University of Maryland Reconstructs Horrifically Injured Gun Accident Victim’s Face

Posted on October 18, 2012 by atomictv

Horrifically injured gun accident victim shows off results of the most extensive face transplant ever performed

Richard Lee Norris, 37, injured in 1997 in gun accident, was treated by 100-strong team of doctors at University of Maryland in March

By Louise Boyle (Daily Mail, 10/16/2012)

These are the incredible before-and-after pictures of 37-year-old Richard Lee Norris who was given the most extensive face transplant ever performed.

Mr Norris, who was injured in a 1997 gun accident, was pictured seven months after being given a new face, teeth, tongue and jaw in a 36-hour surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

For 15 years, Mr Norris lived as a recluse in Hillsville, Virginia, hiding behind a mask and only coming out at night time. He can now feel his face and is able to brush his teeth and shave. He’s also regained his sense of smell, which he had lost after the accident.

When he shot himself in the face in 1997, Mr Norris lost his nose, lips and most movement in his mouth. He has had multiple life-saving, reconstructive surgeries which also replaced underlying nerve and muscle tissue from scalp to neck. Motor function is now 80 per cent on the right side of the face and 40 per cent on the left.

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Bengies Drive-In Theater Ad, 1979

Posted on October 17, 2012 by atomictv

By Spike55151 (Reddit Baltimore, 10/17/2012)

Bengies Drive-In Theater lineup for August 16, 1979

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Arabbers; A Dying Baltimore Tradition Brought to Life By Street Artist Gaia

Posted on October 17, 2012 by atomictv

By Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington, BrooklynStreetArt.com (Huffington Post, 10/16/2012)

Gaia “The Arabbers” Sandtown, Baltimore. 2012 (photo © Gaia)

Street Artist Gaia regularly highlights people from whichever community that he’s painting or wheatpasting in. Passersby commonly stop to talk while he’s working, often adding layers of history, knowledge, opinion, and nuance to his piece while he works. With his newest wall in Sandtown, a neighborhood of Baltimore, Gaia draws attention to a dying local profession that is hanging on, but barely.

Arabbers — pronounced locally with a long A (“A-rab”) — were salespeople who had as many as 400 commercial carts offering fresh produce and other items rolling daily through the streets of Baltimore at one time, according to some accounts. Horse-drawn carts were a normal part of the early 20th century street life and amazingly B-Town still supports a few of these small business people on the streets in the 21st.

Because of new zoning and bylaws enacted during a period of urban renewal, the city restricted where horse stables existed, and many were put out of business. But during our travels through Baltimore with photographer Martha Cooper, who grew up there, we have had occasion to meet a number of the people who still carry this trade forward — some for many generations. Their small fenced off plots of land and stables appear suddenly like an oasis of farm life from another era in the middle of otherwise urban blocks. Once able to provide a good living to a family, Arabbers still brings fresh food to underserved communities at reasonable prices. Unfortunately the proud profession is now endangered by the economic pressures of rising fees, the costs of animal care, and stable upkeep.

Continue reading and view gallery at Huffington Post.

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Annapolis Mayor Catches Man Urinating from Parking Deck

Posted on October 17, 2012 by atomictv

Cohen calls police after man says he was ‘following the call of the wild’

By Erin Cox (The Baltimore Sun, 10/17/2012)

Annapolis Mayor Joshua Cohen filed a police complaint Tuesday after catching a 68-year-old man, pants at his ankles, urinating off the third floor parking deck of a garage behind City Hall.

“If it would have been three in the morning, I might have looked the other way,” Cohen said. “But it was three in the afternoon, in broad daylight.”

The man told the mayor he was “following the call of the wild” when confronted mid-stream and then cursed at Cohen’s recommendation of using public restrooms nearby, according to the police report.

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Annapolis Mayor Joshua Cohen filed a police complaint after catching a 68-year-old man, pants at his ankles, urinating off the third floor parking deck of a garage behind City Hall

Annapolis Police Report (click to view document)

“On October 16, 2012 at approximately 1547 hours I responded to 150 Gorman St. for a report of a white male urrnating in the parking garage. The caller advised that the male subject was leaving the third floor of the parking garage in a white Cadillac. Ofc. Schreiber arrived on scene and observed the vehide stopped at the exit gate to the garage. The driver was identified as Mr. Richard Vermillion. Upon my arrival I spoke with the complainant who stated that he observed a white male, later identified as Mr. Vermillion, on the third floor of the parking garage with hs pants down to his ankles urinating off the side onto a mulched area on the ground. Wien the complainant asked Mr. Vermillion what he was doing, Mr. Vermillion stated that he was ‘”following the call of the wild.” When the complainant advised Mr. Vermillion that there were public restroorns downstairs Mr. Vermilion said “f*** you.” The complainant then called APD while walking up to the third floor. He observed Mr. Vermillion driving away in a white Cadillac bearing Delaware registration #42447. The complainant then asked the parking attendant to keep the gate down until the police arrived. I asked the complainant to point out the subject that he saw urinating. Mr. Vermillion was identified. I asked again if the complainant was positive that Mr. Vermillion was the subject he saw urinating. He said “Yes, and I’ll sign a statement.”
I then spoke with Mr. Vermillion who stated that he did not urinate in public. He said “If I had to follow the call of the wild I would tell you.” Mr. VerrrvIlion was then issued Criminal Citation #082002270044 for public urination. A written statement was obtained from the complainant.”

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