Copycat Acid Attack?
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(CBS) For the second time in a week, a woman has been attacked by an acid-throwing female. And police and other experts say they suspect the latest assault may be been a case of someone imitating the first. The latest took place Friday afternoon in Mesa, Ariz. The victim, Derri Velarde, 41, a mother of five, says it came out of nowhere...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 12:17:08 PM
Acid Attack Victim Could Hear Her Skin 'Sizzling'
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(Sept. 3) -- A Vancouver, Wash., woman attacked with acid on her way to a Starbucks coffee shop says she could feel her face sizzling as her skin began to burn. "It was the most painful thing," 28-year-old Bethany Storro told reporters. "My heart stopped. I almost passed out. Once it hit me, I could actually hear it bubbling and sizzling on my skin." Storro was getting something out of her car outside a Starbucks on Aug. 30 when she saw a woman, around her own age, standing before her and heard the chilling words that would change her life:...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 12:17:08 PM
Acid attack victim: fearful, but grateful (but it's not a Hate Crime)
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Bethany Storro was wheeled into a small conference room with her face wrapped in bandages. Her parents on either side of her, she shoved aside the moments when she’s asked, “Why me?” and instead struck a thankful tone. “I’m just trying to stay positive,” she said. “It’s not about looks. I can’t let what she did to me ruin my life.” From the looks of things Thursday, she won’t. The bandages covered her face but were no match for her easy-going disposition and sharp wit. “I’m generally a happy person — everyone’s just been so nice to me,” she said....
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 12:17:08 PM
Belgium's plan to wash its dead down the drain: Bodies would be dissolved in caustic solution
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It could hardly be said to be the most dignified of send-offs. Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead. The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmental concerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse. Under the process, known as resomation, bodies are treated in a steel chamber with potassium hydroxide at high pressure and a temperature of 180c (350f). The raised pressure and temperature means the body reaches a similar end point as in standard cremation — just bones left to be...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 12:17:08 PM
Belgium considers proposals to dissolve bodies and flush them into sewage systems
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It could hardly be said to be the most dignified of send-offs. Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead. The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmental concerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse. Members of the EU Commission must rule on the Belgian proposal as there are concerns that residual waste could be flushed into the drainage system. In resomation the body is placed in a silk bag, itself placed within a metal cage frame. This is then loaded into a...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 12:17:08 PM
LSD Tripper Amputates, Flushes "Monster" -Containing Testicles
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The use of the drug LSD, or commonly referred to as “acid,” appears to be increasing especially among young adults in Arcata, according to an Arcata Police Department press release issued yesterday. On April 18, officers responded to a residence to assist the Arcata Mad River Ambulance with a 31-year-old male subject who had just castrated himself. Medical personnel and officers were unable to locate the subject’s testicles. He later told officers that he flushed them down the toilet as he feared they contained “monsters.” The victim, who police say had a Tennessee address, was with several friends when he...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 12:17:08 PM
One Charged in Acid Attack That Disfigured Woman
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Chicago - A woman who allegedly threw acid at another woman -- and fired a gun at her -- while also accidentally splashing her own child Wednesday afternoon on the South Side did it because she said the 39-year-old woman stabbed her in the head last week, police said. Charlis Harris, 26, of the 7700 South Essex Avenue, was charged early Friday with unlawful use of a weapon; aggravated assault-discharge firearm; heinous battery; firearm without valid FOID; registration of firearms and criminal damage to property after the incident that occurred at 12:25 p.m. in the 7800 block of South Constance...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 12:17:08 PM
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