Family of Afghan rape victim cut her open and removed fetus

The mother and brother of a 14-year-old Afghan rape victim face charges after they cut her open and removed her fetus without sedation, it has been reported.

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8/08/08 Trifecta

Since there is a baby born every minute, it only stands to reason that a baby would be born on 8/08/08 at 8:08. But when that baby also weighs 8 pounds 8 ounces, it becomes an anomaly. But that's not all! There wasn't just one baby that hit that trifecta, there were two!

First, there's Xander Riniker of Lisbon, Iowa.

(Courtney Sargent/The Gazette)

From GazetteOnline.com:

CEDAR RAPIDS - Chad and Heather Riniker of Lisbon thought the coincidence couldn’t get any greater when their son was born at 8:08 a.m. today — 8/8/08.

Then his birth weight was announced: 8 pounds, 8 ounces.

“They called the time and everyone said, ‘wow, 8:08 a.m.,’” said Chad Riniker, 34. “Then they put him on the scale ... it worked well with the theme, I guess.”

Xander (pronounced “Zander”) Jace Riniker was scheduled to be born at St. Luke’s Hospital by Caesarean section at 7:30 a.m. today, but an emergency C-section before Heather Riniker’s delivery pushed back the schedule.

“I have no idea what the odds of that would be,” Chad, a quality assurance manager at LimoLink in Marion, said of the coincidence. “I would guess slim.”

The child isn’t their eighth — Heather, 31, has two children from a previous marriage and they have two together — but he is the eighth grandchild for Heather’s parents, Lesa and Ken Bulman of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

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And then there is Hailey Jo Hauer born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Photo by Lauren Radomski

From The Fergus Falls Daily Journal:

Talk about a memorable birthday: A Fergus Falls family is welcoming a baby girl born at 8:08 a.m. on the eighth day of August, weighing in at eight pounds, eight ounces.

Lindsay Hauer’s cesarean section was scheduled for 8 a.m. Friday morning at Lake Region Hospital and began right on the dot. When hospital staff told her the time of her daughter’s birth, Hauer thought they were pulling her leg.

“I thought they were just joking,” she said. “I didn’t believe them when they told me.”

“The time was to the minute,” said Hauer’s husband, Joe.

Imagine Hauer’s surprise when, still in the operating room, she received a call from staff in the hospital’s birthing suite, where Hailey Jo Hauer was being measured and weighed.

“I had the scale on grams at first,” said Jenny Harstad, Hauer’s nurse. Based on the baby’s weight in grams, Harstad estimated Hailey would weigh-in within the eight-pound range. She later joked she’d hoped to find significance in the baby’s length as well.

“I was trying to shrink her down to 18 inches,” Harstad said. Instead, Hailey measured 19.5 inches.

Back in the operating room, hospital staff resolved to buy lottery tickets later in the day.

“My anesthesiologist said to me, ‘Do you realize this is once in a million? This will not happen anywhere else,’” Hauer said.

Hailey is Lindsay and Joe Hauer’s second child. Evan Hauer, 16 months, will meet his sister Saturday.

“We’ll introduce him tomorrow and see how it goes,” Joe Hauer said.

@ATS - Violent Encounter With An Alien Being

I have been reading this thread at ATS (Above Top Secret) for several days. I just can't stop reading it! There is much controversy over whether or not it's a hoax. The original poster is a respected member of the ATS community, so there are many regulars there who believe him. On the other hand, there are many who just find it too outrageous to believe...even for a contact story.

The man claims to have encountered and butchered a 6-foot "fishman" in his own bedroom while his wife looked on and his baby daughter slept.

Here's an excerpt:

Then a shadow flitted across the corner of the room, so i decided to lay still, as if it was a person in the room they were going to get the good news.

Then after about a minutes watching, this golden figure stepped towards the bed. It was appalling. I have never, ever in my life seen some thing so dreadful or absolutely horrific in my life.

It was 6 feet tall, well built, huge, and I mean huge eyes like a damn fish, and thats what its eniter being reminded me of. A two legged two armed fish / man type being. It was copper /bronze coloured, scaled and its clothing was a lighter golden colour and scaled too.

Read on to find out the injuries this man inflicted upon this alien creature and what happened next.

Then go HERE to read his wife's account of this horrific ordeal, complete with pictures of her husband's alleged injuries.

I am still not sure if I believe this really happened. At this time, the jury's still out.

Tell me what YOU think!

Video of Plant Workers Fleeing An Ammonia Cloud

This was posted at Alien Earth forum and there was no news story with it. I Googled it, using all the related keywords I could think of, but came up with nothing. So I have no idea where this happened. Sorry. If you find out where it happened, please leave a comment here with a link. Thanks.

As soon as I saw that cloud start to roll in, I was immediately reminded of that Stephen King movie I watched last week called "The Mist." But this cloud, even though it is toxic, isn't quite as scary as the one in the movie...at least there aren't any monsters in it, (well...besides anhydrous ammonia).

The Ultimate Off-Road Vehicle

A California company is offering a $90,000 flying saucer to help you beat the traffic!

Extremely bizarre skin condition in Eastern Europe

While I was surfing, I stumbled upon WFMU's Beware of the Blog, where I found this strange story of a missionary that encountered a bizarre skin condition in Eastern Europe. That poor, poor man! Can you imagine having this kind of condition throughout your entire life?

A friend of mine has a relative who is a missionary in Eastern Europe. He recently shared photographs and the story of a man he is caring for, who has an extremely bizarre skin condition. The man has keratin-like matter growing out of the skin on hands and feet, which started when he was young, and very slowly continues to spread and grow. The areas begin as skin lesions, and the matter sprouts from those spots. The growths are very difficult to remove, and the man has so far just had to learn to live with it. There are a few medical precedents to this man's case, but nothing is certain until more tests are done. In the meantime, the missionary is helping to make life easier for the man. Click "continue" below for more photos. The missionary writes...

"I found this man, and other than his hands and feet, he looked and seemed in good health. As best as I could gather these growths began when he was 14 years old, and began in the area of his wrists. The skin on his wrists and the back of his hands resembles that of a hedgehog - hundreds of spike like growths. The problem is much more severe on his palms and fingers where the growths resemble very much that of nails infected with a fungus. The growths have that same texture, smell and feel. I cut a number of the largest growths off, most of witch did not bleed. Some of the smaller growths did bleed a small amount and he seemed much more sensitive to the cutting of the smaller growths. I soaked his hands first in 3 WEA (phenyl mercuric nitrate) and then began. The 3 WEA did help to soften the growths but they still took time to cut through, or sand down, but it worked just as it does with these types of nails on normal hands or feet. I was able to pull many of the smaller growths off applying steady pressure and slowly pulling. But after 1.5 hrs there was not a noticeable change as there are hundreds and hundreds of growths. There was also quite a bit of dissolved material in the bucket of 3 WEA after we finished.

On his feet I did not cut anything, but tried two different solutions of salicylic acid, one a bit weaker than the other, and also a freeze spray wart remover.

I met his mother and brother (they all live together) and their skin looked very normal. They all eat the same foods and he and his brother sleep in the same bed.

It has grown slowly but steadily but has not spread to other parts of his body, just a bit below his knees on his legs. He has other skin growth (many would be skin tags) on his face, and some moles on his chest. The growths are not as bad on his feet but I was told that more than 10 years ago many we cauterized off his feet, and they did not return. I think with repeated soaking and cutting most could be removed but other parts will I think need to be burned away in some form."

I emailed the missionary a few more questions:

Is there a medical term for this man's condition?
Doctors here have called it Lewandowsky-Lutz, though I have not been able to find any pictures of this condition to compare.

Has any analysis of the matter growing off of his skin been done?
There was 18 years ago, when they came up with the name of what they thought it was. He has not been treated since then.

When do you understand that this started with him?
He is now 38 and it started when he was 14, on one wrist. He never returned for treatments as he felt the first cauterizing was effective in that the growths did not return to that area, but felt they grew more quickly in other areas.

Does the man have any other unusual symptoms?
He appears healthy other than the growths. He has 15 skin tags on his face, and a wart in one ear.

Have there been any theories about this man's past, something he might have done, ingested, or places he's been to... that may have caused it?
As he says he did not do or eat anything his brother did not do or eat, and his brother appears to be perfectly normal, not yet. I am currently showing the pictures to veterinarians, as I am also considering that maybe this is something he got from an animal (pig, sheep, cow).

Does it look like the man's condition is treatable or curable?
Curable, I don't know. But with ongoing thorough cleaning, creams, soaking and cutting - it will be much better for him.

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...and funny...

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There's not much I can say...the page speaks for itself.

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