The most weird or stupid news story you heard today.

[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).

[DaemonSeid]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080124...drentransplant

[sageofages]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080124...drentransplant

Wow....just wow.

[Drolefille]

It's the bone marrow!

Very weird, and very cool.

[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

[DaemonSeid]

PAU, France (AFP) - The mayor of a French village has issued a decree banning residents from dying in his territory unless they own a spot in the overcrowded cemetery.


"It is forbidden for any person not having a plot in the cemetery ... to die on the territory of the village," the mayor of the southwestern village of Sarpourenx wrote in a decree that warned of "severe punishment" for offenders.

Mayor Gerard Lalanne told AFP he had taken the radical measure to protest against a legal ruling preventing him from enlarging the burial ground in the village of 260 people.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080306...cedeathoffbeat

Too much French wine can ruin the mind.

[DaemonSeid]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23595533/

Gross woman, go wash your ass.

Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

[Still BLUTANG]

I heard about this last week on NPR.

Employee's suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers
By Erin Alberty
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 02/27/2008 07:13:46 PM MST


A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe.

Ellis said the exercise was a dramatization of a story in which a young man asks Socrates to become his teacher. Socrates responds by plunging the student's head underwater and telling him he will learn once his desire for knowledge is as great as his desire to breathe.

However, Ellis said Christopherson explained the exercise before Hudgens volunteered, no one held Hudgens down and Hudgens was free to get up if he was uncomfortable.

"It was meant to be a team-building exercise," Ellis said. "Everybody was . . . involved and enthusiastic."