Is it a Lurid Crime Tale? Or a Sign and Portent! Dentist wins case over tusks in mouth
OLYMPIA, Wash. - An oral surgeon who played a practical joke on his assistant, and got sued for it, ended up getting the last laugh Thursday.
Dr. Robert Woo, of Auburn, temporarily implanted fake boar tusks in his employee's mouth while she was under anesthesia and took photos that later made the rounds. The employee felt humiliated and quit, later suing her boss. Ha ha ha!
When Woo's insurance company wouldn't deal with the lawsuit, Woo settled out of court for $250,000 and sued the insurers. A King County Superior Court jury agreed with him and awarded him $750,000 dollars. Nice.
The insurance company won on appeal. But the state Supreme Court on Thursday restored the award for Woo. The court decision was 5-4. Well, I guess it goes to the 9th circut next...
Nope. The Ninth Circus (or any federal circuit court of appeals) only takes appeals from federal trial courts and the NLRB.
The only appeal from a state supreme court would be to the U.S. Supreme Court, and then only if a federal law question is involved and they feel like hearing it. This sounds like a pure state law question (contracts, or maybe state insurance tort law on bad faith denials of coverage), so this should be the end of the ride.
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A m I the only person who wants too see the pics?
Two years ago, Russell Tavares was a clean-cut 25-year-old entrusted with very high clearance in missile and fire control in the U.S. Navy, officials say.
Now hes the subject of a bizarre, tragic story one that McLennan County investigators say would be a fitting plot for a television crime drama about short tempers, long-distance vendettas and the Internets ability to bring various personalities into conflict.
Two local news helicopters crashed in midair early Friday afternoon in central Phoenix. One pilot and one photographer from each aircraft died when the helicopters collided over Steele Indian School Park. The helicopters, as well as those from other stations, were covering a police chase.
In the moments before the crash, the pilot from KNXV-TV (Channel 15), Craig Smith, was on the radio with the pilot from KTVK-TV (Channel 3). The inherent danger and periodic confusion of covering a police chase was clear even though you could only hear one side of the radio transmission.
Bob Smith of Phoenix was about 100 yards away from the crash having a picnic in the park with his construction workers. "I heard the pop. They (the helicopters) exploded and went down. Debris is all over the park. It's surreal and unbelievable. Black smoke is everywhere."
On a clear and warm day, there were many witnesses to the crash and the aftermath when both helicopters were engulfed in flames at the park near Central Avenue and Indian School Road. "It was surreal, it was like watching a movie," Chris Miller, a central Phoenix business operator, told 12 News. Another witness, Amber Eastep, told the station, "The two choppers hit and came down straight. There's 3 TV and then there's 15 and Fox 10 was just behind them. We thought it'd be all three of them (crashing)."
The whole incident began around noon. Police were in pursuit of a man they say stole a truck and then rammed into a police car. The television helicopters started covering the incident at some point during the pursuit. The suspect is now holed up in a west Phoenix house on the 2600 block of North 83rd Avenue.
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Living in the neighborhood, I long suspected that there was going to be trouble, because for big events there might be five or more helicopters in about 1 square mile of airspace.
And that is asking for trouble. In addition, there are Guard and Reserve helicopters, ambulance and rescue helicopters, and helicopter traffic from Sky Harbor. Noteworthy that to enter or leave Phoenix to the North, there is only one helicopter corridor.
The only local TV station that doesn't have a helicopter is PBS.
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It's so that they died for, well, nothing. If they'd been covering a terrorist attack or a riot or other major news, it would have been a tragic loss, but understandable.
But a car chase?
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There is no comfort in th method of their deaths. May the memory of the way the lived their live bring comfort to those they so unexpectedly left behind.
I knew it before I even read it...
THE call letters KUNT have landed at a yet-unbuilt low-power digital television station in Wailuku, Maui. A Lifetime affiliate? One of Oprah's stations?
Alarmingly similar to a word the dictionary says is obscene, It's in the dictionary?
the call letters were among a 15-page list of new call letters issued by the Federal Communications Commission and released this week. The same station owner also received KWTF for a station in Arizona. From Skokie, Ill., comes a sincere apology "to anyone that was offended," said Kevin Bae, vice president of KM Communications Inc., who requested and received KUNT and KWTF. It is "extremely embarrassing for me and my company and we will file to change those call letters immediately." I'm shocked by this! Shocked, I tells ya!!!
And by the way, that's not an apology: it's not an apology to say you're sorry if someone is offended, it's an apology to say you're sorry you offended someone.
He thanked your columnist for bringing the matter to his attention and pledged to, "make sure I don't fall asleep on the job when selecting call signs again." I'm shocked by this! Shocked, I tells ya!!!
The call letter snafu was a source of great mirth for Bae's attorney."I can't tell you how long he laughed at me when he learned of my gaffe," Bae said. Nice goin, Beavis...
Broadcasters for generations have joked among themselves about call letters resembling off-color words or acronyms knowing the FCC would never approve their assignment -- but that was before computerization. KCUF-FM near Aspen, Colo. got its F-word-in-reverse call letters in August of 2005 and has been on the air since December, "Keeping Colorado Uniquely Free," its Web site says. Kcufin A...
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In the SF Bay area that had KOME and they made the most out of the pronunctiation to make it sound like an ejaculatory liquid. I remember a station ad with Chevy Chase saying "don't touch that dial, it has KOME on it."
Heavy forbid if KUNT's program directors are immature.
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If they use these for VBIEDs will they be limited to only targets within three miles of the IED shop? Or will they take their chances of blowing up at whatever random location they break down? My vote is with the latter, since their attacks already seem pretty random.
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) - An explosion killed two people and critically injured four others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by the pioneering aerospace company that sent the first private manned rocket into space, authorities said. Aerospace designer Burt Rutan, who heads Scaled, told The Associated Press he had no information and was heading to the scene.
The blast at a Mojave Air and Space Port facility belonging to Scaled Composites LLC also left some toxic material, said Kern County fire Capt. Doug Johnston. Video news helicopters showed wrecked equipment and vehicles at the airport in the high desert north of Los Angeles near Edwards Air Force Base. The blast site was in a remote unpaved section of the airport.
The accident involved nitrous oxide, but it was not known if an actual rocket motor test was under way or whether it occurred during preparation for a test, fire Inspector Tony Diffenbaugh told KABC-TV. Scaled uses nitrous oxide as an oxidizer in its rockets, which are tested at the airport. An oxidizer provides the oxygen that rocket fuel needs to burn. Scaled's Web site notes that ``temperatures and pressures must be carefully controlled'' during oxidizer transfers.
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Rutan has since been developing SpaceShipTwo for entrepreneur Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic...
Hey, we found a job for his other friends "The Elders".
Test pilots...
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