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1,000 pound aunt indicted for killing toddler (Texas)
Brownsville Herald ^ | 08/21/2008 | Sean Gaffney

Posted on 08/22/2008 7:23:42 AM PDT by devane617

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To: skinkinthegrass

Yeah, I knew it was a wasp, but it looks like a big ant! Yours is cooler, where did you take the shot?
susie


62 posted on 08/22/2008 8:13:55 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: Red Badger

Yes yes, but it LOOKS like an ant! ;)
susie


63 posted on 08/22/2008 8:15:17 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: Morgana

On a serious note, it’s hard to imagine how the human heart can function to move enough blood around that much tissue. When he loses the weight, what will he do with all the extra skin?
At least this thread has made me feel thinner!
susie


64 posted on 08/22/2008 8:17:00 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: brytlea

They’re dang hard to kill, too! Even stepping on one (with a shoe on!) will not usually kill one outright unless you grind it down into pieces!.............


65 posted on 08/22/2008 8:19:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: Morgana

....guilty, the real culprit /sarc...the real culprits: HER Enablers...
...she couldn't get out the door to feed...amongst other things.


66 posted on 08/22/2008 8:22:52 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (If you aren't "advancing" your arguments,your losing "the battle of Ideas"...libs,hates the facts 8^)
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To: Red Badger

Believe it or not, this was the first one I had seen. We were on vacation in TX this summer and my son came in and said, “Bring your camera, you’ll want a shot of this!” When I saw it the word velvet ant came to mind, but I wasn’t sure, so when I got home I looked it up (hard to look up when you don’t know what it is!).
I didn’t try to kill it, but I’ll tell you what, it was FAST!
susie


67 posted on 08/22/2008 8:24:50 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: brytlea

They also make a high pitched buzzing sound when disturbed, kind like a rattlesnake’s warning to “STAY AWAY FROM ME!”........


69 posted on 08/22/2008 8:27:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: brytlea

Obviously you have to eat a lot of food and disdain exercise, but the fact is that the vast majority of people could spend all their lives trying to get that big and couldn’t do it. People that size would have been morbidly obese no matter what they did, short of radical surgery.


70 posted on 08/22/2008 8:27:44 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: Morgana

House arrest would amount to precisely zero change in her current circumstance. I see no reason to spend one cent more of taxpayer money trying and convicting this creature if she suffers no consequence. It would amount to a court order to carry on exactly the same as always. The only difference would be which state agency gets saddled with the bill for her upkeep.

If I were the judge looking at the options, I’d impose impose house arrest, with a few modifications. I’d order floor to ceiling mirrors installed in the room in which she lives. And on the ceiling. No TV. Meals to be 2 cans of Ensure a day plus 1/2 a head of plain iceberg lettuce on Sundays. I’d order the ice cream truck to drive by 3x daily with its music going, and put the neighbors on a daily rotation of outdoor barbecues outside her open window.


71 posted on 08/22/2008 8:27:48 AM PDT by Eroteme
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To: fleagle

I know they are one the dole, I mean who actually shops for food, cooks it and bring it to their bed? Someone has to do everything for these huge fat people they can’t even get out of their beds. I think who ever that person is they are as sick as the fat ones.


72 posted on 08/22/2008 8:28:05 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Morgana

They could make a couple more people with just the extra skin. I feel sorry for the guy, that must be a tough way to live.
susie


73 posted on 08/22/2008 8:28:28 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: devane617

Prediction: if this gargantuan murderess is convicted and the death penalty is imposed, one of the grounds for appeal will be the accusation that the State of Texas doesn’t want to have to pay for the medical care required to keep this killer healthy during a life sentence.


74 posted on 08/22/2008 8:29:01 AM PDT by mkjessup ("People are going to begin to wonder if Russia can be trusted!" - SecState Maddy Rice, well DUH!!!!)
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To: brytlea
..where did you take the shot?...google pic / U of Ky.

We do have them (these Wasps) in Central KY....they're very neat.

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75 posted on 08/22/2008 8:29:35 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (If you aren't "advancing" your arguments,your losing "the battle of Ideas"...libs,hates the facts 8^)
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To: devane617

Sad and disgusting.

Put her in a cell on a 1000 calorie a day diet. When she gets under 150 pounds she can start her sentence.


76 posted on 08/22/2008 8:30:43 AM PDT by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: gracesdad

Yes, perhaps morbidly obese, but NOT 1000 lbs!
susie


77 posted on 08/22/2008 8:31:27 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: Red Badger

Oh my, clearly I didn’t disturb her. She was very frantic tho, I guess looking for a meal!


78 posted on 08/22/2008 8:32:20 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Took it in New Braunfels TX this summer at a lakehouse.


79 posted on 08/22/2008 8:34:20 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: Morgana

We don’t need that kind o’ crap posted here.


80 posted on 08/22/2008 8:36:09 AM PDT by mkjessup ("People are going to begin to wonder if Russia can be trusted!" - SecState Maddy Rice, well DUH!!!!)
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