Archive for January, 2009
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Former Hooters girl Melody Morales sues Hawaiian Tropic Zone for discrimination:
A former Hooters girl who says she’s got the right assets – but the wrong accent – is suing the Hawaiian Tropic Zone for crushing her dream of working as one of its bikini-clad beauties.
Melody Morales said she was rejected for a job by a manager at the Times Square restaurant who griped, “You don’t speak white” and, “You are ghetto.”
The 21-year-old Latina lovely is the latest woman to file suit over alleged shenanigans at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone, where employees in skimpy beachwear parade nightly before diners.
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Newspaper claims suspect transformed into a goat
One of Nigeria’s biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him.
The paper quoted police spokesman Tunde Mohammed as saying that while one suspect escaped, the other transformed into a goat as he was about to be apprehended.
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Motorist teeters on cliff edge after canyon plunge
A 34-year-old Grand Junction man was rescued Wednesday from a van teetering off a cliffside about 170 feet above a canyon floor. Daniel J. Lyons drove his van off a road in the steep, red-rock canyons of Colorado National Monument, and the vehicle dropped, tumbled and rolled 120 feet before getting snagged on brush and a rock ledge. “It’s jaw-dropping,” said Joan Anzelmo, park superintendent.
“It got caught on an outcropping of rock; that’s what saved his life.” About 50 rescue personnel including park rangers, Grand Junction firefighters, volunteer firefighters and Mesa County sheriff’s deputies performed a technical extraction in the dark to rescue Lyons, Anzelmo said. The incident began about 4:30 p.m. when Lyons (Colorado National Monument) called 911. “He told dispatchers he was down a cliff somewhere in the Colorado National Monument and his car had gone off the road,” Anzelmo said.
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Video of a British army soldier biting the head off a live chicken during a survival training exercise
CHEERED on by baying soldiers, a British Army officer BITES the head off a live chicken in a sickening training exercise filmed by his own men.
Shamefully the senior lieutenant serving in Iraq then KICKS its wildly-flailing body, spits out the head, and shouts “f***er” at the dying bird.
In the exclusive video footage obtained by the News of the World, the pathetic creature is seen seconds later still flapping pitifully in its death throes.
Minutes earlier ANOTHER high-ranking soldier, a sergeant major responsible for discipline amongst the soldiers, had also performed the gruesome stunt to the perverse delight of the men he controls.
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele ‘created twin town in Brazil’
The Nazi doctor Josef Mengele is responsible for the astonishing number of twins in a small Brazilian town, an Argentine historian has claimed.
The steely hearted “Angel of Death”, whose mission was to create a master race fit for the Third Reich, was the resident medic at Auschwitz from May 1943 until his flight in the face of the Red Army advance in January 1945.
His task was to carry out experiments to discover by what method of genetic quirk twins were produced – and then to artificially increase the Aryan birthrate for his master, Adolf Hitler.
Now, a historian claims, Mengele’s notorious experiments may have borne fruit.
For years scientists have failed to discover why as many as one in five pregnancies in a small Brazilian town have resulted in twins – most of them blond haired and blue eyed.
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Hitler’s Grammy Drunk During Cop Stop, Says Mom
Little Adolf Hitler Campbell’s parents are already in the midst of a custody battle. And now they may have even more trouble on their hands, because grandma was sauced in the backseat of their car, according to Adolf’s mother.
Deborah Campbell, Adolf’s mom, claims the couple was mistreated by Raritan Township police during a traffic stop.
With husband Heath at the wheel and her mother in the backseat, Deborah was headed to family court Jan. 13, when they were pulled over by police at around 10 a.m.
Deborah claimed police referred to him as “the Nazi guy” and quizzed him about his tattoos, one of which is a swastika, according to the Express-Times. She says they also made Heath take a sobriety test after allegedly smelling alcohol in the car.
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Kenyans Riot After Finding Mutilated Victims of Ritual Killings
At least five bodies were found hacked up in a Nairobi shantytown over the weekend, the latest victims of a series of grisly ritual murders that have rocked Kenya.
The mutilated corpses all had similar cuts on their backs, and at least one victim was missing both his hands. Two women had their breasts cut off and the remaining victims, all male, had their genitals removed.
Riots broke out in the notoriously lawless Mukuru kwa Njenga neighborhood Saturday morning, soon after the bodies were discovered. Residents of the sprawling slum marched to a local police station to protest insecurity in the area, where they say murders routinely go unpunished.
Rumors swirled that a suspect, said to be in police custody, had been spotted licking blood from one of the corpses. Rioters demanded the police turn the suspect over to them so that they could mete out vigilante justice.
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Boy’s tongue freezes to pole during dare in Hammond, Ind.
In a scene right out of the movie “A Christmas Story,” a 10-year-old Hammond boy accepted a dare to lick a metal streetlight pole and ended up with his tongue frozen to the pole.
The fourth-grader from Field Elementary School told police a friend dared him to do it around 8:30 Wednesday night in the 3900 block of Hohman Avenue, as the temperature hovered around 10 above.
By the time an ambulance got there, the boy was able to yank his tongue off the frozen pole — most of it, anyway. It was bleeding. The emergency workers showed his “pretty upset” mom how to care for that.
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
He sells daughter for beer & meat:
A California man was arrested for selling his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000 – and a whole lot of beer.
Marcelino de Jesus Martinez, 36, wanted 100 cases of Corona, 50 cases of Modelo, 100 cases of soda and two cases of wine, topped off with six cases of beef.
His daughter was packed off to live with 18-year-old Margarito Galindo, and the two lived as husband and wife.
But Galindo never made good on the marriage contract, so Martinez called the police to report his daughter as a runaway.
Investigators soon unearthed the real story and Martinez was charged with a felony under human-trafficking laws. Galindo could face statutory-rape charges.
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Authorities Take Adolf Hitler, Young Sisters From Parents
Authorities in New Jersey removed 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell and his two young siblings from the care of their parents, according to a published report Tuesday.
The state’s Division of Youth and Family Services took the boy, as well as his sisters — JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 1, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, 9 months — from Heath and Deborah Campbell, according to LehighValleyOnline.com.
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Woman Dies After Sex Orgy
A 41-year-old Long Island woman who had a sex orgy at the posh Kitano Hotel in Manhattan died of a likely drug overdose, the New York Daily News reported.
The woman arrived by limousine to the Park Ave. hotel with a 25-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man hours before she was rushed to the hospital.
Apparently this wasn’t the first wild orgy for the man involved in the party.
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Sydney couple’s ‘bat and maggot’ wedding hell at Peppers Creek in Hunter Valley
FRIENDS, family, fine wine, a $30,000 investment and a year and a half of planning: it should have been the perfect Hunter Valley wedding
But Sydney couple Steve and Leigh Buttel claim unwanted guests – including maggots in their wedding bed and bedroom invasions by bats – turned their wedding into a bride’s worst nightmare.
The couple and family members arrived at Peppers Creek on November 28, a day before the wedding.
They stayed in accommodation known as The Yacht Club and The Racquet Club, which is made up of four separate cottages adjacent to Peppers Creek Village.
By the time the group left three days later, the newlyweds had allegedly found maggots described by the groom as “the size of chocolate bullets” in their wedding bed and a dead bat, covered in maggots, above their bedhead.
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Reply-All E-mail Storm Hits State Department
Many “reply all” fiascos result in mere embarrassment, but American diplomats have been told they may be punished for sending mass responses after an e-mail storm nearly knocked out one of the State Department’s main electronic communications systems.
A cable sent last week to all employees at the department’s Washington headquarters and overseas missions warns of unspecified “disciplinary actions” for using the “reply to all” function on e-mail with large distribution lists.
The cable, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, was prompted by a major interruption in departmental e-mail caused by numerous diplomats hitting “reply all” to an errant message inadvertently addressed and copied to several thousand recipients.
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Madonna targeted by Muslim fanatics over Israel’s attack on Gaza:
Madonna has urgently beefed up her family’s security after being targeted by Muslim fanatics seeking revenge for Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
One Palestinian terrorist chief has threatened to BEHEAD the superstar who is a dedicated member of the Jewish Kabbalah sect.
Madonna is also desperately worried for the safety of her children Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight, and adopted David Banda, three.
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Protesters clash with police as 100,000 strong London Gaza demo descends into violence
Violent clashes occurred between police and around 20,000 protesters outside the Israeli Embassy in London – with an estimated 100,000 protesters airing their views around the city.
Windows were smashed and policemen were injured – with one officer knocked unconscious in the running battles and two requiring treatment for facial injuries.
The protesters – mainly young men – knocked down barriers threw missiles including eggs, red paint, sticks and shoes as 300 officers in full riot gear tried to maintain the peace.
There were reports that some protesters had tried to set fire to police vans.
The violence, which broke out in front of the Israeli Embassy, appeared to be led by a hard-core of masked and hooded youths.
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Personal Submarines – Non-Military Submarines for Backyard Diving
The urge to own and operate your personal submarine has long been a nearly impossible dream. For a century, subs have found widespread use as research and military platforms, but a market for leisure craft has remained elusive. Lately these watercraft have found a niche as playthings for the wealthy: A megayacht without a submarine is like an RV without a Weber grill. Russian oil billionaire Roman Abramovich has a two-man sub aboard his 377-ft yacht Pelorus, while Paul Allen’s 413-ft $450 million Octopus sports a 10-passenger model. Of course, with the worldwide supply of such billionaires a bit depressed at the moment, most personal-sub makers are hoping simply to hold on until the next economic upturn. If the high-end market can survive, technology and design developments might make these vehicles available to a lower tax bracket.
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Zimbabwe troops ‘eat elephants’:
Zimbabwean soldiers are being given elephant meat for their rations, a wildlife campaigner has told the BBC.
Jonny Rodrigues from the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said that several soldiers had complained to him that was the only meat they were given.
Zimbabwe is believed to have some 100,000 elephants – more than its parks can sustainably hold and its economy is in freefall.
The defence ministry has not yet commented on the reports.
Mr Rodrigues said that the use of elephant meat began last June but has recently increased.
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Starved to death in an NHS hospital: Damning inquiry highlights case of patient left without food for 26 days
A vulnerable patient starved to death in an NHS hospital after 26 days without proper nourishment. Martin Ryan, 43, had suffered a stroke which left him unable to swallow. But a ‘total breakdown in communication’ meant he was never fitted with a feeding tube. It was one of a number of horrific cases where the NHS fatally failed patients with learning difficulties, a health watchdog is expected to rule later this month.
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Hamas Reinstates Crucifixions of Christians:
While the world focused on Hamas militants launching rockets from Gaza at southern Israel, the terrorist organization also voted quietly to implement Islamic law in the Gaza Strip, including crucifixion of Christians, according to reports in the Arabic press.
The traditional Muslim criminal code, known as Sharia law, includes penalties such as amputation of limbs for stealing and the death penalty, including crucifixion, for actions Hamas deems detrimental to “Palestinian interests,” including collaborating with Israel.
The new law was reported on the Al-Arabiya Web site and in the London-based Saudi-owned newspaper Al-Hayat, which wrote that the implementation of Sharia law has “brought criticism and concern from human rights organizations in the Gaza Strip.”
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it:
A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye, authorities said Friday.
Andre Thomas told officers he ate it.
Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant’s death.
While in the Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Thomas similarly had plucked out his right eye before his trial later in 2004. A judge subsequently ruled he was competent to stand trial.
A death-row officer at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice found Thomas in his cell with blood on his face and had him taken to the unit infirmary.
“”Thomas said he pulled out his eye and subsequently ingested it,” agency spokesman Jason Clark said Friday.
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Lover’s spat led to tip that got pair arrested
They had actually gotten away with it, until he called police.
It’s a case of revenge gone wrong, where a man’s attempt to land his former girlfriend in jail could result in jail time for him as well.
The act of supposed revenge started with a call in September to Crime Stoppers, the nonprofit organization that offers cash for tips. The man called the local tip line, saying he had information about the November 2007 theft of a motorized scooter worth $1,000 from the basement of Wilz Drug Store at 140 E. Cook St.
While tipsters who call the Crime Stoppers tip line automatically remain anonymous, they can choose to identify themselves to law enforcement if they so desire.
In this case, the caller wanted to reveal himself. He left his phone number.
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Hoarder Dies After Becoming Lost in Maze of His Own Trash
An eccentric loner in Britain hoarded so much trash he had to burrow through it to get around his home — then got lost in the maze of tunnels Friday and died of thirst. Human mole Gordon Stewart, 74, had filled his rooms up to the ceiling with 10 years’ worth of garbage and clutter, making it impossible to walk around. The compulsive hoarder is believed to have become disorientated inside the walls of rotting trash and unable to find a way out — then collapsed with dehydration.
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Family of 69 live in one street
The Hall family have come to dominate Cotswold Gardens in Lobley Hill, Gateshead, since Catherine Hall first settled in the street in 1958. The 76-year-old matriarch held her dynasty together until she died last month. During her life Mrs Hall had six children, who went on to give her 35 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The 69-strong clan now occupy more than 15 houses along the street, ranging from four-week-old Ellie to great uncle Jo, 76. Between them they have more than 50 pets, including four parrots, 30 chickens, 11 dogs, two goldfish and four horses. If you include the 160 racing pigeons, there are almost 300 mouths to feed.
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Angry Man Plants Nails in Neighbors’ Driveways
A frustrated man sought revenge on his neighbors in a unique manner: He planted nails at the ends of their driveways so their tires would bust whenever they pulled in or out. How cruel. Apparently this guy’s been booby-trapping driveways since 2006, according to the Journal News. That’s even crueler. Four people – two in Stony Point and two in Haverstraw – have called in more than 40 complaints over the last two years
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
When Pandas Attack
Officials at the Beijing Zoo are considering changes to keep visitors away from Gu Gu the panda.
For the third time, the panda has attacked a visitor who climbed into its space. Officials say a man climbed a nearly five foot barrier to retrieve a toy dropped by his 5-year-old son.
A spokeswoman says Gu Gu, which weighs 240 pounds, clamped down on the intruder’s leg and refused to let go. Zookeepers had to use tools to pry open the animal’s jaws.
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Four-year-old shoots babysitter who ’stood on his foot’
A four-year-old boy grabbed a gun and shot his babysitter after the teenager accidentally stepped on the child’s foot.
Police said Nathan Beavers, 18, and several other teenagers were looking after a number of young children at a mobile home in Jackson, Ohio, when the shooting occurred.
The child, identified by local media as Ethan Crisp, was apparently angry after Mr Beavers trod on his foot, witnesses said, and stormed off to his bedroom saying he was going to get a gun. Those present assumed he was going to fetch a toy.
But the toddler reappeared clasping a shotgun taken from a bedroom cupboard and fired at Mr Beavers.
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Army Sends ‘Dear John Doe’ Letters to Families of Fallen Troops
The Army mistakenly sent letters addressed “Dear John Doe” to 7,000 family members of soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, unleashing calls from troubled relatives and prompting a formal apology yesterday from the Army’s top general.
“The indication that anyone would perceive that a hero is not significant, that they would not direct this personally to them, is shattering,” said Merrilee Carlson, whose son, Sgt. Michael Carlson, died in Baqubah, Iraq, on Jan. 24, 2005. “While it’s a simple mistake, it’s a very tragic mistake,” said Carlson, who learned of the letter from other families and expected to receive one yesterday.
The letters, mailed late last month by the Army’s Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Operation Center in Alexandria, contained information about private organizations that assist families of the fallen. But in what the Army called a printing error by a contractor, the letters did not contain specific names and addresses; instead, they had the placeholder greeting “Dear John Doe.”
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
15-Foot Swastika Etched Into Pond
Someone carved a 225-square foot swastika into a pond on a New York/New Jersey border – and police want to find out who did it.
People who live near the Suffern/Mahwah border found the 15-foot by 15-foot anti-Semitic symbol surrounded by two smaller ones carved into the ice at the Foxwood Pond Wednesday morning, according to the Journal News.
It looks like whoever did it used a snow shovel to engrave the hateful sketches into the ice at the pond where locals often come to ice skate. Aside from the swastikas, the carver also etched something that looked like male private parts into the ice, reported the Journal News.
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Students Startled After Deer Jump Into School
Officials at a Hamilton Township school are hoping for a return to normal Tuesday, a day after class was disrupted by two deer leaping through a window. Pastor Lance Walker of the Faith Baptist School says the deer jumped into a teacher’s supply room Monday morning, startling three students and a teacher who were working on a lesson.
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Citgo Suspends Free Heating Oil Program for Low-Income Residents
Citgo has suspended its free heating oil program for low-income residents, Citizens Energy Chairman Joseph Kennedy announced Monday.
Kennedy said the Venezuelan government’s Texas-based oil subsidiary cited falling oil prices and the world economic crisis for forcing the company to reevaluate all of its social programs, including the heating oil program aimed at 400,000 households in 16 states.
The program, started in 2005 with Citizens Energy, a nonprofit headed by Kennedy, sent 100 gallons of free oil a year to eligible households.
“It remains unclear how long this postponement, if it is one, will last,” Kennedy said in a statement on the Citizens Energy Web site. “All of us at Citizens Energy continue to do everything we can to advocate for a continuation of this vital assistance.”
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Terrorists could use ‘insect-based’ biological weapon
Jeffrey Lockwood, professor of entomology at Wyoming University and author of Six-legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, said such Rift Valley Fever or other diseases could be transported into a country by a terrorist with a suitcase.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think a small terrorist cell could very easily develop an insect-based weapon.”
He said it would “probably be much easier” than developing a nuclear or chemical weapon, arguing: “The raw material is in the back yard.”
He continued: “It would be a relatively easy and simple process. “A few hundred dollars and a plane ticket and you could have a pretty good stab at it.”
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Swedish bestiality ring exposed
A Swedish newspaper has exposed a network of self-proclaimed zoophiles who meet regularly in locations around the country to have sex with animals.
The group, consisting of an estimated thirty people, is headed by a 45-year-old father of two, Expressen reports. The unmarried former managing director is also moderator of a large internet animal sex forum and has a number of dogs and horses on his farm in southern Sweden.
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
4-Year-Old Found Dismembered in Fridge of Man Who Reportedly Called Human Flesh ‘Delicious’
The dismembered body of a 4-year-old girl was found in the fridge of a Chinese recluse who reportedly once said human flesh was “delicious.” Police in Guangzhou city found the remains of the child, Li Lingli, after her grandmother spotted blood outside the apartment of a migrant worker, Agence France-Presse reported. Li disappeared Friday, prompting a police search of all 50 rental apartments in the living compound.
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Bayonet-armed man in WW2 garb killed by police
A man dressed in a World War II German military uniform was shot several times by Seattle police when he pointed a bayonet-style military rifle at officers during a bizarre incident early Thursday morning.
The 22-year-old man died of his injuries hours later at the hospital.
Police were initially called to the scene in the 5200 block of 17th Avenue NE, at about 1:55 a.m. when a neighbor called to report gunshots fired in a back alley, said Seattle police spokesman Jeffrey Kappel.
The neighbor said he saw about five men dressed in dark clothing and military uniforms – one with a rifle, another with a shotgun – firing their weapons. The suspects fled when he called police.
“I saw the one subject with a shotgun fire three shots into the air,” the neighbor, who wished to remain anonymous, told KOMO News.
Seattle police and a SWAT team responded, and the suspects fled.
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