News of the Weird - this just in!

[PeteC]

Looks like SJ's burglar has headed south. Pete

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – A Malaysian man was sentenced to 25 weeks in jail for stealing 80 pairs of women's panties, a media report said Saturday.
The Star newspaper said Zunaidi Ismail, a 34-year-old unemployed man from Borneo island, had admitted stealing the underwear from an apartment occupied by nursing students in three separate break-ins.
The underwear was worth a total of 280 ringgit (77 dollars), it said.
In mitigation, Zunaidi told the court he stole the underwear to resell at a secondhand clothing market.

[STEVE G]

Pilot's miracle escape as plane crash lands ... on a pile of Portaloos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... aloos.html

[Khundon1975]

Well he can't blame anyone but himself for "dropping himself in it"

[STEVE G]

Speed camera boss banned for, er, speeding

LONDON (Reuters) - A senior executive at a speed camera firm was banned from driving for six months Wednesday after admitting speeding at more than 100 mph on a 70 mph limit dual carriageway.

Tom Riall, a divisional chief executive at Serco, was recorded driving at 103 mph in his blue Volvo on the A14 in Newmarket, Suffolk, just before 1 p.m. on January 4.

Riall was sentenced at a hearing at Sudbury Magistrates' Court, the Press Association reported.

Riall is head of Serco's Home Affairs division, which has installed Gatso speed cameras at around 4,500 sites around Britain since 1992.

[Khundon1975]

Gottcha.

[sandman67]

Porn star Stormy Daniels challenges shamed Republican in Senate race
Stormy Daniels

Ms Daniels's Republican opponent was caught cavorting with prostitutes
Tim Reid in Washington

It is a US Senate race to savour, pitting a porn star named Stormy — the proud winner of the 2007 Golden G-string award — against a Christian family-values Republican shamed after being caught cavorting with prostitutes.

In these gloomy days of global recession and soaring unemployment, the Louisiana Senate race is brightening the lives of many, courtesy of Stormy Daniels, who set off on a “listening tour” of her home state yesterday, taking on David Vitter, the Republican senator, with the slogan: “Stormy Daniels: Screwing People Honestly”.

Ms Daniels says that she is running in response to an internet campaign called Draft Stormy that she claims has got people even more excited than viewers of her hit films Space Nuts and Taken. Whatever the outcome, her decision to thrust her 36-inch chest into Louisiana politics is dragging Mr Vitter’s 2007 prostitution scandal back into the limelight.

“He ran for the Senate on a family values, anti-sex education platform,” Ms Daniels told The Times. “And he’s caught with prostitutes. That’s hypocritical. Call me what you will, but you can’t call me a hypocrite.”
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Ms Daniels says she loves the business she works in, but if she did enter the US Senate: “I think I would have to give it up.” Mr Vitter, an outspoken conservative who co-sponsored an anti-gay Marriage Protection Amendment last year, was humiliated in 2007 when it emerged that his name and number was on the list of phone call records kept by the so-called D. C. Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who turned the documents over to a news organisation.

Mr Vitter, with his wife by his side during the inevitable post-revelation press conference, admitted to a “serious sin” after it emerged that his phone number had been called five times by Ms Palfrey’s agency.

Yet he added that he had “asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife”. In May last year Ms Palfrey was found dead, having apparently committed suicide after being convicted of running a prostitution ring.

Ms Daniels, one of the most successful porn actresses in the US, has already challenged Mr Vitter to a debate — “but I don’t think he has the balls to confront me” — and said she would be willing to wrestle him, something that Mr Vitter, with his track record, might secretly relish.

Few think Ms Daniels can actually beat Mr Vitter next year but her candidacy is an uncomfortable reminder for a Republican party as to why it has been so resoundingly rejected by US voters. After losing power on Capitol Hill in 2006, the party lost the White House and further ground in Congress in 2008. Democrats now reign supreme in Washington.

Part of the reason was the sleaze factor and as Ms Daniels says: “Politics can’t be any dirtier a job than the one I am already in.”

comment: She gets my vote for the killer election slogan!

[sandman67]

Thai woman bites Belgian tourist's organ


Pattaya - A Belgian tourist was severely injured early Thursday when his Thai bit his male organ and almost severed it, police said.

The tourist, Eddy Iam De Velde, 56, was rushed to the Pattaya Memorial Hospital and doctors managed to save the man's organ.

The hospital reported the event to police at 5:30 am.

The man told police from his hospital bed that his girlfriend, who he has been living with for about a month, injured him.

She said the woman became angry after learning that he had another Thai lover.

The two quarreled while having sex so she bit him and he called friends to send him to the hospital.

Police will arrest the woman whom has yet to be identified.

The Nation


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

[hhfarang]

"... a woman scorned!"... and he still gave her the opportunity to do that?

[PeteC]

He's lucky he still has it. Thai on Thai, the wife usually lops it off with a kitchen knife. The famous story is her then throwing it out a window where a duck swallows it. Pete

[sandman67]

I could make a joke about Thai mens weenies being the same size as maggots or worms....

I could.....but I wont

[Khundon1975]

The angry bird, catches the worm.

[sandman67]

Siege police wait for snakes to ssssurrender

A rattlesnake was among the creatures besieged in the flat
Graham Keeley in Madrid

It wasn’t quite the serpentine invasion Samuel L. Jackson had to deal with on a commercial airliner in Snakes on a Plane, but Spanish police were taking no chances.

Eight dangerous snakes were curled up in a Madrid flat yesterday as Civil Guard officers and zookeepers refused to storm the building until the relevant antidote had been administered — or the creatures surrendered.

It could be a long wait: there was no sign of capitulation last night and the antidote could take three weeks to arrive from Mexico.

As the siege dragged on, nervous neighbours in the suburb of Barajas were keeping a close watch just in case the two pythons, five boa constrictors and a rattlesnake slipped out and slithered under their doors.

It was thought that all the snakes were held securely in cages but in case any of them was free — and hungry — the police were staying well away.

The alarm was raised after the serpents’ owner was bitten on the hand by the rattlesnake. Named only by police as Juan C. M., he was rushed to hospital in a serious condition on Friday last week, but released two days later.

He had bought the snakes on the internet.

Doctors had to appeal to hospitals and zoos across Spain for the antidote to treat the rattlesnake bite. However, zoos and hospitals do not keep antidotes for snakes that are not native to Spain.

The Civil Guard’s environmental protection unit refused to let the owner remove the snakes until an antidote arrived. It said that the snakes had been well cared for, but Spanish law prohibited them from being held outside authorised establishments.

Each dose of snake venom antidote costs up to ¤200 (£175), and some prolonged treatment can be costly, said Cesar Olmos, an expert in snake bites.

In remarks not calculated to reassure the waiting police — or anyone in the neighbourhood who has seen the fim Snakes on a Plane, in which Jackson fends off dozens of aggressive fanged nightmares — he said: “These animals are dangerous and can devour a baby or asphyxiate adults.”

Juan C. M. could face prosecution for possession of dangerous reptiles.

Comment: I suppose "Come out with your hands up" doesnt work with snakes.....

[PeteC]

I love this one. A modern day Bonnie & Clyde, except that they were given the money. By their surnames they are Chinese as well, and fled to HK....smart. They may never be found, until they run out of money that is and go home. Pete
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Hunt for New Zealand pair may lead to Hong Kong

By RAY LILLEY, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 6 mins ago
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – From running a gas station to just plain running: A New Zealand couple who dropped out of sight after a bank error gave them a multimillion-dollar line of credit was being sought in Hong Kong, police said Friday.
An international search was under way for the man and his girlfriend, who disappeared two days after a bank mistakenly handed them a credit line of 10 million New Zealand dollars ($6.1 million) — 100 times their approved limit of NZ$100,000 ($61,000).
An account holder then tried to transfer about $4 million out of the account, but the bank was able to recover $1.7 million, the bank said. The statement did not specify how it got the money back.
"Westpac is continuing to vigorously pursue the outstanding amount" of $2.3 million, the bank said.
A New Zealand woman told the TV3 network that the two being sought by police were her daughter, Kara Yang, and boyfriend Leo Gao, who were traveling with Yang's 7-year-old daughter, Leena.
Sue Hurring said that her daughter was "honest" and issued a plea for her to turn herself in.
"Just come home now," Hurring told the network. "It will be OK."
The New Zealand Press Association also reported the names of the couple, although neither police nor the bank have identified the pair.
Detective Senior Sgt. David Harvey said Interpol was investigating in Hong Kong and was also working with officials in Beijing. The New Zealand Herald quoted unnamed police as saying the two were believed to be in Hong Kong.
Westpac said the couple, who ran a gas station in the North Island city of Rotorua — a favorite tourist destination known for its scenery, sparkling lakes and geysers — had the equivalent of a $61,000 credit limit. In formalizing the couple's limit, the bank accidentally opened a line of credit for $6.1 million.
Initial details from the bank indicated that money had actually been deposited into their account.
Companies Office records list Gao and another person as owners of the gas station, which police said filed for bankruptcy protection this month.
Westpac says it considers the money to have been stolen but conceded it was human error at the bank that made the couple accidental millionaires.
Banking Ombudsman Liz Brown said it is generally considered a criminal offense for people to spend money accidentally deposited into a bank account if they are aware that the cash is not theirs.
In her 15 years as banking Ombudsman, Brown said she had been involved in 10 to 20 similar cases.
Massey University banking lecturer Claire Matthews said recently she believed the pair would be hard pressed to argue they honestly believed they were entitled to such a huge sum of money.

[PeteC]

This guy should be awarded the Grim Reaper trophy of the year! Pete
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Passer-by pushes suicide jumper in south China

BEIJING – Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand — and pushed him off the ledge.
Chen fell 26 feet (8 meters) onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion laid out by authorities and survived, suffering spine and elbow injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.
The passer-by, 66-year-old Lai Jiansheng, had been fed up with what he called Chen's "selfish activity," Xinhua said. Traffic around the Haizhu bridge in the city of Guangzhou had been backed up for five hours and police had cordoned off the area.
"I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interest," Lai was quoted as saying by Xinhua. "They do not really dare to kill themselves. Instead, they just want to raise the relevant government authorities' attention to their appeals."
Xinhua said Lai was "taken away by police" but did not elaborate.
A police officer who answered the telephone Saturday at a station close to the bridge confirmed the incident and said it was under investigation. He refused to give any other details and hung up.
According to Xinhua, Chen wanted to kill himself because he had accrued 2 million yuan ($290,000) in debt from a failed construction project.
On Thursday, he made his way to the Haizhu bridge, where 11 other people have tried to take their lives since April.
Lai volunteered to talk Chen down but was turned away by police, Xinhua said. Lai then broke through the cordon, climbed to where Chen sat, greeted him with a handshake, then pushed.
Photos in the Beijing Morning Post showed Lai, shoeless and in a T-shirt, saluting after Chen fell.
The paper said Lai was released on bail Friday but did not give any details. It said he had been on medication for "a mental illness" for decades and had been on his way to a hospital for his pills.
Chen was recovering in the hospital, Xinhua said.

[STEVE G]

Tesco displays Josef Fritzl book in Father's Day display:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/news ... splay.html