`A Missouri woman has been arrested for breaking into a dog breeder’s home and beating her repeatedly over the head with a dead Chihuahua, local media reported.
She woman was upset because the puppy had died, police told the St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.’
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`Two men from Saudi Arabia and one from Yemen were found dead shortly after midnight today in separate cells, said the Miami-based US Southern Command, which has jurisdiction over the prison. Attempts were made to revive them, but they failed.
“They hung themselves with fabricated nooses made out of clothes and bed sheets,” base commander Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris told reporters in a conference call from the US base in southeastern Cuba.
“They have no regard for human life,” he said. “Neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us.”‘
Also Guantanamo suicides a ‘PR move’:
`A top US official has described the suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a “good PR move to draw attention”.’
`A police chief sparks controversy today by suggesting the number of rapes in Scotland could be substantially reduced if women drank less.
Neil Richardson, assistant chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police, bases his claim on new research which identified victims’ alcohol consumption as significant in a third of attacks.
The senior officer said “a lot” of the 1,100 rapes a year could be prevented “by people not allowing themselves to be in a vulnerable position”.’
`Hollywood party girl Paris Hilton was happy to play charity queen while the cameras were rolling.
But two years after a well-publicised visit to Gold Coast charity Paradise Kids, the millionaire heiress has broken a promise she made to help seriously ill children.
Hilton pledged to organise a star-studded benefit concert in Los Angeles to raise much-needed funds for the charity. [..]
“I’ll get a few friends together. I know the Backstreet Boys will help out for sure and I talked to Blu Cantrell last night,” Hilton claimed at the time. Missy Elliott was another big-name act mentioned.
“I definitely want to do this,” Hilton told gathered media. “My grandmother died of cancer and I almost lost my cousin to leukemia. It’s just something very important to me. [..]
To date, no benefit concert has taken place and efforts by Paradise Kids to contact Hilton have been unsuccessful.’
`The world reacted with shock and dismay last month to the news that Iranian Jews were being forced to wear yellow badges, a policy made infamous by the Nazis. Canada’s National Post featured the story on its front page with a headline reading “Iran Eyes Badges For Jews” above a photograph of Hungarian Jews wearing yellow Stars of David from 1944. The world media quickly followed the National Post’s lead, with the reports repeated in major newspapers across the globe. The Simon Weisenthal Center confirmed the story, noting “Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis”. The Australian and Canadian Prime Ministers expressed outrage, with Stephen Harper observing that the Iranian regime was “very capable of this kind of action”.
The only problem with this story? It was a complete fabrication.’
`A former funeral home worker who pleaded no contest to hiding a baby’s body in the pants of a man’s corpse slated for cremation – apparently to avoid paying an extra $50 fee – faces the permanent loss of her funeral director’s license.
The Texas Funeral Service Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to find that Stephanie Barkley engaged in unethical and unprofessional conduct.’
`Gordon Ramsay, the celebrity chef that everyone loves to hate, now has a new enemy: Sir Cliff Richard. [..]
The UK’s Daily Mail reports that Richard thought the first wine Ramsay gave him to taste was “amazing”. [..]
The second wine did not go down so well.
“I told him it was a sort of £12.99 bottle and Cliff said, ‘That’s rubbish. I wouldn’t pay for that, it’s tainted, it’s insipid. It tastes like vinaigrette. I’d never buy that,'” Ramsay quoted him as saying.
I told him, ‘Cliff, that was your wine’ and, well, fuck me, he went off. Bananas. He lent over and [beckoned me towards him] with his finger and said, ‘Young man, go fuck yourself.'”‘
`This morning I learned that Pentagon officials have said that force levels in Iraq would not be cut “anytime soon,” apparently because of a “recent surge in violence” sweeping Iraq. But what struck me most about that news was votesomemore’s response in this thread claiming that, “There is ALWAYS a ‘recent surge in violence.'”
That got me thinking. Is there always a “recent surge in violence” in Iraq? I Googled the phrase, and discovered that the answer to the question is, well, yes.
There are a few notable periods where violence is not reported as a “recent surge,” (for example, Nov 2003 – Mar 2004) and there are a few notable periods where the violence is much worse (for example, May 2005).
But overall, it appears that there is a “recent surge in violence” reported in Iraq pretty much every few weeks.’
`47. Express Delivery
Keith Moon
Item: Customized milk truck
Cost: $595
In 1971, Who drummer Keith Moon bought a British electric-powered milk delivery cart and had it converted into a “mobile Victorian parlour” — with armchair, wallpaper, cocktail cabinet and gramophone. To fit it in his garage, Moon also removed his Corvette and drove it into a nearby hedge. [..]
30. Establishing Boundaries
Paul McCartney
Item: Gigantic fence
Cost: $170,000
Herds of wild boar were becoming a problem on McCartney’s 1,000-acre English estate, tearing up trees and carrying swine fever. But he didn’t want the guilt of the pests being shot on his property, so in 1999 he had a four-mile long fence built to keep them out. “He does whatever he wants because he can afford it,” said a disgruntled local farmer.’
`A team of scientists from The University of Western Australia Murdoch University, CSIRO and three American, French and Spanish research institutions announced the discovery of the vortex after a month-long research voyage in the ocean just west of Rottnest Island.
Led by Dr Anya Waite, a biological oceanographer from UWA, the 10-member team found the vortex – 200km in diameter and 1000m deep – spinning at speeds up to 5kph just off the Rottnest Canyon. [..]
She said the climate above the vortex was noticeably different.
“It feels like you’re in the tropics,” she said.’
‘Look, now, I got a lot of bitches to plough.. So you can fuck with me later, but you should fuck with me now..’
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`A Cook County jury on Tuesday awarded an Illinois-record $5 million judgment in a medical malpractice suit to an Arizona couple for the loss of the woman’s vagina, according to a release from the plaintiffs’ attorneys.
The suit alleged that on May 5, 2000, Dr. Taek Kim unnecessarily placed a synthetic suburethral sling during a hysterectomy and repair of a cystocele on the plaintiff. Eventually, the sling eroded into the plaintiff’s vagina, resulting in chronic infection, pain and discharge, according to the release from the law firm of Taxman & Hurst. The scar tissue and foreshortening led to the eventual loss of the woman’s vagina, the suit claimed.’
‘This would normally but a really funny prank on it’s own but the fact that the sleeping guy happens to be a vet who just returned from Iraq makes this priceless. I would have crapped my pants.’
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‘A redheaded hacidic jewish break dancer face plants while trying to do a front flip. Somehow I dont think he’s going to Hollywood.’
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`The Egg Farmers of Ontario have laid charges against a farming couple who became locked in a tense standoff with police when the federal food inspectors raided their chicken farm.
Shawn Carmichael and his wife, Paula, each face 11 charges under the Farm Products Marketing Act.
The couple and about 40 protesters became involved in a shoving match during a 10-hour standoff with police on March 23 at their farm in Spencerville, south of Ottawa near Hwy. 401.
At one point, someone used a front-end loader to push an OPP officer back from the entrance to the farm’s driveway.
The standoff ended peacefully when Carmichael agreed to hand over a dozen chickens, a crate of eggs and photocopies of some of his files.’
`An attractive young Australian chess queen is at the centre of a scandal in the normally sedate sport, apparently provoking a jealous clash between two grandmasters on an Italian dance floor.
Nineteen-year-old Arianne Caoili was jiving with Armenian chess star Levon Aronian in a Turin nightclub when an English rival, Danny Gormally, performed an unorthodox and aggressive opening gambit.
Teammates at the World Chess Olympiad say Gormally moved in and sent the 23-year-old Armenian, a World Cup winner, sprawling across the floor of the Hiroshima Mon Amour nightclub.’
`A 6-year-old Florida boy who was accidentally left behind by his family after they celebrated his birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant will temporarily remain in state custody. [..]
Emanuel’s family said they accidentally left him Saturday night and didn’t notice he was missing until the next day. Each relative thought the child was with another family member. [..]
An attorney for the boy’s mother told the judge there were 12 youngsters at the party and as they all piled into cars to leave, the boy was simply overlooked.’
‘The size of a shoebox, a mysterious bronze device scooped out of a Roman-era shipwreck at the dawn of the 20th century has baffled scientists for years. Now a British researcher has stunningly established it as the world’s oldest surviving astronomy computer. [..]
Scooped out of a Roman shipwreck located in 1900 by sponge divers near the southern Greek island of Antikythera, and kept at the Athens National Archaeological Museum, the Mechanism contains over 30 bronze wheels and dials, and is covered in astronomical inscriptions.
Probably operated by crank, it survives in three main pieces and some smaller fragments.’
`There’s a time and place for everything, local Australian governments have ruled as they move to stop brothels opening near cemeteries. [..]
Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio Tuesday that cemeteries were places for quiet reflection by families who should not have to put up with “a brothel going on next door.”
“It’s totally inappropriate. There’s a place for brothels and a place for cemeteries and we don’t believe the two mix,” he said.’
`The people in the pictures below have my friend’s T-Mobile Sidekick. Instead of doing the honorable thing when finding someone’s phone in a taxi, they instead kept it. [..]
When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. There was no response. After a day of waiting, she had to go to the store and spend over $300 on a new Sidekick. When she put her SIM card in, she saw that the person(s) that had taken the phone had not only signed on to AOL leaving their name and password in the phone, but they had taken pictures of themselves.’
`Illusionist David Copperfield is planning to go one better than rival David Blaine by impregnating a woman live onstage.
The magician will carry out the stunt in Germany, without–he insists–even touching the volunteer.
Copperfield tells PageSix.com, “There is a great deal of new territory to conquer. I’m going to make a girl pregnant. Naturally there will be no sex.
“Everybody will be happy about it, but I’m not telling you any more.”‘
`A man accused of not paying for his Pop-Tarts had a troubled getaway.
First, the clerk at the convenience store ripped the man’s shirt off as they struggled when she confronted him for pocketing the toaster pastries Friday, police said.
Then after the man punched the clerk in the stomach and made it out the door, he was hit by a pickup truck in the parking lot. Police said he got up and kept running – into the path of a minivan while he was crossing the street. He got up again, but didn’t make it far.’
`Scientists hoping to stop the inexorable march of the cane toad are working on a gene that would ensure all the pest’s offspring are male – wiping out future egg-laying mothers.
The University of Queensland’s Peter Koopman has been developing a “daughterless gene” that would limit the toad’s population by eradicating females, which are able to lay tens of thousands of eggs at time.
“I am hoping to engineer a strain of toads where the male offspring stay male and the female offspring become male,” Professor Koopman said at yesterday’s national cane toad conference in Brisbane. ‘
`Microsoft executives love telling stories against each other. Here’s one that platforms vice-president Jim Allchin told at a recent Windows Vista reviewers conference about chief executive Steve Ballmer.
It seems Steve was at a friend’s wedding reception when the bride’s father complained that his PC had slowed to a crawl and would Steve mind taking a look.
Allchin says Ballmer, the world’s 13th wealthiest man with a fortune of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success.
He lumped the thing back to Microsoft’s headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate.’
`A mother swore at police and accused them of being pedophiles before she was handcuffed in front of hysterical children for double parking outside a Queensland school, a court has been told. [..]
Sergeant Carmont told the court Ms Green refused to provide her details despite being asked up to 14 times and became aggressive after police approached her BMW.
“She said ‘I know all you fucking cunt’s are corrupt, haven’t you got anything fucking better to do, you should be out arresting murderers and not harassing mothers’,” he quoted Green as saying.
“The only reason you hang around schools is because you’re a fucking pedophile cunt.”‘
`This couple didn’t even make it to the altar before police made them part.
Ali Aghili, 37, and Marney Hurst, 33, both of Boulder, were to be married Saturday night at the posh Little Nell Hotel.
Instead, they got into a fight the night before and police arrested them because both allegedly threw punches, said police Sgt. Steve Smith.
The wedding had to be called off because their $250 bond conditions required them to stay away from each other, Smith said. He said it took police three hours to sort out the incident.’
`A helicopter landed in the middle of the high security Athens Korydallos prison, picked up two prisoners and flew away in a Hollywood-style escape that has left Greek police stunned.
A criminal on the run hijacked the helicopter Sunday to get his brother out of prison, police said. Vassilis Paleokostas, 40, who was serving a 25-year sentence for kidnapping and bank robbery, and an Albanian convict escaped.
“The guards thought it was a surprise inspection by ministry officials and did nothing,” a police official said.’
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