Dummy Talks

It has been four months since Zach Dunlap was declared brain dead and doctors were preparing him for orgnas removal. Now he says he feels “pretty good”.

Dunlaps death was official at November the 19th 2007 at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls,Texas. It was caused by an all-terrain vehicle accident and his family agreed to have his organs harvested.

The magick happened when family members were paying their last tribute to Zach. He moved his foot and hand then he reacted to pocketknife scrapes across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. 48 days in hospital were needed but he was allowed to return home , where he continues to work on his recovery daily.

Last Monday, he and his family were in New York, appearing on NBC’s “Today.”

“I feel pretty good. but it’s just hard … just ain’t got the patience,” Dunlap told NBC.

Dunlap, 21, of Frederick, said he has no recollection of the crash.

“I remember a little bit that was about an hour before the accident happened. But then about six hours before that, I remember,” he said.

Dunlap said one thing he does remember is hearing the doctors pronounce him dead.

“I’m glad I couldn’t get up and do what I wanted to do,” he said.

Asked if he would have wanted to get up and shake them and say he’s alive, Dunlap responded: “Probably would have been a broken window that went out.”

His father, Doug, said he saw the results of the brain scan.

“There was no activity at all, no blood flow at all.”

Zach’s mother, Pam, said that when she discovered he was still alive, “That was the most miraculous feeling.”

“We had gone, like I said, from the lowest possible emotion that a parent could feel to the top of the mountains again,” she said.

She said her son is doing “amazingly well,” but still has problems with his memory as his brain heals from the traumatic injury.

“It may take a year or more … before he completely recovers,” she said. “But that’s OK. It doesn’t matter how long it takes. We’re just all so thankful and blessed that we have him here.”

Dunlap now has the pocketknife that was scraped across his foot, causing the first reaction.

“Just makes me thankful, makes me thankful that they didn’t give up,” he said. “Only the good die young, so I didn’t go.”

A man saved his wife from the jaws of an attacking crocodile in a remote northern Australia region. The police authorities reported that the man jumped on the reptile’s back and gave his wife a chance to escape from the deadly lock. The attacker was a mature saltwater crocodile in the the murky waters of the Adelaide River, near Darwin in the Northern Territory.

While the married couple were swimming the crocodile attacked and the 36-years old woman suffered several leg and hand injuries.In the critical situation her husband manage to act with lighting speed and jumped on the reptile’s back.Then the 2.5-meter (8-foot) reptile released the woman and fled defeated.The man was not injured at all and his wife was taken to Darwin to treat wounds that included eight teeth punctures in her thigh.

The names of the couple were not disclosed

“The husband’s very swift and diligent actions have saved the day,” Royal Darwin Hospital general manager Len Notaros told reporters.

It was the fourth close call involving a crocodile this year in the Northern Territory.

Atlanta’s #1 rapper T.I. has admitted possessing unregistered machine guns and being a felon in possession of a illegal firearm. The only chance that he has to avoid a lengthy prison sentence is by teaching kids not to make the same mistakes he did.

Last month T.I. plead guilty to weapons charges and will be sentenced after completing 1000 hours of fair community service.

Clifford Harris(aka T.I.), must spend at least 1 000 hours talking to young groups about the wrong side of guns, gangs and drugs before reporting for about a year in prison .
“I’m looking forward to closing this part of the book of my life,” Harris, 27, told reporters after the hearing. “I am aware that I have a long road of redemption to travel.

T.I. pleaded guilty to possession of unregistered machine guns and professional silencers, unlawful possession of machine guns and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.

Harris is one of the most successful rap artists. His sixth album, “T.I. vs. T.I.P.,” was released on the 3th of July 2007, debuting at # 1. He appeared in the 2007 film “American Gangster,” which starred Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.

T.I. will have to serve a year in prison and three years of supervised home detention plus a total of 1,500 hours of community service and pay the $100,000 fine.
He was arrested Oct. 13, just blocks away and hours before he was to headline the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta.

Harris, who is co-CEO of Grand Hustle Records, grew up in Atlanta. His first taste of success came with his 2003 album, “Trap Muzik.” In 2004, warrants were issued for his arrest on probation violations for a drug conviction, and he was sentenced to three years behind bars