Injury report details extracurricular activity

The pre-game injury report for the December 31st Citrus Bowl listed University of Louisville linebackers Henry Famurewa and James Hearns as out of action against Louisiana State because of "gunshot wounds."  (Via Sports Illustrated, 12/31/16).

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Florida news: The Time Traveler

"A driver accidentally [?] plowed through two small businesses in Pensacola in December, creating such destruction that the manager of one said it looked like a bomb had hit (forcing both--a tax service and a casket company--to relocate). The driver told police he was attempting to “travel through time.” - via WEAR-TV (Pensacola), 12-23-2015

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Stealth squatter: a woman secretly living (and eating) in a guy's apartment

A fascinating and creepy story. A woman had been living in the crawlspace of a guy's NYC apartment for weeks. He started to notice food was missing and set up a video cam.

"Yes, I found out the hard way that I had an uninvited guest living in my apartment, sharing my food and drinks and pissing in my sink. Talk about a creepy situation... only in the big apple...."

The hooligan in me can somehow appreciate the whole notion of a stealth squatter. Maybe those weren’t really rodents we heard in the walls when I lived in NYC?

You can read more on YouTube, or here on N*akedApartments.


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Holdout in Seattle: Ballard's Edith Macefield turned down $1,000,000 for her ramshackle cottage

Click to enlarge Edith's house -- I took this six months ago, before

the buildings on either side rose to five or six stories (that's her car).

If you want to see Stuart Isett's great photo of the same buildings six

months later, jump to the NY Times article.

You've heard about other "holdouts" -- almost always elderly people who refuse to sell their homes; about people holding up Progress. Well, Edith Macefield in Ballard, did it, and we drive by the results every day. She refused an offer of $1 million from developers (probably four or five times its market value) to buy it. Whoever ends up living there won't have far to go to get to Trader Joe's or L.A. Fitness.

The New York Times must have had a very slow news day, because they just published a long article by about her refusal to sell, and the strange story behind it.

The article alludes to an autobiography she wrote and published that contained some fanciful flights of imagination. That is undoubtedly so. We've always called her Hitler's babysitter around our house. The local Ballard 'paper published a story about her about 15 years ago in which she claimed, among other things, to have worked as the nanny for Hitler's right hand man, Joseph Goebbels (and his wife Magda). No word on how she escaped the white night in the Fuhrer Bunker, when Goebbels killed his entire family as the walls came down around Berlin.

She also claimed in the earlier article to have married a bazillionaire in England after the war.

"The interior of Ms. Macefield’s bungalow remains exactly as she left it," when she died a few months ago.

It's an interesting tale, of Seattle, holdouts, a very interesting and eccentric woman, and an estate controversy. Check it out here, in the New York Times.
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Woman accused of exposing herself to 13-year-old

Jacylyn O'Malley writes in yesterday's RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL that a 33-year-old woman has been jailed because she exposed herself to her 13-year-old neighbor and made him touch her, police said. Michelle Seddon, unemployed and disabled, was booked into Thursday on suspicion of lewdness with a child, according to the police.

According to a police report, the charge stems from incidents in March that occurred in her Booth Street apartment where she lived with her girlfriend. A 13-year-old middle school student neighbor told police that he visited Seddon at her apartment one day where she stripped and asked him to touch her. O'Malley's girlfriend was not home.

Police became involved after the boy told his mother, who called officers. On at least one occasion, the boy and his friend had spent the night at the women's apartment where the friend later reported Seddon inappropriately touching the boy while he slept, police said.

In 2003, Seddon's girlfriend filed a restraining order against her after Seddon was arrested for battering her. Yeah, this chick looks like she could do some serious damage.

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Crackdown on toilet paper in Kansas prison: warden apparently gi-normous Sheryl Crow fan

According to the Associated Press, toilet paper is now a hotter trading commodity at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility than cigarettes. Prison officials in Kansas have recently begun enforcement of a longstanding limit on prisoner toulet paper rations.

Inmates are now limited to four rolls of toilet paper each. "The increased enforcement has angered many of the more than 1,600 inmates housed at the facility."

"Some take this for granted," inmate Carl Kennedy said in a letter to The Hutchinson News. "But in here it's part of a safeguard for widespread infections. We use it to blow our noses, clean sinks, toilets and tables."


If each inmate uses one less roll per month, according to prison officials, they would save the prison $600 a month. "There are a lot of things that individually don't cost much," said Kansas Department of Corrections spokeswoman Frances Breyne. "But when you multiply that by hundreds, it makes a drastic impact."
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