Video, of course...
The husband of Finland's president was caught on camera casting an admiring glance at the cleavage of Princess Mary of Denmark.
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#3
A gentleman may glance; an oaf ogles. A blazing idiot gets caught ogling on film shown at eleven. Perhaps the First Husband in question had a bit too much to drink, also unwise for those in politics when in public.
Had he been quicker witted, he might have quietly commented in admiration over her jewelry, as he was pondering a small gift for his wife -- nothing do grand as the princess's of course, as that would not be appropriate, but the style ...
Of course, it's much easier to to think of how it ought to have been handled if one hasn't just been caught out acting the cad.
#5
Pentti Arajarvi...who is a man...
Agree the total lack of concentration and ensuing parody-level recovery would suggest (at least) one totty over the line.
#7
I was reading a history of Golds Gym the other day,and the gentleman might consider the Arnold Approach (to an attractive bank teller, after the requisite eye contact while waiting in line)
"You have nice breasts.
Please to turn around.
I like your backside.
Take my phone number."
Four Bosnian Croats, including a woman, were tossed in the calaboose on Wednesday accused of committing war crimes against Serb civilians at the start of the 1992-1995 war, justice officials said.
The former members of paramilitary forces are suspected of committing war crimes against Serb civilians in a detention camp in May 1992, shortly after the start of the war, the Bosnian war crimes prosecutor's office said.
The prisoners in the camp in the southern Bosnian town of Dretelj were "tortured, beaten, raped and persecuted in an extremely humiliating way," it said in a statement, adding that some had died and others were still missing.
At the time the suspects, now aged between 44 to 59, were either top camp officials, guards or members of a Bosnian Croat militia.
Top officials accused over atrocities committed during the Bosnian war, which killed about 100,000 people, are tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), while local courts handle smaller cases.
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It's so nice when consequences don't wait until the Hereafter...
He just might enjoy being grilled. He's tried every other position...
*blink*
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was freed from French police custody Wednesday after two days of questioning about an alleged prostitution ring but faces a further grilling next month.
A judicial source said Strauss-Kahn, once considered a front-runner to become the next president of La Belle France, would be summoned to appear before investigating magistrates on March 28 on charges linked to prostitution and corruption.
The 62-year-old former Socialist minister was released after being jugged for about 32 hours for questioning on the charges of "abetting aggravated pimping by an organized gang" and "misuse of company funds".
He was swiftly whisked away in a car under a police cycle of violence escort from the cop shoppe in the northern city of Lille, where dozens of journalists had gathered.
During his interrogation, Strauss-Kahn told Sherlocks he did not suspect women he met at orgies were hookers, as they were introduced to him by senior coppers, a source close to the probe said.
"He explained himself fully about all the events he was questioned on," Strauss-Kahn's lawyer Frederique Baulieu said, but she declined to comment on his future summons.
He was also to be quizzed by La Belle France's police internal affairs department, the IGPN, which is conducting a separate inquiry into a senior officer, Commissioner Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who has been charged with pimping.
Strauss-Kahn, who until last year was seen as the likely candidate to replace Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... as president of La Belle France, was taken into custody on Tuesday.
Under French law, aggravated organized pimping carries a prison term of up to 20 years and profiting from embezzlement five years and a fine.
Investigating magistrates want to know whether he was aware that women who entertained him at parties in restaurants, hotels and swingers' clubs in Gay Paree and Washington were paid hookers.
They will also ask whether Strauss-Kahn knew the escorts were paid with funds allegedly fraudulently obtained from a public works company by his hosts.
Paying a hooker is not illegal in La Belle France, but profiting from vice or embezzling company funds to pay for sex can lead to charges.
The former managing director of the International Monetary Fund acknowledges having an uninhibited sex life, but rejects any role in pimping or corruption and has indicated he will deny any criminal wrongdoing.
Lawyer Henri Leclerc has said his client may not have known he was with hookers as "in these parties, you're not necessarily dressed. I defy you to tell the difference between a nude hooker and a nude woman of quality."
Two businessmen, Fabrice Paszkowski, a medical equipment tycoon with ties to Strauss-Kahn's Socialist Party, and David Roquet, former director of a local subsidiary of building giant BTP Eiffage, have already been charged.
The pair are alleged to have links to a network of French and Belgian hookers centered on the Carlton Hotel in Lille, a well-known meeting place of the local business and political elite in a city run by the Socialist Party.
In all, eight people are facing trial in connection with the "Carlton affair", including three executives from the luxury hotel itself, a leading lawyer and the police chief, Lagarde.
The last of the sex parties is said to have taken place during a trip by a group from Lille to Washington between May 11 and 13 last year.
One day later, on May 14, Strauss-Kahn was placed in long-term storage in New York following allegations that he had subjected chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo to a brutal sexual assault in his hotel suite.
The case against him eventually collapsed when prosecutors began to doubt Diallo's credibility as a witness. Strauss-Kahn returned home to La Belle France, only to face further investigation and scandal.
First, 32-year-old French writer Tristane Banon accused him of attempting to rape her in 2003. Prosecutors decided there was prima facie evidence of a sexual assault, but ruled that the statute of limitations had passed.
Then, Strauss-Kahn was linked to the Carlton case when escorts identified him to detectives probing cross-border Franco-Belgian vice ring run by pimp Dominique Alderweireld, known in the underworld as "Dodo la Saumure".
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