In case coffee isn't your bag...

[grrrr]

Woman accused of giving husband lethal sherry enema

By RICHARD STEWART
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

HOUSTON -- Investigators say a woman caused her husband's death by giving him a sherry enema, leading to alcohol poisoning.

The enema caused his blood alcohol level to soar to 0.47 percent -- almost six times the legal intoxication limit in Texas, a toxicology report showed.

Tammy Jean Warner, 42, was indicted on a charge of negligent homicide. She is also charged with burning the will of her husband, Michael Warner, a month before his death on May 21.

Michael Warner, a 58-year-old machine shop owner, had a long history of alcoholism but couldn't ingest alcohol by mouth because of painful medical problems with his throat, said Lake Jackson, Texas, police detective Robert Turner. The enema was a way he could become intoxicated without drinking alcohol, Turner said.

"I heard of this kind of thing in mortuary school in 1970, but this is the first time I've ever heard of someone actually doing it," Turner said.

Turner said police think Warner gave her husband at least two large bottles of sherry, which is stronger than wine, in the enema.

"We're not talking about little bottles here," Turner said, "These were at least 1.5-liter bottles."

Turner said police don't know if the victim had ever become intoxicated in that manner before the lethal incident.

Tammy Warner told police that she found her husband dead in their bed. Turner said she admitted giving him the sherry enema, but not to causing his death.



"A person drinking alcohol will usually pass out before getting a lethal dose," Turner said.

"But if you're getting it through an enema, you can pass out and still be ingesting more alcohol."

Tammy Warner surrendered to Lake Jackson police Monday and was released on $30,000 bond. She could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Neither Turner nor Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne would comment on the charge related to the will.

The indictment said providing Michael Warner with alcohol and destroying the will constituted a "criminal episode."

Although Michael Warner may have agreed initially to the enema as a way to become intoxicated, Yenne said, "he was not a willing participant in something that would cause his death."

"He knew that it was very dangerous for him to have any form of alcohol and she knew it was very dangerous for him to have alcohol," Yenne said.

The couple's neighbors said they were surprised Wednesday to learn of the indictment.

John Criswell, 24, said the widow had mostly been away from the modest brown frame house at the end of the street since her husband died.

"She said she was scared to stay there by herself alone," Criswell said. "She said she'd been having trouble with his family."

The couple had been married about two years, police said.

"She asked me to keep an eye on the place," Criswell said. He said he last saw her about three weeks ago.

[A-wreck]

HOTT!!....

[Twoplanker]

Reminds me of...

http://tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5891

[El Chupacabra]

Reminds me of...

http://tetongravity.com/forums/showt...t=coffee+enema

Hmm... "In case coffee isn't your bag..." -- bag -- Bag -- BAG --- get it?
http://www.enemabag.com/

Maybe Twoplanker needs some coffee this A.M. Exactly where & how, I leave up to you.

[jibij]

Somewhere around the point where your wife is inserting a tube up your butt, so that you can get buzzed, shouldn't you be thinking...

"Hey, maybe I've got an alcohol problem"?

[1080Rider]

Somewhere around the point where your wife is inserting a tube up your butt, so that you can get buzzed, shouldn't you be thinking...

"Hey, maybe I've got an alcohol problem"?

Going along w/ that, when is it EVER a good idea to stick shit in your ass??? I just don't get it.

[Twoplanker]

Speaking of coffee...

SAN FRANCISCO - When it comes to coffee, Russell Christoff is more of a fresh-brewed than a freeze-dried kind of guy. So he never scrutinized the Taster's Choice label. When he finally did, he was staring back at himself.

While shopping for Bloody Mary mix at a drug store in 2002, the former actor and model saw a younger version of himself, the one who had once posed for the freeze-dried coffee brand.

True, the label only showed a man's eyes, nose and mouth hovering over a white coffee cup, but they were two eyes, a nose and a mouth Christoff knew exceptionally well.

"I looked at it and said, 'Expletive, that's me!'" Christoff, 58, recalled Tuesday, five days after a jury awarded him $15.6 million for Nestle USA's unauthorized use of his mug.

After two decades as a struggling performer, Christoff says he had all but forgotten the 1986 photo shoot where he spent two hours posing as "The Taster" in a red sweater. He received $250 for the job _ with the understanding that he would be paid $2,000 more if his image was selected to promote Taster's Choice in Canada.

He figured the job hadn't amounted to a hill of beans _ until he stumbled across his likeness in the drug store 16 years later. A legal dispute with Nestle USA ensued, during which Christoff declined the company's $100,000 settlement offer, and Nestle USA turned down his offer to settle for $8.5 million.

Since California has a law barring unauthorized use of a person's image for commercial purposes, Christoff's attorneys, Colin Claxon and Eric Stokel, said they knew they had adequate grounds for a lawsuit.

Last week, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury ordered Nestle USA to pay Christoff $15.6 million for using his photograph without his permission and profiting from it.

Claxon said a confidentiality agreement prevented him from discussing how the jurors reached that amount, but the award includes 5 percent of the Glendale-based company's profit from Taster's Choice sales from 1997 to 2003, according to the Los Angeles Times.

During that time, Nestle sold eight varieties of the freeze-dried coffee with labels featuring Christoff's face in 18 countries, including the United States, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Israel and Kuwait.

Nestle's Canadian arm started using the image without Christoff's knowledge in 1986, and Nestle USA imported it while revamping its coffee jars in 1997, Claxon said. The labels have since been changed to feature another model.

Nestle USA attorney Lawrence Heller said the company would appeal the verdict. "The employee that pulled the photo thought they had consent to use the picture," Heller told the Times.

Claxon said that even though the jury estimated that Christoff would probably have earned about $330,000 if Nestle had paid him for his likeness, millions in compensatory damages are fair because Christoff's face became "as much a part of the brand as Taster's Choice" during the six years it appeared on coffee jars, coupons and magazine ads.

Meanwhile, Christoff appeared in corporate training videos, hosted his own public television show about California parks, and had bit parts in the television series "Midnight Caller" and "Nash Bridges."

He said he was overwhelmed by the size of the jury award. But he said he felt gratified that he had taken a stand on behalf of all hardworking actors and models.

"Our image is our product, whether it's our face or our talent, and they took it improperly," he said.

Christoff is now in his second year as a kindergarten teacher in the Bay Area community of Antioch. With the case likely tied up in a protracted appeal, he said he doesn't plan to give up his day job anytime soon.

"I'm still just as poor as I was before," he said.

[TheDingleberry]

Alcohol in the Pooper, Super!

[BradyCU]

talk about getting the Alcohol shits!

[LAN]

That's disturbing that the wife was giving the husband an enema to begin with!

I'll make a mental note of that technique ... for when my patients are really annoying.

[freshie247]

How much longer before we start seeing alcohol enema bars?If an officer pulls you over & asks if you've been drinking you can say NO!

[VTskibum]

How much longer before we start seeing alcohol enema bars?If an officer pulls you over & asks if you've been drinking you can say NO!

the officer couldn't smell alcohol on your breath either.

[1080Rider]

the officer couldn't smell alcohol on your breath either.

I bet you'll be the first in line!

[El Chupacabra]

the officer couldn't smell alcohol on your breath either.

Don't fart at the DUI checkpoint.

[flatlander#2]

jesus christ. 3 liters of anything up the shooter would be enough to kill you I would think. Don't really have experience, but that seems like a---shitload. What a terrible way to go out, funeral scene-"Well, at least he died doing what he loved and not in some terrible hospital bed or accident."