Tag Archives: oddities

Family Tree…er…Chain

This seems like a cool tradition. Maybe I could start something similar with my family.

Family Continues 87-Year Chain Letter
By RUSS BYNUM

“SAVANNAH, Ga. – The fat manilla envelope arrives in Doug Pletcher’s mailbox every year, stuffed with letters and photographs from uncles and cousins of some 24 branches of his family tree scattered from Florida to California. “

Sick in the Head

Innocent by reason of tumor?

Frontal Lobe Tumor causes Pedophilia in a Man
Science raises questions for criminal justice system

Neurolgists at the University of Virginia reported that the removal of a frontal lobe tumor ended a male patient’s sexual behavior toward children. The patient had begun to have poor sexual impulse control several years eariler. The Tumor actually grew back once, with the sexual behaviors returning. The behaviors ceased again when the second tumor was removed.