Death in police custody considered to be a possible "strange new illness."

[readmoreoften]

Sudden death after arrest may be new syndrome
Tue Sep 2, 2008 3:39pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSL28860920080902?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&sp=true

Gosh I hope I don't get infected...

[melody]

1. Sounds like that famous LAPD "choke hold on black necks" illness

:eyes:

Dontcha love it -- the stormtroopers are the same, only the uniform changes.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Remember the outrageous statement L.A. police chief Darell Gates made about the choke hold?

“We may be finding, that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.”

[melody]

6. Exactly -- he was a racist jerk n/t

[Ally2000gr8]

13. I want to ban people from saying I "Heart" things.....................

There has been a recent disease that has infected our glorious English Language vernacular and it is that of early C21st pop idium, examples are saying; I heart something-Completely cynical spin on the word love which has connotations of hate in it serving to desacrate the greatest word in the english language. Leave love well alone, we don't need any poor immitations or substitutes thank you very much. Furthermore I am also dismayed with "txt spk".

[melody]

14. I don't care.

I'm dismayed at people who don't spell desecrate correctly but I'd rather have an open system where we may express ourselves openly than one policed by language stormtroopers.

Nevertheless, welcome to DU.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. "idiom" the word is "idiom"

Did you used to be Zeke?

[melody]

20. I didn't post it, the other person did

I missed "idiom" -- must be my old eyes.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. Mea Culpa...

pass it above you, pls....:evilgrin:

[ColbertWatcher]

17. People are dying in police custody for their spelling? The Grammar Nazis have gone too far!

[LeftyMom]

2. Yeah, that's way more likely than brutal cops and crooked coroners.

:eyes:

[NOLALady]

3. Maybe it's like drapetomania.

Drapetomania...a mental disorder existing in slaves who ran away to freedom.

[TahitiNut]

8. A clear case of dysaesthesia aethiopis.

:shrug:


:puke:

[Recursion]

11. No, wait, it's Morgellon's! nt

[Recursion]

4. Lupus! No, wait, it's never Lupus

There's only one man who can tell us what it actually is...

[melody]

7. I keep waiting for the episode where it finally IS Lupus lol

House may pass out from shock.

[Recursion]

10. It happened in season 3

(For people not into medicine, a generalized Lupus diagnosis -- as opposed to clinical SLE -- is Doctor-speak for "your immune system is killing you and we can't tell you why", which is the sort of thing House can't stand.)

[melody]

12. I remembered that after I posted it

And I hear they just did cancer that isn't cancer although I haven't seen it yet (I'm boycotting until the House-Wilson rapprochement). lol

[Recursion]

15. Come on now, you can watch it free on hulu.com

I won't give it away.

Are you sure there will actually be a raprochement?

[melody]

16. Yup, I even know the episode if you want to know lol

House and Wilson are as eternally a single unit as Holmes and Watson (since that's who they're patterned after). ((God, I didn't mean that to sound nearly that poetic)). lol

Episodes 6 and 7 will be the big healing. I have a friend who writes for TV, and she has a friend who works on House.

[Union Thug]

9. billyclubitis? stungunoreah? n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

18. It's called the "GOP-Infallibility Authoritarian Syndrome"

Symptoms are: you're in police custody, you must be guilty of something.