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Jun-23-2005 17:49
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Woman Uses Breast Milk To Put Out Burning Amputee Set On Fire By Teens
News Edition: 05/21/2005
A real-life supermom used a bottle of breast milk to douse an amputee yesterday after his wheelchair was set ablaze by punks on a Staten Island bus, cops said.
The nursing mother's fast actions helped save Vietnam vet Francis Abrams, 57, from becoming a human torch, and stopped the fire from engulfing the S-54 bus, police and the victim said.
"It was put out with breast milk," said a police source, who was awed by the bizarre incident that happened just after 11 a.m.
Abrams, who lost his left leg in Vietnam, said he was minding his own business as he rode the city bus to the Staten Island Mall to buy a video of "The Exorcist."
Just after he boarded the bus, three teens playing hooky from Tottenville High School pulled a cruel prank, cops said.
"They set my chair on fire," an angry Abrams said last night, refusing to allow photographers to take pictures of his face. "They thought it was a joke."
Cops said the teens used a cigarette lighter to ignite a plastic bag hanging from the back of Abrams' motorized wheelchair.
The flames quickly engulfed the bag, containing the Greek classics "Odyssey" and "Iliad."
As the fire spread to Abrams' jacket, he screamed: "Water!"
As her baby looked on, the new mom and a friend sprang into the action, dousing the fire with a freshly pumped bottle of breast milk and another bottle of water, authorities said.
The back of Abrams' wheelchair was slightly melted by the fire, but he was not harmed thanks to the nursing mother.
"I said, 'Thank you,'" Abrams said.
When bus driver Deborah Thompson spotted the fire, she wheeled the bus to a stop at Crossfield Ave. and Arthur Kill Road in Greenridge, officials said.
But as she called 911, the three fire-starters bolted.
Cops from the 123rd Precinct got a detailed description of the suspects from Thompson and Abrams and quickly found the pranksters.
The names of the suspects were not released because of their ages. All of them are 15. They were charged with arson, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, authorities said.
Asked about the fire being extinguished with breast milk, Abrams bristled, "I don't care. It doesn't bother me."
Courtesy of: NYDailyNews
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Jun-23-2005 17:53
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I would pay good money to see starsearcher and Jayx1 exclusively using this thread LOL!!!
When hell thaws after freezing over!!!
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Jun-23-2005 18:09
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Great so can we do the same thing with tiesto threads?
Didnt think so
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Jun-23-2005 18:13
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| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Great so can we do the same thing with tiesto threads?
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SURE WE CAN!!!!! That's what Swamper was doing, wasn't he? Roll Calls, Questions about whether an event is going to take place, and Appreciation Threads don't count! (in my understanding, at least...)
To all those other dinky threads: consolidate their asses!!!! LOL!!!
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Jun-23-2005 18:16
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starsearcher
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Location: Toronto
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| quote: | Married men earn more if wives do the chores?
Wed Jun 22,11:40 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Married men earn more than bachelors so long as their wives stay at home doing the housework, according to a report Wednesday from Britain's Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER).
Academics Elena Bardasi and Mark Taylor found that a married man whose wife does not go out to work but is primarily responsible for the cooking and cleaning earns about 3 percent more than comparably employed single men.
But that wage premium disappears if wives go out to work themselves or don't do most of the housework.
"It has been fairly well documented that married men earn more than single men," Taylor, a labor economist, told Reuters.
"However, our research established the wage premium is related to the wife doing the chores," said the academic who teaches at the University of Essex in eastern England.
He said analysis suggests there could be two explanations for the results:
A marriage might allow a husband and wife to focus their activities on tasks to which they are most suited. Traditionally, this would result in the man concentrating on paid work enabling him to increase productivity and in consequence his wages.
Taylor said another explanation could be that marriage may increase the amount of time a man has to hone work-related skills which could trigger higher wages.
Taylor and Bardasi analyzed the hourly wages of 3,500 men who have been interviewed annually since 1991 as part of the British Household Panel Survey.
"We looked at all types of jobs from unskilled up to managers and professionals," Taylor said. |
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