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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Man charged with stealing 66 colonoscopes from hospitals

A man has been charged with taking 66 colonoscopes from hospitals around the region and then selling them to various medical equipment distributors.

Michael Marburger was charged in federal court in Pittsburgh yesterday by a criminal information with 66 counts of transporting stolen goods across state lines.

According to court documents, Mr. Marburger took the colonoscopes from hospitals in Pittsburgh; Erie; Du Bois, Clearfield County; Altoona, Blair County; Cleveland; Butler; Martins Ferry, Ohio; State College, Centre County; Akron, Ohio; and Clarksburg, W.Va. between March 2004 and July 2006.

The most taken from any one place, according to paperwork, were 10 colonoscopes stolen from United Hospital Center in Clarksburg. They were valued at approximately $210,000 and were taken from July 8 to 28, 2006.

Goosey's Gabbings...

What's the odds he's going to get more than 66 colonoscopes in prison??

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Man accused of dancing naked in backyard...in front of children

(CBS) BRIDGEPORT, Conn. A judge has ordered a series of psychiatric and competency exams for a Fairfield man accused of dancing naked in his backyard in front of two neighborhood children.

Keith Iodice, 39, was out on bond after being arrested Dec. 1, 2005, and accused of downloading child pornography while working at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford. U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel will use the test results to determine if Iodice is competent to stand trial.

Iodice had a brain aneurysm when he was 18.

"He has no short-term memory," said his attorney, Frank Riccio Sr. "He does well as long as you plot the whole day out for him."

Iodice was taken into federal custody earlier this month after two boys said he was staring at them and gyrating his hips while naked in his backyard.

Iodice does not face new charges connected with the nude dancing, but he was accused of violating the terms of his release on the child-pornography charges.

Meanwhile, Fairfield First Selectman Kenneth Flatto has asked Police Chief David Peck to look into how the nude dancing accusation was handled. The mother of one of the children involved and several neighborhood parents had said Iodice should have been arrested on charges of public indecency or risk of injury to a minor.

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Risk of injury to a minor? What did they think was going to happen, Iodice would poke them in the eye??

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Mutilated Goat carcass found in South Buffalo

The body of a mutilated goat was discovered Wednesday afternoon in a remote area off Hopkins Street in South Buffalo, and city officials suspect animal cruelty.

The carcass, which was found by children playing in the area at about 4 p.m., was headless, and its four legs were sawed off, according to Michael J. DeGeorge, special assistant to Buffalo Police Commissioner H. McCarthy Gipson.

“There’s a feeling it was probably dumped in that location,” DeGeorge said. “Animal control officers believe it was probably there about 24 hours.”

Authorities said it is uncertain whether the animal was killed as part of a religious or cult ritual. The slaughter of a lamb or a goat around Passover or Easter is a tradition practiced by some religions.

DeGeorge said police found three dimes on the carcass but were unsure of the significance.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Word on the street is that this was a tribute to Buffalo little-known rapper 30 cents.

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Gonorrhea now on CDC's "Superbug" list

ATLANTA (AP) U.S. health officials are recommending wider use of a new drug to treat gonorrhea because the sexually transmitted disease is steadily becoming resistant to the longtime standard antibiotic.

Fluoroquinolones, a class of antibiotics that includes Cipro, have been the most common way to treat the bacterial disease since the early 1990s. Since then, gonorrhea has grown increasingly resistant to those drugs.

On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that a different class of antibiotics, cephalosporins, be used instead.

``Gonorrhea has now joined the list of other superbugs for which treatment options have become dangerously few,'' said Dr. Henry Masur, president of the Infectious Disease Society of America. ``To make a bad problem even worse, we're also seeing a decline in the development of new antibiotics to treat these infections.''

The CDC made the new recommendation after discovering that nearly 7 percent of gonorrhea cases among heterosexual men in a survey of 26 U.S. cities last year had drug-resistant strains of the disease. In 2001, only about 0.6 percent of gonorrhea cases among heterosexual men were drug-resistant.

``That leaves us with a single class of highly effective an disease. In men, it can cause epididymitis, a painful condition of the testicles that can lead to infertility if untreated, the CDC said.

In the survey of 26 cities last year, Philadelphia had the highest percentage of drug-resistant cases with almost 27 percent, followed by areas in California and Hawaii where health officials long have known about gonorrhea drug resistance.

Goosey's Gabbings...

Evidently, because of this issue scientists are mulling whether to rename Gonorrhea to "Stayorrhea".

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Donald Duck finally getting his due in Finland

Kwaak!

The trouserless duck in the sailor's hat puts even Helsingin Sanomat to shame. He has more readers than the largest daily newspaper in the Nordic region.
And at 56 years of age, Donald Duck is more popular than ever. What is the secret of the phenomenal popularity of the strip cartoon albums that go by the Finnish name of Aku Ankka?
"Aku Ankka came at the right time", says artist Kaj Stenvall, who was born in December 1951, in the same month and year that Donald's comic albums made landfall in Finland.

Stenvall learnt to read with the help of the Aku Ankka strips, just like hundreds of thousands of others. And the duck won over the hearts and minds of the baby-boomer generation.
Now they order the comics for their children and their grandchildren.
The circulation of Aku Ankka has grown for seven straight years in succession and hit a new record early this year, at 320,514 copies.
Aku Ankka is Finland's largest magazine, not including some free magazines put out to customers by store chains and the like.

Goosey's Gabbings...

So many people have scratched their head about the fact that Donald Duck has forever had a shirt on, and never any pants. I think a more curious question is why Bugs Bunny has no pants, no shirt, no clothes--period, but he wears gloves? Is he a relative of Howie Mandel??

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University President arrested for 2 DUI charges--in two days

William J. Frawley, 53, was charged yesterday with drunken driving and refusing a Breathalyzer test in Fredericksburg, city police said. Both are misdemeanors.

UMW Rector Bill Poole said Frawley was in Mary Washington Hospital’s intensive care unit this afternoon.

He said at a news conference that he didn’t know the details of Frawley’s injuries.

“The tragedy of all this is he’s such a brilliant man and so capable,” Poole told The Free Lance–Star.

Fairfax County police spokeswoman Camille Neville said today that there is an outstanding warrant for Frawley in Fairfax on a DUI charge from Tuesday.

The president of the University of Mary Washington also faces a charge of drunken driving in Fairfax County stemming from an accident there Tuesday afternoon, Fairfax police said today.

Mary Washington university officials said Frawley left Inova Fairfax early yesterday morning against advice. He was arrested about 2 p.m. yesterday at Brompton, the official residence of the Mary Washington president.

It’s unclear exactly how Frawley got between Inova Fairfax and Fredericksburg.

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I've got three words for you....KEGGER AT FRAWLEY'S!!!!!!!!

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