stickyfngrdboy posted:

i'm adding this to the list of poo poo i wish i didn't know about. What an absolute bastard of a man he was.

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The jury was provided with professional counselling to help them deal with the distress of seeing the photographs of Bates' injuries and the "sickening violence" of the case.

ibntumart posted:

"The gathered pumpkins stir all by themselves and make a sound like 'brrrl, brrrl, brrrl!' and begin to shake themselves...These pumpkins and melons go round the houses, stables, and rooms at night, all by themselves, and do harm to people. But it is thought that they cannot do great damage to folk, so people are not very afraid of this kind of vampire."

These sound like the cutest vampire vegetables ever.

rayne503 posted:

This was a few pages back but here's a quote from the article:

"Although not true carnivores, pigs are competent predators and can kill and eat helpless humans unable to escape them."

Bippie Mishap posted:

Chickens and rats would do the same if they had the mass, they're all omnivores just like humans. Why does that freak you out? Humans eat them.

wikipedia posted:

Joseph Michael Swango (born October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and former licensed physician. It is estimated that Swango has been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues, though he only admitted to causing four deaths. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and is serving that sentence at the ADX Florence supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

wikipedia posted:

Swango displayed troubling behavior during his time at SIU. Although he was a brilliant student, he preferred to work as an ambulance attendant rather than concentrate on his studies. A fascination with dying patients was noted during this time.[3] Although no one thought much of it at the time, many of Swango's assigned patients ended up "coding," or suffering life-threatening emergencies, with at least five of them dying.[1]

DStecks posted:

Probably because most people just think of pigs as harmless, dopey, indiscriminant eaters, not genuine meat lovers, let alone predators.

DStecks posted:

Probably because most people just think of pigs as harmless, dopey, indiscriminant eaters, not genuine meat lovers, let alone predators.

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On Wednesday morning, Terry V. Garner, a 70-year-old Oregon farmer, went to feed his animals. Several hours later, when he hadn’t returned, a family member went to look for him and found, on the ground of the hog enclosure, his dentures.

Further investigation of the enclosure by the family member revealed that the hogs, which each weighed about 700 pounds, had nearly completely eaten the farmer, although some body parts hadn't been consumed and were strewn about the enclosure.

DStecks posted:

Probably because most people just think of pigs as harmless, dopey, indiscriminant eaters, not genuine meat lovers, let alone predators.

DStecks posted:

Probably because most people just think of pigs as harmless, dopey, indiscriminant eaters, not genuine meat lovers, let alone predators.

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"Any pig that gets out can revert back in a matter of months to a state where it can exist in the wild," said Brown. "It will get hairy, grow tusks and get aggressive. They're so good at adapting, and with their scavenging nature, they can get by pretty much anywhere."

Herv posted:

Pigs are the least 'domesticated' of the farm animals IIRC.

After they escape they grow fur and tusks.

http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/outdoors/2007/11/domestic_pigs_quickly_revert_t.html

So those 1000lb pink monsters in the pen can turn into a real problem if they get out.

benito posted:

As much as feral pigs are a problem, they are also delicious. When they're out there getting exercise and eating acorns and blackberries, the meat is awesome. You can always add a little conventional pork fat if you're making sausage.

StrangersInTheNight posted:

And those people would be the first to get eaten by pack of roving pigs after the apocalypse. Don't underestimate pigs and boars - they are smart and big, and will absolutely kill and eat anything that wanders into their path if they're feeling hungry. And they eat everything including the bones, leaving very few traces you were ever there.

There's a reason Robert Pickton was able to get away with his murders for so long (possibly since the early 90s), and it's because his voracious pigs destroyed the evidence for him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton

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On March 10, 2004, it was revealed that Pickton may have ground up human flesh and mixed it with pork that he sold to the public; the province's health authority later issued a warning

Answers Me posted:

There may be a better place than this to ask, but while we're on the topic: does anyone know any good books about the end of time/the death of the universe? I'm itching to freak myself out and read some now.

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Beginning in the 1950s, atomic gardens were a part of Atoms for Peace, a program to develop "peaceful"[2] uses of fission energy after WWII. Gamma gardens were established in laboratories in the US, Europe, parts of the former USSR, India[4] and Japan. The Atomic Gardening Society was set up in 1959 by Muriel Howorth in the UK. The youngest member of the society was Christopher Abbey (15), a student at Eastbourne College and the son of her dentist, who received a certificate of merit for propagating several species of irradiated seeds to maturity. Irradiated seeds were sold to the public by C.J. Speas, who had obtained a licence for a Cobalt-60 source; and sold seeds produced in a backyard cinderblock bunker. A number of commercial plant varieties were developed and released.[5]

kinmik posted:

Wikipedia posted:

The date for the jury trial of the first six counts was initially set to start January 8, 2007, but later delayed to January 22. On that date, Pickton faced first-degree murder charges in the deaths of Frey, Abotsway, Papin, Joesbury, Wolfe and Wilson. The media ban was lifted and for the first time Canadians heard the details of what was found during the long investigation: skulls cut in half with hands and feet stuffed inside; the remains of one victim found stuffed in a garbage bag, and her blood-stained clothing found in Pickton's trailer; part of another victim's jawbone and teeth found beside Pickton's slaughterhouse; and a .22 calibre revolver with an attached dildo containing both his and a victim's DNA. In a videotaped recording played for the jury, Pickton claimed to have attached the dildo to his weapon as a makeshift silencer.

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I was struck by how polite the victim was. She was constantly thanking my wife for her assistance

Sarcopenia posted:

Why?

Centripetal Horse posted:

Because England. Also, because they were helping her when she desperately needed help?

How do yo participate in the kidnapping, torture, and burninating of a 16-year-old girl and get as little as twelve years for it? I long ago decided I cannot support the death penalty, but how the hell is it acceptable for any of those people to ever again breath free air and walk among the non-kidnap-torture-murder populace?

Centripetal Horse posted:

Because England. Also, because they were helping her when she desperately needed help?

How do yo participate in the kidnapping, torture, and burninating of a 16-year-old girl and get as little as twelve years for it? I long ago decided I cannot support the death penalty, but how the hell is it acceptable for any of those people to ever again breath free air and walk among the non-kidnap-torture-murder populace?

Erghh posted:

Courtesy the airpower thread: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening


Love that cold war optimism

Solice Kirsk posted:

I guess if you have to murder someone you should do it in western or northern Europe. Prison is probably like Club Med and you're only there for a little while. Get an education while you're there....Hell, murdering and European prison could be the shot in the arm someone needs!

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Issei Sagawa (佐川 一政 Sagawa Issei?, born April 26, 1949)[1] is a Japanese man who in 1981 murdered and cannibalized a Dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt in Paris. After his release, he became a minor celebrity in Japan and made a living through the public's interest in his crime.

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Sagawa's wealthy father provided a lawyer for his defense, and after being held for two years without trial Sagawa was found legally insane and unfit to stand trial by the French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, who ordered him held indefinitely in a mental institution.[2] After a visit by the author Inuhiko Yomota, Sagawa's account of the murder was published in Japan under the title In the Fog.[2] Sagawa's subsequent publicity and macabre celebrity likely contributed to the French authorities' decision to have him extradited to Japan. Upon arrival in Japan, he was immediately taken to Matsuzawa hospital, where examining psychologists all found him to be sane, stating that sexual perversion was the sole motivation for the murder.[2] Japanese authorities found it legally impossible to detain him because the French government refused to release court documents (which remain secret) to Japan, claiming that the case had already been dropped in France. As a result, Sagawa checked himself out of the mental institution on August 12, 1986, and has been a free man ever since.[2] Sagawa's freedom has been questioned and criticized by many

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On January 20, 2007 four employees from a hospital casualty department in Łódź were sentenced. The perpetrators were shown to have killed mostly elderly patients using the muscle relaxant pancuronium (brand name Pavulon).[2] The four workers then sold information about the deceased patients to funeral homes, so they could contact the relatives before other funeral homes could. They exacted bribes ranging from 12,000 to over 70,000 zloty

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The scandal was first brought to public attention on January 23, 2002 in an article in the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza by Tomasz Patora (pl), Marcin Stelmasiak and Przemysław Witkowski. They described how the hospital workers or paramedics would call funeral homes regarding patient deaths in order to receive a bribe, and sometimes even killed patients. The dead patients were called "skins" and so the article was called "Skin Hunters"

Answers Me posted:

There may be a better place than this to ask, but while we're on the topic: does anyone know any good books about the end of time/the death of the universe? I'm itching to freak myself out and read some now.

Sarcopenia posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Suzanne_Capper

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Powell lived at 97 Langworthy Road, Moston, a small Victorian terraced house, where she also dealt drugs and was involved with the handling of stolen motor vehicles.

Mr. Flunchy posted:

What the gently caress. I lived at 93 Langworthy Road for a year back in the 2000s. Why did I never hear about this?!

peter gabriel posted:

This was HUGE news when it happened and is still heart breaking today to me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger

Poor James

peter gabriel posted:

This was HUGE news when it happened and is still heart breaking today to me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger

Poor James

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In April 2010, a 19-year-old man from the Isle of Man was given a three-month suspended prison sentence for falsely claiming in a Facebook message that one of his former work colleagues was Robert Thompson. In passing sentence, Deputy High Bailiff Alastair Montgomery said that the teenager had "put that person at significant risk of serious harm" and in a "perilous position" by making the allegation.[78]

In March 2012, a 26-year-old man from Chorley, Lancashire, was arrested after allegedly setting up a Facebook group with the title "What happened to Jamie Bulger was f**king hilarious." The man's computer was seized for further investigations.[79]

On 2 March 2010, the Ministry of Justice revealed that Jon Venables had been returned to prison for an unspecified violation of the terms of his licence of release...

On 21 June 2010, Venables was charged with possession and distribution of indecent images of children. It was alleged that he had downloaded 57 indecent images of children over a 12-month period to February 2010, and allowed other people to access the files through a peer-to-peer network.

He pleaded guilty to charges of downloading and distributing child pornography, and was given a sentence of two years' imprisonment.[101] At the court hearing, it emerged that Venables had posed in online chat rooms as 35-year-old Dawn "Dawnie" Smith, a married woman from Liverpool who boasted about abusing her 8-year-old daughter, in the hope of obtaining further child pornography. Venables had contacted his probation officer in February 2010, fearing that his new identity had been compromised at his place of work. When the officer arrived at his flat, Venables was attempting to remove or destroy the hard drive of his computer with a knife and a tin opener.[3] The officer's suspicions were aroused, and the computer was taken away for examination leading to the discovery of the child pornography, which included children as young as two being raped by adults[102][103] and penetrative sex with seven- or eight-year-olds.[3]... On 4 July 2013, it was reported that the Parole Board for England and Wales had approved the release of Venables.[115][116]

On 3 September 2013, it was reported that Venables had been released from prison.[117]