Cat's Claw Macfadyena unguis- cati. On Jan 5, 2. 00. 5, Native. Plant. Fan. 9 from Boca Raton, FL (Zone 1. Cat's Claw Vine or Yellow Trumpet Vine (Macfadyena unguis- cati) is one of the most invasive vines in many parts of the southern United States, from zone 8a southward, including in many areas of Florida including southeast Florida and the Keys and my area. It is extremely invasive in disturbed settings such as abandoned or old buildings, in concrete and in weedy, vacant lots and similar disturbed sites as well as along the perimeter or borders of natural areas. In poor areas of Miami- Dade and Broward and occasionally parts of Palm Beach counties and also in the Keys (southeast Florida coast) and on the southwest coast of Florida as well this vine is often seen growing in concrete and on the walls and along and over the roofs of poor or abandoned, rundown houses and large buildings, especial.. It is also found throughout many areas of Florida and in many counties throughout the state, mainly in parts of the Panhandle and in much of central Florida and on the southeast and southwest coasts and in the Keys. It is also invasive in many other southern states, such as Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana and Texas. It is also found in and is a weed in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U. S. It is nearly impossible to get rid of, is highly unattractive and unsightly at appearance, and is listed as a noxious weed in many areas of the southern U. S. I hope nobody would ever plant this.. It is fast- growing and more than once invades some natural areas, climbing over and completely covering and shading out sunlight, killing native vegetation. However, it is most invasive in urban settings and on the border of natural areas that are next to or are surrounded by urban settings. Please DO NOT PLANT THIS PLANT ANYWHERE IN THE U. S. OR ANYWHERE WHERE IT IS NOT NATIVE AND CAN BECOME INVASIVE! MORE FACTS - Has yellow trumpet- like flowers (hence other common name used, Yellow Trumpet Vine). Fast- growing and invasive from zone 8a through 1. Invades urban settings, especially around old or abandoned structures, fences, or weedy and/or vacant lots. ABBY (1974) - While in Africa on an archaeological dig, Dr. Garnet Williams (William Marshall) finds a wooden vessel in a cave and opens it, unleashing the. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. With Sienna Miller, Riley Keough, Max Thieriot, Ray Liotta. A dramedy centered on Mary Holmes, a young woman with a drug habit and a. Below is a complete listing of all our titles, both studio released and collector DVDs, in alphabetical order. Use CTRL-F to conduct a search on this page. The following is a chronological list of every horror film ever made. For films by date, see Category:Dates. For films listed alphabetical, see Alphabetical List of. Frank Welker, Actor: Aladdin. Frank Welker was born on March 12, 1946 in Denver, Colorado, USA as Franklin Wendell Welker. He is an actor, known for Aladdin (1992. CLASSIC HORROR & SCI-FI FILMS. 206 12 to the Moon (60) An international team embarks on an expedition to the moon in an uncommonly spacious. Tiger Claw; Biographical information; Home: Earth, Japan. Ethnicity: Japanese Aliases: Takeshi Nickname(s) Catman Kitty Cat Man Tony Kitty Cat TC Catmando Tiger Dude. Also invades some natural areas, climbing over and killing native or other vegetation. In Florida, found in much of central Florida as well as along the southeast and southwest coasts and in the Keys; in scattered locations in northern Florida and the Panhandle. Survives temperatures down to about 1. Grows well from zone 8a south through zone 1. Some counties where it is invasive and found in Florida include: SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COUNTIES WHERE INVASIVE/FOUND: Martin. Palm Beach. Broward. Miami- Dade. SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COUNTIES WHERE INVASIVE/FOUND: Pasco. Pinellas. Hillsborough. Sarasota. Manatee. Charlotte*All in the Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg general region mainly. CENTRAL FLORIDA COUNTIES WHERE INVASIVE/FOUND: Hernando. Polk. Lake. Orange. Seminole. Brevard. Indian River. St. Lucie. NORTHERN FLORIDA AND PANHANDLE COUNTIES WHERE INVASIVE/FOUND: Alachua. Leon. Escambia. There are probably many more counties in Florida as well that have this invasive vine (most of the counties give are from info on this vine from the ISB Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants. Some counties given are based on details and/or guesses based on range map information.). Listed in many areas as a noxious weed. FLEPPC Class One Invasive in Florida, including in my area. OTHER STATES WHERE FOUND IN U. S.: Georgia. South Carolina. Louisiana. Texas. Hawaii*There are probably other states where this vine is found and/or invasive and/or spreading. This information is based on distribution info for this spp. Virgin Islands*Also based on distribution info for this spp. It is way too invasive in the southern U. S., the Caribbean and other areas! Sinister Halloween Horror Stories That Really Happened. Creepy. Eli Nixon. October 3. 0, 2. 01. We don’t put much stock in Halloween anymore. It’s fun for kids and a fine time to snuggle up for a scary movie, but the truly scary aspects climbed on a ship with our silliest superstitions and sailed for Valinor long ago. But witches and ghouls aren’t the only haunts of a hallowed eve—some nights will make monsters of men, and whether by chance or design, these monsters chose the Halloween season to bring their evil to light. Martha Moxleyhttps: //www. Kv. WAGreenwich, Connecticut, isn’t a place you’d expect to find a body. It’s one of the wealthiest burgs in the States, the place where Bush Sr. But in 1. 97. 5, amid the sprawling estates, multimillion- dollar mansions, and manicured lawns, the blood- soaked body of 1. Martha Moxley was found on a cold Halloween morning. The discovery shocked the town. Martha had been beaten with a golf club so hard that the club had shattered, and then she’d been stabbed in the neck with one of the jagged pieces. Then, her killer had dragged her 2. All eyes soon turned to 1. Tommy Skakel, the nephew of Senator Robert F. According to reports, Martha had been out with her friends the night before Halloween, and they had all gone to a party at the Skakels’ house. Tommy had left the party with Martha late at night, but she never made it home . In 1. 99. 1, renewed investigations into the Moxley case brought it back into the public eye, but it wasn’t until 1. Michael Skakel, Tommy’s brother. According to novelist Dominick Dunne, Michael had once climbed a tree outside Martha’s window and masturbated. He was infatuated with the girl. And in 2. 00. 2, Michael Skakel was finally convicted of the murder by a grand jury. But the story doesn’t end there. Michael Skakel was later granted an appeal, and in 2. Peter Fabiano. Peter and Betty Fabiano were just getting ready for bed when they heard the doorbell ring on October 3. It was after 1. 1: 0. PM, a little late for trick- or- treaters, but Peter reluctantly headed downstairs and grabbed the candy bowl. What was one more kid? But when he opened the door, Peter got the shock of his life. On his doorstep stood a grown woman in blue jeans and a cheap mask pointing the bottom of a paper bag at his chest. Upstairs, Betty Fabiano heard a loud pop then the screech of tires as a car sped off outside. Racing downstairs, she found her husband on the floor in front of the open door, gasping for breath, blood pouring from a gaping wound on his chest. He was dead before they reached the hospital. Police were mystified. Peter Fabiano worked as a hairdresser in the San Fernando Valley. He had no enemies, at least none who would want to kill him. But the deeper they looked into the crime, the more twisted it all seemed. Two weeks after the cold- blooded killing, police nabbed Joan Rabel, a 4. Peter’s salons. And for some reason, she was lying about being out the night of Peter’s death. But not all liars moonlight as killers, and the cops had to let Joan Rabel go for lack of evidence. Then, a month later, an anonymous caller directed police to a rented locker in an area department store. Inside, they found a . Peter Fabiano’s heart. The locker wasn’t being rented by Joan Rabel, however. It belonged to a woman named Goldyne Pizer, who worked at a local children’s hospital and had no connections with the Fabiano family. The clues were there, but none of them made sense . Goldyne Pizer and Joan Rabel, it turned out, were lovers. For months, Rabel had told her about a man named Peter Fabiano, whom the latter called “evil and vile.” Rabel regaled Pizer with sickening stories of Fabiano and the way he abused his wife, and before long, Pizer began to hate this man she’d never met. She agreed to help Rabel kill him. With Rabel’s money, Pizer bought a gun. Rabel drove to Faber’s house, and Pizer, shaking so hard she had to use both hands to steady the revolver, put a bullet in Peter Faber’s chest when he opened the door to give her a piece of candy. But why would Joan Rabel spend months seeding this idea of hate in Pizer’s head? Simply put, Rabel had been sleeping with Peter’s wife, and it seemed she just wanted to get him out of the way. At their trials, Rabel pleaded not guilty, and Pizer pleaded insanity. Both agreed to a plea deal for second- degree murder and life in prison. Patricia Ward. In 2. Halloween, witnesses saw a man drag a decapitated body out of a Long Island apartment. He laid the body in the street then kicked the head to the opposite curb. It had all the signs of a macabre Halloween prank, and that’s what everybody thought it was. For a while, nobody did anything about it—one witness even said the whole thing looked fake. The horrifying truth only came to light when a Good Samaritan tried to move the corpse out of the middle of the street and realized that it was a real body. It didn’t take long for police to deduce that the body belonged to Patricia Ward, a 6. New York’s Farmingdale State College. Even before discovering her body, police had received another call about another dead Ward. This one had been run over by a train about a mile down the road. Soon, the tragic details of the murder came to light. Patricia’s son, 3. Derek Ward, had a history of mental illness, but he seemed to be on the road to recovery when he moved into the small Farmingdale apartment with his mother. Then, for some reason, he snapped. He beheaded his mother then dragged her body out of the apartment, down the stairs, and through the front door of the building. After leaving the body in the street, he calmly walked away and leaped in front of an oncoming train. As to why he did it, we’ll never know. The East Coast Rapist. On the night of October 3. Woodbridge, Virginia. Just north of them, in Arlington County, a man named Aaron Thomas was climbing into a yellow Chrysler 3. In his pocket was a cigarette lighter shaped like a 9- mm semiautomatic. Thomas had once lived in Woodbridge. He’d shared a small fixer- upper with a woman named Jewell Hicks and her young son, whom he raised as his own. The relationship didn’t work out, but they’d remained friends. In fact, Hicks was the reason Thomas was in town that Halloween—he was helping her move out, and it was her car he was driving. Thomas set out that night to buy a new shirt, but he soon found himself cruising by their old house, lost in the memories. He spotted the three teenage girls trick- or- treating. Thomas parked the car. Before the girls knew what was happening, Thomas was pointing the fake gun at them and forcing them into a wooded backlot behind a CVS pharmacy, where a steep slope took them to the bottom of a rain- drenched ravine. Thomas ordered the girls to line up and lie down. One of the girls later said, “I was praying. I thought that was it. I thought I was going to die.” Another girl managed to send a heart- stopping text to her mother: “Man raping my friend in the woods behind CVS call 9. Then she dialed 9. Thomas was too busy to notice. Police converged on the site within minutes, sending Thomas fleeing into the woods. He tossed the lighter away, doubled back in a wide circle, and then calmly walked past dozens of police officer to his car in the CVS parking lot and drove away. From 1. 99. 7 to 2. New England had a reason to lock their doors at night, although they didn’t know it. For those 1. 2 years, Aaron Thomas, soon to be dubbed the “East Coast Rapist,” had been abducting and raping women from Virginia to Rhode Island. The Halloween abduction sparked a massive manhunt, but it still took two more years and an anonymous tip before police tracked Thomas down. They were able to link his DNA to 1. In 2. 01. 3, Aaron Thomas received three life terms plus 8. The Liske Family. Like he did on any given Sunday, Devon Griffin woke up early to go to church on October 3. He was staying the weekend at his father’s house, and before church, he stopped by his mother’s to grab a shirt to change into. It was about 9: 3. AM, and the only person he saw around was his stepbrother, BJ Liske. BJ greeted Devon cheerfully and asked how long he’d be gone—a question that struck Devon as odd, since he and BJ didn’t get along and never talked much. After church, Devon went back home and played video games for a while. BJ seemed to have disappeared, and the house was uncharacteristically quiet. Figuring he ought to go wake everyone up—it was 1: 3. PM by then—Devon went to the master bedroom and saw that his mother was still in bed with her husband, William Liske. The blanket was over their heads, as if they were trying to shut out the afternoon light. Devon started talking, hoping to rouse her, and when he got no response, he pulled the cover down. Police were all over the house within hours. Devon had inadvertently uncovered a murder scene. Sometime early that morning, 2. William Liske Jr., whom the family called BJ, had shot his father in the head five times. Then he turned the gun on his stepmom before beating his stepbrother to death with a claw hammer. The latter two were Devon’s mother and brother. BJ was picked up by police at the family cabin and taken into custody. He was found guilty of the three murders and sentenced to life in prison. Taylor Van Diest. On October 3. 1, 2. Armstrong, British Columbia, looking forward to a night of fun. The zombie was Taylor Van Diest, an 1. She never made the rendezvous, but before she went missing, she sent her friend a chilling text message saying that she thought someone was following her. It was the last anybody heard from her. Hours later, Taylor was found beside a railroad track. Her head was bleeding, and there were bruises around her neck. She died in the hospital. The brutal murder shook the small- town community, and police were quick to nab a man named Matthew Foerster, who confessed in tears after a two- hour interrogation. The exact details of the attack are hazy, even after the trial, but Foerster claimed that he only wanted to have sex with the girl. Investigation begins into ambulance driver who 'parked on yellow lines to get lunch'Scores of Telegraph readers have jumped to the defence of an ambulance driver who was spotted parked on double yellow lines while they apparently nipped into a shop for lunch. The ambulance was caught on the dashboard camera of magician Gary Haigh, in Wyken, at the junction of Belgrade Road and Hocking Road. He told the Telegraph the driver had put children from the nearby Caludon Castle School at risk as the ambulance obstructed their view as they crossed the road. Mr Haigh, 5. 3, has made an official complaint and also called for the ambulance driver to be sacked for the parking infringement. He said: “These people are supposed to be in a caring profession. Blocking the view of schoolchildren trying to cross a road is not very caring.“I think the driver should be severely disciplined or sacked. They should never have put an ambulance in that position.”Gary Haigh captured the parked ambulance on his dashboard camera near to the junction of Belgrade Road and Hocking Road, in Wyken (Photo: Gary Haigh)Read More. A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: “The Trust can confirm it has received a complaint in relation to the parking of a Patient Transport Vehicle in Wyken, Coventry, on Wednesday and an investigation has been launched.”But it seems many of you did not agree with Mr Haigh. Here’s what some of you had to say: Daisy Underwood: “So you would rather a skilled and lifesaving member of a amazing service that saves lives be sacked for grabbing a sandwich, most only get half hour lunch, let’s hope it’s not one less paramedic when you need care because you got them sacked.. Get a grip for goodness sake.”Gary Stewart: “I agree with Mr Haigh that he should have parked better if the situation in that area is as bad as he says.“But these men and women do an amazing job. I personally would forgive them almost anything. Certainly wouldn’t deny them a chance to grab lunch in the few minutes they get between calls.”Claire Goodwin: “SHOCK HORROR! The crew probably missed their scheduled breaks while they were busy saving lives.”Allan Aspinall: “I agree with a lot of what was said in the comments but just want to get a few things straight, the ambulance is a PTS vehicle so is not attending an emergency call but may well have been collecting a patient but should not have abused the exemption emergency vehicles have if it was only to grab shopping.“The ambulance service will know if he was on a call so won’t take any action if the driver is not in the wrong, I know this as I used to work for them.”Caludon Castle School. Read More. Ryan Chamberlain: “Sacking for parking on double yellows, get a grip. Can’t stand the people with dash cams all of a sudden think they are the latest police interceptors.“Jog on pal and let the police and traffic wardens deal with it rather than snitching and trying to look a hero.”Sarah Poulter: “Sacked for parking on double yellows! Everyone makes mistakes, and it says children were trying to cross but the video says 1. Wayne Kerry: “Another dash cam warrior strikes again. Hopefully they will be parked up and eating their sandwiches, and too busy to attend to you.”Claire Merrall: “Remind us of this horrific act if you or one of your family or friends are in need of one of these selfish, hungry, thoughtless paramedics to save your life!”Read More. Lorna Howes: “These guys do not get guaranteed lunch breaks like the rest of us. Has this driver not thought that they have probably been out saving lives all day and too busy to eat!”Noel Philpott: “Like the 1. Can no longer stop to grab a bloody sandwich to eat on the run! Robots do not work for the NHS we are all people by the way.”Matthew William Hancox: “He wants someone sacked for what is a minor offence, some people really need to get a grip on reality.“At the most it should be a verbal warning if what is reported is factual.”Lee Barlow: “Does it really matter? Who’s never parked on a double yellow before? They should be able to park where they like, especially if they need a bit of snap!”Kelly Leanne: “Sack a paramedic for buying lunch. Errm ever so slightly over reacting!”Andrew Webb: “Outrage for nothing - many people park on double yellows and get told to move on - sacking someone for just a small nip to the shops is stupid.”Read More. Download our all- new mobile app to get the latest news, sport and whats on. One quick sync and you can read our content on the move without being online. 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