Lobok posted:

Destabilize history should be a phrase reserved only for people loving with the space-time continuum.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

https://twitter.com/elivalley/status/1290342953475596288

You're doing great, Dersh, keep going!

zakharov posted:

yeah I bet

https://twitter.com/BBCSpotlight/status/1290572700675702785

Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:

Lol at the name of the beaver.

Proteus Jones posted:

Jesus, I'm slow today. I just now got the name pun.

Sigourney Beaver

zakharov posted:

yeah I bet

https://twitter.com/BBCSpotlight/status/1290572700675702785

Cartoon Man posted:

Byzantine posted:

Another demigod from Zeus?

Byzantine posted:

Another demigod from Zeus?

ultrafilter posted:

Proteus Jones posted:

Jesus, I'm slow today. I just now got the name pun.

Sigourney Beaver

ultrafilter posted:

The MSJ posted:

Imagine you just finished dissecting a corpse for an autopsy, cleaned up, and go to your favorite diner for a meal, and you see that corpse just sitting there, eating stuff like nothing happened. Rude.

Tobermory posted:

Nah, the "corpse" was an old guy who had catalepsy or something. He walked in, collapsed, and was to all appearances dead. Cops got called, and the coroner showed up to find that the guy had woken back up and was eating breakfast. Here's the original article. Good headline, though.

Telemaze posted:

Nice, that's way less grim than I was expecting. It seems to imply he was faking it to get a free meal. You gotta do what you gotta do, I guess.

I do love the language in that article. Especially "the coroner hustled into his natty rig" and "it is said that the unidentified man is in the habit of 'dying' at frequent intervals".

Terrible Opinions posted:

Headline about a corpse eating breakfast. I'm guessing it's from one of those circumstances where a guy would be legally due to brain trauma while waking but performed a few minutes of his daily routine before he stopped moving.

Proteus Jones posted:

There was a Forensics Files episode about some guy who killed his mom and dad with a gunshot to the head, but dad's didn't quite take at first. Even with some of his brain destroyed, he still got up, went and snagged the paper and made breakfast. Leaving a blood trail before finally dying at the table.

quote:

GOSHEN -- Peter Porco sustained 16 serious blows from a sharp, heavy instrument, including one that penetrated his skull and another that took off part of his jaw when he was attacked in November 2004.

Nonetheless, he almost certainly survived for a few hours, said Dr. Jeffrey Hubbard, a pathologist and Albany County coroner's physician.

``There are no injuries here that are instantly or rapidly fatal,'' Hubbard said Thursday at the Porco trial. ``The survival here could have been many hours.''

Hubbard's testimony echoed the theory by prosecutors that, in the minutes or hours following the attack, Peter Porco went through his morning routine as if he were getting ready for work, unaware that he had been mortally wounded with an ax or that his wife Joan Porco lay bleeding in their bed. The testimony also drove home, in stark visual terms, the violence with which Peter Porco was attacked.

As Hubbard was questioned by Chief Assistant District Attorney Michael McDermott, black and white autopsy photos of Peter Porco were projected on an approximately 10-foot by 6-foot screen. Hubbard used a laser pointer to note the various gashes and wounds found across Porco's head and upper body.

Christopher Porco, 23, who is accused of murdering his father and attempted murder of his mother, stared straight ahead or looked down while the photos appeared overhead, less than 10 feet from where he sat. He also rubbed his eye, as if wiping away a tear.

Jurors sat stoically during the gruesome presentation. Two men crossed their arms in front of their chests, while two women held their hands to their mouths. Another man hunched forward, elbows on his knees, looking intently at the screen.

The courtroom was eerily silent, unlike other portions of the trial, where there has been background hum of people shifting in their seats or ruffling papers during lengthy and sometimes arcane testimony and cross examinations.

Defense lawyer Laurie Shanks asked Hubbard if, based on the wounds, it was possible that there may have been more than one attacker. He said it was possible.

Platystemon posted:

I think you are recalling the Porco case.

It was an axe murder, not a shooting.

Proteus Jones posted:

That's the one!

I knew when I was typing, I was likely misremembering key details. I tried to search for it, but since I had it in my head it was a gun crime I got bupkis.

However, I *knew* a goon would shortly come along and know exactly what I referring to. So thanks

Evilreaver posted:

That's murphy's law right there, the best way to get the right answer on the internet isn't to ask a question, it's to give bad information and someone will correct you

Platystemon posted:

I think you are recalling the Porco case.

It was an axe murder, not a shooting.

Platystemon posted:

I think you are recalling the Porco case.

It was an axe murder, not a shooting.

Evilreaver posted:

That's murphy's law right there, the best way to get the right answer on the internet isn't to ask a question, it's to give bad information and someone will correct you