Betty Owen is 92 and after a stroke four years ago, needs a feeding tube and can't walk. But she was determined not to miss Tuesday's election. She arrived at her polling place on a gurney in an ambulance, where an election judge and support worker climbed aboard with an electronic voting machine and let her cast her ballot. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago tags determined texas woman votes ambulance vote |
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A Texas woman who lived with a corpse for a week because she 'didn't want to leave' the body of her boyfriend picked by ruthstark 1 month ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
Elaine Fulps was unusually happy for a woman who just got her funeral all lined up. Maybe that's because the 60-year-old Arlington woman who just won the funeral in a promotion at a minor league baseball game won't need to cash in her prize any time soon. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win. 10 comments edit related share politicsVirginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines in the county clerk's office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates. picked by sidran32 1 year ago |
The chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners visited a 114-year-old woman who registered to vote on Thursday. It was also her birthday, according to her family, who cite a family Bible as evidence of her birth date. picked by muppet 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share weird |
The mineral composition of a near-Earth asteroid with a slight chance of striking our planet in 2036 has been determined for the first time. By analyzing sunlight reflected off its surface, scientists say the asteroid Apophis is a "good match" for a rare type of stony meteorite known as a type LL chondrite. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
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A Hoopa man who drove his car over an embankment on State Route 299 allegedly stole an ambulance when emergency workers came to help him, then led police on an hour-long chase Thursday night. picked by psycmoe 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A Florida woman has been charged with fraud and theft after she kept her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
best comment ever! 3 comments edit related share politics"I believe women should be allowed to run for office. A woman who can make it in a man's world (ie, Golda Meir, Maggie Thatcher, Sarah Palin, etc.) is worthy of getting a man's vote." picked by gammerus 8 months ago |
A West Virginia ambulance driver has been charged with driving under the influence of controlled substances after he ran two red lights with a patient in the back. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
An ambulance called into town to help with ailing marathoner got lost enroute to the hospital. picked by Maven 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share sports |
Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant. picked by lpoindexter 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Hope this isn't too late. picked by ranroc 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share politics |
A pregnant woman in Japan miscarried after nine hospitals refused to admit her. And on the way to the tenth hospital the ambulance carrying her crashed. picked by maxriter 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
A woman who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her son, 3, was handed to an Afghan who raped her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched. 5 comments edit related share worldHe was jailed for 20 years for murder - but the woman, Rukhma, was jailed, too. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago |
At least that is the opinion of Texas State Rep. Betty Brown (R) who said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with." She felt this would make poll workers job easier. Yeah. picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago 21 comments edit related share plime.com |
Ambulance workers in are seething over a "disturbing" hoax phone call this morning. 5 comments edit related share plime.comQueensland Ambulance Service spokesman Andrew Christie said a Cairns woman rang 000 around midnight and screamed that her baby had fallen off the bed and stopped breathing. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago |
Oh Florida, how I love thee! picked by kxmk 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A driver unfamiliar with the area and relying on navigational equipment took a wrong road back to the hospital. No one knows if the delay contributed to her death - probably it didn't but the family says they'll never know. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share world |
Minutes after having sexual intercourse with her boyfriend, a 35-year-old woman suddenly felt her left arm go weak. Her speech became slurred and she lost feeling on the left side of her face. She was having a stroke. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share science |
A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops! picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |