An 89-year-old grandmother who went on a tyre-wrecking spree in her street has been ordered to knit jumpers for her victims.
Heidi Kohl, from western Germany, was arrested after one neighbour spotted her slashing the tyres on a car. She later confessed that she had resorted to drastic measures after becoming "fed up" with so many drivers parking in her neighbourhood.
Kohl was initially told that she would be fined for her behaviour, but authorities came up with the more unusual punishment after the woman claimed she would be unable to pay. A spokeswoman confirmed: "When she's knitted the sweaters, then the matter will be over for us."
Kohl is believed to have wrecked 50 tyres in total. Prosecutors have said that she will not offend again as she has since been moved to a retirement home.
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The meaning behind the original name is not clear.
Identifying with all the 'fluffy bunnies' iced in Iraq and Afghanistan the press plays up along with the baby ducks and unicorns maybe? Thugs who hide behind civilians to carry out their little tyranny of terror and are eulogized by the MSM.
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Parts of Scottsdale, just South of there, have rich kids that are so corrupt they belong in a William S. Burroughs novel.
Week long crack smoking parties, stupid gun play like shooting things off each others heads, and a favorite, getting totally stoned and intentionally running through plate glass windows.
"Human life means nothing to me" should be their motto.
AN asteroid discovered today will hit Earth's atmosphere over Sudan in a few hours but will burn up before it can hit the ground or endanger aircraft, astronomers say. The asteroid would create a large fireball about 10.46pm EDT (1.46pm AEST) as it burns up, a team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said.
"We want to stress that this object is not a threat," said Timothy Spahr, director of the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center at Harvard in Massachusetts. "We're excited since this is the first time we have issued a prediction that an object will enter Earth's atmosphere," Dr Spahr said.
The asteroid, known as a meteoroid, is between 1m and 5m in diameter. "A typical meteor comes from an object the size of a grain of sand," said Gareth Williams of the Minor Planet Centre. "This meteor will be a real humdinger in comparison."
It would be visible from eastern Africa and would evaporate over Sudan, the scientists said. "We really hope that someone will manage to photograph it," said Mr Williams.
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Wel-l-l, may or may not be related but iff the fireballs = meteor atreaks I'd seen over GUAM-WESTPAC the last two nites are any measure, its ASTEROIDS, PLURAL, NOT -ROID SINGULAR.
Also visibly saw a TWO-LEGGED TAOTAMONA = BLACK SHADOW BEING leap o'er a fence and walk thru a parking lot last nite, but we don't see any on SPACEWAR or SCIENCE DAILY, etc. now do we!?
D *** NG IT, ITS NOT THE ROCK WE SAW, BUT THE ROCKS WE DIDN'T SEE!
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I'm still waitin' for the one about 100m in diameter that's gonna splat Riyadh on one of the royals' birthday. Can't decide which I'd rather it be - a nice nickel-iron rock, or maybe highly compacted frozen methane, ammonia, and water-ice.
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Too bad most police officers in the UK are unarmed. In the US, they could have just shot the stupid animal.
At least the kids who saw the ram convulsing from the TASER would have something else to talk about. And the ram would not have suffered for very long - if the officer was a good shot.
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I know you said all election stories are to be in 'Home Front: Politix', but this is NEW ORLEANS politics, so shouldn't it be under 'Lurid Crime Tales"?
Results show voters keep the faith in Congressman William Jefferson
For more than three years, critics presaging Rep. William Jefferson's political demise have derived their assumptions from the nine-term congressman's mounting legal problems, which have cost him stroke on Capitol Hill and handcuffed his ability to raise campaign money.
But even his staunchest enemies marvel that Jefferson, whose trial on 16 federal charges of public corruption is set to begin in early December, has maintained his hold on a loyal bloc of voters who appear unfazed by the allegations of wrongdoing.
It was the backing of those faithful, concentrated in African-American neighborhoods, that was key to Jefferson's success Saturday, when he surged ahead of a pack of well-financed, politically seasoned opponents who lined up to unseat him. With two-thirds of the district's voters registered as Democrats, the winner will be considered the prohibitive favorite in the Dec. 6 general election.
Moreno was able to differentiate herself as the only female candidate, the only white candidate and the only candidate with no experience working in government. She was helped by the fact that the other five challengers closely resembled each other: All were black men with limited experience in politics and a limited base of supporters.
For his part, Jefferson benefited from the personal ties he has forged with constituents across the district for nearly two decades, "Voters don't just think in terms of issues, they also think with emotions," pollster Silas Lee said.
Moreno, who is Hispanic, was the only non-African-American on the ballot. In majority white precincts, she earned 45 percent of the vote, more than three times the portion of votes received by her nearest competitor, Jefferson Parish Councilman Byron Lee.
Further complicating matters for Moreno is the expectation that turnout among black voters on Nov. 4 may reach record-breaking levels as Democratic Sen. Barack Obama makes his bid to become the nation's first black president.
It is clear, meanwhile, that Jefferson intends to push the notion that the indictment against him is nothing more than the government's unproven accusation and does not reflect on his ability to serve.
In his analysis, Chervenak said he found support for the idea that a portion of voters in African-American neighborhoods buy into Jefferson's implication that the government may be out to get him.
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Longtime New Orleans pollster Silas Lee said Jefferson, the first black elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction, remains popular among a strong core of supporters in the district."He comes across as someone who the ordinary citizen can relate to," Lee said.
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Reminds me of DC where they re-elected Marion Barry and Providence, RI where they re-elected Buddy Cianci, both after doing time*. If you're a homey or goomba (or other such ethnic terms) it doesn't matter what you do as long as you don't dis the locals.
* Buddy did a second stretch following his second tenure as Hizzoner.
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So, if Dollar Bill Jefferson gets convicted in his trial in December, will he have to give up his seat? Or will he just phone in his votes from the slammer?
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Jaigaon (Jalpaiguri), Oct. 6: Their tin hut surrounded by marauding elephants on three sides, a 65-year-old woman dug a tunnel with the help of her two grandsons to escape through the rear this morning.
Around 2am, Maneshwari Burman was awakened by trumpeting in her kitchen, a few yards from where she slept with Pradip, 14, and Arjun, 10.
We knew that to talk would be to die and so looked at each other. Along with us was Bindu, a neighbour who had come to sleep at my home last night, said Maneshwari.
The family heard the animals gorge on its paddy. I was frightened but knew that to survive we would have to find a way out. The elephants could break down the tin walls any moment, Maneshwari said.
While Pradip kept an eye on the animals, Maneshwari and Arjun started digging the floor. We struck the mud floor with a khunti (spatula) and scooped out the soil with brass bowls. In half-an-hour, we created a 1.5ft deep, 3.5ft long hole. It ended outside the wall, the elderly woman said.
Arjun and Pradip were the first to jump into the ditch and come out in the courtyard. Bindu was too frightened to follow. But Maneshwari crawled out. With her grandsons in tow, she stood silently for some time in the courtyard before making a run for her neighbours house, 200m away.
The neighbours were surprised. They had taken us for dead, said Pradip.
Bindu stayed in the hut for another hour before she felt the elephants had retreated from one side and took a chance. She opened the door and ran.
The herd of 40 had strayed into Rabindranagar, in Madarihat block of Jalpaiguri, 28km from here, from Dhumki forest. Foresters said they first entered the paddy fields of Hemkumar Chhetri around midnight and wreaked havoc across over 3 acres. Then they damaged over 70 betel nut trees of Bhajan Sharma before surrounding Maneshwaris house.
A forest team arrived around 3am and took four hours to push the herd back into the forest skirting the village.
Rabindrangar is familiar with elephants, it has frequent brushes with them. But such bravado as Maneshwaris is rare. The range officer of Jaldapara (north), Rajendranath Dakua, said: The womans efforts saved four lives.
The boys parents live 30km away, in Falakata, where they work as daily labourers.
The ranger said the herd was on its way to Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary, across National Highway 31. Rabindranagar is on the route.
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The Palestinians should make her an honorary citizen of Gaza.
GAUHATI: Clashes between ethnic groups in India's remote northeast have left at least 49 people dead in four days including 19 killed on Monday, officials said.
The fighting in Assam state began Friday when a group of young ethnic Bodo men were attacked after patrolling their villages. Bodo leaders blamed relatively recent settlers, most of whom are Muslims, for sparking the clashes, said Assam Home Commissioner Subhash Das.
But authorities said the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, a Bodo separatist group with a history of violence, were targeting Muslim settlers.
Ethnic Bodos and Muslim settlers in Assam have a history of conflict and have fought recently with bows and arrows, spears and machetes, and have burned each other's homes and property, officials said over the weekend.
More than 150 people have been injured in the violence and more than 100,000 have fled their homes in some 30 villages, Das said.
``This is a clear case of ethnic cleansing by the NDFB,'' said Assam government spokesman Himanta Biswa Sarma. He said Bodo militants were coordinating attacks with violent mobs who were burning Muslims' homes.
In an e-mail sent to journalists Sunday night, the Bodo group's spokesman, S. Sanjarang, denied any role in the fighting.
The 49 people killed since Friday include 15 people who were fatally shot when police opened fire on violent mobs in at least four different incidents, said Sarma. Police have been authorized to shoot at anyone fighting in the streets.
An indefinite curfew imposed Friday in the northern Assam districts of Udalguri and Darrang continued Monday with small breaks to allow people to buy essential supplies.
Animosity between the Bodos and Muslim migrants stems from long-standing land disputes. The groups clashed sporadically throughout the 1990s, leaving at least 250 dead and an estimated 300,000 displaced.
Nearly 100,000 people are still living in makeshift relief camps.
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AN asteroid discovered today will hit Earth's atmosphere over Sudan in a few hours but will burn up before it can hit the ground or endanger aircraft, astronomers say. The asteroid would create a large fireball about 10.46pm EDT (1.46pm AEST) as it burns up, a team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said.
