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Originally Posted by Hooahguy
Austrian man mummifies dead mother to keep receiving her social security
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/europ...ntl/index.html
Why is it when there's weird news from my birthland that it's always the creepest shit?Quote:
CNN)Austrian police have found the body of a woman who, they say, was mummified by her son so he could keep claiming her social security.
The 66-year-old man confessed to keeping his mother's body in the basement of a property in the Innsbruck-Land region of western Austria after officers visited the house on Saturday, according to a police statement sent to CNN on Friday.
The 89-year-old woman is thought to have died in June 2020, police said, but the man kept her body in order to continue receiving her pension and care allowance.
Turkey: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58746703
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A missing man in Turkey accidentally joined his own search party for hours before realising he was the person they were looking for, local media reports.
Beyhan Mutlu had been drinking with friends on Tuesday when he wandered into a forest in Bursa province.
When he failed to return, his wife and friends alerted local authorities and a search party was sent out.
Mr Mutlu, 50, then stumbled across the search party and decided to join them, NTV reported.
But when members of the search party began calling out his name, he replied: "I am here."
He was taken aside by one of the rescuer workers to give a statement.
"Don't punish me too harshly, officer. My father will kill me," he reportedly told them.
Police then drove Mr Mutlu home. It is not clear if he was given a fine.
Just a bit of local news: Officials hope to capture loose zebras with new plan involving even more zebras
My money is that the other zebras free the two in the enclosure and the herd will grow. Fast forward to 2050, and the zebras have taken over Maryland. :rolleyes:Quote:
Prince George's County officials have revealed a new plan that they hope will lead to capturing two zebras that have been on the loose since the beginning of September.
Three zebras escaped from a farm in Upper Marlboro and the group has been roaming around the area ever since. Unfortunately, one of the zebras died when it was caught in an illegal snare trap on September 16.
According to a press release from Maryland's Department of Natural Resources, the new plan involves using more zebras. [...]
Officials say the owner and caretaker have taken two zebras from the herd and are keeping them in an enclosure in the center of a corral. The hope is that by utilizing food and the other zebras, the loose zebras will return to the corral and the herd.
Can zebras ford the Potomac? Be a shame if they break into the fancy Middleburg pastures and start cranking out zorses...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
I dont know, but that would be hilarious. Zebras are good swimmers according to google so Im sure theres a place for them to cross it.
American Jews visit Syrian Jews in Damascus, but the biggest news is that healthcare tourism in Syria is booming:
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One group member said the visit was partially to receive dental care, which is far cheaper in Syria than in the United States.
Damn, you know he must be up to some funny business with a pretext like that. Almost all countries on the planet have cheaper dental care than the United States, most of them not Syria - including, uh, Canada and Mexico.Quote:
One group member said the visit was partially to receive dental care, which is far cheaper in Syria than in the United States.
They should have called Operation Gideon a medical-tourist excursion to Venezuela for the lulz.
During illegal pushbacks (our prime-minister becomes super mad, when you mention them), an Italian interpreter working for Frontex, was beaten up, robbed and expelled to Turkey by the Greek police, which took him for a fellow immigrant.
At last...
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SUICIDE MACHINE THAT CAN BE CONTROLLED BY BLINKING FACES ‘NO LEGAL ISSUES’ IN SWITZERLAND
A coffin-shaped capsule that allows occupants to kill themselves has passed legal review in Switzerland, according to its creators.
The Sarco machine can be operated from the inside –conceivably just by blinking if the person suffers from locked-in syndrome – and works by reducing the oxygen level in the pod to below a critical level.
The process takes less than a minute and death occurs through hypoxia and hypocapnia, which is intended to allow a person to die relatively peacefully and painlessly.
Bruh what it's veritably the opposite of a gas chamber.Quote:
“Gas may never be an acceptable method for assisted suicide in Europe due to the negative connotations of the Holocaust,” Dr Nitschke told The Independent in a 2018 interview. “Some have even said that it’s just a glorified gas chamber.”
I agree there should be alternative models available however:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbmQxZkSswI
In all seriousness, from a certain point of view this is the pinnacle of human ingenuity.
"We do nothing wrong, on the contrary, we are super patient, please don't indulge in inflammatory rhetoric."Quote:
Originally Posted by Montmorency
It's written perfectly. A few months ago, when Netanyahu tried a similar trick, he messed up and the tweet ended up being self-contradictory.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/goat-acci...5BiOCSIRspUwSx
Goat accidentally neutralises several invaders in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Not sure if true or Ukrainian propaganda but believable anyhow, trip wire devices are usually pretty sensitive.Quote:
Ukrayinska Pravda
Mon, June 20, 2022, 11:30 AM?1 min read
Mykhailo Zagorodniy ? Monday, 20 June 2022
A nanny goat has injured several Russian servicemen by triggering their tripwires with pinned grenades in the village of Kinski Rozdory in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Ukraine?s Chief Intelligence Directorate has shared a curious incident that happened at a local hospital.
A total of 40 invaders have been stationed at the medical institution in Kinski Rozdory.
The Russian military installed a "circular defence" and placed tripwires around the perimeter of the hospital.
The aggressors regretted this decision after a goat from a neighbouring farm decided to pay a visit to the hospital.
As the frightened animal moved chaotically around the area, she accidentally "disposed of" several grenades.
The unexpected "guest?s" actions triggered a chain reaction, wounding several Russian soldiers to varying degrees.
It is not currently known whether the goat survived the incident.
U.S. funeral home owner who sold body parts pleads guilty to fraud
https://www.reuters.com/legal/govern...ud-2022-07-05/
What an absolute sick person, find it weird too though how apparently unregulated selling body parts is to various institutions. If someone had given me cement mix instead of the ashes of my loved ones I don't think I'd deal with it that well or civil.Quote:
July 5 (Reuters) - A former Colorado funeral home owner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal charge of defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting their family members' corpses and selling the body parts without permission, a practice exposed in a 2018 Reuters investigative report.
Megan Hess, who operated a funeral home called Sunset Mesa and a human body parts business called Donor Services from the same building, entered the plea to the charge of fraud at a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gordon Gallagher in Grand Junction, Colorado. Gallagher scheduled Hess, who had previously pleaded not guilty, to be sentenced in January, with the prosecution calling for 12 to 15 years in prison.
Hess, 45, admitted on Tuesday that through her funeral home, located in the town of Montrose in the western part of the state, she defrauded at least a dozen families seeking cremation services for deceased relatives. Instead of cremating the bodies, court records show, her body broker company harvested heads, spines, arms and legs and then sold them, mostly for surgical training and other educational purposes.
Hess had been scheduled to go on trial in three weeks along with her mother, Shirley Koch, who also previously pleaded not guilty. Koch's change-of-plea hearing is set for July 12.
After Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeremy Chaffin made his sentencing recommendation, the lawyer for Hess, Dan Shaffer, urged a lighter sentence of about two years in prison. Hess has been free on bond since her arrest.
During the hearing, the judge asked Hess to describe in her own words the crimes she committed. Hess initially called the whole affair a "legal travesty." When prodded by the judge, Hess agreed with the prosecution that she defrauded her victims, though she declined to go into detail.
Two family members and one friend of deceased people whose body parts were sold without permission by Hess spoke at the hearing. They told the judge that while they were still emotionally reeling from the episode and wanted to learn more details about what occurred, they welcomed the news that Hess had decided to plead guilty.
To increase sales, Hess targeted poor and vulnerable families as they grappled with a relative's final days, according to government court filings.
"Meeting with hospice on the 4th ... opening the floodgates of donors," Hess wrote to a prospective body-part buyer in 2014. "They have four or five deaths a day. Get ready!!!! ... How about a deal on full embalmed spines ... $950?"
Selling organs such as hearts, kidneys and tendons for transplant is illegal in the United States. But the sale of cadavers and body parts for use in research or education, which is what Hess did, is not regulated by federal law.
Few state laws provide any regulation, and almost anyone, regardless of expertise, can dissect and sell human body parts. After the Reuters 2018 investigation, Colorado's legislature strengthened the state's oversight.
Hess charged families up to $1,000 for cremations that never occurred, prosecutors said, and she also offered others a free cremation in exchange for a body donation. Many families received ashes from bins mixed with the remains of different cadavers, authorities said, and one client received concrete mix instead of a relative's ashes.
FBI agents found that Hess forged dozens of body-donor consent forms. In court documents, a former employee accused Hess of earning $40,000 by extracting and selling the gold teeth of some of the deceased, an allegation first revealed in the 2018 Reuters report.
The Reuters series uncovered the actions of Sunset Mesa and Donor Services. Former workers told Reuters about questionable practices at the facility, including the dismembering of bodies without the knowledge or consent of families.
About a month after the Reuters stories, the FBI raided the site and state regulators shuttered the funeral home and crematory. A federal grand jury indicted Hess and Koch in 2020.
Very common 200 years ago, albeit in less civilized fashion.Quote:
selling body parts
Israel will now require foreign passport holders in a romantic relationship with a Palestinian resident of the West Bank to inform Israeli security authorities in writing at a dedicated e-mail address within 30 days of the relationship’s start.
:daisy:
@Hooahguy
That proposed law didnt end up being enacted btw.
Anyways, I present this without commentary.
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Armed PA man in wig trying to ‘restore Trump as President’ arrested at Dairy Queen
For some mysterious reason, I can't access any news site mentioning the arrest.
Meanwhile, (again?) in Oklahoma.
Thanks for sharing