A South African man who shot his pregnant fiance dead before killing himself will be posthumously married to her at the weekend.
When he sez "I do," that's gonna empty the hall PDQ...
Police Captain Mohale Ramatseba said David Masenta shot 25-year-old Mgwanini Molomo after a quarrel before turning the gun on himself. But Johannesburg's Sowetan newspaper said family and friends wanted to remember them as a happy couple destined for a happy life together.
"Like they had until he... ummm... blew her away."
The groom's corpse would be dressed in a cream suit and his bride's in a gown for the ceremony, at which a priest in the rural village of Ceres in Limpopo will bless the union before the two are buried after a two-week honeymoon in Jamaica, the Sowetan said. "In African culture, there is no death -- there is merely the separation of body and soul," said cultural expert Mathole Motshekga.
"... and the point where decomposition begins."
"It is also important because the families are married together. This does not mean the relationship has irretrievably broken down."
A Cobb County man is charged in a car wreck in which his passenger was decapitated. Police say John Kemper Hutcherson, 21, was driving under the influence of alcohol Saturday night when his truck struck a utility pole. His passenger, Francis Daniel Brohm, was partially ejected. His head was severed by the pole's support wire, police said. But police say Hutcherson continued home and went to bed, covered in blood. A neighbor walking with his baby spotted Brohm's body hanging out of Hutcherson's truck about 8 a.m. Sunday, said Cobb County police Cpl. Dana Pierce. Hutcherson was treated for dehydration before being booked at the county jail. He is charged with vehicular homicide.
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Man, that hadda hurt! Briefly.
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I've woken up with a regret or few, but... that... hell.
A California man who once tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS has learned the diagnosis made eight years ago was mistaken and he was never infected. Jim Malone spent years battling depression and losing weight, expecting to die at any time. He attended support group meetings and accepted free meals from an AIDS charity.
Tonight, he's getting laid... Four times.
Malone's main physician, Dr. Richard Karp, acknowledged the error in an Aug. 4 letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs clinic where Malone was treated. "As his primary care provider, I take full responsibility," the doctor wrote.
"Go ahead. Gut my bank account."
Malone, who is gay and has lost friends to AIDS, said he is relieved but angry at his doctor. "He told me, 'We made a very big mistake. We did not do our job,"' he told the San Francisco Chronicle. "I said, 'You mean to tell me that all you have to say is you are sorry? Sorry that I lived for all this time believing I was going to die?"'
You will eventually, guaranteed. Think of it as getting a few more years for free...
The Oakland Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating. The error may have occurred because Malone arrived at the clinic in 1996 with lab results from a testing firm showing he had HIV, said Karen Pridmore, spokeswoman for the VA's Northern California Health Care System. The clinic performed its own HIV test on Malone to confirm the first set of results and it came back negative, but that information was never shared with the patient, Pridmore said. The mistake was uncovered by the VA's computer system, which tracks HIV patients and conducts a periodic review of cases.
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Malone's main physician, Dr. Richard Karp, acknowledged the error
Doctor Karp? Sounds fishy to me. I hope he sues the fish doctor down to the boxer shorts.
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Good luck with the lawsuit, it looks like Karp's a VA doctor. That means a federal employee, only way would be under the Federal Tort Claims Act and Military Claims Act. I believe that only covers: Where the government has not provided adequate medical care; where federal employees, behaving negligently, caused injuries or where injuries have occurred because of government activities.
Since Malone isn't sick, he just was told he was, none of the above apply. Only case he has is mental anguish, and I don't think the government can be sued for that.
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Tonight, he's getting laid... Four times.
Whereupon an HIV test conducted in a week or so will come back positive, prompting the doctor to say.....
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