Free Barbecued Chicken in New York

Truck hauling chicken burns in town of Chili, NY

Nov 09 2012 

CHILI, N.Y. (AP) — Officials say a truck carrying nearly 40,000 pounds of frozen chicken went up in flames on its way to a supermarket in the New York town of Chili (CHEYE'-lye).
Fire officials tell the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester (http://on.rocne.ws/UzlUo0) that the truck was hauling chicken from Mississippi to the Wegmans Distribution Center just southwest of Rochester.

The truck driver wasn't injured. Part of the highway was closed early Friday while crews cleaned up.  Several spectators arrived with bottles of BBQ sauce but were not permitted to approach the wreck.

Lack Of Sleep Causes Jet Blue Pilot to Go Berserk in Cockpit

JetBlue pilot who disrupted flight to be freed but no more fly-boy!

Published - Nov 09 2012 10:22AM CST

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge ordered Friday that a JetBlue Airways pilot who disrupted a cross-country flight by leaving the cockpit and yelling about religion and terrorists should be freed rather than committed to a mental health facility.
Clayton Osbon was charged with interference with a flight crew for the March incident, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity in July. A forensic neuropsychologist testified in a short, unpublicized trial that Osbon had a "brief psychotic disorder" brought on by lack of sleep.
U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson said Friday that Osbon would be allowed to go free, but set certain conditions for his release. He will not be allowed to fly or board any commercial or private planes, and he will not be allowed to communicate with any of the passengers on the March 27 flight he disrupted, according to Robinson's order.
"This is a bad situation for you and your family, but you are fortunate to have the type of immediate support that you have," Robinson said.
Osbon's attorney, Dean Roper, said afterward that he didn't know if Osbon would fly again, but was relieved to have a months-long legal proceeding come to an end.
"It's been a long ordeal for everyone involved, especially Mr. Osbon."
Passengers said Osbon left the cockpit during the March flight from New York to Las Vegas. He ran through the plane's cabin yelling about Jesus and al-Qaida. The flight was diverted and safely landed in Amarillo, Texas.
After the trial, Osbon, 49, was sent to a prison medical facility in North Carolina for evaluation. Robinson was to decide what happened next for Osbon in August, but instead extended his evaluation period into October after being notified that Osbon had suffered a psychotic episode in prison. She did not say what the nature of the episode was, if it was connected to his previous disorder or what prompted it.
Neuropsychologist Robert E.H. Johnson had testified at the earlier trial that Osbon's psychotic disorder at the time of flight lasted for about a week afterward, according to a hearing transcript. He didn't say how long Osbon had gone without sleeping before boarding the plane, and his psychiatric evaluation of Osbon has been sealed, but he determined that Osbon suffered from brief psychotic disorder and delusions "secondary to sleep deprivation."
Those symptoms made Osbon incapable of understanding why his actions on the flight were wrong, Johnson testified.

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Mammoth skeleton found in France

Nov 07 2012 

Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — Archaeologists in France have unearthed a rather hairy fossil — a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth.
The bones — thought to belong to a creature that roamed the earth between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago — were discovered by accident during the excavation of an ancient Roman site 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Paris.
It may be only the third remains of a long-haired woolly mammoth discovered in France in the last 150 years. Such discoveries are more common in Siberia.
Archaeologists will try to establish the circumstances of the long tusked specimen's death: If it drowned in the River Marne or was hunted by Neanderthal Man.
It was a French scientist, Georges Cuvier, who first identified the woolly mammoth in 1796.

Granpa Got Run Over By a Combine

Man napping in field run over by combine, survives

Published - Nov 08 2012 02:04PM EST

Associated Press

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A man napping in a Montana cornfield was startled out of his snooze when he was run over by a large harvesting machine — and Yellowstone County deputies say he's lucky to be alive.

Sheriff's Lt. Kent O'Donnell says the 57-year-old man had been traveling the country by bus and decided to take a rest three rows deep in a field on the outskirts of Billings, the state's largest city.

A farmer harvesting Wednesday felt his combine hit something. When he turned the machine off, he heard screaming.

Emergency responders found the man's clothing had been sucked into the cutter, ensnaring him in the blades.

O'Donnell says the man, whose name was not released, suffered cuts requiring stitches and may need skin grafts, but given the circumstances is "incredibly lucky."

Dead End: Train Crushes Couple Having Sex

By Buck Wolf, About.com GuideSeptember 23, 2009

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Talk about going out with a bang.
Two South Africans were run over and killed while making love on a railroad track in Mpualanga Provence, ignoring shouts from the train's engineer, who saw them too late to stop.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene, and the woman died several hours later at a local hospital, according to South Africa's Beeld newspaper.

At the time of publication, the bodies had yet to be identified and relatives had not stepped forward to help with the investigation.
This much is clear: If neither of them heard the train, just imagine how great the sex must've been.

It's also possible both were deaf or had joined in a mutual suicide pact.

Seahorse On A Stick Chinese Food Novelty

Seahorse-on-a-Stick

Strange Olympic Snacks

Seahorses -- a snack food in China -- are sold on a stick, much like corn dogs in the United States.  They were first brought to attention during the Beijing Olympic Games in 2004.  Their popularity has not spread to the West.

NY man who lost leg in crucifix mishap sues church, for $3,000,000.

 Nov 07 2012 

 Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — David Jimenez was so elated over his wife's recovery from cancer that he offered to clean the large crucifix outside the Hudson Valley church where he spent many hours praying for her to beat the disease. On Memorial Day 2010, he was scrubbing grime off the cross when the 600-pound marble statuary toppled over, crushing his right leg.
The then-43-year-old immigrant from Mexico was flown to Westchester Medical Center, where doctors had to amputate his injured leg. He's suing the Roman Catholic church where he was hurt, and early next year his $3 million lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial.
"He attributed her recovery to his devotion to the cross and Christ hearing his prayers," Jimenez's lawyer, Kevin Kitson of White Plains, told The Associated Press.
Kitson said he filed the lawsuit in March 2011 after the church denied it was liable for the accident that resulted in six-figure medical bills for Jimenez. The bills were paid by charitable foundations, Kitson said.
The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in state Supreme Court in Orange County in January, Kitson said.
The attorney described David and Delia Jimenez as devout Catholics who immigrated to the United States from Mexico nearly 20 years ago. They have three children, ages 3, 13 and 17, Kitson said.
During delivery jobs for a bakery and a pizzeria, David would pull into the parking lot at St. Patrick's Church in the city of Newburgh to pray before the outdoor crucifix for his wife, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2008. When she was deemed cancer-free two years later, the grateful David received permission from church officials to remove trash from the area around the crucifix, and to clean the crucifix itself, Kitson said.
On May 30, 2010, Jimenez was standing on the crucifix's base, using rags and soapy water to clean Christ's face. While holding onto the cross beam for balance, the whole crucifix snapped off at its base, sending Jimenez crashing to the ground, Kitson said. Pieces of the crucifix broke off, but the bulk of it landed on Jimenez's right leg, crushing it.
Kitson said only a single screw was holding the heavy crucifix to its base.
"There was no anchoring system, just that one screw," he said.
The church raised more than $7,000 for Jimenez and his family, but Kitson said his client has been unable to work since the accident.
Frank Raia of Rikin Radler, the New York law firm representing the church, wouldn't discuss specifics of the case. The church is part of the Archdiocese of New York, which isn't named as a defendant in the lawsuit, Raia said.
"Although the archdiocese and St. Patrick's Church recognize and understand this was a terrible accident and they have empathy for Mr. Jimenez and his family, it's our position that of the diocese and St. Patrick's Church are not liable for the accident."
There was no immediate response Wednesday from Kitson's law firm to a request for an interview with Jimenez.