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10 Valentine’s Day Murders

February 13th, 2011

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Love is in the air on Valentine’s Day, or so the cliché goes. But for the victims of the crimes listed below, it’s death that permeated the atmosphere on that very “special” day. They ended up dying violent deaths just like the saint it was named for, who was first beaten with clubs and stones, then beheaded.

It’s understandable that some people don’t think much of Valentine’s Day, but this is just too much.

1. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

“Mob” is often synonymous with “murder”, and that has been proven so especially true in this case. On Valentine’s Day of 1929, seven sharply-dressed men were lined up against a wall of the S.M.C Cartage Co. garage and were shot dead execution-style. These men, with the exception of one, were all working under “Bugs” Moran, notorious gangster and bootlegger. They were all likely murdered by men working for Al Capone, Moran’s bitter rival gang lord.

2. Woman Beaten to Death on V-Day

Believing Heather Rose Simons to be coming on to her partner, 44-year-old Ana Andrea Hemara beat her neighbor to death inside her own home on V-Day 2009. Hemara started by punching Simons in the head, then pulled her from her chair and continued the beat down. As a finishing touch, Hemara stomped on the head and body of her victim. Simons, who was suffering from cerebral palsy, died two days later.

3. Abortionist Ends Wife’s Life With A Blunt Object

John Baxter Hamilton, who operated an abortion facility in Oklahoma, chose Valentine’s Day 2001 to strangle his wife Susan with a necktie, hit her with a blunt object, and repeatedly slam her face onto the marble floor of their bathroom. He was convicted of her murder and was subsequently handed down a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

4. Columbine High School Sweethearts Shot

Less than a year after the Columbine High School massacre, the school’s students found themselves grieving for classmates once more, when high school sweethearts Nicholas Kunselman, 15 and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell, 16, were shot dead on February 14, 2000 inside a Subway shop located a few blocks south of the ill-fated school. Police say the murders were drug-related.

5. Husband Cuts Wife Into Pieces

In one of the most gruesome examples of V-Day violence, Stephen Grant, a stay-at-home dad living in a Detroit suburb, strangled his wife Tara, a successful businesswoman, to death on February 9, 2007. To hide her body, he cut it into fourteen pieces as their kids were sleeping. To make things more interesting, he filed a missing person report with the police on Valentine’s Day. When questioned by police, he accused his wife of abandoning him and their children. He then spent the better part of two weeks granting interviews with the media and claiming that the police is harassing him, and that he is innocent of any wrongdoing.

6. Houston Man Shot Dead As He Slept

William Thompson 45, was shot dead in his home allegedly by a 21-year acquaintance named Thaxton Johnson. Police say that Johnson intended to rob the victim, who was fast asleep when he was shot in the early hours of February 14, 2010.

7. Another Black Widow Case

Richard Schoeck, a resident of Snelville, Georgia, was waiting for his wife Stacey in a remote park to, of all things, exchange Valentine’s Day cards, when someone shot and killed the 45-year-old cub scout master on V-Day last year. Some time later, Stacey Schoeck and two others were charged with malice murder. The case is still ongoing.

8. Valentine’s Day Murder-Suicide

In the early hours of February 14, 2009 in the city of Granger, Washington, two lovers, Salvador Ramirez and Eliva Antunez Roman, were found dead with gunshot wounds to the head. Police first found the body of Roman inside a tavern, apparently killed by Ramirez. They later found Ramirez dead inside his residence, and they surmised that he turned the gun on himself.

9. Teenager Opens Door to Death

Fifteen-year-old Billy Cox of Clapham, London was shot dead inside his home on Valentine’s Day 2007. Police suspect the victim knew the assailant, as he apparently let the perpetrator inside the house. Five men have been arrested in connection with the murder, but all five were released without any charges filed.

10. Cleveland’s Valentine’s Day Massacre

A Valentine’s Day massacre also took place in Cleveland on Valentine’s Day 1999 when 19-year-old Cayci Higgins, 30-year-old Dawn Rogers and 18-year-old O.J. Blair were shot dead as they knelt on the floor of a Cleveland apartment, with their hands bound behind their backs. Blair’s cousin Twanna was also shot, but was later charged as a conspirator in the murders. A suspect, Maurice Johnson was arrested in connection with the massacre. He was eventually convicted and sentenced to three consecutive life terms.

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Ask any woman you know which type of crime they fear most would be committed against them, and the answer will always be rape. Rape, after all, is one of the most, if not the most painful crime a human being can ever commit against another human being. It is not just a one-time crime that ends the moment the act is over. The actual act is only the beginning, with the victim later suffering years, if not a lifetime, of self-loathing, trauma, and in some cases, scorn from other people. And it greatly affects the lives not only of the victim, but of their families and loved ones as well.

History has proven that just about anyone can be a rapist. The news is often replete with stories of fathers raping their daughters, friendly neighbors brutally attacking the girl next door, etc. In the same vein, anyone can also become a victim. Just like these murdered celebrities, these famous women are a testament that heinous crimes can happen to just about anyone.

1. Billie Holiday

One of the most influential jazz artists of all time, Billie Holiday was molested at the age of 10. A few years later, she was raped by a neighbor named Wilbert Rich, who was caught in the act by the singer’s mother. The rapist was thrown in jail, but only spent three months there.

2. Fiona Apple

When she was 12, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Apple was raped just outside her family’s house. Her traumatic experience was subtly referenced in the song “Sullen Girl”.

3. Fran Drescher

The star of the defunct sitcom “The Nanny” was brutally raped in 1985 by two armed robbers that broke into the apartment she was sharing with her husband, Peter Marc Jacobson, who was beaten up and made to witness the entire ordeal. It took her many years to recover from the rape.

4. Oprah Winfrey

Oprah may be the one of the world’s richest and most powerful women today, but her childhood was, for lack of a better word, pure hell. On top of the poverty she was born into, she was also raped at the age of nine.

5. Kelly McGillis

In 1982, the star of “Top Gun” and a female friend, who she later admitted to have been her lesbian lover at the time, suffered a brutal sexual assault. Two young men broke into McGillis’ New York apartment, tied the two women up and threatened to beat them to death, and raped them both at knifepoint. This ordeal served as her motivation when she played the prosecutor who sent the rapists of Jodie Foster’s character to jail in “The Accused”.

6. Gabrielle Union

When she was 19, “Bring It On” actress Gabrielle Union was beaten and raped at gunpoint while working a part time job at a shoe store. The brutal rape and beating took place in 1992, years before Hollywood beckoned.

7. Connie Francis

Singer Connie Francis was attacked right at the motel where she was staying while performing at a music festival in New York in 1974. Her room at the Howard Johnson’s Lodge was broken into by a still unidentified assailant, a fact which was instrumental to her winning a multimillion dollar judgment in the case she subsequently filed against the motel chain for failing to provide adequate security. She was so traumatized by the rape that she did not perform again for seven years.

8. Teri Hatcher

“Desperate Housewives” star Teri Hatcher confessed to Vanity Fair in March 2006 that she was a victim of sexual abuse by Richard Hayes Stone, an uncle by marriage. Her ordeal started at the age of five, and went on for several years. She never spoke publicly of the rape until she learned that a recent victim of Stone’s committed suicide at the age of 14. Hatcher assisted prosecutors with their indictment of Stone, who later pleaded guilty and was eventually sentenced to 14 years in jail. She is now actively involved in encouraging other rape victims to come forward and stop blaming themselves.

9. Maya Angelou

Celebrated autobiographer and poet Maya Angelou was eight when her mother’s boyfriend raped her. Unlike many rape victims, she readily told the rest of her family about her ordeal. Although the rapist, a Mr. Freeman, was eventually found guilty, his stay in prison lasted all of a single day. But justice outside the justice system was swift. Four days after he was released from prison, Freeman was found dead, apparently kicked to death by the poet’s uncles.

10. Tori Amos

Singer Tori Amos was raped at knifepoint by a male fan who asked her for a ride after a performance. Her suffering lasted for hours, with her attacker constantly telling her that he would bring her to his friends and cut her up. Amos says, “I survived that torture, which left me urinating all over myself and left me paralyzed for years.”.
Her ordeal served as the inspiration behind her song “Me and A Gun, while the very powerful song “Silent All These Years” has become associated with the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN ), a toll-free help line in the US for abuse victims that Amos cofounded in 1994.

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22 Bad English Signs

May 7th, 2010

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We understand it’s perfectly natural and common for a non-native speaker of a language, in this case English, to make mistakes in its usage. But the really bad English signs pictured below are just so hilarious we can’t help but laugh at the people who wrote them. Whoever made these have mangled the English language so badly they’ve become utterly useless signs, because they’re just indecipherable to anyone who doesn’t speak the local language and knows only English. But they are funny signs nevertheless, so here’s hoping they’re still in place to baffle and amuse tourists for a long time.

See what?

Somehow, I get this one.

Huh?

…or they’ll shred you to bits with their razor sharp, uh, leaves.

So humans can be transmitted. Sounds more like teleportation to me.

Somebody just invented a new English word.

Are we supposed address this prayer to Steve Jobs?

I’m not sure if the mind actually has a crotch, but I do know people whose crotches have minds of their own.

So I guess this is where they conceive knives?

(sound of head being scratched)

Actually, just the stress of figuring out what this sign is trying to say can probably bring on a heart attack or an aneurysm.

Not just your regular crap, but curled crap! Now that’s just special.

I don’t know where this is, but I’m moving there!

There goes political correctness.

Now I can get fit if I don’t spit!

I assure you, I’m not. Too much fat.

Here’s hoping the bird’s friend is a human female.

The women in this list are all very qualified to serve in that department.

What does “article” have anything to do with robbery anyways?

Looks like a case of “do as I say, not as I do”.

Don’t let the title mislead you. I’ve been an avid 24 viewer for its almost ten years of existence. I love the sound of its opening theme. I was one of those who were stunned when Teri Bauer, in a brilliant move by the show’s creators that set the perpetually tragic tone for Jack Bauer all throughout the series, was killed off in the last few minutes of the first season. I seethed with rage when President David Palmer ordered a subordinate to off himself just to comply with a terrorist’s demands. I was one of those who laughed at the misadventures of Kim Bauer, probably the dumbest daughter of a federal agent, or any kind of parent for that matter, ever.

But while I loved the show, there a number of things about it that left me scratching my head even when I’m dandruff free.  As the show comes to an end next month after eight seasons, it’s only fitting that I list them, 24 of them to be exact. These will at least remind me not to miss the show so much when its trademark ticking goes silent and its digital clock finally winds down,  for good.

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1. Jack Bauer’s cell phones have batteries that need no recharging whatsoever, not even after long / multiple calls or heavy media transmissions.

2. Jack Bauer doesn’t eat or drink.

3. Jack Bauer never takes a whizz.

4. Its habit of leaving the fate of certain important characters hanging in the air, like season 2 presidential advisor Lynne Kresge, season 4 terrorist spawn Behrooz Araz, Day 6 president Wayne Palmer,  and Martha Logan’s aide Evelyn Martin and his young daughter from season 5.

5. David Palmer is the second biggest jerk (next to Charles Logan) to ever become president, ordering a subordinate to kill himself because a terrorist asked him for it.

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6. They killed off Michelle Dessler just when she was starting to show some skin. She was rockin’ pink spaghetti straps the morning she was blown to kingdom come, for chrissakes.

7. Speaking of hot women on the show, they just did what is probably the worst case of coitus interruptus on TV, with Renee Walker getting offed seconds after getting off with Jack Bauer.

8. They hand out immunity deals like they were lollipops to any hardcore terrorist who promises to “sing”, never mind if the guy killed a couple thousand Americans just a few hours ago.

9. Until recently, nobody, except for Chloe and a few other characters, ever believes or listens to Jack until it’s too late.

10. You’d think that Jack Bauer, who was imprisoned and tortured in China for almost two years before being  retrieved by the American government in time for Day 6, would at least show some signs of being traumatized by the ordeal. Instead, he got back into super agent mode in no time at all. But then again, HE IS Jack Bauer. Chuck Norris has nothing on this guy.

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11. Kim Bauer, the aforementioned stupid daughter, became an analyst at CTU.

12. Dennis Hopper as main season 1 bad guy Victor Drazen.

13. Heroin is one of the toughest drugs to kick, but Jack easily shrugged it off. Then again, see no. 10.

14. Tony Almeida making like Jesus Christ.

15. Tony Almeida becoming a villain, a hero, then a villain again in less than 24 hrs.

16. The White House assault and hostage situation staged by an African commando team.

17. Graem Bauer. Not that the actor was doing a bad job, but because he looked and talked just like an ex-boss of mine, and made me wanna punch a hole through his face and my TV every single time he appears onscreen with that dang Bluetooth.

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18. David and Sherry Palmer are fairly good looking, which is why the fact that they produced a son who looks like Keith makes us question everything we’ve been taught about genetics.

19. Pilots are so good they could land big ass planes on narrow strips of road.

20. The ease at which enemies could plant moles inside the supposedly COUNTER-Terrorist Unit.

21. In season 8, everybody, from ex-cons to bounty hunters, seems to know where CTU is and are even allowed inside the premises.

22. Jack Bauer being able to do undercover work despite having his face plastered all over TV screens during the Senate hearings in season 7.

23. The charisma-challenged Wayne Palmer became president.

24. Jack’s “I give you my word”, which he breaks more often than he keeps, unintentionally or otherwise.

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It’s bad enough that the prices of textbooks these days border on the scandalous. Making it worse is knowing that for every single uber-expensive textbook sold, there are unscrupulous people and institutions behind it, running what could only be scams foisted upon a captive market of students that have little or no choice but to buy what they’ve been required to in order to survive a single semester. Here are 5 of those scams that have made, or still are making the lives of students even more miserable.

1. Custom Textbook Scam

What could be worse than a textbook company selling exorbitantly-priced textbooks to students? A school helping them do it, to their very own students. That is exactly the deal some schools have with textbook companies via the “custom textbook” ploy.

Here’s how it works: The textbook company takes a certain textbook, like the one pictured to the left, then “customize” it for a certain school. By “customize” we mean splashing the name of the school right across the top of the front cover, a few dozen pages inside describing that school’s program for that particular textbook’s subject, and a notice on the back that reads: “This book may not be bought or sold used.” Other than that, there’s not much difference between the customized version and the regular one sold outside the campus. Oh, there’s that little matter of the custom textbook having double the price tag of the regular version, but it’s all the same, right? Check out this WSJ report to see how the cover of Diana Hacker’s A Writer’s Reference looks like after the customization process.

2. Textbook Review Scam

Some textbook publishing companies go straight to the ones who actually require the students to use certain textbooks: the professors themselves. Textbook company North West Publishing did just that with Middle Tennessee State University history professor Jim Williams, when they offered him $2,500 to “review” one of its textbooks. As it turned out, they were asking Williams to do more than just say what he thinks about the book, which is priced at $70 at the campus bookstore. They were actually asking him to require his students to buy it, or he could forget about the money. And he’s not the only one who got this kind of an indecent proposal. More on this story here.

3. Los Angeles Unified School District Textbook Scam

In 2007, Matthias Vheru, a former Los Angeles Unified School District official, was arrested for allegedly issuing nearly $4 million in unauthorized textbook orders for a title he wrote.

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Yes folks, he’s accused of using his position as a supervisor of the District’s Central Office Mathematics Department to buy $3.7 million worth of his own Algebra book for use in District classrooms. Can’t blame him, really. After all, the 20 percent cut stated in his deal with the publishing company netted him nearly $1 million in royalties and fees. Click here for more details on this case.

4. The Book Buyback Scam

Sure, many college bookstores would argue that buying a used book for half its original price tag is not a scam, but just a proper way of doing business, the operative word here being “used” and therefore has a depreciated value attached to it. Tell that to the millions of college students around the country who have sold barely-used textbooks to school bookstores and got paid as low as 10-15% of their books’ original cost for their efforts.

5. Purdue University Student’s Fraudulent Textbook Selling Scheme at Half.com

Nicholas Baptist, a former Purdue University student, allegedly opened 384 fake bank accounts for non-existent employees and used them to open 568 Half.com seller accounts, where buyers sent in over $5.3 million dollars as payment for textbooks they’ve “purchased”. He then allegedly wired the money to accounts he held in Singapore and Malaysia. A Malaysian national, Baptist has been charged with 12 counts of wire fraud. He has since been believed to have returned to his home country. DOJ details of this case here.

This article on textbook prices exposes some of the other reasons textbook costs are high and what you can do about it.

Throughout its history, various cities and towns in the United States have implemented laws that are detrimental to women’s rights at best, and downright kick the entire feminist ideal back into the Middle Ages at worst.

Now some of the sexist laws listed below may no longer be in place, and we’re not really sure which ones are still being strictly enforced today, but the fact that they did were put on the books not too long ago should make an American think twice about ranting against some countries, particularly in the Middle East, that don’t treat their women all that well. The US, after all, also has its share of unfair laws against women.

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1. A woman caught adjusting her stockings in public in either Dennison,Texas or Bristol, Tennessee could get up to 12 months in the state penitentiary.

2. Michigan state law says women have to get their spouses’ permission to get their hair done because legally, their wives’ hair belong to them.

3. In New Mexico, women are strictly forbidden to appear unshaven in public. The waxing business must be pretty good there.

4. In Owensboro, Kentucky, buying a new hat without her husband trying it on first is illegal.

5. In Tremonton, Utah, it is illegal to have sex while riding in an ambulance. Fair enough, except for the part where, if caught, only the woman can be charged with a sexual misdemeanor and “her name is to be published in the local newspaper”, while her partner won’t be charged and will remain anonymous.

6. In Vermont, It is illegal for women to wear false teeth without the written permission of their husbands.

7. It is illegal for women to wear pants in the city of Tucson, Arizona.

8. A special cleaning ordinance was issued in Pennsylvania that bans housewives from hiding dirt and dust under a rug in a dwelling. No word on whether this applies to househusbands as well.

9. In Florida, a woman caught catching z’s while under a hair dryer in a salon will be subjected to a fine. The same goes for the salon owner as well.

10. Patent-leather shoes are a no-no for women in Cleveland, Ohio, for the reason that the shiny finish of the shoes could help a man catch a reflection of their more private parts, especially when they’re wearing skirts.

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11. In Memphis, Tennessee, women can’t drive a car unless “a man must walk or run in front of the vehicle, waving a red flag in order to warn approaching pedestrians and motorists.”

12. In Maryland, a woman may not go through her husband’s pockets while he is sleeping.

13. Unless she is married, a woman is prohibited from parachuting on Sunday afternoons. Whatever being married or just being a woman has anything to do with parachuting is beyond anyone.

14. In Missouri, four women may not rent an apartment together.

15. A state law in Illinois dictates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.

16. It is illegal for a lady to lift her skirt more than six inches while walking through a mud puddle in Michigan.

17. It is against the law in Oklahoma for females to do their own hair without getting a license from the state.

18. In Dyersburg, Tennessee, it is illegal for a woman to call a man on a date.

19.  A woman in Oxford, Ohio is forbidden from taking her clothes off while standing in front of a man’s picture.

20.  An old (and hopefully repealed by now) law in Little Rock, Arkansas states that a man is legally allowed to beat his wife, but only when he uses a stick that is no more than three inches wide, and only once a month.

If you think those people who are forced to eat gross stuff on shows like Survivor and Fear Factor are brave, get a load of these men and women who not only stuffed the most disgusting things into their mouths, but have done so in record-setting fashion.

5. Most Raw Kidneys Eaten

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Alice Caldwell of Butte, Montana, ate more than 14 pounds of raw veal and lamb kidneys on Oct 22, 1991.

4. Most Cow Brains Eaten in 15 Minutes

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On February 12, 2002, Takeru Kobayashi wolfed down a total of 57 cow brains with a total weight of 17.7 pounds within 15 minutes. That’s enough mad cow disease to last him two lifetimes.

3. Most Semen Swallowed

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Almost 2 pints of semen were pumped out of Michelle Monaghan’s stomach in July 1991. A hell of a gang bang it must have been.

2. Most Earthworms Eaten in 30 Seconds

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Imagine a plateful of spaghetti with each single noodle squirming. That’s what two-hundred live earthworms, each measuring at least four inches long, probably looked like when they were swallowed by India’s C. Manoharan within 30 seconds. Manoharan, nicknamed “Snake Manu” for the “snake flossing” trick shown in the above photo, set this record on November 15, 2003 at Chennai City, Tamil Nadu, India.

1. Most Cockroaches Eaten In One Minute

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“It’s like having an anesthetic at the back of the throat”. That’s how Ken Edwards of Glossop, Derbyshire, England describes what he feels every time he munches on cockroaches. He must have awfully numb then when he ate 36 cockroaches in one minute on the set of The Big Breakfast, London, England on March 5, 2001.

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It is not uncommon for people to keel over and die of a heart attack or a stroke during sex. In very much the same way that some drop dead while jogging or playing tennis, a lot of people have been reported to have bitten the big one in the middle of doing the best exercise of them all.

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There have been, however, actual cases of sex and death that are decidedly more bizarre and gruesome than your usual cardiac arrest. And probably more painful too. But then again, the fact that they died in the throes of ecstasy already guarantees that they’ve already gone to heaven, whether their souls are actually headed there or not.

1.  For Jose Agustin Noh, working at a funeral home had its benefits, namely, access to facilities that normal people wouldn’t dare imagine to have sex in, like hearses, for instance. But unfortunately for him and his girlfriend, Ana Maria Camara Suarez, their tryst inside a hearse ended in tragedy when carbon monoxide snuffed out their lives while they were sleeping their sex session off. As it turned out, the couple from Campeche, Mexico left the motor running in order to have air conditioning.

2. Kirsten Taylor, a 29-year-old woman from Pennsylvania, died when her husband Toby clipped an electrical cord to her and plugged it into a power strip which he then turned on and off during a night of bizarre sex, which apparently was a usual thing for the couple. No word on whether or not Mr. Taylor was plugged into his wife as he shocked her to death.

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3. A couple in Namibia were killed when an all-terrain vehicle and a truck ran them over as they were lying on the road. The driver of the truck claims the two were having sex right there in the middle of the road, “a typical example of people indulging in alcohol”, he says. See, sex and alcohol really don’t mix.

4. Here’s a real-life case of a man screwing a woman to death-literally. Robert Ashitey, a 30-year-old man from Aflao, Ghana, is one really horny dude. He didn’t realize his partner, a 75-year-old woman named Suametor Denou, had already died in the middle of their grueling sex bout, and continued pounding her hard. A woman who apparently takes care of the poor old lady had walked in on the scene and screamed at Ashitey to stop, but he continued going at it anyway. She had to whack him on the forehead with a stick to make him stop.

5. We’ve heard of thrill-seeking couples having sex in the most dangerous of places, but no one were as daring as Mduduzi Michael Bandezi and Sibongile Radebe, a couple who decided to go at it on a supposedly unused railway in South Africa and were promptly crushed by a freight train. The train driver repeatedly hooted but to no avail, as the two “continued with their business”.

It is interesting to note that Mr. Bandezi’s half-naked body was found with a condom still on. Good to know he practiced safe sex.

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6. Brent Tyler and Chelsea Tumbleston, both 21, fell 50 feet to their deaths from the rooftop of a building in Columbia, South Carolina. A cabbie found their naked bodies on the street, and subsequent police investigation revealed clothing was discovered on the roof, strongly suggesting the two were engaged in some mile-high, in this case 50-foot-high, club activity.

7. A man was killed after getting sodomized by a horse at a ranch in Enumclaw, Washington in July 2005. The man, whose colon and other lower organs were ruptured as a result of the fatal sex act, was actually a client of a bestiality ring that catered to men who wanted sex with animals.

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At its most basic, Halloween is really for kids. Some Halloween costumes that parents actually buy or make for their children, however, just aren’t. These costumes on these kids are just plain wrong, no matter how cute they look in them.

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Throw in an Uzi and the costume will be complete.

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On the surface, this costume is cute, until you realize it pushes the tastelessness envelope because parents are actually making fun of the baby’s normal bodily functions, and basically labels their kids as fart machines. And, whoopie cushions are supposed to be sat on.

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A kid dressed as Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, or any of the usual fantastical horror movie creatures is cute. Some child looking like an all-too-real evil doctor who experiments on or butchers people in the name of “science” is just plain sick.

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What kind of parents would want to see their children with killer aliens bursting out of their chests?

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There is something wrong with you if you think dressing an unsuspecting toddler up as Adolf Hitler is cute.

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This costume is wrong on so many levels, but let’s focus on the most obvious one: this is the sluttiest of the myriad slutty Halloween costumes that retailers are now peddling for kids. When was the last time you’ve seen anyone wear a French maid’s costume on tv or in movies or in magazines with no sexual overtones attached?

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Words fail me.

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