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Every time the train comes through, the market owners have to shut up shop to let it pass. Strange place to build a shop if you ask me. 🙂

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‘Women on board a ship make the sea angery.

A naked woman on board will calm the sea.

A dog seen near fishing tackle is bad luck.

Cutting your hair or nails at sea is bad luck.

Church Bells heard at sea mean someone on the ship will die.

When the clothes of a dead sailor are worn by another sailor during the same voyage, misfortune will befall the entire ship.’

‘The trucking association is calling on the Territory government to balance funding of level crossing upgrades with road surface improvements.

The Victorian Government yesterday announced 250 level crossings will be upgraded as a result of the rail crash near Kerang that killed 11 people earlier this month.

But the Executive Officer of the Australian Trucking Association, Peter Goed says a similar response would not be appropriate for the Territory.

He says painting trains bright colours could improve rail crossing safety.

“We should paint them a different colour… bright pink or something or purple or whatever so they can be seen easily,” he said’

‘A man who left his girlfriend’s body to decompose in his Jeep Cherokee must pay her parents $500,000 for interfering with their rights to properly bury her, a Jackson County jury has ruled.

In 2005, Matthew C. Davis, 42, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison for abandoning a corpse and 15 more for three unrelated drug charges.

Police found the decomposed body of Amber McGathey, 22, in Davis’ Jeep on June 6, 2004. Prosecutors believed McGathey died of a drug overdose four days earlier, when a witness saw a man wheeling a shopping cart with what appeared to be a body in it.

On Wednesday, the jury ordered Davis to pay $250,000 each to Boyd McGathey, of Parkville, and Debra Augustine, of Waterloo, Ill. They had sued under a rarely used legal doctrine called “interference with the right of sepulcher and burial.”‘

‘A Bosnian couple are getting divorced after finding out they had been secretly chatting each other up online under fake names.

Sana Klaric, 27, and husband Adnan, 32, from Zenica, poured out their hearts to each other over their marriage troubles, and both felt they had found their real soul mate.

The couple met on an online chat forum while he was at work and she in an internet cafe, and started chatting under the names Sweetie and Prince of Joy.

They eventually decided to meet up – but there was no happy ending when they realised what had happened. [..]

“To be honest I still find it hard to believe that the person, Sweetie, who wrote such wonderful things to me on the internet, is actually the same woman I married and who has not said a nice word to me for years.”‘

Apparently the mormon men are on a Mission.

‘Potentially-lethal booby traps were found in a Newport cannabis factory.

Now police across Gwent are being warned of the discovery of several dangerous booby-traps at a house in Newport where police discovered a large number of cannabis plants and extensive growing equipment.

These included a series of 10-inch metal skewers set up inside window frames, and concealed beneath a thin sheet of cardboard, so intruders would not see them until it was too late.
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The cannabis growers had also rerouted the electricity supply and used it to create high voltage wires running across door and window frames, which were accessible from the outside of the house, so that a single touch by an intruder could deliver a potentially fatal electric shock.’

‘A Vermont man sent a 16-year-old Enfield girl disturbing text messages and pictures of him wearing a diaper, police said.

Enfield police said Lawrence Robarge, 48, of Vermont, sent the messages to the girl earlier in September. The girl didn’t recognize the number, but she contacted police when she saw the messages and pictures.

“They were very disturbing, given her age and what the text messages say,” Chief Richard Crate Jr. said.

Police said that one picture sent to the girl shows a bottle of baby powder and two diapers. A caption with the photo reads, “Show this to your lady friends then have them call me if their [sic] interested. OKAY???”

Crate said that Robarge dialed the number at random and reached the girl.’

‘A man accused of killing a pet pig may blame the pig as part of his defense.

Joseph Calarudda is charged with stabbing 300-pound “Porky” to death as its owners pleaded for him to stop.

Calarudda is going on trial this week for felony theft of livestock. One of his defenses may be that the pig was aggressive and dangerous.’

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‘A coroner has called for “insult chatrooms” to be banned after a man took his own life while being watched by others on a web cam.

A verdict of suicide was returned on Kevin Whitrick, 42, of Wellington, Telford, Shropshire, who died in March.

The court heard he was using Paltalk, which urged users to insult each other, when he said he wanted to kill himself.

He hanged himself while some internet users urged him on and others tried to stop him, coroner Michael Gwynne heard.’

‘A 3-year-old quietly escaped his West View house through a newly installed doggy door at about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday.

The parents said they woke up to find their child and their pet boxer on the sidewalk of their Cornell Street home.

Authorities said the boxer decided to go for an early morning stroll, and the inquisitive child decided to tag along.

Police said the toddler followed the dog out of the doggie hole to the back yard and then around to the front of the home where a passerby noticed and called police.

Police said they awakened the child’s parents, who were sound asleep.’

‘A woman is admitted to the Sacramento mental hospital, after trying to drive off with a fire engine, half-naked.

Fire officials say the attempted theft happened when they were on a first aid call. The driver of the fire engine says he was at the back of the truck, when he heard the accelerator. He found Schilicia Griffin in the driver’s seat, and pulled her out.

Officials say Griffin was just released from the mental hospital shortly before she tried to steal the truck. She has been re-admitted for evaluation.’

Which half, I wonder..

‘An Oregon man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday after hiring another man to kill his wife.

Susan Kuhnhausen fought off the hit man and actually strangled the attacker with her bare hands killing him.

During Friday’s sentencing hearing held up a picture taken of her bruised face after the attack and said, “This is what I would have looked like if I die.” [..]

Susan called it a cowardly plan.

“If I ever believed you deserved to be dead, I would at least have had the balls to kill you myself,” declared Kuhnhausen.’

‘A Czech speedway driver knocked unconscious in a crash stunned ambulance drivers when he woke up speaking perfect English.

18-year-old Matej Kus was out cold for 45 minutes after the crash, but when he woke up he conversed fluidly in English with paramedics, even speaking in an English accent.

The teenager had just begun to study the language and his skills were described by friends and team-mates as “basic at best”.

Peter Waite, the promoter for Kus’s team, the Berwick Bandits, told the Daily Mail: “I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

“It was in a really clear English accent, no dialect or anything. Whatever happened in the crash must have rearranged things in his head. [..]’

‘It sounds too good to be true – not to mention the fact that it violates almost every known law of physics.

But British scientists claim they have invented a revolutionary device that seems to ‘create’ energy from virtually nothing.

Their so-called thermal energy cell could soon be fitted into ordinary homes, halving domestic heating bills and making a major contribution towards cutting carbon emissions. [..]

Even the makers of the device are at a loss to explain exactly how it works – but sceptical independent scientists carried out their own tests and discovered that the 12in x 2in tube really does produce far more heat energy than the electrical energy put in.’

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‘They’re an odd couple in every sense but a monkey and a pigeon have become inseparable at an animal sanctuary in China.

The 12-week-old macaque – who was abandoned by his mother – was close to death when it was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province.

After being taken to an animal hospital his health began to improve but he seemed spiritless – until he developed a friendship with a white pigeon.

The blossoming relationship helped to revive the macaque who has developed a new lease of life, say staff at the sanctuary.’

‘Madonna and Britney Spears have been targeted as the spreaders of “Satanic culture”.

The aggressive comments were launched by spokesman and senior leader of Palestinian terror group The Popular Resistance Committees, a group based in the Gaza Strip and responsible for the increase in shootings and bombings in the region.

Muhammad Abdel-Al is quoted in new book ‘Schmoozing With Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans – to a Jew!’ attacks the two pop stars, labelling them “prostitutes”.

Abdel-Al rants, “If I meet these whores I will have the honour – I repeat, I will have the honour – to be the first one to cut the heads off Madonna and Britney Spears if they will keep spreading their satanic culture against Islam.”‘

‘Israeli police say they have broken up a gang of neo-Nazis who are accused of carrying out attacks on foreigners, gay people and religious Jews.

The eight suspects, aged 16-21, are all Israeli citizens from the former Soviet Union. They were arrested a month ago, but the news only emerged on Saturday.

Police say searches of their homes yielded Nazi uniforms, portraits of Adolf Hitler, knives, guns and TNT.’

‘Consumers’ associations in Italy have asked people to refrain from buying or eating pasta for the day, in protest against recent price increases.

The groups are requesting the government intervene to reduce pasta prices.

An increase in the price of wheat in recent months has forced pasta manufacturers to pass on the cost.

Pasta is a national dish in Italy, with each Italian eating on average 28 kg (62 lb) of pasta every year.’

‘A karate club team have been crowned the world’s first gravy wrestling champions.

The eight teams competing for the title slopped about in a converted swimming pool filled with lukewarm gravy as part of the inaugural World Gravy-Wrestling Championships. [..]

Winning team leader Ian Marsden said: “It took great skill just to keep your feet. The gravy soon got cold and started to solidify.

“I think we got the better of the opposition because they were reduced to throwing lumpy gravy at us.”‘

‘She waited on her porch for a car made of bones to come and take her to hell.

Instead, when sheriff’s deputies arrived, she calmly went to jail, expecting the floor there to open up and deliver her to her fiery fate.

Were Jennifer Kukla’s visions, as described to police and psychiatrists, fantasies fueled by psychotic delusions? Or were they proof she knew right from wrong when she slit the throats of her two young daughters?’

‘A man described in court as a “major alcoholic” has been banned from every pub in England and Wales for two years following an attack in a Devon bar.

Jon McGoff, 35, drank a litre of vodka before punching Dave Gover’s face and biting him, Exeter Crown Court heard. [..]

The prosecutor said; “When McGoff interrupted the landlady of the Kings Arms as she was serving drinks, Mr Gover went over to see what the problem was.”

He was then “punched in the face and knocked to the ground and McGoff took another swing at him then sunk his teeth into his arm causing five puncture wounds,” the prosecutor added.’

‘A bald man went into a pharmacy and stole five bottles of a hair loss treatment but was caught while running away, police said. Mark Hoousendove, 42, was arrested on misdemeanor charges of petty larceny and resisting arrest, Detective Lt. William Sullivan said. The product was worth about $50.

Hoousendove, of Freeport, had just dropped off friends who were visiting an inmate at Sing Sing prison on Sunday when he went into the pharmacy, police said. An officer nearby chased him and grabbed him, they said.’

‘A Fayetteville man was charged Sunday with having sex with one of his boss’ dogs. [..]

A neighbor told authorities she saw Johnson assaulting one of two adult female pit bulls the morning of Aug. 21 in his front yard, said Animal Control Officer Frank Ringleberg.

Johnson was living in a mobile home on Autumn Drive in Vass before he moved to Fayetteville, Ringleberg said. The owners of Presidential Tree Service, the company where Johnson works, let their employees live in the mobile home, Ringleberg said.

Both dogs were taken to a veterinarian for examination, Detective Bill Mackey said. One of the dogs had minor injuries, but the veterinarian could not determine how the injuries were made, Mackey said.’

It would make for an interesting tactic during salary negotiations. ‘Give me a raise or I’ll fuck your dog!’.. 🙂

‘An Invercargill man who urinates on his veggie garden stands by his practice.

Nick Kiddey told The Southland Times this week that he urinates on his vegetable plants as it was an excellent fertiliser, which was sterile and contains no pathogens.

It was also a great way to conserve water instead of flushing the toilet which wastes up to 11 litres of clean water per flush, Mr Kiddey said.

However, a caller to The Southland Times disagreed with Mr Kiddey’s comments about urine containing no pathogens and wanted to know what evidence there was to support it.

Mr Kiddey responded, stating that on further research into the issue he agreed urine “may contain” pathogens.’

‘Two men have been arrested for stealing a man’s clothes and leaving him to wander around naked, officials said. The victim, a 19-year-old Hazleton man, was taken by two men to a rural area west of Oelwein where the men took his clothes at gunpoint, officials with the Fayette County sheriff’s office said.

The investigation began after the sheriff’s office received a report of a naked man walking down a county road early Sunday morning.

Deputies searched an Oelwein home later in the day and found the victim’s clothes and several guns.’

‘Police say a burglar has stolen narcotics from three pharmacies by walking in during business hours, climbing into the space above the ceiling and hiding there until the store closes. [..]

In the first two instances, Denver Police say the suspect hid in a false ceiling inside a bathroom. Police say he also hid in a false ceiling in the most recent incident. Police say the man is extremely patient, in some cases hiding up to eight hours. They also say he seems to be pretty knowledgeable about prescription drugs as he picks and chooses what he steals.

Police say the burglar has not been violent so far, but that could change.’

‘Lick me in the ass!
Let us be glad!
Grumbling is in vain!
Growling, droning is in vain,
is the true bane of life,
Droning is in vain,
Growling, droning is in vain, in vain!
Thus let us be cheerful and merry, be glad!’