“It just kind of happened one day. She went in and had been in there a little while, the next time it was a little longer. Then she got it in her head she was going to stay — like it was a safe place for her.”
During Babcock’s stay in the bathroom her boyfriend brought her food and clothes and they even engaged in conversation. It was seemingly a normal relationship (except for the whole kidnapper dynamic). On February 27
It appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat, said Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple. The woman initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.
“We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital,” Whipple said. “The hospital removed it.”
It is currently unclear whether any charges will be brought against McFarren. He says he wasn’t forcing her to stay, and she didn’t want to leave, so I don’t see how he can really be charged with anything, except maybe negligent stupidity for not recognizing the problem sooner. My only question now is what did that bathroom look like? There had to be some form of entertainment in there, otherwise the lady would’ve gone crazy. Unless of course she was already crazy to begin with…

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This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday March 13 2008 on p21 of the International section. It was last updated at 09:08 on March 13 2008.
A dolphin guided two distressed whales to safety after they appeared to be headed for death on a beach in New Zealand, witnesses said yesterday. Despite the efforts of rescuers, the two pygmy sperm whales, a mother and her calf, repeatedly stranded themselves on Mahia beach, 300 miles north-east of Wellington, until the bottlenose dolphin - named Moko by residents - intervened. “Moko came flying through the water and pushed in between us and the whales,” a rescuer, Juanita Symes, said. “She got them to head toward the hill, where the channel [to the sea] is.”
Associated Press in Wellington
A woman was stopped at Munich airport after baggage handlers found the skeleton of her brother in her luggage, police said yesterday. The 62-year-old woman was travelling to Italy from Brazil on Tuesday when a scan showed a human skull and other bones sealed in a plastic bag. The woman explained that she was trying to fulfil the last wish of her brother - who died 11 years ago in Sao Paulo, Brazil - to be buried in Italy. After producing the appropriate papers from Brazilian authorities for the unusual transport the woman was allowed to carry on to Naples - bones and all.

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Thank you for the explanaton, Mr. Craig. I didn’t know that one of the drugs used caused paralysis. I hate to imagine not being able to say that you are still awake when they inject the cardiac arrest drug.
I’ve heard stories of people who were still awake on the operating table and couldn’t tell the surgeon, so they were aware of everything.
The Florida execution of Angel Nieves Diaz–which one physician described as death by torture–helped to inspire the recent batch of lethal injection stories. It’s horrific stuff.
The next state to abolish the death penalty should be Florida, I swear. They had the most botched electric chair executions–from faulty equipment and improperly trained personnel–and now the same thing is happening over there with lethal injection.
Totally agree with Craig here, by the way. Single-drug euthanasia, like we used in a veterinary context, is really the closest thing there is to a humane form of legal homicide.
LOL What does being a proud American have to do with not caring if it hurts a rapist,murder,etc hurts when they are executecd?
When I think of cruel and unusual punishments it woud be more like dismemberment, drawing and quartering, impalement..etc not lethal injection. Which was probably what they were thinking when they wrote the Constitution.

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THERE are two Beth Morgans. The first is the woman portrayed in the media, the femme fatale who slept with powerful property developers and became the centre of an extraordinary corruption hearing into Wollongong City Council.
The second is the one I’ve been sitting next to for the past two weeks.
The first is the woman in the sunglasses, her shield against the world. For the media, the sunglasses help preserve the mystery. For Morgan, they give her a faint hope that people will not recognise her. The second is the woman in clear prescription glasses, fighting to salvage what she can of her reputation and future livelihood, carefully studying transcripts of evidence.
For the past fortnight Morgan, 32, has been the most talked about woman in Australia. Each day, as she left the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption in Sydney, media chased the former Wollongong town planner down the street.
Armed only with her sunglasses, she stared straight ahead. It was as if she were following Winston Churchill’s famous saying: if you’re going through hell, just keep going.
Inside the ICAC, she sat in the same seat every day, checking transcripts and taking notes of new evidence.
For 10 days we got into a pattern: we both sat in the back row, leaving a vacant seat in the middle. In the early days she cut a solitary figure. At lunch she was alone, flicking through a magazine.

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