By turns poignant and thought-provoking, Gisela Marrero's legal battle to harvest her dead fiance's sperm tested the limits of medical ethics.
In the end, four hours before the deceased's semen would no longer be viable (it remains so for only 36 hours after someone dies), the Bronx State Supreme Court approved her request and sperm bank employees rushed to his body.
What led everyone to this legal tangle began as a tragedy.
Woody Harrelson Claims He Mistook Photographer For Zombie
In the annals of actors behaving badly and then trying to explain their behavior, this ranks among one of the most hilarious explanations ever. A TMZ photographer who got too close to Harrelson claimed that the actor pushed him in the face and damaged his camera. Harrelson's excuse when questioned by police?
Italy Earthquake: Elderly Woman Knitted as She Waited For Rescue
When life gives you lemons earthquakes, make lemonade a sweater! That's practically what cute 98-year-old Maria D'Antuono did while trapped for 30 hours under the stone rubble of her home in Tempera, Italy, after Monday's earthquake hit her village. Maria lived with her daughter, and because the quake was so strong, rescuers just assumed she must be dead.
Florida Teacher Accused of Being Drunk at School Quits
Why teach middle school students boring old reading, writing, and arithmetic when you can show them how to party like a middle-aged rock star? That appears to have been 42-year-old Tampa Bay resident Kylene Nelson's strategy when she got so drunk at school she forced her terrified students to dance with her and then ran to a nearby recreation center where she passed out on some outdoor chairs. Students report being horrified that Nelson appeared to have no underwear on while she rubbed her butt all over them.
UC Sends Welcome E-mail To Rejected Students
How perfect would this mistake have been if UC San Diego had performed this epic fail just one day later than they did! They could just say Happy April Fools' and be done with it. Click here to read about why there are around 29,000 incredibly pissed off applicants now.
Ohio Man Charged With Drunken Driving on a Bar Stool
You know it's time for rehab and that your brain is pickled beyond belief when you decide that your best means of transportation is a motorized bar stool you made yourself. You might as well just do what that drunk on The Andy Griffith Show would do: get wasted, and go to directly to the police station and sleep it off inside a jail cell. Someone called the cops when they saw this fool driving erratically in a "strange motorized machine" that turned out to be his customized lawn mower vehicle.
Shopping Sprees Linked to Periods
Good news, ladies! Now in addition to being able to blame sudden crying jags, overeating, and homicidal tendencies to PMS, we get to add compulsive shopping, too! (Sweet!) A recent study in England followed about 150 women along their monthly cycles.
Is This Woman Really as Old as the Light Bulb? "Oldest Person in the World" Set to Celebrate Her 130th Birthday
Let's give it up for Sakhan Dosova of Kazakhstan — the oldest known human being in the world at 130 years old! It was thought that the oldest person in the world was 114, but that person's a spring chicken compared to Dosova.
60-Foot Penis Painted on Roof
Like mooning, fart jokes, and falling humor, a good penis drawing never fails to elicit a cheap and easy chuckle. That's what an 18-year-old in Berkshire, England, thought when he secretly painted a 60-foot penis on the roof of his parents' mansion. They say he'll have to wash it off when he's back from travelling.
Middle School Students Catch Drunk Teacher on Video
Meet Kylene Nelson of Land O' Lakes, Florida. Her idea of pedagogical engagement is not to illustrate, say, math principles or something with pasta shells, but to start grinding up on her horrified eighth grade students with her pants hanging off her pantyless bum. This is not this alcoholic's first brush with trouble (let's call a spade a spade, shall we?).