Weird News

[Flint]

Man Eats Cocaine From Brother's Butt, Dies--OF SHAME

[Lamplighter]

Remember the old joke:
"Judge, I did kill my parents, but please take into account that I am an orphan."

Van der Sloot's attorney asked the Peruvian judges to take into account
that his client suffered post traumatic stress syndrome at the time of the killing
from all the publicity surrounding the disappearance of Nancy Holloway five hears ago.

Time
By AP / FRANK BAJAK
1/12/12

Van der Sloot Pleads Guilty to Murder

"Yes, I want to plead guilty. I wanted from the first moment to confess sincerely,"
he told the panel of three judges that will decide his fate. "I truly am sorry for this act. I feel very bad."

Prosecutors are asking for a 30-year prison sentence.
He bowed his head later when his lawyer argued that he killed Stephany Flores, 21,
as a result of "extreme psychological trauma" he suffered from the fallout
of the 2005 disappearance on the Caribbean island of Aruba of Natalee Holloway.

[Lamplighter]

Oh sure, I can believe this...

CBS News
January 18, 2012 11:18 AM

Report: Captain claims he "tripped" into lifeboat

The cruise ship captain under fire for abandoning his vessel while
thousands of passengers scrambled for rescue has reportedly come up with an explanation for his flight
- he accidentally tripped and fell into a lifeboat.
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[HungLikeJesus]

That's the first picture I've seen from that perspective. It hardly seems like you'd need a lifeboat with the land so close.

[ZenGum]

I was about to post that in the Mildly Amusing thread.

First of all this guy appears to have really screwed up the navigation in some of the best charted waters in the world in a ship with all the modern wizz-bang gizmos.

Then - maybe this is a second-language issue - he mentioned "a rock collided with our ship". ORLY? How fast was the rock going?

Then he went from "we were the last to leave" to "I WAS co-ordinating - from the lifeboat".

Yesterday, the ship had lurched violently and tipped them into the sea.

Now he "tripped and fell ... right into a lifeboat"

You, captain, are NO CAPTAIN.

[HungLikeJesus]

I heard he's called Chicken of the Sea.

[infinite monkey]

Has anyone heard about these 12 HS girls exhibiting tourette-like symptoms? They're calling it conversion disorder (mass hysteria) but I don't really buy it. Of courses, I'm not a doctor IRL or on TV.

What do you think?

Before last October, 17-year-old Thera Sanchez was a healthy cheerleader at LeRoy Junior-Senior High School in New York. But when she woke up from a nap on Oct. 7, she was beset by uncontrollable Tourette-like tics, that she continues to have today.

MSNBC reported that Sanchez is not alone -- 12 girls at the high school experienced an onset of these same symptoms, which include outbursts, shaking and tics.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1210681.html

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Has anyone heard about these 12 HS girls exhibiting tourette-like symptoms? They're calling it conversion disorder (mass hysteria) but I don't really buy it. Of courses, I'm not a doctor IRL or on TV.

What do you think?

Is this happening in Salem, Mass?

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Is this happening in Salem, Mass?

No, it's happening on Uranus.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

I heard he's called Chicken of the Sea.

FTW

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Has anyone heard about these 12 HS girls exhibiting tourette-like symptoms? They're calling it conversion disorder (mass hysteria) but I don't really buy it. Of courses, I'm not a doctor IRL or on TV.

What do you think?





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1210681.html

I'm thinking they all did a batch of bath salts or some other shitty drug and this shit happened to them.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

That's the first picture I've seen from that perspective. It hardly seems like you'd need a lifeboat with the land so close.

The perspective makes it look a bit closer closer than it is, it's a LARGE cruise ship (approx 4000 passengers and crew from what I recall). But that is the main reason that there was less than 1% fatality.

The Captain didn't crash on these rocks, he had already holed the boat and was trying to bring it into harbour. Not that I'm writing in his defence, because he holed the ship on other rocks after all.

I can swim approx 25 metres. In a pool.
I would struggle to swim in the sea. Close to rocks and a huge sinking vessel, currents would be unpredictable. In a shipwreck, I'm Shelley Winters Swimming distance depends on the swimmer.

I really feel for the families of the two old men found in their cabins with their life jackets on. Imagine their last minutes - cold and dark and knowing what would surely come...

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Has anyone heard about these 12 HS girls exhibiting tourette-like symptoms? They're calling it conversion disorder (mass hysteria) but I don't really buy it. Of courses, I'm not a doctor IRL or on TV.
What do you think?

It's so hard to say without knowing all the facts.
Were the 12 of them close? It's trickier if not.
Did they all experience onset of symptoms within the same timeframe? Were those experiencing the symptoms first in contact with those who experienced them subsequently?

It's all odd.

Bottom line, we are unlikely to ever know if it's purely environmental/ medical.
And if it's not we have to wait for one of them to get older and write a tell-all.
And even then we can't be sure an unscrupulous agent/ ghostwriter/ editor is really interested in the truth.

A modern mystery indeed, Infi.

[infinite monkey]

My first thought was hoax, but I'm cynical like that.

http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.c...-mass-hysteria

The New York State Health Department has been investigating the case for more than three months and says the school building is not to blame. Officials from the LeRoy Junior-Senior High School in upstate New York, where all the girls attended when their symptoms began, have released environmental reports, conducted by an outside agency, showing no substances in any of the school buildings that could cause health problems.

Health officials ruled out carbon monoxide, illegal drugs and other factors as potential causes. Officials say no one at the school is in any danger.

“We have conclusively ruled out any form of infection or communicable disease and there’s no evidence of any environmental factor,’’ Dr. Gregory Young of the New York Department of Health told NBC News.

[Sundae]

I have to admit I am too.
Especially about teenage girls, who seemed like another species to me even when I was one.

I've met many women since who have the midset of teenagers.
And I have had to drag myself out of it (irrational jealousy and feeling left out being those I am still working on!) At least I am no longer embarrassed about who I am. I worked out you don't literally die from embarrassment. It made life so much better.

I'd feel like a meanie if it wasn't.
But like I say, I doubt we'd ever hear in that case.