We can all breath a sigh of relief as it appears that “Zombie” victim, Ronald Poppo, has apparently has NOT turned into a flesh eating undead thing because of his attack last month in Miami. Doctors say that he is awake and alert while they continue to treat him for the injuries he sustained last month by “Bath Salt Zombie” Rudy Eugene, and that he is amazingly following the NBA Finals.
Doctors said during a news conference on Tuesday that, while he has lost about 50% of his face (not the 75% they originally thought), including his nose and eyes, they are hoping that he will regain the use of his remaining eye, they have also set up a fund to except donations to help with his mounting hospital costs. So far they have raised around $15,000.
CBS4 Miami reports that Jackson Memorial, where Poppo is being treated, has released photos of him walking down the hallway with assistance of staffers. The photos do blur out Poppo’s face but CBS4 does provide a link to the extremely graphic ones. If you remember, photos were earlier released when he was first taken to Jackson Memorial’s ER showing the aftermath of the devastating attack at the hands and teeth of Eugene.
If you would like to donate, Jackson Memorial is accepting donations via check at:
Jackson Memorial Foundation
Park Plaza East
Suite G
901 NW 17th Street
Miami, FL 33136
Also the nonprofit organization Neighbors 4 Neighbors is also accepting donations on Poppo's behalf and can be reached at (305) 597-4404.
Ah, the art of the re-tract. Or the: “Oops. My bad.” That seems the place where ex-Chicago White Sox Manager now ex-Florida turned Miami Marlins manger Ozzy Guillin finds himself.
Now Guillin is no stranger to sticking his foot in his mouth when people actually understand what the fuck he is saying but this time around Guillin in some opinions has out done himself.
Last week during an interview Ozzy [Guillin] was quoted saying that he, while in the road trips for the team, that he drank to excess, while this statement caused a minor uproar with some (not me, however), but that paled in the face of his other comments about how he loved Fidel Castro and that he respected the aging dictator because over the past 60 years many people have tried to kill the man and that he is still there.
Okay, whatever. Ah, but here is the thing. Last time I checked the Miami area has a rather, shall we say, large Cuban population. A population that in fact are former refugees from the Island of Cuba. And a population that don’t think kindly of Fidel.
So, here we have once again the age old problem when it comes to FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Now I am ALL FOR the First Amendment of the Constitution of The United States and when you ask people a majority of them are as well. That is unless it (what is being said) is about something that they don’t agree with. Then people seem to have a REAL problem with it. Case in point: The Ozzy quote.
Now Ozzy [Guillin] finds himself (once again) in the middle of a shit storm of his own creation. A shit storm calling, not only for his head, but his resignation. Guillin has, however, apologized for his comments yesterday [04-09-12] and will in fact now fly back to Miami to do so in person today [04-10-12] at a 10:30 local time news conference. Stating that: "Anybody who wants to be there, feel free," Guillin said. "I don't want to make a statement because I think when you make a statement it's a bunch of crap. I want people to look at my eyes and look at my face and see what's going on, tell what the deal was, and that's it. I feel very guilty about it and very bad and sad and very embarrassed." I guess we'll see if Guillin will have the same staying power with the Marlins as Fidel has had with staying in power on Cuba.
ESPN will televise the proceedings. Hope they have subtitles.
In further Fidel news.
Turns out the 85 year old Dic -as in dictator- finds it rather amusing that President Obama will be wearing tropical shirts called a guayabera while he attends the “Organization of American States” summit in Colombia.. Even though the particular shirts Obama (and other leaders) will be attired are designed by a Colombian designer, Edgar Gomez, Fidel says the light weight shirts are distinctly Cuban inspired. The shirts, however, are worn in Mexico, the Caribbean, northern South America and the Philippines. All of which claim to be the birthplace of the guayabera as does Cuba.
Lets just hope that when Ozzy Guillin shows up for his Obamaesque apologetic news conference he [Guillin] isn’t wearing a guayabera.
