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To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (2637)	10/4/2001 5:04:34 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Update on the "fortified energy drink" story.. Personally, I'm in a quandary as to whether I would have rather had the amputated "member" in my energy drink instead: knoxstudio.com 'Penis' found floating in bottle was mold, cops say By TILLIE FONG Scripps Howard News Service October 04, 2001 - An object found in a fruit drink last week is not a human penis, as previously believed, but mold or bacteria, Commerce City, Colo., police now say. "We worked off the best information we had," said Elaine Rowe, police spokeswoman. "We didn't have any clue that it could be anything else. It's very strange. I've never seen anything like this in law enforcement." Last Thursday machinist Juan Sanchez-Marchez, 41, found what appeared to be a 3-inch section of a human penis in his 20-ounce Ora Potency Fruit Punch after he had downed two-thirds of the drink. He turned it over to Commerce City police, who sent it to the Adams County (Colo.) Coroner's Office, which determined it was part of a human penis. The police issued a press release Friday, and the drink was taken off grocery-store shelves. Rowe said Wednesday the pathologist from the coroner's office didn't do a tissue sample but only an external examination of the object before identifying it as a penis. Rowe said she could see how the pathologist could come to that conclusion. "If you saw it, you would have believed it," she said. **************************************** I wonder how long that poor guy was hunched over spilling his guts?? It's making me want to wretch just thinking about it... :0( Hawk

To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (2637)	10/4/2001 5:07:19 PM
From: CountofMoneyCristo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

(cont.) Allow me to add, Nadine, that I have great sympathy for Israel, and I do realize how easy it is to criticize. I know many Americans are now beginning to understand the truth about the situation on the ground in Israel in more human terms - it has now come home to us also. I do not live in a place under the gun as many Israelis do. I do know I have lived in Mexico City where security concerns are such that armed guards patrol supermarkets with shotguns, and I should say I did not like the feeling much. I admire the courage of many Israelis. That nation should be very proud it is the only democracy in the region. I really do wish the other moderates in the neighborhood, especially the Lebanese and Jordanians, would take a far more active role on behalf of peace. I especially hope and look forward to especially one day - soon, please - a resurgent Lebanon as a powerful voice for moderation, prosperity and freedom in the Middle East. (I am especially annoyed how unsafe the Middle East is right now - so many places I would love to visit.) The United States and its Allies should work hard to help that country reeestablish itself as it once was, a truly moderate and successful bridge between Europe and the Middle East. Such a shame the city of Beirut was destroyed. I have so often heard Lebanese friends refer to it as the Paris of the Middle East, with morning skiing and afternoon beach-going to boot. The comments here about the pressure on Yasser Arafat to tow the hard line or else risk assassination I would question. You know, this is a man who addressed the United Nations General Assembly with a gun at his hip. I find it disgraceful that the Nobel Committee awarded this man a Nobel Peace Prize. So does the rest of my family. This man is not a peacemaker. In the end, I feel the pressures on both peoples are such now that a political solution between the two will be difficult without an outside mediator coming in. That mediator must have some power to enforce a solution. Perhaps there should be a closely monitored referendum held in both Israel and the Territories on various proposals. The one which wins the most support from both sides is the one that is enforced. Let the people decide. (Though that may turn out to be an intolerable reality for certain leaders.) An idea. I'm pleased our thread host requested some solutions. This is merely one attempt. Regards, Olivier L. F. Asser