If you’re ever sick in Italy, you may want to think twice about asking a nurse to fluff your pillow. A story recdently surfaced about Italian nurse Daniela Poggiali, who is accused of killing 38 of her patients because she found them annoying. Poggiali would inject her victims with a lethal dose of potassium chloride which is extra hard to investigate because it fades from the system after a few days. And she shows no regrets:
It is claimed that Ms Poggiali even took ghoulish selfies. The Libero Quotidiano newspaper said that Ms Poggiali photographed herself on her smartphone while standing next to one of her suspected victims, moments after he had died. “In all my professional years of seeing shocking photos, there have been few like these,” said Alessandro Mancini, the chief prosecutor of Ravenna. Colleagues said Ms Poggiali deliberately gave laxatives to patients at the end of her shift so that other nurses would have to deal with the effects.
And they say it’s the nurses that have the charming bedside manner.
Team Blackness also discussed a Ferguson, Missouri, cop that tried to get a resident fired from her job for being involved in the protests, an Iowa cop that blew out to the tires of a pregnant woman speeding to get to the hospital to deliver her baby, and more stupid words out of Texas Rep. Louis Gohmert’s mouth.
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Pogonip
Elon, your articles are double-posting again.
Elon, your articles are double-posting again.
NCSteve
Not that I’m necessarily going to take the word of an Italian prosecutor about a spectacularly ghoulish crime as Gospel at this point . . .
Suffern ACE
She should have paid attention to that test that career test they made all the students take in the 8th grade. When “Nurse” didn’t show up but “Roller Derby Jammer” did, she should have taken the advice more seriously.
SatanicPanic
@NCSteve: How do we know she wasn’t participating in a Satanic ritual?
Eric S.
Hi,
Tech question. It has taken me a whileto figure out but I’m pretty sure when one of Elon’s posts go up – with the Stitcher imbed – my Chrome browser locks up. I am using Chrome Version 38.0.2125.104 on Windows 7. Is there a plug in or something I need. A quick search at work isn’t yielding immediate answers.
Thanks
Betty Cracker
@Eric S.: I’m running Chrome version 38.0.2125.104 m on Windows 7, and I’ve not had a problem. I hope someone else has an answer.
Origuy
@Betty Cracker: Same here. The only Chrome extensions I have are Google Docs and Adobe Acrobat.
Eric S.
I have to open IE when this happens (and I hate IE) so I’m not completely frozen out of B-J but it is frustrating.
Again, I think it is related to Stitcher. That is the common thread I’ve identified anyway.
Warren Terra
@NCSteve:
Yeah, this. Between the case where Italian prosecutors (successfully!) prosecuted geologists for failing to predict an earthquake and even more the Amanda Knox case, where the prosecutors have seized upon a series of lurid, improbable, and mutually incompatible theories of the crime to explain their selection of Knox as the perpetrator, theories that make no sense unless you are an ignorant sex-obsessed fantasist suffused with xenophobia and racism, I wouldn’t trust an Italian prosecutor who described a jaywalking offense – the more so when the accusations are richly colorful and extraordinary.
Maybe this woman is the inconceivable comic-book monster she’s been portrayed as. All I’ve seen is nonsensical claims from an Italian Prosecutor, and although we certainly live in a world where such horrors could be real we also live in a world where Italian Prosecutors, in particular, invent lurid fantasies and pin them on patsies.
chopper
Punching down! Attacking nurses!
brettvk
@Eric S.: I’m using Chrome as my major browser on my new Windows 8.1 PC, but I can only read Balloon Juice on IE — Stitcher loads forever in Chrome.