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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Malicious Castration; no weapons, just hands
Lillington Police Chief Frank Powers said Thursday that his officer reported a disturbing scene at a home Sunday night where a Lillington woman tried to castrate a man. The scene of the crime was a bloody one, where Rebecca Arnold Dawson, 34, of Stockyard Road in Lillington, tried to cut off the genitals of Kevin Russ with her hands.

Chief Powers said officer R.D. Bass was responding to a domestic call at the home on Summerville Mamers Road when he discovered the situation. He found witnesses and participants on the scene who were intoxicated. Mr. Russ was in obvious distress and pain.

Chief Powers said during his years at the Harnett County Sheriff's Office, he has never witnessed anything as brutal as a castration incident. "I have seen a lot of things, but I can't imagine anything worse than that," Chief Powers said.

Ms. Arnold was allegedly arguing with Mr. Russ' girlfriend at the time of the incident.

Mr. Russ was taken to Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital in Dunn where he was treated and released.
Treated and released? Treated how?
Ms. Arnold appeared in court Wednesday on four charges, of malicious castration, assault causing serious bodily injury, malicious conduct by a prisoner and injury to personal property. She was initially taken to the Harnett County Jail and then released on a $50,000 bond. She will go back to court Jan. 17.
Posted by: Classer || 12/30/2006 07:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Eeep! (hand cups the jewls nervously)

I wonder if alcohol was involved?
Posted by: N guard || 12/30/2006 10:48 Comments || Top||

#2  The hospital probably used some in cleaning him up, #1 N guard.

That help?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 12/30/2006 11:29 Comments || Top||

#3  ...tried to cut off the genitals of Kevin Russ with her hands.
Who is she? Edwarda scissorhands?
Posted by: GK || 12/30/2006 11:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Gives real meaning to the boast "I'm going to rip your balls off." Oooohh, damn, the pain. Does this woman not know what razor blades are ? Some sympathy for the victim please.
Posted by: SpecOp35 || 12/30/2006 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Mr. Russ was in obvious distress and pain.

Glad they cleared that up - I was wondering if it might have hurt.

/cringing sarcasm
Posted by: xbalanke || 12/30/2006 15:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Now this is just DS.


Deir Stuff
Posted by: Shipman || 12/30/2006 18:51 Comments || Top||

#7  "Malicious Castration"

I suppose that distinguishes it from "friendly castration", "casual castration", "mistaken castration", "official castration", and "fishing accident".
Posted by: Anonymoose || 12/30/2006 19:28 Comments || Top||


Britain
Muslims 'refuse anti-MRSA gel'
Some Muslims are undermining the battle to rid Britain’s hospitals of killer infections by refusing to wash their hands when visiting sick relatives. Dispensers containing anti-bacterial gel have been placed outside wards at hospitals all over Britain in a bid to get rid of superbugs like MRSA and PVL. It prevents people bringing in more infections. But some Muslims refuse to use the hand cleansers on religious grounds because they contain alcohol. Health watchdogs are so concerned they intend to meet with NHS bosses in the New Year to try and hammer out a solution. NHS care assistant Theresa Poupa, 46, became aware of the situation while visiting a sick cousin at the London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green.
That's George Galloway's district, naturally...
She said: “I could not believe it - the signs are large enough and clear enough but they just took no notice and walked straight onto the ward. I was there almost every day for three weeks and I saw it repeated dozens and dozens of times. When I raised the matter with the nursing staff they just shrugged and said that Muslims were refusing to use the gel because it contained alcohol. They said they couldn’t force visitors to use the gel and I understand that — but I was astonished that anyone who didn’t wash their hands was allowed onto a ward. I know the dangers that bugs like MRSA can cause. They kill hundreds of patients a year.”

Michael Summers, chairman of the Patients’ Association, said: “I have been made aware of this situation during discussions with nurses and it is a very serious state of affairs.” Sun doctor Dr Carol Cooper, who practises in West London and works shifts in accident and emergency, said: “I practise in an area where the patients are largely Bangladeshi and some of them do object to washing their hands because of the alcohol. But it’s fantastically important.” Murray Devine, head of safety at health watchdog the Healthcare Commission, said: “The solution should be ensuring Muslims have access to soap and water. There’s no substitute for good old fashioned soap and water.”
Posted by: Seafarious || 12/30/2006 10:22 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We obviously need muslime only wards. I say we build them in Saudi.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 12/30/2006 10:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Health watchdogs are so concerned they intend to meet with NHS bosses in the New Year to try and hammer out a solution.

Ban people who refuse to disinfect their hands from hospitals. Problem solved.

The fact we are even debating this is a perfect demonstration of how fucking fucked we are.
Posted by: Excalibur || 12/30/2006 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  So they're not even allowed to TOUCH alcohol? I call bullshit on that one.

Beyond that, yeah, ban them. If they can't abide by sanitary regulations, they shouldn't be allowed in. If the PATIENTS pull the same crap, boot THEM out, too.
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 12/30/2006 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  This is dirt simple wash the hands with the goop or you can't come in. We are farked as a civilization if we let these thrid world backwards mentalities and allenist slaves take control of a public health issue because of some retarted PC type of reasoning.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/30/2006 14:53 Comments || Top||

#5  But your penis will fall off! Dunno what it does to the wymyns. Amen SPoD... Boggle.
Posted by: .com || 12/30/2006 14:54 Comments || Top||

#6  When I raised the matter with the nursing staff they just shrugged and said that Muslims were refusing to use the gel because it contained alcohol.What, that makes it okay?! As a nurse this just kills me, where are the 'top honchos' to back up the proper handwashing rules!
Let the choice be theirs to please the PC crowd;
If they don't wash their hands, they shouldn't be allowed in.
Very well said SPOD, it really is amazing that we're even having to debate this.
Posted by: Jan from work || 12/30/2006 16:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Can't get in the taxi if you have a pint. Praying??? on airplanes. Refusing to observe sanitary practices in hospitals. All symptoms of same bullshit. F**k your cab. Get off the gawddamn plane and walk. Haul the SOB's into the street before they infect the entire hospital. Stop this stupidity now.
Posted by: SpecOp35 || 12/30/2006 17:09 Comments || Top||

#8  I suspect this story, as hospitals are well aware that hand sanitizer is only recommended when there is no visible contamination; otherwise, you need to wash with soap and water.

For this reason, hospitals are full of hand washing basins, which are religiously inoffensive. It would not be inconvenient at all to ask them to wash their hands in the patient's bathroom. They also have large amounts of boric acid solution, which is a fine disinfectant, and about as toxic as ordinary salt.

N.B. Ordinary soap is just as good as disinfectant soap, in fact, perhaps better, as the standard disinfectant used in soap has lost effectiveness against many pathogenic bacteria. The difference in bacteria removal from the skin is about one-tenth of one percent difference.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 12/30/2006 17:39 Comments || Top||

#9  As a former phlebomtomist, how do the muslims handle the alcohol swab prior to venipuncture? Do they insist on betadine or would they rather just have the needle stuck in without cleaning? I would make sure the needed tip had a burr on it before poking these pricks.
Posted by: Robjack || 12/30/2006 19:44 Comments || Top||

#10  "Phlebotomist" & "Needle"
PIMF
Posted by: Robjack || 12/30/2006 19:46 Comments || Top||

#11  The Phlebotomist just might deduce,
If a girl is demure from her juice,
Or if she's a tart,
She's dumb or she's smart,
But it helps if her tongue it is loose.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 12/30/2006 22:55 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Afghan refugee stoned to death for killing boy
GHALANAI: An Afghan refugee who killed a 12-year-old boy was stoned to death by tribesmen in a remote area of Mohmand Agency on Friday. A few days ago, some armed men broke into Mirza Khan’s house, killing his son Shah Khalid and injuring his wife. The men were later identified as Imran Khan, the son of Muhammad Ror, and Zahir Gul.

The decision to kill Imran Khan in this manner was made by a tribal jirga in Baidmanai, where thousands of tribesmen pelted stones at him. The jirga also announced that no Afghan refugee would be allowed to live in Baidmanai and anybody found providing shelter to Afghans would be fined Rs 1 million. Another jirga would be held after Eidul Azha to decide the fate of others involved in the incident. There was no official comment over the incident.

Human rights groups oppose such executions in accordance with tribal councils’ orders. The acting chief justice of Pakistan, Rana Bhagwandas, told reporters in Karachi on Thursday the jirga system was “unconstitutional”.
Posted by: Fred || 12/30/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jeeeebus, that graphic! That's not funny, that's just sick!

heeheeheeheehee
Posted by: Shipman || 12/30/2006 7:13 Comments || Top||



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