens inserted in a hole drilled in the tooth.