Weird News of the World Thread

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

The best optical illusions of 2014 are truly mind-bending stuff

Each year, the Neural Correlate Society holds a contest among experts on perception and visual illusions. The top ten entries get selected by a panel, and the three best are then picked in an international gathering that I imagine as some sort of wizards convention. Here are are the winners.

1. The Dynamic Ebbinghaus

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The Dynamic Ebbinghaus takes a classic, static size illusion and transforms it into a dynamic, moving display. A central circle, which stays the same size, appears to change size when it is surrounded by a set of circles that grow and shrink over time. Interestingly, this effect is relatively weak when looking directly at a stationary central circle. But if you look away from the central circle or move your eyes, or if the entire stimulus move across the screen, then the illusory effect is surprisingly strong – at least twice as large as the classic, static Ebbinghaus illusion.
Christopher D. Blair, Gideon P. Caplovitz, and Ryan E.B. MruczekUniversity of Nevada Reno, USA, USA

2. Flexible colors

One colored image can lead to several color perceptions, depending on the position of black outlines that are presented on top of the colored image. The shape of a surface depends more on changes of luminance in the visual scene than on specific colors themselves. By presenting black outlines on top of colored images, the whole area between outlines is seen as having one single color. Instead of seeing the actual colors presented at each location, our brain prefers to see one homogenous color, as surfaces in real life are usually also perceived with one single color.

By Mark Vergeer, Stuart Anstis, and Rob van Lier

3. A Turn in the Road

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When we look at two pictures that are physically the same, they usually look the same. When they are different, they look different. Our illusions show the opposite: two images that are different but look the same – those are called "metamers"; – and two images that are identical but look different – we call those "anti-metamers." Our main illusion mixes the two: it shows three images, two of which match with a third one mismatching. Viewers see one image as odd, but it's one of the two identical images they see as different, an illusion we call "false pop out."

By Kimberley D. Orsten and James R. Pomerantz, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
The Neural Correlate Society is "an organization that promotes scientific research into the neural correlates of sensory perception, awareness, and cognitive experience." According to their site, "the contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world's premier visual illusion research community. Visual illusions are those perceptual experiences that do not match the physical reality. Our perception of the outside world is generated indirectly by brain mechanisms, and so all visual perception is illusory to some extent. The study of visual illusions is therefore of critical importance to the understanding of the basic mechanisms of sensory perception, as well as to cure many diseases of the visual system. The visual illusion community includes visual scientists, ophthalmologists, neurologists, and visual artists that use a variety of methods to help discover the neural underpinnings of visual illusory perception."

In other words: They are just trying to screw our minds—and succeeded.

I love optical illusions

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

How Much It Costs the NSA to Store an Entire Country's Phone Calls

On Monday, we learned that the NSA is recording every single phone call in the Bahamas and storing the data for a month. This news arrives just six weeks after we learned that the NSA was recording every single phone call, text, and email in Iraq. In fact, the spy agency is engaged in similar efforts in five different countries around the world. So how many taxpayer dollars does that come out to?

A whole lot. Data storage, especially on that kind of scale, costs a ton of money. It's not just the server space itself, either. That part is actually pretty cheap. All of the other costs associated with running a data center—electricity, cooling, real estate, support, warranty—add up quickly. And that's before you put humans into the equation.

In an attempt to provide some clarity about the cost of the NSA's Caribbean adventure, we reached out to Zayo, a leading provider or bandwidth infrastructure services. These are the guys that build the actual tubes that keep the internet on and all of us connected, so they know a thing or two about dealing with massive amounts of data in real time. They also know a little bit about dealing with governments around the world.

The formula Zayo offered up is relatively simple, though the numbers are necessarily ballpark figures. (Remember: the NSA is an infamously secretive spy agency.) First, we'd need to know how many phone calls the NSA is actually handling. According to Monday's report in The Intercept, it's "over 100 million call events per day." Shane Painter, the director of IT infrastructure and operations at Zayo, told Gizmodo that a single call would typically create "on the order of 64 kilobytes and 1 megabyte of data, perhaps more depending on the format and quantity of metadata included." Simple math reveals that the Bahamas' phone calls would require between 61 and 95 terabytes of storage per day.

So how much does it cost to store all that? We know that the NSA maintains its own data centers, but for the sake of transparency, let's work with industry figures. Painter told Gizmodo that "all non-human operating costs (electrical, cooling, 'rent' on the data center space, support and warranty), typically falls between $0.015 [per gigabyte] per month on the very low end (archival, slow, SATA) storage, to $0.15 per month on very fast, all SSD SAN storage, given a 36 month lifespan." The longer the data is stored, the cheaper it becomes. But since the NSA is apparently deleting the data after one month, it's actually more expensive. Painter said he believes a job like that would require a system capable of "constant deletion," and that system is the expensive SSD SAN storage.

Time for more math! Using that $0.15 per gigabyte per month figure, we can calculate the cost of a single day's worth of recordings in the Bahamas at $9,375 on the low end and $14,646 on the upper end. Don't forget that they're doing this for a month at a time. So in any give 30 day period, the NSA spends between $281,250 and $439,440 recording random phone calls in the Bahamas. Those are taxpayer dollars, of course.

That adds up to $3.4 million a year, at a bare minimum, to record every phone call made in the Bahamas. It's probably closer to the upper end of $5.3 million a year.

Now, remember the NSA is reportedly doing this in five different countries around the world, bringing our total ballpark just for phone call recording into the tens of millions of dollars.

In all likelihood, the NSA's supposedly ultra high-tech data center can probably cut some corners. Even still, those hundreds of thousands of dollars above simply account for the equipment. For the much more expensive, often human task of processing the data, it costs extra. The Intercept report tells us that the agency has an eight-year, $51 million contract with contractor General Dynamics for data processing, another six million dollars a year.

So you take the numbers above, add in a little extra for the federal government's bad habit of wasting millions for no reason, you get quite a sum. While it seems like a lot, remember that this just one operation from an agency that operates on a global scale, drawing money from a so-called "black budget" of over $50 billion. And since recording entire countries' phone calls adds up to such a small fraction of that budget, it's a little mind-boggling to imagine the kind of incredible scale the spies are operating on.

In other news certain school districts take food away from hungry kids for having no money

 

[Teelie]

How Much It Costs the NSA to Store an Entire Country's Phone Calls

In other news certain school districts take food away from hungry kids for having no money

It's their own damned fault for being too poor to afford food anyways.

I think that's the way the argument goes.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Haitian Machete Fencing Is a Real Sport, and This Old Guy Is its Yoda

Dodge. Parry. Thrust. Also, drop the épée. Take off that dumb facemask and grab one of them dull machetes over there. Count your fingers up, just to be sure. Okay, now you're ready for sport. Let ol' Alfred Avril, aka "Papa Machete," show you the ropes.

No, really. It's called tire machet and it's a thing in Haiti—a blessed, lovely thing, according to a report by Fusion.

Reporter Arielle Castillo interviewed a filmmaking team, led by journalist Jason Jeffers, that is crafting a documentary about Avril, who for decades has trained all comers in the art of the big-ass blade—sans helmet or safety gear—in a jungle camp outside Jacmel, Haiti.

Supposedly, the sport derives from stick fighting around the time of Haiti's historic, self-determining revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century:

"It's a Caribbean thing. The machete is the Excalibur of the 'Third World.' I grew up in Barbados originally so it's just something you'd see all over," says Jeffers, now based in Miami, Florida. "It's a tool, it's a weapon, it's whatever you need it to be. It comes from the history of the Caribbean as a bunch of sugar colonies. So it's just something that's part of everyday life."

Jeffers—who also records music under the name Fitzroy—sees them as a totem, drawing repeatedly on the image of the machete throughout his creative career. So, one day, when he was trawling a favorite subreddit forum on the martial arts, a YouTube video basically gobsmacked him. The clip showed one American acolyte, Mike Rogers, fencing an older Haitian man named Alfred Avril—with a sharpened, and potentially deadly, machete.

"Immediately I was like, 'Okay, I have to go,'" recalls Jeffers. "At first it was like, 'Okay, let me just go and learn how to fence. Then it became, 'Oh, maybe I should write a journalism story about it for a magazine or something.' Then it became, 'Oh wait, maybe I should make a film about it.'"
Avril's camp has fallen into post-earthquake disrepair, and the filmmakers have launched a Kickstarter... with donations from luminaries like novelist Junot Diaz, who have an interest in keeping this vestige of Haitian culture going.

In the meantime, don't **** with the old man.

http://fusion.net/culture/story/short-film-papa-machete-aims-preserve-tire-machet-697594

Looks super crazy, I'd never do that. Vid at the link if you want to check out the insanity

 

[MangleBoP]

Haitian Machete Fencing Is a Real Sport, and This Old Guy Is its Yoda

http://fusion.net/culture/story/short-film-papa-machete-aims-preserve-tire-machet-697594

Looks super crazy, I'd never do that. Vid at the link if you want to check out the insanity

My friend and I used to fence with Louisville Slugger baseball bats.

 

[guitarsingerguy]

My friend and I used to fence with Louisville Slugger baseball bats.

By "fence" do you mean beat the **** out of each other? Because it isn't really the same thing.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Bacon Enthusiasts Complain About Not Getting Enough Bacon

Bacon lovers in Frederick, Md. are up in arms after their Beer Bacon Music festival failed to supply them with a sufficient amount of cured pig product. This shall not stand!

The two-day bacon and booze fest cost $125, and according to the Frederick News-Post, sounded like quite the way to spend a weekend feeling bloated:

Ticket buyers for the two-day Frederick festival were promised an all-you-can-eat bar with 2 tons of bacon, 10 bands, more than 100 varieties of beer and vendors from at least 30 breweries.
Event promoters couldn't fry bacon strips up fast enough to feed the ostensibly insatiable hunger bacon lovers have. It was, to put things into perspective, a goddamn travesty.

"Not one piece of bacon got in my mouth," Irene Hafner told the News-Post. She waited an hour to get into the festival and another 45 minutes waiting in line at the bacon bar. She's trying to get a refund for the tickets she bought for her and her husband. "I got a T-shirt, a turkey sandwich and probably a total of one beer for $125," she said.

Damn. That's it?

But it's good to know that those bilked of their bacon have rightly taken up the time of their representatives:

According to David Paulson, spokesman for Maryland's attorney general, three consumer complaints against the Beer Bacon Music festival had been filed as of Monday afternoon.
Keeping fighting the good fight, disgruntled bacon lovers of Frederick.

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/ne...cle_eecbc5c5-f1dd-5c55-b0a0-3b05d3e6d775.html

I'd be pissed off too if I paid good money for something promising both beer and bacon and then I got hardly anything

 

[MangleBoP]

By "fence" do you mean beat the **** out of each other? Because it isn't really the same thing.

Neither of us got hurt.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

20 Million Bees Swarm Delaware Highway After Tractor-Trailer Crash

Authorities in Delaware spent most of Tuesday night cleaning up the wreckage from a tractor-trailer crash. The cleanup took longer than usual because of the truck's cargo: 20 million bees, most of which escaped and swarmed the truck.

From NBC Philadelphia:

The big rig, which was holding about 20 million bees in 460 boxes, overturned on the state Route 896 northbound on-ramp to I-95 northbound in Newark shortly after 6 p.m., according to officials.

It would take nearly 13 hours to clean-up the mess.
Proving it always pays to be prepared, Delaware State Sgt. Paul Shavack said it was the first time the state had used their "honeybee swarm removal plan."

Three bee handlers were called to the scene. They, along with firefighters, worked to disperse the bees, 90 percent of which were lost after the crash.

"They've been traumatized so they're pretty well upset now," Paul Dill, one of the beekeepers, told NBC Philadelphia.

Another witness described the bees as "thirsty... disoriented and angry." Sounds about right.

The truck's driver, Adolfo Guerra, and two passengers suffered minor injuries in the crash. They were also stung 50-100 times each. Guerra was later cited for unsafe shifting of a load in relation to a crash.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...260027591.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_PHBrand

I wish I had been there so I could have done this:

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[KevanG]

Quoted from people near the crash:

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Lasagna Disaster Inspires Incredible Headline

Yes, that is a real front page, from the May 16 edition of the Gaffney Ledger in South Carolina. Note that the headline isn't a quote, but an editorial decision to use "LASAGNA WAS EVERYWHERE" in huge font above the fold. The full story describes the high-octane lasagna accident in necessary detail.

Unfortunately, the Gaffney Ledger has a paywall, but we went above and beyond to find out the details by paying two dollars for a single-issue subscription. So, how did lasagna get everywhere?

Two people, a head driver and co-driver were in the cab at the time, according to Gaffney Police Chief Rick Turner, and the co-driver reportedly was behind the wheel at the time. When the truck got stuck, the head driver took control and tried to drive the truck off the tracks.

"While he was trying to do that, he (the head driver) looked up and here comes a train," Turner said.

Both of the drivers were able to exit their cab and run across the road.
The next grafs describe a scene only Michael Bay could dream up.

The train, which was traveling at approximately 32 mph, sliced through the trailer, carrying a portion of it with it as it continued down the tracks. Cartons and boxes of frozen food spilled all over the tracks.

When the train came to a stop, its cars ended up blocking most railroad crossings in the downtown area with the exception of the T-Bridge, 3rd St. and Corry Street.
No one was harmed, except for the lasagna that ended up everywhere. The ravaged lasagna all over the road also delayed rush-hour commuters.

The best part—which is tough to define, because the entire article/incident is amazing—is probably the quote kicker:

"There was an inch of lasagna ground into the pavement," Turner said. "They (the firefighters) came down with the truck to hose off the road but the water was beading up. They eventually used big buckets of detergent and brooms to scrub the roadway."

http://www.gaffneyledger.com/news/2014-05-16/Front_Page/LASAGNA_WAS_EVERYWHERE.html

Probably the most exciting thing to happen to that town all year

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

The World Is Running Out of Gold

How much gold would you have if you stole every bit that's ever been mined? Not much—you'd be able to make a cube of solid gold with 60-foot sides. There just isn't that much gold in the world, and it's getting harder and harder to find it. In fact, our love of gadgets may be part of the problem.

In a report from the Wall Street Journal this morning, we learn that we're only two decades away from exhausting the world's gold supply if mining continues apace. How could we be running out of gold? It's simple. As gold boomed in the 90s and 00s, the easy-to-access deposits were sapped of their supplies. Now, the gold being discovered is way deeper into the Earth, which means that discovering it takes a lot more work before it can be extracted.

Now, new gold discoveries are incredibly rare. In fact, in 2012, there were none at all:

In 1995, 22 gold deposits with at least two million ounces of gold each were discovered, according to SNL Metals Economics Group. In 2010 there were six such discoveries, and in 2011 there was one. In 2012: nothing.
Unless gold companies want to dig deeper—often in arctic areas that are notoriously difficult to mine—it's becoming difficult to discover the low-hanging (or high-hanging, in this case) fruit. In one instance quoted in the story, miners had to blast away 100 metric tons of rock to find just an ounce of the good stuff. It's contributing to illegal mining practices, too.

Sure, a gold cube with 60-foot sides sounds massive. But think about chiseling that block into all the gold bars, coins, electronic components, and even jewelry that exists in the world. It's actually extremely small—there's only .005 parts per million in the Earth's crust, compared to 50 parts per million of copper. In fact, some gold experts say we have even less: In 2013, Warren Buffet estimated that the cube would only have sides of 20 feet in length.

Here's where things get really strange. As the BBC points out, all of the gold mined since the beginning of time has, in essence, been recycled: A piece of gold mined by the Romans may have been melted down into a gold bar in the 1800s, say, and may have eventually made its way into a consumer product like a gold watch.

But all those gadgets and computers and electronics that require minute amounts of gold to function? They're changing that gold reuse pattern for the first time in history. Because so little gold is used in this tech, it doesn't make sense to recycle it. So while gold, like air, has remained a static resource on Earth, that's no longer true. Our gold resources will continue to deplete, one iPhone at a time.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles...8304579562191180572808?mg=reno64-wsj&mod=e2tw

That's crazy, I wonder what kind of super conductor they will have to switch to when gold prices are through the roof?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Flying tire crashes into a car on the road out of nowhere

Imagine cruising down the freeway, possibly on your way to a weekend away from the city, singing songs with your BFF, making future plans about what to do in August, thinking about what kind of food to grab when SMACK. A flying tire crashes itself into your car barely missing your windshield.

If it was just a few inches higher, the crash would have been even scarier.

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Does anyone else think that filming yourself while driving has some weird way of attracting something bad to happen to you? It almost seems that way to me

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

The real Scarface mansion is now for sale in California

The real mansion from Scarface—the iconic Brian de Palma movie starring Al Pacino as drug lord Tony Montana—has hit the property market and its location may be its biggest surprise after the $35m asking price: It is not in Miami at all but in California. Take this virtual tour of El Fureidis, as the property is called.

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The most disappointing thing may just be that it is not as tasteless as the house portrayed in the movie and there is barely a tiger or any other drug lord status symbol in sight. You can of course rectify all that when the property is yours.

Who's got an extra $35 million they can spot me?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Scuba diver almost gets swallowed by 49-foot whale

This 49-foot (15 meter) Bryde's whale came close to accidentally swallowing diver Rainer Schimpf off the coat of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The whale appeared right under Rainer, going up mouth open, swimming at full speed to catch as many fish as she could.

Schimpf was underwater watching the annual sardine run, a natural event that involves billions of sardines going from one place to another for their reproductive season. Unexpectedly, the whale appeared seemingly out of nowhere from the bottom of the ocean. According to Barcroft TV, the "giant mammal swerved at the last moment to avoid smacking directly into him"—but the water displaced still sent him flying.

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So yeah, kids, don't dive in areas where huge animals that could accidentally eat you feed on lots of food swimming around you.

In the course of human history there has to be at least one person that got swallowed by a whale. What the heck would you do in that situation?

 

[sabetoonth]

Kick it in the tongue til it opened up

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

The FBI Is Struggling to Hire Hackers Who Don't Smoke Weed

The FBI has a problem. The agency needs to hire hackers to build out its cyber crime division, but it also will not hire anyone who's smoked weed in the past three years. And guess what? A lot of hackers like to smoke weed.

It's a real conundrum. However, it's a conundrum the FBI is working through. On Monday—the same day the agency made headlines by issuing wanted posters for Chinese Army hackers—FBI director James Comey told an audience at the White Collar Crime Institute about this little pot problem. "I have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals, and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview," Comey said. Exactly how to do that is the hard part. Comey added that the agency is "grappling with the question right now."

So does this mean the FBI is looking to hire stoners? No, probably not. It does look like our friends in federal law enforcement are warming up to the idea of hiring people that like to take part in a fun activity that's legal in two states and practically legal in many more, though. In fact, Comey even told a member of the audience that his friend "should go ahead and apply," even if he's worried about the policy. And so can you.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/05/20...ling-with-hiring-policy-concerning-marijuana/

They are definitely going to have to ease up on this if they want to get a large group of tech savvy young folks like they need.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Minnesota Just Became the First State to Ban Anti-Bacterial Soap

If you've ever washed your hands with anti-bacterial soap, there's a good chance you were rubbing yourself down with a chemical called triclosan—a chemical that's been proven to be harmful in humans in recent years. Now, Minnesota has become the first state to officially ban it. And yours could be next.

The Minnesota ban, which doesn't actually go into effect until January 1, 2017, applies to pretty much any retail consumer hygiene products that includes triclosan as an active ingredient—including about 75 percent of anti-bacterial soaps.

The FDA claims there's no evidence that triclosan soap is any more effective at washing away germs than non-antibacterial soap and water. What's more, according to recent studies, triclosan can "disrupt hormones critical for reproduction and development, at least in lab animals, and contribute to the development of resistant bacteria." So not only is this chemical not doing you any real good, it could actually be harming you, too.

Minnesota may be the first to pass an overarching ban, but there's a good chance other states will follow suit; triclosan is even getting some heavier regulations nation-wide. Just this past December, the FDA ruled that anti-bacterial soap manufactures would have to prove that their soaps are not only safe, but also more effective than plain soap or water. Which sounds like something they probably should have been doing all along.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/minnesota-bans-anti-bacterial-chemical-soaps

Funny how long we have been using the stuff for and they just now got around to seeing if it actually is worth a darn

 

[cherokeesam]

Scuba diver almost gets swallowed by 49-foot whale

In the course of human history there has to be at least one person that got swallowed by a whale. What the heck would you do in that situation?

His name was Jonah.
I'd be willing to bet that Darren Aronofsky is writing a script about him at this very moment.

 

[Feenix]

Spoiler

Flying tire crashes into a car on the road out of nowhere

Does anyone else think that filming yourself while driving has some weird way of attracting something bad to happen to you? It almost seems that way to me

In Russia, almost everyone has a dash cam to prevent insurance fraud and corruption by the cops.

It does make for some pretty crazy videos for the internet.

 

[Teelie]

That flying tire seems so randomly out of nowhere it looks fake although it clearly hits that car.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

World's Best Cat Fetches Weed, World's Worst Cat Owners Narc On It

All cat owners know that cats like to bring them things. Typically, these things are small dead animals, usually in pieces, because cats are evil murdering fiends from Hades. But on Sunday night, one cat in New Zealand decided to break the mold of his (or her) people, and bring home a small bag of marijuana.

According to Yahoo! News, said cat owner rewarded this behavior by immediately calling the police.

Officers said they found five grams (0.2 ounces) of cannabis, with an estimated value of NZ$150 ($130).

''You hear of cats bringing dead birds and rats home but certainly in my career I've never seen anything like this before," Sergeant Reece Munro told the Otago Daily Times.

''I guess you never really know who's keeping you honest these days, do you?"

Munro said the owner of the cannabis had not been found, although police were planning to check the plastic bag for fingerprints.
Given how useless most cats are, which is to say extremely useless, the owner's decision to forfeit this meager profit from the cat's daily business is inexplicable.

Not every cat can be a Hero Cat, of course. But Weed Cat, we think, deserves a place in the annals, surely.

https://news.yahoo.com/cannabis-cat...-184336360.html;_ylt=AwrBEiRE9XxTGBkAbCPQtDMD

What a funny thing for a cat to find. Too bad the owner was such a prude

 

[KevanG]

I've had a cat leave dead mice on the back porch before. I'd be really confused if it brought me a baggie.

Cats. Go figure.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Kidnapping Victim Found Alive in California After 10 Years

On Tuesday, a 25-year-old woman who was allegedly held captive and sexually abused for nearly ten years escaped and contacted police. Isidro Garcia, 41, was arrested by Santa Ana, Ca. police on suspicion of kidnapping for rape, lewd acts with a minor, and false imprisonment.

From the Santa Ana Police Department's press release:

In August of 2004, a 15-year-old was reported missing to the Santa Ana Police Department by her mother. The mother reported that her daughter went missing along with her cohabitant boyfriend, Isidro Garcia, after a domestic violence incident. At the time, the mother suspected Garcia of sexually abusing her daughter; however she had no evidence to support this belief.

…

In August of 2004, after Garcia assaulted her mother, Garcia drugged the victim and drove her to a house in Compton. There, Garcia provided the victim with falsified identity documents and locked her overnight in a garage to prevent the victim from fleeing. Over the course of the following months and years, Garcia repeatedly told the victim her family had given up looking for her, and if she tried to go back to them, the family would be deported. The two moved on several occasions to avoid police detection. Garcia frequently physically and sexually assaulted the victim. Garcia arraigned for the two of them to receive employment at a night cleaning service, so he could keep a close eye on the victim.
Garcia allegedly forced the victim to marry him in 2007; in 2012, they had a child together.

The victim reportedly went to police shortly after contacting her sister on Facebook for the first time since she went missing.

http://ktla.com/2014/05/21/held-cap...s-police-to-her-alleged-abuser/#axzz32O0v2irN

There are some real psychos out there, hope this guy goes down for a long time

 

[Ant-manic]

Scuba diver almost gets swallowed by 49-foot whale





In the course of human history there has to be at least one person that got swallowed by a whale. What the heck would you do in that situation?

defecate on myself, involuntarily. of course, this would have to be at the tail-end of some horrific misadventure. because i avoid large bodies of water.