whiterose 01-10-2006, 08:09 PM Woman Dead Since 2003 Left Sitting at TV
By TERRY KINNEY, AP
CINCINNATI (Jan. 10) - The mummified body of a woman who didn't want to be buried was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death, authorities said.
Johannas Pope had told her live-in caregiver that she didn't want to be buried and planned on returning after she died, Hamilton County Coroner O'Dell Owens said Monday.
Pope died in August 2003 at age 61. Her body was found last week in the upstairs of her home on a quiet street. Some family members continued to live downstairs, authorities said. No one answered the doorbell at Pope's home Monday afternoon.
It could take weeks to determine Pope's cause of death because little organ tissue was available for testing, Owens said.
An air conditioner had been left running upstairs, and that allowed the body to slowly mummify, he said. The machine apparently stopped working about a month ago, and the body began to smell.
"Standing outside, one could smell death," Owens said.
Police went to the house last Wednesday after receiving a call from a relative who hadn't seen Pope in years. They found a staircase behind a door blocked by a basket and climbed to the second floor, where they found the body.
It was not clear if any crimes were committed, Owens said.
Authorities did not identify the caregiver, a women in her 40s who apparently lived in the home with Pope, Pope's daughter and her 3-year-old granddaughter.
"The caregiver is not someone you'd think was from another planet or really seems off the wall - (she's) a pretty normal kind of person," he said. "But I think out of loyalty, friendship and love of her friend, (she) decided to keep the body at home."
01/10/06 9 EST
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Harrison 01-10-2006, 08:12 PM Whiterose,
That just gave me the creeps. *shudder*
Enoch_Cain 01-10-2006, 08:12 PM and they say kids watch too much tv....
whiterose 01-10-2006, 08:13 PM Man Gets Stuck in Washing Machine
AP
SYDNEY, Australia (Jan. 9) - An Australian man had to be rescued after becoming wedged in a washing machine while playing with his children, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Robin Toom, 38, had to be pulled from the 18-pound capacity machine by a local fire officer after he became trapped while playing hide-and-seek with his children, Sydney's The Daily Telegraph reported.
"I just hopped in there and couldn't even get the lid down and the kids came in and said, 'Ha, ha! We found you,"' Toom told the newspaper.
Toom, who lives in the northern Queensland city of Townsville, waited for an hour with his knees pressed to his chest before being rescued by local fire squad member Dave Dillon, the newspaper said.
Rather than dismantling the washer, Dillon reached into the machine and pulled out Toom's wedged foot.
Toom said he was planning to change the rules of hide-and-seek for his children.
"I hope they don't go hiding in any washing machines now," Toom said.
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whiterose 01-10-2006, 08:19 PM and they say kids watch too much tv....
.......LOL :D
whiterose 01-10-2006, 08:20 PM 'FINDME' Plate Dooms Alleged Bank Robber
AP
NORFOLK, Neb. (Jan. 5) - Arlie Bichlmeier's personalized license plate reads "FINDME." Thanks to the plate, authorities did find him about 90 minutes after he allegedly tried to rob the Security National Bank branch in Laurel on Wednesday.
Bichlmeier, 58, walked into the bank about 9:30 a.m. and indicated his intention to rob the facility, the State Patrol said. There was no weapon shown and the suspect fled the bank without any money, the Patrol said.
Witnesses described the suspects vehicle as a 1994 Black GMC pickup, specifically the eye-catching "FINDME" plate.
At about 11 a.m., the Patrol and Norfolk Police Department located a vehicle and suspect matching the description in a parking lot.
Bichlmeier, of Norfolk, was questioned and arrested. He was lodged in the Cedar County Jail on charges of attempted robbery and making terrorist threats.
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Ray 59 01-10-2006, 08:30 PM Katrina,
I look at your avatar then read these stories and think what a great tv reporter you would make! lol!!! :p
whiterose 01-10-2006, 08:37 PM Katrina,
I look at your avatar then read these stories and think what a great tv reporter you would make! lol!!! :p
LOL. I'll keep that in mind as my possible next career. :p
submart 01-11-2006, 05:55 PM Interesting stuff!! :)
whiterose 01-21-2006, 02:37 PM Hamster and Snake Forge Unlikely Friendship
TOKYO (Jan. 19) - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a four-foot rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster - whose name means "meal" in Japanese - to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice
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But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.
"I've never seen anything like it. Gohan sometimes even climbs onto Aochan to take a nap on his back," Yamamoto said.
Aochan, a 2-year-old male Japanese rat snake, eventually developed an appetite for frozen rodents but has so far shown no signs of gobbling up Gohan - despite her name.
"We named her Gohan as a joke," Yamamoto chuckled. "But I don't think there's any danger. Aochan seems to enjoy Gohan's company very much."
The Tokyo zoo also keeps a range of mostly livestock animals, and promotes "cross-breed interaction," according to Yamamoto.
But Gohan and Aochan's case was "was a complete accident," Yamamoto said.
01-19-06 08:12 EST
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whiterose 01-21-2006, 02:41 PM Mom Left Kids Alone to Attend Springer Show
AP
WHEATON, Ill. (Jan. 21) - A woman got a 30-day jail sentence for leaving her three young children home alone for several hours while she and her boyfriend attended a videotaping of "The Jerry Springer Show."
Shannon Cook, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this week to misdemeanor child endangerment. She also was placed on probation for a year.
"It was an appropriate sentence, given what she did," said DuPage County Assistant State's Attorney Joseph Ruggiero.
The two girls and one boy, all under the age of 4, have been placed in foster homes by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Police said Cook left the children alone at a suburban home Oct. 19 while she and her boyfriend went to Chicago for the taping. About five hours later, the two oldest knocked on the door of a neighbor, who called police.
Cook was arrested when she returned home after midnight. According to a police report, she said: "I didn't think I'd be gone that long."
:rolleyes:
whiterose 01-21-2006, 02:44 PM How sad. :(
Dead Man May Have Sat on Subway for Hours
AP
NEW YORK (Jan. 20) - A man was found dead on a New York City subway car during morning rush hour, and his lifeless body may have ridden on the train for about six hours.
The body of Eugene Reilly, 64, was discovered shortly after 7 a.m. Thursday in the last car of the Q subway train in the 14th Street-Union Square station, said James Anyansi, a NYC Transit spokesman.
The train was evacuated while emergency medical technicians were called to the scene.
There were no signs of foul play or injuries, and an autopsy was scheduled to determine the cause and time of death, authorities said.
Reilly, a Postal Service employee, typically worked a 4 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. shift as a mail handler in midtown Manhattan. If Reilly left work at the usual time and died during the 35-minute trip home to Brooklyn, then his body could have been on the train for more than six hours before being noticed.
In June 1999, the body of a man was found on a No. 1 train. He apparently had been dead for five hours before anyone noticed.
whiterose 01-21-2006, 02:50 PM Man Trapped in Public Toilet
AP
BERLIN (Jan. 20) - When a 58-year-old motorist nipped into a German highway rest stop public toilet to answer the call of nature Friday morning, he had no idea how cruel nature could be.
Off highway A6 near the town of Lichtenau in Bavaria, which has been experiencing cold weather and snow over the past few days, the man found himself trapped in the toilet stall after the lock froze while he was inside.
Unable to pry the door open, the man finally was able to explain his predicament when someone occupied the stall next to him and get them to call police on a cell phone.
After about an hour in the chilly cell, police were able to get the door open and free the man, whom they described about "thoroughly frozen through, but in good general health."
CabinFever 01-21-2006, 02:55 PM Hamster and Snake Forge Unlikely Friendship
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I love this, Whiterose!!! Thanks for posting this bit of news. Animals never cease to surprise me.
Flyer 01-21-2006, 03:56 PM Woman Dead Since 2003 Left Sitting at TV
This sounds too much like the movie "Psycho" and way too much like an urban legend. I doubt that an air conditioned room is enough to mummify a body and, further, if a body were mummified, then, that's like freeze-dried, it ain't going to smell when the air conditioner is off. But, then, what do I know. Stranger things have happened.
greeneyedgirl 01-21-2006, 04:52 PM News that makes you think you're normal....i LOVE it!
suicideblonde 01-21-2006, 05:07 PM Very cute and appropos response as I often feel the same way! But I feel like I am going through a "strange but true" episode as well....called WEATHER! Last Saturday, freezing so sweaters, socks and a fireplace...and today 82, in my swim suit doing much needed yard work raking dead brown leaves and pulling new green weeds and I get a sunburn! What is with that!
Flyer 01-21-2006, 05:31 PM Very cute and appropos response as I often feel the same way! But I feel like I am going through a "strange but true" episode as well....called WEATHER! Last Saturday, freezing so sweaters, socks and a fireplace...and today 82, in my swim suit doing much needed yard work raking dead brown leaves and pulling new green weeds and I get a sunburn! What is with that!
I don't know. Same kind of thing happening here in California. One day it's winter, the next day it's summer. Personally, I think the world is cycling and we're headed into a new ice age. Oh, wait! Can't be, I forgot the glaciers are melting. Back to don't know what's happening??? Anyway, I can't enjoy any of it since I'm sittin' at home right now with a miserable cold. :(
greeneyedgirl 01-21-2006, 06:17 PM yeah, what IS with the strange but true weather? :confused:
2 weeks ago, i was in shorty shorts and a spaghetti strap tank top and 2 days later i was in a hoodie and jeans with a t-shirt underneath the hoodie to trap heat.
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