Saturday, April 24, 2010

Woman stabs niece, 1, during spat over gas used in beer run

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A Garden City Georgia woman was freed Thursday from Chatham County jail on $3,000 bond after she accidentally stabbed her 1-year-old niece in the head during an argument over gas used during a trip to buy beer, according to a police report.

On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., 43-year-old Lorraine Bulloch drove her brother to the store for beer, and when they returned home, she grew angry over the price of gas, according to a Garden City police report.

The argument escalated when Bulloch responded to her brother's name calling by grabbing a knife from a drawer and throwing it at him. Bulloch's brother ducked and the blade struck her 1-year-old niece in the head, a report stated.

The little girl was taken to Memorial University Medical Center where, as of Thursday night, she was listed in serious condition, according to Garden City Capt. Al Jelinski.

Bulloch was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and has a probable cause hearing scheduled for June 2 in Garden City Municipal Court, Jelinski said.

Initial reports from the scene Wednesday night indicated the stabbing victim was 3 years old and the argument was over beer.

VIDEO: BOOBQUAKE IS COMING APRIL 24

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Everyone wants to blame someone or something for everything that goes wrong. Mother Nature does her thing and we look for a scapegoat to make ourselves feel better, because random destruction is scary. A Muslim cleric in Iran put the blame for recent earthquakes squarely on women. "Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes," Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Sedighi is Tehran's acting Friday prayer leader.

Polar Bears Stranded on a Tiny Ice Floe

A polar bear cub is comforted by its mother as they drift miles from shore on a rapidly shrinking iceberg.

The future may look bleak for the bears as they balance perilously on the ice 12 miles from land.

Amazingly, however, experts say the pair most likely made it back to the shore unharmed.

It is thought the mother and her young cub, aged around nine months, had gone out hunting seal and climbed onto the chunk of ice - known as an ice floe - to cool down.

The drifting ice shrank to just a few yards wide as it drifted down the Olga Strait of Svalbard, Norway, forcing the frightened bears to huddle in the middle.

Photographer Eric Lefranc, 40, captured the scene while cruising the area in temperatures of about five degrees Celsius.

He said: "As we got closer we could see a polar bear mum and her cub trapped on a little and unstable ice floe.

"These bears looked very distressed.

"The mum was desperately trying to keep the ice floe stable and to protect her little cub who was scared and moving a lot.

"Polar bears are usually good swimmers but the ice floe was 12 miles from the nearest coast and drifting away in the strait.

"In addition, the cub was only a baby - around nine months old and probably not strong enough to swim that far.

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"If she was able to leave her baby, the mother would probably have survived but our guide was quite pessimistic about the survival of the cub, who probably drowned.

"Some of the members on our trip were in despair. They wanted to take the bears with us and bring them to the nearest land which was obviously impossible."

However, animal expert and BBC Springwatch presenter Chris Packham said he believed the sad scene may well have had a happy ending.

He said: "Being so isolated, their fate may look doomed but I think there will have been a happy ending.

"Polar Bears have four-inch thick blubber to keep them warm, big paws that act as flippers and waterproof fur - that means they are incredibly well suited to the water.

"An adult can swim up to 50 miles at five or six miles per hour so the mum here should have no trouble completing the 12 miles back.

"The cub will struggle more and certainly faces an exhausting swim but I imagine it will have been OK if they paced the journey.

"Cubs usually doggy paddle behind their mum, clutching onto their back, so they are shielded from the current.

"The biggest threat to these two is actually hyperthermia, as their body temperature could rise and that could kill them if they swim too fast.

"It is likely they have gone out hunting for seals and climbed onto the ice floe to cool down.

"They have then found themselves drifting, possibly at some speed."

The Polar Bear is native largely within the Arctic circle, where they eat seals.

An adult male weighs up to 680 kg (1,500lb) and is up to 3m (9.8ft) long. An adult female is about half the size.

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