Toddler shoots brother dead

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That´s awful, too often are parents irresponsible and leave children unattended. just think about Tyson´s daughter. Teas will probably bash me for that but I think the right to bear arms should be abolished.

 I couldn´t agree more, but all it does is send it underground - those who want guns will always get them. 

This is a tragic case..

Fair point, LL. Still, it´s hard for me to imagine a three-year-old buying a gun from a dealer

No bashing...  I can respect your opinion on the matter.  I tend to think these parents should be punished, however with that being said I don´t know what punishment could be worse than loosing a child.    

If you have ever felt your life threatened or feared your saftey, you may think differently about the right to own a gun or maybe not.   There are so many carefless acts of recklessness that if people used them and stored them properly you wouldnt have so many fatalities.  I t´s like  driving your vehicle and causing a fatal accident.  All the deaths that occur out of random acts of stupidity by humans.

Cancer Sufferer Set To Win Bet On Own Life

A man with terminal cancer is set to win thousands of pounds after betting he would not die before June.

Jon Matthews will collect £5,000 from bookmakers tomorrow after beating the odds of surviving.

The 59-year-old was diagnosed with a cancer linked to asbestos, called mesothelioma, in 2006

He scooped £5,000 on June 1 2008 after placing a bet with William Hill that he would not be dead.

He made a further wager that he would live beyond June 1 this year.

Mr Matthews, from Milton Keynes, said: "I think I´m the first person in the world to bet on my own life."

The widower was told by Harefield Hospital in Middlesex their longest surviving patient with mesothelioma lasted 25 months after diagnosis.

Mr Matthews has had the cancer for 38 months.

"When I was diagnosed I was told mesothelioma was a death sentence," he said.

"I wasn´t that fussed because everyone has to die some time.

But the interesting thing for me was how long it would take, would it take weeks or years," he explained.

If he survives until June 2010 he is in line for £10,000 more after placing another bet.

He plans to donate most of his winnings to cancer charities.

"Never in 30 years in the business have I been so pleased to pay a winning client £10,000, with, I trust, a further £10,000 to come next year," William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe said.

Good on him!!! new meaning to the saying ......bet your life on it!!

The longest snake (over 50ft) died, the video is a must-see:

Quoting Trudy

The longest snake (over 50ft) died, the video is a must-see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqg3Pg2M9WU

 I won´t watch the video...I despise snakes. The less snakes on this planet the better we are off.

Oh Teas, but it´s funny.

Baby dies after nearly being buried alive 
A newborn boy who had been pronounced dead by a hospital in the western province of Balýkesir barely escaped being buried alive after his mother noticed that he was breathing. The baby, however, lost his life five hours after he was hospitalized again. One of Hatice Bölme´s twin boys, which she conceived through in vitro fertilization after a nine years of fertility treatments, died immediately after he was born at the Balýkesir Maternity Hospital last week. The other baby, named Halil, who had been placed in an incubator, was pronounced dead 36 hours after his birth. Notified about the death of his son, Hüseyin Bölme said: “I went to the hospital and received my son´s death certificate. They handed me the baby´s body in a paper box. It was 2 p.m. when I got the body of my son from the hospital, and it was 4 p.m. when I arrived home after buying the necessary things for the funeral. My wife wanted to see our baby and when she looked at him, she noticed that he was breathing. We immediately took him to a nearby hospital. After two hours of treatment there, we took him to Bursa in an ambulance. The doctor there told me that our baby´s lungs were damaged because he could not breathe properly outside the incubator. He said he would do his best to save our baby´s life but we lost him in the end.”

Bölme said he would file a criminal complaint against the hospital that pronounced his son dead while he was still alive. “If we had not noticed it, we would have buried him alive,” he said. The Health Ministry has launched an investigation into the incident.

Source: Zaman, 1/6/9

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A tragedy for the parents, an enormous mistake of the hospital.

Quoting Trudy

The longest snake (over 50ft) died, the video is a must-see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqg3Pg2M9WU

 No thank you! I am with Teas on this one!  The world would be a far nicer place with out snakes