A man caught near Nobbys Beach with his penis in a pasta sauce jar led police on a 20 kmh car chase, Newcastle Local Court heard yesterday.
Police drew their weapons when they suspected Keith Roy Weatherley, 46, was armed. Instead, they found him partially clothed with his genitals in a jar, a police statement said.
Weatherley, of Promontory Way, North Arm Cove, attracted attention parked in a no-stopping zone before noon on October 26. Police believed Weatherley was doing something with his hands in his lap and thought that he might have a weapon. Weatherley saw the police and drove away, despite them flashing their lights.
The chase lasted five to 10 minutes, with a top speed of just 20 kmh, before Weatherley was stopped at Centenary Drive, Newcastle. He refused to leave the car. Four officers used batons and capsicum spray to remove him.
They found a 750-millilitre jar around his penis and noted that Weatherley attempted to continue "pleasuring himself in between bouts of wrestling".
A search of his car uncovered pornography, a home-made sex aid, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier.
Weatherley pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction. Magistrate Elaine Truscott asked Weatherley, who represented himself, why he behaved the way he did. He said he resisted police because he was trying to make himself "decent".
He was fined $600 for offensive behaviour and convicted of the other two offences without further action taken.
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Don't be judgemental. I mean, let he who has not pleasured themselves with a pasta sauce jar throw the first stone. My guess is that this would be a meat sauce..now
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A Chinese college student who wanted to hug a panda bear climbed into its pen, but instead of getting a cuddle he was mauled by the animal, officials said.
The student ignored warning signs cautioning visitors to not climb over the panda cage fences at the Qixing Park Zoo in Guilin, China, hopping into a the bear's pen Friday, the state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.
Officials said the panda, named Yangyang, was frightened by the 20-year-old's attempts to hug it and responded by inflicting multiple bites on the student, identified only as Liu. The young man sustained injuries to his arms and legs and was said to be recovering after an operation.
"Yangyang was so cute and I just wanted to cuddle him," Liu told Xinhua at the No. 2 People's Hospital in Guilin Saturday. "I didn't expect he would attack I don't remember how many bites I got."
Yangyang is a male, 8-year-old panda. The incident apparently didn't affect the panda because it was back to eating and playing as normal shortly after the incident, officials said.
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"The young man...was said to be recovering after an operation."
Brain transplant, I hope.
Ignorant college students--taste like chicken!
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Reminds me of a tidbit I saw many many years ago on teevee and which stuck in my mind, about a would-be photographer going into the panda cage to take a picture, and having the male charge him, and bite his genitalia off. I hate it when that happens.
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It was 11 degrees Farenheit here in east Tenneesse this morning, an all-time record low. We've had record lows all week, snow twice, and are supposed to have record lows all next week. Global Warming my ass!
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The buzzing city of Dubai shrugged off any signs of a credit crunch on Thursday and shelled out a whopping $20 million to launch what local press labeled the "party of the decade."
The exclusive bash was in honor of Dubai's latest luxury hotel Atlantis and brought together 2,000 world celebrities and Middle East royalty for a concert, gourmet dinner, massive fireworks display and a trendy after party.
"Marvel, as the Palm Island illuminates," said Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra--dressed as the 'Goddess of Atlantis'--as she introduced the spectacular fireworks show that set alight the world's only man-made island.
"The fireworks show was a world-record event and I think it exceeded expectations and set the standard for future events in Dubai," a spokesperson of local developer Nakheel told AlArabiya.net, adding the event was "a significant milestone in Dubai's history."
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License plate numbers that may be snapped up by terrorist sympathizers have been banned in the U.K. They are among hundreds of potentially offensive plates spotted by licensing chiefs.
O54MA (Osama), HO57AGE (hostage), BU58OMB (bus bomb), MA56ACA (massacre), and HE58OLA (Hezbollah) will not be issued by the department of motor vehicles. Anything including JIHAD or HAMAS is also out.
Other plates on a black list drawn up by a secret panel are thought provocative on religious grounds or likely to spark racial hatred. They include MO56LEM (Moslem), anything with the letters KORAN or JESUS, GA55OVN (gas oven) and GOO5TEP (goosestep).
Plates like BOO4ZYY (boozy) are banned to discourage drunk driving. And SEX is not allowed. A spokesman for the Swansea-based Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency said: Every number is checked to ensure it doesnt cause offense.
Lib Dem transport spokesman Norman Baker, who obtained the list under Freedom of Information laws, said: "Some combinations would be deeply offensive. But its over the top to ban words about booze and sex. Its a bit nanny state."
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So from now on if you see a plate that offends you, you should be able to collect damages in court. Since the govt. has failed to protect your fragile little psyche.
The researchers took the Chinese version of Wikipedia, extracted individual words and used a mathematical technique called latent semantic analysis to work out the relationships between different words. If one of the words was censored within China, they could look up which other closely related words are likely to be blocked as well.
Examples of words tested by the researchers and found to be banned included references to the Falun Gong movement and the protest movements of 1989; Nazi Germany and other historical events; and general concepts related to democracy and political protest.
"Imagine you want to remove the history of the Wounded Knee massacre from the Library of Congress," Crandall said. "You could remove 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' and a few other selected books, or you could remove every book in the entire library that contains the word 'massacre.'"
By analogy, Chinese Internet censorship based on keyword filtering is the equivalent of the latter and indeed, the keyword "massacre" (in Chinese) is on the blacklist.
Because it filters ideas rather than specific Web sites, keyword filtering stops people from using proxy servers or "mirror" Web sites to evade censorship. But because it is not completely effective all the time, it probably acts partly by encouraging self-censorship, Barr said. When users within China see that certain words, ideas and concepts are blocked most of the time, they might assume that they should avoid those topics.
When the Chinese system detects a banned word in data traveling across the network, it sends a series of three "reset" commands to both the source and the destination. These "resets" effectively break the connection.
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I yam 100% behind the strike. Bring it on. Forever and a day.
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The brave and heroic members of the Film Actors Guild (FAG) provide a valuable and necessary service to the people of America. I urge them to resist capitulation to harsh, uncaring studio management and their brutal demands, whatever they may be. I urge the FAG members to stand by their principles. Whatever they may be.
After all, it is not like they can be replaced by some puppets and computer graphics.
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