82) October 14, 2009 Oregon Man Stabs Fish, Gets Probation
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A Portland man who attacked his ex-girlfriend and impaled her pet fish this summer has been sentenced to two years probation, a psychological evaluation and community service.
The perpetrator, 27, pleaded guilty Tuesday to animal abuse and domestic violence assault. According to court records, the victim had broken up with the man, but she returned to her apartment July 25 to find him lying on her bed, saying he wanted to get back together. When the victim tried to leave, the perp shoved her against a wall and tossed her against a bathtub.
The victim fled but returned with an officer to find her fish - a bright purple betta named "DeLorean" - on a wood floor with a knife through it.
According to court records, the perpetrator quickly admitted killing the fish, telling police: "If she can't have me, then she can't have the fish." The perp's attorney said Tuesday that killing the fish was a "very low point" in his client's life.
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87) 2010, The Year the Waitress Won the Toy Yoda and Sued Hooters!
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2) January 24, 2001 Skeleton Found in Chimney
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Calvin Wilson has been found. In 1985, the 27-year-old resident of Natchez, Mississippi disappeared. Mystery solved. Wilson's fully-clothed skeletal remains were discovered in the chimney of a pre-Civil War building in Natchez when masons were renovating the historic site. It's theorized that Wilson, who had a rap sheet as a burglar, was trying to rob a gift shop located in the building by slipping down the chimney Santa style. He got stuck. "His criminal record shows he was a burglar, so the suspicion is that he was crawling down the chimney to burglarize the business at that period of time, became lodged, and died," said Adams County Sheriff Tommy Ferrell. "There is no suspicion of foul play." Police identified the remains from a wallet found in the clothing. Here's the biggest question of all: Why didn't anyone notice the odor of the decaying body? Police can only speculate that the breezes from a nearby river masked the smell. Which just leads to another question: What is in that river?
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1) October, 2000: Y2K DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES
(these were not the winners)
- In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
- In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who was always "totally focused when he ran," according to his wife, accidentally jogged off a 100-foot-high cliff on his daily run.
- Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beachgoers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
- In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell face-first through the ceiling of bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.
- According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest Berrena was wearing.
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