Posted in Random Crap on May 24th, 2009
Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand – and pushed him off the ledge.
Chen fell 26 feet onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion laid out by authorities and survived, suffering spine and elbow injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.
Chen Fuchao, right, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by Lai Jiansheng, left, came up, shook his hand and pushed him off the ledge in Guangzhou, China. (AP Photo) Read more... (387 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)
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Posted in Scored Deaths on May 9th, 2009
The waiver wire worked for two players, with their April 1st pick-up of Chuck Daly scoring today for 48 points each. Congrats to GoFish, and me on my #2 list.
Chuck Daly, who coached the original Dream Team to the Olympic gold medal in 1992 after winning back-to-back NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons, died at age 78 Saturday morning.
He was renowned for his ability to create harmony out of diverse personalities at all levels of the game, whether they were Ivy Leaguers at Pennsylvania, Dream Teamers Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley, or Pistons as dissimilar as Dennis Rodman and Joe Dumars. Read more... (167 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)
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Posted in Scored Deaths on May 5th, 2009
Ben nails a solo shot! Congrats, Ben (I’ll get scoring up to date tonight).
Brooklyn-born Dom DeLuise, the roly-poly movie foil to best buddy Burt Reynolds during a comedic career that spanned the last half-century, died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 75.
DeLuise, also a regular in director Mel Brooks’s acclaimed comedies, passed away in his sleep at a Los Angeles hospital, according to TMZ.com.
“I was dreading this moment,” Reynolds said in a statement to “Entertainment Tonight.”
I bet not even half as much as Dom was, Burt old buddy.
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Posted in Random Crap on May 2nd, 2009
It’s only a matter of time before the zombies start taking over our world. In a verified story on BBC News, there are substantiated reports of “zombism” in the UK.
Similar to a scare originally found in Cambodia back in 2005, victims of a new strain of the swine flu virus H1N1 have been reported in London.
After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of it’s victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”
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