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Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says
Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says A man who made history as the world's first pig-heart transplant recipient was convicted of stabbing a man in the 1980s, making him undeserving of the transplant, the victim's family tells the Washington Post. David Bennett Sr., 57, received a genetically modified pig-heart to replace his own after he was diagnosed with terminal heart disease. Thirty-four years earlier, Bennett Sr. stabbed Edward Schumaker multiple times, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, The Post says. Bennett and family.UMD School of Medicine "He gets a second chance with a new heart — but I wish, in my opini…

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by Joe Gomez
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Reports: Philly Plane Passenger Duct Taped To Seat After Groping, Attacking Flight Attendants Reports: Philly Plane Passenger Duct Taped To Seat After Groping, Attacking Flight Attendants
Reports: Philly Plane Passenger Duct Taped To Seat After Groping, Attacking Flight Attendants A 22-year-old man on a flight from Philadelphia to Miami was duct-taped to his seat after groping a pair of female flight attendants and attacking a male, reports say. Maxwell Berry, of Norwalk, Ohio, downed two drinks and ordered a third, which he spilled on his shirt during Saturday's Frontier Airlines flight, the NY Daily News reports citing Berry's arrest report. A flight attendant was helping Berry find a new shirt from his carry-on before he walked around for 15 minutes then grabbed the breasts of two flight attendants, the outlet said. Berry then punched another flight attendant be…

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by Cecilia Levine