Oct 11 (Reuters) - A teenager playing a zombie at a Halloween-themed corn maze was killed after falling under the event's "Zombie Slayer Paintball Bus," authorities said on Saturday, as the northwestern Idaho attraction's patrons thought it was just part of the act.
Jeremy T. McSpadden Jr., 18, appeared to die instantly after falling under the rear passenger wheels of the bus on Friday night, stumbling as he emerged wearing a mask and hockey gloves to run toward the bus from his hiding place in the maze.
Inside the rocking vehicle, which was creeping forward on uneven terrain, nobody immediately realized what had happened, authorities said. The attraction's riders had paid to shoot at the attacking zombies, pretending to slay them with paintball guns mounted outside the windows of a modified school bus.
"Everyone just thought it was part of the act," said Sgt. Ward Crawford, a traffic team supervisor with the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office in Idaho.
He said the other zombie players realized what happened after the bus moved on and the teenager from Spokane Valley, Washington, remained motionless.
This was the first year for the zombie attraction at the Incredible Corn Maze in Hauser, Idaho, located about 30 minutes from Spokane.
Authorities said in an media release that they did not believe alcohol was a factor.
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Walking Dead, evidently a hit show
by nonjwspouse innot my cup o tea for sure, but i found out my nephew is a regular zombie on the show.. anyone here like the show?
i'm kinda afraid to even watch it ...my imagination is a bit to active.. .
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The EBOLA conspiracy...
by gopher123 inhey guys.
there has been a ton of illuminati hollywood mind control pre-programming about this virus outbreak before it actually happened.
conspiracy people of the world... unite.. .
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Clinical trials are now starting for an experimental made-in-Canada Ebola vaccine amid growing global concern over the disease that’s left more than 4,000 people dead.
Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose called the trials “promising news” in the fight against the largest-ever Ebola outbreak. As part of a process Ambrose said is moving at “unprecedented speeds,” results of the first phase are expected in December, and the hope is the vaccine can be deployed shortly thereafter.
At this time, however, it’s unclear if the vaccine will ever reach people on the ground in West Africa — and critics say the trials didn’t happen nearly fast enough.
“This is a shameful delay,” said Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa professor and Canada Research Chair in law, population health, and global development policy.
“The competing vaccine is way ahead of where we are, and that worries me,” he added.
That second experimental vaccine is being produced by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline alongside the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and human trials have already started in Africa.
The Canadian vaccine — which many scientists consider the more promising of the two — was developed by researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory. Ambrose said it has been “100-per-cent effective” in preventing the spread of the Ebola virus when tested on animals.
The Canadian government owns the intellectual property associated with the vaccine and has licensed the rights to a small American company, NewLink Genetics, through its subsidiary BioProtection Systems.
The first phase of human clinical trials will be conducted in a lab in Silver Spring, Md., and will test the vaccine on a small group of healthy people to assess its safety, help determine proper dosage levels and identify any side-effects.
“We currently have the two vaccines that are being tested and this has created sort of a ‘space race’ to find out which vaccine is going to be the first to the finish line,” noted Toronto-based microbiologist Jason Tetro.
“If one of the two vaccines is slow in advancing to trials, you’ve taken a two-horse race and you’ve made it a one-horse race,” added Attaran. He said researchers need to generate data on both vaccines as soon as possible to know which one works best — or works at all.
Tetro said he appreciates the need for proper protocols when it comes to clinical trials, but he would have liked to see them happen faster.
“The fact is that we really started to be concerned about this probably four months after we should have,” he said. “And it really wasn’t until somebody … appeared on North American soil with the Ebola virus that it really took off.”
By the time it became clear that a vaccine would likely be needed, it was too late to prevent the high numbers of cases and deaths, he said. There have been at least 8,400 cases of Ebola, according to the latest available numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Toronto emergency department physician Dr. Brett Belchetz said the Canadian vaccine’s clinical trials have been greatly accelerated when compared to typical clinical trials that may take months or even years. But he said people shouldn’t be overly hopeful about the vaccine’s potential.
“Right now, all we have are animal trials that were successful,” he said, adding there are hundreds of examples in medical literature of drugs and vaccines that were successful in animals but didn’t work for humans.
But Ambrose said if this Ebola vaccine is shown to be safe and effective, “it will stop this devastating outbreak.”
“This is an excellent step towards not only putting an end to the current Ebola epidemic, but also possibly preventing all future epidemics,” noted Tetro.
Dr. Gregory Taylor, Canada’s chief public health officer, stressed that no one will be at risk of contracting Ebola during this first phase of clinical trials. “The vaccine does not contain any live Ebola virus,” he said.
Around 40 volunteers will be taking the vaccine and will be monitored by public health professionals for any side-effects, he said. They will also be assessed to see how well their immune systems are producing antibodies against Ebola.
Taylor explained that when a person takes a vaccine, “it prompts their immune system to start making antibodies” to find and neutralize foreign objects such as viruses.
Monday’s announcement of the Canadian vaccine trials came as two patients at separate Ontario hospitals awaited Ebola test results while in isolation. One patient at Ottawa Hospital’s General Campus was “under investigation” Monday after displaying Ebola-like symptoms, but tests came out negative. That patient recently visited a West African country, according to a city of Ottawa press release.
Another patient at Belleville General Hospital was also being tested for the virus. Quinte Health Care spokesperson Susan Rowe stressed that it’s “highly unlikely” the patient, who recently entered Sierra Leone, is actually carrying the virus.
Health Canada said there have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in Canada.
But south of the border, a Texas health-care worker tested positive for the virus after caring for an Ebola patient who later died; in Spain, a nursing aide who contracted Ebola remains in hospital.
“I think most of us working in health care are quite afraid at this point,” Belchetz said.
Various countries, including Canada, have been ramping up airport screening in major cities in an attempt to detect passengers carrying Ebola.
Not all are in favour of this practice. “Airport screening is essentially useless,” said Belchetz, adding passengers could fly before knowing that they’re sick.
But Tetro applauded the screening initiative. “Does that mean they’re going to find anyone? No … but it shows that the system is there,” he said.
Tetro said that screening creates a chain of communication and a record of the person’s interaction at the airport, which could prove useful if they later show up at a health-care facility with Ebola symptoms.
Alongside domestic protection measures, Ambrose noted the Canadian government has committed more than $35 million in various forms of overseas Ebola aid, including a shipment of personal protective equipment last week. This shipment has now arrived in West Africa.
“Canada has long been a world leader in Ebola research,” Ambrose said.
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Walking Dead, evidently a hit show
by nonjwspouse innot my cup o tea for sure, but i found out my nephew is a regular zombie on the show.. anyone here like the show?
i'm kinda afraid to even watch it ...my imagination is a bit to active.. .
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"I Am Legend" with Will Smith is great! It was the first modern Zombie movie I watched while waking up from JW propaganda about demonic movies. The most exciting/frightening part of the film, the first time I watched it, was when his dog ran into the dark building filled with zombies and he went in with his flashlight . . . man, that was an adrenaline high!
Loved it, as well as Omega Man for its time period.
(My wife even let my boys watch I Am Legend - that was a pleasant shock)
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The more people who leave the Witnesses, the more people will leave. True?
by ThomasCovenant inif more faders stopped fading and just stopped,.
would more of the many closet unbelieving attendees just stop too, creating a momentum?.
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It is curious that the peak numbers is used, and that there has never been disclosure of how it is calculated. Is it cong. by cong.?
Circuit?
District?
Country?
Branch?
Also, EVERY CO visit used to complain about meeting attendance always being low when compared with number of publishers. When they count non-publisher children as attenders, that makes for a telling statistic.
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TRY THIS WATCHTOWER QUIZ
by Terry inthe quiz will be followed by the answers.
don't peek!.
the answers should be avoided while taking the quiz .
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Thanks for the post and the link to:
http://www.religioustolerance.org
Never knew June 1966 was another expectation of some (666) and that that was the month that Life Everlasting was released.
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The EBOLA conspiracy...
by gopher123 inhey guys.
there has been a ton of illuminati hollywood mind control pre-programming about this virus outbreak before it actually happened.
conspiracy people of the world... unite.. .
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Is it a global patent?
If so, shouldn't they be going after those pesky Africans for infringement?
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My appeal was successful. Now what?
by noonehome infaders: why do we bother staying in?.
we cling to some false hope that people we love will accept us despite our not believing, even though its as much a fairytale as the dogmas based on untruths.. ive never been anything but a good friend and human being and would do anything for the people i love; i couldnt dream of shutting out someone i care about.
and its not like theyd revel in the idea of doing it either, yet its seen as not just the only choice, but also as undoubtedly the right thing to do.
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At least you're awake.
It is far better than struggling with the nonsense.
And you can change congos to complete your fade.
(Go for a walk.)
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Today's WT study (10/12/14) - a sales seminar!
by OneEyedJoe inthis cult is getting really shameless.
the wt study was always supposed to be for discussion of 'the deep truths' of the bible.
the wt may have always been filled with utter nonsense, but at least it had the appearance of a topical discussion of bible doctrine.
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Something else now roams the abandoned halls of Bethel imo, and it aint as dumb as it makes out to be, that is for JWs to assume the character of.
It must have been hard for some to stay in Bethel in the past. How possibly can anyone do so in the present?
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Walking Dead, evidently a hit show
by nonjwspouse innot my cup o tea for sure, but i found out my nephew is a regular zombie on the show.. anyone here like the show?
i'm kinda afraid to even watch it ...my imagination is a bit to active.. .
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Sorry, forgot to post the image.
"Let's crack some baby skulls. Yippee ki yay."
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Thanksgiving...
by HowTheBibleWasCreated incolumbus day in the us is thanksgiving in canada.
nowpersonally i find this stupid and mornic since the tradion beihind the festival goes back to us ancestry bu so be it... (the us pbserves this a month later).
the tradition is turkey, cranberries (why ?
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Just enjoy the turkey, beer, and FOOTBALL. (Jeez, loosen your belts.)
