From: usteen@asdf.fi   
      
   According to /The Birmingham Mail/, a man watching a film at the Star   
   City entertainment complex's Vue Cinema dropped his mobile phone.  The   
   noteworthy part is what happened when he bent down to retrieve the   
   device, which had fallen between two reclining Gold Class seats: the   
   electronic foot rest of one of them lowered onto his head.  His partner   
   and then cinema staff attempted to free the panicking man.  Rescuers   
   eventually broke the foot rest free, but his troubles weren't over.  He   
   had gone into cardiac arrest and died in hospital a week later.   
   Birmingham City Council are performing a health and safety   
   investigation.   
      
     The Gold Class seat = Death's legal costs...   
      
      
   Peter Barclay is a Virginia man who was involved in some hardcore   
   mediaeval re-enactment - an equestrian competition to put one's lance   
   through a paper plate on the ground.  According to John Fulton, a   
   representative of the event organiser, Barclay's metal-tipped lance   
   flipped upon hitting the ground and flew back upward, into the   
   53-year-old's chest.   Barclay died while being airlifted to hospital:   
   'Master Terafan Greydragon' is no more.   
      
     Terafan Greydragon = Tag 'Yearn for danger?'   
      
      
   Montana's Samantha Ray Mears is accused of lying in wait behind her   
   ex-boyfriend's bedroom door with a machete until he returned home,   
   then ordering him to undress and have sex with her.   He later stated   
   that he complied, apart from a pause during which Mears, still holding   
   the machete while sitting atop him, bit him on the arm and bade him   
   continue.  An argument broke out as soon as the sex act was complete.   
   The altercation ended with the arrival of the Great Falls police, whom   
   the ex-boyfriend had summoned when stepping away for a moment to ring   
   'Doug'.   
     Mears, 19, had had a seven-year relationship with the man, during   
   which she accumulated various charges of assaulting him.  As for her   
   version of recent events, she claims that he kidnapped her and then   
   gave her a machete for self-defence.   
      
     Samantha Mears = Harass man-meat   
      
      
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