Not an urban legend. Extreme warning for graphic content.

warrior1

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Tue Jun-21-11 06:05 PM
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Not an urban legend. Extreme warning for graphic content.

Edited on Tue Jun-21-11 06:12 PM by warrior1

http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2011/06/sacramento-woma-25.html

Sacramento woman arrested for allegedly killing her baby in microwave

In what police say is an extremely rare and disturbing case, a Sacramento woman was arrested this morning for allegedly killing her 6-week-old daughter in March by placing her in a microwave oven.

Ka Yang, 29, was arrested at her Sacramento home this morning and charged with homicide after a three-month investigation into what caused unusual burns on the child, Mirabelle Thao-Lo, who was found dead on the afternoon of March 17.

Sacramento police spokeswoman Laura Peck said there have been only three previous cases involving a child being burned in a microwave, and that detectives studied those cases and consulted with medical experts and pathologists before making the arrest.

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ixion

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Tue Jun-21-11 06:08 PM
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1. the meme is 'urban legend'

Edited on Tue Jun-21-11 06:10 PM by ixion

just sayin'.... In any case, that's such an incredibly cruel and horrible thing to do. I really can't even get my head around someone's mindset who would do that. :crazy:

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Rex

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Tue Jun-21-11 06:10 PM
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2. The fact that there were three other cases to study is disturbing in itself.

WHAT THE FUCK. Over.

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Obamanaut

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Tue Jun-21-11 06:11 PM
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3. A Roman legion at full strength was 6,000 men. How many in an urban legion? nt

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provis99

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Tue Jun-21-11 08:34 PM
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4. 1,500 men.

There were 3 Urban Cohorts in Rome, roughly 500 men each.

So an urban legion is 1/4 the size of a regular one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_cohort

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Obamanaut

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Tue Jun-21-11 08:41 PM
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5. I think you gave me inaccurate information re legion vs cohort.

Edited on Tue Jun-21-11 08:47 PM by Obamanaut

According to your link there were three cohorts in Roma, collectively "...cohortes urbanae (Latin meaning urban cohorts)...", with a single cohort numbering approximately 500, and that was subdivided into 'centuries' of 80 to 100 men.

This was fun. I was better at this in the late 1950s in Latin class.

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Shagbark Hickory

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Tue Jun-21-11 08:44 PM
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6. Oh phew. I thought this was going to be about a dog or cat. nt

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nadinbrzezinski

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Tue Jun-21-11 08:47 PM
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7. Sounds like a classic of post birth depression

...

Sad, sadly preventable.

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