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Aesop Poprock posted:Does anyone actually have the followup on this with proof that he cleaned up his act? Whenever anyone mentions this as a success story I always wonder how much of it was actually proven and how much was just some guy claiming things on the internet to save face He posted pictures and admitted to the whole thing being a wake up call My favorite part was the gaming rig worth more than the house
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I end up reading that thread again every time its brought up and it never gets any less ridiculous.
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I was watching a 'Top 5 spooky otherworldly travellers' video on Youtube this morning and this story popped up.quote:One of the most perplexing events of the 20th Century did not involve flying saucers, conspiracy theories, a criminal act, or even strange creature sightings. It took place on a seemingly normal day in one of the most tedious, mundane places one could imagine: Airport. Yet to this day, no one knows exactly what happened there, or why one average business traveler became the heart of an enigma largely forgotten by our modern world. http://weekinweird.com/2014/05/20/man-without-country-mystery-man-taured/ I love poo poo like this, I wonder (if it is actually real at all) what it was all about. And what that passport looked like.
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Mar 16, 2016 18:33
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If that had actually happened then there would certainly be an official write-up about it somewhere. I have loved stories like that since I was a kid, like the green children of Woolpit and those time-slips people said they had into the future--there's just something so sublime about that kind of story to me--but I'm sure somebody would make a record of it if this guy had no valid travel documents and just vanished.
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Mar 16, 2016 19:23
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Rondette posted:I was watching a 'Top 5 spooky otherworldly travellers' video on Youtube this morning and this story popped up. quote:No documentation verifying this story has yet surfaced, I love it when they straight up tell you it's bullshit. Officials would have kept a record, especially if they detained a guy and seized his passport. The story was probably invented for the 1981 book.
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Mar 16, 2016 22:16
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Jack Gladney posted:If that had actually happened then there would certainly be an official write-up about it somewhere. I have loved stories like that since I was a kid, like the green children of Woolpit and those time-slips people said they had into the future--there's just something so sublime about that kind of story to me--but I'm sure somebody would make a record of it if this guy had no valid travel documents and just vanished. In some kids book about strange and unexplained things was a story that really stuck with me. It was about a farmer who was walking across his field towards some visitors who stopped their car in front of his house. He suddenly vanished. Wife and kids screamed, the friends were baffled. They all go to the spot to see if he fell through a hole but nope. Later, where he vanished, the grass died. Then, when the kids were outside, they could hear him calling them. His voice eventually became fainter over time and stopped altogether. The Disappearance of David Lang is the story. The story might be lifted from an Ambrose Bierce story. I believed it when I read it as a kid and it's something I sort of wish did happen.
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Mar 16, 2016 23:20
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That similarly stuck with me from childhood. "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field" is the Bierce story, which did come first.
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Mar 16, 2016 23:35
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Jack Gladney posted:That similarly stuck with me from childhood. "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field" is the Bierce story, which did come first. Bierce owned; he looked, and wrote, like an evil Mark Twain. Actually, he looked like normal Mark Twain, but he was probably at least a little evil. Ambrose Bierce could support an entire "creepy" thread by himself.
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Appropriately enough, Bierce himself vanished off the face of the earth after he may or may not have gone to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution
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Alaois posted:Appropriately enough, Bierce himself vanished off the face of the earth after he may or may not have gone to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution His dictionary is one of my favorite pieces of satirical writing. http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/ quote:CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. quote:JEALOUSY, n. The seamy side of love. quote:UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.
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bean_shadow posted:The Disappearance of David Lang is the story. The story might be lifted from an Ambrose Bierce story. I believed it when I read it as a kid and it's something I sort of wish did happen. Dave Lang, unfortunately, will never disappear. e: Just so this isn't a stupid post,  Experiments in the Revival of Organisms. A messed up Soviet film showing attempted living canine head transplants, among other things. The page's picture makes me a little uncomfy, and it includes the film in question, so better safe than sorry.
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Mar 17, 2016 08:37
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Bogart posted:Dave Lang, unfortunately, will never disappear. Do we know for certainty that this happened or was it clever Soviet propaganda? For example it says: quote:For example, at one point, the dog turns his head, which would be impossible if the head was cut where the video claims it was.[1] It was good special effects if it was fake. Similarly: Robert J. White a guy who actually did transplant a monkey's head onto a new body. The monkey survived for nine days. When it woke up it could hear and see, but paralyzed from the neck down, and it was PISSED. It screamed and tried to bite anybody that came near. ETA: Head transplant. Apparently some guy is claiming to start experimenting on a guy who wants to donate his head by 2017. quote:In 2015, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has said the procedure (head anastomosis venture) might be feasible – with improved technology and more accurate ability to keep neural tissue perfused – before the end of 2017, which is when he intends to perform the procedure in either the United States or China.[12][13] A 30-year-old Russian programmer Valery Spiridonov with Werdnig–Hoffmann disease (type I spinal muscular atrophy) and rapidly declining health has volunteered to offer his head for the study.[14] bean_shadow has a new favorite as of 09:37 on Mar 17, 2016 |
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Rondette posted:I was watching a 'Top 5 spooky otherworldly travellers' video on Youtube this morning and this story popped up. I'm pretty sure that's an SCP article. They just removed the containment information. Today I found out that a meme can hurt you. As information on allergies to peanuts became more common, more people become allergic to them - probably because the advice to keep babies from eating peanuts is all wrong, so keeping babies from eating peanuts, causes babies to get allergic reactions to them instead. It all sounds like a SCP that's broken containment.
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bean_shadow posted:It was good special effects if it was fake. It's fake. Well done, but fake nonetheless.
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Comstar posted:I'm pretty sure that's an SCP article. They just removed the containment information. Nah, the "Man from Taured" anecdote predates the SCP article, which is an adaptation of the basic idea. I can't find the link I was looking for, but the story itself came from a relatively recent book that was basically an assemblage of weird possibilities or odd thoughts, and there's absolutely no proof for it ever having happened.
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Mar 19, 2016 02:44
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Mocking Bird posted:it's my job to work with parents and guardians to make them into good enough caregivers that those kids can have that family. My sister did this in the South side of Chicago for years. She would spend part of her poo poo salary buying winter clothes for the kids because the dirtbag parents wouldn't. It's bad everywhere.
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shelley posted:Nah, the "Man from Taured" anecdote predates the SCP article, which is an adaptation of the basic idea. I can't find the link I was looking for, but the story itself came from a relatively recent book that was basically an assemblage of weird possibilities or odd thoughts, and there's absolutely no proof for it ever having happened. The Directory of Possibilities, by Colin Wilson and John Grant, published in 1981.
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EX250 Type R posted:What kind of backwards rear end place puts a statute of limitations on murder It's a civil law thing.
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rikki tikki tavi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzGiZzfZjZc
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Aesop Poprock posted:Does anyone actually have the followup on this with proof that he cleaned up his act? Whenever anyone mentions this as a success story I always wonder how much of it was actually proven and how much was just some guy claiming things on the internet to save face OP has links to a few pictures of the cleaned-up house. I'm making an SAclopedia entry for this because nobody ever seems to have a link to the follow up http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php?act=3&topicid=2593 GWBBQ has a new favorite as of 20:09 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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The Mentalizer posted:Hey, we had our very own CPS success story right here on SA. I'm pretty sure the original thread was this one: CPS Took my kids this morning: Do I have a legal leg to stand on? Basically, his 5 year old daughter was used to taking care of herself and accidentally went to school on a Sunday, where some people found her and called the cops because she was by herself. When they went to the house it was such a disaster that they called CPS, who took one look at the place and immediately pulled the kids out of there. I can't find the follow up thread, but he really busted his rear end to clean up his act and eventually got them back. If I'm not mistaken he kept it up, so it's a genuine E/N success story. It also ended up being a great comic in that 'let's draw E/N stories' thread in GBS from a couple of years back. Only problem with this is the picture links are dead  I guess he deleted them, I know I saw them when the thread was first posted. Is there any way to retrieve/find them?
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FourLeaf posted:Is there any way to retrieve/find them? Trust me, you don't want that. 
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Don't remember if this was posted or not and not about to dive through 193 pages to double check - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1634584.stm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Fandey From Wiki: Maznah Ismail (1 January 1956 - 2 November 2001), better known as Mona Fandey, was a pop singer, witch doctor, and a murderer from Malaysia. She was executed on 2 November 2001 at the age of 45, after being convicted of the murder of a politician, Mazlan Idris, in 1993. She didn't just murder the guy, she loving dismembered him Mona Fandey scares the poo poo out of me. Her eyes were terrifyingly blank and she had the smile of a goddamn predator. 
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Plethora posted:Don't remember if this was posted or not and not about to dive through 193 pages to double check - Yikes. Malaysia abolished trials by jury as a result of her case.
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Christ her face looks like a mask
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Rondette posted:I was watching a 'Top 5 spooky otherworldly travellers' video on Youtube this morning and this story popped up. Reminds me of the silliness surrounding NSK passports: http://divus.cc/london/en/article/the-nigerian-connection-on-nsk-passports-as-escape-and-entry-vehicles *cue Laibach*
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I've had muscle biopsies taken before, and it's not something I want to do ever again if I can avoid it. This video makes me all kinds of uncomfortable. My biopsies were done for science, this dude is getting one to find out what human flesh tastes like. And there is no loving way he was walking normally without wincing for about a week after having it done. warning, they show the entire procedure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHvg8AR81-8 KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 17:00 on Mar 20, 2016 |
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KozmoNaut posted:I've had muscle biopsies taken before, and it's not something I want to do ever again if I can avoid it. This video makes me all kinds of uncomfortable. My biopsies were done for science, this dude is getting one to find out what human flesh tastes like. And there is no loving way he was walking normally without wincing for about a week after having it done. Ehhh not really inclined to watch it.. What did it taste like?
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Mostly red meat, with a hint of chicken, apparently. Pretty tasty, too. He doesn't actually eat his own flesh, because that's illegal. However, he does make a burger from mixed meats, based on analysis of it. He also takes a long good whiff of his own cooked flesh before that. KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 21:35 on Mar 20, 2016 |
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A Spider Covets posted:Christ her face looks like a mask She used the money she took from her victim to have a facelift.
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Jedit posted:She used the money she took from her victim to have a facelift. I can't tell if you're joking.
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KozmoNaut posted:Mostly red meat, with a hint of chicken, apparently. Pretty tasty, too. Wait, why is illegal to eat your own flesh?
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Kurtofan posted:I can't tell if you're joking. From the wiki article: "Mazlan was reported missing on 2 July 1993 after withdrawing RM 300,000 from a bank. After the murder, Mona was reported to have been on a shopping spree where she bought a Mercedes-Benz and had a facelift"
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13Pandora13 posted:Wait, why is illegal to eat your own flesh? I dunno, but that's what he says in the video. The medical term is "autophagia", if you want to look it up.
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fistful of hammers posted:From the wiki article: "Mazlan was reported missing on 2 July 1993 after withdrawing RM 300,000 from a bank. After the murder, Mona was reported to have been on a shopping spree where she bought a Mercedes-Benz and had a facelift" That explains why photos of her before the trial show her not looking anywhere near as uncanny. She seemed pretty normal.
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"The three were given a last meal of KFC on the night before their execution." Now that's just mean.
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Facebook feed sent me a listicle site article. 24 Medical Workers Share The Weirdest Causes Of Death They've Ever Diagnosed. Surprisingly low-spam for a listicle site. Some choice examples:quote:15/24 A man went to hang himself and when he jumped off of his apartment balcony he left so much slack that it took his head off. His head was on one lady's balcony and his body was on the ground. When we were there, we couldn't find the head so we had to knock on a couple doors where the rope was hanging to in order to find it. quote:22/24 Man died from endometrial cancer. Man had a transplant prior, woman who gave transplant had metastatic cancer that had spread to said organ unknowingly. Man survived transplant but cancer cells from the transplanted organ populated and he ending up dying from HER cancer. quote:24/24 Bee sting to the inside of the lung. A woman accidentally inhaled a bee and it stung her. Apparently she was allergic. Took a week to figure it out.
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quote:22/24 Man died from endometrial cancer. Man had a transplant prior, woman who gave transplant had metastatic cancer that had spread to said organ unknowingly. Man survived transplant but cancer cells from the transplanted organ populated and he ending up dying from HER cancer. 
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13Pandora13 posted:Wait, why is illegal to eat your own flesh? I'm pretty sure it's not technically illegal to eat your own flesh if you're so inclined. I suspect it is highly illegal to remove flesh from someone for the purpose of human consumption, which would make it very illegal for the hospital to perform the procedure. Presumably he wanted the removal done safely and not in a bathroom with a knife, sot hats why he picked the hospital.
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KozmoNaut posted:Mostly red meat, with a hint of chicken, apparently. Pretty tasty, too. Bullshit. I find it far more likely that nobody else in that video was going to participate unless he promised not to eat it. Also, read Stephen King's short story "Survivor Type."
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