NEWS OF THE WORLD - Current Events (May Be Disturbing, No Politics Please)

[Sean]

When they arrived, they found $1 million worth of marijuana plants, but they weren't the only ones on the scene.

Police were shocked to discover at least 10 full-grown black bears wandering the property. One officer grabbed a shotgun, fearing for his safety. To the officers' surprise, the bears were not hostile, and they seemed undisturbed by the sight of armed strangers.

"They soon realized [the bears] were very docile and very laid back,

The bears were not the only guests on the property: Police also stumbled upon a pig and a raccoon napping in one of the bedrooms.
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Hmmmm... pigs and racoons sleeping together... laid back bears...  I wonder if the MILLION DOLLARS worth of WEED contributed to any of this?

[Opera Ghost]

You might of heard about the recent discovery within a steamtrunk stored for over 74 years in the basement of an L.A. Apartment Building...in todays LA Times
Mystery deepens over woman at heart of L.A.'s basement babies case
The LAPD is trying to learn about Jean M. Barrie, whose trunk contained the mummified remains of two babies. It could be one of two women: a possible nurse or a relative of the author of 'Peter Pan.'

This Jean M. Barrie, seen in the 1918 edition of Lyceum Magazine, was a storyteller.

August 20, 2010

Who was Jean M. Barrie, the woman whose steamer trunk stored for decades in the basement of a Los Angeles apartment building contained the mummified remains of two babies?

That's the question investigators were mulling Thursday, two days after the babies — wrapped in newspapers from the 1930s — were discovered when the basement was being cleared out. As the county coroner began an autopsy on the bodies Thursday, Los Angeles Police Department detectives were left to sift through a crime scene that also is a time capsule.

Inside the trunk, police found a fur wrap, a flapper dress, a beaded purse and a bundle of blank medical test forms.

The medical forms, detectives said, point them in the direction of a woman named Jean M. Barrie, who lived in the area and may have worked as a nurse. She was born in San Francisco in 1916. Detectives said they found postcards in the trunk addressed to a Jean M. Barrie from a brother, Thomas, in San Francisco.

LAPD sources said one of the biggest challenges will be to determine whether a crime was committed. Detectives from the LAPD juvenile division's abused child section are hoping medical tests can determine whether the babies were stillborn, aborted or subjected to trauma.

Detectives also are considering other leads, including the possibility that the trunk may have belonged to a different woman — also named Jean M. Barrie — who was a well-known storyteller and performer at the time.

This Jean Barrie apparently lived in the Midwest and on the East Coast and was a relative of James M. Barrie, the author of the children's book "Peter Pan."

Several clues point in this woman's direction. A copy of "Peter Pan" was found inside the trunk Tuesday along with a membership certificate for the Peter Pan Woodland Club, a Big Bear resort.

But it's unclear whether Barrie ever lived in Los Angeles. An ad in the 1918 edition of Lyceum Magazine shows a stern-faced Barrie in a decorative lace and velvet dress. The ad hails her as a "Reader of Plays and Miscellaneous Programs."

Gloria Gomez, manager of the Glen-Donald apartment building near MacArthur Park, said the trunk had been sitting in storage, unclaimed, for decades. On Tuesday night, Gomez and building resident Yeming Xing broke the lock with a screwdriver to see what was inside.

They found books, postcards, a beautiful crystal bowl and two leather doctor's satchels. Inside each satchel was the body of a baby. Each was swaddled in a blanket and wrapped in a faded, 1930s-era Los Angeles Times newspaper.

Xing, who discovered the first body, said Wednesday that it appeared to be a fetus.

"It looked like a baby, but it didn't have any shape to it," she said. A USC geneticist, Xing said she believes the baby had been miscarried or possibly had been aborted.

John Medford, a resident at the building, also thinks the bodies may be linked to illegal abortions.

"It was kept secret for 74 years and my theory is that this rolls back the cover on a cruel, tragic and unjust time in America for women," Medford said. "Ending pregnancies this way would have been commonplace. This was business as usual in all social strata."

A team of coroner's investigators, including a pathologist and an anthropologist, will use DNA, toxicology and other tests to determine how the babies died, while detectives try to piece together the life of the woman who kept their bodies tucked carefully among her possessions.

[long live kong]

'Ratzilla' shot on a Bradford estate, uk. According to the papers there have been reports all over England of rats that have grown to massive proportions, it isn't known if they are common rats or a form of non indigenous rodent, but they're big and mean. Reminds me of James Herbet's novel trilogy 'Rats'....

                             

[Opera Ghost]

'Ratzilla' shot on Bradford estate, uk. According to the papers there have been reports all over England of rats that have grown to massive proportions, it isn't known they are common rats or a form of non indigenous rodent, but they're big and mean. Reminds me of James Herbet's novel trilogy 'Rats'....

                             

I'm betting that this is Crop-Circle related! 

[Scatter]

'Ratzilla' shot on a Bradford estate, uk. According to the papers there have been reports all over England of rats that have grown to massive proportions, it isn't known if they are common rats or a form of non indigenous rodent, but they're big and mean. Reminds me of James Herbet's novel trilogy 'Rats'....

                             

Obviously the offspring of the Rodents Of Unusual Size from "The Princess Bride", which of course was filmed in England.



Elementary, my dear Watson.

[long live kong]

You've cracked it Scatter!

[Scatter]

You've cracked it Scatter!

I think the general consensus is that I'm cracked. Nothing new there.

[Opera Ghost]

I think the general consensus is that I'm cracked. Nothing new there.

Apparently the Rodent Wranglers need to unionize over on the other side of the pond

[Scatter]

Apparently the Rodent Wranglers need to unionize over on the other side of the pond

You're suggesting that the love child of Maggie Thatcher form a union now?? Perish the thought!!

I think the problem is that so many of the rodent wranglers had their free milk taken away that they're now too frail to get the job done.

[long live kong]

Or the millions of bottles of free milk were dumped in massive landfills where they were gorged on for decades by the Rats which subsequently grew to such monstrous proportions.

Now wait a minute....


Maggie abolishes free school milk...


Rats drink milk....


Rats grow in size and numbers....


Maggie's angst-ridden love child becomes union steward of Rodent Wranglers....

[Opera Ghost]

Or the millions of bottles of free milk were dumped in massive landfills where they were gorged on for decades by the Rats which subsequently grew to such monstrous proportions.

Now wait a minute....


Maggie abolishes free school milk...

Elementary my dear Watson.


Rats drink milk....


Rats grow in size and numbers....


Maggie's angst-ridden love child becomes union steward of Rodent Wranglers....

[Scatter]

NOW it all makes sense!!

[CreepysFan]

 "Ben, the two of us need look no more ....."  Food of the Gods stuff here, life really does imitate fiction.

[long live kong]

"Ben, the two of us need look no more ....."  Food of the Gods stuff here, life really does imitate fiction.

Oh my God. My mum used to sing that song to me, when I was very very young I hasten to add, bless her. (my name is Ben)   

[Scatter]

"Ben, the two of us need look no more ....."  Food of the Gods stuff here, life really does imitate fiction.

My Creepy friend, did you see the re-make of "Willard" with Crispin Glover?? Nancy and I loved it!!