Well, that does it.

This has to win the award for "Strangest and Most-Disgusting Headline of 2017."

The competition is over now.

Everyone can go home.

Thanks for competing.

The only edifying point to this tragedy is that one would look at this perp and say something like "You know...that man looks like someone who would have public sex with a corpse."

So, at least we have that going for us.

Reason Number 57 on "Why the Government should be in control of the entire Health Care System." Because some bureaucrat somewhere, somehow, in a way that we can't presently imagine, will find a way to make it his personal profit center...

...like the General Manager of the Los Angeles Coliseum whose corruption may have included "leasing" the Coliseum out for a porn video:

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field is the place where the USC Trojans play football, two Summer Olympics were staged, John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic presidential nomination and Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass.

It was also a location for "The Gangbang Girl #32," a hard-core pornographic movie that featured 40 minutes of group sex on the gridiron turf, The Times has learned.

The filming at the taxpayer-owned stadium was done at night, with the Coliseum's towering lights blazing and its rows of distinctive red and white seats framing many of the scenes. The video also shows the stadium's signature tunnel, which the Trojan team charges through at the start of games, as well as a sliver of the iconic peristyle, the arched entrance to the Coliseum.

"I was just in awe that we were at the Coliseum," said a star of the film, who goes by the name Mr. Marcus. "I've made movies for about 20 years and I've done a lot of things, but that one really stands out.… I mean, who gets to have sex on the Coliseum floor?"

The mystery is, how did they get access to the Coliseum, Coliseum lights and Coliseum locker room:

Gaining access to the locked stadium and firing up the field lights typically requires the approval of a high-ranking manager, according to people familiar with Coliseum operations, who requested anonymity because they are not allowed to speak publicly on the matter.

Could the former General Manager who resigned in connection with pleading guilty for corruption and kickbacks have something to do with it?

Former General Manager Patrick Lynch resigned in early 2011 and was indicted in March of this year in a sweeping corruption case.

"That's disgusting," Lynch's attorney, Tony Capozzola, said of the porn shoot. "He would never allow that."

Lynch has pleaded guilty to conflict of interest in a deal that required him to return $385,000 in alleged kickbacks he received from a Coliseum contractor. Ex-events manager Todd DeStefano has pleaded not guilty to charges that include bribery, embezzlement and conspiracy. Four other men also have been indicted in the case.

Embezzlement and conspiracy are one thing, but taking a kickback for enabling "Gangbang Girl #32" is "disgusting."

Well, if they're following their hearts, then it's all good.

File in both the "truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to be plausible" and the "slouching to Gomorrah" files.

Valley Teacher Leaves Family for Student

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - A California school teacher has quit his job and left his wife and kids to move into an apartment with an 18-year-old student less than half his age.

The Modesto Bee says the teen's mother has waged a Facebook campaign since her daughter moved out of the family's home last week and into a Modesto apartment with 41-year-old James Hooker.

Hooker quit his teaching job at Enochs High School last week and left his wife and children, one of them an Enochs student, to live with Enochs senior Jordan Powers.

Modesto police are investigating whether there was inappropriate contact before the girl turned 18 last fall.

Hooker acknowledges the couple hurt a lot of people, but says they decided to follow their hearts.

Ahhhhh....sweeeeeet.

Except for the part where Hooker abandoned his children and wife, and took up with an immature girl over whom he had been placed in a position of trust and power for the purpose of shaping her future for her own ends - and not for his pleasure.

That part is pretty awful and creepy.

From the "Truth is Stranger than Fiction because Fiction has to be Plausible" file.

Police taser 86 year old bed-ridden grandmother after cutting off the flow to her oxygen by standing on the oxygen hose.

Those are the allegations of a civil complaint, so they could be accurate.

Makes you wonder what really happened.

[Via Mark Shea.]

Truth is stranger than fiction...

...because fiction has to be plausible.

Consider the case of the woman who remade herself from a waitress to French nobility and then had her husband fake her death:

Genevieve Sanders was a Valley kid through and through.


Her father was a Tulare County supervisor; her stepmother was the mayor of Lindsay. Sanders studied psychology at Fresno State, then reigned as National Raisin Queen. She worked as a waitress in Fresno. She got married.

Genevieve Marie de Montremare was royalty.

Born in France, brought up on estates across Europe, she held multiple university degrees and was known worldwide for her work in horse genetics. She was a recognized authority on the Friesian breed, and the horse-judging events on her Clovis ranch drew well-to-do horse owners from far and wide.

The strange tale of how Genevieve Sanders reinvented herself as the flamboyant -- but fake -- Genevieve Marie de Montremare was a well-kept secret. Not even her closest friends suspected her French accent was made up.

And they might never have found out if her husband -- a prominent Fresno doctor -- hadn't faked her death in 2007.


Dr. Michael Weilert, 60, is director of pathology and clinical laboratories for Community Regional Medical Centers and a founding member of Pathology Associates in Clovis. He acknowledges that he told friends his wife -- now 48 -- had died after a long illness. He said he did it to protect her privacy because she is gravely ill.

But you'd sound like a loon claiming that story was true.

If only middle-aged Swedish women were allowed to marry.  If only middle-aged Swedish women were allowed to be priests.

20 Women Arrested in Swedish Child Porn Raid

Swedish police say they have arrested 23 people in a nationwide raid against a child pornography ring, including 20 women.


Police spokesman Sven-Ake Petters called the raid "unique" and said he has never come across so many female suspects in a child pornography investigation before. He says arrests were made at 12 different locations across Sweden on Wednesday and include women aged between 38 and 60.

Police uncovered the network during the investigation of a man in Dalarna, western Sweden, who was charged last month with breaking child pornography laws.

Petters says there were no immediate clues as to why so many women were involved but that police will now investigate computers and mobile phones that were seized during the raid.

From the "Truth is Stranger than Fiction because Fiction has to be Plausible" File.

31 year old woman poses as a teenage boy in order to date teenage girls:

A 31-year-old woman who posed as a teenage boy, cutting her hair and using male aliases, so she could date teenage girls pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to six months in jail.


Patricia Dye, of Franklin, also was ordered her to undergo a mental health evaluation and follow any recommended treatment.

Prosecutors have said Dye tricked at least two teenage girls into dating her, although charges were filed in connection with only one, a 16-year-old. She was arrested in June after the girl ran away from home for a few days and stayed with Dye for at least part of that time, authorities said.

Dye pleaded guilty Wednesday to three misdemeanor charges: sexual imposition, attempted sexual imposition and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

I guess I'll file this under "truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to be plausible."


I'll be honest, I don't know what to do with this one. Pornography seems to be "protected speech" for purposes of the "right to free speech" but in Australia it now seems to be illegal to be a small-breasted porn star.

Wouldn't the fact that small breasted porn stars are a precursor to pedophilia also establish a link to pornography in general and other social dysfunctions, kind of like conservatives (and feminists) have been saying since the First Amendment revolution of the '50s, which would then permit the further regulation of porn?


Maybe it needs to be filed under "the Talmud of Secular Humanism."