Man Allergic to Wi-Fi, Makes Him Sick, Dizzy, Confused
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2552553/Wi-fi-waves-make-top-DJ-Dave-Miller-sick.html

For Steve Miller a trip downtown is a living hell that makes him sick, dizzy and confused.

Bars make him feel the same and he can't use trains, airports or hotels without experiencing head-banging agony.

But Miller doesn't suffer from some strange phobia. He is allergic to Wi-Fi.

And unfortunately for him — and the other two percent of the population with electromagnetic hypersensitivity — the number of people pumping out the wireless internet signal is on the rise.

"I feel like an exile on my own planet," Miller said. "It's almost impossible to find somewhere without Wi-Fi nowadays. If I fancy a pint I have to travel three miles to the only pub in my area that doesn't have it."

Being extra-sensitive to this "electrosmog" has made moving around a nightmare for Miller, as stray signals from neighboring buildings could make him ill.

"Even now there's very little education about it."

There is no hard evidence that wi-fi is dangerous to your health.

But just three months ago teachers called for it to be banned in schools over health fears, and for a Government investigation into the biological and thermal effects.

A couple of years ago the German government even urged people to avoid wi-fi in favour of "conventional wired connections". Steve believes the issue needs looking into and that many people are suffering from his condition without realising.

He added: "I certainly believe most of the headaches people get at work are caused by it.

"I've spoken to friends who work in offices who have ended up living on painkillers because of their daily headaches. They tried turning off their transmitters and found their headaches stopped.

"There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that the radiation has made people feel ratty and tired, caused disrupted sleep, rows and even the break-up of relationships.

Miller now carries a Wi-Fi detector with him wherever he goes so he can avoid problem areas.

Baby dismemberment stuns Texas authorities

SAN ANTONIO — The scene was so gruesome investigators could barely speak: A 31/2-week-old boy lay dismembered in the bedroom of a single-story house, three of his tiny toes chewed off, his face torn away, his head severed and his brains ripped out.

“At this particular scene you could have heard a pin drop,” San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Monday. “No one was speaking. It was about as somber as it could have been.”

Officers called to the home early Sunday found the boy's mother, Otty Sanchez, sitting on the couch with a self-inflicted wound to her chest and her throat partially slashed, screaming “I killed my baby! I killed my baby!” police said. She told officers the devil made her do it, police said.

Sanchez, 33, apparently ate the child's brain and some other body parts before stabbing herself, McManus said.

“It's too heinous for me to describe it any further,” McManus told reporters.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/07/27/20090727babydecapitated27-ON.html

Your weird newses aren't fun :sad:

I agree. Where are you reading your "news" each day, and please stop. :neutral:

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Woman Stuck Near Toilet for a Week

An elderly Australian woman survives a week trapped in her bathroom, wedged between the toilet and the door. A neighbor says he heard the 67-year-old's cries for help and called the fire department, which came to her rescue. The woman is recovering from dehydration.

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Bikini-Clad Woman Accused of Carjacking

A bikini-clad suspect carjacks another woman, then drives her car to an RV dealership where she tells employees that she has a gun and demands money from them, Mississippi police say. The RV dealers restrain her until police arrive, and authorities say the woman was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Where did she hide her gun?

inbetween her twins?

She was pregnant too?

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A woman has gotten a ticket for riding a stolen horse down the main street in a small town in northwestern South Carolina. The Greenville News reported Tuesday the 40-year-old woman was given a ticket for disorderly conduct after a pedestrian flagged down an officer in Six Mile and told them the woman was about to fall off the horse.

The sheriff's report said an officer found a large tan horse tied to a bench at a convenience store and found the woman trying to use a phone inside.

The report said the woman's speech was slurred, she had an aroma of alcohol and was unsteady on her feet. She said she was riding the horse to her boyfriend's house. Her name was not released.

The horse's owner said the animal was taken without consent, but he didn't press charges.

Is that a DUI offense?

I have no idea but you could say it is a one horse town. :D

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A black bear that broke into a Boulder County home and charged at the homeowner was killed only after three rounds from a shotgun, five shots from a handgun and two from a rifle. Paul Fischer fired birdshot and a rubber bullet at the 120-pound bear it was found rummaging through the kitchen early Monday morning. The family escaped when the third shot seemed to disorient the bear.

Sheriff's deputies found a bear trying to claw his way through a screen door when they arrived. Sgt. Lance Enholm fired his handgun five times at the bear after determining it was severely wounded.

Enholm says the bear kept moving toward him and was finally felled and killed by two shots from his rifle.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535263,00.html

A beluga whale saved a drowning diver by hoisting her to the surface, carrying her leg in its mouth.

Terrified Yang Yun thought she was going to die when her legs were paralyzed by crippling cramps in arctic temperatures. Competitors had to sink to the bottom of an aquarium's 20-foot arctic pool and stay there for as long as possible with the beluga whales at Polar Land in Harbin, north east China.

But when Yun, 26, tried to head to the surface she struggled to move her legs.

"I began to choke and sank even lower and I thought that was it for me - I was dead. Until I felt this incredible force under me driving me to the surface," Yun said.

Beluga whale Mila had spotted her difficulties and using her sensitive dolphin-like nose guided Yun safely to the surface.

Revenge by way of glue for wayward husband

WAUSAU, Wis. - A married eastern Wisconsin man thought he was going to a motel for a little romance with one of his handful of lovers. She allegedly played along and suggested he be tied up and blindfolded for a massage, according to court documents.

But four women eventually showed up to humiliate the man, who ended up with his penis glued to his stomach in a bizarre plot to punish him for a lover's quadrangle gone bad, according to the documents filed in Calumet County.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/08/03/20090803cheater-assaulted03-ON.html

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2009/06/reasonable-consumer-would-know-crunchberries-are-not-real-judge-rules.html

On May 21, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed a complaint filed by a woman who said she had purchased "Cap'n Crunch with Crunch Berries" because she believed it contained real fruit. The plaintiff, Janine Sugawara, alleged that she had only recently learned to her dismay that said "berries" were in fact simply brightly-colored cereal balls, and that although the product did contain some strawberry fruit concentrate, it was not otherwise redeemed by fruit. She sued, on behalf of herself and all similarly situated consumers, some of whom may believe that there are fields somewhere in our land thronged by crunchberry bushes.

Obese TX inmate hides gun in his flabs of fat

HOUSTON - An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own flesh.

Twenty-five-year-old George Vera was charged with possession of a firearm in a correctional facility after he told a guard at the Harris County Jail about the unloaded 9mm pistol. The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday that Vera was originally arrested on charges of selling illegal copies of compact discs.

The 500-pound man was searched during his arrest and again at a city jail and the county jail, but officers never found the weapon in his rolls of skin. Vera admitted having the gun during a shower break at the county jail.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/08/08/20090808ODD-fathidesgun08-ON.html

Dead baby comes to life before funeral
A Paraguayan family received a huge surprise when their premature baby boy was declared dead and later found to be alive when he was taken home for a funeral wake.

The baby was born 16 weeks prematurely at a state-run hospital in the capital of Asuncion. The hospital pronounced him dead after staff tried to revive him for an hour, a doctor who works in the maternity unit told the BBC. According to medical records he weighed only 1.1 pounds when he was born.

"Initially, the baby didn't move, he practically didn't have any respiratory reflexes, nor did we hear a heartbeat and, as a result, we declared a premature fetus of 24 weeks dead," Dr. Ernesto Weber, head of pediatric care at the hospital, told Reuters Television.

The hospital provided the parents Liliana and Jose Alvarenga with a death certificate and a "coffin," a cardboard box with the baby's name scribbled on the side. They placed their deceased child in the box, went home, and then the unbelievable happened.

"I opened the box and took the baby out and he cried. I got scared and I said 'the baby's crying' ... and then he started moving his arms, his legs and I got scared, we got very scared," Liliana told Reuters Television.

The baby is now back at the hospital's intensive care unit and reported to be in a stable condition. An investigation is looking into what happened.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=45210&tsp=1

Gotta love state run hospitals. Can't wait until socialism hits here and we have state run healthcare. It will be soooooooo much better for everyone (insert sarcasm).

Woman unkowingly takes in fraudulent handicap man, changes diapers

The deception began, Schulte said, when she placed an ad online on Craigslist.org offering child care services.

She said a man called and asked Schulte if she knew any special-needs caregivers. The man told Schulte that a car accident left his brother with physical disabilities, including weak arms, poor bladder control and the mental capacity of a 5-year-old. He told her how an aunt and current caregiver had no patience. He offered Schulte $600 a week to look after his brother.

Schulte said "the brother" spent his days at her house watching cartoons and playing video games.

"I took care of him just like I would my kids," she said. "I rubbed his head when he was falling asleep. I waited on him hand and foot."

Then Schulte said her husband noticed subtle changes in "the brother's" behavior, and payment to his wife was erratic. Schulte said Randall followed him one day when he left their home: Instead of walking to his aunt's house, he got into a parked car two blocks away and drove off.

In the three months Schulte provided care, she said the man never slipped out of character.

"The guy played such a good role," whether pretending to be the brother or the man who hired her.

Some suggested that it might be an "adult baby" or "diaper-lover" fetish. Often, people with such fetishes want to be treated as babies and talk in barely audible voices, as the man did.

Investigators and prosecutors have refused to pursue charges, saying Schulte was paid and agreed to provide the care.

"I feel violated," Schulte said, sharing her story because she said the man has deceived other women and will try again. "I feel disgusted."

"I consented to change his diapers, but I legitimately thought this man needed help," she said. "How can that not be a crime for him to come into my house and expose himself?"

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090809/NEWS01/908090319/