The Mystery At Webb Hill - In the waning daylight hours of December 7, 1998, three teenage boys, hiking near Webb Hill, St. George, Utah, saw a shirt sleeve flapping in the wind near the top of the hill. Their parents had warned them not to attempt hiking the sheer red rock cliffs. What they discovered inside a stone-walled chamber was the skeletonized remains of a 16 year old male. Positive identification of this young man has eluded investigators for nearly five years.
Maybe you can help.
posted by mr_crash_davis
on Sep 20, 2004 -
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The city of Enoch, Utah, population 3467, has an annual animal-control budget of $25,000. A budget this small means that Enoch's Animal Control must display some creativity when it comes to dealing with the problem of stray or unwanted animals. Mark Havnes of the
Salt Lake Tribune describes
Enoch's solution:
"No sterile lethal injections here. No pressurized bottles of toxic gas. Enoch attaches a hose to the back of a city-owned Dodge pickup and funnels lethal carbon monoxide into a shedlike death chamber. The unwanted, unadoptable critters then are placed inside...'We have no trouble sleeping at night,' says...the city's part-time animal-control officer... 'We can't see a darn thing wrong with what we are doing."
posted by mr_crash_davis
on Jul 14, 2002 -
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Russians going home? Apparently, Russian Olympic Committee president Leonid Tyagachev said
there was a 24-hour window to address the situation, and that if Russia left Salt Lake City it probably would not compete in Athens in the next Summer Games.
posted by mr_crash_davis
on Feb 21, 2002 -
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The 2002 Olympics have some
unintended consequences for Salt Lake City:
"Along the Wasatch Front, police say they have seen an influx of 'circuit girls' -- migratory prostitutes who travel from city to city for high-profile events -- and their pimps, typically men who exploit hookers for a healthy cut of the cash"
posted by mr_crash_davis
on Dec 9, 2001 -
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In October 2000, in the mountains of Utah, three-year-old Gage Wayment
wandered away from his father's truck and died of exposure.
In July 2001, his father, Paul Wayment, was due to begin serving a 30-day jail sentence for negligent homicide. Instead, he
killed himself in the area where his son was found.
Now, Paul Wayment's parents have
filed two million-dollar claims against the search and rescue teams alleging that had they "conducted an appropriate and proper search," the boy and his father would still be alive.
It appears the search teams are protected by the
Utah Good Samaritan Act, unless they can be shown to have been grossly negligent, but this lawsuit may still have a
chilling effect on future search-and-rescue operations.
posted by mr_crash_davis
on Dec 3, 2001 -
29 comments
