Say What 3: Wind From Hurricane Frances for Sale on Ebay
 

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._merchandise_5

excerpt: The starting bid for Tupperware filled with wind was a penny. Photos showed Broward County residents running around with the containers "catching" the wind. Surprisingly, someone had already bid $10 for one of the four containers.


Somebody had bid $6.99 for beach sand a Broward County surfer had collected. Three Frances survivors had bid 15 cents each to have a woman pray for them.


One-cent vials of rain that fell in Orlando as the storm passed over had no bids. Neither did a woman's offer to sell the T-shirt she wore during the storm, nor did the request by a Longwood resident for someone to help get a large oak tree off of the seller's home and car.


"Winning bidder will receive branches, leaves, sticks, stumps, whatever you would like!" ... What a conversation piece! ... You can own a part of meteoroligical (sic) history!"

LOL
 

When I read the article I laughed so hard, I could not believe that the article was real. People really would not go around selling wind. LOL, for the folks that buy "Hurricane Frances wind"... I have a wonderful charity that I would love for you to invest in.... It's the send NuQueen to Law School fund... Otherwise, there is a lovely bridge in Brooklyn, you would absolutely adore. The asking price is 1 million dollars (in Dr. Evil's voice).

That article is pure comedy; although, sad considering the circumstances.

If folks must sell something, it would make more sense to sell "I survived Hurricane Frances" t shirts. Now, that I would think of purchasing especially considering I survived Hurricane Frances by the grace of God.

You know, if folks are going to throw money away, let 'em throw some of it my way! Jeez! :D

God, why?
 

Teen mother questioned about newborn found in trunk
01:27 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 7, 2004

By Amy Tortolani / 11 News

HOUSTON --- Houston police are investigating the death of a newborn.

11 News has learned a woman discovered what has turned out be her grandson in the trunk of her car parked in the 6400 block of Foster near Cosby. But police say they don't think she is the one who put the baby there.

Police were called to the southeast Houston home around 11 p.m. Monday after the grandmother drove the car and found the newborn baby boy dead in the trunk.

The baby appeared to be less than 24-hours old. :eek: :mad:

The baby's mother, 18-year-old Raquel Green, is at Ben Taub Hospital and is being questioned by police.

Her family says they knew nothing of Green's pregnancy and dismissed notions that Green may have had something to do with the baby's death.

"No, she knows the Bible, she goes to church," said Green's great-grandmother Charles Etta Williams. "No, no, no, it's not in her heart. It's not there. Murder is not there. Murder is not in her heart."

Green, who also has an older son, is reportedly being treated for complications from the child's birth.

Police tell 11 News an autospy will be performed to determine how the baby died. So far, no charges have been filed.

Re: God, why?
 

Did the baby walk to the truck, jump in, and decide to commit suicide? :mad: :mad:

There are MILLIONS of people in the world that want kids and can't have them, while these trifling so-and-sos can have HUNDREDS of babies and kill them like it's nothing!!! :mad:

Re: God, why?
 

Charles Etta, sounds like you all need to get Raquel some help.

ANWIH!!!! :mad: :mad:
:( :( :(

Re: Re: God, why?
 

completely co-sign

I'm mad that the great-grandmother is just so sure that the mother didn't do it. Anyone with the first bit of sense knows that biblical knowledge and/or church attendance does not guarantee a pure heart. BTW, if the girl really didn't have anything to do with it, then she surely knows who is responsible - which makes her an accessory. :mad: :mad: :mad:

I wish there were more states that allowed unwilling mothers to drop their babies off at hospitals with no questions under the "Safe Haven" Law. There are some kinks to be worked out, but this is a better solution than finding dead newborns in cars.

ETA:
More Info on the "Safe Haven" laws

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Re: God, why?
 

What in the world? :mad: And what about that grandmother so sure that her grand-daughter is the innocent one? How messy is that?!!! Everybody that goes to church ain't (yes, ain't) pure in heart. I co-sign with jojapeach. That is just out of this world.

Re: Re: God, why?
 

I completely co-sign here. This is just the kind of crap that makes me so frickin angry!!! Here I am, still trying to get over the loss of my pregnancy and trying to have another baby when there are girls like this chick who just so callously puts her child in the trunk!!! And she'll probably be pregnant again in about 6mos-1yr. Wonder what she'll do with THAT baby?? :mad: :mad: :mad: If you don't want your baby, give it to me!! Hubby and I will appreciate it!! What is with these girls?? I realize that not all states have the safe haven laws but you can still take your baby to social services if you don't want it. There's just no need to kill babies like this, not when there are so many people who want one.

Re: Re: Re: God, why?
 

Echo that.

Grandma needs a reality check. Church does not equal saint. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Re: Re: Re: God, why?
 

We have that law here in Houston. :mad: She told her mother she had a miscarriage. Then there was something about she was still depressed because the baby's father had died recently. :rolleyes: She really needs help. :(

The biggest problem with the Safe Heaven laws is that the people who put babies in trunks don't know about them. They just aren't publicized to the RIGHT people. Those of us who are on these boards are, for the most part, college educated, internet literate, social conscious [sp? I'm lost w/o my spell checker!] people.

The women who get pregnant and don't "realize" it until they give birth, or those who carry babies to term and abandon them just aren't always aware that they have other options.


AND, IF the mom had been going to church and studying the bible, she would know that Moses's mom gave him up........

PREACH IT, SISTAGREEK!!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllll :o

Can I get a witttt-nnnesssssss??????? :D



But seriously..... This is one of those issues that just bothers me, b/c I've known women on both sides, with wanted and "surprise" babies. Without laws protecting our reproductive rights, lots of us would be barefoot and pregnant right now. Given that there are so many ways to avoid prenancies on the front end, it blows my mind how many people end up in these situations. It also bugs me that the family is defending the mom. It's never ok to put a baby in a trunk...PERIOD. This reminds of the parents who think their kid can do no wrong, and attack referees b/c they don't like the call against their kid at a sporting event.

TTT/Babyperson survives, a*hole dies
 

That man is a pig. Glad the babyperson survived.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (Sept. 14) - A man threw his fiancee's 8-month-old daughter :mad: :eek: out of a car as he fled police after being accused of domestic violence, authorities said. The girl, strapped in a carseat, was unhurt but the man later was fatally injured in a crash.

Dana Bettin, 23, died Sunday, three days after the dramatic highway chase that ended when he crashed his fiancee's car into an unoccupied squad car.

At one point, he slowed down, opened the car door and dropped the baby in the car seat onto the highway, sending it tumbling toward the middle of the roadway.

"As the baby was flying toward me I noticed that she was crying very hard and looked scared," Wisconsin State Patrol Sgt. David Catalano said Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show, which aired video of the incident.

"Fortunately she was seat-belted into the child seat so that as it slid forward on the highway and then rolled over she escaped without any injuries," he said.

Sheriff's Sgt. Dan Pamenter told The Post-Crescent in Appleton that the man at first tried to put the baby out of the car on the shoulder, but the door car was in his way. He eventually pulled back into traffic and pushed the baby out as he was accelerating.

"His car was jerking back and forth," Pamenter said. "I didn't know what he was doing. He seemed to care for the baby."

"I was pretty certain he wasnt going to stop until he crashed," Pamenter said.

The chase continued at speeds up to 100 mph.

The pursuit ended on U.S. 41 when Bettin had a minor collision with a vehicle and then crashed into an unoccupied squad car. The car he was driving rolled over and he was pinned underneath. He died at a hospital in Green Bay.

Catalano spoke to the baby's mother on Monday and said the girl is doing fine.

"Her mother is very devastated about everything right now," he said. "It was her fiance involved and she's very upset."


09/14/04 09:36 EDT

now excuse me if people don't like what i'm about to say, but why the h*ll do trashy people like this tend to have kids when they don't want them and can't afford to take care of them. yet quality people who do want kids and can afford to take care of them, can't have them. this gets me so mad.

shelley j
sigma k

even though i'm a bush fan, i think her boss is an a$$hole for doing that. and i think that was very nice of john kerry to do for this woman.

shelley j
sigma k

Co-sign.

I wonder if the boss would have fired someone with a Bush sticker on their car? Somehow I doubt it!

Anyway, isn't it illegal to discriminate in hiring based on political views?

No, it's not....at least not nationally, and I would guess, in most states, although California has some wacky employment laws so it might be against the law in Cali. No offense to the Californians out there!

ohio has a nice lil loop hole law for job discrimination. basically you can be fired for anything and it can't be deemed discrimination. like if i fired someone for being a bad dresser, it would fly.........:confused: :rolleyes:

shelley j
sigma k

It doesn't surprise me that a Bush proponent would do something as ridiculous as this. :rolleyes:

I agree that it was really kind of John Kerry to hire this woman.

Clever!

I was thinking the same thing, lol!

I thought it was pretty clever myself; surely a way to pay off some bills. . . but then there's jail.

Dial B for Bad Breath

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German telecommunications company says it is developing the first mobile phone that will alert users when their breath is bad or if they are giving off offensive smells.



Can you imagine?!!?:o :eek:

Teacher Sends Student Home with feces in his bookbag

:mad:

DALLAS - A teacher is on paid administrative leave after sending a first-grader home with feces in his backpack because the boy soiled the classroom floor.



The teacher apparently was frustrated with the 6-year-old student's actions so she wrapped up the waste and sent it home with the boy Tuesday along with a note, Dallas school district spokesman Donald Claxton said/

ANWIH!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:

i think that teacher done lost her mind. i would have been pissed if that was my child.

shelley j
sigma k

Do y'all really think or CARES that what she did was wrong? PAID administrative leave = paid vacation. Homegirl is probably in Cancun right now. Paid suspensions, administrative leaves, etc. are a joke.

I'm actually with the teacher. These kids are bad as hell. I'm sure the little rugrat probably pulled his pants down and crapped on the floor on purpose. Why else whould it be on the classroom floor? I had a little delinquent in my class like that. And when I told his mom what he used to do she didn't believe me. This kid was probably the same way, so she sent home proof. I'm with her.

Actually the child has some kind of medical disorder and has accidents. The dad was on the news taking about it the other night. I believe the school and the teacher knew this about the boy's condition. I forget the reasoning why the teacher sent that "present" home. I think it was to show the parents that it was getting to be an issue because the other kids were picking on him about it.

He may have got it point accross, but the Boss-Idiot just bought his company a 1st Amendment Lawsuit. Dumb Azz!

Sometimes teachers are not aware when children have medical conditions. When I began teaching a few years ago, the nurse would disclose illnesses to the children's teachers. Then a little time after that, it became illegal to disclose the children's illnesses. I thought that was stupid. I think I need to know if one of my students has epilepsy (which one did) or diabetes (which another did). It became a case of me trying to pick up on clues.

Please excuse my rant.

Now that's a different story. If the teacher was aware of the child's medical condition that makes her actions a little less acceptable. In that case she could have been frustrated at the parent's failure to send the child to school wearing pull ups say, after several requests made by her for them to do so.

To her credit, I would be upset if I were a first grade teacher cleaning up a 6 year old's "accidents" every day.
*shrugs shoulders*
I used to be an unappreciated special ed teacher, so I tend to side with them.

Ditto or having kids/parents proactive enough to let me know on their own.

I know special ed teachers at my old school who had to change the diaper of a 16 year old. I did not know they did that until one day I walked in and saw them heading to the bathroom together. :eek: :eek:

Principal Duct Tapes Student's Pants


GOOD!!

I highly commend that Assistant Principal. I get soooooooooooo tired of seeing boys with sagging pants. That is sooooooooooooo unattractive. And that parent needs to just get over his outrage.