One Way To Get Rid Of A Dead Beached Whale

Probably not the smartest way though.

R.I.P. Bea Arthur

Sadcakes.

Seriously, this is like when Estelle Getty and Tammy Faye died.

It's like losing a beloved pop-culture aunt.

What's even more creepier, is that I was watching 'Golden Girls' on Netflix earlier this morning before I heard the news.

Yikes.

Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes

Yikes.

'Jealous wife' charged after fatal genitals fire

Australian accused of setting husband ablaze after he hugged woman

'ADELAIDE, Australia - An Australian woman accused of setting her husband's genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair has been charged with murder.

Prosecutors said 44-year-old Rajini Narayan confessed to neighbors that she set her husband on fire on Dec. 8, 2008, after she saw him hug another woman.

She was initially charged with endangering life and arson but the charges were upgraded to murder after her 47-year-old husband, Satish Narayan, died from his injuries last week.

Prosecutor Lucy Boord said Narayan told neighbors she was a "jealous wife" but she hadn't meant to kill him when she doused the sleeping man's genitals with an alcohol-based solvent and then set him on fire.

Boord quoted Narayan allegedly saying: "I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else. ... I didn't mean this to happen."

The husband jumped out of bed and knocked over the bottle of alcohol, causing the fire to spread and resulting in 1 million Australian dollars ($711,000) of damage to their town house and an adjacent property, the Adelaide Advertiser reported.

Narayan was remanded in custody for psychological assessment and will reappear in court Friday. She has been charged with murder, arson and three counts of endangering life, as the couple's three children were at home during the incident.'

Ack!

La Bouche - 'Sweet Dreams'

She's dead:

'On the night of November 24, 2001, Melanie died in a plane crash of the Crossair Flight 3597 near Bassersdorf by Zurich in Switzerland.

She gave her final performance in Leipzig and then drove to Berlin where she took the ill-fated plane to Zurich for radio and TV appearances (among others, the broadcast "Die Bar" on TV3, which was canceled) to promote her new single Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming) and her album Ready To Fly (New Edition).

Wonderful Dream was a Christmas ballad recorded for a German Coca-Cola TV commercial.

Although Thornton's death occurred practically on the eve of that year's Christmas season, Coca Cola decided to stick with the commercial as planned.

It has also been used in Christmas Coca-Cola TV commercials in Germany, Ireland, UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

The original commercial has been aired in Germany every year since 2001 around Christmas time, and the song has been in the German single charts every year since.'

Melanie Thornton

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Franz Reichelt

This weirds me out.

Teen commits suicide in front of Webcam

People were watching through a body building Web site

'FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida - A South Florida teen died of a lethal drug overdose in front of a live online webcam audience 12 hours after he started blogging about his plan to commit suicide, an investigator said Friday.

Abraham Biggs, 19, died Wednesday from a toxic combination of opiates and benzodiazepine, a drug used to treat insomnia and depression, said Wendy Crane, an investigator with the Broward County medical examiner's office. At least one of the drugs was prescribed to him and it's unclear how he got the others, Crane said.

Some of those watching encouraged Biggs, others tried to talk him out of it, and a few were debating whether the dose he took was lethal, Crane said. It's unclear how many people were watching.

Biggs stated his intentions on a forum at bodybuilding.com, where some users said they did not take him seriously because he had made previous statements about killing himself, Crane said. Biggs posted a link from there to Justin.tv, a site that allows users to broadcast live videos from their webcams.

Someone finally notified the moderator of the body building site's forum, who traced the teen's location to Pembroke Pines and called police, Crane said. Biggs was dead by the time they got to his house around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Crane said. He had started blogging at 3 a.m.

"He was just seen laying on the bed at that point," she said.

Condolences poured into his MySpace page, where the mostly unsmiling teen is seen posing in a series of pictures with various young women.

A woman who answered the phone at Biggs' home and identified herself as his sister said the family was still dealing with his death and declined immediate comment.

Biggs' father, Abraham Biggs Sr., told ABCNews.com that he was not home when his son died. He said his son struggled with depression and had been prescribed benzodiazepine to treat bipolar disorder. Biggs had been "doing better," his father said. "He was a good kid."

The elder Biggs said he was upset that Justin.tv streamed his son's suicide live.

"There seems to be a lack of control as to what people put out on the Internet," the elder Biggs said. "There's a lot of garbage out there that should not be, and unfortunately this was allowed to happen."

In a statement, Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel said: "We regret that this has occurred and want to respect the privacy of the broadcaster and his family during this time."'

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UAV Predator Takes Out IED Emplacement Team With A Hellfire Missile In Iraq [Graphic]

Who's seen 'Catacombs'?

I have a question:

Was 'Henri' in on the whole thing, or just an innocent party goer who got stuck down there too?

I actually liked it.

It was kind of predictable, but I like the twist at the end.

But then again, I'm a sucker for unhappy endings.

Creepy

Dead man stands throughout 3-day wake

Ack!

"Bus Rage" Ads Scrapped After Beheading

Greyhound Nixes Ads Touting Peaceful Upside Of Bus Travel After Passenger Was Decapitated

'Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.

The ad's tag line was "There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage."'

Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said Wednesday a billboard and some tunnel posters near a bus terminal in Toronto are still up and would be removed later in the day.

"Greyhound knows how important it is to get these removed and we are doing everything possible," Wambaugh said. "This is something that we immediately asked to be done last week, realizing that these could be offensive."

Vince Weiguang Li, who immigrated to Canada from China in 2004, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean. He has yet to enter a plea.

Thirty-seven passengers were aboard the Greyhound from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, as it traveled at night along a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 12 miles from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. Witnesses said Li attacked McLean unprovoked, stabbing him dozens of times.

As horrified passengers fled the bus, Li severed McLean's head, displaying it to some of the passengers outside the bus, witnesses said.

A police officer at the scene reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police report.

Wambaugh said the ads only appeared in Canada and that some in Ontario and western Canada have already been removed. About 20,000 inserts of the Greyhound ads were scheduled to be put into an Alberta Summer Games handbook but they stopped the presses.'

Ack!

Zombies!

A dog's severed head maintains life with the use of an artificial heart and lungs.

Freaky.

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Bus Stop

Waiting for the bus the other day, I noticed that someone had tried hiding a bike in the bushes.

And not more then three feet away is a memorial cross for someone who got killed on the highway.

Snazzy

Illinois man orders custom beer-can coffin

Yikes.

'More important, there are real topics that get lost amid all the hand-wringing about indecency. Earlier this month Italian artist Pippa Bacca began hitchhiking from Italy to the Middle East wearing a wedding dress, for a work intended to foster "marriage between different peoples and nations." Bacca was picked up by a trucker in Turkey, who raped and strangled her, then dumped her naked body.

The conversation Bacca wanted to inspire about international unity has been overshadowed by her death, underscoring the difficulty for any artist to dictate the terms of discourse about a work. But even if it wasn't the conversation Bacca intended, the question of why a woman still cannot travel alone safely in much of the world seems a more valuable topic of discussion than whether a college student lied about her menstrual cycle.'

Art Aimed to Shock

What's in the box?

Ha.

'She had a previous cardiac episode in her 20s and was a poster child - literally - for juvenile diabetes, relatives and friends said. Efkarpides recalled seeing the poster featuring her on New York subways.'

Bride dies during first dance with husband

They stole my idea.

On someone's blog [I forget whose], there was a discussion on the best way to take someone out without leaving a CSI trail.

I suggested something natural like using a rattlesnake, or exploiting someone's peanut allergy.

Man sentenced for role in rattlesnake revenge ruse

'LAKEWOOD – A 57-year-old man who was accused of plotting to use rattlesnakes to kill a man who allegedly owed him money was sentenced on Tuesday for his involvement in the case.

Scott Storey, the district attorney for Jefferson and Gilpin Counties, says Herbert Beck was sentenced to five years probation for his role in the case.

Beck and his co-defendant Christopher Steelman were initially charged with plotting to kill Beck's business associate, Matthew Sowash, whom Beck claimed owed him $60,000.

Beck and Steelman were arrested in August by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Investigators say Steelman and Beck allegedly planned on locking Sowash's legs in a box filled with rattlesnakes and leaving him for dead on a hiking trail.

Both were initially charged with conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping, but those charges were dismissed by a judge.

Beck pleaded guilty to one count of extortion in November. On Tuesday, he was granted probation and 93 days in jail, which he has already served.

One term of Beck's probation is that he is not allowed to gamble. District Court Judge M.J. Menendez told Beck that based on his history and a pre-sentence report, it appeared he had a gambling problem.

Menendez then ordered Beck to undergo treatment for a gambling addiction and recommended a mental health evaluation.

Beck's probation also mandates that he not possess a weapon, or be around them, and he must stay away from known convicted felons and maintain stable employment and a residence.

Steelman, who also pleaded guilty to extortion, will be sentenced Feb. 4.'

Holy crap!

Sad and shocking.

Heath Ledger found dead in NYC

'NEW YORK -- Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan residence, and police said drugs may have been a factor. He was 28.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the Manhattan apartment believed to be his home. The housekeeper who went to let him know the masseuse had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m.

The Australian-born actor was nominated for an Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain," where he met his wife, actress Michelle Williams, in 2005. Ledger and Williams had lived in Brooklyn and had a daughter, Matilda, until they split up last year.

Ledger was to appear as the Joker this year in "The Dark Night," a sequel to 2005's "Batman Begins." He's had starring roles in "A Knight's Tale" and "The Patriot," and played the suicidal son of Billy Bob Thornton in "Monster's Ball."

Ledger grew up in Perth, and began doing amateur theater at age 10. At 16, he moved to Sydney to pursue an acting career, quickly landing TV movie roles and guest spots on Australian television.

After several independent films and a starring role in the short-lived Fox TV series "Roar," Ledger moved to Los Angeles and costarred in "10 Things I Hate About You," a teen comedy reworking of "The Taming of the Shrew."

Offers for other teen flicks came his way, but Ledger turned them down, preferring to remain idle than sign on for projects he didn't like.

"It wasn't a hard decision for me," Ledger told the Associated Press in 2001. "It was hard for everyone else around me to understand. Agents were like, `You're crazy,' my parents were like, `Come on, you have to eat.'"

His latest role was in "I'm Not There," in which he played one of the many incarnations of Bob Dylan - as did Cate Blanchett, whose performance in that film earned an Oscar nomination Tuesday for best supporting actress.'

Thanks to Clay.