God bless her

Determined Texas Woman, 92, Votes in Ambulance

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Betty Owen is 92 and after a stroke four years ago, needs a feeding tube and can't walk. But she was determined not to miss Tuesday's election. She arrived at her polling place on a gurney in an ambulance, where an election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot.

"And you have voted," precinct judge Sam Green said after Owen pushed the red button finalizing her choices. "You know, you look so pretty in that red dress."

Owen grinned, the San Antonio Express-News reported in Tuesday's online edition.

Her daughter arranged for the ambulance ride at the last minute after Owen failed to get an absentee ballot.

Owen, a Marine Corps veteran who served in World War II, cast her first ballot for Wendell Willkie, a Republican running against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.

She became a Democrat after voting for John Kennedy in 1960. She cast a straight Democratic ballot Tuesday.

Why do people still act like assholes when they're on airplanes?

Don't they realize that NO ONE is going to put up with it?


FBI: Airline passenger restrained with duct tape

RALEIGH, N.C. - An airline crew used duct tape to keep a passenger in her seat because they say she became unruly, fighting flight attendants and grabbing other passengers, forcing the flight to land in North Carolina.

Maria Esther Castillo of Oswego, N.Y., is due in court Thursday, charged with resisting arrest and interfering with the operations of a flight crew aboard United Airlines Flight 645, from Puerto Rico to Chicago.

Castillo, 45, struck a flight attendant on the buttocks with the back of her hand during Saturday's flight, FBI Special Agent Peter Carricato said in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Charlotte. She also stood and fell onto the head of a blind passenger and later started pulling the person's hair, the complaint stated.

Ankle cuffs kept slipping off Castillo, so the flight crew and two passengers were forced to use duct tape to keep her in her seat, the complaint states.

She calmed as the pilot diverted the flight to Charlotte-Douglass International Airport, but became disruptive again when authorities boarded the plane to remove her, authorities said.

Carricato states that a passenger saw Castillo having drinks in an airport bar before boarding. She bought another drink on the plane. Flight attendants stopped serving her alcohol because of her behavior, the complaint states.

United spokesman Jeff Kovick said Wednesday that safety is the company's top priority and that it's cooperating with authorities.

FBI spokeswoman Amy Thoreson on Wednesday declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.

A message left seeking comment wasn't immediately returned by Castillo's attorney, Julia Mimms.

Holy Shit

Jogger runs mile with rabid fox locked on her arm

The Associated Press
Wednesday, November 5, 2008; 6:02 PM

PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Authorities in Arizona say a jogger attacked by a rabid fox ran a mile with the animal's jaws clamped on her arm and then drove herself to a hospital. The Yavapai County sheriff's office said the woman told deputies she was on a trail near Prescott on Monday when the fox attacked and bit her foot.

She said she grabbed the fox by the neck when it went for her leg but it bit her arm.

The woman wanted the animal tested for rabies so she ran a mile to her car with the fox still biting her arm, then pried it off and tossed it in her trunk and drove to the Prescott hospital.

The sheriff's office says the fox later bit an animal control officer. He and the woman are both receiving rabies vaccinations.

Ok, ok, another one!

Police Dog Fail:

This just made me lol so hard!

WANT!

I don't even know which set I want. I want them all. Stone dice!

Look at the aventurine ones! So pretty!

Look at the clear quartz!

And rose quartz!

Ooh! Carnelian!

Botswana Agate!

Hematite!

And they have metal: steel, brass finish and copper finish.

I think I just had an orgasm.

Stolen from Jenn

Use one word to describe or answer the following list:

1.Your house? none

2.Your significant other? none

3. Your hair? curly

4. Your family? stressful

5. Favorite place to eat? Chinese

6. Your favorite thing you can see right now? cat

7. Where is your cell phone? counter

8. Your favorite drink? Kahlua

9.Your dream/goal? house

10. What Room you are in? bedroom

11. Your hobby? beads

12. Your fear? heights

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? housed

14. Where were you last night? home

15. Something that you aren’t? employed

16. Pie? Please!

17. Wish list item? DVDs

18. TV show? How I Met Your Mother

19. Last thing you did? blog

20. What are you wearing? jammies

21. Vacation spot? island

22. Your pets? cat

23. A best friend? no

24. Your life? whee

25. Your mood? whee

26. Missing someone? sometimes

27. Your car? Toyota

28. Something you’re not wearing. pants

29. Your favorite store? Amazon

30. Best memory? Vineyard