The most weird or stupid news story you heard today.

[nikki1920]

Originally Posted by smiley21

This is so gross.

http://http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20..._married_twins

I saw that on Friday and was too shocked to post it here.

My questions:
no blood test was done?
but did they consummate the marriage? They talked all around that. Did they have kids?

[sageofages]

Originally Posted by nikki1920

I saw that on Friday and was too shocked to post it here.

My questions:
no blood test was done?
but did they consummate the marriage? They talked all around that. Did they have kids?

uh....blood tests aren't done to do dna matching. IF they are required it is more of a STD check, or to test for Measles antibodies etc.

I think it is less gross because they didn't even know they were related seeing has how they were adopted and grew up not knowing about each other. I think it is sad to find your love and then find out that they are your sibling.

It would be scary to be adopted knowing that could happen.

[UGAalum94]

It strikes me as some much more tragic than disgusting although incest certainly is icky.

It's hard to thing of something that would mess with your head anymore than the circumstances described.

I'm not sure if what I'm about to say is real information or more something I learned in a Law and Order ripped from the headlines kind of way, but isn't there concern about this happening with the half-sibling children of the same anonymous sperm donor. Don't they have limits on the number of times a particular donor can be used so there's not like 100 kids with the same dad in one city who don't realize they are related?

[DaemonSeid]

Cops: Man Sodomized Stepson in Revenge

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...H3-AQD8U4O9R00

[scbelle]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Cops: Man Sodomized Stepson in Revenge

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...H3-AQD8U4O9R00

Wow. Just wow. I can definitely understand the rage that a parent must feel when confronted with someone who has hurt his child, but sodomy? I guess it's an eye for an eye... but had it been me, castration probably would have been my first thought, not sodomy. Ultimately, we can't take the law into our own hands; it's not worth it. If the man who sodomized his stepson gets sentenced to prison, who will protect his daughter then???

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by scbelle

Wow. Just wow. I can definitely understand the rage that a parent must feel when confronted with someone who has hurt his child, but sodomy? I guess it's an eye for an eye... but had it been me, castration probably would have been my first thought, not sodomy. Ultimately, we can't take the law into our own hands; it's not worth it. If the man who sodomized his stepson gets sentenced to prison, who will protect his daughter then???

or worse yet and eye for an eye for an eye....

When the general population finds otu what Pop got locked up for....well.....

[scbelle]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

or worse yet and eye for an eye for an eye....

When the general population finds otu what Pop got locked up for....well.....

Good point. Although, it could be a source of bonding, too, since that's pretty much what general population does with a perp. They might understand it was a poetic justice thing. I dunno.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

It strikes me as some much more tragic than disgusting although incest certainly is icky.

It's hard to thing of something that would mess with your head anymore than the circumstances described.

I'm not sure if what I'm about to say is real information or more something I learned in a Law and Order ripped from the headlines kind of way, but isn't there concern about this happening with the half-sibling children of the same anonymous sperm donor. Don't they have limits on the number of times a particular donor can be used so there's not like 100 kids with the same dad in one city who don't realize they are related?

I don't know if there is or not, but there was a case in Virginia where the doctor of an infertility clinic was using his own sperm to impregnate his clients. They caught up with him because of a congenital eye disease that most of the children had. I did hear that they keep records of those children.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I don't know if there is or not, but there was a case in Virginia where the doctor of an infertility clinic was using his own sperm to impregnate his clients. They caught up with him because of a congenital eye disease that most of the children had. I did hear that they keep records of those children.

I KNOW there was a L&O about that. But I don't think they used an eye disease.

[SOPi_Jawbreaker]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I KNOW there was a L&O about that. But I don't think they used an eye disease.

I don't know if there was a previous one done on SVU or the original L&O (cuz you know how they like to reuse story ideas from one L&O series to another), but the L&O Criminal Intent that just aired this week was about a fertility doctor using his own sperm. The detectives figured it out when they took another look at the bulletin board of baby pictures and noticed an unusually high number of redheads.

[SWTXBelle]

Silly me - relying on the fact that my grandmother was a redhead to get one (I didn't - the score is 3 blondes, 1 brunette).

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I KNOW there was a L&O about that. But I don't think they used an eye disease.

Here's one of the links to the real item. A Dr. Cecil B. Jacobson of Vienna, VA fathered at least 17, possibly as many as 75, children born of his infertility clinic.

He's even on Wikipedia: Dr. Jacobson, which mentions the books & tv movie on him.

[DaemonSeid]

LUBBOCK, Texas - Loathed by homeowner and restaurateur, the lowly cockroach is gaining some respect in the agricultural community.


Researchers in South Texas are beginning to sing the praises of a flying cockroach from Asia that has shown a voracious appetite for pests that plague farmers. They concede, however, that most people would still be revolted at the sight of the helpful predator.

"It just brings out this visceral reaction in people," said Bob Pfannenstiel, an entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "There's too much cultural antipathy just because of the other cockroaches."

The other cockroaches include the German variety, a common breed that doesn't fly and is often seen scattering from countertops when kitchen lights are flicked on.

The Asian cockroach, Blattella asahinai, is almost identical in appearance to the German variety and is also active at night. But instead of leftover pizza, it feasts on insects harmful to crops.

They first appeared in Florida in 1986, and the species has expanded its range ever since. They've migrated to southern Georgia, Alabama and up the East Coast.

They ventured west into Texas in 2006, and became the most common predator of bollworm eggs in the state's Rio Grande Valley region. The bollworm threatens cotton, soybean, corn and tomato crops.

Pfannenstiel has counted as many as 100 roaches per square meter in soybean fields. In one instance, he found 14 cockroaches on a single leaf. None damaged the plants.

About 86 percent of the pests' eggs — which Pfannenstiel and colleagues placed out in fields to conduct research — were gone within 24 hours.

"I saw them feeding more than any other predator," Pfannenstiel said. "It was truly a spectacle. It was unbelievable, and I'm sure they were feeding on more than eggs."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080303/...elpful_roaches