Steff

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 04:54 PM) Canseco is a grade A asshole. I'm completely against Roids, but the only reason he's doing this is so his piece of s*** self can make some money on his book. f*** Jose, and I'm boycotting his book. The guys just throwing out accusations. He can kiss my ass. Making $$.. the American Dream. And what if he is telling the truth Jason.. ??

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 04:40 PM) That part of the article has to be wrong; everything I hear is the book comes out Monday like you said previously. I'm stopping at the store on the way home just in case...

QUOTE(rangercal @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 04:36 PM) I heard on am 1000 today that their is a report that they may be taking some names out before release. Palmeiro is the only name I heard they may be taking out. If the book is out already then it's a bit late for anything to be removed..

I thought it didn't come out until Monday...?? That Dave Martinez accusation is interesting.. there were a lot of rumors about him in '97 and why he was shipped from Chicago so fast.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/4188094/detail.html Official: Son Mistakes Parent's Sex For Domestic Abuse Boy, 16, Charged With Assault With Deadly Weapon POSTED: 6:50 am CST February 11, 2005 UPDATED: 1:00 pm CST February 11, 2005 HOUSTON -- A 16-year-old boy was charged with shooting his father in their southwest Harris County home Friday, Local 2 reported. The shooting was originally reported as a case of domestic abuse, but deputies said the boy apparently witnessed a sexual act between his parents and thought the father was abusing the mother. Sheriff's deputies charged the boy with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a first-degree felony. Detectives told Local 2 the mother and father were engaged in consensual sex when the shooting occurred at about 3:30 a.m. inside the family's home on Mira Monte near Corta. Investigators said the couple's 11-year-old son woke up to his mother making loud noises. "During the course of love making, the wife was evidently being somewhat loud … loud enough to where it woke the children up," Harris County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Mike Smith told Local 2. The boy woke his brother, who then walked into his parent's bedroom and told his father, 43-year-old Jacob Hughes, to leave his mother alone. Officials said that is when the teen shot his father in the arm. Detectives originally told Local 2 that the son said he fired the gun as a way of defending his mother during an argument he thought she was having with his father. "The children interpreted the noise as their mother being in danger," Smith said. "The 11-year-old went into the room, forcibly went into the room, to protect his mother. (The child) observed his parents making love and got the 16-year-old. The 16-year-old came back in and fired the shot." After investigating previous problems at the home, officials said there have been previous reports of abuse in the family and that father had been charged and convicted of domestic violence. Officials said the children feared their mother was being hurt due to their father's previous convictions for abuse and that is the reason the oldest son shot his father. Authorities said they have not determined whether the mother was screaming for help. "That is a very important question. I can see why you are asking that. We are trying to work that out right now. We are trying to decide if it was a passionate scream or was it a cry for help," Smith said. Hughes was transported to a hospital to be treated for his injuries. He was released late Friday morning. Officials said the couple has been married for 20 years.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 02:28 PM) Yeah, I forgot about that part. Thanks. You forgot...?? Well.. ya know what they say..... the mind is the first thing to go

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 02:26 PM) May just have been the situation - self-delivery, several hours old, umbilicus AND placenta still attached, she may not have cleared the mouth and windpipe all that well, obviously she didn't take time to nurse the child... Copy cat.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/11/woman.att...d.ap/index.html Police: Pregnant woman kills attacker Friday, February 11, 2005 Posted: 1:48 PM EST (1848 GMT) FORT MITCHELL, Kentucky (AP) -- A nine-months pregnant woman fought off and killed a knife-wielding woman who may have been trying to steal the baby, police said Friday. Police said 26-year-old Sarah Brady acted in self-defense in killing Katherine Smith on Thursday. No charges were filed. Smith, 22, had been falsely telling neighbors for weeks that she was pregnant, and a search of her apartment after her death revealed a full baby nursery, investigators said. "She had everything in place that you'd expect to have in place with a newborn coming," said Steve Hensley, police chief in this Cincinnati suburb. Brady, 26, was treated for cuts at a hospital. Police said that about a week ago, Smith called Brady, a stranger, and asked her to come over and pick up a mistakenly delivered package. Brady picked up the package, the two spoke briefly and she left, according to police. Thursday's attack occurred after Brady went to pick up a second package at Smith's apartment, police said. In December, a Missouri woman was strangled and her baby was cut from her womb. The baby was later found alive, and a Kansas woman was charged with kidnapping resulting in death.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 02:19 PM) Why was the babay in critical condition? What did she do to this kid? Lock her up! Maybe because he didn't get the immediate care (throat cleared, cord cut, first meal..?).

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 02:17 PM) Yes, but a heck of a lot better as far as the health prognosis for the kid. I'm sure there will still be families willing to take in this child that was "merely" abandoned, instead of thrown from a car. The boy was going to be fine from the statements of the medical staff that treated him. I don't even know what you are trying to say regarding him being adopted..

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 02:15 PM) As I said on the other thread though, it may have been made up, but I let out a sigh of relief and got a smile just knowing the little critter is O.K.! I would rather it be made up than real! He was going to be fine anyway. What is unreal to me is that she made up this story rather than just giving the child up. So hours and hours of police man power were wasted on searching for 2 "kids" that didn't exist. :headshake

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6952633/ Story of tossed baby a fabrication Sheriff: Depressed mother made up horrifying taleBREAKING NEWS MSNBC Updated: 3:04 p.m. ET Feb. 11, 2005NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Authorities said Friday that the story of a newborn boy who survived being thrown out of a moving car was made up by a depressed woman. The 8-pound, 2-ounce boy, who was believed to be less than an hour old and whose umbilical cord was still attached when he came into the custody of authorities on Thursday, was in good condition at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale. Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne said at a news conference Friday afternoon that the boy was “absolutely perfect.” Nurses at the hospital have nicknamed him Johnny after the doctor who first treated him Thursday, he said. Jenne said the baby was taken to a local sheriff’s office Thursday by a woman who said she saw it being tossed from a moving car, wrapped in plastic. She claimed that a man and a woman were arguing in the car at the time, he said. In fact, Jenne said, the Good Samaritan, the woman in the car and the baby’s mother were one and the same, identified as Patricia Pokriots, 38, a barmaid for a non-profit fraternal organization. Pokriots was undergoing a mental competency hearing, Jenne said, adding that there was no indication that drugs were involved. Pokriots, who was arrested in 2002 on an aggravated battery charge, does not want to keep the baby because she fears she could harm him, Jenne said. The dispensation of the 2002 charge was not immediately known. Baby father’s unidentified Pokriotz gave birth to Johnny in the bathroom of her own mother’s home, where she lives. She refused to identify the father, Jenne said. In a panic, she began driving around and came upon a white sedan in which a man and a woman were arguing. On the spot, Jenne said, she decided to turn her son in to authorities and claim that the couple she spotted had tossed him from the car. Pokriotz presented the baby to a Broward County sheriff’s substation, claiming to have rescued him. She told the story of the quarreling couple, having “decided to lie about what would happen,” Jenne said. Asked about supporting reports from witnesses, Jenne said those people had simply seen the uninvolved couple in the white sedan, he said. Jenne visited Johnny in the hospital and said Pokriots’ initial story had raised troubling questions. “What have we come to as a society and a community?” he asked. But in this case, that question had a welcome answer, Jenne said: “The one great thing that comes out of this is there is a great love for this child, this Johnny.” Jenne stressed that the incident need not have happened, noting that Florida had a “safe harbor law” allowing a mother leave her baby at any medical facility or fire station within three days, no questions asked. “If Patricia had done this, we would not be here today,” he said, but it was not yet clear whether she knew about the law. Un-effing-real :headshake

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 02:06 PM) that's pretty tame, but it still sux. Whew.. I was just gonna say "there must be something wrong with me cause I don't think that was that bad at all..." Not her actions.. but his description.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 12:43 PM) apparently not, I guess. Another thing, she was unaware it was being taped. So, suddenly now that she knows it was, she wants to find the guys. As if it was OK when she didn't realize they were being taped. Sounds to me she didn't tell anyone and wanted to keep it a secret.. not that it was OK.

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 12:16 PM) That may be state-wide. I was talking about Rockford only. Ahhhh.. I think that might be it. There was just a story on the news Wednesday night about one being dropped off at a Chicago Firehouse..

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 12:08 PM) IIRC, the very first person to actually take advantage of this in Rockford was just last year. Not very many people do even though it's been all over the news and newspapers... Really.. I could have swore I heard that since this was created that something like 34 newborns have been left with no questions asked..

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 11:46 AM) Steff you have got to find a happier news site to read.... I know. In my defense.. it was emailed to me. I wouldn't even know where to go looking for that crap.

Don't be at all concerned about bothering him. You are the customer and they should be getting back to you. Call him 50 times a day if you have to and if you aren't satisfied with the answers you are getting.. call someone else. Someone else I know just had an incident where they had to get a rep's supervisor involved because they simply weren't calling them back.. and that is unacceptable.

http://www.pet-abuse.org/cases/3618 Puppies throats slashed, five killed - (Seymour, CT - US) Crime Date: 01/19/2005 Case Status: Alleged Court Dates: Mar 7, 2005 Case Updates: Available - Click Here Case Photos: Available - Click Here Abusers/Suspects: Brannon Chandler Case Report A 20-year-old man has been charged with animal cruelty, accused of slashing the throats of six puppies, killing five of them. Brannon Chandler was arrested Thursday after police say he slit the throats of all six dogs late Wednesday night with a buck knife they found in his bedroom. The puppies belonged to the owners of a home where Chandler is a house guest, Capt. Paul Beres said. When police interviewed him at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Chandler told them he "sent the puppies to heaven." Chandler was angry that his friends wouldn't let him have a dog because he couldn't care for it, according to Animal Control Office Joe LaRovera. "He said, `If I can't have them nobody will have them,"' LaRovera said. LaRovera and the surviving puppy's owner rushed it to Shoreline Animal Emergency Clinic in Stratford. Chandler was held on $50,000 bond at Bridgeport Correctional Center. He is to appear Feb. 3 in Derby Superior Court. The wounding may have damaged Amazing Grace's larynx, Michael said, and the vets want to watch that injury. It could be several weeks, she added, before the full extent of the pup's injuries are known. A Seymour police officer found a wire basket about 300 feet into woods behind the house where Chandler and the roommate lived, the puppies inside it. Amazing Grace, so named by Seymour Veterinary Hospital staffers who attended her, was on top. Seymour Police Capt. Paul Beres disputes other reports that Chandler attacked the puppies in response to the roommate's refusal to sell him one of them. "We're still looking into what the motivation was for Mr. Chandler to do this act," Beres said. "I've got a few officers still working on this case. It's not case closed because of the nature of the incident." He said the hospital's staff filled three notebook pages with names and telephone numbers of people wanting information, that Town Hall workers took calls and that his pager went off all day with numbers. He said he will not know how much people donated to the pup's care, because mail sent Friday won't arrive at Town Hall or be opened until Monday. To donate to defray the cost of Amazing Grace's care, mail checks to Town of Seymour Animal Control, 1 First St., Seymour 06483. Steven Valenti / Republican-American Amazing Grace is the only one of six puppies to survive an attack in Seymour on Thursday.

Are You About to Be Fired? By Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine From 'Fire Your Boss' There are always signs you're about to be fired. Most people, however, fall into denial and refuse to pay attention to them. By the time you finish reading this book (Fire Your Boss, Harper Collins 2004) you'll be a practiced job fisherman, so you'll always be looking for work. But until then here's a checklist for spotting impending termination. Check off each that applies. You are asked to compile a report on all your ongoing projects. You are pushed hard to finish one or two specific projects. You are encouraged not to do your usual long-term planning. You're neither informed of nor invited to meetings. You receive a critical review for the first time. Your expense reports are questioned. Your typical expenditures are criticized. Your direct superior keeps his or her distance from you. Conversation stops when you enter a room. You have a vague sense of unease. If you checked one or none your job is probably safe for the near future. But don't let that lull you into complacency. This is the best time to start your job-fishing efforts, since you've earned enough time to rely primarily on long-term efforts. If you checked two to five your job is in danger. Your boss is laying the groundwork to terminate you at a time of his or her choosing, though it may not be for weeks or months. This is the time to accelerate your job-fishing efforts, both short- and long-term. If you checked more than five you're already fired . . . you just don't know it yet. The decision has been finalized, and you're just a "dead man walking." Unless you've got enough money in the bank to keep you and your family afloat for six months, find yourself a stream of income as soon as possible. It will be easier to get another job while you've still got this one.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 09:04 AM) To describe SouthSider?!? ROTFLMAO!!!

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 08:46 AM) Interesting bit of information that has come out of this Giambi thing. When Giambi was negotiating the deal with Yankees, he or his agent specifically asked for all references to steroids be stricken from the language guaranteeing the deal. In other words, the Yankees agreed to take that out of the contract. If a player asks to do that, what would you think? The Yankees are as much to blame in this scenario as Giambi. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why they asked for that language to be removed. YAS, I did hear that there is some verbage in there that if he admits in public to using that the Yanks can void the deal. Since the GJ testimony is sealed and protected that can't be used against him in regards to contract stuff with the Yanks.. which is why he's not making any statements such as "I did use them".. in the public. Have you heard anything like that..?

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 08:58 AM) ...and Flordia has the exact same way. These sickos were just too lazy to use it. Kids are a blessing. These people deserve to be locked up... Just that baby winds up ok... My sister said people have been all over the news down there wanting to adopt him. A little light at the end of the tunnel for the little fella..

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 08:42 AM) doable Doesn't work so well when you give yourself the name..

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Feb 11, 2005 -> 08:37 AM) In Chicago at least, if you drop off a newborn at a church, they will take him from you with no questions asked and no charges filed. I wonder how many people know that. Churches and the police don't really advertise that, probably in fear that they will turn into an unwanted baby drop off location.....or they think it promotes unprotected sex. I bet most of these people don't want a kid and think they will be forced to raise it if they go somewhere for help. Sad. Actually it's hospitals, police stations, and fire houses. http://www.safeplacefornewborns.org/statefiles/il.html Illinois: You can leave your baby, up to 3 days old, with a staff member at any hospital, fire-station or police station in Illinois - no questions asked.