[RT] A woman in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh kidnapped her former lover at gunpoint and bundled him into a car just moments before he was due to be wed.
The unnamed woman reportedly burst into the wedding venue accompanied by three gunnies and bundled her ex-boyfriend Ashok Yadav into a waiting SUV before he could say his vows on Monday night.
"The gunnies took Ashok at gunpoint and threatened him to accompany them. After bundling him on the rear seat of a car, they sped away," the Times of India quotes a police official as saying.
It’s reported Yadav met the woman while the pair were working at a medical clinic in the town of Banda. They dated for a while and had even agreed to marry before Yadav began avoiding her when his parents arranged a marriage to another woman in a neighboring town.
The spurned woman allegedly became furious when her beloved cut contact with her and hatched the plan for Dire Revenge.
All might not be as it seems, however.
Investigating police believe that the kidnapping was staged and are trying to locate the pair of star-crossed lovers.
"How can a woman kidnap a grown man in front of so many people? Nobody tried to stop them or save the groom. In reality, the man willingly went away with the girl," police told the Times of India.
Police have locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! Yadav’s brother, as well as a number of photographers, in connection with the case.
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Dogs have a surprising ability to make humans understand what their barks and growls mean, a study has shown. And everyone was just so surprised.
Women were better than men at recognizing when a dog was being playful or threatening, or feeling fear, scientists discovered. And anyone who has been around dogs or other animals for a period of time could have told you the same damn thing. How much was this study again?
For the study, 40 volunteers listened to different growls recorded from 18 dogs that were guarding their food, facing a threatening stranger, or playing a tug-of-war game. My cat is actually slightly more articulate than the dogs. I've never had a cat that talked that much. The dogs use more body language than he does, but they don't hit me up for money as often.
Overall, participants correctly classified 63 per cent of the growl samples - significantly more than would be expected by guesswork alone, said the researchers. I'm guessing sixty three percent translate as "give me food." No idea what the rest of it is.
Each growl type was also recognized above chance level. The human listeners identified 81 per cent of the "play" growls but were less good at recognizing food guarding and threatening growls. If you have two dogs in the house you WILL recognize that one
Dr Tamas Farago and his team from Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary wrote in the journal Royal Society Open Science: "Participants associated the correct contexts with the growls above chance. If you were trying to take a nap or a bath they're usually saying "Boss! Boss! There's somebody out front!"
"Moreover, women and participants experienced with dogs scored higher in this task." No shit....
Kinda like saying someone that has been around lots of guns can identify different guns by their report, or a bird watcher can identify different birds by their calls...
How much was this study again?
During play, dogs produced a larger number of shorter, less separated, growls than when they were aggressive or fearful, the research showed. Play growls and food guarding growls also had distinctively different pitch characteristics. There's a particular snarl that sez "I'm gonna rip your throat out if you don't get away from my bowl! That's not far enough away!"
As well as identifying growl contexts, the volunteers also had to rate growls on a sliding scale according to five emotional states - aggression, fear, despair, happiness and playfulness. "Despair?" You mean like when doggy's been left at the vet?
Context had a "significant effect" on reading dog emotions, said the scientists. Playful growls were rated lowest for aggression, and food guarding growls highest. Context has a significant effect with human language as well.
The scientists concluded: "Our results ... indicate that dogs communicate honestly their size and inner state in serious contest situations, where confrontation would be costly, such as during guarding of their food from another dog. At the same time, in contexts with assumedly more uncertain inner states, such as in play or when threatened by a stranger, they may manipulate certain key parameters in their growls for an exaggerated aggressive and playful expression. How prominently fangs are shown is a part of it. If Phideau has ripped open the garbage and gorged himself on chicken bones and rotting corned beef hash you might hear a particular kind of whine that translates as "The cat told me it was okay! Please don't hit me again!"
"According to our results, adult humans seem to understand and respond accordingly to this acoustic information during cross-species interactions with dogs." As with any animal species we spend a great deal of time with.
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How many dogs dropped out of the study? Hilarious comments from people who obviously understand dogs. For those who like to read scientific urinals, the entire study is: Here.
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I'm just wishing some of the dogs around my house were better at communicating "I need to go out and pee!" Or maybe just knowing more that 10 seconds before critical arrives.
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ed in Texas: Maybe you could teach them critters to hold up one finger or two.
[RT] The British Ambassador to Austria, Leigh Turner, was injured trying to escape from a group of rampaging wild boar when he slipped trying to climb to safety.
Her Majesty’s ambassador had been enjoying a walk through the Austrian countryside, following a visit to Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz, when he stumbled upon a family of wild boar.
Leigh suffered the indignity of being chased by a particularly fearsome beast. He sustained minor injuries to his hand in the pursuit, which he described rather eloquently in his blog post ’An encounter with a Viennese wild boar.’
"Climbing through the woods after a cloudburst, I follow the path around a corner to find myself confronting a group of wild boar - four or five hulking adults and countless piglets - known, charmingly, as Frischlinge in German," the blog reads.
Turner began to gingerly walk away from the notoriously territorial animals when suddenly he heard "a noise behind [him] like a galloping horse" and turned around to see a "massive wild boar, head down charging straight at [him]."
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Aye mate, how'd they get in?
They immigrated from the Vienna Woods
[RT] Disney has removed a children’s mug from its stores and destroyed current stocks of the product after a seven-year-old girl got her tongue trapped in its lid for more than four hours. Doctors used a hacksaw to free Megan Donald’s mouth from the mug.
A terrifying thought.
The mug in question, a Monsters Inc-branded screw-top, sucked in Megan’s tongue through its spout while the child was attending school in Kirkintilloch, Glasgow on Wednesday.
When it was clear Megan’s tongue was stuck, an ambulance was called and whisked the child to A&E. Images shared with RT show her tongue swollen and purple.
"They have offered to send Megan some Disney store products but I declined," her mother Natalie told RT following the ordeal.
The base of the cup was eventually removed,
Eventually??
relieving Megan of the weight of a full mug, before a hacksaw and drill was used to remove the lid ending an ordeal estimated to have lasted four hours.
Natalie Donald said the accident was due to the mug’s spout being too large, with no valve allowing airflow while drinking.
The Disney Store told BBC that the mug, and a further three similar models, were withdrawn from stock in store and online. Mugs already in circulation will not be recalled, something that concerns Mrs Donald who said she was "disappointed" with how Disney has handled the issue.
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Kids do the darnedest things! Pretty sure almost any fire department could tell some amazing stories.
The headline, however, seems to imply some form of Wahhabi punishment.
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Jeebus four hours? Hacksaw? Hope that is a translation error; nobody had a dremel?
[RT] Infant mortality and other health issues in the East London borough of Redbridge have been linked to a proliferation of marriages between first and second cousins among south Asian families.
The Redbridge Council was informed by the government’s Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) that "consanguineous relationships" between couples who are at least second cousins caused 19 percent of an estimated two hundred infant deaths between 2008 and 2016.
"Genetic and congenital abnormalities" had caused the deaths, a meeting of the council’s Health and Wellbeing Board was told.
The Ilford Recorder, a local newspaper, reported that Gladys Xavier, who chairs the CDOP, informed the council that "educational programs" have been launched in Asian communities in response to the figures.
Xavier said schools have been asked to "put greater emphasis on genetics" in order to inform students about the health risks associated with marrying their cousins.
Cllr Joyce Ryan of the Redbridge Council told the meeting that some communities find it very "difficult to accept" the educational initiatives.
Vicky Stobart, Redbridge’s director of public health, told the Recorder: "Consanguinity is very common in many cultures and the worry with something like this is that we are dealing with very small numbers.
"It is important to note trends, but we should not read too much into it."
Consanguineous marriages are legal in the UK. It is estimated that up to 40 percent of marriages in Egypt are between at least second cousins, according to research carried out in 2016.
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Well JohnQC. Considering that marriage between cousins account for only 19% of the child deaths. That leaves 81% of the child deaths to account for, I'm sure that "honor Killings" account for part of the remaining child deaths. I suppose that forcible marriages is also a factor in some of the child deaths. Then there's lack of vaccinations and hard labor in dangerous jobs using child labors, etc.. There really doesn't seems to be a limit on the number of ways to kill a child in East London Borough!
[ELUNIVERSAL] Article 3 of the Official Gazette, Special Edition number 6,298, released on May 13, the Executive Office may issue decrees "in the social, economic, political and legal order deemed as appropriate under the circumstances, in accordance with articles 337, 338 and 339 of the Constitution, with a view to solving the extraordinary and exceptional situation which is the purpose of this decree and preventing the extension of its effects."
Pursuant to Article 337 of the Venezuelan Constitution, "the civil liberties enshrined herein may be temporarily restricted, except for the liberties referred to the right to life, prohibition of solitary confinement or torture, the right to due process, the right to information and other intangible human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... The rationale behind the new decree on state of emergency includes "the extraordinary circumstances in the social, economic and political order that have an impact on the constitutional order, social peace, security of the Nation, public institutions and residents of the Republic."
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[SCMP] South Korean President Moon Jae-in warned on Wednesday there was a "high possibility" of military festivities with North Korea as tensions mount over Pyongyang’s weapons ambitions.
Moon, who was sworn in last week, warned the North’s nuclear and rocket programmes were "advancing rapidly", days after Pyongyang launched what appeared to be its longest-range missile yet.
"I will never tolerate the North’s provocations and nuclear threats," he said on a visit to the defence ministry, urging the South’s military to adopt a "watertight defence posture".
"We are living in the reality where there is a high possibility of military festivities" along the disputed sea border off the Koreas’ west coast or along the heavily fortified land frontier that divides them, Moon said.
The president made his remarks after his country’s unification ministry suggested talks with the North should resume.
"Our most basic stance is that communication lines between South and North Korea should open," said Lee Duk-haeng, a front man for the ministry. "The unification ministry has considered options on this internally but nothing has been decided yet."
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Moved to P.3: Non-WoT based on subsequent reports that Richard Rojas chose a particularly nasty way to fail at suicide by cop. Sadly, War on Terror is the correct first assumption for such things nowadays.
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Descriptions of vehicle attempt to avoid barriers and make it into the pedestrian mall. That's a red flag
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Drunk Hispanic
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Police say two-time drunk driving convict Richard Rojas tried to flee the scene once his maroon Honda crashed against a stanchion at Broadway and W. 45 Street.
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[NATION.PK] The Islamabad High Court Tuesday framed charges against Raja Khurram Ali and his wife Maheen Zafar in Taiba torture case.
A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... conducted hearing of the case and decided to indict both of the accused in this case. Both the accused pleaded non-guilty.
The bench also turned down an application of Additional District and Sessions Judge and now OSD Raja Khurram and his wife challenging their indictment.
The court announced this verdict which had been reserved on May 10 regarding indictment of the accused or to accept the affidavits submitted by Taiba’s parents where they had pardoned the accused and expressed their desire not to continue with the litigation.
In its judgment, Justice Kayani rejected the application of Raja Khurram and his wife where they had challenged their indictment. The bench also expressed its reservations over the affidavits submitted by Taiba’s parents and said that these affidavits seem to be prepared under pressure.
Justice Kayani also said that Muhammad Azam, father of Taiba Bibi, appeared before the court and acknowledged his affidavit of compromise executed on April 27, 2017 in favour of Maheen Zafar and Raja Khurram Ali Khan. He acknowledged the contents of affidavit regarding factum of compromise with the accused and has no objection if accused will be acquitted from such charges.
Later, the court adjourned the hearing in this matter till May 19 when witnesses will be examined. There are total 19 witnesses in this case where 11 witnesses are officials while eight are private persons. Among officials there included an assistant commissioner who recorded Taiba’s statement, doctors who performed medical check-up and investigation officer of this case. Among private witnesses there included Taiba’s parents and neighbours of Raja Khurram Ali Khan etc.
Previously, Taiba’s father had stated before the court that he is ready to reconcile or compromise in this matter and if the court acquits the accused he has not objections.
The counsel for Raja Khurram Ali Khan had been arguing in this matter that under the law if the victim is a juvenile then his guardian has the powers to sign compromise on victim’s behalf and under the alleged crime that there can be reconciliation.
An additional district & sessions judge (ADSJ) and now OSD Raja Khurram Ali Khan his wife Maheen Zafar are accused in this matter for allegedly torturing a juvenile housemaid Taiba and keeping her in the illegal confinement.
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[DAWN] RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: Two girls were allegedly kidnapped by two individuals and later raped in a hotel in Saddar.
The aunt of one of the victims said in her FIR that her niece, who resided with her, went to a nearby shop on Monday with a friend to buy groceries. They were standing along the side of the road when a black car with two passengers stopped near them and identified themselves as police. They told the victims they seemed suspicious and wanted to investigate them at the cop shoppe.
One of the victims said in the FIR that they were driven to a hotel in Saddar where they were sexually assaulted by two individuals who then left, and then by another two individuals who left after locking them in the room.
Saddar Bairooni SHO Malik Rafaqat said two girls were kidnapped and later raped. He claimed that the suspects might be police officials and the incident was being investigated.
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[DAWN] A six-year-old girl, who went missing on Monday after stepping out of her home in North Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , was found dead in the Manghopir area in the early hours of Tuesday, police said.
A post-mortem examination of her body showed that the little girl was raped before being murdered.
The body was spotted in bushes in Manghopir hours after her parents had approached the police to trace her. The parents, residents of Nooruddin Goth in North Karachi, had told the police that they had failed to find her. She had gone out in the afternoon but never returned, they complained.
Later in the early hours of Tuesday, the police found the body in Manghopir. "The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination. We then called the complainants from North Karachi to the hospital where they identified her," said Manghopir SHO Inspector Haji Sanaullah.
Initial findings of the post-mortem examination at the hospital indicated that the girl was "murdered after sexual assault", said the SHO.
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[RT] An Indonesian Islamic court has sentenced two young men to 85 strokes of a cane each for having sexual relations, marking the first time the penalty for homosexuality has been used in the conservative Aceh province.
The couple, aged 20 and 23, will both face the strokes in a public caning after being found guilty of breaking strict Sharia regulations against homosexuality.
"The defendants are proven to have committed sodomy and are found guilty," Rooters quotes the presiding judge in the Banda Aceh court, Khairil Jamal, as saying in a statement.
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Haram is this sharing of willies!
Delightful to Allah as lilies
Is keeping it normal,
A little more formal...
Hold hands as you're both bonking billies.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[RT] A woman in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh kidnapped her former lover at gunpoint and bundled him into a car just moments before he was due to be wed.
Dogs have a surprising ability to make humans understand what their barks and growls mean, a study has shown.
[RT] The British Ambassador to Austria, Leigh Turner, was injured trying to escape from a group of rampaging wild boar when he slipped trying to climb to safety.
[RT] Disney has removed a children’s mug from its stores and destroyed current stocks of the product after a seven-year-old girl got her tongue trapped in its lid for more than four hours. Doctors used a hacksaw to free Megan Donald’s mouth from the mug.
[RT] Infant mortality and other health issues in the East London borough of Redbridge have been linked to a proliferation of marriages between first and second cousins among south Asian families.
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