Bizarre News - March 11, 2015

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

A water bottle filled with liquid silicone, red plastic cups, needles and syringes, and Krazy Glue to close the wound; These were to tools of the trade of the self-proclaimed 'Michelangelo of Buttocks Injections'.

You might also know her as Padge-Victoria Windslowe. She made the news in 2012 when she was arrested for the death a 20-year-old London dancer and college student who was the victim of a botched injection.

The trial just concluded.

45-year-old Windslowe has had quite a colorful career. She described herself as a serial entrepreneur who once ran a transgender escort service and a Gothic hip-hop performer who called herself the Black Madam.

But it was as a "body sculptor" that, in her own mind, she really excelled. "I was the best," Windslowe testified, "and I don't mean that to be cocky."

Unfortunately her medical training consisted of tips she said she picked up from overseas doctors who performed her sex change operation and a physician-client of her escort service who became her lover.

This less-than-professional background is undoubtedly what led her to inject nearly half a gallon of industrial-grade silicone into the buttocks of the 20-year-old student, which led to her heart stopping.

The jury took less than four hours to reject a lesser man-slaughter charge and convict her of third-degree murder, which involves malice but not premeditation.

Windslowe faces 20 to 40 years in prison.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Urinators in Germany warned: St. Pauli walls 'pee back' --*
HAMBURG, Germany (UPI) - Leaders in the "party district" of St. Pauli in Hamburg, Germany, are discouraging public urination by covering walls in paint that "pees back." The St. Pauli Interest Community released a YouTube video explaining the most frequently-soiled walls in the district are being covered in a super-hydrophobic paint that causes sprayed liquid to bounce back in the opposite direction -- causing public urinators to make a mess of their own pants and shoes. The walls treated with the paint are labeled with signs reading, "Don't pee here! We'll pee back!" "It was a real annoyance that was growing and growing," St Pauli Interest Community board member Uwe Christiansen, who owns several local bars, told The Local. "We wanted to bring people to reason." He said the move is being hailed by locals who were similarly tired of dealing with "Wildpinkler." "I've seen in Facebook and the local newspapers that the reactions were very positive. People were just tired of the peeing on walls, home entrances and playgrounds," Christiansen said. "Watch out! From now on, it's Peeback time," group member Julia Staron said in the video.


*-- Spanish politician poses nude for campaign poster --*
PORTUGALETE, Spain (UPI) - A candidate for local office in Spain's Basque region is campaigning by baring her body on a poster reading, "Politicians have left us stark naked." Yolanda Couceiro Morin, a town hall candidate in the town of Portugalete, released a campaign poster featuring her nude body covered only by her own hands and the slogan, "Politicians have left us stark naked." Morin, a member of the right-wing Partido por la Libertad - Manos Limpias, or "Party for Freedom - Clean Hands," told Spanish daily 20 minutos she hopes the "eye catching" ad will convince Portugalete voters to "focus on the problems of their neighbors." Morin's poster appears to take inspiration from a 2006 poster for centrist party Ciudadanos, which depicted party founder Albert Rivera striking a similar pose in the buff.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
It is finally nice to see some intelligent, common sense judges making ruling on a lawsuit for something any semi-intelligent person would have realized was their own fault. When you order cooked food, coffee, or anything that requires being heated, one should take precautions not to burn themselves. People need to learn to take responsibility for their own actions, or should I say stop blaming others for your own screw-ups (hint-hint).
[200 years ago that would have been recognized as God's punishment for something. Maybe eating at an Applebee's.]

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