"I was driving for a tow company in L.A. We had official police tow contracts for three cities and it was busy, with lots of freeway work. Towing stuff for cops, AAA stuff, and crashes. You know, the crashes can get gory as hell ( Read more... )

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mendel : This is neat but morbid:

mendel : There is a cemetery in WA which has a bell: http://flickr.com/photos/travels_of_a_taphophile/494278720/in/photostream/

mendel : Inside the bell this person found a jar: http://flickr.com/photos/travels_of_a_taphophile/494279440/in/photostream/

mendel : Which was stuck on with magnets and uhm well http://flickr.com/photos/ ( Read more... )

Thomas Disch apparently died a suicide on the 4th.

He was a fine writer and a fascinating man. It was a privilege to talk with him on Livejournal after years of reading him, back to my childhood.

He'd been through a lot in his last years and was often a terribly bitter and angry man. It's not surprising that he left this way, just very sad.

THE SENATOR THEN DIED

Ex-Chief of UCLA Willed-Bodies Program Indicted

LOS ANGELES -- The former head of UCLA's cadaver program and a businessman were indicted Friday on eight felony counts involving black market sales of donated human body parts in a scheme that allegedly cheated the university out of more than $1 million.

( and Knox the boy that buys the beef... )

My great-uncle Lee spent his last few months in a well-run County hospital in the California high desert ( Read more... )

Suit alleges waterboarding used as motivational technique.

...SECOND PRIZE IS A SET OF STEAK KNIVES. THIRD PRIZE IS YOU'RE FUCKING DROWNED