Thursday, June 22, 2006
A study of N.Y. women finds it's virtue - not vice - you'll regret.
Have that extra cookie. Sleep with him on the first date. Call in sick, even if it's for a sample sale. ou won't regret any of it, says a new study; rather it's salads, celibacy and soldiering through the flu that will bring you down. The report by Ivy League professors claims that when you hit 80 and look back on life, it's your virtues, not your vices, that you'll resent. Good girls are full of regret; bad girls have nothing but great memories. Penelope (not her real name), 27, would agree; the Manhattan artist is a true good-bad girl. "I am the only person I know that doesn't have any regrets. I lost my virginity when I was 12, I buzzed my head with clippers when I was 16." She has had dozens of scandalous love affairs and even managed to get a tattoo at 14. Her most outrageous escapade? "My mom is my best friend, and we've gone hot-tubbing with mutual acquaintances together," she says, giggling. Penelope's live-out-loud mantra is endorsed by the study, to be published this September in the Journal of Consumer Research (University of Chicago Press). Co-authored by Dr. Ran Kivetz from the Columbia Business School and grad student Anat Keinan, it explains that while conventional wisdom says we all have a hard time doing the right thing, the reverse is actually true.
FBI probing how sex-for-drugs arrest became jail shootout
A prison guard's unauthorized gun is at the center of an FBI investigation into how a routine arrest Wednesday turned into a gunbattle that killed a federal agent and the guard. The shootout broke out at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, when federal agents tried to arrest six guards on charges they traded drugs for sex, officials said. One corrections officer began shooting, and federal agents returned fire, killing the gunman, the FBI said. An agent with the Office of Inspector General died in the shootout and a Bureau of Prisons official was wounded. "It just didn't come down exactly as planned," said FBI agent Michael Folmar. "This arrest situation was done in a manner to be very controlled in a situation where nobody would have any weapons and we could take this down so there wouldn't be any violence." Authorities say that plan worked with five of the guards, who were arrested without incident. But the sixth used his personal gun. A Bureau of Prisons statement said the guard -- identified as Ralph Hill -- "retrieved a personally owned weapon and shot at federal officers who were participating in the arrest."
“Crazy Chess Player” Serial Killer Confesses to 61 Murders
A serial killer detained in Moscow has confessed to killing 61 people of the 64 he was planning to kill — one murder for each of the chessboard checks.Alexander Pichushkin, 32, a shop assistant, has claimed to be the notorious Bitsa Park serial killer, who Moscow police have been tracking down for more than half a year, Kommersant daily reports. Pichushkin, who has already been nicknamed “Crazy Chess Player”, said he had initially planned to commit 64 murders, one for each of the chessboard checks. He also said there were three checks vacant, thus admitting to have killed 61. However the police have found only 14 bodies in the Bitsa Park in the suburbs of Moscow, and the investigators doubt the detainee’s testimony, since he cannot remember where he had hid the rest 47 corpses. Pichushkin was detained on June 18, on suspicions of killing his co-worker whose body was found in a spring in the park. He admitted his guilt and gave to the police the hammer he had killed the woman with.
Couple Arrested For Chaining Girl To Bed
A mother and her boyfriend were arrested Wednesday for allegedly keeping her daughter chained to a bed for three days. Baltimore Police tell WJZ.COM the couple was upset because the teenager brought home a bad report card. A young boy heard the 15-year-old's cries for help as he walked by her bedroom window this morning. Kenya Lincoln was freed Monday by police who were called by the 10-year-old boy, Dion Gram, who ran to a neighbor's house after hearing Lincoln's screams. "She told me she was stuck in her room. I thought she just meant the door was pinned," Gram told The Baltimore Examiner. "What I found out that happened is crazy." Officer Fugiki Berry said he heard a voice cry, "Help, I'm up here," after he entered the house.
Reasons why you shouldn't hang yourself from the sprinkler during sex
A man and a woman were in jail Saturday on charges that their romantic adventure flooded several rooms at an island motel. According to a police report, officers were called to the Comfort Inn in the 100 block of Seawall Boulevard just before 11 p.m. Friday. Officers said the hotel’s sprinkler system had broken, flooding at least eight rooms and causing an estimated $15,000 in damage. Police said a search of the room with the broken pipe turned up drug paraphernalia and a number of sex toys. “At first, they both denied knowing anything about the damage, but they couldn’t get around the fact that their room was filled with sex toys,” said Bret Griffin, an assistant district attorney.Griffin said the couple eventually admitted tying a rope around the man’s neck and attaching it to the sprinkler system. “They thought the pipe would support the man’s weight,” Griffin said. “That proved to be wrong.”The 45-year-old Arcadia man was held on $3,500 bond Saturday afternoon on charges of criminal mischief and possession of marijuana. His companion, a 35-year-old Santa Fe woman, was held on $2,000 bond on a charge of criminal mischief."
Paris Hilton Should Be Shot
Reports are saying that Paris Hilton ordered her helicopter pilot to make an emergency landing on a German farm, so she could use the toilet. Paris even got her security to stop the family from entering their own bathroom so she could relieve herself in peace. A source told Britain's More magazine: "She gave the farmer a bit of a shock. Her bouncers even blocked the farm door so the family couldn't go inside their own house while she was using the toilet." The farmer said: "She was cold as a fish, and cursed about the weather."
12 Valid Reasons Not To Come In To Work
1. I can't come in to work today because I'll be stalking my previous boss, who fired me for not showing up for work. OK?
2. When I got up this morning, I took two Ex-lax in addition to my Prozac. I can't get off the john, but I feel good about it.
3. My mother-in-law has come back as one of the Undead and we must track her to her coffin to drive a stake through her heart and give her eternal peace. One day should do it.
4. I can't come to work today because the EPA has determined that my house is completely surrounded by wetlands and I have to arrange for helicopter transportation.
5. If it is all the same to you I won't be coming in to work.
The voices told me to clean all the guns today.
6. I have a rare case of 48-hour projectile leprosy, but I know we have that deadline to meet....
7. I am stuck in the blood pressure machine down at Tom Thumb.
8. Yes, I seem to have contracted some attention-deficit disorder and, hey, how about them Skins, huh? So, I won't be able to, yes, could I help you? No, no, I'll be sticking with Sprint, but thank you for calling.
9. Constipation has made me a walking time bomb.
10. I just found out that I was switched at birth. Legally, I shouldn't come to work knowing my employee records may now contain false information.
11. The psychiatrist said it was an excellent session. He even gave me this jaw restraint so I won't bite things when I am startled.
12. The dog ate my car keys. We're going to hitchhike to the vet.
2. When I got up this morning, I took two Ex-lax in addition to my Prozac. I can't get off the john, but I feel good about it.
3. My mother-in-law has come back as one of the Undead and we must track her to her coffin to drive a stake through her heart and give her eternal peace. One day should do it.
4. I can't come to work today because the EPA has determined that my house is completely surrounded by wetlands and I have to arrange for helicopter transportation.
5. If it is all the same to you I won't be coming in to work.
The voices told me to clean all the guns today.
6. I have a rare case of 48-hour projectile leprosy, but I know we have that deadline to meet....
7. I am stuck in the blood pressure machine down at Tom Thumb.
8. Yes, I seem to have contracted some attention-deficit disorder and, hey, how about them Skins, huh? So, I won't be able to, yes, could I help you? No, no, I'll be sticking with Sprint, but thank you for calling.
9. Constipation has made me a walking time bomb.
10. I just found out that I was switched at birth. Legally, I shouldn't come to work knowing my employee records may now contain false information.
11. The psychiatrist said it was an excellent session. He even gave me this jaw restraint so I won't bite things when I am startled.
12. The dog ate my car keys. We're going to hitchhike to the vet.
Things to ponder
Number 10
Life is sexually transmitted.
Number 9
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Number 8
Men have two emotions: Hungry and Wanting Love. If you see him looking for love, make him a sandwich.
Number 7
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky.....not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?
Number 2
In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now, the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Number 1
We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America but we haven't got a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of immigration.
Life is sexually transmitted.
Number 9
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Number 8
Men have two emotions: Hungry and Wanting Love. If you see him looking for love, make him a sandwich.
Number 7
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky.....not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?
Number 2
In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now, the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Number 1
We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America but we haven't got a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of immigration.
Quick-dialling beagle saves owner's life
A Florida dog that chomped for help by cellphone, saving the life of her owner in a diabetic seizure, fetched a humanitarian award in Miami on Monday.
Belle the beagle dialled the emergency number 911 on her owner Kevin Weaver's cellphone last February when he began to convulse and lapsed into unconsciousness.
Weaver, a resident of the central Florida city of Ocoee, originally had gotten Belle for companionship. But after learning about a non-profit organisation that trains dogs to alert diabetic owners of oncoming seizures and to respond, he decided to have her trained as a medical assistant.
With a lick and sniff of Weaver's nose, Belle can detect his blood-sugar levels. When they drop below normal, she is trained to warn him by whining and pawing at him.