Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Cops: Xmas tree thief not brightest bulb
Taking holiday decorations from a man named Clouse this time of year might land you on the “naughty” list. Putting them up in your yard with the tags still on might land you in jail.
Michael Allard, 39, is accused of stealing Christmas trees and wreaths from the Montana Wreaths & Pink Grizzly Christmas Store several blocks from his home. He was arrested Monday and charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor theft.
Shane Clouse, the shop’s owner, reported a burglary after he spotted Allard walking with a shopping cart full of items Clouse recognized as his own, the Missoulian newspaper reported. Clouse later saw two of his Christmas trees in Allard’s yard and stacks of wreaths in the entryway of his trailer.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Iconic Daredevil Evel Knievel Dies at 69
Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho’s Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
Knievel’s death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.
Longtime friend and promoter Billy Rundel said Knievel had trouble breathing at his Clearwater condominium and died before an ambulance could get him to a hospital.
“It’s been coming for years, but you just don’t expect it. Superman just doesn’t die, right?” Rundel said.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Mob bay for teacher’s death
TERRIFIED teddy bear row teacher Gillian Gibbons was being held in a secret jail last night — after a 10,000-strong armed mob took to Sudan’s streets screaming: “Kill her, kill her.”
The Liverpool mum of two — convicted of insulting Islam by calling the bear Mohammed — was sneaked out of the capital Khartoum hours after being jailed for 15 days.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Canadian Beer Drinkers Threaten Planet
Scientists have found a new threat to the planet: Canadian beer drinkers.
The government-commissioned study says the old, inefficient “beer fridges” that one in three Canadian households use to store their Molson and Labatt’s contribute significantly to global warming by guzzling gas- and coal-fired electricity.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Jailings Over Ringing Cell Get Judge Ousted
A New York judge who jailed a courtroom full of people over a ringing cell phone is off the bench.
Judge Robert Restaino was removed Tuesday by a state judicial panel.
During a court session in March 2005, Restaino got upset when a cell phone went off.
He demanded that the phone be handed over, threatening to lock up everybody if no one came forward.
When nobody did, the judge ordered all 46 people in the room hauled off to the city jail, where they were searched.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Arrests made in botnet crackdown
Police in New Zealand have questioned a teenager believed to be the ringleader of an international cyber-crime group.
The group is alleged to have infiltrated more than one million computers and skimmed millions of dollars from people’s bank accounts.
The teenager, who is 18, cannot be named for legal reasons but was known by an alias as “Akill”.
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The FBI estimates that 1.3 million computers were under the control of “Akill” and more than US$25m (£12.1m) was illegally embezzled.
“Akill” was still at school when his hacking allegedly began, and he is said to be very bright and very skilled.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Bridenap case ends with misdemeanor
The Monticello couple accused of kidnapping their daughter to prevent her wedding took a plea deal on Wednesday that keeps them out of jail and avoids a jury trial that was scheduled for next week.
Lemuel and Julia Redd, whose trial on kidnapping charges was to begin Monday, pleaded guilty to lesser charges of custodial interference, a class A misdemeanor. Judge James Taylor ordered the Redds to serve 36 months of probation and undergo mental health evaluations and marriage counseling.
They must pay $2,000 to their son-in-law, Perry Myers, for the pre-wedding dinner their daughter missed when they took her to Grand Junction, Colo., the day before her wedding, as well as a $550 fine.
“I’m glad,” Julia Redd said after the hearing Wednesday. “All we can hope now is that Julianna is happy and that she can go on with her life and that the generations to come will not be affected by this whole ordeal.”
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Long-lost bracelet found in chicken
Aaron Giles lost his identification bracelet 28 years ago in his grandfather’s barn.
This fall, Aaron, 32, received a phone call at his Massachusetts home informing him that his long-lost bracelet was found inside a chicken gizzard in Fairmont.
The bizarre finding occurred at Olson Locker when a large number of chickens were being processed recently at the business, owned by Mark and Chuck Olson
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Boater gets tossed out at about 90 mph
A Pasco County man escaped serious injury Sunday when he was ejected from a speedboat traveling upward of 90 mph.
James K. Helmintoller, of Land O’Lakes, was driving his 353 Fastech speedboat down the Anclote River Channel when it hit a wake, ejecting the 43-year-old into the water and sending the unmanned vessel out of the river channel and into the open waters of the Anclote Anchorage bay, according to investigators with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Police: Former Doctor Had Child Porn Stash
West Hartford police Wednesday announced that in May a homeowner on Griswold Drive renovating the basement found a large quantity – 50,000 35-mm slides and more than 100 8-mm video reels – of child pornography hidden in a secret storage area in the home, which was previously owned by Dr. George Reardon, a former chief of endocrinology at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford with a troubled history.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Hospital Fined for Wrong-Side Surgery
Rhode Island Hospital was fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health Monday after its third instance this year of a doctor performing brain surgery in the wrong side of a patient’s head.
“We are extremely concerned about this continuing pattern,” Director of Health David R. Gifford said in a written statement. “While the hospital has made improvements in the operating room, they have not extended these changes to the rest of the hospital.”
The most recent case happened Friday when, according to the health department, the chief resident started brain surgery on the wrong side of an 82-year-old patient’s head. The patient was OK, the health department and hospital said.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Family blasts Iraqi newsman over claims they were killed
The angry family of an Iraqi journalist went on local television on Wednesday to blast him for claiming they had been massacred three days ago by Shiite militiamen in Baghdad.
“We are still alive. Thank God!” the sister of the journalist said, before bursting into tears.
The journalist, Dia al-Kawwaz, had said she was among the 11 family members slaughtered by militamen on Sunday in his home in Baghdad’s northern Al-Shaab neighbourhood.
Al-Hurrah television paraded the relatives of Kawwaz, clearly alive — and clearly angry.
“No one attacked us … militias or special forces. Nobody stormed our home. He even organised a condolence meeting to mourn our deaths. But we are alive. We are ashamed that he is our brother,” said the sister, wearing a green dress and headscarf.
State television also spoke to Kawwaz’s mother who said she was in Kut, south of Baghdad.
“I disown him. I consider that I do not have a son. He is a liar,” the agitated woman said on the channel which did not show her picture.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Mugabe hides inflation behind bare shelves
Zimbabwe can no longer calculate the rate of inflation because there are not enough goods left in the shops to allow price comparisons, the Central Statistical Office claimed yesterday.
Moffat Nyoni, the Director of the CSO, said that it had been impossible to compile reliable data for the past month because of “the unavailability of required information such as prices of goods, due to their shortage on the formal market”.
According to leaked figures, the annual inflation rate in October stood at 14,840 per cent — almost double the 8,000 per cent in the previous month. The CSO usually publishes its statistics in the middle of the month, and its failure to do so this month led to allegations that they had been deliberately suppressed. Each passing month’s figures openly contradict the Government’s constantly trumpeted claim that it is beating inflation.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
‘Pizza Connection’ suspect set free
The U.S. government had waited 20 years for a chance to prosecute Enrico Frigerio for his ties to the “Pizza Connection,” a $1.5-billion drug enterprise that authorities said was run out of pizza parlors across the country in the mid-1980s.
But months after FBI agents delivered Frigerio to prosecutors, the government has had to drop the case because of a lack of evidence.
The key evidence – audio and video tapes – had been destroyed and because of that Frigerio was unable to receive a fair trial, according to motions filed Nov. 7 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Judge Shira Scheindlin dismissed the case Wednesday.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Monkey meat at center of NYC case
From her baptism in Liberia to Christmas years later in her adopted New York City, Mamie Manneh never lost the longing to celebrate religious rituals by eating monkey meat.
Now, the tribal customs of Manneh and other West African immigrants have become the focus of an unusual criminal case over alleged illegal meat smuggling, and touching on issues of religious freedom, infectious diseases and wildlife preservation.
The case “appears to be the first of its kind relating to that uniquely African product,” defense attorney Jan Rostal wrote in a pending motion to dismiss. “Unfortunately, it represents the sort of clash of cultural and religious values inherent in the melting pot that is America.”
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Computer Glitch Leads To Brawl At Wauwatosa Kmart
A melee at a Kmart store in Wauwatosa Saturday morning was started by a computer glitch.
The store was running a promotion in which it would give away $10 to anyone applying for its credit card, but the computer glitch led to everyone’s application being granted — bestowing up to $4,000 in instant credit to anyone who applied even if they shouldn’t have qualified.
Once word started to spread about the so-called “free money” Saturday, witnesses said things got pretty nuts inside the Wauwatosa store.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Grandmother saved by daughter’s poo
It must be one of the most stomach-churning medical treatments ever devised.
A grandmother who contracted a potentially fatal superbug in Scotland has been saved after a hospital fed her daughter’s faeces to her.
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Ethel McEwan, an 83-year-old from Guardbridge, Fife, was near death after contracting Clostridium Difficile, the Daily Record reported.
But she was saved after receiving a “faecal transplant” from her daughter, Winnifred.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Weekly Piracy Report
01.11.2007: 0830 LT: Corentyne coast, Guyana.
Masked pirates armed with guns attacked a Guyanese fishing boat. The pirates stole the boats engines and equipment and then ordered the fishermen to board their craft and pilot their craft while they raided other boats. Later , the fishermen were taken to neighboring Suriname where they were left with the boat. The fishermen managed to return home after two days and report to the coast guard and police.
03.10.2007: 0700 LT: Bonny channel, Nigeria.
Pirates armed with guns and hiding in a mangrove swamp ambushed a passenger vessel during it’s passage to bonny town. It is suspected some of the pirates could have mingled among the passengers and boarded the vessel at the jetty at Port Harcourt. The pirates waited at the midway point and attacked the vessel when signaled. The pirates stole passenger valuables. Pirates fired a volley of shots into the air before escaping. Injured passengers received medical treatment ashore.
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08.10.2007: Panaji, off the Yermal coast in Udupi: Karnataka: India.
Pirates in canoes boarded a vessel carrying scientists on a
Marine research project. After a brief struggle with the scientists, the pirates took the scientific instruments. It is unclear if the instruments were thrown into the water or stolen. The scientists are reported to be safe.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Dozens injured in Paris rampage
Nearly 80 French police officers have been injured, six seriously, during a second night of riots by youths in the suburbs of Paris, police unions say.
The police say some officers suffered bullet wounds, while others were hurt by stones, fireworks and petrol bombs thrown at them in Villiers-le-Bel.
The youths said they were avenging the two teenagers killed when their motorcycle hit a police car on Sunday.
Scorecard To-Date:
Sunday: 30 buildings burnt, including 1 police station. 26 police and firefighters wounded. 9 Arrests, 2 teenagers killed (trigger for riots).
Monday: 70 buildings burnt, including 1 library, 2 schools. 77 officers wounded.
2005 High Score: 10,000 cars, 300 buildings burnt
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
NKorea increases public executions; aid group says 1 man killed before 150,000 spectators
North Korea has resumed frequent public executions, among them a factory chief accused of making international phone calls who was shot at a stadium before thousands of spectators, a South Korean aid group said Monday.
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In October, the North executed the head of a factory in South Pyongan province for making international calls on 13 phones he installed in a factory basement, the aid group said. He was executed by a firing squad in a stadium before a crowd of 150,000 people.
Six people were also crushed to death and 34 others injured in an apparent stampede as they left after the execution, said the aid group.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Football field-sized kite powers latest heavy freight ship
A kite the size of a football field will provide most of the power for a German heavy freight ship set to launch in December.
The Beluga shipping company that owns the 460-foot Beluga said it expects the kites to decrease fuel consumption by up to 50% in optimal cases as well as a cutback of the emission of greenhouse gases on sea by 10 to 20%. Interestingly, the ship will be hauling windmills from Esbjerg, Denmark to Houston, Texas.
The company that makes the kite for the German transport, SkySails, has made kites for large yachts but is targeting commercial ships with new, larger kites. And it has the ambitious goal of equipping 1,500 ships with kites by 2015.
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Voice of London’s Tube gets the axe
The woman behind the gentle, even voice that warns London’s subway commuters to “Mind the gap” was fired after telling a newspaper she thought the transit network was dreadful.
Emma Clarke has been recording messages for London’s sprawling subway network, popularly known as the Tube, since 1999. In addition to warning passengers to watch their step in walking between subway cars and the platform, she also reads the trains’ stops, tells Londoners how long they have to wait until their next ride, and delivers service updates.
Transport for London, the body responsible for running the subway, said Monday that Clarke, 36, was fired for telling The Mail on Sunday she avoided using the subway whenever possible.
“The thought of being stuck in the Tube with strangers for minutes on end and having to listen to endless repeated messages of my own voice fills me with horror,” she told the paper.
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Further rioting in Paris suburb
French youths have been battling police for a second night in a suburb of Paris where two teenagers died after their motorcycle collided with a police car.
Up to 30 police officers are said to have been injured in the clashes.
Earlier in the day, a state prosecutor ordered a manslaughter inquiry into the deaths of the two teenagers in Villiers-le-Bel.
Local youths blame police for the deaths but police say the two teenagers were speeding and not wearing helmets.
The clashes come despite numerous appeals for calm, including one by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is visiting China.
Several vehicles, including a police car, have been set on fire and there are reports that shots have been fired at police.
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to keep rioters at bay.
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
German biofuel thirst pours out higher beer prices
Beer and oil may not mix, but in Germany there’s a direct link between hefty increases in the cost of a barrel of each.
Just as the price of oil approaches the milestone $100-per-barrel mark, the beer industry in Germany is bracing for a 10 to 15 percent price increase early next year and as much as 40 percent over the next five years. The reason for price boost at the beer taps: biofuels.
To reduce Europe’s dependency on oil, the European Union is paying generous subsidies to farmers who grow crops used in the production of biofuels. As a result, many farmers have switched from growing barley — used to make malt, the main ingredient in beer — to crops such as rapeseed and corn. This has driven up the cost of barley to more than $410 from $190 a ton last year.
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Boys’ moped deaths ignite riot in Paris suburb
Rioting broke in one of Paris’s tinder box suburban housing estates last night after two young boys were killed when their moped collided with a police car.
Firefighters extinguish a vehicle left in flames after riots in a suburb of Paris
The scenes are reminiscent of the disturbances in 2005 which led to two months of serious rioting across much of France
Molotov cocktails were thrown, and cars and plastic bins set on fire following the tragedy in Tolinette, a notoriously crime-ridden district of Villiers-le-Bel, some 20 miles north of the centre of the French capital.
One police station was set alight and another, in a neighbouring suburb, was ransacked after youths threw cocktails, and set bins alight and upturned cars.
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Beauty Pageant Officials Probe Mystery of Pepper Spray on Contestant’s Gowns
Beauty pageant organizers were investigating Sunday who doused a contestant’s evening gowns with pepper spray and spiked her makeup, causing her to break out in hives.
Beauty queen Ingrid Marie Rivera beat 29 rivals to become the island’s 2008 Miss Universe contestant, despite applying makeup and wearing evening gowns that had been coated with pepper spray, pageant spokesman Harold Rosario said.
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Rural New London man accused of shooting pet goat after wife didn’t buy beer
A rural New London man who was upset with his wife for not buying beer shot one of the family’s two pet goats, prosecutors say.
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According to the criminal complaint, Mischler came home Saturday from hunting and became angry with his 22-year-old daughter for letting the goats out and making a mess.
While she was talking on the phone to her mother, he told her to tell his wife to bring home some beer. His wife refused.
He then threatened to shoot the goats, the complaint says.
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
They’re getting bolder every year…
Turkeys Visit NY Town for Thanksgiving
Fifteen wild turkeys strutted into a suburban hamlet on Thanksgiving Day and then left just in time to avoid dinner.
The turkeys showed up Thursday morning, drawing crowds of spectators, but left _ marching in single file _ at about 1 p.m.
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Cow killed in coyote confusion
Cow. Coyote. They may begin with the same letters, but the two animals don’t particular look alike.
Try telling that to a man in Colfax, Michigan, who gunned down his neighbour’s cow, claiming he thought it was a coyote.
Unbelievably, the cow’s owner and the police don’t buy his story.
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
‘Satan brainwashed me,’ claims Mayor
Politicians quit their posts all the time, citing predictable reasons for stepping down.
Either they want to spend more time with their family or they have had a fling with someone instead of spending time with their family.
So respect then to the former mayor of a town in Arkansas, who has resigned because he was brainwashed by worshippers of Satan.
Ken Williams left his position in Centerton, claiming the devil lovers kidnapped him nearly 30 years ago.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Law Would Require Cars to Stop When National Anthem is Played in Thailand
Millions of drivers in Thailand would have to stop in their cars when the minute-long national anthem is played twice a day, if a new law is passed.
But it is feared that such a move would cause chaos on the roads.
The Flag Bill is aimed at boosting patriotism in the country and is being put forward by a group of retired and current generals.
Supporters say traffic should stop nationwide when the anthem is played during the raising and lowering of the flag “to preserve tradition and instill patriotism in Thais.”
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Marilyn Manson Accused Of Buying Girl’s Skeleton
Shock rock singer Marilyn Manson has been accused of squandering his band’s profit on a child’s skeleton and masks made of human skin.
Keyboardist Stephen “Pogo” Bier filed a breach of contract lawsuit in August in which he accused Manson of taking cash belonging to the rest of the band to pay for the “sick and disturbing” purchases.
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Swastika wall tiles with matching custom rugs and Nazi government coat hangers owned by Adolf Hitler are allegedly on display in Manson’s Californian mansion, according to legal papers.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Mankind ’shortening the universe’s life’
Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our activities may be shortening the life of the universe too.
The startling claim is made by a pair of American cosmologists investigating the consequences for the cosmos of quantum theory, the most successful theory we have. Over the past few years, cosmologists have taken this powerful theory of what happens at the level of subatomic particles and tried to extend it to understand the universe, since it began in the subatomic realm during the Big Bang.
But there is an odd feature of the theory that philosophers and scientists still argue about. In a nutshell, the theory suggests that we change things simply by looking at them and theorists have puzzled over the implications for years.
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Tanzania surgery mix-up man dies
The Tanzanian man who had a knee operation when he had a tumour in his brain, has died after finally having the operation he required.
Emmanuel Mgaya, 19, died hours after the surgery, performed two weeks late.
Meanwhile, Emmanuel Didas, 20, who had brain surgery although his complaint was in the knee, is slowly recovering but he remains partially paralysed.
The government has apologised for the mix-up, which has been blamed on both men having the same first name.
Mr Didas cannot move his right side following the unnecessary operation.
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Surgeons Remove Ten-Pound Hairball From Teen Girl’s Stomach
Surgeons removed a massive 10-pound hairball from the stomach of an 18-year-old girl suffering from a psychological condition in which she ate her own hair, according to a report in this week’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The teen went to her doctor after complaining of stomach pains and vomiting. She had also lost 40 pounds over a five-month period, according to a UPI report.
Doctors at Rush Medical Center in Chicago carried out a scan and were amazed to find the huge mass of hair blocking her entire stomach, according to NEJM.
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
NYC Toddler Survives 20-Foot Fall
A toddler who crawled out a third-floor window during his family’s Thanksgiving festivities and fell onto a store roof not only survived _ he didn’t even break a bone.
Brandon Priebe said his 14-month-old son, Bradley, tumbled from a bedroom window in his aunt’s Brooklyn apartment on Thursday. His relatives said they thought the window was closed.
Bradley fell about 20 feet onto the roof of a music store next door, police said. Priebe told police that his son wasn’t seriously injured in the fall. The boy was in stable condition later Thursday at a local hospital, where no update on his condition was available early Friday.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Pro Wrestler ‘Hardbody Harrison’ Convicted of Holding 8 Women as Sex Slaves
A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a former pro wrestler known as “Hardbody Harrison” of charges that he kept eight women as sex slaves in his two north Georgia homes.
Harrison Norris Jr. was convicted of charges including aggravated sexual abuse, forced labor, sex trafficking, conspiracy and witness tampering. He was acquitted of all charges involving a ninth woman, but still could get life in prison at sentencing, set for Feb. 28.
Norris, 41, wrestled for the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling organization in the 1990s.
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Thousands protest over ant aphrodisiac scheme
Thousands of people in northeastern China have protested on the streets and surrounded government offices demanding help recovering money from a get-rich-quick scheme to raise ants to make an aphrodisiac tonic.
Hundreds of anti-riot troops and police in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, were deployed to stop protesters reaching the provincial government and Communist Party headquarters, residents said on Wednesday.
The irate investors from across Liaoning, a rustbelt province striving to attract investment, have demonstrated in Shenyang since Monday and sporadic clashes with police have broken out, they said.
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Cannibal goes vegetarian in jail
A GERMAN man who sliced up an internet penpal and ate him has become a vegetarian in prison because he can’t stand the idea of factory-formed meat.
A Bavarian radio station reported that 45-year-old Armin Meiwes, serving 8-½ years for manslaughter, was now a vegetarian.
“He finds the idea of factory farming as distasteful as his crime was,” a fellow inmate told Radio Bavaria.
“He now sticks to vegetarian dishes.”
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Students Wear Confederate Flag Shirts To Oppose Peace-Shirt Group
Students at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School are waging a war on peace.
Recently, sophomore Skylar Stains decided to hold Peace Shirt Thursdays at the school. Skylar and her friend, Lauren Lorraine, started wearing peace shirts and soon recruited more friends to wear them. Now, the “Peace Shirt Coalition” as they call themselves, has close to 30 students from all grades.
“We’ve worn handmade peace shirts every Thursday since the first week of school, without fail,” Skylar said.
But what started out as a light-hearted gesture soon started to be taken out of context.
Students started approaching the group members, yelling obscene things at them, said Lauren.
“People just turned on us like that,” she said. “At least 10 boys stood up and yelled things at me at once, and we couldn’t even walk through the halls without a harsh comment being made.”
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows
The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Kenyan Man Dies From Hyena Attack Moments After Killing Lion With His Bare Hands
A Kenyan man killed a lion with his bare hands in Samburu, about 260 kilometers northeast of the capital Nairobi, only to be attacked by a pack of hyenas a few moments later, the country’s media reported Tuesday.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Rome founders’ sanctuary discovered
Italian archaeologists said today they believe they have found one of the ancient city’s holiest sites, the cave venerated as the place where, according to myth, a female wolf nursed the city’s founders, twin brothers Romulus and Remus.
Decorated with seashells and marble, the vaulted space lies buried 16 metres inside the Palatine hill, the centre of power in imperial Rome.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Private details of EVERY family in Britain ‘lost’ by taxman in major security blunder
Everyone who receives child benefit is under threat of fraud after a catastrophic blunder by civil servants.
Two computer discs packed with the personal and banking details of 25million people – nearly half the UK’s 60million population – have disappeared in the post.
Last night, Chancellor Alistair Darling was trying to head off a consumer panic after he admitted that nearly every family in the country is at risk. Police were ransacking offices in London and the North East for the missing CDs, but insisted there was no evidence they have fallen into criminal hands.
The discs, which include names of parents and children, their dates of birth, addresses and National Insurance and bank account numbers of all those who claim Child Benefit, had only minimal computer protection and could be easily hacked into by gangsters.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Jesus turns up in pancake, with added Mary
Jesus is a busy person.
A woman believes she has found the image of Jesus and Mary in a pancake she was cooking for breakfast on a Sunday morning.
Marilyn Smith, of Port St Lucie, Florida, decided to sell the pancake on eBay – after an earlier, cancelled sale in which the pancake reached £165 ($338), the current bid stands at $26.01.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Squirrels Briefly Kill Power in 2 Cities
It was an unlucky day for two squirrels and hundreds of Midwestern power customers.
Brian Elwood, a spokesman for Xcel Energy, said a squirrel came in contact with an overhead transformer and knocked out service to 177 customers Monday. Power was fully restored in just under an hour, and repair crews found the remains of the “unfortunate squirrel,” he said.
By coincidence, another squirrel got into a substation 40 miles away in Ironwood, Mich., Monday morning and caused a temporary outage that affected about 1,400 customers in Ironwood and two nearby communities, Elwood said.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Pioneering ‘heat wave’ gun may be used in Iraq
American commanders in Iraq are urging Pentagon chiefs to authorise the deployment of newly-developed heat wave guns to disperse angry crowds or violent rioters.
But the plea for what senior army officers believe could prove a valuable alternative to traditional firepower in dangerous trouble-spots has so far gone unanswered.
Washington fears a barrage of adverse publicity in the suspicious Muslim world and is concerned that critics will claim the invisible beam weapons were being used for torture
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Cocaine-smuggling submarine seized
COLOMBIAN marines have seized a makeshift submarine capable of smuggling up to 12 tonnes of cocaine through the Pacific to Central America, making it one of the largest such craft found.
The nearly completed fibreglass submarine, found in a rural area in south Narino province, had space for four crew members, the Navy said.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Wife’s at a loss to find husband after he wins the lottery
The clues trickled in that Donna Campbell’s husband was hiding something from her.
Arnim Ramdass started to keep the television off at all times, then he disconnected their phone line. But the ah-ha! moment came when Campbell thumbed through the mail at their Miramar house and saw a postcard: Congratulations on the purchase of your new home.
Campbell, knowing her husband was a habitual lottery player, fired up her computer and Googled “Ramdass and lotto.”
The first hit was a Florida Lottery press release about a pool of 17 airline mechanics who won a $19 million jackpot this summer.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Rat poison soup kills cook and clientele
It is a mistake all of us have made in the kitchen at one time or another.
Flustered by the heat from the stove and frustrated by the pressure of conjuring up the perfect beans on toast, we have all added the wrong ingredient at some point.
However, few of us have reached for a packet of rat poison instead of the jar of mixed herbs.
A cook in China killed himself and five other people when he inadvertently spiced up a dish with the lethal ingredient.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Mystery Fla. animal likely a squirrel
An animal sneaking around Baker County is not an orangutan as originally thought but likely a fox squirrel, state wildlife officials said Friday. Officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission laid doughnuts at a base of a tree after residents reported seeing a “big orange ball of fur.”
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
USAID Inadvertently Funneled American Tax Dollars to Terror Related Groups
A federal agency that disburses billions of dollars in humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and pro-democracy programs every year, has inadvertently funneled American taxpayer funds to individuals and entities with “terrorist affiliations” and lacks the safeguards to prevent such incidents from recurring, an internal audit has revealed.
In a report entitled “Audit of the Adequacy of USAID’s Antiterrorism Vetting Procedures,” dated November 6 and obtained by Fox News, U.S. Agency for International Development Inspector General Donald A. Gambatesa concluded USAID’s “policies, procedures, and controls are not adequate to reasonably ensure against providing assistance to terrorists.”
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Shattering Conventional Wisdom About Saddam’s WMD’s
Finally, there are some definitive answers to the mystery of the missing WMD. Civilian volunteers, mostly retired intelligence officers belonging to the non-partisan IntelligenceSummit.org, have been poring over the secret archives captured from Saddam Hussein. The inescapable conclusion is this: Saddam really did have WMD after all, but not in the way the Bush administration believed. A 9,000 word research paper with citations to each captured document has been posted online at LoftusReport.com, along with translations of the captured Iraqi documents, courtesy of Mr. Ryan Mauro and his friends.
This Iraqi document research has been supplemented with satellite photographs and dozens of interviews, among them David Gaubatz who risked radiation exposure to locate Saddam’s underwater WMD warehouses , and John Shaw, whose brilliant detective work solved the puzzle of where the WMD went. Both have contributed substantially to solving one of the most difficult mysteries of our decade.
The absolutists on either side of the WMD debate will be more than a bit chagrinned at these disclosures. The documents show a much more complex history than previously suspected. The “Bush lied, people died” chorus has insisted that Saddam had no WMD whatsoever after 1991 – and thus that WMD was no good reason for the war. The Neocon diehards insist that, as in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the treasure-trove is still out there somewhere, buried under the sand dunes of Iraq. Each side is more than a little bit wrong about Saddam’s WMD, and each side is only a little bit right about what happened to it.
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
Cat-napping outcry after fur traders admit buying animals killed in Britain
The disappearance of hundreds of household cats has sparked calls for an official inquiry amid fears that they could have been killed, skinned and turned into blankets.
Concern has been fuelled by the existence of a legal Swiss trade in cat fur, which is reputed to be good for rheumatism. But cat blanket retailers have denounced allegations of widespread cat-napping across the border in France as absurd. They insist that they buy skins from wild felines killed in Switzerland and Britain.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Is the answer 2,397,207,667,966,701?
French “mathlete” Alexis Lemaire showed off his rare mental agility Thursday, claiming a new world record after working out in his head the 13th root of a random 200-digit number in just 72.4 seconds.
Lemaire, a 27-year-old doctoral student in artificial intelligence from Reims, near Paris, sat at a laptop computer that randomly selected the figure and displayed it on the screen. The number was so long it ran over 17 lines.
Lemaire, who says he doesn’t consider himself a nerd or a geek, then took just over a minute to identify two quadrillion, 397 trillion, 207 billion, 667 million, 966 thousand, 701 as the 13th root. In other words, the number multiplied by itself 13 times produces the 200 digit number originally generated by the computer.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Drunk father makes drunk son drive, drunk
A 13-year-old boy has been charged with drink driving – after his father got him to drive, despite the fact he’s been drinking, because the father was too drunk to drive himself.
The incident was discovered when a police officer checking on a truck that got stuck in the mud at a city park was startled to find the 13-year-old boy behind the wheel.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Hundreds of crocodiles on the loose
Soldiers and rangers have captured 88 crocodiles which escaped from a breeding farm in a central Vietnam province, but hundreds more are still on the loose, officials said Wednesday.
They said soldiers shot dead eight fresh water crocodiles and returned those captured to the breeding farm in Khanh Hoa province where raging floodwaters broke cages Saturday, allowing the crocodiles to escape.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
I’ve been warning all of you of this for almost 2 years. Now it has arrived: 1,000 monkeys turning aggressive by the day!
Thieving monkeys ‘out of control’ in northeast India
Troupes of monkeys are out of control in India’s northeast, stealing mobile phones and breaking into homes to steal soft drinks from refrigerators, lawmakers in the region have complained.
“Monkeys are wreaking havoc in my constituency by taking away mobile phones, toothpastes, sipping coke after opening the refrigerators,” Hiren Das told Assam state’s assembly.
He said the primates were “even slapping women who try to chase them”.
“It is a cause of serious concern in my area, with more than 1,000 such simians turning aggressive by the day,” fumed Goneswar Das, another legislator representing Raha in eastern Assam.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Hoboken Disbands SWAT Team After Hooters Photos
The Hoboken, N.J., police SWAT team — which is taking heat for racy pictures showing its members frolicking with Hooters waitresses — is no more. Hoboken’s newly named public safety director disbanded the SWAT team shortly after being sworn in on Friday, authorities confirmed.
“The unit itself has been disbanded permanently,” Public Safety Director Bill Bergin told the Jersey Journal. He is a former deputy chief with the Hoboken Fire Department.
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Led by Robots, Roaches Abandon Instincts
Many a mother has said, with a sigh, “If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump, too?”
The answer, for cockroaches at least, may well be yes. Researchers using robotic roaches were able to persuade real cockroaches to do things that their instincts told them were not the best idea.
This experiment in bug peer pressure combined entomology, robotics and the study of ways that complex and even intelligent patterns can arise from simple behavior. Animal behavior research shows that swarms working together can prosper where individuals might fail, and robotics researchers have been experimenting with simple robots that, together, act a little like a swarm.
“We decided to join the two approaches,” said José Halloy, a biology researcher at the Free University of Brussels and lead author of a paper describing the research in today’s issue of the journal Science.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Shifting sands reveal World War Two fighter plane lost for 65 years
For 65 years, this Second World War fighter had lain hidden under the surface of a beach where it crash-landed.
Just a short distance above it, holidaying families have built sandcastles, strolled and swum, all unaware of its existence.
But now the P-38 Lightning has re-emerged after freak weather conditions caused the sands to shift and expose its rusting frame.
The U.S. aircraft – with its distinctive “twinboom” design – was discovered on the North Wales coast, but the location is being kept secret in case it is targeted by looters.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Pet Massacres Carried Out in Puerto Rico
Back roads, gorges and garbage dumps on this tropical island are littered with the decaying carcasses of dogs and cats. An Associated Press investigation reveals why: possibly thousands of unwanted animals have been tossed off bridges, buried alive and otherwise inhumanely disposed of by taxpayer-financed animal control programs.
Witnesses who spoke with the AP said that, despite pledges to deliver adoptable strays to shelters and humanely euthanize the rest, the island’s leading private animal control companies generally did neither.
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Boeing Laser Avenger – Humvee Hunts IEDs and Bombs in Tests
There is a cottage industry forming to thwart the twin threats of unexploded bombs and intentionally placed IEDs—by convincing the Pentagon to use long-range lasers in the warzone. Boeing, always at the forefront of a lucrative market niche, has mounted a solid-state direct-energy beam that can explode bombs in the clear before they can take out a convoy. And if the proving-ground footage we’ve been checking out is any indication, this zapper is definitely showing potential.
Late last month, Boeing conducted a series of tests at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama with a 1-kw laser mounted on the back of a converted anti-aircraft Humvee. Shooting an invisible beam just a few centimeters in diameter and 20 times hotter than an electric stovetop, the laser burned a hole through the casing of artillery and mortar rounds, detonating them more or less instantly. (As for bystanders, all bets are off.)
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Unexplained Blue Cloud Floats, Darts Around Customers At Gas Station
A strange blue cloud seen floating and darting around customers, freezing for 30 minutes and then speeding from an Ohio gas station, remains unexplained even though it was caught on security cams.
The ghostly image was seen moving near and over cars at a Marathon gas station located near the corner of State Road and Pleasant Valley in Parma on Sunday.
Surveillance video of the image showed it flipping and then sitting in the same location for 30 minutes.
It then flies off the screen at a high rate of speed.
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Boy, 3, Hospitalized In Playground Squirrel Attack
A 3-year-old boy, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and another adult were hurt on Wednesday afternoon in a bizarre attack by a squirrel on a day care playground.
It happened at the Children’s Academy Daycare on Oak Ridge Road in Orange County.
Kevin Santiago, 3, was bitten nine times while playing on the playground, according to Yietza Santiago, the boy’s mother.
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Cows flee trailer after their driver pulls into McDonald’s
McDonald’s? The burger joint? Stampede! Eight cows escaped from a trailer when the rear gate opened as the driver pulled into a McDonald’s. It took about two hours to round them up Monday.
“Maybe they were going to … hop in the freezer, save the middleman,” Weber County sheriff’s Sgt. Dave Creager said.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Man Killed By Alligator At Indian Reservation
A man who allegedly was fleeing police was attacked and killed by an alligator in a pond, Local 10 reported.
Miccosukee police, assisted by Sweetwater canine units, responded to a call on the Miccosukee Indian Reservation about vehicles being broken into.
Local 10’s Todd Tongen said police captured one man, but another fled on foot and dove into a retention pond. Signs warned of the danger of live alligators in the pond behind the casino and hotel.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Bank manager gives woman loans for sex
A German bank manager gave loans to a woman for sex and then embezzled thousands of euros to buy the silence of her relatives, authorities said on Thursday.
When the man realized he could not offer the jobless woman a loan because of her poor credit history, he offered to lend her the money personally in return for sexual favors, said a spokesman for a court in the southern town of Tuebingen.
The 31-year-old then stole the money from the bank. The pair continued their arrangement for the next three years.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Boy George charged with false imprisonment
Police charged pop singer Boy George with false imprisonment on Tuesday after he allegedly chained a man to a wall at his London home.
Boy George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, was released on police bail and is scheduled to appear in court on November 22.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Naked man tasered ‘in the ass’
A man who stripped off at a university concert was tasered ‘in the ass’ by police as they tried to handcuff him.
Trouble began when the man was asked to leave by concert security, but when he refused police were called.
Police asked the man, who was topless, to put his shirt back on but he began to remove his pants, according to reports from witnesses. They then seized the man and began handcuffing him and when he resisted, a taser was used.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
La. Pol’s ‘Buckwheat’ Remark Sparks Ire
A white state lawmaker in a runoff election called a black civil-rights veteran who had helped her campaign “Buckwheat,” prompting the NAACP to urge voters to kick her out of office.
Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, a Democrat, acknowledged that she ended a Thursday night conversation with Hazel Boykin by saying, “Talk to you later, Buckwheat.” Dartez had been thanking Boykin for driving voters to the polls.
Buckwheat, a black child character in the “Little Rascals” comedies of the 1930s and ’40s, is viewed as a racial stereotype.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
UFO sightings are no laughing matter
UFOs may be fodder for comedians and science fiction but there was no joking Monday when a group of pilots and officials demanded the US government reopen an investigation into unidentified flying objects.
The 19 former pilots and government officials, who say they have seen UFOs themselves or been involved in probes of strange flying objects, told reporters their questions can no longer be dismissed more than 30 years after the US case was closed.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister
Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt.
Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged.
President Ahmadinejad, questioned by students in New York two months ago about the executions, dodged the issue by suggesting that there were no gays in his country.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
City faces simian menace, dozens hurt
JUST weeks after New Delhi’s deputy mayor toppled to his death fending off a pack of monkeys, the animals have gone back on the attack.
One woman was seriously hurt and two dozen other people were given first aid after monkeys rampaged through a neighbourhood in east Delhi over the weekend, media reports said.
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Disasters: ‘The Atlantic’ Attempts A New York Party, Bombs
Last night, the D.C.-based Atlantic magazine celebrated 150 years of thought at the Kimmel Center Loading Dock at N.Y.U. In a striking display of awful judgment, the VIPs (Arianna Huffington, Moby, the Mayor) were allowed (forced) to mingle on stage. The poors sat in chairs in the auditorium and watched.
Be sure to read the whole thing and watch the video. What a pathetic comment on the contemporary elite!
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Drunk for £1: Anger as leading supermarkets sell lager for 22p a can
Supermarkets are selling beer at a cheaper price than water, fuelling concern over their role in Britain’s binge-drinking crisis.
Despite repeated public health warnings, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda now offer lager at just 22p a can – less per litre than their ownbrand-mineral water and cola, and cheap enough to allow someone to get drunk for just £1.
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Rival football fans clash in Italy
A football fan was killed during clashes between supporters of rival clubs in Italy on Sunday, police said.
The clashes erupted at a motorway restaurant near the Tuscan city of Arezzo.
A police source said the victim appeared to have been inside a car of Lazio fans and that Juventus supporters were also involved in the clashes.
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Supreme Court: Mannequin sex doesn’t equal indecent exposure
A Sioux Falls man caught in the Washington Pavilion having simulated sex with a mannequin didn’t commit a crime of indecent exposure, the state Supreme Court says.
In a decision released Thursday, the court reversed the conviction of Michael James Plenty Horse, who was found in the late afternoon of Nov. 14, 2005, lying on top of a mannequin in the Alumni Room of the Pavilion.
A security guard surprised Plenty Horse, the record says. He lay with his pants partially down on a mannequin which had its band uniform partially removed. He was 19 at the time.
The Supreme Court unanimously reversed a misdemeanor conviction, saying the state’s indecent exposure statute “criminalizes sexual gratification by displaying or showing one’s genitals in public.”
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Clashes at far-right Prague rally
Clashes have broken out in Prague between neo-Nazis and protesters trying to block their right-wing march.
More than 1,000 people rallied in the Czech capital’s old Jewish quarter to try to stop the march by members of the Young Nationalist Democrats (MND).
The march was planned for the anniversary of the 1938 anti-Jewish purge known as Kristallnacht.
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Yellowstone Is Rising on Swollen “Supervolcano”
Yellowstone National Park is rising. Its central region, called the Yellowstone caldera, has been moving upward since mid-2004 at a rate of up to three inches (seven centimeters) a year—more than three times faster than has ever been measured.
The surface is inflating like a bellows due to an infusion of magma about 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground, according to a new study published in tomorrow’s issue of the journal Science.
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
British ‘cannibal’ jailed for killing girlfriend
A British man who claimed to have chopped up and eaten his girlfriend is facing 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to her manslaughter.
Paul Durant, 47, was arrested in February 2004 on suspicion of murdering Karen Durrell, 41, a divorced mother of two from Ilford, Essex.
She disappeared shortly after meeting Durant just days after she moved to the Costa Blanca on Spain’s southeastern coast in January 2004.
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Police searched her flat in the resort of Calpe, 15 miles east of Benidorm, and found her blood in the bath, bloodstained knives and a saw with traces of flesh on it, but her body has never been found.
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Flasher sensibly flashes court
A German man, who was in court to appeal against his conviction for flashing, possibly didn’t help his case when he stripped off in the middle of the court.
‘The court withdrew for deliberations and during the adjournment the man removed his clothes again,’ said a spokesman for the court, in the western city of Duisburg.
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Man uses tow truck, cable to kill self
A 54-year-old employee of a Pontiac car repair shop apparently decapitated himself early Thursday using a cable and the thrust of his tow truck.
Authorities in Livingston County released few details of the death and declined to identify the man pending notification of relatives. The man’s employer called the death outside the shop a suicide.
The man, who had worked at S&R Route 66 Auto Center on the western edge of Pontiac for about four years, appears to have tied a cable to a sign in front of the business and the other end around his neck.
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
2 Newark teens hurt in fall from highrise
Two teenage girls were undergoing surgery this morning for injuries sustained when they fell some 50 feet while trying to climb down from a Newark highrise overnight, police said.
The 14-year-old girls, caught by a parent with alcohol Wednesday night, were trying to escape the adult’s anger by tying together sheets on a fifth-floor window and rappelling the building at 860 S. 11th St., said Detective Todd McClendon, a police spokesman.
“At some point during their descent both girls fell from the sheets and suffered various broken bones and severe bruises,” said McClendon said.
As an aside, the same thing happened to a close friend of mine several years ago. He was attempting to escape from the psycho ward of a hospital in Prague and also fell 5 stories. Fortunately there was a brand new Skoda Octavia car below him that helped buffer his impact. He survived. The Octavia was totalled.
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Stripper Mistakenly Sent to School, Whips Teen
Officials at a U.K. high school were aghast after a stripper visited a student during class and whipped him in front of other students and a horrified teacher, Sky News reported Thursday.
A booking error is to blame after a mother arranged to send a “gorilla gram” to her son on his 16th birthday, an arrangement she cleared with Nottingham’s Arnold Hill School and Technology College. Instead, the agency sent a stripper clad in a policewoman costume, Sky reported.
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Police discover Mafia’s ‘Ten Commandments’ after arresting Godfather
…The 10 ‘Mafiosi’ commandments are:
1. No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends.
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don’t go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always be available for Cosa Nostra, even if your wife’s about to give birth.
6. Appointments must be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can’t be part of Cosa Nostra are anyone with a close relative in the police, with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn’t hold to moral values.
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Jimmy Carter: He will slay your cat
To Sybil,
Lamentably, I killed your cat while trying just to sting it. It was crouched, as usual, under one of our bird feeders & I fired from some distance with bird shot. It may ease your grief somewhat to know that the cat was buried properly with a prayer & that I’ll be glad to get you another of your choice.
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
WANTED: Black Bear Steals Minivan
You might say he’s smarter than the average bear.
A black bear is on one New Jersey police department’s most wanted list.
He or she apparently broke into a minivan looking for chocolate and then took a little joyride.
CBS 2 HD tracked down all the bear facts.
The minivan in question was damaged, specifically a window where the bear apparently forced his way in. Vernon police officers have since made a “Wanted” poster, featuring a picture of “Yogi Bear.”
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Bodega owner slashes gun-toting thug who tried to rob him
A Queens bodega owner served up some instant justice when he slashed a gun-toting thug who tried to rob him Wednesday, cops said.
The 28-year-old bandit squeezed off two rounds but was still no match for the deli man, who dodged the bullets and chopped off the robber’s ear and finger with a machete, police said.
The incident unfolded at Erick Grocery on 77th St. in Woodhaven about 5 p.m., police said.
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Democrats Split Over Bill Affecting Backers
In early June, as the Senate Finance Committee began examining how a new breed of Wall Street titan could be paying a special low tax rate on executives’ salaries, one of the richest of them, hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors, cut the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee a check for $28,500.
Just days later, with DSCC Chairman Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) equivocating on legislation to raise taxes on publicly traded equity firms, hedge fund giant James H. Simons, who earned $1.7 billion last year at his Renaissance Technologies LLC, donated another $28,500 to the DSCC.
By late July, Schumer was off the fence — and on the side of the hedge funds and private-equity firms in opposing the Democratic legislation.
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