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An Oklahoma woman who was found alive in a chest-type deep freezer may
have climbed in due to bad weather. Theresa Christian, 59, was last seen
over the weekend. Her son found her on Wednesday morning in a large
freezer at her Tulsa apartment and called police.
"Apparently
family members had reported her missing since Saturday and they finally
got her son in who recognized immediately that there was no way she
could have left the residence willingly without her purse and other
belongings and left her TV on."
"So they started searching the
house and neighbours said possibly she thought maybe there was tornado
coming but their sure why or how she got there but her son heard a moan
coming from the area of the freezer and opened up and discovered her
sitting inside," said Cpl. Daisy Vallely with the Tulsa Police
Department.
Family members say Christian is scared of storms and may have climbed into the freezer for safety. She was taken to the hospital in serious condition with frostbite. Police do not suspect foul play.
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Rowan County Sheriff’s officers arrested a man last week for
using counterfeit money on multiple occasions to purchase auto parts.
Authorities charged Milton McKnight with 4 counts of obtaining property by false pretense on September 12.
The sheriff’s office began its investigation in early August
after Matlock’s Used Cars and Parts in Cleveland and LKQ Auto Parts in
Salisbury reported receiving counterfeit $50 and $100 dollar bills on
several occasions.
During the investigation, Detective C. Brown determined the bills were coming from Knight’s Auto in Charlotte.
The sheriff’s office worked with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police as
well as the U.S. Secret Service to determine that McKnight would call
and order parts from the Rowan County business and pay with counterfeit
cash.
After a search warrant was obtained for McKnight’s house and
business, investigators found counterfeit money on McKnight that matched
the bills passed in Rowan County. They also found counterfeit money at
his house.
McKnight was arrested and placed in the Mecklenburg County Jail under $15,000 secured bond.
Instead of helping a man who had passed out on a subway track in
Stockholm, a passer-by chose to rob the unconscious victim before
leaving him to be run over by a train. “This shows an unusual
ruthlessness,” said Peter Brottman of the South Stockholm police. The
victim, referred to in the Swedish media as Johnny, 38, was returning
home after a drunken night out on the town with his friends when he fell
down on the tracks at Sandsborg metro station south of Stockholm.
Shortly thereafter he was robbed of all his valuables and left on the
tracks before being run over by an oncoming train.
Despite
sustaining serious injuries, Johnny nevertheless survived the accident,
as only five metres of the train actually ran him over. “He had
amazing luck, really. The train came from the other direction and the
driver managed to see him and pull the emergency brakes,” Brottman said.
The incident, which occurred early on Sunday morning, was caught by
security cameras. Police are hoping that someone might be able to
identify the perpetrator from the security camera footage.
The
man jumped down on the tracks, got back up again, and exited the
turnstiles. “He pocketed a wallet, a mobile phone and a gold chain. Then he jumped back up on the platform and just walked away. He
didn’t call the emergency services or notify the ticket collector at
the station“ said Peter Brottman. Johnny is still being treated in
hospital. Half of his left foot has been amputated and his right knee
has been damaged to a point where he’ll need a prosthetic in future.
However, based on the footage, police have classified the incident as
aggravated theft.
“We
are classifying it as aggravated theft rather than robbery, as the
latter implies that the perpetrator threatens or renders his victim in a
state of powerlessness and we didn’t see anything like that. The person
who was drunk had achieved that state of powerlessness himself," said
Östman. That the perpetrator didn’t try to assist the helpless man on
the tracks or call emergency services is not something he could be
charged for. “There is no law that says he has to take action,” said
Östman. Johnny’s partner Louise is still in shock from what has
happened. “I have cried, cried and cried. When I heard what had happened
I was angry, sad and full of hatred. I was shocked that anyone could
leave a person on the track to die," she said.
"There is wisdom in a raven's head." - Gaelic Proverb
In England, tombstones are sometimes called "ravenstones".
Prophesy states that as long as Ravens live at the Tower of London, the kingdom is safe.
Folklore of the Hebrides tells that giving a newborn his first drink
from the skull of a raven will give the child wisdom and the power of
prophesy.
Because King Arthur lived on in the form of a raven, in Corwall it is considered very unlucky to kill one.
"To have a raven's knowledge" is an Irish proverb meaning to have a
seer's supernatural powers. The raven is considered to be one of the
oldest and wisest of all animals.
Ravens were the favorite bird
of the god Lludd, the Celtic god of artists and artisans. He was said
to have two ravens to attend to all of his needs (similar to Odin and
his ravens).
The Scottish Goddess of winter, The Cailleach, sometimes appears as a raven. A touch from her is said to bring death.
Among the Irish Celts, the raven was associated with the Triple
Goddess, the Morrigan, who took the shape of a raven over battlefields
while acting as "Chooser of the Slain" and the protector of warriors.
The raven is also intimately associated with Morgan le Fay.
Irish and Scots Bean Sidhes (Banshees) can take the form of ravens.
Their calls from over the roof of a dwelling was considered to be an
omen of death for the occupants.
They were depicted as slobbering, slow-witted beasts by Disney in the
hit movie The Lion King, but hyenas are far more intelligent than they
have been given credit for. New research has revealed the African
carnivores are adept at solving problems and can even 'count.'
Scientists now believe the animals may have intelligence levels that
match some primates.
Hyenas,
which are highly social, have been found to assess the size of a
competing pack which is invading their territory, by listening to their
calls. They will only confront the intruders if the 'count' shows they
have a numerical advantage.
The National Zoo's female giant panda has given birth to a cub
following five consecutive pseudopregnancies in as many years.
Mei Xiang gave birth Sunday at 10:46 p.m., the zoo said. The staff can
hear the cub, but has yet to see it because Mei Xiang has built a large
nest in her den.
This summer the White Sea was filled with jelly-fish. A jelly-fish
has 24 eyes and its body consists of water for 95%. As soon as the
creature comes to the coast in
a wave it dies getting dried in the sun without water. The photos
below were taken during a small excursion into the world of the
beautiful creatures.
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A koala has been rescued from down a mineshaft twice by Victorian
university students after the unlucky creature fell back down the hole
on its first bid for freedom.
The
third-year University of Ballarat students were on an excursion in the
Victorian goldfields for an outdoor education class recently when they
walked past the mineshaft and saw the koala trapped down the 4.5m hole.
In an attempt to save the exhausted creature, they lowered a branch down
so it could climb up to safety.
The koala managed to climb up the long branch but when it got to the top, it tried to leap to another tree and missed. It plummeted down to the bottom of the shaft, prompting horrified shrieks and gasps from the students.
The
koala seemed to recover quickly and managed to climb back up the branch
to safety, choosing not to jump to another tree this time. The
University of Ballarat Outdoor Education department suspects it may have
been trapped down the shaft for days.
A
friend of the owner of the dogs said 10-year-old Daphne the dachshund
was recovering well, whilst the younger of the two, 4-year-old Ester,
was still deeply traumatised.
In this Sept. 5, 2012 photo, Jungle Island volunteer Linda Jacobs
comforts Peanut, one of the orangutans from a private zoo, as a group of
medical professionals gather over the medical table for R-CHOP therapy,
a combination of drugs used in chemotherapy to treat her aggressive
non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Miami. More
The town of Boston is founded by John
Winthrop as an extension of the colony at Salem. It is named after the
town of the same name in Lincolnshire, England.
1787
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia approves the constitution for the United States of America.
1796
President George Washington delivers his "Farewell Address" to Congress before concluding his second term in office.
1862
The Battle of Antietam
in Maryland, the bloodiest day in U.S. history, commences. Fighting in
the corn field, Bloody Lane and Burnside's Bridge rages all day as the
Union and Confederate armies suffer a combined 26,293 casualties.
1868
The Battle of Beecher's Island begins, in
which Major George "Sandy" Forsyth and 50 volunteers hold off 500 Sioux
and Cheyenne in eastern Colorado.
1902
U.S. troops are sent to Panama to keep
train lines open over the isthmus as Panamanian nationals struggle for
independence from Colombia.
1903
Turks destroy the town of Kastoria in Bulgaria, killing 10,000 civilians.
1917
The German Army recaptures the Russian Port of Riga from Russian forces.
1939
With the German army already attacking western Poland, the Soviet Union launches an invasion of eastern Poland.
1942
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
meets with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin in Moscow as the German Army
rams into Stalingrad.
1944
British airborne troops parachute into Holland to capture the Arnhem bridge as part of Operation Market-Garden.
The plan called for the airborne troops to be relieved by British
troops, but they were left stranded and eventually surrendered to the
Germans.
1947
James Forestall is sworn in as first the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
1957
The Thai army seizes power in Bangkok.
1959
The X-15 rocket plane makes its first flight.
1962
The first federal suit to end public school segregation is filed by the U.S. Justice Department.
