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A woman in Sandy, Utah, was held against her will, along with her 17-month-old son, for almost five days by the father of her child. He had taken her cell phone and refused to let her leave, but she eventually found a laptop and was able to access Facebook.
Police Sgt. Jon Arnold said the woman hid in a closet with a laptop to post her plea for help on the social networking website, saying she and her son would be "dead by morning" if they were not rescued.

The post prompted someone to call police, who went to the home to check on the woman's welfare.

"Facebook was her only outlet that she had at the home," Arnold said. "It just happened that she was able to use it."

Police arrested Troy Reed Critchfield, 33, and booked him into jail Saturday for investigation of aggravated kidnapping, forcible sodomy, aggravated assault, domestic violence, child abuse, animal cruelty and other charges.

Critchfield was on probation for charges related to a domestic violence incident. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h2c0EBQh7ry6lvOQe4V26jZtYLaA?docId=a60a26340e6140e3b1ef499c8f449b64 -via The Daily What

(Image credit: Salt Lake County Jail)

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Yes, she could have used email. Any social network would have worked, and would have been seen by more than one person. It wasn't anything in particular about Facebook that saved her; it was just what she used.

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Lizzy:

Fair enough. I can see how someone going through that would be totally screwed in the head and not be able to string two thoughts together.

What's your excuse?
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We're so lucky that we have FaceBook, because there is nowhere else to go for help when you're online.

Right now, I'm having chest pains, so I'm going to update my status. Hopefully someone will "poke" my heart back into rhythm if I lose consc
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Absinthe strainer, of course. Sugar cube on the spikes, slow drip of ice water over the spoon and into the glass of pure wormwood extract - psychadelic heaven. Doesn't everybody have one of these?

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This is a self-scritcher for cats. With the points facing down, the cat takes the handle into his/her mouth and uses the self-scritcher to get at those hard to reach itchy spots. A favorite location for all cats is just at the base of the tail. However, self-scritching in this body area often leads to the cat adopting a pose most cats consider to be highly undignified: chest to the ground, hind legs on tippy-toes with butt and tail waving high in the air. Most cats try to avoid using the self-scritcher in public, and thus far, have avoided being recorded with one and the subsequent video placed on YouTube.com.

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Victor Frankenstein couldn't bring himself to destroy his creature, but he couldn't allow the creature to live without punishment for his murders. Thus, Victor invented this and told his creature it was better than toilet paper.

Grumpy xl
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It's an antique outhouse toilet paper holder. Since they didn't have 'toilet paper' on a roll in the olden days they hung Sears and Roebuck's catalog sheets on the prongs, nice and handy and oh, so close by. It also did double duty for reaching that hard to get bit in the back when your arm just isn't strong enough to... The more modern version held catalog sheets AND corncobs, BTW. But not this one.

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It's obviously a torture spoon for the one-fisted masochist in your life who has everything. Could use some sharpening, though.

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Most people think this is some type of handheld tool, but they have the scale all wrong. It's actually about three feet long and is an antique luge, used during the first winter olympics held during the Spanish Inquisition.

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