Dominic DiAngi, 7, received a fractured skull this week from a foul ball hit by Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly. Dominic needed CPR and only recently was transferred from intensive care in Chicago.
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Category: Bizarre
In Dublin, Ireland, Sharon Collins, 45, a divorced mother-of-two, has gotten a bit too comfortable with Internet shopping. Collins arranged to hire a hitman on wwwlhitman.com only to have the assassin-for-hire, Egyptian Essam Eid, contact her former husband to bargain for a no-kill contract.
In Winnipeg, a white nationalist mother thought it was fun to draw a swastika on the arm of her seven-year-old daughter. When a teacher rubbed off the mark, the mother drew it back on. The second time, the school reported the incident and child welfare officials took both the daughter and a two-year-old boy away from the mother. It is a case that raises very serious questions of free speech balanced against child welfare.
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Kentucky pastor, Gregory James Coots, 36, is in jail this week after wildlife officers found dozens of snakes in his possession. He was one of 10 people arrested in the sweep. Coots is the head of Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro — a snake handling sect that recently came under investigation with the death of a woman bitten by one of the venomous snakes.
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A prior entry discussed the refusal of Disney and Universal Studios to comply with a new Florida law allowing citizens to bring guns to work. (SeaWorld is allowing armed employees). Now, Edwin Sotomayer has sued Disney after he was fired for packing at the Animal Kingdom and the matter will move to the courts.
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In yet another confrontation between France and the Muslim community, the government has refused to give a woman citizenship because she is too submissive to Islam and to men. In a June ruling, the Council of State found that the Moroccan woman’s religious beliefs are incompatible with French citizenship. Notably, the woman speaks good French, is married to a French national, has lived in the country since 2000, has three children born in France, and has never been arrested for a crime.
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One would think that former U.S. diplomat Gons G. Nachman, 42, might have a few matters other than marriage on his mind as he faces sentencing for sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil. However, Nachman asked United States District Judge Bruce Lee in Alexandria, Virginia to marry him to his fiance at his sentencing hearing. Lee declined. Nachman then made a “when in Rome” defense for his sex with young girls in foreign lands.
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Christian V. Phillips is not likely to drop off any more goodies for the police of Lake Worth, Texas. Phillips, 18, brought cookies from Mothers Against Drunk Driving to various police stations as part of his community service. He was arrested after police said that they suspected the cookies were laced with marijuana and field tests indicated LSD. It turns out the cookies were clean, but Phillips was jailed and charged.
As shocking as it may seem, the evidence appears to confirm that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard altered the recent missile launch pictures to increase the number of missiles in a show of strength. This form of missile envy was uncovered after Agence France-Presse (AFP) ran the picture.
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In a continuation of the day’s murder and mayhem thing, here is one equally bizarre and grotesque. Gary Eastwood, 38, came to Burger Kind and is accused of “having it his way” with an off menu selection. After a fender bender, Eastwood bit off the nose of Tommy Easterling after ramming Easterling’s car with his truck.
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In Anderson, South Carolina, Gwen G. Rice, 78, is accused of killing her husband with a hammer and a garden cultivator. She allegedly attacked Paul Norman Rice while he was playing solitaire on the computer.
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Timothy Welsh thought that he had a clever idea. He used a magic marker to change the three and nine of his license plate to eights. Then then ran lights and speeding — even allowing one camera to film him flipping the bird. When another man complained of receiving tickets, cops found the film and tracked down the 44-year-old Arizona man.
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In Sarasota, Florida, Susan Davidson Bell could not have been nicer when she saw another teacher copying her resume. She explained that she was going for job interview and offered to take the teacher’s resume to the same school. She was as good as her word, except for the fact that she then claimed the resume for her own and assumed the identity of the teacher.
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In Knoxville Tenn., Matt Lincoln wanted to be touched by God when he went to the Lakewind Church. It was the contact with the floor that he did not plan for when he was consumed by the holy spirit. He is not suing the church for negligence in failing to take preparations for those who lose their balance or consciousness when visited by the spirit during services. He is seeking $2.5 million of a more earthly reward.
After 35 years, New Orleans police career, Sgt. Bobby Guidry probably thought that his supervisor wanted to give him a gold watch or final slap on the back. After all, he was fifteen minutes away from retirement and literally packing up his car to leave. His supervisor, however, suspended the veteran officer for wearing the wrong color shirt — an act that will affect his post-retirement status.
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