Fat Loser Mum bought weapons for Fat Loser son
September 25, 2008 | 3 Comments
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A WOMAN has been found guilty of buying an arsenal for her bullied 14-year-old son, who was planning a Columbine-style massacre at a school.
Michele Cossey, 46, of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, admitted she helped her troubled son Dillon build a cache of weapons by buying a rifle and gunpowder but investigators still do not know whether she was aware her son was planning a deadly school attack.
Dillon, who left school at 12 after being bullied over his weight, planned to use them in a massacre in Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania.
He was caught when a schoolfriend he wanted to help with the attack told the police.
Dillon was sentenced to seven years in a juvenile detention centre earlier this year after pleading guilty to planning the attack, The Sun reported.
Michele Cossey pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court on Tuesday to one count of child endangerment.
The court was told she bought Dillon an assault rifle fitted with a sniper’s scope, a 9mm handgun, a .22 rifle and gunpowder to make grenades.
Prosecutors said she had created a “me-and-mum-against-the-world” attitude in her only child.
Dillon Cossey had such a passion for the Columbine High School shooters that he decided to attack Plymouth Whitemarsh High School last year, according to the eNews.2.0 news website.
Dillon had been home-schooled since he left public school because of bullying.
His defence lawyer said internet violence woke the boy’s fantasies and he wished for a school attack.
Dillon had also been in touch with a Finnish teenager who carried out a massacre at his school last November, The Sun said.
Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, shot dead six pupils, a nurse and the head teacher before killing himself.
On Tuesday another Finn, Matti Juhani Saari, 22, massacred ten pupils at his college.
Michelle Cossey will be sentenced once psychiatric reports are completed.
Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Christopher Parisi said she had tried to boost her son’s self-esteem “and in some way help the child, as misplaced as those thoughts may have been”.
She could get three to seven years in jail, Mr Parisi said.
Bumper Sticker: Only gay right is to die
September 24, 2008 | 3 Comments
GUN lobbyist Ron Owen has been told he is entitled to express his homophobic views, but that he went too far with the bumper sticker: “Gay Rights? Under God’s law the only rights gays have is the right to die.”
Queensland’s Anti-Discrimination Tribunal found Mr Owen guilty of inciting hatred against homosexuals with the bumper sticker when he parked his car outside the Cooloola Shire Council officers in Gympie, north of Brisbane.
The publisher of the ultra-right-wing pro-militia magazine Lock Stock & Barrel and former local councillor was also chastised on Monday for comments he made in the ensuing public outcry that engulfed the rural community, The Australian reports.
The former president of the National Firearm Owners of Australia was taken to the tribunal by several local lesbians, who claimed they had been offended despite only one having seen the bumper sticker.
Two of the women were awarded $5000, with a third awarded $2500 in damages.
Tribunal member Darryl Rangiah handed down a 77-page decision, which also ordered Mr Owen to publish a written apology for inciting hatred and causing offence to the homosexual community of Gympie.
Mr Rangiah acknowledged Mr Owen’s right to free speech, but said he had gone too far with the bumper sticker and in ensuing comments made during a television interview, in a report to a subsequent council meeting and in a letter on his website.
“Ron Owen is entitled to be a homophobe and he is entitled to publicly express his homophobic views,” he said. “That much is required in a society that values freedom of thought and expression. However there are limits.”
The tribunal ruled that Mr Owen - while not the registered owner of the car - had use of it and that the sticker went “beyond a mere joke”.
“The ordinary member of the public would, in my opinion, understand that he or she was being urged to hate and to have serious contempt for homosexuals,” Mr Rangiah said.
Read more on this story at The Australian
World’s youngest Sex Change a Pop Star?
September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
A GIRL believed to be the youngest person in the world to have a sex change is set to become a pop star.
Kim Petras - originally called Tim - changed sex after she started hormone treatment at the age of just twelve.
Now 16-year-old Kim is ready to storm the charts with her first album after landing a record deal.
The German teenager has overcome years of taunts and bullying to release her first CD after becoming a cult hit on MySpace and You Tube.
Kim, who is now officially registered as a female and has long blonde hair and blue eyes, said: “My music is most important to me at the moment. It’s the way I can best express myself.
“I know that because of my past people will always bring up the subject, I can’t get away from it.
“But I hope that one day I might be better known for my music than for my past.”
Kim was diagnosed as a transsexual three years ago.
Doctors and psychiatrists concluded that her claims to be “in the wrong body” were so deeply felt that she required treatment.
Her therapy included artificially halting male puberty - with a series of potent hormone injections.
She was then administered female hormones to initiate the development of her breasts.
Staff took porn pics with new Mobile Phone
September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
A WOMAN was disgusted to find her new mobile phone contained pornographic images of a female employee from the Dick Smith Electronics store where she had just bought the phone.
The images include a woman naked from the waist down lying on a bed performing a sex act, a man holding his penis and consecutive shots of the woman in her bra and pulling her pants down.
The Cairns university student who bought the phone said she discovered the images among 49 photos stored on the phone, the Cairns Post reported.
“It’s sickening to think I’ve been using this phone near my face when it was used to take all of these photos,” she said.
“I’m not disgusted by what she did, what people do in their own homes is their business. “But I’m disgusted that it was left on the shelf to be sold.”
The store sold her a display phone because it was the last one in stock, but she later contacted the store to complain that it was faulty because she could barely hear callers talking.
She then accessed the phone’s menu and discovered 49 images, including the female staff member in her Dick Smith Electronic uniform outside the store, two other people, and what is believed to be various interior shots of a hotel room.
A Dick Smith Electronics spokesperson said the company was investigating.
“Incidences like this are practically unheard of on new phones direct from the manufacturer,” he said.
World’s shortest man meets longest-legged woman
September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
THE world’s shortest man might used to people standing over him but it went to a new extreme when he met the longest-legged woman.
The 74cm tall He Pingping stood comfortably between the 132cm legs of Svetlana Pankratova on the steps of London’s Trafalgar Square yesterday.
Ms Pankratova said she was bemused to find a fully grown man who was only about the height of her thigh.
“I heard he was going to be the shortest man, but I didn’t realise he was going to be that small,” Ms Pankratova told UK tabloid The Sun.
“He seems very happy, he smiles and laughs a lot.”
Mr Pingping, 20, suffers from primordial dwarfism and was no bigger than his father’s palm when he was born.
He was flown to Britain from his home in inner Mongolia where he runs a restaraunt.
Ms Pankratova, who stands at 1.96m, is a 36-year-old Russian real estate agent who lives in Spain.
The pair were brought together to promote the 2009 edition of the Guinness World Records book, which is launched today.
