Post # 76
There are just a lot of very odd things I read about this week, from the mad scientist who wants to conduct human head transplants to some of the quick snippets I will write about today. Weirdness seems to come in waves. Police forces anywhere will tell you, for instance, that they have all the strangest cases around a full moon. It's a new moon this week though, so I don't know what the gig is. Maybe all this odd stuff happened on a full moon week, and the incidents are just getting reported now. I don't know.
If weirdness comes in waves, then this week is a veritable tsunami.
A woman in Seattle named Eliza Webb got her car broken into. There were a few things stolen, but the thief dropped his cell phone in the car while robbing it. Mrs. Webb scrolled through the contacts list and called the thief's mom. After a little embarrassment mom got involved in her son's rehabilitative correction. The son is 19 years old and still living at home. Apparently he and a friend got drunk (how many bad stories begin with "well me and my friend got drunk,...") and then went on a car robbing spree.
Eliza Webb and the kid's mom began by confronting the prodigal boy and broke him down to a puddle of tears. Then they made the two young men go to every person they had robbed, return the stolen property, and apologize. I think there was an offer of restitution too.
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Robert Vann Marshall of McMinn County Tennessee, an abusive man, was sent to jail for breaking an Order For Protection filed by the County Court on behalf of his wife. He had threatened to kill her over the order. After spending time in jail for it he was released and went straight to his wife's home. The wife called 911 as he was trying to break into the house. Mr. Marshall broke in successfully and his estranged wife retreated to a back room. While still on the phone with 911 she shot him dead with one shot (good shootin' lady! See, this is why we need to retain our right to keep and bear arms). This all happened in a little less than fifteen minutes after his release from jail. Officials are calling this a shooting in self defense.
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There could be a new member to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Avenger Initiative. Let me introduce to you Lady Hulk. Helen Stephens calls herself that because of a rare disease she has. Her disease has baffled the medical personnel working on her case. Whenever she gets upset about something, her muscles start to swell up and bulk out - in other words, she goes Hulk. She doesn't turn green though, so I guess that's a good thing. It just causes her a lot of pain, so maybe if she did turn green it would at least make the situation seem kind of cool. It would maybe distract from the pain a little.
Ms. Stephens has scars from the muscles ripping. From the description I read it sounds like she gets charlie horse in every muscle in her body simultaneously. Since the condition is activated by her getting mad or upset, the only thing she can do right now is stay as calm as possible (as the medical professionals can't do anything except prescribe pain killers after she has "Hulked" - they don't really know what she has let alone how to treat it), and avoid stressful situations. Maybe she should go have a shawarma. It wouldn't cure anything, but it would make the situation a little more bearable.
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The final story for today involves the Galaxy S3. They are in the news again, because yet another one exploded. What do these things have in them that makes them apparently achieve critical mass? Fanny Schlatter of Switzerland was at work with her Samsung Galaxy S3 phone in her pocket when it exploded. She suffered severe burns on her leg and had to have her pants surgically removed. This is the first injury caused by the Galaxy S3.
A man in Dublin had his Galaxy S3 explode in his car, and a south Korean man had the battery from his Galaxy Note just burst into flames. Over the years there have actually been several different cell phones that have exploded, and some of these have caused minor injuries.
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