Odd news stories

[Daddy B]

This one tickled my fancy when I first read it.

[SunKneeMarie]

Originally Posted by Daddy B

This one tickled my fancy when I first read it.

I like this line:

"I can't take the blame for that. The last thing I would do is brag about my parts like that - especially to make it so public," said Henry.

[ryberg]

How to Survive a 500-Foot Fall

Based on the story of the guy who did it in NYC.

Steve

[Heather]

Robbery Suspect Who Left His Phone Number Shot By Police

**btw it lets me access this, but if it's making you register let me know and I'll copy/paste it from the Chicago Tribune**

[Rissask]

How is this for an awful, tragic, freak accident??

Helicopter crash kills four in residential neighbourhood


Apparently it was a hydro company 'copter and was checking the lines, and had some sort of mechanical problem. The pilot tried to maneuver it to a spot where there was no houses to crash or land...unfortunately it landed on top of a pedestrian who was out for a walk in his neighbourhood, blithely strolling along ...with his iPod on, according to the news this morning, which is why he never heard it coming- although how couldn't have FELT it above him is strange. Very sad.

[STOGEY]

From Foxnews

ATHENS, Greece — A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.

Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo about six centimeters (more than two inches) long.

"They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo," hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.

The girl has made a full recovery, he said.
Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.
Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births.

The girl's family did not want to be identified, hospital officials said.

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Pruthviraj Patil has tried many things to cure himself of the hypertrichosis that ails him, but to no avail.

Hypertrichosis, a rare genetic condition also known as Werewolf Syndrome, causes 11-year-old Pruthviraj’s body to be covered with thick, matted hair, London’s Telegraph reported.

Pruthviraj, who is from the district of Sangli, near Mumbai, India, is one of 50 people in the world who suffers from the condition, according to the newspaper.

Even homeopathy, traditional Indian ayurvedic remedies and laser surgery only works temporarily: The hair grows back, Pruthviraj said.
Click here to discuss this story.

The boy said he rarely leaves his village because of the cruelty of strangers and he has been bullied throughout his childhood.

"Why did God do this to us?" said Pruthviraj’s mother, Anita, 32. "He looks so odd and wherever we go people throng to see him."

Plastic surgeon Vinay Saoji, who examined Pruthviraj, said the condition is very uncommon. "Hairy nevus, where a person has patches of excess hair growth, or hirsutism, is not uncommon, but hair persisting all over the body is very rare."

Click here to see photos of Pruthviraj and to read the full story from the Daily Telegraph.

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Werewolfs in London, but his hair was purple.

[Heather]

It's a sad condition, but I've seen interviewes with the Mexican men (I think they are brothers, have to look it up later) who have it. They seem to be at peace with their condition and it doesn't seem to have scarred them emotionally at all. Perhaps this has something to do with what I've seen of Mexican culture seeming to be very matter of fact and accepting of what people are like physically (like calling a spade a spade, ie, if you have big ears, you're called "big ears," or "gordo" for fatty). It hardly seems fair, though, that this poor kid is treated so poorly...since isn't it India that is worshiping as a god that baby that was just born with 2 faces?

I seem to remember that the Mexican men with this condition make a very good living as circus performers.

[STOGEY]

Originally Posted by Heather

It's a sad condition, but I've seen interviewes with the Mexican men (I think they are brothers, have to look it up later) who have it. They seem to be at peace with their condition and it doesn't seem to have scarred them emotionally at all. Perhaps this has something to do with what I've seen of Mexican culture seeming to be very matter of fact and accepting of what people are like physically (like calling a spade a spade, ie, if you have big ears, you're called "big ears," or "gordo" for fatty). It hardly seems fair, though, that this poor kid is treated so poorly...since isn't it India that is worshiping as a god that baby that was just born with 2 faces?

I seem to remember that the Mexican men with this condition make a very good living as circus performers.

As a person who was very badly scarred by boiling hot coffee at 1 day before my first b.day. I know what it is like to go through what he is going through. I feel quite bad for him and get very annoyed with the ignorance of some people.

[ryberg]

Well this is kind of an odd news story:

White valedictorian: A first for historically black Morehouse

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Joshua Packwood knows what it's like to be a minority.

This weekend he'll be the first white valedictorian to graduate from the historically black, all male Morehouse College in the school's 141-year history.

Morehouse, in Atlanta, Georgia, is one the nation's most prestigious universities of its kind. For more than a century, the school has prided itself on personifying the dream of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the school's most notable alums, by producing "Morehouse Men" - intelligent and successful black leaders...

Gee, white guys being valedictorians at Morehouse, a black man and a woman vying for the nomination for the presidency... what's a closed-minded person to do?!?

Steve

[STOGEY]

May 19: Medical personnel stabilize newspaper photographer Ryan McGeeney's leg after he was pierced by a javelin directly below his right knee.
PROVO, Utah — A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the state high school track championships — and was speared through the leg by a javelin.

FOXNews.com - Photojournalist Speared by Javelin at Utah Track Meet - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

[TJordan]

[STOGEY]

Humans dressed up as aliens in Hong Kong.
Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission — claims aliens exist.
He says extraterrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.
Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview in Birmingham, England, that sources at NASA who had had contact with aliens described the beings as "little people who look strange to us."
He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a "small gray" — short, slight frame, large eyes and large head.
Mitchell also claimed human technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as the aliens' and "had they been hostile," he warned "we would be been gone by now."
• Click here to read the full story at Australia's Daily Telegraph.
• Click here to listen to Mitchell's interview with Kerrang! radio.
FOxnews.

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STOCKHOLM — The staff at a Swedish airport was not amused when a team from a TV comedy show tried to check in a suitcase with a dwarf inside.
Employees at Bromma airport called police when the dwarf hopped out of the suitcase at the check-in counter.
Police soon found that it was a stunt being filmed by a hidden camera for a program on private TV network Kanal 5.
Police spokesman Mats Eriksson says airport staff decided against filing charges even though they were "shocked and humiliated" by Wednesday's stunt.
Kanal 5 spokesman Dan Panas told Swedish news agency TT that the show was meant to be "provocative and entertaining."
He said the stunt was not meant to make fun of little people, but to make entertainment out of "extreme situations."
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