`A sailor has been rescued after drifting around the English Channel for two days in his half-built boat with only beer to drink.
The 52-year-old Dutch man living in Southampton took to sea after he had an argument with his wife, Portland Coastguard said. [..]
A coastguard spokesman said: “He said he had been drifting for two days when we found him and he had no supplies except plenty of beer.
“He told us that he had been working on his boat for three years as a project and had set to sea after arguing with his wife.
“The powerboat was only half-built. It had all the equipment – radar, engines – but the man’s electrics did not work so he could not start the engine.’
`This 1883 book is without question the worst phrasebook ever written. The writer, Pedro Carolino, who was Portuguese, did not particularly speak English, nor did he have a Portuguese-English dictionary available. Instead, he worked with a French-English phrasebook and a Portuguese-French dictionary. The results, I’m sure you’ll agree, are staggering.’
`In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.’
`A Duluth man with a sexual fetish for large rubber exercise balls was sentenced to probation Thursday.
Christopher Neil Bjerkness, 27, pleaded guilty to criminal damage to property and third-degree burglary. [..]
Bjerkness admitted to using a knife to damage about 72 exercise balls on three occasions last year at the University of Minnesota Duluth Sports and Health Center. The different sized balls were valued at $30 to $60 each.
Bjerkness also admitted to using a knife to slash at least 20 fitness balls at the St. Mary’s Duluth Clinic Center for Personal Fitness. He said he entered the center by jimmying a locked door with his knife. [..]
According to court documents, Bjerkness told Duluth police he slashed the rubber balls to satisfy a sexual urge. He said he popped some of them with his hands.’
`A man who claimed he was sleepwalking when he molested three girls in his home has been convicted of rape and other charges.
Jeffrey S. Buske, 38, faces up to 25 years in prison at his sentencing Thursday. [..]
Sgt. Eric Weisburn said Buske claimed he had a problem with sleepwalking and may have mistaken the girls for his wife.’
`Police have arrested the woman and charged her with child abuse and exposure of sexual organs.
The children range in age from 5 to 15 years old. Police say they will be turned over to relatives.
The woman says that God told her that she and her children should walk down the street naked.’
`President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country’s vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists. [..]
”If Zarqawi and [Osama] bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks,” Bush said. ”They’d seize oil fields to fund their ambitions. They could recruit more terrorists by claiming a historic victory over the United States and our coalition.”‘
`Two separate pictures on Yahoo have two separate captions which pose a very striking question over the difference between “looting” and “finding”.
The pictures were taken after the hurricane which devastated three southern states earlier this week continued to afflict flooded New Orleans.
The first picture and caption, here shows a black resident wading through chest deep water “after looting” a grocery store.
But a second picture and caption shows two white residents again wading through chest deep water “after finding” bread and soda in a local grocery store.
What’s the difference? We guess all three people are desperate to drink and to eat.’
`When Archie the black labrador lost his owner on a lonely Scottish station, he jumped aboard the first train home.
Not only did the dog catch the right train, he got off at the right station, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reports. [..]
“He is a very intelligent dog,” Mr Taitt said.
“When he could not find me, he simply took the right train home. He’s been on that train before. I am convinced he knew it was the right one. But who knows?”
Closed-circuit television footage shows the dog waiting for his master at the station before watching the Aberdeen to Inverness train pull in.’
