One of the more bizarre stories we've reported on in the past few months now has a compassionate, helping-hand update. Remember the woman who was stabbed by her boyfriend in Lower Queen Anne? At the time, the story was that he intended her as some kind of human sacrifice, though now Heidi Gardner says she was misquoted by the Times--he had some sort of psychotic break, there was no altar. We just received a legit email from one of the victim's friends, letting us know about a fund she's set up to raise money to help with Heidi's towering medical bills. If you have a spare $10 and feel compelled to help out a knife-wounded sister, by all means head over to heidifund.org. more ›

Silly Queen Anne resident: girlfriends are for loving and fun-having, not for sacrificing. And human sacrifice is so 1999 BCE, anyway. Sounds like one Oumar Lam got way too carried away with bloodlust and tried to offer up his girlfriend's body as a sacrifice to an unspecified deity this weekend. Allegedly--kind of a ridiculous caveat given that the girlfriend received emergency surgery for knife wounds--Lam tried to slit her throat and stabbed her multiple times while under the influence of some kind of religious fervor. Thank God (hah!) she's okay. The man has been charged with first-degree assault. Anyone else thinking there must have been serious drug use involved? more ›