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Women allege witchcraft used as treatment

Geneva, IL, Mar. 29 (UPI) -- Two women have filed lawsuits claiming a psychologist at an Illinois hospital used witchcraft during treatments and threatened patients.

The lawsuits allege Delnor-Community Hospital did not stop the unorthodox treatments. One seeks more than $50,000 and the other more than $1 million.

Neither is seeking damages from the psychologist, who has not worked at the hospital since January, because of a fear of retribution from the woman, the plaintiffs' attorney told the Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald. One suit was filed in Kane County, Ill., court and the other in federal court.

One of the plaintiffs alleges while undergoing treatment for a neurological syndrome, she was taught spells and told to divorce her husband. She moved in with the psychologist and allegedly was forced to take care of the house and take nude pictures of the psychologist.

The other suit alleges the psychologist told the patients to strip and commit acts of self-mutilation and join a Wicca coven, the newspaper said.

The newspaper said the accused psychologist did not respond to calls for comment. The hospital said the complaints have been reported to police and state health regulators

 

[short recoil]

sounds like the psychologist needs to see a psychologist.

 

[Razor]

sounds like the psychologist needs to see a psychologist.

I had the same sort about the women...wouldn't the women have to prove that witchcraft actually exists to win the case?

 

[xLostx]

I thought the topic said warcraft...why did I read this

 

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Plasticized Fetus Stolen from Exhibit

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police in Los Angeles were searching on Wednesday for two women observed via security cameras taking a plastic-coated human fetus from the traveling "Body Worlds" exhibit at the California Science Center over the weekend.



The 13-week-old "plastinated" fetus was part of Gunther von Hagens' popular and controversial "Body Worlds 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies."

Von Hagens, a German anatomy professor, preserved 200 donated human bodies and body parts by replacing body fluids with plastics, then placing the skinless forms in sometimes whimsical poses.

The fetus, which had been in an unlocked case, was a taken early on Saturday morning while the science center was open around the clock to accommodate crowds on the last day of the exhibit, police said.

More than 16 million people worldwide have viewed the traveling exhibits. The theft was the first associated with the exhibits, Los Angeles police said.

The exhibit closed in Los Angeles at midnight on Sunday.

 

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Models Who Posed as Wife Beaters Sue Over Ads

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four male models who appeared in an ad campaign against domestic violence are suing New York City, saying the posters stayed up beyond the agreed time, leading people to think they really were wife beaters.



Christopher Dorm, Triple Edwards, Daniel Royer and Javier Velarde appeared in posters throughout the city to promote awareness of domestic violence. The men were pictured behind bars with captions such as "Successful executive. Devoted churchgoer. Abusive husband."

The four agreed to the October 2002 photo shoot on the condition that the ads be posted only in New York City buses and subways and be taken down after five weeks, the lawsuit says. They were each paid between $1,500 to $2,000.

But the posters stayed up until at least August 2003 and appeared in several locations, including police stations and charities, said Jeffrey Pagano, the lawyer who filed the suit in Manhattan Supreme Court on March 23.

The models are seeking $1 million each in damages.

"This is a public service that's gone sideways," Pagano said on Tuesday. "It's turned into a horror show."

Copies of the posters were so widespread for so long, that friends of the models believed the men had been arrested and were actual "women beaters," according to the lawsuit.

The city's legal department said it has sent notification to remove any ads that may still be up.

"The City was not privy to the fact that there was any time limit on the ads. Moreover, the models had agreed to be portrayed as domestic abusers as part of the City's campaign against such conduct," said Jonathan Becker, New York City's deputy chief of commercial and real estate litigation.

 

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Heckler Makes Magician's Hat, Rabbit Disappear

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LONDON (Reuters) - A thief stole a British magician's black top hat and white rabbit in the middle of one of his performances and then staged a disappearing act, police said Wednesday.



The Great Velcro -- whose Web Site boasts "Have Rabbit will travel" -- was half an hour into his show at the Komedia club in Brighton on England's south coast when a man who had been heckling him got on to the stage.

He swiped the magician's hat which had his rabbit Georgina inside and fled.

"At first people thought it was part of the act," a police spokeswoman said.

The audience chased after the man when they realized he was stealing the props, but the thief simply disappeared.

 

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Size Matters in Ban on Sandwich Ad

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LONDON (Reuters) - A television commercial for KFC was banned by Britain's advertising watchdog because it said the fast food chain misled customers into thinking its mini chicken sandwiches were larger than they really are.



The Advertising Standards Authority said on Wednesday that after it bought three mini chicken fillet sandwiches from a London KFC it agreed with five complaints about the ad -- which included a close-up of a sandwich in a woman's hands.

"We believed the visuals were likely to mislead viewers over the actual size," the agency said.

"We noted that the bun shown in the advertisement was significantly thicker than the burgers we purchased; that there was more filling and the lettuce was a different type," it added.

The ASA ordered that the ad, created by London-based agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, not be shown again in its existing form. The firm is minority owned by French group Publicis .

KFC, owned by Yum Brands, argued that the woman in the ad simply may have had small hands, although it said the actress was not cast for that reason. The chain also said the burger's name and price -- 99 pence ($1.86) -- implied that it was smaller than a normal fillet burger.

The ASA said it did not think that was sufficient to alert consumers that the sandwich was smaller than it appeared.

 

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Jockeys Injured in Bird Strike

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian racing officials were reviewing safety procedures Thursday after five jockeys were hurt when a flock of seagulls flew into the path of their horses in a bizarre mid-race mishap.



A field of 11 horses was racing toward the finishing post in the final race at Sandown race track in Melbourne on Wednesday when a large flock of the birds suddenly rose up off the track and flew into the approaching horses.

Some of the horses reared up and others balked, throwing their jockeys.

Darren Gauci complained of a sore neck and was taken to hospital for scans after falling from his mount Diamond Hailey in the mid-track mayhem.

Apprentice Brady Cross suffered a broken arm when he fell from Chop Chop. Three other jockeys suffered minor injuries.

The mishap came as Australian racing was still mourning the deaths of two Victorian jockeys in separate race falls this month and a bad spinal injury suffered by 2002 and 1995 Melbourne Cup winning rider Damien Oliver.

Melbourne Racing Club (MRC) chief steward Des Gleeson described the incident as "bizarre and extraordinary."

"The club is deeply concerned by this occurrence and is treating the matter as an urgent priority," MRC chief executive Warran Brown said in a statement after an emergency meeting.

He said a number of measures would be put in place, including having extra staff on the course and finishing races earlier before the bids begin to congregate in the late afternoon.

"We have already been in contact with the Department of Sustainability and Environment and will investigate non-destructive eradication programs," he said.

Jockey Greg Childs, who was unhurt, said seagulls had long been a problem at Sandown, while rider Peter Mertens said the birds hit so hard that his mount went sideways.

Only five horses finished the race, which was declared void.

Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper reported that police were called after one angry punter stormed the stewards room to complain about the incident.

 

[Tr0n]

To many stories...to..read...

/me head explodes

 

[ray_MAN]

Woah! I think he's making up for all of those days he missed.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

yay 100 yrs worth of makeup nerd news