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Jan 9, 2009
Inmate plucks out eye, eats it
Houston (VC) – A death row inmate gouged out his last remaining eyeball with his fingers. And ate it.
Inmate Andre Thomas had plucked out his first eyeball before going to trial in 2004 for the murder of his 13-month-old step daughter, wife, and their four-year-old son. He stabbed them all to death and then ripped out their hearts.
“Thomas said he pulled out his eye and subsequently ingested it,” TX Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said.
Thomas’ trial attorney, Bobbie Peterson-Cate, will now be able to put the man in a mental care unit. Peterson-Cate was unable to get a judge to declare Thomas unfit to stand trial in 2004.
Andre Thomas is in psychiatric care with no execution date…and two recently vacated orifices for deranged cellmates to violate. Unfortunately for him, he will not be able to see them coming.
Dec 23, 2008
On the 2nd day of Xmas, my Firefox gave to me: two whales exploding…
On December 13, National Geographic’s Wild aired a story about a dead whale that was found floating in a busy sea port of Taiwan in 2004. Fifty tons of sperm whale were en route to a necropsy through the streets of Taiwan when for no apparent reason, the carcass exploded.
Here’s the video:
This takes me back to my television reporting class. Professor Berg showed us a report from 1970 about a very similar situation. A whale had washed up on the beach and the towns folk didn’t know what to do with it…so they decided to blow it up. Here’s the video of the report
Dec 14, 2008
Journalist hurls shoes at G.W. Bush
During a press conference in Iraq today, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush. Bush was there to verbally glorify America’s presence in Iraq in his fourth and final visit to the region.
The U.S. and Iraq have been negotiating the specifics of having American military in Iraq for the past eight months. The new agreement now says that all troops will leave the country by 2011.
The journalist expressed his discontent with the situation, telling the president, “This is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog.”
Bush quickly ducked and barely missed being conked in the face with the man’s shoes. Here is a video of the incident.
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