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A 62-year-old man died after being pinned between two vehicles in the parking lot of a Metairie drug store Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Rodney Conti, 5908 Marcie St., Metairie, was was pronounced dead about 4 p.m. at University Hospital, according to a news released issued by Sheriff Newell Normand.

The accident occurred about 11:43 a.m. at C’s Discount Pharmacy, 1401 Veterans Memorial Blvd., according to Col. John Fortunato, spokesman for the department.

Conti was walking toward the pharmacy when a 1994 Nissan Sentra, driven by Audrey Bentle, 73, of 315 Ash Street in Metairie, accidentally accelerated. Conti was pinned between her vehicle and an unoccupied 2004 Ford Crown Victoria, according to traffic fatality investigator Brandon Nielsen.

According to witnesses, the woman never took her foot off the accelerator, and Conti repeatedly pleaded for someone to get the car off of him while her tires continued to spin and smoke.

It was the smoke that attracted a trio of off-duty firefighters from the East Bank Consolidated Fire Department. Glen “Smurf” Hankel, John Dunn and Jerry Schaefer were working at the temporary headquarters of the Jefferson Parish Firefighters Association in the 800 block of Homestead Avenue and rushed over to help.

Several witnesses who tried to call 911 got only busy signals, so the firefighters dialed up the nearest firehouse and had them contact dispatch, according to pharmacy employees and firefighters.

The firefighters were careful not to move any of the vehicles until paramedics arrived. Schaefer said he tried to keep Conti calm until he was freed about 11:56 a.m.

Bentle was not issued any citations, but the district attorney’s office will be consulted in the case, Normand said in the release.

Damn!

Maybe it is time to reconsider the driving privileges of senior citizens.

Thanks to Scoop This reader Jcresanto for the tip.

The Sun

A STUNNING Miss World finalist had her hands and feet amputated – after contracting a killer bug, according to reports.

Doctors carried out the drastic surgery on Mariana Bridi da Costa after she was struck down with a urinary disease – which can be fatal.

Her boyfriend Thiago Simoes said 20-year-old Mariana fell ill on December 30 – but was initially misdiagnosed with kidney stones.

The infection quickly spread – causing her to go back to hospital for tests that revealed her condition.

Septicemia set in her limbs, cutting off circulation and forcing doctors to amputate her hands and feet.

Her father, Agnaldo da Costa, told a Brazilian newspaper that “the concern is over her life”.

Mariana twice made it to the national finals of the Miss World contest and last year traveled to China to participate in the Miss Bikini International pageant.

No hands or feet?

I’d still hit it.

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Is this normal?

Is this a sport?

MSNBC.com

MARQUTTE, MI: A wee dog is lucky to be alive after a run in with a Wii remote in Marquette, Michigan.

Ozzy, a five-month-old miniature Sheltie, was watching his owners play with their new Nintendo Wii console when he was accidentally hit with one of the game’s remote controllers.

“We had just got the Wii for Christmas,” explained owner Kathy White, “so we were trying it out, and that’s when Alexis and I were bowling and Ozzy was standing by me and he jumped up and I hit him in the temple and killed him instantly.”

White says Ozzy wasn’t moving or breathing.

Her first instinct was to call her neighbor Pene Honey for help.

“I was brushing my teeth and my husband handed me the phone,” said Honey, “and I put it to my face and it was Kathy and she was screaming that she killed Ozzy and to come over right now.”

Honey says she picked up the lifeless dog and felt for a pulse.

“I just waited to see if he would breath and his heart was racing and racing and then it slowed and then just stopped, and that’s when I gave him a breath in his nose,” she said.

After four or five breaths, Honey says Ozzy coughed and woke up.

White then rushed him to the vet where she found out he had severe brain swelling and was in cardiac arrest.

After a couple weeks of recovery, White says he’s almost back to normal.

Now she knows you have to be careful when playing a Wii.

“I just want people to be aware of their environment,” White said, “especially small dogs and children so this doesn’t happen to them. Because it was a horrifying experience and I don’t want anyone to go through this.”

Ozzy is no longer allowed in the room when the family plays the game.

Wii exercise is bad for puppies.

NBC-2.com

FORT MYERS, FL: A fight between two retirement home residents turned deadly Sunday and newly released police reports indicate the fight was over a blanket.

According to Fort Myers Police, Kenneth Knauf and Chrisanto Beltran were roommates at Hidden Oaks Retirement Center in the Alzheimer’s wing.

Investigators said Knauf was cold and asked Beltran to borrow a blanket. Knauf got out of bed, went to the restroom and grabbed a blanket off Beltran’s bed when he returned.

Reports say Knauf grabbed the wrong blanket and Beltran got up and fought with Knauf.

During a routine bed inspection, a staff member found Beltran lying on the floor. She and another staff member performed CPR on Beltran while waiting for an ambulance, but were unable to revive him.

When paramedics arrived, they pronounced Beltran dead and transported Knauf to Lee Memorial Hospital. He suffered black eyes and multiple cuts on his face.

Investigators do not know if charges will be brought against Knauf because he and Beltran both suffered from dementia.

Police contacted the Department of Children and Families about the incident.

The Department of Children and Families is investigating the location for the fourth time in three years.

The only time a finding was substantiated was in 2007 for improper restraints.

“One was physical injury, bruises to a patient,” said Erin Gillespie.

DCF will investigate whether there was proper supervision at Hidden Oaks.

Expect lawsuits.

BOOM!

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All eight people inside the house and all the firefighters are safe.

The firefighter inside the house only had minor injuries.

The Sun

HOVERING silently above the hills is this the most astonishing picture yet of a UFO?

The ‘flying saucer’ was spotted flying over the Dyfi Estuary near Aberystwyth, Wales, by hundreds of gobsmacked onlookers.

And these amazingly clear pictures have given new hope to the thousands who believe life does exist on another planet.

Lucky Sonja Lewis was working at Borth Golf club where her husband is a pro-golfer, on December 28, when she captured the incredible scene on camera.

She said: “It was beautiful. I’ve never seen anything like it.

“At around 9am my husband came dashing in and told me to come and have a look at the sky.

“The sun was rising casting a red tint over the course and there was no wind.”

The silent UFO hung in the air for around 45 minutes before slipping from people’s view.

But weather experts have poured scorn on the mind-blowing snaps - claiming the UFO is a cloud.

According to local weather expert, John Mason, it is a cloud named a Classic Easterly that have been known to form in the area as air moves over mountains.

He said: “Easterlies are typically infrequent around here, so that they are only seen a few times a year, and the one seen over the Dyfi Estuary was a classic.”

But the explanation is unlikely to persuade true believers that this is anything other than a UFO.

The inexplicable sighting comes as a new study revealed more than three quarters of Brits believe we are not alone in the universe.

A spokesman for One Poll said: ”In the past week or so, there have been several reported sightings of UFOs.

”Maybe this has been enough to convince many undecided Brits that we aren’t the only ones in the universe.”

Cloud.

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines

The Sun

STUNNED doctors discovered a woman complaining of stomach ache had been carrying her unborn child for 60 YEARS.

Huang Yijun, 92, of Huangjiaotan, southern China, was told by medics in 1948 that her child had died in the womb.

Doctors demanded £100 to remove it, so she walked away.

She said: “It was a huge sum at the time - more than the whole family earned in several years so I did nothing and ignored it.”

But the secret emerged when Huang hurt her stomach and went to hospital for a scan.

Dr Liu Anbin at Qingshen hospital said: “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I discovered she had a baby in her belly.

“I’ve been a doctor for more than 40 years and it’s the first time I have seen something like this.”

Now medics are carrying out further tests to see if Huang needs an operation to remove the baby.

Consultant Xu Xianming, director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology department at the hospital, said: “Normally a dead fetus would decay. It’s very rare that Huang can be so healthy.”

Holy crap!

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines

KTLA.com

HAYWARD, Wis. — A man who froze to death in Wisconsin while sleepwalking outdoors in bare feet sometimes took a sleeping pill, and authorities suspect he had also been drinking before he died.

Investigators found a bottle of Ambien in Timothy Brueggeman’s bedroom, but they have not determined whether he took the medication on the night of his death.

Brueggeman, 51, was found outside his rural home Tuesday morning - hours after the temperature plunged to minus 16. He was wearing only underwear and a fleece shirt, and died of hypothermia, authorities said.

Sawyer County Chief Deputy Tim Zeigle said investigators believe Brueggeman may have been drinking before he died. They were awaiting test results to determine whether he had taken Ambien and alcohol together.

Ambien, the most-prescribed sleeping pill in the nation, has been linked to hundreds of cases of sleepwalking, sleep-driving and even sleep-shoplifting. Sanofi-Aventis, which makes the drug, maintains it is safe when taken correctly and not mixed with alcohol or other drugs.

A longtime friend of Brueggeman, Ed Lesniak, said Brueggeman sometimes drank while taking Ambien.

“He was like a lot of us,” Lesniak told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. “He’d stop off after work or have a couple throughout the evening and then take a pill to go to sleep.”

Brueggeman’s mother, Geraldine Brueggeman, of Bloomington, Minn., said she advised him to quit taking Ambien last summer after he drove his pickup truck without waking up.

Wow! Sleep-driving?

If anyone is going to take a sleeping pill, use Trazadone pills.

Last month, Carlos found an interesting story about Adolf Hitler… no, not that one.  Adolf Hitler Campbell — he’s only 3-years-old.   His parents tried to get a birthday cake with his name on it.  A request denied by the grocery store.  Thank God there was a Wal-Mart nearby with no morales to make the cake for them in time for little Adolf’s birthday bash!

Well, the family is in the news again.  This time, family services have removed all of the children from the Campbell home.

No details as to why the children were removed, but not hard to make a decent guess, huh?

Oh yes, his sisters were also removed from the home.  They are JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell.  We’re not making this stuff up folks!

Thanks to Kristie for this story.

UPDATE 1 (from Carlos): The children were NOT removed from the parents due to their Nazi names.

Lehigh Valley Live

“Just to be clear, removal of a child from a family is only done when there’s an imminent danger to a child and that wouldn’t include the child’s name alone,” spokeswoman Kate Bernyk said. “We wouldn’t remove a child based on their name.”

This was not the first run-in the New Jersey DCF has had with this family.

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In the foyer, Heath Campbell, who said he has German ancestry and a relative who fought for the SS, took off boots he said were worn by a Nazi solider named Daniel.

He laid them next to a skull with a swastika on its forehead, the first of dozens of swastikas seen by the Campbells’ rare guests.

There are swastikas on walls, on jackets, on the freezer and on a pillow. The family car had swastikas, Heath Campbell said, until New Jersey’s Department of Children and Families told him they could endanger the children.

This story keeps getting weirder and weirder!

Hat Tip: Hot Air