Say What? Boy Grabs Knife After Dad Pulls Plug on Video Game

[1sd]

First of all, if he's 27...why the hell does he need a 16-year old 'friend'?

[CrimsonTide4]

Dead Man's Dangling Legs Greet Couple
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SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) - A New Mexico couple returned home from a week-long vacation to find the legs of a dead man dangling from their ceiling, police said.



The man was identified as Carl Smith, 81, and he was the former husband of the woman who lived in the home, said Trish Ahrensfield, a spokeswoman for the Albuquerque police.


"He was stuck in an air conditioner duct," Ahrensfield said, adding a cause of death has not yet been determined.


Police said it appears the man was trying to break into the home from the roof and died while attempting to get in through the air conditioner duct.


The couple, who were not identified, said their home was cold when they returned on Tuesday and they went to the bathroom to see if the heater had been shut off. When they looked up, they saw the legs hanging from the ceiling.

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TOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY!!!!

[mccoyred]

What business does an 81-year-old man have to be robbing people! LOL at the image in my head....

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by mccoyred
What business does an 81-year-old man have to be robbing people! LOL at the image in my head....

That's what I was thinking. I could see if it was a 20-40 year old but an 81 year old man should be somewhere reading or sleeping.

[ladygreek]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
That's what I was thinking. I could see if it was a 20-40 year old but an 81 year old man should be somewhere reading or sleeping.

Even an 81 year old man is capable of seeking revenge on an ex-wife, especially if she left him for her current husband.

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by ladygreek
Even an 81 year old man is capable of seeking revenge on an ex-wife, especially if she left him for her current husband.

Too bad he died; this would have made a great ep on MAURY POVICH SHOW.

[toocute]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Too bad he died; this would have made a great ep on MAURY POVICH SHOW.

Get that hand basket ready....cuz you going str8 to hayle

ROFL.

[lovelyivy84]

Originally posted by toocute
Get that hand basket ready....cuz you going str8 to hayle

ROFL.

LMAO! Does that mean I'm going too since that made me ROFL?

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by toocute
Get that hand basket ready....cuz you going str8 to hayle

ROFL.

Title of show: 81 Year Old Love Scorned Ex Husband Crawls Through Roof of Ex-Wife's House and Gets Stuck. . .

I know I would watch it.

[toocute]

Originally posted by lovelyivy84
LMAO! Does that mean I'm going too since that made me ROFL?

I think we're all going since I'm in tears.

[CrimsonTide4]

Mass. Woman Sues Over HIV Misdiagnosis
Fri Jan 2, 2:45 PM ET Add Health - AP to My Yahoo!


By KEN MAGUIRE, Associated Press Writer

BOSTON - A Fitchburg woman who received nine years of HIV (news - web sites) treatments after she was misdiagnosed with the virus is suing the doctors and clinics who treated her.


Audrey Serrano, 41, said she was diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS (news - web sites) in 1994 by the Family Practice Clinic in Fitchburg, but six blood tests since Labor Day show she does not have HIV. The lawsuit was filed Dec. 29 in Worcester Superior Court and seeks unspecified damages.


"It's nice to not constantly feel like you're going to die, literally," she said. "I'm still tired a lot, though."


Serrano claims she's suffered a variety of physical ailments — including colitis, an inflammation of the intestine — because of AZT and other harsh medicines she took daily to fight the virus, which attacks the immune system. Emotional distress led to depression, she said.


In addition to the Family Practice Clinic (now called All Family Care Inc.), the lawsuit names several doctors and clinics that treated Serrano, including Dr. Kwan K. Lai, who works for the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester; Dr. Bonnie Laudenbach, who now works in Kentucky; and Women's Medical Associates, formerly of Fitchburg.


UMass Memorial spokesman Mark L. Shelton said the hospital did nothing wrong. The hospital has not been notified of the suit, but received a letter from one of Serrano's attorneys alleging negligence and "demanding 'the maximum amount of compensation permitted by law,'" he said.


"These allegations are unfounded and UMass Memorial is confident it would prevail should a suit actually be brought and a full and objective review of the relevant records be conducted," Shelton said in statement. "UMass Memorial has not treated anyone for HIV who did not have HIV, and there is no factual basis for reporting otherwise."


A call to All Family Care was not immediately returned. There was no answer to calls to Laudenbach's office in Ashland, Ky., and there was no listing in Massachusetts for Women's Medical Associates.


Serrano's suit claims, among other things, that her providers failed to periodically retest her to determine the accuracy of the initial test.


Serrano, who is divorced and has a 13-year-old daughter who is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said she became suspicious of her HIV-positive status just before Labor Day after obtaining her medical records, and noticing the word "negative" beside a long list of tests. She got retested.


"Part of me still didn't believe it, that's why I went for another test," Serrano said. "I kept saying 'one more test.'"


She's unsure whether the test nine years ago was a false positive, or if it was a record mix up. "It didn't hit me until I got to my car," she said. "I just sat in my car and a I cried. I was numb. I didn't know what to feel."


Serrano, an alcoholic who had been sober for three years before the HIV diagnosis, started drinking again. "I ended up totaling my car," she said.


She spent 30 days in a women's prison in Framingham for drunken driving.


Serrano celebrated nine years of sobriety on Nov. 9. She's unemployed, but is studying to be a paralegal and does AIDS outreach.


She said she still suffers side effects from taking more than 20 pills daily for nine years. Bowel problems from colitis require frequent trips to the bathroom, and her strength is limited, she said.


One of her attorneys, Ross Annenberg, said there's no specific dollar figure they are seeking. That would be determined later, he said.

"(Serrano) incurred great sums in medical expenses, lost significant earnings, and has suffered diminished earning capacity in the future as a direct and proximate result of the defendants' negligence," the lawsuit states.

The defendants have about three weeks to respond to the suit.

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I would SUE long, hard, and for a lot. Their great grandkids would be making payments!!!

[honeychile]

AGREED!!!

A woman I knew in college was misdiagnosed with toxic shock, with basically the same results - including the law suit. She won.

[ladygreek]

While I am sure she is elated that she does not have HIV, I can't imagine what she has gone through the last 9 years. The meds are potent drugs and no telling what permanent damage she has suffered from them. I hope she gets a helluva a settlement.

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by ladygreek
While I am sure she is elated that she does not have HIV, I can't imagine what she has gone through the last 9 years. The meds are potent drugs and no telling what permanent damage she has suffered from them. I hope she gets a helluva a settlement.

The article mentioned bowel problems as well as fatigue. I know when it finally sunk in, it had to hit her like BAM!!!! Talk about coping mechanisms and the stages of grieving. . .she had to do that TWICE!!

Can u imagine that there might be someone else who received NEGATIVE results who is actually positive!?!?!

If I were Audrey, those doctors would be stripped of all licenses and what not.

[CrimsonTide4]

'Dead' Man Comes Back to Life at Funeral Home
Mon Jan 5, 8:00 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!

SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) - A New Mexico funeral home owner received the surprise of his career when a man pronounced dead at a hospital came back to life just before he was to be embalmed.


Russell Muffley, the owner of Muffley Funeral Home in Clovis, New Mexico, said he noticed Felipe Padilla breathing when the man pronounced dead at a hospital was being transferred to his facility on Wednesday. Padilla, 94, was rushed back to the same hospital, but did not recover. He was declared dead for a second time.

"When we were getting ready to move him from the stretcher to the embalming table, we noticed signs of life," Muffley said.

Padilla was breathing on his own but not speaking when paramedics took him from the funeral home back to Plains Regional Medical Center. He died a few hours later and was taken back to the funeral home, where arrangements had already been made.


Padilla will be buried next week.


"I have been doing this for 39 years and this has never happened before," Muffley said.


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WTF is going on with New Mexico? First Ceiling man and now this?!?!