State Crime Summary:
State Police have said that the man who struck a young woman on the Thruway last month was watching pornographic movies on his laptop at the time of the accident. The crash occured near Pembroke, the tractor trailer crashed into a disabled vehicle. Thomas Wallace, 45, of Brook Park, Ohio has been charged with manslaughter for the death of Julie Stratton, 33, of Snyder, NY on December 12th. Police say that Stratton struck a deer which caused her vehicle to become disabled. She ended up dying from her injuries. Also, Wallace was keeping fictitous log books, at the time of the accident he had been on duty for 27 hours coming off of 4 hours of sleep. Wallace was arraigned in Pembroke Town Court and is being held in the Genesee County on $50,000 bail or $200,000 bond.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
12th post
A little forensic pun:
A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source. He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827. Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with him. By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being played backward. Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar. When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing, again backward. The expert notices that the symphonies are being played in the reverse order in which they were composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th. By the next day the word has spread and a throng has gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward. Just then, the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group. Someone in the group asks him if he has an explanation for the music.
"Don't you get it?" the caretaker asks incredulously.
He's decomposing.*
A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts searching for the source. He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827. Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with him. By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being played backward. Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar. When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing, again backward. The expert notices that the symphonies are being played in the reverse order in which they were composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th. By the next day the word has spread and a throng has gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward. Just then, the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group. Someone in the group asks him if he has an explanation for the music.
"Don't you get it?" the caretaker asks incredulously.
He's decomposing.*
11th post
Funny reason for choosing forensic medicine as a career:
Many people ask me why I chose Forensic Medicine as a career, and I tell them that it is because a forensic man gets the honor of being called when the top doctors have failed!
Many people ask me why I chose Forensic Medicine as a career, and I tell them that it is because a forensic man gets the honor of being called when the top doctors have failed!
10th post
Funny joke on a way to die, claimed to be true:
A terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man who was killed by his own gas. There was no mark on his body but an autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the right combination of foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed. Had he been outside or had his windows been opened, it wouldn't have been fatal. But the man was shut up in his near airtight bedroom. According to the article, "He was a big man with a huge capacity for creating "this deadly gas." Three of the rescuers got sick and one was hospitalized.
A terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed for the death of a man who was killed by his own gas. There was no mark on his body but an autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of beans and cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just the right combination of foods. It appears that the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was hanging over his bed. Had he been outside or had his windows been opened, it wouldn't have been fatal. But the man was shut up in his near airtight bedroom. According to the article, "He was a big man with a huge capacity for creating "this deadly gas." Three of the rescuers got sick and one was hospitalized.
9th post
Final batch of odd quotes from real trials:
Q: "Are you qualified to give a urine sample?"A: "I have been since early childhood."
Q: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"A: "No."Q: "Did you check for blood pressure?"A: "No."Q: "Did you check for breathing?"A: "No."Q: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"A: "No."0: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"A: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."Q: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"A: "It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."
Q: "Are you qualified to give a urine sample?"A: "I have been since early childhood."
Q: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"A: "No."Q: "Did you check for blood pressure?"A: "No."Q: "Did you check for breathing?"A: "No."Q: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"A: "No."0: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"A: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."Q: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"A: "It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."
8th post
More real life quotes from trials...
Q: "Do you recall the time that you examined the body?"A: "The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.."Q: "And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?"A: "No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy."
Q: "You were not shot in the fracas?"A: "No, I was shot midway between the fracas and the navel."
Q: "Do you recall the time that you examined the body?"A: "The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.."Q: "And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?"A: "No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy."
Q: "You were not shot in the fracas?"A: "No, I was shot midway between the fracas and the navel."
7th post
These were also said in real life trials:
Q: "Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?"A: "No, this is how I dress when I go to work."
Q: "Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?"A: "All my autopsies are performed on dead people."
Q: "All your responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go to?"A: "Oral."
Q: "Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?"A: "No, this is how I dress when I go to work."
Q: "Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?"A: "All my autopsies are performed on dead people."
Q: "All your responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go to?"A: "Oral."
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