Don Harper Mills: 1994s Most Bizarre Suicide - StumbleUpon This story can be found in many places on the Web, usually without attribution, and claims that it is true. But the story of its origin, and how to spot it must be an UL, can be found at Deconstructing Ronald Opus At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Sciences, AAFS President Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death. On March 23 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a gunshot wound of the head caused by a shotgun. Ordinarily a person who starts into motion the events with a suicide intent ultimately commits suicide even though the mechanism might be not what he intended. Further investigation led to the discovery that the room on the 9th floor from whence the shotgun blast emanated was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. When one intends to kill subject A, but kills subject B in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject B.
Water is dangerous This was found on the newsgroup: rec.humor.funny A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair, April 26. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. And for plenty of good reasons, since: it can cause excessive sweating and vomiting it is a major component in acid rain it can cause severe burns in its gaseous state accidental inhalation can kill you it contributes to erosion it decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes it has been found in tumors of terminal cancer patients He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical. He feels the conclusion is obvious.
- StumbleUpon For a number of reasons, natural and human, people have recently evacuated or otherwise abandoned a number of places around the world -- large and small, old and new. Gathering images of deserted areas into a single photo essay, one can get a sense of what the world might look like if humans were to vanish from the planet altogether. Collected here are recent scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, blighted urban neighborhoods, towns where residents left to escape violence, unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, and more. [41 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A tree grows from the top of a chimney in an abandoned factory yard in Luque, on the outskirts of Asuncion, Paraguay, on October 2 , 2011. A bust of Confucius rests at an abandoned workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, 240 km (150 miles) southwest of Beijing, on December 7, 2011. Ivy grows over a street in Tomioka town, Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on August 19, 2011.
Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving Packing all of your belongings into a U-Haul and then transporting them across several states is nearly as stressful and futile as trying to run away from lava in swim fins. I know this because my boyfriend Duncan and I moved from Montana to Oregon last month. But as harrowing as the move was for us, it was nothing compared to the confusion and insecurity our two dogs had to endure. Our first dog is - to put it delicately - simple-minded. When we started packing, the helper dog knew immediately that something was going on. When the soul-penetrating pathos she was beaming at me failed to prevent me from continuing to put things in boxes, the helper dog became increasingly alarmed. Unfortunately for the helper dog, it took us nearly a week to get everything packed up. But the simple dog seemed to enjoy the trip. Even though she threw up seven times. She actually seemed to like throwing up. But as far as the simple dog was concerned, it was the best, most exciting day of her life.
Your Costume Jewelry Is Killing You -- The Cut Get thee to Cartier! Michigan-based nonprofit the Ecology Center tested 99 different samples of costume jewelry sold at Claire's, H&M, Forever 21, Walmart, Hot Topic, and Target, among other stores, for lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel, brominated flame retardants, chlorine, mercury, and arsenic. And more than half of the items contained high levels of hazardous chemicals. That gives a new meaning to "You look radiant!" (We know, that hurt us, too). In fact: Twenty-seven of the products had greater than 300 ppm lead, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)'s lead limit in children's products. So, scratch these suckers off your shopping list — Claire's Gold 8 Bracelet Set, Forever 21's Long Pearl Flower Necklace, Walmart's Silver Star Bracelet, and Target's Silver Charm Necklace.
LOTS OF PUNS ...A guy goes into a nice restaurant bar wearing a shirt open at the collar and is met by a bouncer who tells him he must wear a necktie to gain admission. So the guy goes out to his car and he looks around for a necktie and discovers that he just doesn't have one. He sees a set of jumper cables in his trunk. ...This mushroom walks into a bar and starts hitting on this woman... ...This horse walks into a bar and the bartender says "Hey, buddy, why the long face... ...These two strings walk upto a bar... ...This grasshopper walks into a bar, and the bartender says "Hey! ...This baby seal walks into a bar and the bartender says,"What'll ya have..." ...This skeleton walks into a bar and says, "I'd like a beer and a mop..." ...A man walked into a bar and sat down next to a man with a dog at his feet. ...A neutron walks into a bar. ...Descartes walks into a bar, and the bartender asks "Would you like a beer?" ...A termite walks into a bar and says, "Is the bar tender here?" Back
Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? “Reopening of the South Fork Bridge after flood in Nov. 1940. 1941 (?)” It’s the short description for the photograph shown at the virtual Bralorne Pioneer Museum, from British Columbia, Canada. The image can be seen specifically on this page (scroll down to the middle), among other items of the online exhibit. Did you notice anything out of place? Or perhaps, out of time? The man with what appears to be very modern sunglasses seems to be wearing a stamped T-shirt with a nice sweater, all the while holding a portable compact camera! Internet people reached to the obvious conclusion: it’s a time traveller caught on camera on 1940! Read this on Doc Brown’s voice: “Of course, because we know nothing happened there right? Indeed! The source As noted, the image is indeed available through the official website for Canada’s museums. Given the source, we would assume the photo is authentic, and correctly dated to c.1940. So, how do we explain the man out of time? Not quite out of time Not quite new
True Stores in ONE Sentence.... - Global One TV - StumbleUpon And that's when I looked down and realized my fake nail had somehow caught fire, and no one was around to witness it but my fish. so what? The only year I refused to go to my neighbor's Easter party was the year she dropped dead during the party. Libby As I listened to a conversation between hippies on the 71 bus to Haight Street, I realized that I'm one of the "housies" that they so vehemently spoke of and wondered if I'd be happier as one of them, in grungy overalls, wearing dreads full of clay beads. bevred The day we brought our newborn daughter home from the hospital, our dog got hit by a car and died. Chrinda Jones As the door to the Taco Bell restroom came crashing over top of me, all I could think to say to him was "I said I'd be out in a minute." kbh101 I realized the crumbled bit of pill left over resembled a cookie, and laughed out loud at the image of the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street gobbling up Lorazepam. Red Nails Indy1jeep Just Dave Domino cetacean Phoebe Bean Fred Lineberry Madeline
Captain America's Red-Faced Nazi And 6 Other Blatant Historical Lies I haven’t seen Captain America yet, but I have confusedly watched the trailer at least a dozen times. It leads me to believe the Nazi war machine was not a horde of Aryan avengers but a swarm of Storm Troopers led by some failed, red-faced experiment. This is not true. I know because I’ve watched at least a dozen History Channel specials on the Third Reich, and never once has the narrator mentioned this. You’d think this sort of falsification would be a one off shot, but I did some research. Forrest Gump Did Not Break Up Watergate If you’re anything like me, you were probably stunned sitting through Forrest Gump. Mulan’s Achievements Have Been Overstated Back in the day, Hua Mulan was a fierce warrior who pretended to be a man in order to fight for the freedom of her people against the Huns. The Founding Fathers Did Not Hide Treasure Everything about this is just an outright lie. Dr. What Lie Are You Most Upset About Learning?
- StumbleUpon This is about the synchronicity number 23, and thus about the phenomena of synchronicity in general. To write about this topic objectively is impossible, as all experiences are necessarily subjective, involving as they do the element of consciousness, which cannot be instrumented. This is perhaps a study in the affirmation that any assertion of an objective observer is inherently impossible, and yet at the same time there is a deeply imbedded pattern of coherency in all that we regard as random. Randomness itself is nothing more than a pattern of deeply imbedded complexity of order; an order so complex it is not immediately discernible or obvious. My first synchronicity experiences with numbers were not with 23, but with 2:22:22, first seen as the time on my digital watch on the Summer Solstice in 1981. That is to some degree what happened with me and twenty three. During the same period I was also intensely interested in the golden mean.
Mistaken Identity In 1903, a prisoner named Will West arrived at Leavenworth. The record clerk took the photographs above and, thinking he remembered West, asked whether he had been there before. West said no. The clerk took some measurements, went to the file, and produced this record, bearing the name William West: Amazed, the prisoner said, “That’s my picture, but I don’t know where you got it, for I know I have never been here before.” Incredibly, this was true. The case became a strong argument in favor of the new science of fingerprinting.
Reformed racist has Nazi tattoos removed in world first operation A FORMER skinhead has erased his racist past after having 25 agonising operations to remove hate tattoos from his face and hands. Bryon Widner, 34, went through 16 months of laser surgery on intimidating images including several swastikas and a blood-soaked razor. Widner’s £20,000 treatment was organised by a black campaigner when he turned away from racism after finding love and starting a family. The dad has received death threats for exposing racists but said: “It’s a small price to pay for being human again.” The former neo-Nazi also had the words “Blood & Honour” inked on his neck and “Thug Reich” on his stomach. Anti-racism lawyer Joseph Roy said of him: “No one was more aggressive, more confrontational, more notorious.” Widner researched countless ways of remove his tattoos but he had no health insurance and even considered trying to burn them off with acid. Dr Bruce Shack, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, began the treatment in 2009.