`Saddam Hussein and his cousin “Chemical Ali” discussed how chemical weapons would exterminate thousands before unleashing them on Kurds in 1988, according to tapes played on Monday in a trial of former Iraqi officials.
“I will strike them with chemical weapons and kill them all and damn anyone who is going to say anything,” a voice identified by prosecutors as “Chemical Ali” Hassan al-Majeed is heard saying. [..]
“Yes, it exterminates thousands and forces them not to eat or drink and they will have to evacuate their homes without taking anything with them, until we can finally purge them,” the voice identified as Saddam answers.’
`British police said Friday they were hunting a man who stole a urinal from a pub toilet.
The suspect walked into the Royal Oak pub in Southampton, on the English south coast, ordered half a pint of beer and then made several visits to the men’s toilet.
There he carefully removed a white urinal from the wall, stuffed it into a rucksack and was captured on closed circuit television walking out with the bulging sack on his back.
“He made a very, very expert job of dismantling it from the wall and turning the water off. A very professional job,” landlord Alan Dreja said in a video posted on the Southampton Daily Echo newspaper’s Web site.’
`A mother and son accused of stealing a snake from a pet store were arrested when they returned to the store and asked for books on how to care for the animal, police said.
Store clerks recognized the suspects from surveillance video taken during the theft and stalled them until police arrived.
The video showed the 15-year-old taking the 30-inch baby boa from its cage, wrapping it around his neck and hiding it with his jacket, while his mother acted as a lookout, police said.’
‘The deputy is on paid leave.’
Heh.
see it here »
`A French prisoner who killed his cellmate “very probably” ate some of the victim’s body parts, a prosecutor in the northern town of Rouen said on Friday.
The victim’s body was discovered in a prison cell on Wednesday, with a large wound to the chest. The alleged killer, who shared the cell, told investigators he had removed and eaten his victim’s heart.
Investigators initially discounted the possibility of cannibalism after the victim’s heart was “found intact in its usual place and in its membrane which was also intact,” Rouen state prosecutor Joseph Schmit said in a statement.
However an autopsy revealed that pieces of muscle from the victim’s rib area and part of his lung were missing.’
`A Gilbert man who rummaged through a Mesa family’s drawers and took a pair of their daughter’s underwear Wednesday night also introduced himself to the residents and gave them drugs and drug paraphernalia, police records show. [..]
The residents saw Burford take a pair of their daughter’s underwear from a dresser and place it in his pocket before he left the house through the front door and met them in their driveway, records show.
“Burford introduced himself by name to the victims and handed them a clear Tupperware container with a red top containing a glass pipe, lighter and bag of a green leafy substance that later tested positive for marijuana,” police reported.’
`A 23-year-old Albion man will have to avoid shopping at stores like Victoria’s Secret for the next six years, under a unique probation arrangement.
Nicolas R. Leathers, 23, who was released from Kennebec County Jail on Thursday after completing a sentence for burglary, is banned from using and possessing women’s underwear as a condition of his probation.
“It’s because of his offense history,” said Deputy District Attorney Alan Kelley. “In another case, he entered a residence in Albion and took women’s underwear.”
Court records show that, in 2004, Leathers was accused of taking a man’s thong, and admitted taking tampons and other items from a neighbor’s home in Albion.’
A guy goes into a porn shop and has a wank in one of those wanking booths. Then he feels guilty about it.
He has a strange way of making amends. :)
see it here »
`Authorities in Danville, Pa., have decided to drop a disorderly conduct charge against a 12-year-old special education student who they accused of deliberately wetting her pants at school.
A school superintendent now says that it was a mistake to bring police into a case of school discipline.’
Followup to Young Girl Facing Charges After Wetting Pants
`Sacked former New South Wales Aboriginal affairs minister Milton Orkopoulos allegedly invited two high school captains to smoke cannabis with him in his office at state parliament.
Tim Carter, an electrician’s apprentice from Mr Orkopoulos’s then electorate of Swansea, said he was attending a meeting of school captains from across NSW in 2005 when the minister approached him and a female student.
“He took us away pretty much and said: ‘Do you want a joint?’. He said: ‘Do you really want to be at this meeting? You can come up to my office and get room service,” Mr Carter said yesterday.
Mr Orkopoulos then led the two students to his office and rolled a joint, which the minister and Mr Carter smoked. The three then ordered hot chocolate from the Parliament House room service, before Mr Orkopoulos left the students watching television and returned to work.’
`[..] here’s one on the Arizona fire chief who was arrested after being found in a compromising position with a neighbor’s lamb. Leroy Johnson, 52, pleaded guilty late last year to disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and was sentenced to 18 months probation by a Maricopa County judge. As part of a plea agreement (a copy of which you’ll find below), Johnson was barred from owning any animal during his probationary term, though he was “allowed to possess his dog ‘Major’ and two turtles presently at Defendant’s residence.”‘
Followup to Deputy fire chief faces indecency charge
`Three penguins were stabbed and bashed before being killed with a single blow at a Melbourne beach colony.
The remains of two male and one female bird were discovered at the St Kilda breakwater Little Penguin colony just before Christmas.
One of the male penguins also had its left flipper slashed with a knife and one was hit so hard its back was broken.’
`Tampa police said a stun gun was used to subdue a 69-year-old man who tried to hit two officers with a metal cane.
Authorities said Nathaniel Youman swung the silver cane at another person before two officers came to his home Wednesday.
Reports say Youman was warned to drop the cane, but he refused. The officer asked again and warned Youman that he would be hit with a stun gun if he didn’t comply.
Police said Youman refused and tried to swing the cane at both officers. He was then hit by a stun gun and arrested.
Youman is charged with felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.’
‘A man doused himself in fuel and set himself alight Thursday outside Chile’s presidential palace to protest housing debt. He survived and was arrested. Television pictures showed the man in flames before he jumped into an ornamental pond in front of the La Moneda palace in the heart of the capital of Santiago. He was hospitalised with burns over 11 per cent of his body, local media reported.’
see it here »
`With the sleeve patch on his black shirt, the 9mm gun on his hip and the blue light on his patrol car, he looked like an ordinary police officer as he stopped the car on a Friday night last month. Watt works, though, for a business called Capitol Special Police. It is one of dozens of private security companies given police powers by the state of North Carolina — and part of a pattern across the United States in which public safety is shifting into private hands.
Private firms with outright police powers have been proliferating in some places — and trying to expand their terrain. The “company police agencies,” as businesses such as Capitol Special Police are called here, are lobbying the state legislature to broaden their jurisdiction, currently limited to the private property of those who hire them, to adjacent streets. Elsewhere — including wealthy gated communities in South Florida and the Tri-Rail commuter trains between Miami and West Palm Beach — private security patrols without police authority carry weapons, sometimes dress like SWAT teams and make citizen’s arrests.’
`A 12-year-old special education student in Montour County was charged with disorderly conduct after authorities said she deliberately wet her pants at school.
Her mother told the Press Enterprise it happened because her daughter was frightened by the principal. [..]
Her mother said the girl is terrified of Duckwork and has wet herself during previous confrontations with him. But Danville Police Chief Eric Gill said school officials are at their “wit’s end” with the girl, and they believe her actions were deliberate.’
‘Iraq’s national security adviser told NBC News on Wednesday that three individuals have been arrested in connection with a video of Saddam Hussein’s execution that was leaked.
“I can officially now confirm the arrest of three individuals in the case of the execution of Saddam Hussein,” said Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie.
The arrests came after the announcement that officials were interrogating the person suspected of recording Saddam’s hanging via a mobile phone.’
Followup to Full Saddam Execution Video.
`A couple in eastern India have been arrested for allegedly sacrificing their young sons to please the gods.
“It seems like a case of child sacrifice attached to tantric rituals,” police superintendent Ravi Kant said in eastern Orissa state, where the incident happened.
Police said it had collected evidence of occult practices from the couple’s house.
Residents of the area told police that the couple had been advised by a tantric practitioner that they should offer their sons, aged 7 and 9, to please the gods for luck and prosperity.
The couple denied the charges on local television, saying the boys died of illness and their bodies were kept in the house in the hope that they would come alive.’
`A man upset about a Cyclone Larry insurance payout threatened staff at an Innisfail bank with a piece of fibro that contained asbestos.
The man, wearing a respiratory mask, marched into the Commonwealth Bank branch carrying a piece of fibro and a bottle of water yesterday afternoon.
He shouted at staff, splashed water onto the ceiling and threw the fibro onto the floor, shattering it.
Tests later confirmed the fibro contained asbestos.’
`When deputies knocked, Herman Scott Swafford told them what they already smelled. McMinn County Sheriff’s Department records show deputies knocked on the door of an outbuilding, suspicious that someone might be making methamphetamine.
A report shows that Deputy Mike Patterson smelled a chemical odor and when he asked Swafford what was going on inside, Swafford said, “You know what’s going on, I’m cooking meth.”
A search that followed sent him to jail Sunday.’
`A Lithuanian held on suspicion of theft in an Arctic Norway jail slipped out of custody – literally – by stripping naked, smearing himself with vegetable oil and sliding through the prison bars, police said Wednesday.
“He slipped through the bars on Christmas Eve,” said Svein-Erik Jacobsen, operation leader for the Oest-Finnmark Police District. The unusual escape made national news in Norway on Wednesday.
Another Lithuanian, held as an accomplice in the same cell, also used the technique to try to slip out of a window of the Vadsoe Jail, but failed, apparently because he was too big. The men had managed to bend the bars slightly to gain more space.’
`The trial began with the taped phone call Arthur Shelton placed to the Taylor police department in Taylor, Michigan, October 18, 2004, at precisely 12:44 AM. Shelton sounded calm and pridefull when he told the dispatcher he had just shot “the devil himself” with a revolver and a shotgun because “he (Hooper) didn’t believe in God.” Shelton told the dispatcher he was “still armed and ready to shoot again in case he moves. I want to make sure he’s gone.” When the dispatcher asked how many times he shot the victim Shelton replied, “hopefully enough.”
Throughout the 15 minute phone call Shelton often repeated, “I’m a Christian and an Eagle Scout and I wouldn’t lie,” and “don’t worry about me, I’m fine, but he’s the devil.” The dispatcher struggled to persuade Shelton to lay down his weapon and go outdoors with his arms raised. Shelton resisted, as he feared Hooper might not be “dead enough”, but eventually complied.’
`The two are thought by police to have each separately come to the defense of Melevea Fifita, 19, of East Palo Alto, and Seu Tuimavave, 21, who were involved in a physical altercation in the 2700 block of Fordham Street around 10:30 p.m. on Friday.
The fight began around 10:30 p.m. and as it escalated, the 17-year-old boy produced a handgun and defended Fifita, while Absalom Tuimavave defended his sister Seu with a shotgun, according to Alipio.
When the men shot at each other, both inadvertently hit the women they were trying to defend, Alipio said, the 17-year-old boy fatally striking Fifita and Tuimavave hitting his sister in the pelvis, Alipio said.’
`Two cows were shot in the eyes at point blank range by someone with an air rifle in North Somerset.
The attack happened in a field off Cowslip Green in Redhill. Neither cow was left with permanent injuries.
Two men were seen leaving the scene carrying what looked like an air rifle in a long black case.
Both were white and aged around 19, of average height and build. One had what has been described as a Mohican-style haircut.’
`Italy will campaign at the United Nations for a global ban on the death penalty, Prime Minister Romano Prodi has said.
The leader of the current centre-left coalition has said no crime can justify one person killing another.
Politicians from both the left and right have been expressing disgust at the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Italy took one of the 10 non-permanent Security Council seats this week.’
`A man who has a history of smashing windows to indulge his fetish for female mannequins could draw a long prison term for his latest arrest. Ronald A. Dotson, 39, of Detroit faces up to life in prison if convicted of a charge of attempted breaking and entering at a cleaning-supply company in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale.
The potential life sentence is because prosecutors charged him as a habitual offender. Authorities say he has at least six convictions for breaking and entering and a stint in state prison over the last 13 years. [..]
Dotson was arrested Oct. 9 after police say he smashed a window at a cleaning-supply company to get at a female mannequin dressed in a black and white French maid’s uniform. He had been out of prison for less than a week.’
‘Guy came home to find his house broken into and naked guy sleeping on his couch.’
(5.3meg Windows media)
see it here »
`Schoolboy Jack Double was hit with a £50 litter fine – for feeding a seagull half a chip.
Two zealous officials handed Jack, 14, an on-the-spot ticket after seeing him toss the halfeaten morsel at the hungry bird.
They even followed him to his school to enforce the penalty.
Yet three weeks earlier litter chiefs from the same council proudly awarded him a certificate praising him for binning rubbish.’
