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FOGHORN NOISE
The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: furpo
Since the rear of the property was adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway, "vessels were passing by continuously and witnessing the incident"... That's when the "completely nude” couple's tryst was interrupted by, of course, Captain Wiener."
Discuss
"Clamming" In The Buff
Cape Cod Online | Submitted by: Fyregurl
When police arrived they saw Antone and a male friend about 35 feet offshore in the shallow water. Antone had a bucket to collect shellfish. His genitals were above water and in full view."
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Audience Participation: Sea Lion Mauling
Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ
Young Jack had been chosen as a member of the audience to take part in the Sea Lion Show at Taronga Zoo in Sydney yesterday. The zoo says after the show the boy "accidentally strayed into an area behind the female animal, who reacted unexpectedly with severe fright, and turned and bit the boy."
Discuss
Pols Grope Sex Offender Tar-Baby
Cedar Rapids Gazette | Submitted by: furpo
This is a common criticism of mandatory sentences -- it doesn’t take into account the facts and circumstances of individual cases. The mandatory sentencing is addictive -- once you have it, you get hooked. No politician is going to change it because they would lose the next election. They would be a friend of pedophiles. They get politically stuck in it."
Discuss
Red Germany Holds Magic Lantern Show
Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ
Angry parents who discovered that the pens given to their six-year-old children could project erotic images of women informed the headmaster... "The German Communist Party deeply regrets what has happened and is outraged that this kind of thing, which borders on pornography, can be purchased in normal shops."
Discuss
Reading Arabic Easier With Half A Brain
BBC News | Submitted by: ditchley
The University of Haifa team say people use both sides of their brain when they begin reading a language -- but when learning Arabic this is wasting effort... The detail of Arabic characters means students should use only the left side of their brain because that side is better at distinguishing detail."
Discuss
CIA Reshuffles Blackwater Shell Game
New York Times | Submitted by: ditchley
1) Blackwater to obscure its involvement in government work from contracting officials or the public, and to assure a low profile for any of its classified activities... 2) The network of companies, which includes several businesses located in offshore tax havens... 3) The CIA's continuing relationship with the company, which recently was awarded a $100 million contract to provide security at agency bases in Afghanistan... 4) Company employees loaded bombs and missiles onto Predator drones in Pakistan... 5) Executives accused of buying large numbers of machine guns, but arranging to make it appear as if they had been bought by the sheriff's department in Camden County, VA."
Discuss
Lose A Hand, Get The Sack
Times of India | Submitted by: lord redpubes
A southwest-Indian college has sacked its lecturer whose right hand was chopped off by activists of radical outfit Popular Front of India for preparing a controversial Malayalam question paper with alleged derogatory references to Prophet Muhammad... Education Minister M. A. Baby said the dismissal besides being an extreme step was even "irrationally negative."
Discuss
Dog Gobbles Bras By The Dozen
SUN | Submitted by: Danger Mouse
SHOCKED vets carried out surgery on a dog after X-rays revealed it had eaten 12 BRAS... Docs were stunned to discover the dog's belly was full of UNDERWEAR -- including the wiring from a comedy bra!" [X-ray shokku!]
Discuss
Stalker Jailed Over Hatefuck Fanfics
Independent | Submitted by: furpoPeter Sotos this is not: "A stalker was jailed today after writing a blog about raping and murdering a woman he had been harassing in real life for two years... Downing detailed the imagined attack on children's author Katharine Quarmby in a T-file phantasy: "He heard her children waking up at seven... He had to see her... He was listening for the all important turning of her front door handle. When it came he waited for voices to emerge. He pounced."
Discuss
Prostitutes Forced Into Craigslut Diaspora
Wired | Submitted by: ditchley
The "Adult Services" listing on Craigslist was removed late Friday on its U.S.-based sites and replaced with the word censored... Last week, 17 haymaking state attorney-generals demanded the company immediately shut down its adult services listing (but the swinger channels can stay)."
Discuss
Skydiving Plane Makes Runway Fireball
NZ Sunday Star Times | Submitted by: ditchley
The crash, which happened at 1:15pm on the Fox Glacier air strip, sent plumes of thick black smoke billowing across the village on an otherwise crystal-clear day... At this stage there seems to be no indication why the plane, which was carrying a group of skydivers, dove after take-off and crashed into a ball of flames at the edge of the runway, killing 9 passengers"
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Christchurch Rumples In 7.1 Quake
Stuff NZ | Submitted by: are the kiwidudes okay??
A state of emergency was declared for the first time in Christchurch's history as police closed the heart of the stricken city for assessments on buildings, some of which had whole facades blown away by the 7.1 magnitude earthquake... Despite the devastation, the only known serious casualties were two people injured after being hit by falling bricks and glass, although there were a string of minor injuries." [Photos]
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Golfer Torched In Back Nine
BBC News | Submitted by: stabwounds
A badly-burnt body with part of a limb missing has been found in undergrowth between the 17th and 18th holes of an East Sussex golf course... The body was found by players on Saturday morning at Dyke Golf Club just north of Brighton."
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Hungry Maggots Lose Patience
Cincinnati Enquirer | Submitted by: beader
Initially, authorities believed she had been dead for a week because of the state of the body’s decomposition and the large number of maggots, flies and rotting bed sores. But the coroner declared she had been dead only one day when police arrived... The home was so filthy and smelled so badly, police wore special masks and suits to enter it."
Discuss
Imaginary Man Gets Fake Funeral
TPM | Submitted by: emptyhead
Once those in on the scheme got word the feds were snooping around, they unearthed the coffin with the supposed remains of "Jim Davis" and re-filled the casket with a mannequin and cow parts. Then they sent it off to the crematory, and filed false documents stating "Davis" had been cremated."
Discuss
Belgium: Neutering Is Compulsory
Guardian | Submitted by: Danger Mouse
Cat culls have a long history in Belgium. In Ypres, in western Flanders, they've been hurling the animals from the belfry of the 12th-century Cloth Hall for hundreds of years in an annual ritual to ward off the devil... Now with an explosion in cat copulation, the result is the Multi-Annual Cat Plan 2011-2016, which says sterilisation is necessary to relieve shelters."
Discuss
Euro Banks Launder Money Through US
Wall Street Journal | Submitted by: ditchley
These weren't rogue operations. The investigators discovered that the banks ran dedicated units to systematically aid the undetected transfer of money through the U.S. banking system. They did that by removing identifying coding on fund transfers so they could evade automated U.S. bank computer systems designed to spot money flowing from a sanctioned state."
Discuss
Simon Wiesenthal Revealed As Mossad
Telegraph | Submitted by: ditchley
Another Eichmann hunter who felt equally frustrated at the beginning of 1960 was Simon Wiesenthal. On 11 January, Wiesenthal was visited in his office in Linz by two Mossad operatives, who wished to know how an Austrian investigation into Eichmann was proceeding. Wiesenthal's relationship with the Mossad is unclear, but it is extremely likely that he was an agent for the organization throughout the 1950s; one report called him "chief Austrian Agent of the Israeli Intelligence Bureau."
Discuss
Rockefeller Line Faces Dismemberment
The Age | Submitted by: ditchley
The millionaire met the couple after placing an advertisement in a sex-swingers' magazine..." Cut to: "He punched Mr Rockefeller harder than he had ever struck anyone before. Mr Rockefeller fell, hit his head and died... Schembri dismembered his body while Denny listened from inside the house, vomiting. Schembri then burnt the remains in a 44-gallon drum in a friend's backyard."
Discuss
Old Man Tazed For Obeying
ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: anonymous
Video shows one officer pointing his Taser at McFarland while ordering him to stand up or be tazed. The deputy repeats his command numerous times but McFarland refuses... When he finally gets up from his couch, the deputy fires his Taser. McFarland falls to the floor, withering in pain... The deputy fires twice while McFarland is on the ground, ordering each time to "stop resisting."
Discuss
Miami Cop Blows Whistle On Police Beatings
Miami New Times | Submitted by: artemisia
Adams is an exemplary cop if his personnel record is any indication... But he says the state's largest police department has become a menace, regularly abusing and humiliating the people it's sworn to protect -- and then lying about it. "They're supposed to be my brothers in blue," he says, struggling to keep his voice audible as his eyes become soggy. "But they're not my brothers -- not when they're treating people like this."
Discuss
Food Riots In Mozambique
Telegraph | Submitted by: Mr. Misrell
A 30 per cent rise in the price of bread has caused widespread anger in one of the world's poorest countries... The number of deaths in the disturbances that broke out on Wednesday rose to 10 and the number of injuries to 443... "This may just be a start as drought is expected to worsen in east Africa and dry heat reduces harvests in the U.S. and Russia."
Discuss
Portuguese Celebrity Orphan Rape Ring
Guardian | Submitted by: Francis Bernard Cardinal Law: "We''ll ALLgo down together!).
One of Portugal's most famous television presenters and a former ambassador were among six men found guilty yesterday of involvement with a paedophile prostitution ring... Members of Portugal's media, civil service and professional elite were alleged to be regular abusers of the boys, some younger than 14... Some 32 boys alleged at least 800 crimes."
Discuss
Pederasty Baffles Occupying Army
San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Naphthos
For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover... "Having a boy has become a custom for us. Whoever wants to show off should have a boy."
Discuss
Suicide Bomber Blasts Solidarity Parade
Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Fort McMurray - Welcomes Career Suicide43 dead, 78 injured: "Pakistani Taliban commander Qari Hussain Mehsud said that although his group was fighting the United States and the Pakistani government, "Shi'ites also are our target."
Discuss
'Little Red Drowning Hood' Arrested
Daily Mail | Submitted by: DM
Police in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno said they had found the puppy-chucking girl from leads given by animal protection groups in the country... Such was the international fury it prompted Transformers movie director Michael Bay to offer a $50,000 reward for the prosecution of the young woman."
Discuss
Body Parts Strewn Across Town
WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: furpo
A city employee noticed a human leg left in the open just inches from the street... A woman noticed "an arm, a cut up arm"... Late Monday night, a human torso was also found wrapped in a blanket near Dubois and Hancock."
Discuss
Fitness Freaks Charged With Abuse
KMGH-TV 7 Denver | Submitted by: artemisia
A Larimer County couple is charged with abusing three adopted Russian sisters, forcing them to do thousands of push-ups, run 43 miles in three days, and do headstands for over an hour... The girls said one of the most painful punishments was called "fisties", holding their bodies in a push-up position with their hands in fists, knuckles down on hardwood floors, for 40 minutes."
Discuss
Melted Girls Demand Vengeance
Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: anonymous"Make them go to jail until they have no more birthdays," 5-year-old Alondra Reyes wrote on a victim-impact statement read in federal court.
Discuss
The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: furpo
Since the rear of the property was adjacent to the Intracoastal Waterway, "vessels were passing by continuously and witnessing the incident"... That's when the "completely nude” couple's tryst was interrupted by, of course, Captain Wiener."
Discuss
Cape Cod Online | Submitted by: Fyregurl
When police arrived they saw Antone and a male friend about 35 feet offshore in the shallow water. Antone had a bucket to collect shellfish. His genitals were above water and in full view."
Discuss
Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ
Young Jack had been chosen as a member of the audience to take part in the Sea Lion Show at Taronga Zoo in Sydney yesterday. The zoo says after the show the boy "accidentally strayed into an area behind the female animal, who reacted unexpectedly with severe fright, and turned and bit the boy."
Discuss
Cedar Rapids Gazette | Submitted by: furpo
This is a common criticism of mandatory sentences -- it doesn’t take into account the facts and circumstances of individual cases. The mandatory sentencing is addictive -- once you have it, you get hooked. No politician is going to change it because they would lose the next election. They would be a friend of pedophiles. They get politically stuck in it."
Discuss
Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ
Angry parents who discovered that the pens given to their six-year-old children could project erotic images of women informed the headmaster... "The German Communist Party deeply regrets what has happened and is outraged that this kind of thing, which borders on pornography, can be purchased in normal shops."
Discuss
BBC News | Submitted by: ditchley
The University of Haifa team say people use both sides of their brain when they begin reading a language -- but when learning Arabic this is wasting effort... The detail of Arabic characters means students should use only the left side of their brain because that side is better at distinguishing detail."
Discuss
New York Times | Submitted by: ditchley
1) Blackwater to obscure its involvement in government work from contracting officials or the public, and to assure a low profile for any of its classified activities... 2) The network of companies, which includes several businesses located in offshore tax havens... 3) The CIA's continuing relationship with the company, which recently was awarded a $100 million contract to provide security at agency bases in Afghanistan... 4) Company employees loaded bombs and missiles onto Predator drones in Pakistan... 5) Executives accused of buying large numbers of machine guns, but arranging to make it appear as if they had been bought by the sheriff's department in Camden County, VA."
Discuss
Times of India | Submitted by: lord redpubes
A southwest-Indian college has sacked its lecturer whose right hand was chopped off by activists of radical outfit Popular Front of India for preparing a controversial Malayalam question paper with alleged derogatory references to Prophet Muhammad... Education Minister M. A. Baby said the dismissal besides being an extreme step was even "irrationally negative."
Discuss
SUN | Submitted by: Danger Mouse
SHOCKED vets carried out surgery on a dog after X-rays revealed it had eaten 12 BRAS... Docs were stunned to discover the dog's belly was full of UNDERWEAR -- including the wiring from a comedy bra!" [X-ray shokku!]
Discuss
Independent | Submitted by: furpoPeter Sotos this is not: "A stalker was jailed today after writing a blog about raping and murdering a woman he had been harassing in real life for two years... Downing detailed the imagined attack on children's author Katharine Quarmby in a T-file phantasy: "He heard her children waking up at seven... He had to see her... He was listening for the all important turning of her front door handle. When it came he waited for voices to emerge. He pounced."
Discuss
Wired | Submitted by: ditchley
The "Adult Services" listing on Craigslist was removed late Friday on its U.S.-based sites and replaced with the word censored... Last week, 17 haymaking state attorney-generals demanded the company immediately shut down its adult services listing (but the swinger channels can stay)."
Discuss
NZ Sunday Star Times | Submitted by: ditchley
The crash, which happened at 1:15pm on the Fox Glacier air strip, sent plumes of thick black smoke billowing across the village on an otherwise crystal-clear day... At this stage there seems to be no indication why the plane, which was carrying a group of skydivers, dove after take-off and crashed into a ball of flames at the edge of the runway, killing 9 passengers"
Discuss
Stuff NZ | Submitted by: are the kiwidudes okay??
A state of emergency was declared for the first time in Christchurch's history as police closed the heart of the stricken city for assessments on buildings, some of which had whole facades blown away by the 7.1 magnitude earthquake... Despite the devastation, the only known serious casualties were two people injured after being hit by falling bricks and glass, although there were a string of minor injuries." [Photos]
Discuss
BBC News | Submitted by: stabwounds
A badly-burnt body with part of a limb missing has been found in undergrowth between the 17th and 18th holes of an East Sussex golf course... The body was found by players on Saturday morning at Dyke Golf Club just north of Brighton."
Discuss
Cincinnati Enquirer | Submitted by: beader
Initially, authorities believed she had been dead for a week because of the state of the body’s decomposition and the large number of maggots, flies and rotting bed sores. But the coroner declared she had been dead only one day when police arrived... The home was so filthy and smelled so badly, police wore special masks and suits to enter it."
Discuss
TPM | Submitted by: emptyhead
Once those in on the scheme got word the feds were snooping around, they unearthed the coffin with the supposed remains of "Jim Davis" and re-filled the casket with a mannequin and cow parts. Then they sent it off to the crematory, and filed false documents stating "Davis" had been cremated."
Discuss
Guardian | Submitted by: Danger Mouse
Cat culls have a long history in Belgium. In Ypres, in western Flanders, they've been hurling the animals from the belfry of the 12th-century Cloth Hall for hundreds of years in an annual ritual to ward off the devil... Now with an explosion in cat copulation, the result is the Multi-Annual Cat Plan 2011-2016, which says sterilisation is necessary to relieve shelters."
Discuss
Wall Street Journal | Submitted by: ditchley
These weren't rogue operations. The investigators discovered that the banks ran dedicated units to systematically aid the undetected transfer of money through the U.S. banking system. They did that by removing identifying coding on fund transfers so they could evade automated U.S. bank computer systems designed to spot money flowing from a sanctioned state."
Discuss
Telegraph | Submitted by: ditchley
Another Eichmann hunter who felt equally frustrated at the beginning of 1960 was Simon Wiesenthal. On 11 January, Wiesenthal was visited in his office in Linz by two Mossad operatives, who wished to know how an Austrian investigation into Eichmann was proceeding. Wiesenthal's relationship with the Mossad is unclear, but it is extremely likely that he was an agent for the organization throughout the 1950s; one report called him "chief Austrian Agent of the Israeli Intelligence Bureau."
Discuss
The Age | Submitted by: ditchley
The millionaire met the couple after placing an advertisement in a sex-swingers' magazine..." Cut to: "He punched Mr Rockefeller harder than he had ever struck anyone before. Mr Rockefeller fell, hit his head and died... Schembri dismembered his body while Denny listened from inside the house, vomiting. Schembri then burnt the remains in a 44-gallon drum in a friend's backyard."
Discuss
ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: anonymous
Video shows one officer pointing his Taser at McFarland while ordering him to stand up or be tazed. The deputy repeats his command numerous times but McFarland refuses... When he finally gets up from his couch, the deputy fires his Taser. McFarland falls to the floor, withering in pain... The deputy fires twice while McFarland is on the ground, ordering each time to "stop resisting."
Discuss
Miami New Times | Submitted by: artemisia
Adams is an exemplary cop if his personnel record is any indication... But he says the state's largest police department has become a menace, regularly abusing and humiliating the people it's sworn to protect -- and then lying about it. "They're supposed to be my brothers in blue," he says, struggling to keep his voice audible as his eyes become soggy. "But they're not my brothers -- not when they're treating people like this."
Discuss
Telegraph | Submitted by: Mr. Misrell
A 30 per cent rise in the price of bread has caused widespread anger in one of the world's poorest countries... The number of deaths in the disturbances that broke out on Wednesday rose to 10 and the number of injuries to 443... "This may just be a start as drought is expected to worsen in east Africa and dry heat reduces harvests in the U.S. and Russia."
Discuss
Guardian | Submitted by: Francis Bernard Cardinal Law: "We''ll ALLgo down together!).
One of Portugal's most famous television presenters and a former ambassador were among six men found guilty yesterday of involvement with a paedophile prostitution ring... Members of Portugal's media, civil service and professional elite were alleged to be regular abusers of the boys, some younger than 14... Some 32 boys alleged at least 800 crimes."
Discuss
San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Naphthos
For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover... "Having a boy has become a custom for us. Whoever wants to show off should have a boy."
Discuss
Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Fort McMurray - Welcomes Career Suicide43 dead, 78 injured: "Pakistani Taliban commander Qari Hussain Mehsud said that although his group was fighting the United States and the Pakistani government, "Shi'ites also are our target."
Discuss
Daily Mail | Submitted by: DM
Police in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno said they had found the puppy-chucking girl from leads given by animal protection groups in the country... Such was the international fury it prompted Transformers movie director Michael Bay to offer a $50,000 reward for the prosecution of the young woman."
Discuss
WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: furpo
A city employee noticed a human leg left in the open just inches from the street... A woman noticed "an arm, a cut up arm"... Late Monday night, a human torso was also found wrapped in a blanket near Dubois and Hancock."
Discuss
KMGH-TV 7 Denver | Submitted by: artemisia
A Larimer County couple is charged with abusing three adopted Russian sisters, forcing them to do thousands of push-ups, run 43 miles in three days, and do headstands for over an hour... The girls said one of the most painful punishments was called "fisties", holding their bodies in a push-up position with their hands in fists, knuckles down on hardwood floors, for 40 minutes."
Discuss
Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: anonymous"Make them go to jail until they have no more birthdays," 5-year-old Alondra Reyes wrote on a victim-impact statement read in federal court.
Discuss
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