A dollar saved is a dollar earned.

A man trying to enter a rock concert at a fair impaled his thigh on a wrought-iron fence and underwent surgery to have a two-foot section of fence removed from his leg.

Aaron C. Fry, 19, of Washington Borough, Lancaster County, used both hands to steady himself atop the fence, 12 feet in the air, for 45 minutes Wednesday evening, until crews working on ladder trucks and a fork lift could cut the fence and lower him to the ground.

“He had to actually try to hold himself up there,” said John Kottmyer, assistant chief of York’s city fire and rescue service.

Rescuers could not remove Fry from the fence because doing so could have risked serious blood loss or death, said David Nichols, chief of the West Manchester Township Fire Department.

“Medical protocol is you don’t … remove an impalement because it may have severed an artery or nicked an artery and it could be holding that back that blood,” Nichols said.

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Better if she had got shitface drunk, I suppose, & forgot about the kid & then fell asleep in the bathtub until the next morning. Like most kids, they get cocked and then cock while baby sitting.

A 15-year-old Nassau County girl who authorities say posted a picture on the Internet of her smoking marijuana while baby-sitting was arrested and charged with felony child abuse, the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office said.

According to the arrest report, the teenage girl — who is not being named because of her age — told investigators, “she had been smoking a joint with the child while baby-sitting” at her Yulee home earlier this month, according to WJXT-TV.

She also told detectives she took a picture of it and posted it on her personal MySpace.com page.

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Apparently so. Black gamers all around the world are upset that the next installment of the hit series of Zombie Killers, Resident Evil 5 takes place in Africa, killing well, black Zombies of cource.

Yes. Japanese game developers seem to care less and are continuing to develop the game and no release dates have been altered. Over the years Resident Evil and its Zombie Virus has traveled the globe affecting the world and its people, now making its way to the mother land, Mother Africa. Why should Africa be excluded from this horrible outbreak you ask, well the answers are quite simple.

White Zombies are there for the picking, but killing black Zombies are just, well, racist, and if you buy this game, well you better not kill them, or else Al Sharpton will be at your house with an angry mob. And here comes the demand for reparations. Some very reputable Black authors have voiced their opinion about this racist title developed by the Japanese online in various blogs and web sites.

Kim from Black looks says:

The new Resident Evil video game depicts a white man in what appears to be Africa killing Black people. The Black people are supposed to be zombies and the white man’s job is to destroy them and save humanity. “I have a job to do and I’m gonna see it through.”

This is problematic on so many levels, including the depiction of Black people as inhuman savages, the killing of Black people by a white man in military clothing, and the fact that this video game is marketed to children and young adults. Start them young… fearing, hating, and destroying Black people.

Black Woman from Ask A black Woman says:

I confess I don’t know much about video games, gamers, etc. I don’t play video games, but I occasionally play solitaire on my gf’s PC. However, given the response from gamers… I think we should all be very afraid. Many of these folks seem like the type who would try to reenact scenes from Resident Evil 5. Can you say Columbine?

Never before have I received more hateful comments by angry gamers who called me everything from a “nigger” to a “black hooker” for agreeing with Ruberg that these images of Black people (Black zombies) are problematic.

A Black Microscopiq Author says:

Rape, murder, satanic voodoo. With bulging eyes, simian super strength, and a room temperature IQ, we’ve been portrayed as savages beyond redemption. So, when we see images like these, it doesn’t just resonate with the long lived zombie genre, it also triggers memories of so many awful stereotypes — and what those stereotypes have been used to justify past and present. Put down the crazed negroes before they take the white women! And so on…

But perhaps the most troubling part is that these scenes seem to be set in Africa; the “dark continent.” With all the positive steps being taken of late to raise awareness of the good things happening in Africa as well as the urgent need in some parts of the continent, we really can’t afford this kind of step back. We need to find ways to humanize Africans, not dehumanize them.

Bad Resident Evil… bad…

Fredrick from YBP says

The images used in the game, already disturbing because it is resident evil, also reflect hateful images that were real and meant to invoke hate towards black people in the not too distant history of america. in addition, the underlying stigma of a white guy going through an african village that is infected by a disease spread through blood contact while shooting his way to victory has the undertones, as well, of insensitivity to images projected in the past.

Racist game…

A bunch of kids from an IRC chan say…

[dmb_sleep] Breaking news: Resident Evil is racist
[dmb_sleep] they are boycotting it
[brutus] In RE4 you kill mobs of spanniards
[bustersword] Did spaniards boycott RE4?
[bustersword] I think not
[brutus] And rescue a white girl from a spannish cult
[brutus] How is killing blacks any different?
[dmb_sleep] but I mean they are just zombies right…. they dont have feelings do they?
[brutus] Probably
[dmb_sleep] DO zombies have feelings?
[dmb_sleep] I wonder…
[brutus] No, they don’t
[brutus] And they aren’t zombies, they are infected with a virus
[bustersword] aids
[bustersword] heheheh
[brutus] Ebola
[dmb_sleep] lmfao
[bustersword] no wai.

Judo CHOP.

Lose a game of chess to a computer, and you could bruise your ego.

Lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine, and you could break your arm.

Distributor Atlus Co. said Tuesday it will remove all 150 “Arm Spirit” arm wrestling machines from Japanese arcades after three players broke their arms grappling with the machine’s mechanized appendage.

“The machine isn’t that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it,” said Atlus spokeswoman Ayano Sakiyama, calling the recall “a precaution.”

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50 pound rabid beaver? You’d thought Rosie O’Donnell would keep that thing under control!

A warning from the Baltimore County Health Department following last weekend’s attacks on two swimmers by a rabid beaver. A 14-year-old boy and an adult woman were attacked north of Loch Raven Dam while swimming in the reservoir.”The boy was rescued by his mother. The female swimmer was rescued by her husband and a good Samaritan. In this instance, the 50-pound beaver was killed with a rock. It tested positive for rabies,” Rabies Coordinator Gary Thompson tells Richard Sher.

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When something like this happens, you swing a baseball bat at the gunman’s head, because he has suggested that his gun may not be loaded.

convenience store customer was struck on the head with a gun when he mistook a robber for a friend who he thought was playing a practical joke, police said.

The masked man entered Sandler’s Party Store about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, brandished a handgun and demanded money.

Patrick O’Brien, 21, walked up to the man, thinking he was a friend, and grabbed him in a playful way, police said. The gunman then hit O’Brien in the head with his gun.

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Isn’t buying a used coloring book kinda like buying used toilet paper?

When a McKinney couple picked up a coloring book for their daughter at a garage sale, they were surprised to see what looked like sketches drawings for a comic book tucked inside. But that was just the start of the surprises.

They turned out to be oversized artboards for the original “Avengers” comic book from 1964, worth some $48,000.

But that’s not all — the sketches were also reported stolen from DFW airport earlier this year. That’s when the Washingtons were surprised again by police.

“They read us our rights, they grabbed me and put me in another room,” remembered Paul Washington. “I’m just like in shock! What’s going on, asking a lot of questions.”

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I would actually stay awake in more meetings if they were this amusing. City counsel is serious business.

A difference of opinion over whether it was 11:25 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. allegedly led to an altercation between an Alamosa County commissioner and a resident who called him a liar at a county meeting.

The men apparently disagreed about the starting time of the public-comment period at a meeting Wednesday. The public is allowed to comment beginning at 11:25 a.m. Allen called a recess, returned at 11:30 a.m. and announced that “we are now starting to have public comment at 11:25 a.m.,” Moyer said.

Moyer said Allen “got up from the chair and he came almost running” toward Moyer, who was sitting 30 to 50 feet away.

Moyer said Allen hit him in the head and “the next thing I knew, I was on the floor.”

He said he didn’t know if Allen pushed him off the chair or he fell.

“And then he kicked me on the right side. That’s what really hurts me physically,” Moyer said.

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So if I’m fat I get more sex and can skip school? Load up the fried twinkies! This can not be true can it?

Obese elementary schoolchildren miss a couple more school days on average than their normal-weight classmates, according to a study that says being fat is a better predictor for absenteeism than any other factor.

Researchers said their results suggest that childhood obesity, in addition to serious medical issues, can lead to a plethora of additional problems down the road.

“It’s clear in all the literature that the more days of school you miss, it really sets you up for such negative outcomes: drugs and AIDS and (teen) pregnancy,” said Andrew B. Geier, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and lead author of the study released Friday.

Of 180 school days, researchers found that on average the normal weight students missed 10.1 days, overweight kids missed 10.9 days and obese children missed 12.2 days. For reasons that aren’t clear, underweight children had the fewest absences — 7.5 on average.

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Sounds a little fishy to me… What was the insurance policy???

Fendley was trying to start the mower in the garage of his two-story brick home in this Atlanta suburb when the machine burst into flames. Before he could extinguish the fire, it had spread through the garage.

Then his wife tried to toss a can of gasoline out a window as the blaze spread, but she missed, spreading the fuel “everywhere,” Fendley said.

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