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Dear spacemummy
Apparently people are mummifying themselves with air conditioners and doing a poor job of it (smell of death, etc.).
Had you considered going into business as a Preservation Consultant? You could make a nice living and Give Back to the Community this way, and get the Mummyship a new set of tires or whatever it needs.
One Weekend a Month, My Ass!
The Exploding Aardvark linked me to a beavo-buttheadian news story about our boys overseas.
Screencap of the story, for when it’s gone, is behind the cut.
LIFE IN THESE HERE NOW UNITED STATES
Suspicious lamp prompts evacuation
A Huntington Beach homeowner saw the object in a garage.
By RYAN HAMMILL
The Orange County Register
HUNTINGTON BEACH — A report of a suspicious lamp in a garage led to a neighborhood evacaution today before the Orange County sheriff’s bomb squad determined that the object was harmless.
A Mangrum Drive homeowner called Huntinton Beach police about 3 p.m. after seeing wires protruding from the base and an unfamiliar light bulb, Sgt. Dave Bunetta said.
Police officers visually inspected the lamp before calling the bomb squad and the Huntington Beach Fire Department’s hazardous material unit, Bunetta said.
Residents within 300 feet of the house were evacuated for about 3½ hours during the investigation.
The house is next door to a home day care, which also was evacuated, and two blocks from Marina High School.
Revisiting Jump Out of Limo Woman Story
The autopsy report is out, revealing she was really drunk. The best details are about her date and his life of lame. Best quote:
He said in the interview that he was deeply in love with Rowe, and also still very much in love with his wife, Whitney Vincent, 22, who lives in Knoxville, Tenn., and Lisa Atkinson, 21, of Placentia, whom he enticed into a string of car dealership thefts and persuaded to use her job at a private mail center in Orange to wire him a $25,000 money order.
UCI Medical School keeps getting better and better
Latest hoot: The two docs who head up their Cardiology Division are neither board certified nor California licensed.
May require bugmenot to read. Short version:
The men who run UCI’s cardiology program, Jagat Narula and Mani Vannan, have not been certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine either in internal medicine or in cardiology. Most cardiologists meet those prerequisites before setting up a practice.
In addition, neither Narula, the division chief, nor Vannan, the associate chief, have California medical licenses. They are among a small group of doctors who practice in the state under a legal provision intended to give universities flexibility in hiring professors temporarily. They are licensed in Pennsylvania.
Cops… on… ICE!
The city may be frozen, but Beijing’s finest are still on patrol, albeit looking sorta dumb.
o/~ ‘Cause heeee loooooves traaaaaaaash o/~
This was sent to me by jonpants who then couldn’t take his own medicine:
jonpants: he killed snuffy.
substitute: And made a Snuffy Film of it, no doubt.
jonpants: oh man that was just bad.
Woman’s Body Found On Big Bird Actor’s Conn. Property
POSTED: 8:23 pm EST December 13, 2005
UPDATED: 8:27 pm EST December 13, 2005
WOODSTOCK, Conn. — The body of a woman who disappeared while jogging was found Tuesday on property owned by the performer who plays Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the popular children’s television show “Sesame Street,” a town official said.
Woodstock First Selectwoman Delpha Mae Very cautioned against drawing conclusions, saying the property owned by Caroll Spinney is a very large tract of remote wooded land.
State police did not release information on any suspects. A message seeking comment was left at Spinney’s home.
The body of Judith Nilan, 44, was found in a storage building on the Massachusetts border at about 10:30 a.m. during a search by state police, tracking dogs, volunteers and a helicopter. State police said her death was a homicide.
“You just don’t think of those type of things happening in Woodstock,” Very said. “We consider it extremely safe.”
Woodstock, home to about 8,000 people, is about 40 miles northeast of Hartford and about 30 miles southwest of Worcester, Mass.
Nilan, a middle school social worker, was reported missing Monday night by her husband, who said she went jogging about 4:30 p.m. and never returned.
Her husband, Jon Baker, told police he searched his wife’s normal jogging route after she failed to return to their Woodstock home three hours after going out for her daily run. He called police after failing to find her, said Sgt. J. Paul Vance, a state police spokesman.
Vance said he didn’t know if the storage building, which is about 6 miles from Nilan’s home, was near her jogging route. He would not say what led police to the body.
“There were leads and evidence that was discovered by investigators that were significant in moving this case ahead on a continuous basis late last night and early this morning,” he said.
No suspects were in custody Tuesday afternoon, but police had solid leads, Vance said.
“I don’t want to tell people not to lock their doors or anything, but I’ll say we’ve made some very good headway on this investigation and leave it at that,” he said.
The storage building is located off the road and straddles the state line.
Connecticut and Massachusetts authorities were working jointly on the investigation, Vance said.
The crime scene was still being processed and authorities had not determined which state’s medical examiner would perform the autopsy, Vance said.
Worst flashmob ever
The Null Device has an excellent summary of the Australian race riots, with some background information that the international media hasn’t touched.
Also, text messaging. Yow.
local news provides holy shit story
Fullerton police officer saves child from train
Autistic 13-year-old had wandered off and was spotted from a helicopter, walking on tracks with train approaching.
By JOHN McDONALD
The Orange County Register
FULLERTON – A routine search for an autistic 13-year-old boy who wandered away from a friend’s house turned dramatic Tuesday night when a police helicopter crew spotted him walking on railroad tracks with a train approaching from behind, officials said.
Fullerton police raced to the scene with sirens blaring and emergency lights flashing.
Fullerton police officer Chris Bradley tore his hand open climbing a barbed-wire fence to reach the boy before the train hit him.
“It wasn’t like in the movies but it was a close call,” said Fullerton police Lt. Neal Baldwin.
The incident began at about 10:20 p.m., when police were called to a home on the 1900 block of Odell Place, where residents reported that Luis Perales, 13, of Garden Grove had been visiting and had wandered off. They reported that Perales is autistic and has the mental age of a 5-year-old.
“The officers also learned that the boy was infatuated by trains,” said Baldwin.
The tracks of the Union Pacific and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads converge just a few hundred yards from the home that the youngster had been visiting.
“We had Anaheim’s helicopter check the tracks and they spotted him walking westbound about three miles away, almost in La Mirada,” Baldwin said.
The helicopter crew also saw a train headed toward the youngster, approaching him from behind.
Bradley pulled the boy to safety. Bradley was taken to a hospital for his hand to be treated and Perales was reunited with his family, Baldwin said.
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