Man Comes Home From Vacation and Falls Over A Corpse

   This is the kind of junk you find in the middle of the night and you're really bored! I remember when this used to be National Enquirer material.

   Good night all!! See you in the later A.M.!

    Charlotte Observer

Posted on Tue, Feb. 20, 2007

Man returns from visit, trips on corpse

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO - A Haight-Ashbury man returning home from an extended vacation tripped and fell on a corpse in his bedroom after finding his apartment had been ransacked, police said.

Authorities have not released the name of the resident or the victim, identified only as a white male, but are treating the death as suspicious, said Sgt. Neville Gittens.

The resident had just come back from a two-week visit in Humboldt County when he made the grisly discovery Monday, Gittens said.

"That is really sad, just terrible," said Kiersten Frey, who has lived on the block for more than 10 years. "It's usually pretty mellow around here."

The resident's orange-and-white tabby cat seen prowling the investigation scene was taken away by animal control officials but was unharmed, said Animal Care and Control Lt. Le-Ellis Brown.

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Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle

 

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Cardiac Defibrillators In Texas Schools

    This could only happen in Texas! I may have to check around to see what Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa has in common with the company that will be providing this equipment. I should note that some schools already have this equipment on the premises

El Paso Times

Bill requires Texas schools to put in cardiac defibrillators

By Mark Muecke / Austin Bureau

Article Launched: 02/21/2007

AUSTIN -- Schools in Texas would have to install devices that could save the lives of cardiac arrest victims under a bill filed Tuesday.

The proposal, filed by state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, is part of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's "Texas Children First" plan. It would also require nurses, coaches, some students and other school employees at Texas' 8,000 public schools to become certified to use the devices, called automatic external defibrillators.

"The bottom line is that AEDs save lives," Dewhurst said.

Hinojosa, D-McAllen, said chances of surviving a cardiac arrest when a defibrillator is used are 75 percent, but when one is not used the chance of survival drops to 5 percent.

Putting the devices in schools statewide would cost about $16 million, which would come from a combination of federal and state funds and private contributions, Dewhurst said.

The University Interscholastic League passed a new rule in October 2006 that requires every high school to have at least one defibrillator by Aug. 1, 2007, said league spokeswoman  

 

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