Eight-year-old shoots self with Uzi and dies

Boy fatally shot trick-or-treating

In the first story:

The boy was with a certified instructor and “was shooting the weapon down range when the force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he suffered the injury,” a police statement said. Police called it a “self-inflicted accidental shooting.”

Right! Why does an 8-year old need to shoot an uzi? Why does the general public need this type of training? The certified instructor didn’t think that the boy might not have enough strength to handle this type of weapon? I blame the parents.

In the second story, a kid just looking for some candy with his family gets blown away. What was the person inside the house thinking?

A 12-year-old boy trick-or-treating with his family in central South Carolina was shot from inside a home Friday and killed, and his father and brother were wounded by the gunfire, authorities said.

The shooting suspect, Quentin Patrick, was in custody, a jail official said. Patrick, 22, has been charged with murder and three counts of assault and battery with intent to kill. The jail official said she didn’t know whether Patrick had an attorney and his telephone number was unpublished.

I have nothing to add to this!

The seven words he can’t say, by the way, are “Shit Piss Cunt Fuck Cocksucker Motherfucker and Tits.”

Souce: Washington Post

George Carlin, 71, the much-honored American stand-up comedian whose long career was distinguished by pointed social commentary that placed him on the cultural cutting edge, died last night in Santa Monica, Calif.

His death was reported by the Reuters news agency and on the Los Angeles Times Web site. He had long struggled with health problems and a heart condition dating to the 1970s.

Carlin was selected last week by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize, a lifetime achievement award presented to an outstanding comedian.

Over a career of half a century, Carlin placed himself in the forefront of comic commentators on the American scene. He was particularly known for an album that referred to what he described as the seven words that could not be used on television.

The playing of the album on a radio station led to a case that went to the Supreme Court, and the material was judged indecent but not obscene. The legal controversy brought about the enunciation of a rule permitting a ban on certain material when children are most likely to be in the audience.
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The case was one of the highlights of a career that included TV and radio performances, including HBO specials and many comic albums.

The New York-born performer, who also was an Air Force veteran, once summed up his approach:

“I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.”

Carlin’s entertainment career began in 1956 at a radio station in Shreveport, La. while he was in the service.

In the early 1960s, he began his one-man act, and his live appearances and the albums he recorded proved highly popular.

His wife Brenda, predeceased him. They had a daughter, Kelly. A second wife survives him.

My money is on Britney Spears. Not sure if it will be suicide or accidental OD or a car wreck, but I am guessing it will be her. The stupid bitch can’t make it to court for the custody of her children without having some sort of breakdown. I haven’t been following her career suicide, but can’t avoid the headlines.

Bears eat man at beer festival – CNN.com
BELGRADE, Serbia Reuters — A 23-year old Serb was found dead and half-eaten in the bear cage of Belgrade Zoo at the weekend during the annual beer festival.

The man was found naked, with his clothes lying intact inside the cage. Two adult bears, Masha and Misha, had dragged the body to their feeding corner and reacted angrily when keepers tried to recover it.

“Theres a good chance he was drunk or drugged. Only an idiot would jump into the bear cage,” zoo director Vuk Bojovic told Reuters.

Local media reported that police found several mobile phones inside the cage, as well as bricks, stones and beer cans.

The father of Josh Hancock filed suit Thursday, claiming a restaurant provided drinks to the St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher even though he was intoxicated prior to the crash that killed him.

The suit, filed in St. Louis Circuit Court by Dean Hancock of Tupelo, Miss., does not specify damages. Mike Shannon’s Restaurant, owned by the longtime Cardinals broadcaster who starred on three World Series teams in the 1960s, is a defendant in the case along with Shannon’s daughter, Patricia Shannon Van Matre, the restaurant manager.

So, the restaurant is at fault for serving him what he asked for.

Other defendants include Eddie’s Towing, the company whose flatbed tow truck was struck by Hancock’s sport utility vehicle in the early hours of April 29; tow truck driver Jacob Edward Hargrove; and Justin Tolar, the driver whose stalled car on Interstate 64 was being assisted by Hargrove.

Eddie’s towing company is being sued for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Justin Tolar, who’s car happen to break down on the highway is somehow also at fault. What the fuck did he do?

The only one at fault here is the idiot baseball pitcher that obviously had an alcohol problem. I am glad it was just him and not a family on a weekend trip.

If I was one of the defendants, I would counter sue for stupidity.

Hancock’s father files suit (more)

Dropped charges infuriate family – Dateline Florida
“It’s absurd,” said Ervin Barfield, whose father died two weeks after the May 10 fight. “I mean, c’mon — a 72-year-old man against a 25-year-old guy? I don’t see where self-defense comes into it.”

There was certainly a physical mismatch, as the 6-foot-7, 240-pound Lambert emerged unscathed while the 5-2, 100-pound Barfield was later hospitalized with a broken jaw, injured eye and swollen brain.

AP Wire | 06/29/2006 | Boy, 12, dies after riding Disney World roller coaster
_June 29, 2006: Michael Russell, 12, of Fort Campbell, Ky., went limp while riding MGM’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster. He was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. An autopsy has not been performed.

_April 12, 2006: Hiltrud Bluemel, 49, a German tourist, died one day after riding on Epcot’s Mission: Space at Walt Disney World. A preliminary medical examiner’s report showed Bluemel died of brain bleeding. She also suffered from severe high blood pressure.

_August 4, 2005: Jerra Kirby, 12, of Newport News, Va., collapsed at the Typhoon Lagoon water park in Orlando and later died from arrhythmia caused by an early stage viral heart infection.

_June 13, 2005: Daudi Bamuwamye, 4, of Sellersville, Penn., died after riding Epcot’s Mission: Space. An autopsy determined that he died of an irregular heartbeat linked to an abnormal thickening of the heart muscle that can throw heart contractions out of coordination.

_April 30, 2005: Ryan Norman, 30, of Mooresville, Ind., who wore a pacemaker lost consciousness and later died at a hospital after going on the Dinosaur ride at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. A medical examiner’s report said the ride wasn’t related to the death.

_February 2005: Gloria Land, 77, of St. Paul, Minn., who was in poor health from diabetes and several ministrokes, lost consciousness after riding the Magic Kingdom’s Pirates of the Caribbean and was pronounced dead at a hospital. A medical examiner’s report said Land was in poor health from diabetes and several ministrokes.

_February 11, 2004: A costumed Walt Disney World worker, Javier Cruz, 38, of Orlando, Fla., was killed after being run over by a float during an afternoon parade.

_September 5, 2003: Marcelo Torres, 22, of Gardena, Calif., died when Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster’s locomotive struck a tunnel roof. The ride’s first car then ran under the locomotive and Torres’ body had to be extricated by paramedics. Ten others were injured during the incident.

_Between January and March 2003: An 81-year-old woman had a heart attack while on the Universe of Energy ride at Epcot and later died at a hospital.

_November 5, 2000: William Pollock, 37, of St. Petersburg, Fla. was killed on Splash Mountain at Walt Disney World after climbing out of his boat midway through the ride and being struck by another boat.

_June 25, 2000: Cristina Moreno, 23, from Spain, developed a severe headache after riding the Indiana Jones attraction at Disneyland . She suffered a brain hemorrhage and ran up more than $1.3 million in medical expenses in her native Spain before she died in September 2001.

_February 14, 1999: Raymond Barlow, 65, of Clermont, Fla. a part-time park employee, died at Walt Disney World when he fell to his death in the loading area of the Magic Kingdom Skyway.

_December 24, 1998: Luan Phi Dawson, 33, of Duvall, Wash., was killed when a metal cleat ripped loose from Disneyland’s 84-foot-long ship Columbia and fatally struck him in the head. His wife and a Disneyland employee were injured.

_May 16, 1995: Linda Elaine Baker, 4, from Galveston, Texas, slumped over and died while riding with her mother on Body Wars in Epcot. An autopsy concluded the ride did not contribute to her death.

_October 1989: A woman was killed in a boat collision in Disney World. No other details are known.

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