Man shot in drunken penis-size competition
Manila - A 40-year-old man was killed in the Philippines for laughing at his
buddy's penis and refusing to show his during a drinking spree, a police officer
said on Friday. Police officer Joseph Pueblo said Eduardo Cristomar was
allegedly shot dead late on Wednesday by Arnel Orbeta in a village in Antipolo
City, 3km east of Manila. Full story
Police Bust Naked Man At Museum
Officials Catch Man Wearing Only Top Hat, Cape
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- He wasn't exactly the caped crusader, but police in
Bakersfield said that a cape was about the only thing a man was wearing when
they busted him at the scene of a museum break-in. According to officers,
Shane Michael Walton was wearing only a top hat and a cape when they found
him. Police said Walton was rolling around in a wheelchair used as a prop by the
museum for historical skits. The cape and hat were props as well, officials said. Full story
Chinese restaurant offers breast milk meals
A new craze has hit restaurant tables in China - meals cooked with human
breast milk. The dishes are being offered at a restaurant in Changsha, capital of
southern Hunan province, with plans to expand to the boom town of Shenzhen
across the border from Hong Kong, according to local newspapers. The Beijing
Times says the milk came from six peasant women who were still breast-
feeding their children.Full story
MP caught playing war games in parliament
A Norwegian member of parliament apologised on Thursday for playing a war
game on his pocket computer while legislators around him debated the
possibility of a real war in Iraq. Trond Helleland, a member of the ruling
Conservative Party, was caught on a national television camera playing the
game during Wednesday's debate about whether Norway would take part in any
US-led military action against Iraq. Full story
Window breaker freed after 29 years in jail
Jamaica has reached an out-of-court settlement with a man jailed for 29 years
without trial for allegedly breaking a window, a human rights lawyer says.
Ivan Nettleford, 77, released last year from the Saint Catherine District prison
on the outskirts of the capital, was lost in the prison system after being charged
with malicious destruction of property in 1972. On his first appearance in court,
he was declared unfit to enter a plea due to a mental condition and the judge
ordered him kept in custody until his condition improved. Full story
Bound For Victory? "Joe Millionaire" finalist starred in bondage and fetish flicks
One of the trio of "Joe Millionaire" finalists has starred in dozens of kinky
bondage and fetish films that feature her being handcuffed, gagged, hog-tied,
or bound with duct tape, The Smoking Gun has learned.
While Fox Television has described Sarah Kozer's occupation as "sales and
design," the 29-year-old Los Angeles woman has a far more interesting entry
on her resume: in the past few years she has starred in bondage films like
"Novices in Knots," "Hogtied," and "Helpless Heroines," an well as foot titles like
"Dirty Soled Dolls." The 1998 graduate of Virginia's George Mason University is
credited in these films as "Cindy Schubert." Full story
Kansas Man Accused Of Urinating On Packages Of Chicken
Man Becomes First Charged Under State's Food-Supply Protection Law
OLATHE, Kan. -- A Kansas man charged Tuesday with urinating on packages of
chicken in a supermarket cooler is the first person in Johnson County, Kan., to
face a new food-supply protection law.
Larry Ray Pratt, 48, was arrested late Monday after employees of the Dillon
Store identified his photograph in a lineup. Full story
India increases punishment for 'private part' injuries
The Supreme Court in India has increased the grading of punishment for fatal
injuries to the testicles to first-degree murder.
The court has ruled that if a person with an intention to kill fatally injures
another in what it has termed "the private parts", the accused will be charged
with murder. Full story
The state of our union is … unmentionable
If you went to the refrigerator during the first three minutes of President Bush's
State of the Union address, you missed the part where he discussed the state of
the union. After a few words about his record on the economy, education,
corporate responsibility, and homeland security, Bush spent the rest of the hour
outlining plans and promises. It was the kind of speech a president gives when
he's been in office two weeks, not two years. Full story
U.N. Orders Wonka To Submit To Chocolate Factory Inspections
Responding to pressure from the international community, the U.N. ordered
enigmatic candy maker William "Willy" Wonka to submit to chocolate-factory
inspections Monday.
"For years, Wonka has hidden the ominous doings of his research and
development facility from the outside world," U.N. Secretary General Kofi
Annan said. "Given the reports of child disappearances, technological advances
in glass-elevator transport, and Wonka-run Oompa-Loompa forced-labor
camps, the time has come to put an end to three decades of secrecy in the
Wonka Empire." Full story
Student Sprays Gas to Avoid Math Test
Tue January 28, 2003 08:03 AM ET
LISBON (Reuters) - A Portuguese school student is under police investigation for
spraying toxic gas into a classroom to avoid taking a mathematics test, a police
spokeswoman said Tuesday. Full story
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two brothers who allegedly killed their mother, then
cut off her head and hands and dumped the body in a California forest, were
copying an episode of the hit television series "The Sopranos," police said on
Monday. Jason Bautista, a 20-year-old college student, and his 15-year-old
brother, were arrested after police found their mother's severed head and
hands stashed in their home, Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona said at a
press conference.Full story
Over a period of 150 years, an estimated 30,000 women were imprisoned by
the Catholic Church and forced to work without pay.
C O R K, Ireland, Jan. 26 - A sudden spate of TV exposés, docudramas and
a major motion picture have brought to light one of the most shocking episodes
in the history of the Catholic Church in Ireland - the existence of the now-
notorious "Magdalene laundries," a sanctified form of slavery.
Operated by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order, the laundries were virtual
slave labor camps for generations of young girls thought to be unfit to live in
Irish society. Girls who had become pregnant, even from rape, girls who were
illegitimate, or orphaned, or just plain simple-minded, girls who were too pretty
and therefore in "moral danger" all ran the risk of being locked up and put to
work, without pay, in profit-making, convent laundries, to "wash away their
sins." Full story
Hackers have once again disabled the Web site of the Recording Industry
Association of America, a group of record labels that is leading the charge in the
crackdown on online music piracy. The attack, which began Friday, has caused
the site to be unavailable for three days, an RIAA representative confirmed
Monday. It follows several other malicious attacks on the site last summer.
"How pathetic that those who want free music don't believe in free speech,"
RIAA spokeswoman Amy Weiss said in a statement. Full story
India is planning a 500 ft. tall bronze Buddha statue, the world's tallest, despite
the stir caused when a new 108 ft. tall Krishna statue fell and crushed two
workers and a bystander. Full story
New Mexico's governor Bill Richardson, back from an unscheduled visit to North
"Axis of Evil" Korea, has told New Mexico's legislature of his "wholehearted
support for the renovation of Highway 666". Known by locals as the "Devil's
Highway", "Satan's Highway","Highway to Hell", "Asphalt Inferno", "Beelzebub
Boulevard", and "Pointy Tale's Parkway to Perdition", U.S. 666 is reportedly
one of the most dangerous roads in New Mexico. That may be due to its poor
maintenance and to brain-dead drivers, but changing the name of the road will
free it of the influence of the Evil One, an example of bold government in action. Full story
On the road with Murder Inc
WASHINGTON - Last week Israel announced that it would begin taking a more
aggressive role in the war on terrorism, including the use of so-called targeted
killings in the US and other friendly countries. This was a significant shift for the
Israeli government, which has since the late 1990s officially steered away from
practicing lethal covert operations beyond its own borders and throughout the
occupied territories.Full Story
WASHINGTON, DC With concern over North Korea's nuclear capabilities
growing, President Bush reassured the American people Monday that
"extreme force" will be used to remove Saddam Hussein from power if
the Iraqi president fails to give up suspected weapons of mass destruction. Full story
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA
Responding to mounting pressure and increasingly confrontational rhetoric from
the outside world, North Korean president Kim Jong Il unfolded into a 70-foot-
tall, 62-ton giant robot Monday. Full story
Man Beating Dog With Gun Shoots Himself
WINCHESTER, Va. - A man trying to beat his dog to death with a gun was
fatally wounded when it apparently went off accidentally, police said.
Raymond Poore Jr., 43, called his wife at work Thursday and told her that their
dog had bitten him and he intended to kill the animal, police Capt. David Sobonya said. Full story
Afghan women take driving test
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Zai Kakal leapt out of the beat-up Toyota
flashing a Cadillac-size smile. Under the watchful eyes of a traffic officer,
she had just completed her road test, the final step toward earning what
few women in Afghanistan have had in more than a decade: a driver's license. Full story