Appreciating Law Enforcement for All They Try to Do

Law enforcement officers have an awful time trying to keep the peace and meet the needs of the public, and they can't do that without a lot of help behind the scenes. I've been youtubing tonight, and these are just a few of the eye-popping short clips of 911 calls I found.

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So young to die...

I wrote this piece based on this story:

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Can an innocent Christmas present plunge a normal family into consensual madness? Yes, it can, especially if the catalyst is a three-foot My Size Barbie, the first exceedingly popular toy that my daughter, Gaby, ever asked for insistently.

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For example, a dried apricot talks trash with a regular apricot, telling him, "You've got a face like a backside." In another promo, a skinless drumstick demands that the regular drumstick "get naked, lose the skin...

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Grab your Wiimote, and stuff it inside. It's time to play with babies that can recognize excessive shaking. Yup... this is a good idea. And by good idea, I mean creepy as hell. From the original report: "Watch for the sequel: Child Protective Services and Me."

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But Ahmed Muhamed Dhore, a Somalian who claims he is 112 years old, said he had realised a "dream" by marrying a 17-year-old bride...... Dhore has 114 children and grandchildren. His oldest son is 80 and three of his wives have died.

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The upcoming movie The Men Who Stare at Goats tells the story of a military operation that attempted to create Jedi warriors who could teleport through walls and kill goats by staring at them. It all sounds pretty far-fetched ...

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In addition to assorted bad breaks and pleasant surprises, opportunities and insults, life serves up the occasional pink unicorn. The three-dollar bill; the nun with a beard; the sentence, to borrow from the Lewis Carroll poem, that gyres and gimbles in the wabe.

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An experience, in short, that violates all logic and expectation. The philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote that such anomalies produced a profound "sensation of the absurd," and he wasn't the only one who took them seriously.

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Ok -- now this is creepy, I'm sure glad the spiders here don't get this big. "Mr Shakepeare told ninemsn he had seen golden orb weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger"

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They're among the creepiest videos and photos online, with some bordering on the sheer terrifying. Some may find this content disturbing.

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Creepiest song?

I'll begin by saying that I was inspired by other authors who recently seeded music articles: VictoriaWood, Tom Bombadil, Ms. Cyprah, Dragonwoman and others. Lack of specific names for any others is in no way meant to be a diss.

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The brothers, who have always dressed identically – even hats and shoes – and have shoulder-length, dark blond hair, have lived in the single-storey house with their mother for at least 10 years, said another neighbour.

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It's happening AGAIN!!!!!!

So far today, it has been fairly quiet, couple of visitors, things like that. Heck, here it is 4:12 p.m., and I'm still in my jammies. I was sitting here reading email when I heard an ongoing sound not quite as loud as the vacuum running.

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The Pope is a man of God and should not lie, he says the needs to debunk the idea that the Vatican is rich... HA, why do you not sell a few of your painting or other works of art in the Vatican art collection is worth Probably billions of dollars. And Mr.

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Doctors and researchers regularly rely on CT scanners to create images of body parts like brains, chests and knees.

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"He told us he was out of control," Deters said today after Douglas was arraigned on two more charges of abuse of a corpse. hr--I would have thought that with the one.

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Eight Legged Hostage Taker

I am being held hostage in my own apartment by someone maybe 1/1000th the size of myself. Someone with eight eyes, eight legs and a creepy demeanor.

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For the past week, I've been stalking my sister, my boyfriend and my boss. They've also been stalking me, and we still like one another.

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Yes, literally clowns. And not just just any clowns. Clowns who teach middle schoolers sex education!

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The creator of the wholesome Barbie and Ken dolls was a serial swinger who held orgies with doll lookalikes, a new book claims. In "Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel," out next month, Jerry Oppenheimer claims that Barbie designer Jack Ryan was a "full-blown seventies-sty …

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Another running shoe with what may be a detached foot has washed up along the banks of the Fraser River in Richmond, B.C., according to the RCMP. WTF?

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WATERBORO (Oct 31, 2008): Most people will tell you that in any good ghost story, no one really knows how much to believe and how much of the story is even true.

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The 29-year-old fervid fan of the psycho-slasher TV show "Dexter" is accused of luring now-missing Johnny Altinger to a garage and killing him in a scenario that resembled Twitchell's latest film project — in which a man is abducted, tortured, and hacked to bits.

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In the spirit of the holiday.

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