Not that I’ve ever heard.
Many years ago a little girl, five years old, was playing outside in my city. She disappeared and was never found. Some say she’d been seen talking to a stranger, but no good descriptionwas ever pieced together. The girl wouls be at least forty by now, and nobody knows what became of her.
I remember seeing this on the news when I was a young teen. US journalist Bill Stewart being executed by a Nicaraguan soldier while a ABC cameraman filmed it.
It really stuck with me for a long time, seeing a live murder on TV like that. Living a sheltered suburban life, I had never seen such violence before.
I had meant to post this in the thread about stock market scammers in the eighties… I remember when the headline of the NY Daily News announced that for the first time in history, more than “20 MILLION SHARES TRADED” in one day on the NYSE. That was 1971. Now that’s about 5 minutes worth of trading on an average day, not counting all of the other exchanges.
In early 1992, two people were rolling cigarettes while sitting on a train track in Mississippi. They noticed that a train was coming, but they wanted to finish the cigarette they were working on at the moment. They did not get up in time and were both killed. I remember showing the newspaper article around to fellow students in my 9th grade algebra class, so that’s why I remember when it occurred.
If I remember correctly, this was in Iowa in the 80’s. Two teenaged girls were in a car accident. One died, the other was seriously injured. She did not wake up until after the other had been buried. They had both suffered facial injuries. When the injured one woke up she said “I’m not Mary, I’m Jane”. I couldn’t imagine the horror for the parents.
Something I was just thinking about yesterday. It was news here in Britain 20-odd years ago. It was hardly obscure at the time, it got national coverage. But it’s obscure now, except to Brits over 30.
I won’t spoil the fun - just google “orange MP”. And fellow Brits… you know exactly what’s going to come up, don’t you?
That Googling doesn’t work in Australia, because the NSW state parliament has an electorate called Orange, and with all due respect to Mr Gee, I suspect he’s not the MP you are thinking of. Adding “UK” to the search criteria gives a result which I assume was the one you were thinking of - the event being exactly 21 years and a fortnight ago.
I remember that, but that’s not the video I recall.
I remember him stating over and over “I’m a journalist” and then he was ordered to lay down. Without provocation he was shot and the camera man said “They shot him in the head!” and they scrambled away.
ETA: Maybe it was a different journalist, bit I don’t think so.
I remember one from Chicago.
It was supposed to be a prank where the kid walked up to a gang member, asked if they wanted to die, and then started reaching for hair dye. It didn’t work out.
The prankster was ventilated & bled out on the sidewalk.
I read a story about a woman in Ontario who had over a hundred cats (living and dead) in her house; her neighbours had complained about the smell for over a year, but the city didn’t have the right to come in if she refused to let them.
That’s sad, but that wasn’t the unusual part of the story that I remember. It turns out that she was working for two different departments of the government simultaneously. She told her boss at Department B that she had quit working at Department A, but she told her boss at Department A that she needed a leave of absence to take care of some personal business. Then she told Department B she needed some time off and she went back to work at Department A. I don’t know how long she was going to try to keep that up, but she got caught.
#2 on this list goes into more detail, and also mentions a similar story that happened in 2006 and was written up in a best-selling book.
Did you find anything on it?
I watch that over and over too. From the horror of his deeds and ego, to the brilliant reeling him in of his interrogator, it’s fascinating.
You do wonder which (if any) of the same attributes made him a good leader and so demented.
I found a couple of articles from 2012 but none mentioned DNA. Just about journals that had been donated to the Fall River Historical Society.
This was in the 1970’s or early 80’s, in New York City. Some guy snatched a woman’s purse as she was walking in front of a cathedral. She shouted, “Help! Police!”
The cathedral doors opened and hundreds of cops came pouring down the steps! A meeting of an organization for Catholic police officers was just ending when they heard the woman’s call for help.
And yes, one of the many cops did catch the purse snatcher.
I remembered this for the sheer silliness of it.
A semi hauling a full load of Vlasic dill pickles jacknifed and split open on a local highway, right in the middle of the downtown area. Pickles and their pungent juice flooded the streets. It was summer and very hot and the entire town smelled like pickles for a good month. The whole affair evidently tickled the on-the-spot reporter’s funny bone, as he giggled his way through the news story. Later, the camerman was shown capturing people walking in the next block, unaware of the accident, wrinkling their noses and looking around with odd looks on their faces.
And of course the nightly newspaper headline read “Downtown in a Pickle after Accident”.
“Eagle snatches dog while owner watches”
Older couple vacationing in Alaska. Wife is taking their tiny dog (Yorkie or some such) for a walk. Bald eagle swoops down and takes the dog to its final reward. The best part of the article was the husband shouting “Yes! YES!!!”…
About 12 years ago, I had a dentist appointment and got stopped in horrible traffic, so bad I was over an hour late. It turns out that someone had gotten on the interstate going the wrong direction for 9 miles (or 12, both numbers stick in my mind), before she finally had a head on collision with someone going the other way. The crazy part of the story was that when they went to retrieve the lady out of her car, she was wearing only a bra and panties, had a baggie of coke in her bra with a straw sticking out of it!
I was in the process of moving at the time, so I had to keep watching the news online and I never did find out what happened to that lady, other than being sent to the hospital.