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May 12 1797 Following Napoleon's conquest of Venice, Ludovico Manin
reluctantly steps down as its last Doge. Thus ends the Most
Serene Republic's 820-year history of national sovereignty.
May 12 1932 When a truck driver stops in rural New Jersey to take a leak, he
stumbles upon the badly decomposed body of the
Lindbergh Baby lying in a shallow grave 45
feet from the highway.
May 12 1971 Tor Johnson dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 67 in
San Fernando, California. The man who once wrestled under the
name "The Super Swedish Angel" leaves behind a legacy of B-movie
acting roles, most famously as the bald zombie in Ed Wood's
masterpiece "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
May 12 1982 During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in
Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn
before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an
ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II
reforms, decided that the Pope must be killed for being an
"agent of Moscow."
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May 11 1310 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics. Established during the Crusades to protect pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land, this military order came into increasing conflict with Rome until Clement V officially dissolves it at the Council of Vienna in 1312.
May 11 1907 A derailment outside Lompoc, California kills 32 Shriners, when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot. Many of them were scalded to death when the steam boiler ruptured. No word on the fates of their groovy fezzes.
May 11 1960 Four Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from a bus stop in Buenos Aires.
May 11 1981 Jamaican music legend and U.N. Peace Medal recipient Bob Marley
dies of brain cancer in a Miami hospital at the age of 36. Marley had quietly begun a course of radiation therapy at Sloan-Kettering a few months prior, but abandoned it just two days later after word leaked out.
May 11 1985 56 soccer fans are killed and more than 200 injured in Bradford, England when fire sweeps through the grandstands of Valley Parade stadium. In less than ten minutes, the structure is reduced to a burning pile of wood.
May 11 2001 "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" author Douglas Adams dies of a heart attack at age 49.
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May 10 1924 In perhaps the single worst mistake in the history of crime fighting,
Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone selects J. Edgar Hoover to
head the Bureau of Investigation, later known as the FBI. He will
remain at the post until his death 48 years later.
May 10 1933 Joseph Göbbels presides over a public book burning in Berlin,
which destroys more than 20,000 volumes. The collection
includes books by Einstein and Freud. During the bibliocaust,
Goebbels declares: "We have directed our dealings against the
un-German spirit; consign everything un-German to the fire."
May 10 1941 
Running out of fuel and unable to find a suitable spot to land his Messerschmitt, Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess bails out over Scotland. When Hess claims to have made the trip in order to negotiate a peace treaty with England, the Nazis declare that he was a psychotic who "lived in a state of hallucination." After the war, Hess is confined to Spandau Prison until his apparent suicide in 1987.
May 10 1969 The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
May 10 1977 Joan Crawford succumbs to stomach cancer at the age of 73.
In the early days of her career, Crawford had performed in
several stag films, and later spent a considerable sum
buying back the prints to destroy them.
May 10 1993 In the worst manufacturing plant fire in history, 188 employees,
most of them young women, burn to death in a doll factory in
Bangkok, Thailand. The management had locked the doors, so the
workers could produce their Bart Simpson dolls
without any distractions.
May 10 1994 Former building contractor, children's party clown, and jailhouse artist John Wayne Gacy is executed by lethal injection. Police found 28 shallow graves in the crawlspace beneath Gacy's house in 1978. After a dinner which included fried chicken, fried shrimp, and french fries, Gacy is strapped to a gurney. When asked if he has any last words, the serial killer obliges with: "Kiss my ass."
May 10 1994 300 active-duty Marines stationed at Twenty-Nine Palms receive a
46-question, multiple-choice survey. Given a hypothetical situation,
more than a quarter of respondents indicate their willingness to
"fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of
firearms banned by the U.S. government." On the positive side, almost
two-thirds recognize that the order would be patently unconstitutional.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Never has our ability to shield our affairs from prying eyes been
at such a low ebb. The availability and use of secure encryption may
offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of the privacy we have
lost. Government efforts to control encryption thus may well
implicate not only the First Amendment rights of cryptographers
intent on pushing the boundaries of their science, but also the
constitutional rights of each of us as potential recipients of
encryption's bounty."
US Appeals Court Judge Betty Fletcher
"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public
as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
Jack Valenti, MPAA
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom."
Dwight Eisenhower
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere."
Groucho Marx
"WHO CARES ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IF THE GOVERNMENT SHOT MARTIN LUTHER KING? THE POINT IS I'M HUNGRY."
Spigot, Jerkcity
"I'm a bad motherfucker
don't you know
And I'll crawl over fifty good pussies
just to get one fat boy's asshole"
Stagger Lee, Nick Cave
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Liquid Boom
Times | Submitted by: anonymous
"A gang of girls may have used the internet to make a bomb that killed a man and destroyed three homes in their feud with another teenager."
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Kids live with corpse for two months
Orlando Sentinel | Submitted by: Inigo Montoya
"Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home's only bathroom, on the advice of a religious superior who claimed the corpse would come back to life..."
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Looking for meth in lost-and-found
Kitsap Sun | Submitted by: Morbid Librarian
According to the report, the suspect asked how much trouble he was in. "I replied it depended on how many points he had," said the deputy, referring to the number of previous convictions against the suspect. The suspect said he had "a lot" of points. "I told him he was in a lot of trouble then," the deputy replied.
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First
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: anonymous
"Despite the last-ditch appeals to the state Board of Pardons and Paroles and the state and federal courts over the past few days, Lynd was executed and pronounced dead at at 7:51 p.m. Tuesday, 17 minutes after the first drug began flowing into his veins. He was the 41st man Georgia has executed since 1983, the 19th by lethal injection."
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Silly Pills
Fox News | Submitted by: roswellmilitia
"Shauntel Mayo, 29, faces life in prison after being found guilty on charges that she forced three siblings, ages 7 through 10, to have sex with each other or perform sexual acts for club members who paid to watch."
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Mystery Train Death
Globe and Mail | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Camp ComfortClassMyAss
"With hundreds of passengers aboard, many believed to be foreign tourists, a VIA Rail train remained under quarantine in a small northern Ontario town Friday afternoon after a 60-year-old woman was found dead in a passenger coach and six others complained of feeling unwell with a flu-like ailment."
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Catheter Assault
International Herald Tribune | Submitted by: sumdumfuk
"The poor guy," Spinella said. "They ripped the catheter off his person. They assaulted the guy. He's got major problems as a result of this. He's a mess now."
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Partial Success
Mainichi News | Submitted by: HariPubies
That's got to leave a stain: "A 95-year-old grandmother has been strangled with a TV antenna wire apparently by her own son, who is in a serious condition after an attempt to take his own life through hara-kiri failed, police said."
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Emo Hanged
Daily Mail | Submitted by: Munchkin
Recording a verdict of suicide, Mr Sykes said: "The Emo overtones concerning death and associating it with glamour I find very disturbing."
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Mad Cow
Wire Services | Submitted by: anonymous
WTF: "The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority." ... "Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. Three cases of mad cow disease have been discovered in the U.S. since 2003."
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Cane Hurled
Baltimore Sun | Submitted by: Meekrat
"I didn't need no waist chain. If I used my waist chain, a lot more would have been done than was done," he said on the tape, explaining that if he had been able to get the thick chain around Parker's neck he also would have been able to get out of his restraints altogether.
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Allegiance Pledged
Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by: anonymous
"Three small-town eighth-graders in Minnesota were suspended by their principal for not standing Thursday morning for the Pledge of Allegiance, violating a district policy that the principal now says may soon be reworded to protect free speech rights."
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This Bag is Not a Toy
WPLG-TV 10 Fort Lauderdale | Submitted by: Flossy666
"According to the complaint, the boy's mother said she went to Scott's home on April 26 to pick the boy up when she heard the boy crying and found him with a dry cleaning bag over his head and Scott holding the bag tight around the boy's neck. Scott said he was playing with the child and wanted to see if the boy could get the bag off his head himself."
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Friday May 09, 2008
Bear Hanged
Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Camp Bear Lover
"Shortly after 6 a.m., a town employee, acting on the instructions of a provincial conservation officer, cut the bear loose and the carcass was washed down the Kicking Horse River and lost."
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Flushing You Down The Drain
Fox News | Submitted by: Canoodler
"Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain."
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Stinking Up The Place
KTVU-2 | Submitted by: gargoyle1
"Port officials in San Francisco puzzled over a large, foul-smelling dilemma Thursday night as authorities tried to figure out how to remove a 25-to-30 foot dead whale carcass that somehow became lodged underneath Pier 27 along the Embarcadero at the foot of Battery Street."
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Santa-No-Pockets and his Magic Candy Cane
CNN | Submitted by: anonymous
"Wayne Nelson Corliss, an actor and comedy writer who sometimes played Santa Claus and painted faces at parties, was arrested late Wednesday. Friends and neighbors said they never could have imagined him being involved in such crimes before investigators released his picture worldwide."
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Run Over By Mommy
Contra Costa Times | Submitted by: kornfreak987
"The death remains under investigation, but it appears to be an accident and the girl's mother will likely not be cited or prosecuted..."
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Toilet Baby
WCAU-TV 10 Philadelphia | Submitted by: Buddy List
"According to the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office, the 14-year-old from Bridgeton was attending the Cinco de Mayo festival when she allegedly gave birth to the baby in the toilet at the fairground.
She's accused of taking the child out of the bowl and placing him in the toilet tank..."
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Self-tracheotomy with steak knife
San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: furpo
"Wilder said he didn't call 911 because he didn't think help would arrive in time. So, the 55-year-old says, he got a steak knife from the kitchen and made a small hole in his throat, allowing air to gush in."
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Nearly Raped by Students
WJZ-TV 13 Baltimore | Submitted by: Morbid Librarian
"Teachers and administrators are now advised not to stay in schools alone after dark after a chilling attack at the Calverton Middle and Elementary campus. What's supposed to be a safe haven turned dangerous for an assistant principal there Sunday. Police say two 13-year-old students broke through a window and tried to rape her."
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TorrentSpy: Not gonna pay ridiculous $111M fine
Wired | Submitted by: anonymous
The MPAA, he said, wants "other torrent owners and operators to look at the $111 million figure and say, 'I'm getting out of the business.'" The TorrentSpy case, Baker said, "is another example of the studios eating these guys to death. They haven't tried the merits of the case."
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Singing Condom
Telegraph UK | Submitted by: RubberyPubes
Titled "Protective Cover", its lyrics include: "I am the condom friend ever useful to you" and "I am made in different colours with fragrance".
The team of sheathed singers continue: "Some men and women say I don't satisfy their desire.
"I am good-natured and provide satisfaction. I am for you, do not neglect me.
"I save you and increase your longevity."
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Thursday May 08, 2008
Pizza Pizza
AP | Submitted by: Little Ceasar
"A 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of killing her own babies after her grown children found the bodies of three infants stashed in the family's freezer while looking for a frozen pizza..."
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Your coke or your bollocks
WCBS-TV | Submitted by: Sht. Joe Friday, (just gettin' the facts as he feels, er, ah, se
"A sadistic gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured scores of East Coast cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers..."
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National Security Letter fail
Wired | Submitted by: anonymous
"The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties groups announced Wednesday morning."
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College Drug Sting
CNN | Submitted by: azdollarbill
"They weren't picky about who they sold to," he said, alleging that undercover officers would simply call them and say, " 'Hey, I heard you deal. Will you sell to me?' And they did."
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Milf Shocked
Everett Herald | Submitted by: dr. texas
"Marci Milfs went to Urban Outfitters to find clothes for her teenage son. She was surprised to find sexually charged books that she believes have no place in a clothing store for teens and young adults."
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Nun of the Above
BREITBART | Submitted by: Mother_Theresa, (touching herself!)
"About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph."
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Using cell phones to find missing persons
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: anonymous
"Missing persons cases present an unusual problem for police -- it's not a crime to disappear. Without a crime, police can't get a search warrant. In a criminal case, no warrant would mean no phone records for authorities."
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Monkey Murder
Canadian Television | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Camp Monkey Lover
"The average person doesn't have a clue how to take care of an exotic monkey," said Henderson. She also said Mia could be a danger to the public since she is traumatized and will likely be in a fighting mood."
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Neither fish nor fowl
Wire Services | Submitted by: Veggie
"Arguably the oddest beast in Nature's menagerie, the platypus looks as if were assembled from spare parts left over after the animal kingdom was otherwise complete."
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Sunday May 04, 2008
Tasers Don't Kill People!
AZ Central | Submitted by: Soylent
"Excited delirium has been cited in police custody-death cases for decades. It is now being blamed more and more by medical examiners for deaths that occur following a police Taser strike... Taser has funded excited delirium studies and has been involved in promoting its research. The company maintains that excited delirium is a valid syndrome, and some doctors say it will gain acceptance as more research is conducted."
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Teach Her a Lesson
Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Camp Fuck4Reno$
[Marr] admitted tying up his victim with tape from her home, raping her over a lengthy period and keeping his identity secret throughout. "These are not the actions of a person who 'panicked,'" said Hughes. "He made the decision to break into her home (and) wait in the darkness so he could teach her a lesson."
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Operation D-Day
WTVJ-TV 6 Miami | Submitted by: anonymous
"I asked them why they came to my house, they said a neighbor or somebody called and said I had a hydroponics lab in my house," Llorente said. "Then I asked them if a marijuana plant could grow inside my underwear drawer."
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Kill Kill Kill
San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: anonymous
"A mountain lion jumped a 5-foot-high chain-link fence on a farm near Gilroy and attacked and killed five goats Friday before fleeing when the homeowner came outside..."
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Accused Rapist Auctioned Off
Tennessean | Submitted by: ferret
"He was auctioned off as an eligible bachelor for a charitable cause, helping Habitat for Humanity raise nearly $10,000. He was a popular teen who went to his prom with a date and a best friend, and his only brush with the law was a couple of speeding tickets."
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Friday May 02, 2008
Gonna fuck me a penguin
BBC | Submitted by: bonerjams2k8
"An Antarctic fur seal has been observed trying to have sex with a king penguin. The South African-based scientists who witnessed the incident say it is the most unusual case of mammal mating behaviour yet known."
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Powell's + Dark Horse team up to block state law
Portland Tribune | Submitted by: anonymous
"Portland bookseller Michael Powell and owners of a dozen independent bookstores and community organizations are suing the state attorney general and all 36 county district attorneys to block enforcement of a law forbidding the sale of sexually explicit material to people younger than 18." ... "Powell’s has in stock over 2 million volumes constituting over 1 million titles," Powell said in his affidavit. "We receive on an average over 5,000 new titles per week. Obviously we cannot read each new title to determine whether there are any sexual explicit portions and if so whether such portions ‘serve some purpose other than titillation’ (even if I knew what that meant)."
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Hanged
Wire Services | Submitted by: MRSCAPSLOCK
"The so-called D.C. Madam vowed she would never go to federal prison for running a high-end Washington prostitution ring. Not even for a day."
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Good use for notorious drug
New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: anonymous
"We're talking about 10 tonne tractors rolled on top of people ... or typical quad bike idiots on Muriwai Beach. They flip it and they've got two broken legs below the knee pointing at right angles but otherwise they're uninjured. "You've got to straighten these limbs out and splint them. If you try to do that without this sort of agent, it's horrible - you cause excruciating discomfort. So to be able to do this in the field is a major bonus."
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Beware the apeman's coming
The Scotsman | Submitted by: anonymous
Dr MacKellar said he feared the consequences if scientists made a concerted effort to cross humans with chimpanzees. He said: "Nobody knows what they would get if they tried hard enough. The insemination of animals with human sperm should be prohibited."
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Angry letter targets Orlando cops
WFTV-TV 9 Orlando | Submitted by: anonymous
The author is angry and wants justice served; if not, someone will pay the price. The letter says that if OPD doesn't arrest an officer accused of pushing a woman down the stairs, a sniper will target cops and "blood will … flow like the river Jordan."
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Bloated Justice
WCBS-TV | Submitted by: Fescue
"A Long Island music shop owner accused of selling knockoff Gibson Les Paul guitars has been arraigned in a pickup truck in a courthouse parking lot after his lawyer said the 500-pound defendant couldn't walk into the courthouse."
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