Octopus Overlords

Sudy wrote: ↑Thu May 10, 2018 8:55 pm (Don't judge. Korn is only on there due to "Narcissistic Cannibal" being the most catchy nu-metal/dubstep song ever.)

A Phoenix-area man went on a date -- one date -- with a woman he met online.

The meeting likely didn't go well. Not only wasn't there a repeat, he blocked her from the dating app, the woman said. That was last year.
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Police say that in the next 17 months, the woman sent the man text messages -- about 65 THOUSAND of them, including 500 in one day.

In court documents, prosecutors laid out how threatening the tone of some of them were: One said, "Don't ever try to leave me. I'll kill you. I don't wanna be a murderer." In another, she said she would kill him if he left her, and would wear his body parts and bathe in his blood, the documents said.
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When the man was out of town last month, he noticed in his home surveillance that the woman broke into his house and was taking a bath in his tub, police said.

Police came to the residence and discovered not only an uninvited houseguest, but also a large butcher knife in the front seat of her car.

Officers took her into custody and charged her with felony trespassing. When it was time for her to appear in court, she didn't, authorities said. A warrant was issued for her arrest.

On Tuesday, police in Paradise Valley, a small, affluent town in Arizona, arrested the woman after they say she showed up at the man's business and claimed to be his wife.

Freyland wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 8:46 pm While the woman's behavior seems ridiculously insane, the real story is that the guy waited through 17 months of text stalking before finally calling the cops because she broke into his apartment.

Moat_Man wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 9:24 pm

Freyland wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 8:46 pm While the woman's behavior seems ridiculously insane, the real story is that the guy waited through 17 months of text stalking before finally calling the cops because she broke into his apartment.

Are you saying there's a chance?

“In Australia, up until about 1967, there were literally thousands of babies dying each year, doctors didn’t know why, and it was awful,” Jemma Falkenmire, of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, told Gupta. “Women were having numerous miscarriages, and babies were being born with brain damage.”

The babies, it turned out, were suffering from hemolytic disease of the newborn, or HDN. The condition most often arises when a woman with an Rh-negative blood type becomes pregnant with a baby who has Rh-positive blood, and the incompatibility causes the mother’s body to reject the fetus’s red blood cells.

Doctors realized, however, that it might be possible to prevent HDN by injecting the pregnant woman with a treatment made from donated plasma with a rare antibody.

Researchers scoured blood banks to see whose blood might contain this antibody, and found a donor in New South Wales: James Harrison.

By then, Harrison had been donating whole blood regularly for more than a decade. He has said he didn’t think twice when scientists reached out to him to ask if he would participate in what would become known as the Anti-D Program.

“They asked me to be a guinea pig, and I’ve been donating ever since,” Harrison told the Sydney Morning Herald.

Before long, researchers had developed an injection, called Anti-D, using plasma from Harrison’s donated blood. The first dose was given to a pregnant woman at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1967, according to Robyn Barlow, the Rh program coordinator who found Harrison.

Harrison continued donating for more than 60 years, and his plasma has been used to make millions of Anti-D injections, according to the Red Cross. Because about 17 percent of pregnant women in Australia require the Anti-D injections, the blood service estimates Harrison has helped 2.4 million babies in the country.

“Every ampul of Anti-D ever made in Australia has James in it,” Barlow told the Sydney Morning Herald. “He has saved millions of babies. I cry just thinking about it.”

Freyland wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 3:29 am Must be, since apparently text # 65001 somehow signified it was time to take the relationship to the "next level".

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 10:44 am Nothing beats getting a "hey gurl I found your number in my phone what r u doing..." random text at 8am on Mother's Day. I mean really, man.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 10:44 am Nothing beats getting a "hey gurl I found your number in my phone what r u doing..." random text at 8am on Mother's Day. I mean really, man.

Sudy wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 6:37 am I just assumed everyone would.

What do you think of their new album? I'm relatively new to Priest (ashamed, I know), so I don't have historical context. It's clear Never The Heroes is anthemic though. But after a few listens my favourites are No Surrender (has a classic sound, no?) and Sea of Red (hell of a power ballad closer, right on up there with Lochness and Red, White & Blue).

Last week, police in Concord, California, arrested a high school student police say successfully deployed a series of phishing emails targeting teachers at his school in an attempt to change the grades of numerous students. Those emails provided a link to a site that appeared to be similar to an authentic grade portal, allowing the suspect to capture legitimate login credentials. Why the accused student did not change any of his own grades is unclear.