Guess 99c was too cheap.

Gayle Grinds, 39, died Wednesday morning amid a large effort to rescue the 478-pound, 4-foot-10-inch woman from her rundown home after someone called 911 to say she was having trouble breathing. Grinds died after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home

An unpleasant smell reached out into the street from the small duplex in the 2600 block of S.E. Clayton Street. Trash, debris and human waste filled the home she had lived in for the past several years. There was no air conditioning. There were no fans.

That effort took more than a dozen fire rescue personnel working into the night, eventually bringing the woman out of the home on the couch and borrowing a flat bed trailer from Home Depot to take her to the hospital.

Herman Thomas, Caretaker/Husband of 6 years

Authorities say the woman had laid their for up to 6 years. Thomas said, “I can’t imagine life without her.”

Reporter asked him, “Did you neglect her?” Thomas replied, “No! I’d never do that!”

Leeds police forced a hairstylist who dressed up as Jesus and drenched himself in fake blood to come down off a 14-foot-tall cross he set up in front of his hair salon on Monday.

Patrick Conaty, owner of Running With Scissors hair and nail salon in downtown Leeds, got up on the cross about 2 p.m., his bald head fitted with a long black wig and his waist wrapped in a sheet splattered with red stains. He declared it “Salvation Awareness Day.”

“We’re trying to bring salvation awareness to Leeds, Alabama,” said Conaty, who has cross tattoos on each arm. “You have to do things to shock people to get them to pay attention to the Word of God. Most people don’t even read the Bible.”

Dennis Carr, who attends the New Life United Pentecostal Church in Birmingham with Conaty, preached a sermon, holding a Bible in one hand and pointing to Conaty on the cross with the other.

But city officials did make Conaty clean the fake blood stains off the new sidewalk. Conaty, wearing a crown of thorns, poured bleach on the stains and used a push broom to clean them off. He said he got the blood from a party store.

Workers from nearby businesses stepped outside to stare.

Quotes:
“I think he needs some clothes on,” said Reda Wilson, who works at The Warehouse, a bargain store across the street.

“I don’t know why it’s in the middle of downtown Leeds,” said Alice Crumpton, a Pants Store employee.

“We ain’t bustin’ Jesus,” City Manager Donnie Womble said. “We don’t want to put Jesus in jail.”

What a great idea from stamps.com. If you got the cash, why not spend it.

My co-worker “Randy”
20 stamps for 16.99 plus $3.99 shipping.

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The Quantum Sleeper Unit is a high-level security system designed for maximum protection in various hostile environments

Benefits:
- Protection from bio-chemical terrorist attack
- Protection from natural disaster
- Protection from kidnapping
- Bulletproof saferoom

The Quantuum Sleeper comes with options for:
- CD player,
- DVD Screen with PC hookup, (watch tv while hiding from the kidnapper)
- Microwave and Refrigerator
- Cellular Phones, CB and Short-wave Radios

Features I like:
- One way see through head cover - you can see the kidnapper
- Safety Features (Proximity Sensor) - you can see how far away he/she is
- The average cost of the Quantum Sleeper is estimated at about $160,000.00, but Quantum Lite Sleeper is a scaled back version priced at about one eighth to one half of the cost of the Quantum Sleeper.

http://www.qsleeper.com

In the Birmingham News on 8/9/2004

TINGLE, MR. DAVID E., “CAR THIEF”, age 49 of Corner died Saturday, August 07, 2004, at a local hospital. Graveside services will be 11:00 AM Tuesday, August 10, 2004, at Mt. Zion Cemetery. Visitation will be 5:00 to 7:00 PM Monday at the funeral home. Bell Funeral Home Sumiton will direct. Mr. Tingle was preceded in death by his mother, Nannie Tingle; and his grandparents, Edward and Zelma Tingle. He is survived by his wife, Charlene Morgan Tingle of Corner; two sons, James Tingle of Graysville and Justin Morgan of Corner; father, Charles E. Tingle of Corner; brother, Charles “Doug” Tingle of Mississippi; and sister, Shirley Ludy of Birmingham. Bell Funeral Home Sumiton is directing.

My only question is did he die stealing?

Out of U.S. 157515 responses…
Coke - 18%
Pop - 39%
Soda - 37%
Other - 5%

In Alabama…
Responses - 1742
Coke - 85%
Pop - 0.8%
Soda - 7%
Soft Drink - 1.6%
CoCola - 0.5%

http://www.popvssoda.com/

SCOTTSBORO - A retired family doctor said Thursday he used a Band-Aid to treat the first of three wounds Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry received in the Vietnam War.

Dr. Louis Letson of Scottsboro, who appears in a new 60-second TV ad questioning Kerry’s war record, said Kerry came into his office at Cam Rahn Bay on the morning of Dec. 3, 1968, with an injury to his upper arm.

Letson said Kerry told him he and a boat crew of about five enlisted men were on patrol that night when they began receiving small arms fire and he was injured.

But Letson said the crew told a different story after Kerry left the office. “They were kind of amused by the whole thing,” he said.

The crew members denied that they had been under enemy fire, Letson said. The crew said it was about 2 a.m. when they thought they saw some people on shore and Kerry fired a M79 grenade launcher.

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ESPN’s Page 3 has a feature covering the songs that are played when a batter comes to the plate or when a pitcher takes the mound. Most might remember Hells Bells when Padres reliever Trevor Hoffman comes up.

Some interesting finds…
Most Requested Song: “Yeah!” by Usher
Most Requested Band: Metallica
Reed Johnson, Toronto Blue Jays: “She Bangs” by William Hung (American Idol failure)
Dustan Mohr(U of A), S.F. Giants: “Play That Funky Music White Boy” by Wild Cherry
Phillies RHP Todd Jones (Pell City, AL) - Songs by Audio Adrenaline
Astros OF Lance Berkman - Songs by Godsmack, P.O.D. and Newsboys
Royals’ 1B Mike Sweeney - “Jesus Freak” DC Talk
2B Tony Graffanino - “Momentum” Toby Mac (DC Talk)

Complete List

The Cloud is a portable room for rest, meeting or concentration. A space of its own that can be used within any space, Cloud instantly defines an area and a mood apart.

Easily transported from place to place, when it is unpacked a silent fan inflates the chamber and keeps it inflated as long as required. The room inflates in three minutes, and it folds away into a bag. Cloud is entered and exited via a self–closing slit door. The Cloud is made of rip-stop nylon and includes a fan and carrying bag. Measures 7.6′x17.4′x13′

Only $5,900.00

Also, UrbanPeel offers a toilet with an aquarium for a tank. It’s called Aquariass.