So a couple years ago there was this girl from Florida who couldn’t stop hiccuping. She tried every remedy known to man, but she just couldn’t stop. The hiccuping lasted for nearly 5 weeks and she had her 15 minutes because of it. She did a bunch of morning shows and attracted a good deal of media attention. Hiccups are usually a minor annoyance but this particular story hit home because sometimes you feel like they’ll never stop when you have them. Even when you tell your friend to jump out at you and scare you when you least expect it. EVEN when you’re hanging upside down while touching your nose and staring at the sun. This was our fears being realized.
Well. Hiccup Girl has just been charged with first degree murder. Way to go hiccup girl! In what is clearly an homage to every reenactment show ever aired on WE tv, apparently hiccup girl and two buddies lured some dude into the seedy and abandoned part of town so they could rob him. There was probably a struggle and they shot him dead.
If she’s convicted she could face the death penalty. That’s one way to stop those hiccups.
‘Hiccup Girl’ charged with first-degree murder.
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Something that got missed this week during Palin’s Going Rouge-mania and the premiere of some vampire movie for tweens… In a landmark bill, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, becomes the “most important anti-discrimination law passed in the last two decades.” The law will ban employers from administering genetic testing on their employees (in most cases). Now you can’t be let go if you have a heart condition that’s not currently acting up. Score one for the privately sick.
So October votes are in and you guys seem pretty defiant in your feelings toward Roman Polanski and how he should be punished. 46% of you voted for rapid rehab. Favoring a month of staring at reality TV shows with his eyes pried open. While another 43% wanted to put him away. The remaining 11% feel he should be given a pass. I suppose with a combined 89% of people supporting some kind of punishment for the auteur, this is a not as big an issue as you’d think by the media coverage. The United States has officially asked the Swiss government to extradite Polanski, so we’ll see soon enough what happens to him. It’s going to be tough to get a fair hearing when this is all said and done.
If you’re anything like me, you’re completely consumed by all of the pirate talk. News stories have increased exponentially over the past few months documenting pirate adventures…err crimes. These are real honest to god pirates…Not some scene from
This is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.
Here’s a good way to combat identity theft.