Deliberate shot fails
Shannon Egeland, 41, already convicted of helping run a mortgage-fraud operation during the 2004-2008 real estate boom, pleaded guilty this month to the subsequent crime of deliberately having himself shot to gain his judge's sympathy (and to collect on disability insurance bought the week before). Egeland, scheduled to start a 10-year sentence for the mortgage fraud, told the judge he had been assaulted by gunfire when he stopped in traffic to help a pregnant woman, but in reality he had ordered his teenage son to shoot him in the legs with a 20-gauge shotgun. (Source: News of the Weird)
The perfect dinner companion
Who was 87-year-old Patty Ris lucky enough to be sitting beside when she choked on her dinner at the Deupree House retirement community in Hyde Park, Ohio? The 96-year-old inventor of the famous Heimlich manoeuvre , who also lives at the facility. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, the maitre d' initially ran to help but saw the doctor was already preparing to do so himself. While Henry Heimlich has demonstrated the life-saving method that he invented decades ago, he had never performed it on a choking victim until now. Nevertheless, his technique was good and the offending "piece of hamburger" was quickly dislodged.
