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Bizarre News - October 25, 2014
Greetings fellow Bizarros:There are easier ways to make money than stabbing yourself in the eyes with pencils. Granted, the monetary potential of such an action may not be immediately apparent, and it probably wasn't the first thought of the woman who did it to herself, but you certainly can't argue that she had dollars in her eyes (if you'll pardon the expression) after the incident.
It started after a California woman attempted to commit suicide by this extraordinarily bizarre method.
While she was unsuccessful at suicide, she was subject to a curious photographer while being treated for her injuries. Now she is suing Los Angeles County, claiming the photo snapped at the hospital and went viral online.
The suit was filed by the guardian of the woman, who was blinded by the attempt. The suit claims unauthorized disclosure of medical information.
The woman, identified only as Jane Doe, was admitted to County-USC Medical Center about 2 years ago. The suit says someone, believed to be a nurse, took an unauthorized photo of her with pencils in her eyes and shared it with someone who posted it to the Internet, where it's been viewed some 200,000 times.
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Email Lewis*-- Firefighters free 18-month-old from claw machine --*MARYVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) - Firefighters in Tennessee freed an 18-month-old boy who climbed into stuffed animal claw machine while his grandmother's back was turned at a laundromat. Diane O'Neill, grandmother of Maryville toddler Colin Lambert, said she looked up from checking a text message Tuesday at the laundromat just in time to see the boy climbing into the machine through the prize slot. "All I could see was his feet. He had already crawled in," she told WBIR-TV. "I grabbed his feet and he kicked my hand and got in. Climbed up over the glass partition and sat down in the toys." The boy was rescued by firefighters within a matter of minutes and they allowed Colin to keep one of the stuffed animals from inside the machine. O'Neill told WATE-TV, Knoxville, her grandson is a "sweet little monster" with a tendency to climb his way into trouble. "Nothing surprises me with him. You just have to expect the worst and usually it happens," she said. Colin's mom, Bridget Lambert, said she wasn't at all surprised by the incident. "She tells me and shows me a picture and my husband and I started laughing, because we're not surprised. It was a matter of time before he did something like this," Lambert said. Colin is not the first toddler to need emergency assistance for an escape from a toy machine. Earlier this year, a 3-year-old in Nebraska wandered from home to a bowling alley across the street and was discovered playing with the stuffed animals inside a "Bear Claw" machine.
*-- Man apologizes for double 'wet Willy' on policeman --*MANKATO, Minn. (UPI) - A U.S. Airman on leave in Minnesota said he was "sorely mistaken" when he "thought it would be incredibly funny to give a police officer a wet Willy." Riley Louis Swearingen, 24, of Goldsboro, N.C., pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor disruptive intoxication charge Monday in connection with a Saturday incident involving the defendant, two moistened fingers and both of a Mankato police sergeant's ears. District Judge Kurt Johnson heard Swearingen, who is visiting Minnesota while on leave from the Air Force, was boarding the "drunk bus" after the downtown bars closed early Saturday, when he decided to carry out a "wet Willy" prank when he spotted a uniformed police sergeant. Swearingen licked a finger on each hand and then inserted them into both of the sergeant's ears, the court heard. Cmdr. Jeremy Clifton said Swearingen was immediately arrested. A charge of assaulting a police officer with bodily fluids was dropped in exchange for Swearingen's guilty plea. "I thought it would be incredibly funny to give a police officer a wet Willy, to which I was sorely mistaken," Swearingen told Johnson. "I'm incredibly sorry for what I did. I never thought I would be going to jail for the weekend." Swearingen was sentenced to the three days he had already spent in jail and ordered to pay $77 in court costs.
*-- READER COMMENTS --*I just want to let you know how much I enjoy your bizarre news! I get so many laughs! Makes my day, laughter is my medicine! Thank you, Jan Kelly
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I appreciate that, Jan, but if you happen to get a serious infection or something please take an antibiotic and don't just read BN.]
When the man who woke up from a colonoscopy and found that he was wearing pink panties, was he singing, "I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and gay..."? If so, maybe someone did him a favor. Pink panties make me feel like that, especially if they're the silky kind. -Jody
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If you're feeling "gay" after a colonoscopy then I think the pink panties are sort of a foregone conclusion.]
So, (The lawsuit, alleges Walls suffered "severe emotional stress," and is seeking compensation for mental anguish, lost wages and loss of earning capacity) What a bunch of BS, this clown just does not want to work anymore, this should be thrown out of court, it's on the lines of spilling 'hot' coffee on oneself and claiming you did not know it was hot. -Gary
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Could you work with the stress of knowing an untold number of people saw you in women's panties? I mean, this wasn't a college frat party, after all!]
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