A woman suspected of shoplifting who tried to evade security guards was eventually caught with her pants down. The woman bizarrely dropped her trousers when staff caught up with her as she tried to scale a fence. She had left the Somerfield store in Exeter with three legs of lamb.
She was arrested and later bailed by police. Not exactly safe for work. AoS.
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She must be one of the "superior" Brits that Gwyneth Paltrow talks about.
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LOL! The blogads show a pic of some meat hanging up on hooks, referring to a site about the horrors of factory farms. Is this an instant world or what?
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From female suicide Bombing Babes to Peeing Babes/Blondes to Lamb-ey FemiLimeys, what is it about this WOT thats causing women to go ape???
A real-life illustrations of the "what will they ban next" mockeries about the britons' "dangerous inanimate objects" legal phobia.
In the hands of Shane Warne, a cricket ball is an offensive weapon. A total of 650 fallen wickets prove it. Police on a London Underground station thought it was an equally dangerous item in the hands of Chris Hurd, a 28-year-old City accountant who occasionally bowls leg spin for his local team in Belsize Park, North London.
Mr Hurd claimed that he had been merely holding the ball as he rode the escalator at Baker Street station in London when he was stopped by a female British Transport Police officer and subjected to a ten-minute inquisition and allegations that he was carrying a very hard object, which he should not have done in public as it was a potentially lethal weapon. Hey, I've got a doinker (very small, I must admit), I'm thus a potential rapist. Does this mean I cannot go in public anymore? (muslim answer : hide the wimmen).
He had, he said, taken the ball to work because he planned to watch the opening Ashes Test between England and Australia in a pub with friends later in the evening. Earlier in the day he had been throwing it in the air to strengthen his spin-bowling muscles.
But by the time he got to the station, he said, he was holding it firmly in his hand. He accused the officer of ridiculous overreaction. There was a policewoman on the step below me and she was staring at the ball all the way up. As we got to the top she tapped me on the shoulder and said she wanted a word.
Mr Hurd, who works for Ernst and Young, the accountants, said the officer asked him if he knew he was carring a very hard object and he replied: Yes, its a cricket ball. She confiscated the ball while she questioned Mr Hurd for ten minutes, gave him a verbal warning and filled out a stop-and-search report.
I told her I was only carrying it because the Ashes were about to start and I was very excited. I was wearing a very boring suit and looked every inch the bean-counter I am. It is not as if I was unshaven and looked dangerous. But she was completely humourless and showed no understanding of my excitement, Mr Hurd said. When she let me go and gave me my ball back, she said she was being extremely lenient with me. She failed to realise that I presented no threat whatsoever and I left feeling completely misunderstood.
Mr Hurd said the encounter had shaken his faith in the police, and had caused him to sympathise with members of ethnic minorities who were subjected to stop-and-searches. That's assuming police concentrate its attention to those ethnic minorities because they're racist or discriminative; on the other hand, this ball-thingie is nanny-state over-reaction.
How can a cricket ball be an offensive weapon? I dont think it would be anyones weapon of choice, and all I was doing was holding it. It wasted ten minutes of time for both of us, and left her with paperwork. All in a day's work! The last line of defense of Civilization.
A spokesman said that British Transport Police had no knowledge of the incident but added: Though we recognise England need all the help they can get at the moment, we would advise that the escalator is not the place to practise.
What if the ball was dropped and hit an old lady further down the escalator? "What if the ball had actually been a nuke device? Thousands could have been killed! We simply cannot afford to let that happen! Next thing you know, people will start carrying .22 short rounds in their pockets!"
We would advise passengers to be careful, both for themselves and other people at this busy time. To ensure that the Underground is free of crime and free of the fear of crime, our officers maintain a highly visible presence.
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Dear God... is this the terminal phase of Socialism? A nation which doesn't trust its citizens to walk around with sharp or hard objects, as if they were mewling infants in some nursery, with the Government acting as nannies?
This both sad and alarming-- because I think in their descent into the abyss, the Brits are only about a decade ahead of us.
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is this the terminal phase of Socialism?
Nah. The terminal phase is when all of us have to wear helmets whenever we leave our homes 'cuz we might trip and suffer a head injury.
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This doesn't surprise me at all. The descendants of the men who fought off the Zulus at Rorke's Drift and who held the Residency at Lucknow against overwhelming odds from May until late September of 1857 have built a nanny state in which one cannot openly carry a 3" pocketknife. They're a hell of a long way down the tubes and moving at ever faster speed. It's very sad and frightening to watch. Their decline is a cautionary tale we on this side of the pond better pay damned close attention to. It CAN happen here.
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I think the policewoman in question was brought to the verge of frothy hysterical petty tyranny by the sight of a man with, not just two, but nay three balls. Just having two makes any man dangerous enough as it is in this testosterone-phobic world.
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Pencils can be used as knives. You can run people over with your car. A credit card can make a nasty slash wound. Keys can poke out eyes. You can make a garotte out of your underwear. You can make a garotte out of Gwyneth Paltrow's underwear. A briefcase can crush a temple. Forks, knives, spoons, loose masonry, teeth, and broken glass can be used to injure, maim, or kill someone. I can use a pencil to write a news article that ends up with many people dead by revealing methods used to capture terrorists.
is this the terminal phase of Socialism?
No. When we vote away our ability to change out the government, then it will be all downhill from there until everyone you know including all your descendents are facing east to pray.
After boy, 12, hides his Game Boy, his mom calls police
Rock Hill, SC -- A mother convinced Rock Hill police to arrest her 12-year-old son after he unwrapped a Christmas present early. The boy's great-grandmother had specifically told him not to open his Nintendo Game Boy Advance, which she had wrapped and placed beneath the Christmas tree, according to a police report.
But on Sunday morning, she found the box of the popular handheld game console unwrapped and opened. When the boy's 27-year-old mother heard about the opened gift, she called police. "He took it without permission. He wanted it. He just took it," said the 63-year-old great-grandmother.
Both the great-grandmother and the mother asked the boy on Sunday where the present was. The boy replied he didn't know. When the mother threatened to call the police, the boy went into his room and got the Game Boy, the report stated. She called the police anyway.
Two Rock Hill police officers responded to the home and charged the boy with petty larceny. He was charged as a juvenile and released the same day, said police spokesman Lt. Jerry Waldrop, who added the boy was never held at the jail. "We wouldn't hold a 12-year-old," he said.
On Monday night, the mother said she had her son arrested because she didn't know what else to do. She had the child when she was 15, the woman said, and has been a single mother struggling to earn a business degree. She said the boy likes attention and has a history of bad behavior. He has shoplifted from stores and stolen money from her, she said. The boy has also been inching toward expulsion from school, she added, and even punched a police officer last month. He was arrested for disorderly conduct in that incident. She hoped the arrest would be a wake-up call for him. She dreads getting a phone call someday reporting he's been killed.
The boy "showed no remorse" when the police came, the mother said. "I'm trying to get him some kind of help," she said. "He's the type of kid who doesn't believe anything until it happens."
Waldrop said the women were seeking help with a problem child. "He is a disruptive, disorderly kid." Waldrop said he trusted the two responding officers to exercise discretion when deciding whether to arrest the youngster. "In a case like this, if the parents and grandparents are adamant about it and they feel the child has a serious problem, I can't second-guess what the officers did," Waldrop said.
The mother told police officers that she would have the boy placed with the state Department of Juvenile Justice in Columbia at his court appearance.
Waldrop said he was not aware if Rock Hill police have ever arrested a child for unwrapping Christmas presents early. "Yeah, it's strange," he said of the case.
Entitlement. A new lefty is born to carry the trauma of his childhood into arrested adolescence for the rest of his life to exorcise his demon of not getting what he believed was justly his.
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What irritates me about this story is it keeps making the Rock Hill police out to be some kind of gestapo. But if you RTFA, you'll realize that the mother CHOSE to press charges against her own son. The police HAD to arrest him. Although, I don't agree with what the mother did, please don't try to paint the police as the bad guys here. It's not the police's fault that the whole family is stupid.
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I think the parents should be fined for the cost of getting the police units out there and all the fuss. Perhaps the entire household should be given a taser shot or two.
If the kid is a thug why leave the present out where he can take it? Why not leave a box of coal out for the little craphead instead.
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When boys grow older, nature = society inevitably causes them to learn they will become bigger andor stronger than either Mom or Grandma. Wid no father figure around to emulate or exert discipline/control, or anyone else, he exerts his manly rights in the face of [femin] weakness.
For nearly 20 years - ever since Pete Costello was 8 - his mother has collected disability benefits on his behalf. In meetings with Social Security officials and psychologists, he appeared mentally retarded and unable to communicate. His mother insisted he couldn't read or write, shower, take care of himself or drive a car. But now prosecutors say it was all a huge fraud, and they have video of Costello contesting a traffic ticket to prove it. "He's like any other person trying to get out of a traffic ticket," Assistant U.S. Attorney Norman Barbosa said Tuesday.
Pete and Rosie Marie Costello were indicted in September on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and Social Security fraud, and the case was unsealed Tuesday. The Vancouver pair were scheduled to appear in federal court in Tacoma on Tuesday. Barbosa said he planned to file with the court two videos of Pete Costello taken this year: In one, he allegedly feigns retardation during an interview with Social Security workers; the other is of him contesting the traffic ticket in a courtroom earlier this year.
The indictment accuses Costello of faking - or at least exaggerating - retardation since August 1997, because that is what prosecutors are confident they can prove, Barbosa said. But the pair first received benefits 10 years before that. The benefits cited in the indictment totaled $111,000. Barbosa said the government does not know whether Costello is retarded to some degree, but he clearly has been "exaggerating whatever he may have, if any."
"This person isn't being honest with the government about his condition," Barbosa said. "It makes it impossible to sort out." It was not immediately known if the Costellos had obtained attorneys.
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When asked to comment, Pete Costello replied "Duh"
A Ridgetown woman has been convicted of a lesser charge in connection with an incident where she confronted a Chatham-Kent police officer while barely clothed. "That's right, yer honor! She confronted me, nekkid as an egg! And she conbacked me, too!"
Holly Skinner, 21, appeared in court in Chatham Tuesday facing a charge of assaulting a peace officer, to which she pleaded not guilty. "See, yer honor? I'm dressed!"
"That's dressed?"
She ended up pleading guilty to resisting arrest in connection with an incident on April 16, 2005, surrounding an altercation with her boyfriend at the time. "He ain't my boyfriend no more, yer honor!"
Assistant Crown attorney Fred Creed told Ontario Justice Bruce Thomas the situation arose from Skinner being upset at her boyfriend, who was talking to another woman while they were at a Ridgetown bar around 1 a.m. "I didn't mind him talkin' to the brazen hussy, yer honor. It was the feelin' her up that I objected to!"
Chatham-Kent police were called to Skinners apartment around 5:15 a.m. in response to a noise complaint over the accused arguing with her boyfriend, Creed said. "Honest, honey! I wudn't feelin' her up!"
"Right. Her honkers just happened to fall into yer hands!"
Skinner was extremely upset and only covered by a bed sheet when Const. Michael Weedon arrived at her apartment, he added. "Miss, you got anything on but that bed sheet?"
"I thought I had my earrings on..."
Creed told the court Weedon had calmed the boyfriend down [Whack!]
"Oooowwww!"
"There. That'll calm you down!"
when Skinner came up and bumped the officer. Weedon warned Skinner to stop, Creed said, "Miss, I'm givin' you official warnin'! I'll give you just one hour to stop that!... Oh. They're not as big as they looked, are they?"
adding the woman then began swinging at the officer. At that point, Weedon called for backup. "Car 54 where are you?"
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CHANGZHOU, China: A baby was trapped down a toilet for more than seven hours after being born prematurely. The mum was crouched over the hole-in-the-floor toilet when her waters broke - and the baby popped out and plunged out of sight, its umbilical cord still attached.
The mum screamed for help and doctors, plumbers and firemen raced against time to save the baby. A special camera was put into the drain to check the child's position, and it was carefully pulled free.
The baby was resuscitated and rushed to hospital in Changzhou, where he and his mother are reported to be doing well.
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The mind boggles. What is it with these so-called parents lately (first, it was putting junior in the microwave, then the freezer, then yesterday's 2-month old having a blood alcohol level of .34, etc.). I'm a very devout Christian, but maybe Darwin's "survival of the fittest" does ring true.
But, then, I think...it doesn't explain the MME (Muslim Middle East). I tend toward the Libertarian POV in many issues and don't want the gov't really interfering in parental "rights", but jeebus, some folks are just screamin' to be sterilized. Raising a child is an extremely noble and self-sacrificing job....these types don't deserve to be parents.
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but maybe Darwin's "survival of the fittest" does ring true.
I dunno. A survival of the fittest-type environment would spell doom and pain and humiliation for the likes of me.
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This one doesn't actually sound like the mother's fault -- and she and the baby are very lucky. Had the umbilical cord separated from the mother when the baby fell down the hole, the baby would have died and the mother possibly bled to death; but the connection enabled the baby to continue to receive oxygen and to be retrieved by the rescuers. Surely everyone has heard stories of women's water breaking while out shopping, or babies suddenly being born in the car on the way to the hospital...
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Ya TW but we are uncouth americans, just ask GP. We love to chuckle at others misfortunes and things we can't comprehend or spell. LOL
Hope your ready for the big freeze tonight, looks like Cin and Lex are in for a cold one tonight.
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49 Pan dear, you couldn't possibly be uncouth -- you ride a classic motorcycle. Besides, in my experience all male Rantburgers are true gentlemen, regardless of their official title, as all our females are ladies. Of course, my standards are high. ;-)
Thanks for the weather warning -- I'll throw on an extra quilt and turn up the thermostat a few degrees.
PETALUMA (AP) - In this rich agricultural region of Northern California, ranchers have been turning chickens too old to lay eggs into compost at a rate of a half-million hens a year. But some chickens not properly euthanized have been seen crawling out of the compost piles, earning them the name ``zombie chickens'' "BRAINS! BRAINS!"
-- and hatching a debate over what else might be done with them and other ``spent hens.''
A food bank proposed making sausage to feed the poor. A reptile enthusiast suggested using them as food for large exotic pets like pythons and alligators. And an industry group said in the future they could be used as fuel for power plants.
But for now, according to egg farmers in Sonoma County, composting is the only affordable option. The last California rendering plant stopped taking the hens in May. ``If there was something that could be done, it would be done,'' said Petaluma egg farmer Arnie Reibli.
The egg-laying birds have only a pound of usable meat, compared to the 5-pound chickens typically raised for eating. Slaughtering the chickens, even to transport them unprocessed and frozen whole, would likely cost more than composting them, Reibli said. ``Unfortunately, it's less expensive to go out and buy the birds than process them,'' said David Goodman, executive director of the Redwood Empire Food Bank in Santa Rosa, which had considered the sausage-making plan.
To kill the chickens, farmers suffocate them in sealed boxes filled with carbon dioxide, a practice that has drawn the ire of animal rights groups. Then again, most everything draws their ire. They then commence to seethe, cluck and roll their eyes.
A new European technology that turns dead cows into fuel to generate electricity -- and that could be the fate of spent hens someday, said Rich Matteis, head of the Pacific Egg and Poultry Association. Soylent green is the next logical step, with the general aging of Europe and all.
But ``that's not something that's going to be available anytime soon,'' he said. Unlike Soylent green.
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To kill the chickens, farmers suffocate them in sealed boxes filled with carbon dioxide, a practice that has drawn the ire of animal rights groups.
What's the problem? It's the most painless way to go imaginable! You get tired all of a sudden, close your eyes, and you're gone. No pain. No nothing. Just gone.
If animal-righters think it's bad somehow, they ought to try it for themselves.
Unlucky: the saga began when Mr Moseley, 36, of Gosport, Hampshire, bought a £5 24-Karat Gold scratchcard. When Steve Moseley thought he'd won £1 million on a scratchcard, he didn't hold back on the celebrations.
Overjoyed, the car salesman danced on his desk, threw money around the showroom, sent a colleague out to buy champagne and phoned his girlfriend to break the good news. He even told his boss: "You can stick your job, I've won the lottery."
That was at 10am. At 10.45am, his luck took a turn for the worse. When he phoned National Lottery operator Camelot to confirm his prize, he was told he didn't have a winning ticket after all. What he had thought were two matching 15s were in fact a 15 and a 16. Oops.
Mr Moseley said he dropped the phone, felt sick - then had to beg his boss to give him back his job. If there is any justice at all in the world, a video of this will be found on YouTube.
The unfortunate saga began when Mr Moseley, 36, of Gosport, Hampshire, bought a £5 24-Karat Gold scratchcard on his way to work at the Fortnums car dealership in Fareham. Once at his desk he scratched off his "lucky weight" which he thought was 15g - not noticing that it said 'SXTN' underneath - then matched it with "another" 15g weight. "I then scratched off the bit that tells you how much you've won and it said one million," he said. "As far as I was concerned, I was a millionaire. All my worries were gone.
"That's when I started celebrating. It was pandemonium - I was dancing all over the desks and screaming and shouting.
"I was telling people to order champagne and I actually started getting money out of my wallet and throwing it at people. It's all quite embarrassing now."
Mr Moseley added: "My boss came in to see what was going on and I told him, 'I've won the lottery. I'm off. You can stick your job'. There didn't seem any point carrying on with my job because as far as I was concerned I had £1 million in my hand."
It was only after phoning girlfriend Theresa Parsons, 27, that he called Camelot. "The woman there asked me if the text matched as well as the figures and that's when I saw one said 'FFTN' but the other said 'SXTN'. I can see the problem, the two look so much alike.
"I dropped the phone. I felt physically sick. I got a magnifying glass out to study the numbers and they looked right but I realised I was never going to get the money. Yeah, I got that a lot, too.
"In my mind I had already ordered the Aston Martin and decided on the colour and suddenly that was taken away from me. I had to go back to my boss and beg for my job back."
His manager, Mike Earle, said: "You see where people's loyalties lie when money like that is involved. He'd been a bit of an idiot - I'd never seen anyone celebrating so much. But I felt sorry for him because I can see the numbers did look genuine on the ticket."
Mr Moseley, who has since resigned to work for another dealer, said: "That night I went out with the missus to drown my sorrows and decided to keep the ticket as a souvenir of how close I came to being a millionaire. I know what it's like to win a million and what it feels like to lose a million."
A Camelot spokesman said: "We have received a very small number of queries about the 24-Karat Gold scratchcard from players about similarities between play symbols. The numeric weights are duplicated by a play caption in words underneath each nugget of gold. We always advise players to check that their ticket definitely is a winner before they take any action." "I mean, come on, this man definitively is an idjit."
JAKARTA - Human hands and other body parts were found in the belly of a five metre (16 ft) crocodile caught in Kupang Bay in eastern Indonesia, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Crocs -- why do they regard us as lunch?
The reptile, which was caught in a nylon snare near the mouth of the Dusan II river on Monday in West Timor, is believed to have killed at least one of three men who have been missing for at least a month, the Jakarta Post newspaper said.
Angry villagers attacked the trapped reptile with machetes, killing the 500 kg (1,100 lb) animal, before it was cut open to reveal two human hands, a leg, a T-shirt and some shorts, the paper said. Human hair and skull fragments were also found in the abdomen of the crocodile.
"That's Mahmoud!"
"How you can tell?"
"The nose, I'd recognize that nose anywhere."
Residents believe the body parts are those of a 59-year-old villager who went missing late last month after he went fishing on the river.
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The nose, I'd recognize that nose anywhere
Don't be so sure. Lots of crocodiles sport a nose like that!
Today's Idiot? Hey, I dunno, it just struck me as a stinker. Hold yer nose...
Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning. Well, not exactly...
American Flight 1053, from Washington Reagan National Airport and bound for Dallas/Fort Worth, made an emergency landing here after passengers reported smelling struck matches, said Lynne Lowrance, a spokeswoman for the Nashville International Airport Authority. See, toldja. "Nadine! Do you smell burnt matches?"
"It's ain't burnt matches! Don't smile, Katie! It'll stain your teeth!"
The plane landed safely. The FBI, Transportation Safety Administration and airport authority responded to the emergency, Lowrance said. "Whoa! What's that smell? Smells more like somethin' died!"
"Unit 2, be advised breathing apparatus is required!" The passengers and five crew members were brought off the plane, together with all the luggage, to go through security checks again. Bomb-sniffing dogs found spent matches. The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches when she came down with the vapors in an attempt to conceal body odor, Lowrance said. The woman lives near Dallas and has a medical condition. Yah, shure. Lol. Chili is a medical condition?
The flight took off again, but the woman was not allowed back on the plane. "American has banned her for a long time," Lowrance said. We don't have enough of those cute little pinetree thingys. Sorry.
She was not charged but could have been. While it is legal to bring as many as four books of paper safety matches onto an aircraft, it is illegal to strike a match in an airplane, Lowrance said. You get no strikes - then you're out, lol.
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It's possible that it could be really horrendous body odor. I went to college with this one guy who had an inherited metabolic disorder that made his sweat absolutely vile. I have never been around anyone who reeked as badly as he did on a daily basis (and yes, he bathed at least once a day).
He used to room with an old boyfriend of mine. I remember one time when I was writing a note to my ex on the dry erase board on their door. Ol' Stinky thought he could sneak up on me and startle me, but I could literally smell him coming down the hallway. He was surprised when he got right behind me and I said "Hi Rich" without looking away from the door, and wondered how I knew he was there....I figured that since we barely got along anyway, telling him it was because he was in rare form that day wouldn't accomplish anything....
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I habe been thinking in a new Marvel-like Superhero. Smarter than Batman, faster tahn Spiderman; stronger than Supeme: coming from another Galaxy: Fartoman!. He flies by jet propulsion!
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I had a roomate in college that had horrible smelling feet. We nicknamed him "Carrion Man." He tried everything, but nothing worked. So I got some sheep dip from a friend of mine, mixed it up and put his rotten feet in a tub. Fixed it right up, reapplied as required.
I remembered the sheep dip solution because my dad told me that he got a bad rash as a kid up in N California in the early 1930s. The county quarantined the home. Finally great grandma Richardson went down to the feed store and bought a 5 gal jug of sheep dip. Cleared the rash right up, heh.
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Russias federal tiger protection task force has issued a warning to motorists in the countrys far-eastern province saying that recently several cars were attacked by a female tiger on local roads.
Vitaly Starostin, deputy chief of a special inspectorate Tiger under the Natural Resources Ministry told the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti that the tiger had been spotted on the trunk road Roshchino Melnichnoye in Krasnoarmeisky District of the province, holding a dead cub in her jaws and attacking cars driving by.
The inspectorate officials have suggested that thus the tiger seeks revenge for her cub hit earlier by a car. They fear that the beast might attack motorists who dare to stop on the roadside and leave the car. So take a leak before you go through here, k?
The only thing we may do now is alert the population, Starostin said. Our officer is now on the scene and controls the situation. He attempted to scare the tiger away but that did not help. But it will go away on her own in several days, the officials said.
The Amur tiger has been recorded in the International Red Book. The latest survey by Russian and U.S. experts has revealed a population of some 450 animals still dwelling Maritime Region and in the south of Khabarovsk Region.
TWO Muslim students have been expelled from an Islamic school in Melbourne for urinating and spitting on a Bible and setting it on fire. The explosive incident has forced the East Preston Islamic College to call in a senior imam to tell its 650 Muslim students that the Bible and Christianity must be respected.
Teachers at the school have also petitioned principal Shaheem Doutie, expressing "grave concern" about an "inculcation of hatred and radical attitudes towards non-Muslims" at the school.
Anxious teachers at the school have also petitioned principal Shaheem Doutie, expressing "grave concern" about an "inculcation of hatred and radical attitudes towards non-Muslims" at the school, including towards non-Muslim teachers.
The Bible desecration took place last week at a school camp held near Bacchus Marsh, about 50km west of Melbourne, attended by 33 teenage Muslim boys ranging in age from Year7 to Year 10. A school report of the incident, obtained by The Australian, says it happened late at night and involved three students and another two watching.
"The main perpetrator (a Year 7 student) urinated on the Holy Bible, tore some pages from the Holy Book and burnt them then finally spat on the Holy Book," the report says.
"The main perpetrator (a Year 7 student) urinated on the Holy Bible, tore some pages from the Holy Book and burnt them then finally spat on the Holy Book," the report says. The second boy, from Year 9, "tore pages from the Holy Book and burnt them", while a third student, from Year 7, "tore pages from the Holy Bible and then he rolled it up like a cigarette and pretended to smoke it".
The boys come from a variety of ethnic Muslim backgrounds -- one is believed to be an Albanian/Malaysian, another Lebanese and another Indonesian. Mr Doutie, whose school receives about $3.9 million in state and federal government funding each year, told The Australian yesterday that both he and the school community were appalled by the Bible desecration and that he had expelled the first two boys and suspended the third. In a letter to all staff on Monday, Mr Doutie wrote:
"The school unconditionally apologises for this horrible act as conducted by some illiterate and ignorant students while under the care of EPIC teachers. We regard the desecration of the Bible in a very serious light and therefore we have taken serious action against the offenders."
"The school unconditionally apologises for this horrible act as conducted by some illiterate and ignorant students while under the care of EPIC teachers. We regard the desecration of the Bible in a very serious light and therefore we have taken serious action against the offenders. The Bible is an important book both for non-Muslims and Muslims and should be treated as a holy book by all religions."
Mr Doutie said he did not believe that the boys realised the significance of their act.
Mr Doutie said he did not believe that the boys realised the significance of their act. But to ensure it did not happen again he had called in the assistant imam of the Newport Mosque, Oman Haouli, to tell the students that the Bible was a sacred book. "My lesson to them was to respect their neighbours and respect all religions," Mr Haouli said yesterday.
But the desecration incident has shaken the nerves of the school's teachers, about half of whom are non-Muslim. A petition signed by 22 teachers expressed "anguish and dismay at the grave incident of the desecration of the Holy Bible".
"This whole incident implies a deep hatred inculcated in the students towards the Christians/non-Muslim teachers," it says.
The petition said there had been "previous incidents of students misbehaving towards non-Muslim teachers".
The petition said there had been "previous incidents of students misbehaving towards non-Muslim teachers". It called on the school to "take steps to rectify this explosive situation" to ensure the safety of teachers.
Mr Doutie said the school had tried to contact the parents of the expelled boys to find out why they had desecrated the Bible. But he said the school had not received a response.
EPIC is an eight-year-old primary and secondary school in Melbourne's north that caters mostly to the children of working-class immigrant Somali and Lebanese families. The Bible desecration comes at a time of heightened tension among Australia's 300,000-member Islamic community, many of whom believe their religion is being unfairly discriminated against because of terrorism fears. Many Muslims remain angry about the public humiliation suffered by their spiritual leader, the mufti Taj Din al-Hilali, after the Sheik likened female rape victims to pieces of meat who brought the attacks on themselves.
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So we riot and demand apologies from everybody.
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"Many Muslims remain angry about the public humiliation suffered by their spiritual leader, the mufti Taj Din al-Hilali, after the Sheik likened female rape victims to pieces of meat who brought the attacks on themselves."
Not as angry as Aussie natives feel about Muslims blaming rape victims for rape.
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Oh, damn! Shouldn't I be burning something or killing something?
Before you know it, they'll be showing pictures of Jesus and I'll...just...totally...SNAP!!!
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Since they "respect" the Bible as a "Holy Book", I guess they'll have no problems living up to the Golden Rule, outlined in the Bible, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Get some Christian kids to tear up a koran, roll its pages, burn it and spit on it and see how they react. I don't know why, but something tells me they'll be a lil more violent than the Aussies.
It speaks volumes too, that the principal couldn't deal with this on his own. Had to bring in a holy man imam to explain "we need to show courtesy to Christians"? Just goes even further than the boys actions that this is NOT a religion, but a brainwashing death cult where you can't speak for yourself, but do what your holy man says.
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Whoops, meant "think for yourself..."
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BA, their golden rule only applies to other muslims, and even then loosely.
Fat For Cash clinics in a mall near you :)
Lauri Venøy wants to use the product created from liposuction to develop bio-diesel. Bio-diesel can be produced from plant oils and/or animal fat, and the Norwegian sees the scheme as a renewable energy source, newspaper Dagens Nærinsgliv reports.
More than sixty percent of Americans are overweight and the Norwegian's firm in Miami, Florida is in the process of signing an agreement with US hospital giant Jackson Memorial. This deal would give Venøy & Co. around 11,500 liters of human fat a week from liposuction operations, which is enough to produce about 10,000 liters of bio-diesel. "Maybe we should urge people to eat more so we can create more raw material for fuel," Venøy said.
In Norway bio-diesel is primarily produced from herring fish oils and used fryer fat.
(Aftenposten English Web Desk/NTB)
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Hey, if they're ok to pay for my lipo, I can propel a family-sized car for at least... well, I've let myself go badly last couple of years, so , I'd say... pretty far.
As an added bonus, burnt bio-diesel made out of my fat will smell of chocolate, mostly.
You just knew SFGate would pick this up and re-run it, lol.
New York (AP) -- City health officials Tuesday backed off a plan that would have allowed New Yorkers to switch the sex on their birth certificates without undergoing sex-change surgery. Whoa, now that's important.
Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said the issue needed further study, in part to guarantee it wouldn't conflict with federal rules now being developed. Rules, rules, rules - keep the bureaucracy rolling along...
Like most other cities and states, New York has long allowed people who have undergone sex-change surgery to get a new birth certificate reflecting the change. Yah, shure. Gotta keep the paperwork current with the equipment.
The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene had proposed in September that the policy be liberalized further to include people who had taken other steps short of surgery to irrevocably alter their gender identity. Like what? Oh, wait, I don't wanna know...
The new policy, for example, would have allowed birth record changes for people taking hormones to alter their appearance. Appearance. New bumps, missing bulges, that sort of thing?
The plan would have made the city the first in the country with such a policy, health officials said. We're No 1! We're No 1! Sheesh.
While it delayed making that change, the Board of Health went ahead with a related policy revision that for the first time will allow people who have undergone sex-change surgery to list their new sex on their birth documents. Previously, the city had simply issued a new birth certificate that removed any reference to gender. Well, the new equipment doesn't work, so...
Cole Thaler, a transgender rights attorney, said he was disappointed by the board's decision not to implement the new policy. "Some people are physically unable to have the surgery, for health reasons," Thaler said. "I'm hopeful that time will lead to a more fair result." I'm sorry. Sheesh just doesn't seem to cover this.
#1
What don't they understand about BIRTH certificate? Maybe an 'alteration' amendment is appropriate, but to change the BIRTH certificate is something that would only occur to historical revisionists.
#2
I for one applaud NYC because obviously they have solved the many more important issue like education, healthcare, drugs, and crime and can now zero in on this important issue.
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Like most other cities and states, New York has long allowed people who have undergone sex-change surgery to get a new birth certificate reflecting the change.
Hear Ye, Hear Ye, 2nd Amendment fans. This is not your everyday story...
17 citations thrown out. L. Saucon Township authorities say he can't fire weapons in backyard.
L. SAUCON TWP, Joisey - District Judge Diane Repyneck threw out 17 citations Monday against a 62-year-old township man accused of violating local gun laws. The judge ruled Richard Seruga of the 3800 block of Bee Line Drive was guilty of one count of disorderly conduct but was not in violation of any other township laws when he repeatedly fired his gun at a target behind his home. Repyneck's decision to dismiss the firearm citations upholds a ruling she made in Seruga's favor in October.
Assistant District Attorney Vivian Zumas argued Monday that township laws restricting firearm use within 150 feet of an occupied dwelling applied to Seruga, whom police said discharges his weapon too close to neighboring homes.
Township police officer Ronald Jones testified that after citing Seruga on one occasion, the Bee Line Drive man resumed shooting before the officer had left the property. Jones said Seruga told him to go back to the police department and find something else to charge him with.
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.
A Ridgetown woman has been convicted of a lesser charge in connection with an incident where she confronted a Chatham-Kent police officer while barely clothed. 
The mum was crouched over the hole-in-the-floor toilet when her waters broke - and the baby popped out and plunged out of sight, its umbilical cord still attached. 
PETALUMA (AP) - In this rich agricultural region of Northern California, ranchers have been turning chickens too old to lay eggs into compost at a rate of a half-million hens a year. But some chickens not properly euthanized have been seen crawling out of the compost piles, earning them the name ``zombie chickens'' 
Unlucky: the saga began when Mr Moseley, 36, of Gosport, Hampshire, bought a £5 24-Karat Gold scratchcard. When Steve Moseley thought he'd won £1 million on a scratchcard, he didn't hold back on the celebrations. 
JAKARTA - Human hands and other body parts were found in the belly of a five metre (16 ft) crocodile caught in Kupang Bay in eastern Indonesia, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The passengers and five crew members were brought off the plane, together with all the luggage, to go through security checks again. Bomb-sniffing dogs found spent matches. The FBI questioned a passenger who admitted she struck the matches 
Russias federal tiger protection task force has issued a warning to motorists in the countrys far-eastern province saying that recently several cars were attacked by a female tiger on local roads. 
TWO Muslim students have been expelled from an Islamic school in Melbourne for urinating and spitting on a Bible and setting it on fire. The explosive incident has forced the East Preston Islamic College to call in a senior imam to tell its 650 Muslim students that the Bible and Christianity must be respected. 
