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Bizarre News - May 31, 2014
Greetings fellow Bizarros:Everybody who is familiar with babies know they can be fussy. Heck, sometimes even downright ornery, but rarely is it necessary to grenade them. Unless you are a SWAT officer in Georgia.
Alecia Phonesavanh said she had been staying with her sister-in-law in Habersham County after her family's home burned down when a SWAT team burst into the home as part of a drug investigation.
One of the officers tossed a stun grenade that Phonesavanh said landed in her 19-month-old son's playpen and exploded on his pillow, right in his face, causing serious burns, cuts, and other injuries.
Now, there have been a lot of stories in the news lately about the "militarization" of police in this country, but grenading a baby is a little extreme.
"He's only a baby," Phonesavanh said, "He didn't deserve any of this."
Police said they had a no-knock warrant to arrest a man at that address known to have drugs and weapons. The raid occurred at just before 3 a.m.
"There was no clothes, no toys, nothing to indicate that there was children present in the home," Cornelia Police Chief Rick Darby said. "If there had been, then we'd have done something different."
However Phonesavanh said, "The cops threw that grenade in the door without looking first, and it landed right in the playpen."
Police did not say whether the toddler was being cooperative with police, but Chief Darby did say the officers involved in the raid felt badly about the boy's injuries. So he's got that going for him.
The boy has been taken to a burn unit for treatment and placed in a medically induced coma.
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Email Lewis*-- Slurpees used to treat Oregon man's burns at 7-Eleven in Grants Pass --*GRANTS PASS, Ore. (UPI) - An Oregon man who had been burned with hot oil ran into a 7-Eleven in Grants Pass and used some Hawaiian Punch Slurpees to treat his burns and cool himself off. According to the Grants Pass Daily Courier, the man entered the store while being chased by two other people, one of them possibly armed with a bat. Store clerk Charlie Bentley kept the individuals who were chasing the man out of the store so he could fill his shirt with Slurpee goodness without being disturbed. The man soothed his skin with the icy beverage before being taken to a Medford medical center. An investigation revealed that the chase likely began during a dispute between two neighbors that ended with two people being burned with hot oil. The other burn victim, a woman, did not require medical treatment.
*-- A dog pooping twice on a US Airways flight caused it to make an emergency landing --*KANSAS CITY, Miss. (UPI) - A US Airways flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia was forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City after a service dog started pooping in the aisle and the flight crew was unable to contain the mess. The passengers aboard US Airways Flight 598 could only sit back and watch while a big dog defecated in the aisle not once, but twice. After the dog went to the bathroom for the first time about an hour into the flight, the crew did their best to deal with the mess but they were unable to contain the smell. "An hour later, it still smelled bad, and after they cleaned it all up, it pooped again," Passenger Steve McCall told INSIDE EDITION. "A couple of people started dry-heaving, a couple of people were throwing up." The flight had initially been delayed for two hours because of a fuel spill on the tarmac, so it's quite possible that caused the dog to get a little bit backed up. The dog's owner did apologize. "She said, 'Hey, so sorry, I want to get all your addresses so I can give you a Starbucks gift card,'" McCall said.
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Here's a story for you... "A Northern Ontario woman was charged with mischief on Tuesday after police say she wouldn't stop calling 911 to ask them to pick her up some smokes. Moira Williams, 67, had been drinking and ran out of cigarettes when she repeatedly called the emergency line to ask police to go to the store and buy her some. By 3:15 a.m., police drove to her home and arrested her."
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But did they finally give her any smokes???]
I'm sorry Lewis, but there was some kind of typo or HTML problem in today's issue. Right around the year when you said you graduated from High School. -Rick
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I'm sorry. The year was 19!@.]
Lewis, did you see the story about the Utah school that photo-shopped girls yearbook photos to eliminate visible flesh! They're so damned backwards there!! -Wendy
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You'd think they'd give them bigger boobs or something.]
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