Kentucky packages, Catholic saint names, morbid facts and horror
Hmm. I wonder if a certain person in Kentucky has received his package yet. *checks friends page and email* Ah yes, he has. Yeah, at least the Canucks won against the Columbus Blue Jackets 1-0 that night. Low-scoring, but Luongo had a shutout! Good for whoever has him in their hockey pool around here... ah well, time to eat some Wacky Mac now that my appetite's returned to normal. (hope to go food shopping tomorrow...)
Today's Arresting Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A Hillsboro, Oregon father was sentenced to three years in prison for repeatedly siccing his dog on his two children as a form of punishment. David Hoskins, and his wife, Joyce, were arrested in May 2004 when police say the couple's eight-year-old son had a chunk of his left ear bitten off by the pit bull-Doberman mix. "Those kids mean more to me than anything in this world," Hoskins said in court. "I just, I thank God they're okay and they didn't get hurt worse than they did."
Their seven-year-old daughter needed stitches to close multiple puncture wounds on her arms, legs and back from dog bites. The children were placed in foster care after a neighbor called police when she heard the girl screaming. The dog, who weighed at least 90 pounds, has since been euthanized.
Culled from: KATU News
Generously submitted by: Katchaya
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The best thing about this story? I finally have "official" confirmation on how to spell the word "siccing."
The worst thing about this story? They euthanized the dog for following his owner's commands, but they didn't euthanize the owner for training his dog to attack his kids. There's something wrong with this world...
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Wretched Recommendations!
FJCancel has a film recommendation:
"I saw The Last House on the Left in the 70's at a drive-in: it scared me good and I have never forgotten it."
The Last House on the Left (1972)
Here's the Amazon.Com review:
"Future Nightmare creator and Scream weaver Wes Craven's film debut is a primitive little production that rises above its cut-rate production values and hazy, grainy patina via its grimly affecting portrait of human evil infiltrating a middle-class household. The story is adapted from Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, but the film has more in common with Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs as it charts the descent of a harmless married couple into methodical killers. A quartet of criminals -- a distorted version of the nuclear family -- kidnaps a pair of teenage girls and proceeds to ravage, rape, torture, and finally brutally murder them in the woods, unwittingly within walking distance of their rural home. The killers take refuge in the girls' own home, but when the parents discover just who they are and what they've done, they plot violent retribution.
"Along with George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Craven helped redefine American horror with this debut -- all three movies portray modern society crumbling into madness and horror. But, unlike his fellow directors, Craven gives his film an uncomfortable verisimilitude, setting it squarely in the heartland of modern America. While at times it's awkward and inconsistent, with distracting comic interludes, his handling of the brutal horror scenes is unsettling, and the death of the daughter is an unexpectedly quiet and lyrical moment."
I saw this movie recently and was distinctly unimpressed, but maybe it was a bit different to watch it in the '70's. I still think that I Spit On Your Grave is the same basic story told much, much better!
I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
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Morbid Mirth Du Jour!
Have you all seen the viral advertisement for Volkswagen that features a suicide bomber? I think it's brilliant, but of course the No Fun people at Volkswagen are threatening legal action against the film's creators because they would never, ever even THINK of releasing a film so horrible and so disrespectful to human life, yada yada yada. No sense of humor, I tell ya!
Thanks to Desmodus for the link.
Today's Arresting Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A Hillsboro, Oregon father was sentenced to three years in prison for repeatedly siccing his dog on his two children as a form of punishment. David Hoskins, and his wife, Joyce, were arrested in May 2004 when police say the couple's eight-year-old son had a chunk of his left ear bitten off by the pit bull-Doberman mix. "Those kids mean more to me than anything in this world," Hoskins said in court. "I just, I thank God they're okay and they didn't get hurt worse than they did."
Their seven-year-old daughter needed stitches to close multiple puncture wounds on her arms, legs and back from dog bites. The children were placed in foster care after a neighbor called police when she heard the girl screaming. The dog, who weighed at least 90 pounds, has since been euthanized.
Culled from: KATU News
Generously submitted by: Katchaya
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The best thing about this story? I finally have "official" confirmation on how to spell the word "siccing."
The worst thing about this story? They euthanized the dog for following his owner's commands, but they didn't euthanize the owner for training his dog to attack his kids. There's something wrong with this world...
*******
Wretched Recommendations!
FJCancel has a film recommendation:
"I saw The Last House on the Left in the 70's at a drive-in: it scared me good and I have never forgotten it."
The Last House on the Left (1972)
Here's the Amazon.Com review:
"Future Nightmare creator and Scream weaver Wes Craven's film debut is a primitive little production that rises above its cut-rate production values and hazy, grainy patina via its grimly affecting portrait of human evil infiltrating a middle-class household. The story is adapted from Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, but the film has more in common with Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs as it charts the descent of a harmless married couple into methodical killers. A quartet of criminals -- a distorted version of the nuclear family -- kidnaps a pair of teenage girls and proceeds to ravage, rape, torture, and finally brutally murder them in the woods, unwittingly within walking distance of their rural home. The killers take refuge in the girls' own home, but when the parents discover just who they are and what they've done, they plot violent retribution.
"Along with George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Craven helped redefine American horror with this debut -- all three movies portray modern society crumbling into madness and horror. But, unlike his fellow directors, Craven gives his film an uncomfortable verisimilitude, setting it squarely in the heartland of modern America. While at times it's awkward and inconsistent, with distracting comic interludes, his handling of the brutal horror scenes is unsettling, and the death of the daughter is an unexpectedly quiet and lyrical moment."
I saw this movie recently and was distinctly unimpressed, but maybe it was a bit different to watch it in the '70's. I still think that I Spit On Your Grave is the same basic story told much, much better!
I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
*******
Morbid Mirth Du Jour!
Have you all seen the viral advertisement for Volkswagen that features a suicide bomber? I think it's brilliant, but of course the No Fun people at Volkswagen are threatening legal action against the film's creators because they would never, ever even THINK of releasing a film so horrible and so disrespectful to human life, yada yada yada. No sense of humor, I tell ya!
Thanks to Desmodus for the link.
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