She speaks in grunts, crawls instead of walking —and now she wants to go back to live in the jungle.
This is the first picture of the Cambodian jungle girl who was found last week 18 years after she went missing as a little girl.
Filthy and naked when she was discovered, with long matted hair and a furtive, hunted expression, she was caught stealing food left under a tree by a villager.
Yet despite the fact that she is only able to speak three words — father, mother and stomach ache — she has been identified as Ro Cham H’pnhieng, 27.
Her father Ksor Lou had not seen her since she was eight,but says he recognised her instantly from a childhood scar. He had thought his daughter had been killed by wild animals after she disappeared herding buffalo in 1989.
But Ro Cham is finding it hard to adjust to life with other humans. “She prefers to crawl rather than walk like a human,” said Mao Sun, a district police chief in the north-eastern province of Rattanakiri, where the girl’s family live.
“Unfortunately, she keeps crying and wants to go back to the jungle,” he said. “She is not used to living with humans. We had to clothe her. When she is thirsty or hungry she points at her mouth.”
She was found on Saturday after a villager noticed that food had disappeared from a lunch box he left near his farm, said deputy provincial police chief Chea Bunthoeun.
He said: “He decided to stake out the area and then spotted a naked human being, who looked like a jungle person, sneaking in to steal his rice.”
The man and some friends then managed to catch her. Her father, a village policeman, found her after he heard rumours that a naked woman had been caught by loggers.
He said: “She was shaking and picking up grains of rice from the ground to eat.”
He added: “If she is not sleeping, she just sits and glances left and right, left and right.”
Since they found her, villagers have clothed and fed her. But the woman — uncomfortable in her new surroundings — rebuffs their advances, refusing to use chopsticks and fighting off anyone who approaches.
According to her father she took off the clothes she had been dressed in today and acted as if she was going back into the jungle.
The villagers believe she is possessed and have asked Buddhist monks to bless her.
Her identity is yet to be confirmed by police.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=429884&in_page_id=1811
Some really amazing stopmotion work.
I've never watched Craig Ferguson, but I thought this was pretty damn funny.
The the Bruin also reported the following:
At around 11:30 p.m., CSOs asked a male student using a computer in the back of the room to leave when he was unable to produce a BruinCard during a random check. The student did not exit the building immediately.
The CSOs left, returning minutes later, and police officers arrived to escort the student out. By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.
The student began to yell "get off me," repeating himself several times.
It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The student also told the officers he had a medical condition.
UCPD officers confirmed that the man involved in the incident was a student, but did not give a name or any additional information about his identity.
Video shot from a student's camera phone captured the student yelling, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power," while he struggled with the officers.
As the student was screaming, UCPD officers repeatedly told him to stand up and said "stop fighting us." The student did not stand up as the officers requested and they shot him with the Taser at least once more.
"It was the most disgusting and vile act I had ever seen in my life," said David Remesnitsky, a 2006 UCLA alumnus who witnessed the incident.
As the student and the officers were struggling, bystanders repeatedly asked the police officers to stop, and at one point officers told the gathered crowd to stand back and threatened to use a Taser on anyone who got too close.
Laila Gordy, a fourth-year economics student who was present in the library during the incident, said police officers threatened to shoot her with a Taser when she asked an officer for his name and his badge number.
Gordy was visibly upset by the incident and said other students were also disturbed.
"It's a shock that something like this can happen at UCLA," she said. "It was unnecessary what they did."
Immediately after the incident, several students began to contact local news outlets, informing them of the incident...
The day after the incident, the Bruin reported,
"It is a real mistake to treat a Taser as some benign thing that painlessly brings people under control," said Peter Eliasberg, managing attorney at the ACLU of Southern California.
"The Taser can be incredibly violent and result in death," Eliasberg said.
According to an ACLU report, 148 people in the United States and Canada have died as a result of the use of Tasers since 1999.
During the altercation between Tabatabainejad and the officers, bystanders can be heard in the video repeatedly asking the officers to stop and requesting their names and identification numbers. The video showed one officer responding to a student by threatening that the student would "get Tased too." At this point, the officer was still holding a Taser.
Such a threat of the use of force by a law enforcement officer in response to a request for a badge number is an "illegal assault," Eliasberg said.
Man Claims Take-Out Taco Contained Drugs
(CBS) FALL RIVER It all started with tacos and a movie and allegedly ended up as a hospital trip and testing positive for drugs. It does sound strange, but one man says it happened to him. He claims the soft tacos he bought at a fast food chain contained some sort of drug.
Phillip Daggett says he grew ill after eating a soft taco he ordered from a Taco Bell on Plymouth Ave. in Fall River over the weekend.Daggett says he began feeling very strange shortly after eating one of his tacos. He claims he suffered from stomach cramps and numbness in his mouth and lips. He says his symptoms were so intense; he was almost not able to speak properly.
Daggett says he checked another taco he bought and noticed a strange white powder in the meat.
Worried about the mysterious powder and his slurred speech, Daggett says he went to the hospital where he allegedly tested positive for opiates, a form of morphine.
Taco Bell is currently investigating Daggett's claim.
http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_316234459.html
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Sasha Cohen of "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" is being sued by the fraternatiy boys that were shown being drunken idiots in a RV. If you've seen it, there's no doubt you remember these guys.
http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/09/borat-lawsuit-high-five
And if you are completely out of the loop:
Some real good essays:
Biography of Walt Whitman
"Walt Whitman was an awful child molester who was born in ancient Hong Kong"
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Influential Person in World War 2: JimmyMCPErson
"And it can also be said, without a doubt, that he definitely existed"
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U.S. Capitalism and Influence on Foreign Nations
"Who ever wins, the childern lose. And who cares? I hate kids."
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