News on the Fly: Second-place Beauty Files Appeal

Macabre, right, files appeal

Mike Hawkins
October 31st, 2006

The fourth annual Most Beautifullest Beauty of America pageant had its usual share of drama, including an intense bathing suit competition and tears shed. But this year the ante was upped, with the second-place finisher filing an appeal immediately after the winner was announced.

Sheza Macabre, 19, demanded the decision overturned on the basis of being "more beautifuller."

"That's right. I'm more beautifuller than all of them," Macabre insisted.

The first-place finisher in the contest, Julie Hurston, did not exactly disagree. "I honestly was surprised that I won. I do not know how she stays so, so thin. She would just eat and eat and eat [human flesh] all day and not gain an ounce."

"She's at least more appealing than any of the rest of us," said Hurston.