Shattered Symmetry
Breaking the mold, one face at a time2010
Wolfie Blackheart is not an ordinary 18-year-old.
She believes she is a wolf — technically, a werewolf — and so she wears a tail. She also wears a harness in case someone special wants to drag her around.
And last week, she used a pocketknife in her kitchen to decapitate a dog -- already dead, according to Wolfie.
"I severed the head, boiled the head," Wolfie said. "People make the mistake of hacking the spine, which will fracture the skull. You also have to put [the head] outside for the brains to leak out."
Lisa Rodriguez, Wolfie’s mom -- "I say, 'Don't sever heads in front of me'. She usually does it in the woods."
Read article: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/Self-described_wolf_woman_severed_lost_dogs_head.html
2010
Researchers in the Austrian Alps wanted to study the effects of being caught in an avalanche and chose pigs because of their biological similarity to humans. Some were completely submerged and others were buried up to the neck, and the time they took to die was recorded.
Read article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1243869/Snow-pigs-bacon-saved-amid-outrage-animals-rights-protesters.html
2010
As international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti's earthquake victims, a United States group is sending Bibles. But these aren't just any Bibles! They're solar-powered audible Bibles that can broadcast the holy scriptures in Haitian Creole to 300 people at a time. The Faith Comes By Hearing organisation says its Bible, called the Proclaimer, delivers "digital quality" and is designed for "poor and illiterate people."
Read article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/19/2796032.htm?section=justin
2010
"The site has always been unrepentant about its selection process, calling itself "the largest network of attractive people in the world". The move was reportedly prompted by members themselves, who police the membership of the site to maintain a high standard of attractiveness... "Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model."
Read article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/personal/01/04/dating.site.overweight/index.html
2010
"The girl and her 15-year-old sister wanted to help cook dinner. The older girl tried twice, against their father's advice, to use diesel fuel to light the family's new wood cook stove... "When she started to pour the second time, the stove just spewed flames and sucked up the can and sprayed diesel. Catherine had got the bottom of her dress on fire and she panicked and she took off running."
Read article: http://www.wsmv.com/news/22115752/detail.html
2009
Investigators recovered the remains of more than 500 animals after executing a search warrant Wednesday at a home in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according to the city's chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The animals included "dozens of sheep, goats ... every type of farm animal you can think of," the Philadelphia SPCA's law enforcement director, George Bengal, said.
The SPCA believes two sets of remains are those of small primates, possibly monkeys.
Read article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/30/pennsylvania.animal.remains/
2009
Heroin laced with anthrax is being sold on the streets of Britain and has already killed two people in Glasgow, prompting warnings to addicts to be on their guard.
Tests on a third person are being carried out to see if he died from the same disease. A fourth and fifth are being treated for anthrax after injecting heroin from a batch contaminated with the lethal spores, doctors disclosed yesterday.
Read article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6967068.ece
2009
"According to US government documents obtained by the PHR, as many as 2,000 surrendered Taliban fighters were reportedly suffocated in container trucks by Afghan forces operating jointly with the US in November 2001. The bodies were reportedly buried in mass graves in the Dasht-e-Leili desert near Sheberghan, Afghanistan... The Taliban fighters surrendered with white flags and open arms to an assurance that they will not be harmed."
