] A tree fell on a car during a storm Tuesday, killing a
] father, mother and their older daughter in a shopping
] center parking lot, authorities said.
]
] A second daughter was cut from the wreckage and flown to
] Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. Firefighters spent
] 40 minutes sawing through the tree and then had to cut
] the crushed car apart to free the crying 18-month-old.

This is just sad. Another case of in the wrong place and exactly the wrong time. It goes on to say how the tree was "4-foot-thick tree splintered about 15 feet up its trunk".

Charlotte Observer | 07/30/2003 | Falling tree kills parents, child

] We all know about the Napster issue, the perfume company,
] the lipstick company, the tire makers... Metallica has
] sued them all. Rightly or wrongly, no one is judging
] that. However, the idea behind this parody was to gauge,
] after all that litigation, just how willing America was
] to buy a story as extraordinay -- as outlandish -- as
] them claiming ownership of a 2-chord progression.

A follow-up on the Metallica lawsuit. It was all made up. Now get back to work.

Unfaith On Metallica Hoax, 7/18/03

] Chilean scientists said on Friday their study of a huge
] blob of flesh found on a Pacific beach about three weeks
] ago concluded it was the carcass of a sperm whale, ending
] speculation of a giant octopus.

CNN.com - Giant Chilean beach 'blob' identified - Jul. 11, 2003

] TAMPA, Fla.
]
] Two deputies were injured Thursday when they ate
] cheeseburgers laced with broken glass at a McDonald's
] during their dinner break, officials said.

Heard about this on the radio this morning. The glass was very small pieces and looked very much like the minced onions on the burgers. The other bit of information that isn't in this blurb was that, the two officers where the only two customers in the restaurant at the time of the incident.

St. Petersburg Times Online: Two Hillsborough deputies injured by glass in cheeseburgers

] A motorist drove home about a mile with the legless body
] of a pedestrian in his front windshield before calling
] authorities to report that he had struck the man with his
] car, officials said.
]
] Deputies first learned of the accident, which happened
] about midnight Friday, from bar patrons who called to
] report finding two legs near the parking lot, according
] to sheriff's reports.

I don't think I could actually drive one mile down the road with a torso sitting beside me. No matter what this guy said I would have jumped out of the car screaming that second, most likely.

ABCNEWS.com : Driver Hits Man, Body Stuck in Windshield

crankymessiah wrote:
] ] "He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade --
] ] and then they both should burn it," said Richard Clarke,
] ] who until recently was the White House cyberterrorism
] ] chief.
]
] And it's your ignorance and inability to face reality that
] will continue to put our lives in jeopardy, you twit. If this
] grad student can build such a database, then obviously someone
] with a lot more motivation could as well. Burying our heads in
] the sand doesn't help.

This makes some very good points about how we have gotten so technically advanced. Yet failed to secure up the access points to that infastructure along the road.

RE: Dissertation Could Be Security Threat

] Even the detective working on the case says he has never
] seen anything like this before. Taylor Police say the
] 27-year-old man has been posing as a 13-year-old girl for
] several months. He has many aliases but is known to call
] himself "Lalani."
]
] He is 6-feet-1-inch tall, about 180 pounds, and yet he
] still manages to fool a lot of people.

Scarey.

Detroit Now/ WXYZ-TV : News

] Natalie Brougham was crowded onto a third-floor porch
] with dozens of friends early Sunday when the floor
] dropped out from under them, sending wood and bodies
] crashing through two other decks to the ground. Twelve
] people died, most of them crushed on the porches below.
]
] At least 57 others were injured, authorities said.

TRIBnet 24-hour News Page

] A 10-month-old girl miraculously survived an 80-foot
] fall, suffering only scrapes and bruises when her father
] threw her out a seventh-floor apartment window late
] Saturday after threatening to kill himself and the baby's
] mother, police said.

Having a fight with the wife it just seems like a natural idea to throw your child out the window. I am just amazed at the stupid acts that people are capable of sometimes.

Peekskill infant survives 7-story fall

] Police sources said Alvarez-Ramos, Velez and Velez's
] wife, Thamara Ocasio, 27, had all been drinking when they
] encountered Tyson around 5:30 a.m. Saturday. They asked
] him for his autograph, and allegedly began trailing and
] harassing him when he twice refused, sources said.
]
] At some point, Velez pretended to have a gun and
] Alvarez-Ramos picked up a metal pole used to support
] velvet ropes and wielded it at Tyson, according to court
] documents. Alvarez-Ramos dropped the pole as Tyson
] approached him, the document said.

Two drunken geniuses tell tyson they have a gun and want his autograph and don't expect to get their butts kicked.

New York City - 2 in Tyson Brawl Plead Not Guilty