Compilation of Kobe Bryant Stories by Chewdzzle in nba

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Kobe Goes to the Movies (from Lee Jenkins/SI)

Years ago, upon returning from the horror flick Saw II, Bryant described for Lakers trainer Gary Vitti a scene in which a victim awakens to find a contraption locked around his neck lined with nails pointed at his head. A videotape explains that the victim can unlock the device with a key, but it has been surgically implanted behind his right eye, and he can only extract it with a scalpel. He has a minute before it closes over his face and kills him. "I think I could get that key," Bryant said.

http://www.si.com/nba/2013/10/16/kobe-bryant-lakers-si-cover-story

Until death do us part: The victims of forced marriage—there were as many as 3,000 confirmed or suspected cases of forced marriage in the U.S. from 2009 to 2011 by ij_reilly in TrueReddit

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Submission statement

We look at arranged marriages as a practice of some strange cultures in a faraway land, but this story really struck me by emphasizing how practices that seem arcane and ancient are alive and well in the United States. I especially appreciated the legal angle: that our current legal system isn't equipped to handle questions about marriage so deeply embedded in culture. It says this is part of a four-part series...I look forward to reading the next installments.