Madness Beckons

A man with a broken back and broken off heel was evidently lying on the side of the highway next to the overpass he had been walking on not long before, when the police showed up and found him to be such a threat that they were forced to use their tasers as many as 19 times in self defense.

Ozark Police Capt. Thomas Rousset attempted to explain why the taser was used:

“He refused to comply with the officers and so the officers had to deploy their Tasers in order to subdue him. He is making incoherent statements; he’s also making statements such as, ‘Shoot cops, kill cops,’ things like that. So there was cause for concern to the officers.”

Ozark police say that while there remains unanswered questions in the case, the reason for the use of the Taser is not one of them.

If they’re that afraid of a man laying on the ground with a broken back how will they react to someone who’s dangerous??

Read the whole story and watch the Captain’s statement – delivered with a straight face no less – on The Raw Story.

The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin told a jury she wished her husband really had drowned.

Giving evidence at Teesside Crown Court, Anne Darwin said she had considered suicide as pressure mounted to maintain the lie of her husband’s faked death.

Mrs Darwin, 56, who denies deception and money-laundering charges, said she felt “hurt” for lying to her two sons.

She is accused of taking part in a plot to fraudulently claim £250,000 in pension and insurance funds.

The former doctor’s receptionist was asked about a time when her son Mark traveled from his home in Hampshire to comfort her and she flung her arms around him and said “he’s gone, I think, I have lost him”.

She admitted to the jury that she did remember doing that and conceded: “I had to make it look realistic and I was upset. I wanted everyone to think it was real.”

She admits she lied to the insurance company and she even lied to their sons, but she swears she wasn’t part of any fraud.

She must have one hell of a lawyer if they honestly think they can get anyone to believe her.

Here’s how events played out:
March 2002 – John Darwin is reported missing while canoeing at sea.
A couple of weeks later, his canoe washes up on a beach.
April 2003 – coroner records open verdict into John Darwin’s death.
Anne Darwin collects life insurance and pension policies worth about £250,000.
2007 – Anne Darwin moves to Panama
December 2007 – The late Mr. Darwin shows up at a police station and says he’s a missing person.
A photograph is published showing Anne and John Darwin together in Panama well before he turned himself in.
Both are charged with fraud.
John Darwin admits fraud, but his wife denies the charges
July 2008 – Anne Darwin’s trial starts on Teesside

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A man said he was so consumed by the spirit of God that he fell and hit his head while at a Knoxville church.

Now he wants Lakewind Church to pay $2.5 million for medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering he said he’s endured from his injuries.

Matt Lincoln, 57, says he decided to sue the church after its insurance company denied his claim for medical bills.

Lincoln has had two surgeries since the June 2007 incident but said he still feels pain in his back and his legs.

The Sevier County man said he was asking God to have “a real experience” while praying at church.

He said he has fallen from the force of the spirit before but has always been caught by someone.

Lawyers for the church said other congregants saw him on the floor laughing after his fall. They said he failed to look out for his own safety.

We all know someone with tattoos. Most of us even know someone who has at least one that can’t logically be explained.

This guy on the other hand has raised weird to an entirely new level.

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Reuters:
Man in Wheelchair Charged with Drunk Driving

Police in Australia have charged a man for drink driving in a motorized wheelchair after he was found to be six times over the legal alcohol limit, local media reported on Monday.Police in the tropical northern Queensland city of Cairns said the man had a blood alcohol reading of 0.31, and was so drunk he was asleep at the controls of his motorized wheelchair in a turning lane of a major highway.

“It beggars belief,” Police Inspector Bob Walters told the Cairns Post newspaper, adding wheelchairs, bicycles, horses and skateboards were all considered to be vehicles under the state’s road laws.

“It’s unlawful, it is unacceptable and people should realize it could lead to a fatality,” he said.

Other motorists on the four-lane highway had to swerve to avoid the wheelchair, police said.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Firefighters called to a blaze at an apartment building in a southern German town were astonished to discover a fully equipped extremely drunk imposter in their ranks, police said on Thursday.

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) – A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU workers are struggling with thousands of liters of sour milk from burst cartons clogging up a central mail registry after German farmers posted them to Brussels to protest against low dairy prices, officials say.