SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- A Tri-State woman is in critical condition Wednesday after police say her husband shot her while they were having sex.
Timothy Havens, 38, told Springfield police he was reaching for something on the nightstand when the pistol went off, hitting his estranged wife Carolyn in the upper chest. (Hear part of the 911 call)
Carolyn Havens, 42, is being treated at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.
This is isn't the first time there's been trouble for the Havens. Court documents showed Timothy served 60 days in jail for assaulting his wife and was ordered to go to anger management classes.
His arrest Tuesday for the weekend shooting was for violating a civil protection order that Carolyn had taken out against him earlier this year.
Bond was set at $75,000 after prosecutors asked for a high bond, "due to alleged prohibited contact between the parties (and) the suspicious nature of the circumstances surrounding (her injury)."
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This is precisely why I think anything that is not an actual pistol should not have pistol-like grips! E.g., hair dryers, electric drills, caulking guns, the Anal Intruder™, etc.
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"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad... BANG!!!"
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Once upon a time a condom over the barrel of the rifle was considered a good prophylactic for jungle mud up the barrel with subsequent backfire potential.
The British couple who became protagonists in the infamous Dubai sex on the beach drama said they plan to sue several papers over offensive coverage of the highly publicized story that captured attention throughout the country.
Michelle Palmer, 37, and Vince Acors, 34, said through their lawyer they will file lawsuits against newspapers that covered their case in a way that tarnished their image and will demand financial compensation.
Um, how exactly would one tarnish their 'image'?
Couple remain in Dubai
Their lawyer, Hassan Matter, did not specify the names of papers he will sue or the amount of monetary damages sought, specifying only that they have been widely circulated and the compensation will be beyond their financial capacity.
When asked why Palmer and Acors are still in the country after the expulsion verdict, Mattar said his clients are considering submitting a request to revoke the ruling passed after they were found guilty of committing public indecency, having sex outside wedlock, and assaulting a police officer.
In a highly publicized case the two were arrested in October after a police officer caught them having sex on a public beach, despite initially letting them off with a warning, a drunk Palmer assaulted the officer and called him a "f***ing Muslim ****."
Evidence of indictment not story
Mattar said he decided to take the case because the incident took place at night and the witnesses were standing at a distance from the couple and could not clearly make out whether they were actually having sex.
Mattar said that at first he refused to defend the couple, but after reviewing the case he felt the evidence used to indict them is not strong. His investigation also led him to believe that Palmer had a good reputation and never broke the law during her sojourn in the U.A.E. "Even if they did that (sex), we have to be merciful. Their culture permits it and the concept of public indecency differs from one society to another," he said.
Mattar praised the Dubai court of appeals for dropping the three-month jail sentence against the couple, a step he described as "rare and historic."
"This proves how fair the U.A.E judiciary is. It does not discriminate between defendants based on their nationalities and was not influenced by the falsities published in papers."
Mattar argued that the suspension of the jail sentence is almost like a not guilty verdict since it means the two Britons were not actually engaged in a public sexual act.
Moral and financial damage claims
The moral and financial damage inflicted upon the couple was severe, he added, noting that Palmer was sacked from her job as a publishing executive following the case.
Since her picture was plastered all over the newspaper she could not go out and she was not able to see her sick mother in the U.K. because of the travel ban during the trial.
As for Acors, the project he came to Dubai for was suspended and his business back in the U.K. suffered because he had to stay for the trial, said Mattar.
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I hope when they were getting it on at the beach, they did not expose themselves to pathogens from raw sewage dumped by tank trucks into the storm drains (see yesterday's story).
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i believe i would get my ass out of the MUSLIM country before i lost a part of my body for this indiscretion. they do seem too like too cut things off in that part of the world
Louisiana has displaced Mississippi as the unhealthiest U.S. state and other Southern states were close rivals due to high obesity and smoking rates in new rankings that deemed Vermont the healthiest.
The overall health of Americans remained static for a fourth year, according to an annual report issued on Wednesday assessing a series of measures also including binge drinking, health insurance coverage, air pollution, infectious disease rates, crime levels and immunization coverage.
Many Southern states were clustered near the bottom of the rankings. The region has some of the highest rates of obesity, which contributes to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some types of cancer, as well as high rates of smoking, which causes cancer, lung disease, heart disease and other problems.
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GolfBravoUSMC---your pictures, as clinically interesting as they are, gave me an idea. If we liposuctioned these beauties, we would have enough fat to render to solve our foreign oil import crisis. I did the math, and I figured that we could disconnect from Venezuela and Saudi.
My wife and I used to get a seal from time to time from hunter friends on the coast. There is lots of heat in seal blubber, so why not this.
The secret is to develop a safer, more efficient method of liposuction. The population would become healthier (well sort of....we need them to keep eating habits maintained to keep up fat production) and we would start a whole new domestic industry....Ima talkin jobs, people. And no bailouts.
Ima freakin genius....
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A 16-year-old Japanese girl signed with a regional baseball team Tuesday, becoming the country's first female professional baseball player.
Eri Yoshida, a knuckleball pitcher, will play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in a new independent league starting in April 2009. The team selected her last month along with 31 male players in the league draft.
"I still don't feel like I've really become a pro baseball player, but I want to do my best," Yoshida said at a news conference after signing her contract. "My specialty is the knuckleball, so I really want to be able to get batters out using it effectively."
Yoshida, who started playing baseball when she was in second grade, said she wants to emulate Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, who has built a successful major league career as a knuckleballer. She's got spunk. Hope she does well.
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Bobby Murcer said that trying to hit a knuckleball is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Bob Uecker would always say about being a catcher of a knuckleballer. It's easy to catch a knuckleball. You just wait for it to stop rolling and pick it up.
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Hopefully, her professional career won't end up like most of the Japanese babes on G4TV's Male-Female "NINJA" competition in Nippon, where the babes are basically there to show off their sexy slinky, "Look-at-Me", flashy or shocker etc. Costumes to Nation and World on TV before going down = failing in the first round???
* MORGAN WEBB w/SAMURAI SWORD > "KONICHIWA - BITCHES"!
Doesn't strticly fall under the rubric of "news", but there is an interesting video streaming on the website vbs.tv about the practice of ritual male circumcision in uganda. Its really graphic, so I probably wouldn't watch it at work.
Click link for gallery of burned-out and destroyed speed cameras in the UK. Somebody's been very busy--
I believe this is the same group referred to in this Rantburg article from last year.
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With a battery powered reciprocating saw, these little devices could be sawn off their pipe mounts, thrown into the back of a truck, and taken to the recycling center to be made into something useful.
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Ummm...240VAC across the pond.
Without adequate precautions, that could be lethal. 120VAC is lethal as well, but easier to guard against (except to the terminally stupid).
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I would assume that the perp would make a mock-up of the system and try it out first, to get the bugs out. I can see why the flambeaux option is presently done. However, that option is not carbon neutral, unless you get special liquid fuels, just sayin'.
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spray paint over the lense, or an aluminum baseball bat would do a number on electronics.
The Mad Scientist Bringing Back the Dead.... Really.
Mark Roth got the idea that deanimation really might be the better scene, and found himself in Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Now, Mark Roth is a scientist. He's not a philosopher or a crank. He proves things, experimentally, according to the scientific method. In 2007, he got a MacArthur, so he's a genius, certified.
Mark Roth is a scientist. But he's a scientist in the way that you used to want to be a scientist when you were a kid, with weird substances -- dangerous substances, toxic substances, indeed the most toxic substances known to man! -- bubbling away in his lab, rather than a scientist in the way that most scientists are scientists, with NIH funding, a stack of grant applications to catch up on, and a commitment to pursue the one or two ideas that got them that precious federal funding to the death.
Hey! I resemble that remark!
First, that some scientists weren't necessarily happy that he'd had success with RNA splicing; and, second, that the same scientists who weren't necessarily happy that he'd had success with RNA splicing wanted him to do RNA splicing for the rest of his natural life. Talk about weird...but that's not what convinced him to leave the campfire. No, what convinced him that he had to start going out into the woods and fetch his ideas from the darkness was...the darkness itself.
In 1995, Roth's wife, Laurie, gave birth to his second daughter, Hannah. She was born with Down syndrome and a heart with one ventricle. Mark Roth was thirty-eight years old. He was, by this time, a researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and if his daughter survived, he was looking at having a dependent for as long as he was alive. He met with Laurie and told her, Hey, whatever happens, life as we know it is over.
And then Hannah died. She died after heart surgery. She was just over a year old.
And then Mark Roth began to fail. Like, unequivocally. He was still doing experiments, he was still doing science, but it was as if he were experimenting with failure itself. He was committed to it. He didn't think there was enough of it. He was going to see where failure took him.
The first failure? Immortality. He'd gotten interested in the possibility of immortality. Just read it! It goes for a few pages but is worth it..
The zebra-fish paper was about stopping the heart of zebra-fish embryos. It was about switching their hearts on and off. The paper reported that the Roth lab was able to switch off the zebra-fish hearts for, like, nine hours before switching them back on again. I mean, those fish were dead....And so one day in 2001 Roth got a call in his lab. It was from DARPA. That's the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. That's the Pentagon's arm for applied scientific research and "high risk, high payoff" freethinking. It's a strange, oxymoronic place that, aside from the creative lethality of its intentions, might be Mark Roth's institutional counterpart. "Did you really do what you say you did?" the DARPA program manager asked Roth. When Roth assured him that yes, he did, and that what he was doing was trying to get people not to die when they have heart attacks, the DARPA guy said, Well, we're trying to get people not to die when they bleed out, and he started working on getting Roth paid.
POLICE have arrested 49 people this week in a northern Iranian city during a crackdown on "satanic" clothes, according to an IRNA news agency report. The measures are the latest in a country-wide campaign against Western cultural influence in the Islamic Republic, where strict dress codes are enforced.
"Police confronted rascals and thugs who appeared in public wearing satanic fashions and unsuitable clothing," Qaemshahr city police commander Mahmoud Rahmani told IRNA. Mr Rahmani also said that five barber shops were shut and 20 more warned for "promoting Western hairstyles".
In the past, such crackdowns have lasted a few weeks or months, but the current campaign was launched in 2007 and has not let up. It includes measures against men sporting spiky "Western" hairstyles or women wearing tight trousers and high boots.
Women are supposed to wear clothing that covers their hair and disguises the shape of their bodies. But some, particularly in cities, wear headscarves pushed back well beyond their hairlines and sport tight-fitting outfits.
Some analysts say the authorities fear such open acts of defiance against the Islamic Republic's values could escalate if they go unchecked. This worries them when Iran is under pressure from the West over its disputed nuclear work, they say.
"Some individuals, not knowing what culture they are imitating, put on clothing that was designed by the enemies of this country," Rahmani said. "The enemies of this country are trying to divert our youth and breed them the way they want and deprive them of a healthy life."
Mr Rahmani did not say how the offenders would be punished. Usual penalties are a warning or a fine.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has in the past suggested Iran's enemies may try to stage a "soft" or "velvet" revolution by infiltrating corrupt culture or ideas.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The British couple who became protagonists in the infamous Dubai sex on the beach drama said they plan to sue several papers over offensive coverage of the highly publicized story that captured attention throughout the country. 
