Posted: 10:19 am EST January 11, 2011Updated: 10:56 am EST January 11, 2011
ATHENS, Ga. -- A robbery suspect was found dead in a hotel room hot tub, Athens-Clarke County police said.An Athens Walgreens Store on Hawthorne Avenue was robbed at 4:37 p.m. Monday, police said. They said the robber stole oxycodone from the store’s pharmacy. Officers reviewed surveillance of the robbery and identified the suspect as 41-year-old Doyle Thomas Brittain, of Athens.Two hours later, the police department was alerted of an unresponsive man at a Comfort Inn and Suites on Old Epps Road. When officers arrived, Brittain was lying face-down in a hot tub, police said. They said crews tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at Athens Regional Medical Center shortly after.Police said there is no evidence of foul play, but an upcoming autopsy will determine the exact cause of death.The stolen medication was recovered at the scene, police said.
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How a gunman in Wisconsin managed to shoot himself over and over again.
By Michelle TsaiPosted Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007, at 6:46 PM ET
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is in critical condition after being shot in the head on Saturday morning. "I am very optimistic about her recovery," said a doctor at the University Medical Center in Tucson, while acknowledging that the bullet went through her brain. In 2007, Michelle Tsai explained how one might survive a gunshot to the head. The article is reprinted below.
A sheriff's deputy in Wisconsin killed his ex-girlfriend and five others at a house party on Sunday, then fled. When he was caught hours later, he used his .40-caliber Glock pistol to commit suicide—shooting himself twice from under the chin, and then once through the right side of his head. How'd he manage to shoot himself in the head three times?
He kept missing the brain. A gunshot to the head isn't always fatal; when the gun is aimed upward from the chin, the recoil can angle the muzzle toward the face. In this case, the bullet travels through the mouth and nose instead of back into the head, where the brain lies. The victim of such a wound would suffer serious injuries to the face; he might also suffocate if the bullet hit part of his nose, or if bits of flesh block the breathing pathway. But the pain isn't necessarily excruciating; survivors say it's like being punched or kicked in the face. A victim might even remain alert enough to use his hands, or, in the case of the sheriff's deputy, to reposition his gun and try again.
The severity of a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head depends on a few factors. The larger the bullet, the more damage, since the projectile destroys any tissue in its path. Hollow-point bullets that shatter are especially dangerous, as the fragments can spread into a larger swath of brain tissue.
But where the bullet goes is most important: the farther from the center of the brain, the greater the chance of survival. If a bullet grazes the tip of one of the lobes of the brain, the patient will probably live with proper medical treatment. If a bullet enters just one hemisphere, it's still possible to make a reasonable recovery. Someone who took a shot just to the front of the brain might suffer personality changes, like Phineas Gage, the 19th-century railroad worker who became obstinate and profane after an accident. A patient with a wound to the side of the head usually arrives at the hospital unconscious but breathing.
The gravest bullet trajectories cross from one side of the head to the other, striking the center of the brain along the way. Here lie the brain stem, the diencephalon, and other structures that together govern basic life functions such as breathing, the heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature. A bullet through the mouth, Hitler-style, can kill immediately if it strikes the brain stem.
Whatever the angle, gunshot wounds to the head are usually fatal. According to unpublished data from the University of Maryland, of 264 such victims from 2000, all but 29 died on the spot. Of the 27 who were accounted for, only 18 made it into an operating room. Eight survived with significant disabilities; 10 had a good recovery.
Explainer thanks Bizhan Aarabi of the University of Maryland Medical Center, Robert Levine of the University of Texas School of Medicine at Houston, and Dave Ross of Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Bumvertising™ would like to welcome and thank its newest advertiser, StrategicDomination.com. Strategic Domination™ has hired Bumvertising™ to utilize sign holding vagrants from around the world, in an international Bumvertising™ campaign of unseen proportions. Learn more >>
Episode 3: The Sign Business is a Fine Business The Bumvertising™ team talks to Navy Dave (aka Leprechaun) about the sign holding business.
Episode 2: Give Me a Sign Bumvertising™ starts a new program this week to help bums replace their worn out begging signs.
Episode 1: Bumvertising™ Ride Along Hit the pavement with Ben as he conducts his rounds hiring bums to hold ads.
Daily Show Feature Watch this humorous take on Bumvertising™ featuring one of our previous advertisers.
Bumvertising™ Featured on The Gruen Transfer The popular Australian TV program, The Gruen Transfer, is a prime time show that focuses on the advertising industry. Their opening segment in last week's episode was a discussion addressing practical products to promote using Bumvertising campaigns. In response to the show, several well known Australian marketing agencies have contacted us about hiring bums in the land down under. We are primarily familiar with the patterns and preferences of American vagrants, so if you know anything about Aussie swagmen that might help us out, let us know!
Bumvertising™ is the use of sign-holding vagrants to advertise. Homeless men and women are able to provide a valuable and tangible service to a company, while receiving an additional revenue stream in combination with their normal donations from begging.
Pam proudly holds her sign for passing motorists. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome leaves her in constant pain.
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Homeless People Advertising - Bumvertising™
Bumvertising™, or the use of sign holding vagrants to advertise, is a development of Front Door Enterprise, a specialty marketing firm.
Benjamin Rogovy, president and chief economist of Front Door Enterprises, developed this system after realizing the enormous potential in wasted homeless labor. Bums use a business model that takes advantage of high volume traffic, with the expectation that, on average, a certain number of people will donate to them in the form of cash, clothing, or food. Some people, by principle, will never give a homeless man money. Some will give food to them whenever they can. But what is the use of holding up a bum sign to 99% of car traffic that will only read but never donate to these vagrants? With such great exposure, Mr. Rogovy imagined that there had to be some value that was not being utilized. Many other companies, such as Strategy Game Network have also pledged to endorse this model.
Through his own effort and the assistance of his marketing team, Mr. Rogovy developed signs and accumulated the resources that most bums would find attractive. Money, sandwiches, chips, apples, water, and other beverages have all been dispensed in order to compensate the homeless in the Seattle Bumvertising™ campaign.
It is also Mr. Rogovy's belief that bums will incur higher revenues from donations after showing the initiative to seek out semi-legitimate employment. Many of the vagabonds of our Bumvertising campaigns remark that they are receiving more comments and questions than ever. "People are actually reading my signs!", remarked Robert, one of Bumvertising's most loyal derelicts. "I thought they just handed me a dollar but never read what I was saying."
Currently, the highest concentration of Bumvertisements are being placed at the on and off ramps of I-5 at the 45th and 50th street exits. Please learn more about some of the Bumvertising campaign's most important assets at the gallery.
Four of the six winning numbers in last night's Mega Millions lottery, with a jackpot of a whopping $380 million, turned out to match Hurley's lucky lotto numbers.
Damon Lindelof even tweeted, "9,078 people played Hurley's numbers in the MegaMillions tonight, each winning $150. #THATSSORAVEN"
What's even funnier is the order in which the numbers were they revealed matched the show's.
Here are the winning numbers from the lottery: 4, 8, 15, 25, 47, 42. And the Lost numbers: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.
Maybe there is real meaning behind them after all ..
It is also Mr. Rogovy's belief that bums will incur higher revenues from donations after showing the initiative to seek out semi-legitimate employment. Many of the vagabonds of our Bumvertising campaigns remark that they are receiving more comments and questions than ever. "People are actually reading my signs!", remarked Robert, one of Bumvertising's most loyal derelicts. "I thought they just handed me a dollar but never read what I was saying."