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`A computer hacker got into the U.S. agency that guards the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile and stole the personal records of at least 1,500 employees and contractors, a senior U.S. lawmaker said on Friday.

The target of the hacker, the National Nuclear Safety Administration, is the latest agency to reveal that sensitive private information about government workers was stolen.’

`Police raided a huge marijuana plantation in northwestern Bosnia and found it guarded by a family of wolves and 150 dogs, Bosnian media said Saturday.

They seized 2,300 plants intended for the production of at least 800 kg (1,760 lb) of the drug, as well as hunting guns and rifles Friday, the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA quoted regional Interior Minister Stanislav Cadjo as saying.’

`A 21-year-old suspect accused of spraying satanic graffiti on the Holy Hill National Shrine says he has no remorse. [..]

Trevey asked him why he sprayed satanic graffiti on these holy shrines.

Groth said, “’cause I’m a punk – that’s what I do.” [..]

Trevey: “Do you know you spelled Satan wrong?”
Groth: “No – I’m not aware of that.”
Trevey: “You spelled it satin – like the fabric.”
Groth: “See – if I was big into the devil, I would have spelled it right.”
Trevey: “Do you think that’s funny?”
Groth: “That I spelled it wrong? No – I’m a bad speller.”‘

`German police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering a woman with a sausage.

Prosecutors and police said the 50-year-old was arrested after the woman’s body was discovered in an apartment in Zwickau, eastern Germany. They said she had choked on a Bockwurst, a popular large German sausage.

The prosecutors said the man had given a patchy account of events, acknowledging that he may have “administered” a Bockwurst to the woman.’

`A Missouri woman has been arrested for breaking into a dog breeder’s home and beating her repeatedly over the head with a dead Chihuahua, local media reported.

She woman was upset because the puppy had died, police told the St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.’

`A police chief sparks controversy today by suggesting the number of rapes in Scotland could be substantially reduced if women drank less.

Neil Richardson, assistant chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police, bases his claim on new research which identified victims’ alcohol consumption as significant in a third of attacks.

The senior officer said “a lot” of the 1,100 rapes a year could be prevented “by people not allowing themselves to be in a vulnerable position”.’

`The Egg Farmers of Ontario have laid charges against a farming couple who became locked in a tense standoff with police when the federal food inspectors raided their chicken farm.

Shawn Carmichael and his wife, Paula, each face 11 charges under the Farm Products Marketing Act.

The couple and about 40 protesters became involved in a shoving match during a 10-hour standoff with police on March 23 at their farm in Spencerville, south of Ottawa near Hwy. 401.

At one point, someone used a front-end loader to push an OPP officer back from the entrance to the farm’s driveway.

The standoff ended peacefully when Carmichael agreed to hand over a dozen chickens, a crate of eggs and photocopies of some of his files.’

`The people in the pictures below have my friend’s T-Mobile Sidekick. Instead of doing the honorable thing when finding someone’s phone in a taxi, they instead kept it. [..]

When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. There was no response. After a day of waiting, she had to go to the store and spend over $300 on a new Sidekick. When she put her SIM card in, she saw that the person(s) that had taken the phone had not only signed on to AOL leaving their name and password in the phone, but they had taken pictures of themselves.’

`A man accused of not paying for his Pop-Tarts had a troubled getaway.

First, the clerk at the convenience store ripped the man’s shirt off as they struggled when she confronted him for pocketing the toaster pastries Friday, police said.

Then after the man punched the clerk in the stomach and made it out the door, he was hit by a pickup truck in the parking lot. Police said he got up and kept running – into the path of a minivan while he was crossing the street. He got up again, but didn’t make it far.’

`A mother swore at police and accused them of being pedophiles before she was handcuffed in front of hysterical children for double parking outside a Queensland school, a court has been told. [..]

Sergeant Carmont told the court Ms Green refused to provide her details despite being asked up to 14 times and became aggressive after police approached her BMW.

“She said ‘I know all you fucking cunt’s are corrupt, haven’t you got anything fucking better to do, you should be out arresting murderers and not harassing mothers’,” he quoted Green as saying.

“The only reason you hang around schools is because you’re a fucking pedophile cunt.”‘

`This couple didn’t even make it to the altar before police made them part.

Ali Aghili, 37, and Marney Hurst, 33, both of Boulder, were to be married Saturday night at the posh Little Nell Hotel.

Instead, they got into a fight the night before and police arrested them because both allegedly threw punches, said police Sgt. Steve Smith.

The wedding had to be called off because their $250 bond conditions required them to stay away from each other, Smith said. He said it took police three hours to sort out the incident.’

`A helicopter landed in the middle of the high security Athens Korydallos prison, picked up two prisoners and flew away in a Hollywood-style escape that has left Greek police stunned.

A criminal on the run hijacked the helicopter Sunday to get his brother out of prison, police said. Vassilis Paleokostas, 40, who was serving a 25-year sentence for kidnapping and bank robbery, and an Albanian convict escaped.

“The guards thought it was a surprise inspection by ministry officials and did nothing,” a police official said.’

`Some high school criminology students in Fort Lauderdale got a taste of the real thing this morning.

Their teacher had set up a mock crime scene at Holiday Park for their class. The students were supposed to bag evidence, take pictures of the scene and try to solve the fake crime.

The students from St. Thomas Aquinas High School soon discovered a man’s body and began taking notes and pictures as they were taught. But at the time, they didn’t know it was a real dead person. One student even said he thought his teacher “planted it there.” Once they realized it was the real deal, they notified their teacher and the police.’

`A late-night brawl that included a quarter-mile foot chase among combatants — with two men catching up to another man and beating him with a broom and window squeegee — led to the arrests of six people early Saturday morning, police said.

Deputy Police Chief James Pigott said two separate groups of people visited the Shell Gas Station and convenience store, Route 36 and Main Street, at 2:20 a.m. Saturday.

The ensuing altercation led to injuries that required hospitalization of the Little Falls man, who was transported by Keansburg Fire Department EMS to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. The victim’s name was not released.’

Beaten but clean..

`As an 8-year-old girl looked at toys in an Orlando Kmart, a 5-foot-6, 160 pound man with blondish-brown hair politely approached and asked her to open her mouth. Yes, this story gets really nasty. When she refused, he pointed a fish-shaped squirt gun at her, sprayed her face, snapped her photograph and ran. What he shot on her face was not water but semen from inside a squirt gun. The picture he took was going to be used no doubt to help refill the gun.

Apparently this was at least the ninth time — possibly the 11th — that a bizarre child molester has struck in the past year, police said.’

`The BBC has uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for the deliberate killing of 11 innocent Iraqi civilians. [..]

According to the Americans, the building collapsed under heavy fire killing four people – a suspect, two women and a child.

But a report filed by Iraqi police accused US troops of rounding up and deliberately shooting 11 people in the house, including five children and four women, before blowing up the building.’

`The tradition of students driving farm tractors to school on the last day of class is coming to an end in one Beaver County community.

Freedom Area High School students from farming areas have been driving tractors on the last day of classes for more than a decade, perhaps several decades, students said.

But this year, New Sewickley police said they will issue citations to anyone who tries it. Using tractors as transportation is illegal, according to police Chief John Daley, and he said police want to ensure the safety of students and motorists.’

`A Plattsburgh man is facing felony charges for allegedly striking his mother in the head after the two disagreed about the fate of an “American Idol” contestant. [..]

His mother made comments that contestant Katharine McPhee was going to have a successful career despite losing to another contestant, Taylor Hicks.

Favreau allegedly stood up, made a malicious comment to his mother and struck her in the head with a sharpened, cross-shaped object attached to a bicycle chain.’

`A man in a purple woman’s bathing suit and carrying a flare gun is off the streets in Key West.

A bartender at a popular Key West bar said she spotted Jeffrey Anderson dancing in the street, exposing himself to tourists, and asking for money when people took pictures of him.’

`Two grandparents in Lake County, Fla., were arrested for allegedly offering a hit man $100 to kill their three grandchildren, daughter-in-law and the family’s pet dog, according to Local 6 News. [..]

“According to an arrest affidavit, Versie Jackson made contact with the undercover agent while her husband stayed in the car because he was reportedly too afraid the meet the person who would kill his grandchildren and daughter-in-law,” Local 6 reporter Louis Bolden said. [..]

After an investigation, authorities said the couple’s son, Jason Jackson, 31, concocted the alleged murder-for-hire plan from jail and asked his parents to seal the deal, Bolden said.’

`An 8-year-old boy was arrested after he sneaked onto a school bus and released its parking brake, causing it to roll forward and fatally strike a second-grader, police said Tuesday.

The boy was to be charged with criminally negligent homicide, Officer Doris Garcia said. Police were withholding his name because of his age, she said.’

`Police in Germany have charged 3,500 users of a file-sharing network in the biggest single action against the illegal distribution of music online.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) – the record industry’s global body – said each could face five years in prison.

They may also have to pay compensation for offering up to 8,000 files at a time for download on the eDonkey site.

The investigation led to searches in 130 locations across Germany.’

`McCann then allegedly charged the officer, who sprayed him in the face with an irritant. Two officers tried unsuccessfully to handcuff him as McCann wildly swung his fists, the report says.

The incident further escalated, with McCann continuing to allegedly attack officers after he was repeatedly kicked and struck with a baton, according to the report. Officers also used a Taser to attempt to subdue him.

“He continued to attack with super human strength and made no attempt to escape,” according to the report.

McCann was finally brought under control when two responding officers struck him three times with a Taser gun and another hit him four more times with a baton, according to the report.’

`Brace yourself boys: you will cringe.

Police Constable Anthony Jennings certainly did when he felt a “crushing sensation” in the groin.

“Excruciating pain” were the words he used to describe the moment Maria Klaus allegedly “chomped” on his penis after a domestic violence incident in Maroochydore a year ago.

The softly spoken Const Jennings, 43, had to share possibly his worst day on the job in the Maroochydore District Court in front a jury and the woman accused of seriously assaulting him twice.’

`A student who used images of the concentration camp at Auschwitz in a hoax publicity video for a techno rave will be prosecuted for discrimination, a prosecution spokeswoman said Monday.

The student, identified as the 23-year-old Dickie Thijssen by Dutch media, will appear before a magistrate Wednesday, Jechien de Graaf of the Rotterdam prosecutor’s office said.

If convicted he faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a 4,500 euros fine.

Thijssen, who is living in the southwest of the country, apologised extensively on the internet for the offence caused by his video.

The clip, which was widely circulated on the Internet last year, purported to give details of a techno music festival called “Housewitz”, a reference to techno “house” music.’

Followup to Housewitz – Tanzen Macht Frei.

`A Michigan woman is charged with involuntary manslaughter after prosecutors say her 5-month-old daughter died from drinking breast milk containing cocaine.

Sara Shelby was arraigned Thursday. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison.

Prosecutors claim Shelby used cocaine and the drug was passed on to the baby through her breast milk.

Shelby’s lawyer said that he and his client disagree with the prosecution’s theory about what caused baby’s death last year.’

`Terrified drug dealers committed a serious error by calling police for help with their hallucinations.

A group of friends were partying on drugs when they saw a group of tiny, white men coming up out of the fjord. This terrified them so much they rang police to ask for protection, newspaper Bergensavisen reports.

Police responded to the call from a cabin in Fusa. They found no little white men, but rather three confused Bergen residents and a pile of drugs.’

`Baltimore City police arrested a Virginia couple over the weekend after they asked an officer for directions.

WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team reporter David Collins said Joshua Kelly and Llara Brook, of Chantilly, Va., got lost leaving an Orioles game on Saturday. Collins reported a city officer arrested them for trespassing on a public street while they were asking for directions .

“In jail for eight hours — sleeping on a concrete floor next to a toilet,” Kelly said.

“It was a nightmare,” Brook said. “I was in there thinking I was just dreaming and waiting to wake up.”‘

`A Colorado prison inmate was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for making a death threat against a federal magistrate judge.

Derek Barringer, 28, is serving a state prison sentence for assault. He had filed a legal action in federal court that U.S. Magistrate Judge O. Edward Schlatter was handling. Schlatter dismissed the action, which angered Barringer.

The prisoner wrote the judge a letter that said, “…I wish to see you dead and as soon as I get out in 65 days I will see to it.”

He drew a stick figure of a person hanged by a rope and the inmate signed the letter.’

`A man dressed as a giant smurf blackened the friendly blue characters’ name after being arrested for threatening behaviour at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday.

The man, resplendent in the costume and complete with blue face paint, was watching the Army and Navy match in the stadium’s east stand when he got into an argument with his male companion.

A 25-year-old woman who was sitting on his other side put her arm round him and jokingly tried to calm him down by saying: “Don’t be like that.”
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The man, who was in his late 20s turned and speaking in very un-smurf-like terms, threatened to hit her.’