A British businesswoman is facing six years in a Dubai jail after she was allegedly caught having sex on a beach.
Michelle Palmer, 30, a publishing firm manager, says that she is “panicking” after being arrested by a police officer who saw her with a man on Jumeirah Beach in the tiny oil-rich state.
It has been reported that she was charged with having sex outside marriage, indecent behaviour in public, being drunk in public and assaulting a police officer.
Ms Palmer is said to be worried that the authorities will push for the harshest possible sentence to make an example of her behaviour.
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I'd usually say "when in Rome", unfortunately she wasn't there.
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The rest of the airport's not much better - 80 out of 1,000 bags on connecting flights from T5 do not get to their plane, against an average of 65-70 bags for the rest of the airport.
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The baggage boys here are slipping - just got back from a trip to NY and none of my or my family's luggage was lost or damage either direction. Of course two of the suitcases are patched with duct tape after an encounter with Heathrow 4 years ago.
Posted by: Menhaden S ||
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Clearly carry-on is the way to go. Pack light, ladies and gentlemen, and do lots of laundry in the hotel sink.
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It's that longstanding British tradition of poor service delivered personally, AS.
(And no, don't ask about our last trip to Britain. I didn't think service standards could have slipped much since the previous one. I was wrong -- except for the eastern Europeans working as waitresses.)
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Got back from London last week with my extended family and not a bag was lost in either direction. I don't know if we went through Terminal 5 but I do know they've got a nice little Pub in Heathrow that makes waiting for a plan much more pleasant.
With all the brutal luggage handlers around may I suggest that you watch the Hippies and the Homeless and carefully observe what they use for luggage...
Well the most elegant but trusty Hippie Luggage is the Heavy-Duty-Black-TRASH-BAG lashed together with LIBERAL AMOUNTS of Duct Tape.
Yep It's So Useful and Repairable that I still use them today! AND they are a Fashion Statement!
Although '20/20 vision' is a requirement of the position at St Mary's airport on the Isles of Scilly, the application form is offered in both Braille and audio format.
But the operators of the airport say they are merely adhering to equal opportunity guidelines to avoid accusations of discrimination.
The airport, operated by the Council of the Isles of Scilly, is seeking a fourth air traffic controller and offering a salary of up to £36,000.
The advertisement states that applicants must have excellent vision in order to guide aircraft safely into the hilltop airport, which is often fogbound.
Yet at the bottom is the note: "If you require this document in an alternative language, in larger text, Braille, easy read or in an audio format, please contact the Community Relations Officer."
A spokeswoman for the Council of the Isles of Scilly said the wording was included on all job adverts "to ensure that potential job applicants know that they can access information in a format to suit them."
All air traffic controllers have to meet international standards and pass a medical, including a stringent eye test.
However, the move was applauded by Bill Alker, from the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
"We welcome the Isles of Scilly's Council for their good practice and would hope more employers do the same," he said.
Keri Jones, the controller of Radio Scilly, said the note had attracted widespread ridicule.
"We have had loads of calls about it and people generally find it quite funny," she said.
"The islands are always at the cutting edge of innovation, so it would certainly be something for Scilly to have the world's first blind air traffic controller."
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Is the UK turning into one giant Monty Python skit?
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Reminds me of an old joke:
Airline passengers were aghast when they saw the pilot coming down the gangway with dark glasses and a red and white cane. Worse yet, the co-pilot had a seeing eye dog. Nonetheless, the plane taxied out to the runway and started to take off. As they approached the end of the runway, the passengers screamed in terror. At the last minute, the plane took off.
The pilot turned to the co-pilot and said "You know, Bob, one of these days they're not going to scream loud enough, and we're all going to die".
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Was she standing on her head when it hit her?
That violates every law of physics that I know of that relates to electricity. Weird.
The odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are one in 500,000, according to WBZ meteorologist Mish Michaels. But over a lifetime, they're one in 5,000.
Is this guy saying that 600 people a year get struck by lighning?!? That seems like alot. Is that in the US? or Worldwide?
AN elderly Indonesian woman famed nationwide for supernatural skills in lengthening penises has died.
Reclusive Mak Erot, famed for penis extension treatment incorporating traditional herbs and Islamic prayer, died last week in Caringin village on the western coast of Java island, the Kompas newspaper website reported today.
Mak Erot - who reports aged anywhere from 101 to over 130 - prompted legions of imitations of her famous clinics, many using her famously craggy and birthmarked face to lure in anxious men.
While her legacy has been closely guarded by male descendents intent on maintaining the purity of the treatment, Mak Erot has become a pop-culture icon in everything from advertisements to teenage romantic comedy films.
Reports of he death prompted a flurry of bemused online comments from internet users in the world's largest Muslim-majority country.
User "Jengkol" wrote on news website Detikcom: "Oh no, I didn't have the chance to go to Mak Erot and now she's dead. I'll just have to buy a vacuum. Maybe that could be the solution to my problem."
Apparently to some. From the City Hall Blog at the Dallas Morning News:
A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon. County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.
Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.
Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole." That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.
Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term.
Judge Jones should be very glad that the central collections office has not become a white hole, a theoretical object that ejects matter from beyond its event horizon, rather than sucking it in. It wouldn't be fun for Dallas to find itself so near a quasar.
Anyone wanting to know a good deal about black holes should read the excellent new book, The Black Hole War, by Leonard Susskind, which has just been released. I'm in the middle of it, and the book's a fascinating tour of modern physics written for the layman. It's just been marvelous so far.
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Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole."
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Judge Thomas Jones, (Affirmative) Action Hero and, undoubtedly, a pass-through attendee of our public school system, demonstrates basic ignorance of widely known and used scientific term/commonly understood metaphore.......
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Knew an old guy that retired from the Army as a commercial diver. He said it got so bad before he left that you couldn't even call one of those big paper tablets on a tripod a "flip chart" without pissing off all the Filipinos in the room. It's a chalk board now, not a black board. Women plumbers in NYC made the terms Ball Valve and Stopcock verboten, and I'm not even getting warmed up yet.
I have no respect left for 90% of the population and I don't think it's my fault.
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Price & Jones thought Mayfield was saying 'ho' and not 'hole' - accents are a cultural thing.
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yeah, and that little spot of front that the pilots sit cannot be called a cockpit anymore either. don't want to get sinktrapped for what it is called with an all female flight crew, however......(but it's name is also the place where you get tickets to a play)
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Me thinks there may be a lot of African Americans at the central Collections office.
However, Commissioner Price and Judge Jones, Rantburgers are up to the challenge of more racial sensitivity.
Here are name changes as a start:
Whiteberry - a hand held electronic device
White and Decker - power tools
Whitejack - a game of chance
Whitepool - a English beach resort
White Angus - cattle or restaurant chain
White Sabbath - rock band
White Gold - Oil, can be confused with jewelery
Whitewater - civilian security contractor, can be confused with river condition
Whiteout - power outage, can be confused with snow condition or correction fluid
"I'm a ho, yes I'm a ho!
And I don't mind tellin' you so!
I'm a jigger hi and I'm a jigger low!
I'm a jigger, I'm a n*gger!
And I don't mind tellin' you so!
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Borgboy sez after twenty years i can't get this drek out of my mind! BTW the name of this "song" was "Hey, Hey, We Want Some P*uuuuusssssay!"
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I am a Dallasite. Price and Jones are "old school" African-American politicians. Price has been county commisioner from an Aftican American section of Dallas that thinks the more intimidating thier representative is towards other races, the better. Thus, Price has been a commissioner forever.
Actually, much different than Obama, which is why they could never get anywhere in Politics (just like "Old School African American" Reverand Jesse Jackson was too crass and confrentational to be a viable Presidential candidate).
Word was Price kept an Uzzi machine gun in his car. During a protest against "blue eyed, lilly white" Dallasites as he called them (and he is now offended by Black Hole???), he kicked down a beat a white jogger who "got too close" to the demonstration.
They've been quite for a while around here, but, these morons think that now a black man is making a serious bid for the highest office in the land that they now have the license to intimidate white's like they did "back in the day" when they were younger local black politicians.
What they don't realize if they don't shut up this will HURT O'Bama in the long run, not help him, just like it torpedoed thier aspirations "back in the day".
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P.S.
The reason Price didn't do serious time for beating down the white jogger was that during the assault trial, a major supermarket center in the predominately white North Dallas area was torched, brazzenly, during peak shopping hours, yet no one saw who did it. Word was put out on the street that if Price went down all of North Dallas would burn. The cowards in the Dallas justice system caved in.
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Obama should whitelist these politicians so they don't whiten his chance of getting elected.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Apparently to some. From the City Hall Blog at the Dallas Morning News:
