As a nurse who works in an acute care setting, I find myself able to stomach the sort of things that those who choose other career paths might not be able to tolerate.

A lunch break where I work usually involves eating as quickly as we possibly can, and being frequently interrupted to attend to situations that might ruin the average appetite. After cleaning up blood or other bodily substances, I wash my hands and return to our half-eaten meal for a couple more bites. That’s right…while a sick patient is losing their lunch, I am often holding their emesis basin wondering when I will be able to finish my lunch.

Let me take you back to the beginning of this incomprehensibly awful story. Neil Wilson, a relatively attractive school teacher from Cape Town, was dating a pretty young woman named Natasha Norton. Their relationship seemed to be alright, not the stuff of everlasting love, perhaps, but no serious issues abounding.

That is, until Natasha discovered that she was pregnant and found herself suddenly single. But life, as it will, goes on. Neil found himself a newer, less pregnant girlfriend named Dina Rodrigues. (There were reportedly a few other “incidentals” that flitted through his bedsheets but Dina was his “main squeeze”. Hell, he wasn’t nicknamed The Golden Banana for nothing!)

This is 24-year-old Jermaine Ruiz.

Jermaine Ruiz is that not-so-rare kind of man that women just seem to go gaga over. Jermaine has those good looks, that casual charisma, that jealous nature and the crazy behavior that women line up around the block for in order to mate with.

Good ol’ Jermaine was known around his neighborhood as someone who would exhibit wild mood swings, often coming into local stores with an attitude that could be described as, “Not nice.”

According to a local deli worker:

Sometimes he came in a little crazy. Sometimes he comes in nice and sometimes not nice. When he wasn’t nice, he’d boss us around. He comes in like, ‘I want something! I want this!’

When members of the Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue responded to a call of a baby in distress at a home in Marlene Village, Oregon, they were ready for any problem involving a young child. Nothing is every routine when it involves small children, but I’m sure no one expected for the situation to end up developing the way it did on Saturday afternoon, June 6th, 2009.

Perhaps if they’d had a chance to see this picture of Korena Elaine Roberts they might have been a little more suspicious.

When rescuers arrived at the scene, the found the 28-year-old Roberts and an unidentified man along with a newborn infant. The man was performing CPR on the baby at the direction of the 911 dispatcher.

And the winner of Ms. Goth Orca Whale 2009 goes to (drumroll,please) Monica Mercado of Compton, California. Hold your applause people, please. Really. Hold them.

Well, readers, here is another one of those stories. A love story where something has gone wrong. You know, you start off normal enough, how boy meets girl, boy dumps girl, boy gets new girlfriend, boy gets new girlfriend pregnant, and-right about here it gets screwy-girl runs over pregnant girlfriend in a jealous rage. Yes, something is not right here, and that something not right is a psycho bitch by the name of Monica Mercado.

This story is a little personal, if only because it happened in my home town of Middletown, CT.

With the Lori Drew deal in the news so much, and parental responsibility being such a hot topic of conversation now-a-days, you would think just about every parent would be more conscience of their child’s, and especially their own, behavior. And you’d be right–just about.

Middletown is a nice, quiet city of about 45,000 people located on the Connecticut River a little south of Hartford. Our biggest claims to fame are Wesleyan University, the most expensive institute of higher learning in the United States, the Arrigoni Bridge, which spans the Connecticut River, and Joey Lagano, the rookie NASCAR and Nationwide Series driver.

Getting dumped is something nobody likes to experience. For some, it’s because they believe this person was “the one.”

For others, it’s because they find out the person they thought they knew was just a creep.

The third category however is more ominous. It’s composed of people who believe they are god’s gift to earth and no matter how cheating or abuse they put their significant other through, that significant other had better not leave them or else.

27-year-old Emma Hart from England is one of these people.

Emma Hart and Shaun Dangerfield had dated for a few years and had a five year old son together named Lewis. For whatever reason, their relationship didn’t work out. Shaun Dangerfield and Emma Hart broke up and moved on…

This charming newlywed is 23-year-old Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong.

Married in May of 2008, Phiengchai Synhavong is a plus-size Laotian woman who is awfully handy with a knife.

Despite what she told her family members, and despite her rather rotund physique, Phiengchai Synhavong was not pregnant, although she had…plans…to…acquire….a baby.

On the 27th of June, 2008, the plan of Phiengchai Synhavong came together, much like the plans of that elite military group known as The A-Team, but with a lot more blood.

After enticing an acquaintance, 27-year-old Araceli Camacho Gomez, into her white 4×4 with the promise of some baby clothes, Phiengchai Synhavong somehow managed to overpower the 9-month-pregnant mother of two – which is not entirely surprising considering how vulnerable extremely pregnant women are.