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They were switched at death. A horrific hospital mix-up left a Brooklyn woman grieving for nine days at the bedside of a brain-damaged man who doctors insisted was her brother — but who was actually a stranger with the same name, a new lawsuit charges. But only after she gave consent to have her “brother” taken off life support at St. Barnabas Hospital did Shirell Powell learn the shocking truth: Her real sibling was in jail — and she had just sent a stranger to his death, her Bronx Supreme Court lawsuit says. “I nearly fainted because I killed somebody that I didn’t even know. I gave consent,” said Powell, 48, of Crown Heights. “I was like, ‘Where is my brother? What is going on?’ I was devastated.” The saga began July 15, when Freddy Clarence Williams, 40, was admitted to the Bronx hospital, unconscious from an apparent drug overdose, according to Powell’s lawsuit. Williams had his Social Security card on him, and it identified him by that name, the court papers say. But the hospital phoned Powell anyway, telling her that her brother, Frederick Williams, who also is 40 but has no middle name, had been admitted and was near death. She rushed to the man’s bedside. “He had tubes in his mouth, a neck brace,’’ Powell told The Post. “He was a little swollen . . . [but] he resembled my brother so much. “He couldn’t speak from the time they brought him in the hospital. They just assumed it was my brother.” After two days of tests, St. Barnabas doctors told her that her “brother” was brain-dead, she said. “That is my baby brother, so it was really hurtful,” she said. “I was worried, hurt, crying, screaming, calling everybody. It was a horrible feeling.” With no cause to hope for his recovery, she contacted relatives down South, telling them to come and say their goodbyes. Powell acknowledged that the first time her sister saw the ailing man in the hospital, she questioned whether he was their sibling. “She walked up into the room and said, ‘That is not my brother,’ ” Powell recalled. “I said, ‘What do you mean?’ ” “The guy was much bigger,’’ Powell explained. But he appeared swollen, and “the eyebrows, the nose, the structure — it looked like [our] brother,” Powell said. “My sister, she walked up closer, and you could see the resemblance, and she was like, ‘Oh, OK.’ ” So on July 29, with her uncle and sister at her side, Powell “authorized [the hospital] to withdraw life support from Frederick Williams,” the lawsuit says. “It was very devastating,” she recalled. “I was crying.” Frederick Williams’ “death” was even harder on his two daughters — Brooklyn, 17, and Star, 18, their aunt said. The teens live in Virginia, and Brooklyn came to the city to say goodbye to her father before he was taken off life support, Powell said. “She was hysterical,” Powell recalled. “She was holding his hand, kissing him, crying.” Only after an autopsy did the city Medical Examiner’s Office reveal the truth: The dead man was Freddy Clarence Williams. Powell said they got a call from a worker at the agency as they were making funeral arrangements. “She called us just in time,” Powell said. “We would have been burying someone else.” Meanwhile, it turned out Powell’s actual brother was in jail on a July 1 assault arrest in lower Manhattan. Powell went to Manhattan Supreme Court for her sibling’s next hearing a few weeks later — just to lay eyes on him. “I saw my brother,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it. I was very relieved.” She also called him on the phone at Rikers Island. They had quite a conversation about her decision to pull his plug. “He was saying, ‘You were going to kill me?’ I explained to him, once you’re brain-dead, there is nothing to do.” Interviewed at Rikers, Powell’s brother said he had forgiven his sister for pulling the plug on the man she thought was him. “The doctors told her they couldn’t do anything,” he said. “I’m not mad at her.” Still, he raged, “How could the hospital do something like that? Look what they put my family through.” Powell’s lawyer, Alexander M. Dudelson, told The Post that he tried to get information about Freddy Clarence Williams, the stranger who died surrounded by Powell’s sobbing family. “The representatives [at St. Barnabas] basically spit in my face,” he said. “This is beyond reckless conduct. I requested an investigation. Nothing more. An apology would have been nice.” Asked about the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, hospital spokesman Steven Clark responded, “We don’t feel there is any merit to this claim.” Powell also asked the ME’s Office for the dead man’s family information so she could send condolences, but it denied the request, citing privacy concerns. Now, Powell says, she remains haunted by questions: The man she had grieved for at the hospital — who was he? Does he have family? “I barely sleep thinking about this all the time,’’ she said. “To actually stand over him and watch this man take his last breath — sometimes I can’t even talk about it because I get upset and start crying. “On the one hand, I’m thankful that it wasn’t [my brother]. On the other hand, I killed somebody that was a dad or a brother.”

A housekeeper who works at a billionaire’s Upper East Side townhouse got trapped in its elevator Friday — and spent the whole weekend in the lift before she was rescued, authorities said. Marites Fortaliza, 53 — who works for big-bucks conservative political donor Warren Stephens at his landmarked tony 48 E. 65th St. building — got stuck between the second and third floors Friday evening while the owners were out of town, authorities said. She was only rescued when a courier went to the home to make a delivery Monday morning, found no one home and called the owners, who sent their daughter — and she realized that the worker was trapped inside the broken-down elevator and phoned 911 around 10 a.m., authorities said. When the owners returned around 10 a.m. Monday, they discovered Fortaliza trapped inside the broken-down elevator and called 911, authorities said. “The person was there since Friday,” an FDNY spokesman said, adding that firefighters forced open the door and rushed Fortaliza to New York – Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center for an evaluation. The Madison Avenue-adjacent building was purchased in 1999 by Stephens, a billionaire investor and prominent political donor, according to public records and a report in The Observer. A man who answered the phone at the Stephens residence Monday declined comment and then hung up. A man who answered the door also ordered reporters off of his property. The city Department of Buildings previously slapped the townhouse with two violations for failing to maintain the elevator, in 2008 and in 1996. A city buildings inspector arrived at the property Monday but was at least initially not allowed to enter by the people inside, leading the inspector to slap them with a third failure to maintain violation. “Since this is an incident,” ultimately, they have to open the door, said the inspector, Devon Simmons. “I have to do a couple of tests just to make sure exactly what to fix. “Most likely, it will be a violation,” he said. A spokesman for Stephens Inc. said in a statement, “The employee involved has been a valued member of the Stephens extended family for 18 years. The Stephens family is relieved and thankful that she is doing well in the hospital. “A Stephens family member accompanied her to the hospital this morning and remains at her side. The cause of this unfortunate incident is being investigated and appropriate measures will be taken to ensure that something like this never happens again.”

I feel the same way about BATMAN.

So I assume you never watch FOX NEWS.

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I NEVER THOUGHT THEY'D FIND THE KID ALIVE... CASEY HATHAWAY: MISSING NORTH CAROLINA THREE-YEAR-OLD WAS CRYING FOR HIS MOTHER IN THE WOODS WHEN RESCUERS FOUND HIM Officials have spoken about the dramatic search for North Carolina 3-year-old Casey Hathaway, who went missing on Tuesday and miraculously found alive three days later in some woods near his grandmother’s house in Craven County. After he was reported missing, a large search and rescue operation was put together, involving numerous organizations including the FBI, NCIS and the Marine Corps, as well as several volunteers, CNN reported. They faced difficult terrain, poor visibility and bad weather, including near-freezing temperatures. Thankfully, their efforts were a success. At a press conference on Thursday evening, Shane Grier, captain of Chocowinity Emergency Medical Services and a member of the rescue operation, spoke about the moment when the search team found the child—who was calling out for his mother—in a wooded area off a road. “We located by voice this young man, went to him, disentangled him from some briers that he was hung up in, brought him out… here we are,” Grier told reporters. Stanley 'GO FLY A' Kite, Emergency Services Director, said Hathaway was found just after 9:00 p.m. and, amazingly, despite not having suitable clothes for cold temperatures, appeared to be in good health. "Just a little bit after 9 o'clock is when I got the information by radio that he had been located and the fact he was talking and he was able to give them his name," Kite told local news outlet WCTI. "We were very impressed by that, it was very positive information given the amount of time he had been exposed to the environment, to the elements and conditions. It's really and truly a miracle." Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes highlighted the significant contribution of those who had provided the search team with tips. “It was folks giving us tips and leads and the rescue teams jumping right on it and following every lead. And I tell you we had a lot of them come in, we hit every one of them immediately and diligently, and it paid off,” he told reporters. “I could not be happier by the way this turned out.” “We initially went into the search where he was last seen and that’s where we started working it out methodically,” Hughes said. “So, this was definitely an area, we got a call, a tip, our deputies and the captain [Grier] went straight to the location. As soon as the captain stepped out, he heard Casey asking for his mother. He was about 40 or 50 yards into the woods, I had to go through a lot of water to get to him, and then [he] was there in some vines and thorn bushes.” After being found, the 3-year-old was taken to Carolina East Medical Center in New Bern, NC, where he was evaluated by doctors. According to Hughes, Hathaway was not very talkative immediately after being found and hasn’t explained how he got lost. “He hasn’t said a whole lot, except when his little sister came in there he really brightened up then,” Hughes said. Brittany Hathaway, Casey’s mother, thanked all of those who had contributed to the search effort and confirmed that her son was recovering well. “I just want to tell everybody that we’re very thankful that you took the time out to come search for Casey and prayed for him, and he’s good, he’s up and talking, he’s already asked to watch Netflix, so he’s good,” she said at the press conference. The 3-year-old went missing on Tuesday while playing in the garden of his grandmother’s house in Ernul, NC. Forty-five minutes passed before a relative called 911 to alert police of his disappearance.

How Scooby the golden retriever helped solve his own dog-napping Scooby solved his own dog-napping. The dogged golden retriever from Brooklyn helped cops collar his captor after being snatched from a burglarized Gravesend home — by running out to greet investigators when they knocked on the suspect’s door, police said. Scooby’s owners panicked on Thursday when they came home and saw no sign of their beloved two-year-old furball. They dashed into the street, yelling for help, only to find cops from the 62nd Precinct already on the block and on the case. The plainclothed officers had been investigating break-ins in the area and had identified Cory Gaudio, 23, as a suspect from surveillance footage. Frella Correa, 52, and her husband Ever Vega, told them they had just been burglarized. A wedding ring, a computer, but most importantly, Scooby, were gone. Minutes later, the cops were banging on Gaudio’s door, not knowing if he was involved in the Correa break-in, but suspecting him in a string of others, police said. A man other than Gaudio answered. Ruh-roh. That’s when Scooby snapped into action — bolting out to greet Officers Nicholas Occhipinti and Anthony Brucato, tail waving. With the name “Scooby” and his family’s phone number stamped on his collar tag, the cops had all evidence they needed to make a bust. Scooby had essentially solved his own mystery. And without Shaggy at his side. Within three hours, he was back with his delirious owners. “He was so happy to see us,” said Correa. “He was jumping around. Of course, I hugged him. Even the neighbors. They were helping to look for him, too. We were so scared.” The dog got the moniker “because he is funny,” she said. And hungry. Correa, a hotel worker, brought along some of the purloined pooch’s favorite Scooby snacks during a media event at the precinct stationhouse Saturday. “He eats everything but he likes chicken and meat,” she said. “He likes our food, too — rice, beans, peanuts.” Gaudio was ordered held in lieu of $20,000 cash bail on Saturday night, and was charged with burglary and possession of a weapon, drugs and stolen property. A judge issued orders of protection barring Gaudio from contact with any of his alleged victims, including Scooby. “So you have me on a stolen dog?” prosecutors say he guiltily blurted out when they busted him. “I found it and I was going to keep it for a reward.” When cops searched the apartment, they also found pain pills, gun ammo, a machete, a sword, a “knuckle knife” and a police scanner tuned to the 62 police precinct. He is suspected of snatching cell phones and jewelry — and being outsmarted by a dog. Zoinks!

That's why he's meditating at the beach and showing us he has a horse between his legs.

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I'm almost positive I posted a whole series of pics of them at ATKOL (RIP ).

It would be a more interesting headline if it said they were identical. :cool:

I never watched SFU, but know it's considered one of the better series finales ever. I liked THE SOPRANOS, but was never as gung-ho about the series as others were, and I found the ending to be an anti-climactic yawn. MTM & NEWHART had two of the best finales ever.

I searched for a title that included some version of the word dance. This one seemed to fit and made the comic even funnier to me-- Garfield is usually lazy & standoffish & wouldn't accept an invitation to dance; the strip is so silly and he has such a goofy grin in the last panel that it just cracks me up. I don't know what is considered too old to resurrect. I try to limit my searches now to 4 years or less (in this case I stretched a bit to 4.2 ) started by somebody who still posts regularly or including multiple posts by currently active posters.