Saturday, September 22, 2012
Greetings fellow Bizarros:Wow. I guess it really is true that women just do not know how to use tools. Take the case of this Everett, Washington woman.
44-year-old Renee Bishop-McKean is accused of trying to decapitate her sleeping husband with an electric saw in a bizarre revenge plot.
The couple had been living apart but jurors were told the woman invited her husband over and told him to sleep on a mattress that she had wrapped in plastic. That should have been his first hint that something wasn't exactly right.
In the middle of the night the woman attacked her husband with the saw, but the noise woke the victim and he was able to fight her off. But she wasn't finished. Upon realizing the saw wasn't going to work she then attacked him with a hatchet and mallet, striking him on the head.
But she was still unable to kill him.
Bishop-McKean told police an attacker must have entered the home through an open window, found the saw and attacked her husband, however Deputy Prosecutor Paul Stern noted the window was locked. He called the woman's theory the "Tinkerbell did this" defense.
Police found evidence that Bishop-McKean had purchased the saw, hatchet and mallet shortly before the attack and stock-piled bleach and a supply of large garbage bags.
Jurors needed less than three hours to find her guilty of first-degree assault and attempted murder.
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Email Lewis*-- Student hit by falling mattress --*NEW YORK - A New York college student said he suffered a sprained neck when he was struck by a mattress that fell about 30 stories to the sidewalk. Jesse Scott Owen, 18, said he was walking in the city around 12:45 p.m. Tuesday when the mattress fell from a building and hit him on the head, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday. "This was the most absurd thing that ever happened to me," the King's College freshman said. He said the impact knocked him unconscious. "I woke up and people were putting me on the mattress," he said. "I asked where the mattress came from and they said, 'You were knocked out by it.'" Witnesses said the mattress may have been carried by winds from the rooftop spa of the Setai Wall Street. A manager at the Setai did not respond to an email requesting a comment, the Daily News said. Owen was taken to the New York Downtown Hospital with a sprained neck and a possible herniated disc.
*-- Debt collector gets debt collection calls --*TORONTO - A legal squabble has resulted in a Canadian debt collection agency making demands on a competitor to pay its lawyers' fees. The unusual situation -- in which a collection agency pursued another -- began in 2010 when one of Canada's largest debt-chasers, iQor Canada, contracted with a Toronto legal firm to help with wrongful dismissal issues, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, reported. The law firm billed iQor almost $55,000 for its services, but it wasn't paid, the report said. The lawyers then enlisted rival Credit Control Central, which began making phone calls and sending letters to its competitor to collect. In May 2011, iQor paid $50,677 of its legal bill, short by $4,374, the report said. In turn, the legal firm went to small claims court to get the difference and won. Credit Control Central President Don Vence told the CBC the situation was peculiar for the debt-chasing business. "It's a dichotomy to have a company calling other companies for money, or individuals asking them to live up to their financial commitments when they themselves don't," he said.
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