March 15, 2009
Here's a craigslist posting from a homeless guy who's now back on his feet. You can read the rest after the jump in case the post gets removed.
I won't ramble too much. Most stories are the same. I just want to tell you what I notice now that I'm stable.
A paraplegic man confined to a wheelchair for 20 years due to a motorcycle accident is walking again after suffering a bite from a Brown Recluse spider.
A Brown Recluse sent him to the hospital, then to rehab for eight months."I'm here for a spider bite. I didn't know I would end up walking," says David.
A nurse noticed David's leg spasm and ran a test on him.
"When they zapped my legs, I felt the current, I was like 'whoa' and I yelled," he says.
He felt the current and the rush of a renewed sense of hope.
"She says,'your nerves are alive. They're just asleep'," explained David.
Five days later David was walking.
March 12, 2009
Leonardo Notarbartolo, the mastermind behind what many consider the world's biggest diamond heist, tells his story for the first time after six years in prison:
In February 2003, Notarbartolo was arrested for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a vault two floors beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million worth of loose diamonds, gold, jewelry, and other spoils. The vault was thought to be impenetrable. It was protected by 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations. The robbery was called the heist of the century, and even now the police can't explain exactly how it was done.
