What weird news stories make you either laugh out loud, or just say "huh?'

[Merlin the Elder]

I forgot to even watch for the mammoth, I was so watching the iceberg doing its thing.

[Rowan MacD]

   A must read....Still LMAO.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/sex-toy-fools-entire-chinese-village-142914102--abc-news-topstories.html

[Merlin the Elder]

Uhhhhhmmmmmmm.......... nevermind......

[Rowan MacD]

   Not weird or funny-

   Sometimes a crime is so horrific, there is no other option than to just say-Justice Was Done in Texas. 

    Huzzah Texas.


Father who beat daughter's alleged attacker to death won't be charged

By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – 5 hrs ago



A grand jury in Texas has decided not to indict a father who beat to death a man he found allegedly sexually abusing his young daughter.

"Under the law, deadly force is justified to stop a sexual assault," Lavaca County District Attorney Heather McMinn said on Tuesday at a press conference announcing the grand jury's decision. "All the evidence presented by the sheriff's department and the Texas Rangers indicated that was in fact what was occurring when the victim's father arrived at the scene."

McMinn added: "The substantial amount of evidence showed that the witness statements and the father's statement and what the father had observed was in fact what had happened that day."

Jesus Mora Flores was beaten to death on June 9 in Shiner, Texas, after the 23-year-old father allegedly discovered the 47-year-old Flores in a pasture on the family's ranch on top of his 5-year-old daughter with his pants and underwear down. (News organizations, including Yahoo News, are not naming the father in order to protect the identity of his daughter.)

A witness who saw Flores—a Mexican who legally worked at the ranch—"forcibly carrying" the girl into a secluded area of the property alerted the father, who followed his daughter's screams to the pasture, pulled Flores off her, and "inflicted several blows to the man's head and neck area."

After beating Flores, the father called 911.

"I need an ambulance," the father told the dispatcher, according to 911 tapes released by police. "This guy was raping my daughter and I beat him up and I don't know what to do. This guy is fixing to die on me, man, and I don't know what to do."

"Come on! This guy is going to die on me!" he continued during the frantic, five-minute call. "I don't know what to do!"

Emergency workers, as well as the daughter's grandfather and aunt, tried to revive Flores but could not. Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon said he found the distraught father crying, saying that he had not intended to kill Flores.

"He's a peaceable soul," V'Anne Huser, the father's attorney, said. "He had no intention to kill anybody that day."

The case has sparked a debate about whether the killing was justified.

"There are those ... who feel that as abominable as the actions of Flores were, he did not deserve a death sentence delivered through vigilante justice," Diane Fanning wrote on Forbes.com. "If I found a half-naked man on top of my 5-year-old daughter, I might not have the strength to kill him. But I do know I would jump on his back and try to rip his eyes right out of his head."

A Time magazine reader even suggested "lifetime free passes to Disneyland" should be awarded to the father for protecting his child: "Touch a kid. Die. Done."

Local residents in Shiner—which has a population of about 2,000—supported the father, too.

"I think it was a good decision," Lamont Matthews told the Victoria (Texas) Advocate. "I would have done the same thing."

"The father has gone through enough," Gail Allen, another resident, told The Associated Press. "The little girl is going to be traumatized for life, and the father, too, for what happened. He was protecting his family. Any parent would do that."

"It's sad a man had to die," Michael James Veit said. "But I think anybody would have done that."

"In our opinion," Huser said Tuesday, "the story is over."

[KeeperoftheBar]

Indeed, HAZZAH!

I can not imagine any father, worthy of the title, doing anything else when his child is threatened.

[DonaCatalina]

Other sources reported that the girl's young brother witnessed the beginning of the attack and went to find his father. It was confirmed at the hospital that the girl had in fact been sexually assaulted.
According to section 9.32 of the Texas Penal Code, any person can use deadly force for the reasons covered in section 9.31 (Self-Defense). This means that the individual may use deadly force to protect himself or another person only if he reasonably believes that the individual posing a threat will not retreat and that deadly force is the only means to protect himself or another person. An individual can also use deadly force to protect himself or others from aggravated kidnapping, murder, aggravated robbery, robbery, aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault. Section 9.33 similarly states that an individual may use deadly force in defense of a third person if the individual reasonably believes that the third person is in immediate danger and the intervention by use of deadly force is the only way to protect the third person.

Read more: Texas Penal Code Laws on the Use of Deadly Force | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_6656468_texas-laws-use-deadly-force.html#ixzz1yR0nYMt8

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

Debate?  What debate?  The only debate should've been over whether if the guy died slow enough.  Sick piece of s**t got off easy... it should've been a lot more lingering. 

[Rowan MacD]

    Dona, thanks for the info on the witness that called the dad.  The little boy is a hero.   
    I was wondering why another person would have let the guy go past him with a screaming kid, but if it was another small child, the attacker would have ignored him as a non threat. An adult would have most probably made the attacker abort his plan in one way or another.
   I only regret that the father had to go through the BS he had to, he is not much more than a kid himself, but
we all know that if he had to do it over again, it would have gone down the same way. 
   There are some choices that are not choices at all.

[Lady Kett]

This one is an "awwww"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/it-aint-over-the-business-secret_n_1607385.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1229452,b=facebook

[Rowan MacD]

 Feel Good Friday!

[Merlin the Elder]

This one is an "awwww"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/it-aint-over-the-business-secret_n_1607385.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1229452,b=facebook

Yeah... I liked that one.

[DonaCatalina]

And if you want a Mamaw Ruth Pound Cake of your very own....

http://happiness-happens.com/catalog/c4_p1.html

[Merlin the Elder]

They put vodka in everything!
I think I'll order one just because I like why they're doing it...and because I like cake...with vodka...

[Lady Kett]

Wow...the world just got weirder...

http://news.yahoo.com/nj-woman-hit-ball-sues-little-league-player-170958657--spt.html

[LadyAsh]

That is just outrageous. He is just a little kid, it is not his fault... the things people would do to get money.