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MightyJoe36 posted:Every time I hear a story about an American being held captive/jailed in North Korea, the first thing that pops into my head is "Why would somebody willingly go to North Korea?" Sports Illustrated did an oral history a few years back on a pro wrestling excursion to North Korea in 1995 that had Muhammed Ali as a special guest. No one was quite sure what to expect and all of them were quite happy to get back to Japan. "Sports Illustrated posted:Bischoff: Almost immediately, they separated us into groups of two and assigned each of us a handler, or 'minder' as they called it. And that person’s job—ours was a woman and she was a member of the North Korean version of the secret service or CIA—was to basically chaperone us 24/7 and make sure that we didn’t do anything wrong. She was also there to educate us, or indoctrinate us as the case may be. And the first thing she did was ask for our passports, which was their way of saying, We control you. What good is a passport in North Korea? It’s not like you were gonna run to the embassy with it. You can’t jump on an airline and get out of the country. It’s a worthless piece of paper once you land on their soil in terms of its ability to help you. But the idea that they would say ‘give it to us,’ and you had to give it up, kind of made the point.
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I may have posted this before. Regardless, it's quite good and about a black family and the law in the 1950s south: Hattie Brazier stands upquote:When he was brought into the prison, James Brazier had been wearing his Sunday suit, a white shirt, and dress shoes. Dr. Charles Ward, who was called to the jail to look at him, observed that James had head wounds, slurred speech, and, once again, blood in his ear — all symptoms of a serious head injury. Ward, a white man who was also the County Medical Examiner, interpreted the slurred speech as intoxication. He recommended the police officers place Brazier somewhere quiet, so the officers transferred him from the male side of the prison to the female side.
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Literally Kermit posted:Hello friends, let's talk, once again, about Ghost flights! Payne Stewart was not the only major name in sports to die in a hypoxia-related crash. LSU's head football coach died in what was likely a hypoxia accident. That one doesn't get talked about much now. Bo Rein was hired after the 1979 college football season to become LSU's new football coach. Rein had been at North Carolina State, where he produced three straight winning seasons and had two bowl appearances in the days that not every college football team went to a bowl. Rein was taking a recruiting trip in January 1980, flying only from Shreveport to Baton Rouge. The flight was scheduled to go just an hour, but the plane ran into bad weather and the pilot went east to avoid the system. That was the last anyone heard from the plane. Authorities were able to keep tracking it and it was spotted in North Carolina, more than 1,000 miles off course. The Air National Guard was able to fly next to it, but saw no one in the cabin. The ultimately crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia and the bodies were never recovered. Times-Picayune posted:Rein wanted he and Williams to fly up to Shreveport and back. [LSU assistant coach Greg] Willlams convinced Rein to drive together to Shreveport because the south Louisiana January fog would delay their departure and put them behind schedule. Times-Picayune posted:couple of hours before sunrise, Williams was awakened by a phone call.
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Jul 19, 2017 21:20
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Shady Amish Terror posted:Paranoid schizophrenia is kind of a sad, scary thing. Herbert Mullin a serial killer who claimed he killed to prevent earthquakes. Also, Brian Wilson (diagnosed schizoaffective) links his first LSD trip as to when he first heard voices. Which may or may not be. Wilson's memory is shockingly good, but he's always had a tendency to fit his stories to whoever's asking. If WIlson thought an interviewer would be pleased if he said he was really creative with the sandbox under the piano, he'd say just that.
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Currently reading a multi-part piece How Does a 10-Year-Old Boy End Up Hanging to Death? A 10-year-old boy in a custody battle in 1989 is found hanged in his father's shed. It's hastily ruled a suicide. His father, a sheriff's deputy, had been accused of but never charged with child abuse.
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Watching trashy TV has led to looking up articles about the Kirtland Cult Killings. LDS members upset at the church's modernization begin to hover around Jeff Lundgren, a Mormon with quite a gift for speaking and a belief in more traditional aspects of the religion. Lundgren's fellowship grows and he opts to move them to Kirtland, Ohio, because Joseph Smith had a church there. He gets into a rift with the temple in Kirtland and the group splinters to their own farm. Lundgren's ideas are getting a bit more extreme as he commands everyone to treat him like a prophet. In the meantime, a family of Lundgren's original followers had been reticent to join him, but finally agree to do so. Lundgren gets the cult to lightly shun them, even though the Avery family is completely devoted. As control tightens, he makes members of the cult turn over their money. Lundgren uses this to buy a lot of weapons as a holy war is coming any day. He also begins taking additional wives, ones already married to cult members. The Averys are still shunned and Lundgren tells the other members that there is sin in the cult and it must be cast out. The Averys are the sinners as the wife is more dominant in the relationship. On the eve of the cult leaving Ohio for a more remote location, they invite the Avery family over (who were invited to go along). The invite was a ruse. Lundgren gets the members to bring each Avery family member to the barn, where he murders them one by one, parents and three small children. The group does leave, but someone with a slight bit of conscience spills the beans. Authorities had gotten a report the Averys were missing, but thought they left with the group. Then they begin excavating the barn after the tip. Lundgren's caught and quickly convicted. He gave a five-hour sermon during his trial about how he was justified in the murders. Edit: That link doesn't really get into many of the details. Here are some others Kirtland Cult Killings were 'mandated by God' Cult members break their silence Surprisingly decent contemporary People article RC and Moon Pie has a new favorite as of 03:25 on Sep 26, 2017 |
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MightyJoe36 posted:Great read. Talk about a twist ending though. Yeah, that's not what I was anticipating. Tremendous read. Not just about an utter evil human being, but about the mind of someone who bought into him so thoroughly and took so long to realize how awful he really was. This stood out, though: quote:She began wearing a wig, living and working out of hotels, checking in under the names of her assistants. In a request for a restraining order, her lawyer laid out John Meehan’s long, ugly history. How the Indiana nursing board had yanked his license and called him “a clear and immediate danger to the public.”
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Oct 16, 2017 02:39
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Ariong posted:Funeral home horrors put spotlight on spotty US regulations I thought I was about to get a story on the Tri-State Crematory case, but this is something much different. And on the other hand, the Tri-State Crematory case, where the owner of the crematory, for reasons unknown, stopped cremating. The equipment was found to be in working order. Bodies were hidden in the woods around the property.
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Oct 29, 2017 06:47
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Whatev posted:What are some good examples of heinous motherfuckers whose horrible crimes weren't revealed until after their death? Got on this train of thought from Jimmy Savile. Belle Gunness.
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Nov 6, 2017 05:06
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Look! Articles! Potentially unnerving articles! The Girl Who Survived a Brain-Eating Amoeba. The Day Treva Throneberry Disappeared
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Note to self: Stay away from Missouri's justice system. The unimaginable, infamous case of Pam Hupp quote:St. Louisans squinted at their TV screens, trying to fathom this blond woman, her square jaw set hard, her face impassive. This was the same woman who’d testified three years earlier in a murder trial after her friend was stabbed 55 times. The friend’s husband was convicted and later acquitted. In the meantime, Hupp’s mother had died in a suspicious fall from a third-floor balcony.
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Dec 18, 2017 16:29
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I don't know how widespread the practice is, but in the county where I'm originally from, if the sheriff gets in trouble, the coroner becomes sheriff. In the past 25 years, three sheriffs have been involved in crimes and were removed from the post. Yep, the coroner has become sheriff all three times. Thankfully, special elections were quickly set up get a new sheriff in charge. For the curious, the sheriff troubles have been: a) embezzlement, b) being a doofus by giving guns back to criminals after they're released from prison sentences and c) brutality. In the case of c) deputies roughed up a suspect. The sheriff was so legitimately proud of "how we do it here in [shithole] county," he showed the tape at a sheriff's convention. Even they were disgusted by it.
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Dec 25, 2017 03:04
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business hammocks posted:I’d like to imagine anyone approached for a threesome would take one look at the dude’s haircut and just bolt. When I look at him, all I can see is Phil Spector.  
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Jan 23, 2018 03:00
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The last documented slave ship, the Clotilda has likely been found. The Atlantic slave trade was banned in 1808. Of course, it didn't end it. The Clotilda went to Africa in 1860 and returned to Alabama with 100+ human beings. The reason for the human trafficking? It's arguably even worse than even normal slavery. They went to Africa on a bet, just to see if they could get away with it.
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Through the Wikipedia rabbit hole, I found of list of U.S. congressmen who died in office. There are a handful of suicides, but this might be one of the more baffling ones. Douglas Hemphill Elliott (R-Pennsylvania) was serving in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1960 when he won a special election to fill the House seat of Richard Simpson, who had died in office. Elliott was elected April 26, 1960 and sworn in May 7. On June 19, 1960, he was found dead in his garage. A deerskin was draped over his head, as well as over the exhaust pipe of his car. The death was ruled a suicide. Another article said a razor blade and two .30-caliber rifle bullets were found on his person. Everyone interviewed for articles was shocked. Elliott had not missed a House vote since being elected and had apparently told Reverend Billy Graham he intended to be there every night of Graham's crusade in Washington D.C. that week. He attended a wedding the night before. As far as I can tell, no one ever offered a reason that might have led to Elliott's death. Dude must have been pretty tortured. EDIT: Completely unrelated to Elliott, two more congressmen who died in office, Nick Begich and Hale Boggs, presumably died in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1972. The plane and bodies were never found.. Begich's widow married a man who claimed he bombed the plane. RC and Moon Pie has a new favorite as of 22:59 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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Stories about fugue states often cite Hannah Upp, who disappeared for a few days in New York in 2008. Upp had another disappearance, albeit briefer a few years later. Last year, she went missing again. She hasn't been found. quote:Barbara said that after each fugue she felt a kind of “awe at where Hannah had been.” The ancient Greeks had two words for time: kronos, chronological time, and kairos, which is often translated as “the right time” and cannot be measured. Barbara said, “I imagined her as having entered more fully into kairos—the appointed time, the fullness of time. There’s a suspension of certainty.”
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Mar 28, 2018 06:09
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There's a real Poisonwood Bible vibe from the dad, who refuses to think there might be any connection with her visits to him and the fugue states. Beyond his other really strange beliefs. Though it didn't happen every year, all three have happened just before school starting.
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Mar 28, 2018 17:20
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They've linked the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker, to a series of robberies in the years before the rapes started. There are more clues to his identity in those files, though of course no one ever caught the burglar.
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It sounds similar to the Kendrick Johnson case, which has been mentioned a few times before. (The link is possibly  as you can see a bit of Johnson's body.)The most likely scenario with Johnson is that he, like others in Lowndes High gym classes, stuck his shoes on top or just inside of a rolled up wrestling mat (the mat standing vertically). The shoes fell inside and Johnson climbed atop the mat and then in the center of it to retrieve the shoes. Johnson became stuck and asphyxiated. The case has unfortunately turned into a big-time mess. The police were likely incompetent in their early handling of it and Johnson's family came to believe their son was actually murdered. They've brought numerous lawsuits and several times over the past five years have protested at the courthouse and various other locations. It's completely understandable their grief, but every nearly every accusation they've had has been proven to be incorrect. It's an awful situation that may not ever totally fade away. Hopefully, they'll eventually find some peace.
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Apr 13, 2018 03:36
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Related, No Accident, Inside GM's Deadly Ignition Switch Scandal.quote:In the months that followed, Beth and Ken both sought refuge in different ways: Beth through her faith and therapy, Ken through poring over every detail of the accident and the days leading up to it. A week before she was killed, Brooke had called him to say something strange was going on with her car. Sometimes it would simply shut off while she was driving it, and she’d have to pull over to the side and restart it. Get it serviced, Ken told her. The weekend before the accident, she dropped off the car at Thornton Chevrolet in Lithia Springs. The mechanic cleaned her fuel injectors, changed her oil, replaced her fuel filter. All fixed, she later told Ken over the phone.
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BattleMaster posted:I can buy American POWs from the Korean and Vietnam wars being sent to the USSR, but what's the excuse for the ones taken during WW2? Says 500 kept as "bargaining chips" but in what context? Only thing I can think of is that they were prisoners of the Germans kept by the Soviets for some reason after they captured the prison camps. But then they're not really bargaining chips if you don't do anything with them. When Stalag Luft I was liberated (by the Russians), there was briefly the idea that the POWs would be released through Odessa. This has been linked before - everything has, I think - but in 1995 New Japan Wrestling decided to hold a wrestling card in Pyongyang, with a number of familiar Japanese, American and Canadian wrestlers. And Muhammad Ali. The experience, in short, was bizarre. All of them were quite happy to get back to Japan. The two-day show was filmed and edited down for a pay-per-view shown by WCW later that year, Collision in Korea. RC and Moon Pie has a new favorite as of 15:10 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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Goon Danton posted:Mr. Cruel also popped up more or less exactly when the Golden State Killer went quiet. I'd be interested to see if the suspect they have in custody moved to Australia for a while, at least. No.
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Apr 25, 2018 19:18
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Andrew Lambert's Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation is excellent. I'll throw in a suggestion for Glyn Williams' Arctic Labyrinth, which is also broad in what it covers, but some of the early expeditions of guys like Hudson, Ross and Frobisher weren't picnics, either.
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The murder of Mickey Bryan, a quiet fourth-grade teacher, stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband, a beloved high school principal, was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake? This is part I. Part II has not been posted yet. quote:“Most people felt he was probably guilty, because he’d been convicted, even if no one was real sure why he’d done it,” Richard Liardon, the former superintendent, told me. Many of Joe’s former colleagues and friends had distanced themselves from him since the trial, though privately, some still struggled to reconcile the man they knew with the person the prosecution had portrayed him to be. “It was very hard for me to believe Joe had taken Mickey’s life,” Cindy Horn, the former teacher’s aide, told me. Yet like most people in Clifton, she held the criminal-justice system in high regard. The widely held assumption was that law enforcement and the courts always got it right. “I based what I thought on the verdict,” Horn said. “I assumed Joe was guilty because he was found guilty.”
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Here's one I read about today: The Zanzibar Revolution brought Freddie Mercury to England. His father, Bomi, a native of India, had gone to Zanzibar through his position with the British government. Mercury had gone to school in India, but seems to have been in Zanzibar at the time of revolution. His family left the island in the spring of 1964 and were able to settle in England because of his father's job.
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Gen. Ripper posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billups_Neon_Crossing_Signal You didn't include the simulation video (warning: includes very loud siren) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGhFHKtDhns
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Jun 15, 2018 05:47
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For those who recall the Georgia teen who died in a rolled up wrestling mat a few years ago, the family has received permission to exhume the body. This will be the third autopsy. I want to shake the person(s) giving them advice. It was an awful tragedy, but someone keeps fueling the parents into thinking there is some vast conspiracy that involves the school, law enforcement and a ton of other people. They accused a classmate of murder, despite there being zero evidence.
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Jun 21, 2018 03:00
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The saga of the Floyd Collins cave rescue. Collins, one of the few experienced cavers in Kentucky in 1925, got caught 60 feet underground when a rock pinned his leg at Sand Cave. The rescue attempts turned into national news and a local circus.
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The Beverly Hills Supper Club was a massive country club and entertainment facility just south of Cincinnati in Kentucky. It hosted a lot of acts, from comedians to musicians. On May 28, 1977, there were as many as 3,000 in the club, possibly up to 1,300 in the Cabaret Room, where John Davidson was set to perform. Then the fire was noticed at 9 p.m. Wikipedia posted:Near the south exit close to the main bar, opposite end of the building from the Cabaret Room,[7] a wedding reception drew to a close around 8:30 p.m. in the Zebra Room, near the building's main entrance; some of its guests had complained of the room being excessively warm with loud explosions from beneath the floor, and the group left the building before the end of their allotted time.[11] The room remained vacant from their departure until a minute before 9 p.m., when an employee smelled smoke and opened the Zebra Room's door to confirm the presence of smoke. She asked another employee to call the Fire Department while she and others grabbed any available fire extinguishers and began trying to fight the flames. Though the employees were not aware of it, their opening of the Zebra Room's door allowed enough oxygen into the room to cause what had been a smoldering fire in the room's drop ceiling to flashover and begin to spread rapidly. It quickly became clear that fire extinguishers were useless against the fast-growing blaze.[9] The Fire Department was alerted to the fire at 9:01 p.m. and arrived by 9:05;[11] as they approached, firefighters on the first emergency vehicles could already see smoke coming from the building.[8] Bailey, the busboy, undoubtedly saved hundreds of lives with his announcement. No one knew how big the fire was at the time, just that it was in the Zebra Room. Bailey had talked with a superior, but nothing was getting done. So he interrupted the warm-up act and asked people to exit the building. In the end 165 people died in the fire. Cincinnati TV station WCPO did a 40-year anniversary oral history of the blaze . WCPO posted:DAMMERT: “After I got out, I ran around front, trying to see if people were getting out. The first thing I remember seeing was a pretty girl in a light blue dress. I’m pretty sure she was dead. And in the garden outside the bar, there was another lady in a blue dress, laying there. Her husband was sitting next to her, in shock. I told him, ‘I’m going to do what I can,’ and I was starting to breathe into her mouth. And our family doctor happened to be there, and he said, ‘No Wayne, she’s dead, you can’t do anything for her.’ The amount of people in the club was way over fire codes, but no one seemingly inspected that, or the wiring. As to what started it, there is a heavy rumor the mafia torched it.
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Police in Chatsworth GA obviously felt threatened by an 87-year-old woman with dementia holding a kitchen knife and cutting dandelions in a field. She didn't speak English, so obviously the next step was to tase her.
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chitoryu12 posted:http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/justice-story-new-yorker-prison-term-landed-guinness-book-world-records-article-1.1004749 Jesse Pomeroy spent 41 years in solitary confinement.
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This was posted elsewhere on the forums, DNA/genealogy research into cold cases and the ethical concerns that come with it.quote:A “revolution” commenced, said Fitzpatrick. Over the last five months, genetic genealogy has become the wild west — made up largely of citizen scientists, amateur sleuths, hobbyists, and hobbyists turned professionals, many scrambling to lend their puzzle-solving skills to law enforcement, who are in turn scrambling to understand this new and complicated way of solving old crimes.
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Stairs posted:That makes sense in a miserably feasable way, but why stuff the bodies in a ceiling? You could just throw bodies into the woods, such as the case of the Tri-State Crematory.
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Aesop Poprock posted:This is better writing than the actual Stephen King Christine novel for what it’s worth And The Dark Half, where a major plot point is a teratoma.
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I'm pretty familiar with Johnson case, living close enough to the area that I remember when the story broke in 2013. If there is legitimate evidence of an assault, by all means, they need to reopen the investigation. The beginning of the case was probably botched. Law enforcement were not as open they needed to be when the case started. This case, though, has been through a lot of people. It's been investigated at the state level and by the Department of Justice. That's not to say something happened and that both are wrong. It's difficult to explain unless you've been around it for 5.5 years. There are some bothersome things about the linked statement. The person is alleging the organs were removed from Johnson's body to hinder the investigation. The funeral home the Johnson family used was not one of the richer ones. It's still very common practice in the rural south for black people to use different funeral homes than white (the practice started during the days of segregation but continues now as tradition). Black funeral homes in less prosperous, rural areas tend to not be as wealthy. The removal of Johnson's organs and replacement with newspapers/other filler is not usual, but was an old funerary custom and would not be outside the realm of a poorer funeral home to do so. The Johnson family spent years accusing a couple of kids of killing their son. They hung on to this, even when it was proven the kids weren't near the victim at Johnson's estimated time of death. One was on a bus headed to a wrestling tournament. There are so many conspiracies being claimed. If it's not about Johnson's organs being gone, it's about the video tape being manipulated, it's about the autopsy being a lie. The situation could have happened, but the way the link affidavit reads is pretty fantastic. The person making the statement said so-and-so heard from yet another person who supposedly was a witness. The Johnson family deserves answers. But the longer this goes on, it feels like people are egging on their legitimate and understandable grief to keep the case going despite every one of the previous claims (except this newest one) to have been explained or rejected by evidence.
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Sarcopenia posted:I think you'll have to give Trump a couple of years in office before he is worse than Bush. Ric Flair was a Georgia Tann baby.
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I was going through some microfilmed newspapers recently and came across a story from 1951. Frank Di Cicco (or DiCicco) was being housed in the Columbus, Ohio prison. He had been in trouble a few times, this time landing in the pen for forgery. Di Cicco obviously wanted to be out of prison, but apparently didn't think he would stay out of trouble if freed. He decided to undergo a frontal lobotomy, to cure him of his criminal tendencies, which seems to have been performed during the summer or early fall of 1951. A few months later, in July 1952, his surgeon, Dr. John Scholl, convinced the parole board to release DiCicco two years early as an experiment. The 1952 article on his release said he wasn't sarcastic as he had been when he was first incarcerated and he wasn't as melancholy. Di Cicco was hopeful of staying out of trouble. As lobotomies were/are complete bullshit (Walter Freeman's preferred method was sticking an icepick in your eye sockets and fiddling around), I'm kinda curious as to what became of Di Cicco. Newspaper archives and genealogy records aren't pulling up anything except perhaps a census record for 1930. He lived in Lakewood at the time of his imprisonment in 1951 and was born in c. 1922. On a similar note: Irving Wallace's lobotomy story (The Operation of Last Resort/They Cut Out His Conscience) has finally been freely digitized somewhere. It originally ran in the Saturday Evening Post and it's pretty messed up.
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These have probably been posted before. The Boy Who Heard Too Much: Matthew Weigman was blind, overweight, 14, and alone. He could also do anything he wanted with a phone. When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life: A comment on Facebook begets stalking. Worst Roommate Ever: Your stuff? It's now his.
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InediblePenguin posted:yeah my primary school was built 1959 and had a bomb shelter under the library. in 1987 (not a typo) they taught us to always look for the yellow fallout shelter signs when out in town so you're always aware of the closest ones Bert the Turtle teaches us about ducking and covering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60 My dad came of age during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Someone, somewhere on some TV news hypothesized the range of Cuba's nukes on a map. The nuke range extended just into southern Georgia. They lived just into southern Georgia. He noticed that. They did have duck and cover drills at school. For more unsettling, here is the "Daisy" ad from the 1964 Presidential race. It was considered so disturbing it only aired once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k
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A neighboring county went nuts when a mom was diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s. She had it and a newborn child had it, but not her elementary-aged son. The kid was barred from attending school and there were many court cases trying to establish his rights. The son ultimately went to another county school system. Worse stuff happened in Arcadia, Fla., where the local townsfolk burned down the house of a family heavily affected by HIV. The panic was so bad, Isaac Asimov's doctors advised his family to hide his cause of death even though Asimov had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion. For us old enough to remember school in the 1980s, Ryan White was probably the highest profile case. White contracted HIV through a blood transfusion. Being young and white made him an easy figure to rally behind and we were shown lots of videos about his plight.
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