The daily weird news thread....

[Pappy]

I think we need this thread to be updated daily by anyone who can find the weird news that seems to be all the rage lately:p

Feel free to post your finds......and your comments;)

[Pappy]

MIAMI - Someone is killing the horses of Miami-Dade County.

Since January, police say at least 17 horses have been butchered, their carcasses left on roadsides or in stalls or rural pastures.

Police tiptoe around questions about who is doing the killing and why, but animal rights advocates believe the meat is being sold on the black market to people from other countries where horse is a delicacy.

"It's a real ugly problem we're trying to take hold of and eliminate," said Richard Couto, an investigator with the South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which has recently looked into six horse killings. "Extremely, extremely difficult to find the people that are doing the slaughtering."

Ivonne Rodriguez had never heard the horror stories, never seen the pictures, until her horse, Geronimo, disappeared from his pasture one February morning. She missed work to post fliers and canvass her neighborhood, asking others if they had seen the good-natured pinto who liked apples and was friendly around children.

A few days later, she got a call from her father. The horse's remains had been discovered under a palm tree, partially hidden by fronds. It had been decapitated and butchered, apparently by thieves who took its meat.

"Not only is it disturbing, it's hurtful," Rodriguez said. "It's a pet for God's sake. It's not been raised to suffer a death like that."

The killings have continued, the latest over the weekend. On Monday, Couto stood over a horse carcass with about 200 pounds of meat removed. Its owner found it butchered over the weekend, its cappuccino-colored foal alive and still nuzzled against its body.

The horse's remains were burned, but a nauseating stench still lingered around the body, which lay just a few feet from its old home.

Miami-Dade Police Capt. Scott Andress, whose agency is among those investigating the horse slaughters, said the cases are tough to solve because they usually happen in rural areas where there are no eyewitnesses. He said his officers are working to confirm whether the horse meat is being sold to consumers.

"We had received anecdotal evidence in the past that there might be some sort of black market activity," said Andress, commander of department's Agricultural Patrol Section. "We started hearing more about it after Jan. 11, which was the first case we got this year."

Couto says the black market for horse meat is both active and profitable.

"Miami-Dade and South Florida is a melting pot," Couto said. "We have a lot of people, we have a lot of international people, from Asia, Europe, South, Central America and the islands. A lot of these countries, horse meat for human consumption is legal. These people grow up eating this meat."

Investigators have discovered animals with slit throats and slashed tendons. Some have been stabbed to the heart, and some might have been butchered alive. The meat is often harvested in unsanitary conditions - on the sides of roads, in dirty barns, with tools that might not be clean - but Couto says some people are still willing to pay $7 to $20 a pound.

Horse thefts aren't unique to Miami-Dade County, but in other parts of the country, the horses are sometimes not seen again and it's tough to prove what happened to them, said Laura Bevan, director of The Humane Society of the United States' Eastern Regional Office. Not so here, where carcasses have turned up close to where horses were taken.

Until a few years ago, as many as 100,000 horses were killed annually in the United States for meat for foreign markets. In Florida, it is legal for horse owners to kill and eat their own horses on their own land, but horses cannot be slaughtered and sold to others for human consumption.

A 2007 federal court ruling closed the nation's last horse-processing plant, though some groups are currently pushing to renew the slaughter of horses in the U.S. Horses that are sold for meat are now sent to processing plants in Mexico and Canada.

In Miami-Dade, horse owners are still looking for answers. Two years have passed since Allen Owens' blue-eyed horse, Comanche, was found slaughtered in his stall. Owens' wife discovered the grisly scene in August 2007, when she went to feed the animal grain and hay at daybreak.

"As long as it's been since it happened, it just drags out really powerful emotions," he said. "I'm not a violent person, but you wouldn't believe what goes through your mind."

Owens believes thieves used a wheelbarrow to cart meat from the stable, out a wooden gate, past a red horse trailer, across another patch of land, and through a chain link fence before the reached a wooded area and a nearby roadway. Owens and his wife were left with Comanche's head and bones, which are now buried under a Florida Holly, a few feet from a round horse pen Owens fashioned out himself out of electric poles.

"It just was the most gruesome thing I had ever seen in my life," Owens said. "It's a memory that never goes away. I've learned to live with it, but it never goes away."

[Pappy]

CONCORD, N.H. - Prosecutors in Massachusetts say the woman found with an infant who had been cut out of her friend's womb had convinced her family and friends that she was pregnant.

Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. says Julie Corey's boyfriend told authorities that Corey was nine months' pregnant.

The body of Corey's friend, Darlene Haynes, was found Monday in her Worcester apartment by her landlord. Haynes was eight months' pregnant.

Corey had the 4-pound baby girl with her when she was arrested at a shelter in Plymouth, N.H., Wednesday. She is charged with kidnapping, but has not been charged in Haynes' murder. She is being held on $2 million bail in New Hampshire.

Early said authorities are still investigating whether anyone else was involved.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Prosecutors in Massachusetts say the woman found with an infant who had been cut out of her friend's womb had convinced her family and friends that she was pregnant.

Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. says Julie Corey's boyfriend told authorities that Corey was nine months' pregnant.

The body of Corey's friend, Darlene Haynes, was found Monday in her Worcester apartment by her landlord. Haynes was eight months' pregnant.

Corey had the 4-pound baby girl with her when she was arrested at a shelter in Plymouth, N.H., Wednesday. She is charged with kidnapping, but has not been charged in Haynes' murder. She is being held on $2 million bail in New Hampshire.

Early said authorities are still investigating whether anyone else was involved

[Pappy]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/29/stimulus-funds-art-houses-showing-pervert-revues-underground-pornography/?test=latestnews

http://www.examiner.com/x-17959-Weird-Facts-Examiner~y2009m7d28-Man-with-snakes-in-pockets-crashes-car

[Pappy]

Good lord...snakes in his pants:scary: What a dumbass!!!

[8my_Cash]

Michael Warner, 58,
passed away in May 2004 of acute alcohol poisoning (with a 0.47 blood-alcohol level) in Lake Jackson, Texas, from ingesting three liters of sherry wine, which entered his body by enema. His widow, Tammy, told authorities that he had been addicted to taking them since childhood and even had favorite recipes, such as enemas by coffee, by Castile soap, by Ivory soap. Said Tammy, "I'm sure that's the way he wanted to go out because he loved his enemas." Tammy was originally charged with negligent homicide for helping prepare Michael's fatal wine dose, but the prosecutor dropped the charge.
[Houston Chronicle]

[8my_Cash]

Marlon Moore, 39, was indicted in Miami in June in what the Internal Revenue Service said was a series of attempts to cheat the U.S. Treasury. Using several aliases, Moore allegedly requested bogus tax refunds in the amounts of $5.959 trillion, $2.975 trillion and $6 trillion. (Also, under his own name, he asked for a tax refund of $10 million.) [Miami New Times, 6-15-09]

[Ralph]

Repeat horse-sex offender caught having sex with horse again

A man was filmed having sex with a horse after the owner installed CCTV cameras in the stable - because the same man had previously been convicted of molesting the same horse.

Rodell Vereen, of South Carolina, was apprehended after the animal's owner caught the act on videotape, then staked out the stable and held him at gunpoint.

Vereen pleaded guilty last year to having sex with the same horse, and was sentenced to probation and placed on the state's sex offender list.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Repeat_horse-sex_offender_caught_having_sex_with_horse_again&in_article_id=711907&in_page_id=2

[Quad18star]

AP) Surprised tourists found their little piece of Cancun beach paradise ringed by crime-scene tape and gun-toting sailors on Thursday.

Environmental enforcement officers backed by Mexican navy personnel closed off hundreds of feet (dozens of meters) of powder-white coastline in front of a hotel accused of illegally accumulating sand on its beach.

Mexico spent $19 million to replace Cancun beaches washed away by Hurricane Wilma in 2005. But much of the sand pumped from the sea floor has since washed away, leading some property owners to build breakwaters in a bid to retain sand. The practice often merely shifts sand loss to beaches below the breakwaters.

"Today we made the decision to close this stretch of ill-gotten, illegally accumulated sand," said Patricio Patron, Mexico's attorney general for environmental protection. "This hotel was telling its tourists: 'Come here, I have sand ... the other hotels don't, because I stole it.'"

Patron said five people were detained in a raid for allegedly using pumps to move sand from the sea floor onto the beach in front of the Gran Caribe Real Hotel. The hotel is also suspected of illegally building a breakwater that impeded the natural flow of sand onto other hotels' beaches, he said.

An employee of the hotel's marketing office said nobody was available to comment on the allegations. Authorities said the hotel owner ignored previous orders to remove the breakwater.

A knot of angry tourists gathered around the closed beach.

Some were irked by the sight of police tape and "Closed" signs.

Maria Bachino, a travel agent from Rocha, Uruguay, said by telephone that she had booked a beachfront room in Cancun, only to find herself cut off from the clear, bathub-temperature waters that lure millions to Cancun each year.

"They promised us a beach," said Bachino. "This is very unpleasant, we feel bad. This is intimidating," she said of the armed navy personnel who participated in the raid.

Patron said he regretted any inconvenience for tourists, but said the government is planning projects to restore beaches throughout Cancun in an orderly, environmentally responsible way.

"I apologize to the tourists for this problem, but it is a question of enforcing the law," Patron said.

[Quad18star]

(AP) A game of Monopoly has landed a Michigan man in jail. WDIV-TV reported a 54-year-old man was playing the board game Saturday night with a female friend when he tried to buy Park Place and Boardwalk from her.

When she refused, Fraser police Lt. Dan Kolke told WWJ-AM he hit her in the head, breaking her glasses.

The man was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and battery.

[8my_Cash]

Originally posted by Quad18star
(AP) A game of Monopoly has landed a Michigan man in jail. WDIV-TV reported a 54-year-old man was playing the board game Saturday night with a female friend when he tried to buy Park Place and Boardwalk from her.

When she refused, Fraser police Lt. Dan Kolke told WWJ-AM he hit her in the head, breaking her glasses.

The man was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and battery.


"F*** this game! Its 3 in the morning, You Win Grandma!"

[Tommy Warren]

Originally posted by Quad18star
(AP) A game of Monopoly has landed a Michigan man in jail. WDIV-TV reported a 54-year-old man was playing the board game Saturday night with a female friend when he tried to buy Park Place and Boardwalk from her.

When she refused, Fraser police Lt. Dan Kolke told WWJ-AM he hit her in the head, breaking her glasses.

The man was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and battery.

did he get to pass go and collect $200?

[Quad18star]

Originally posted by Tommy Warren
did he get to pass go and collect $200?

Nope .... he got " Go directly yo jail, Do Not pass Go , Do Not collect $200"

[Pappy]

Good thing they weren't playing Clue:p