Truth really is stranger than fiction.

Laurel in Ely · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:12 pm

ROME (Reuters) - Police rescued two teenage Bulgarian sisters from a circus in southern Italy which forced one of them to swim with flesh-eating piranhas for the amusement of guests, police said.

While the 19-year-old sister swam in a transparent tank, the younger, 16-year-old was forced into a container where the circus staff tossed snakes at her. She was injured by one of the snakes, police said.

Police arrested three Italians who ran the circus south of Naples, in Salerno province, accusing them of forcing the sisters to live in virtual slavery.

The women were paid 100 euros ($155.8) per week and lived in a trailer that had previously been used to transport animals, they said.

ttzuma · **Joined:** Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:15 pm **Posts:** 13517

That's why I like horror fiction. It can never be as cruel as what people do to each other in real life.

Laurel in Ely · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:07 pm

So true.

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What is wrong with people?

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Laurel in Ely · **Posted:** Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:09 pm

In another article I read it said she was a very tiny woman. I don't know why I assumed she was heavy. A doctor interviewed stated that she would have had to sit still on the seat for at least a month for her flesh to fuse with the seat.

The reporter showed no class by printing her name.

TMLCrow · **Posted:** Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:46 pm

The one that made me cringe was a guy was convicted and sentenced to life for putting his then-2-month-old baby in a microwave for ten seconds. He tried for an insanity defense, but it didn't work.

I think he's getting off easy at life.

Thad

HugeHorrorFan · **Posted:** Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:58 pm

I would put the the jerk (to be nice) in the microwave for 10 seconds for his every two months of his miserable life. If he doesn't fit, we can start with only his head...

I will press the "START" button. No problem on my conscience...

horrordude · **Posted:** Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:45 am

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horrordude · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:18 am

TMLCrow · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:32 pm

I agree, horrordude, on changing the channel or turning the tv off. I'll go even further--don't hook up the cable to your kids tv's. Believe me, I'm all for the safety of kids and what they should be allowed to watch and everything, but I think there still has to be a time and place for adults to be adults, too.

Now, for something with a lighter note.

SAN ANTONIO (AP)-- Their goal was an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing.

However, the wording in a draft by students at the University of Texas at San Antonio appears to match another school's code--without proper attribution.

The student in charge of the honor code project siad it was an oversight, but cheating experts say it illustrates a sloppiness among Internet-era students who don't know how to cite sources properly and think of their computers as cut-and-paste machines.

"That's the consequence of the Internet and the availability of things," said Daniel Wueste, director of the Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University. "It doesn't feel like what would be in a book. You Google it and here it comes."

Student Akshay Thusu siad that when he took over the project a month ago, he inherited a draft by earlier project participants, including a group of students who attended a conference five years ago put on by the Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson.

Materials from the conference, which are used by many universities, were probably the main source of the proposed code in San Antonio, Thusu said. That's why parts of the Texas draft match word-for-word the online version of Brigham Young University's code.

BYU credited the Center for Academic Integrity, but the San Antonio draft doesn't.

That will change, said Thusu, who plans to include proper citation and attribution when the draft is submitted to the faculty senate.

"We don't want to have an honor code that is stolen," Thusu said.

Thad

DGM · **Posted:** Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:25 pm

Truth really is stranger than fiction.

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