‘A chewbacca impersonator was arrested after being accused of head-butting a Hollywood tour guide who warned the furry brown Wookiee about harassing two Japanese tourists.
“Nobody tells this Wookiee what to do,” “Chewie” from the Star Wars movies said before slamming his head into the guide’s forehead, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported today.
The two metre tall 44-year-old man was charged yesterday with misdemeanour battery and later released on $25,880 bail, the Los Angeles Police Department said.’
‘Prime Minister John Howard says he is glad the US military has drafted new charges against Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.
The US military has revealed details of the drafted charges that include attempted murder and providing material support for terrorism.
Mr Howard says he is pleased there has been some progress in the case against Mr Hicks. [..]
Mr Hicks’s US military lawyer, Major Michael Mori, has questioned the charge of attempted murder, pointing out that the US military prosecutor has acknowledged that Mr Hicks never fired a shot in anger.’
‘Russian prosecutors are investigating allegations that hospital staff in Yekaterinburg gagged babies because they did not want to hear them crying.
The patient at the hospital in the southern Urals who reported the case heard the children’s muffled cries.
She used her mobile phone to film a baby lying in a cot with his mouth taped, while others had dummies taped to their mouths. They are all orphans.’
Joy Division was a great band.
Most of these are live clips from concerts, so the sound quality isn’t the best. There’s a few good quality video clips though.
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‘A video of a bride chopping her hair off during a meltdown an hour before her wedding — seen by more than 2 million viewers worldwide on YouTube — is a hoax.
Except that the 22-year-old aspiring actress, whose real name is Jodi Behan, really did cut her hair in the video filmed by Toronto-based Ryerson University grad Ingrid Hass. [..]
“I cannot believe all this,” Behan wrote in an email to the Toronto Star. “It’s embarrassing and exciting and overwhelming.”‘
follow up to: Bride Freaks Out And Cuts Off Her Hair
‘An Australian couple enjoying a campervan holiday in New Zealand relaxed so much they accidentally left their eight-year-old daughter at a tourist stop.
The couple, who thought the girl was asleep in the back of the vehicle with their two other children, were surprised when police pulled them over in the Te Anau area of the South Island to tell them she wasn’t, the Southland Times newspaper reported today. [..]
Kiwi Discovery manager Tim Barke said the driver noticed the crying girl, who told him her family had driven off without her.’
‘A man splashed lighter fluid on a stranger who fought him off with a metal cane, then used the lighter to set two women on fire, police and witnesses said. [..]
The assault in downtown Seattle apparently began when the attacker ran up behind Gus Jones, 82, and dumped lighter fluid down his back at lunchtime Wednesday.
Jones felt someone grab his shoulder, smelled the fumes and hollered. Then, “I had to rap them with my cane,” he told The Seattle Times. Jones, recovering from a broken hip, fell to the pavement but was not set afire.
“I cussed him out,” Jones told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “I bent my cane.”‘
‘China’s military is harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falungong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale – including to foreign recipients- according to a study.
The report’s authors – Canada’s former secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas – implicated dozens of hospitals and jails throughout China in July, after a two-month investigation.
Chinese officials denied those allegations. [..]
“The involvement of the People’s Liberation Army in these transplants is widespread,” Mr Kilgour said at a press conference.’
‘In the footage, Paris and her sister Nicky are at a house party dancing by themselves to the sounds of Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize.” A male friend who dances in between them was referred to as a “faggot” by both Hilton sisters.
Then, at about 2 minutes and 45 seconds into the footage, Paris approaches the camera and laughs, “We’re like two niggers.”
The “Simple Life” star, who recently reunited with her black former best friend, Nicole Richie, steps to the camera again at about 3:55 to vent about a run-in with a woman at the party, whom she describes as a “fuckin’ hoodlum, broke, poor bitch from like, Compton – public school bitch.”
To cap things off, the video ends with the videographer yelling, “Todd’s a thug nigga.”’
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‘A construction crew made a shocking discovery Wednesday, finding a corpse bound in duct tape stored inside a freezer at a south Medford home.
Medford detectives arrested 58-year-old Paul Henry Mahanna, who lives at the house on Fiona Lane. He was charged with first-degree abuse of corpse and remained lodged in the Jackson County Jail late Thursday on $500,000 bail.
“We may be adding some more charges against him,” Medford police Lt. Tim George said. “We consider this a very suspicious death.” [..]
“At first we thought it might be a game animal,” said Hanlin. “It was wrapped in so much duct tape that looked like a mummy.”‘
‘More than 200 years since the first boatload of English convicts reached our shores, overcrowded British jails are once again considering sending their prisoners Down Under.
In a desperate move to combat what has become a national crisis, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced he will do anything possible — including sending convicts overseas — to relieve pressure on the country’s “full to bursting” prison system.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK Richard Alston acknowledged the prospect of accepting UK prisoners at a recent function.’
This woman really likes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She also eats a lot of pizza.
‘Some people keep pets. I have a little sister.’
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‘Parents of several students who watched police handcuff and arrest their second-grade teacher said Thursday they think the teacher was mistreated by West Contra Costa school district officials, and they plan to file formal complaints.
Sheldon Elementary teacher Jennie Mo, 57, is being held on suspicion of 18 counts of false imprisonment after police say she held her students hostage and used a child to shield herself from an officer after school officials placed her on leave Wednesday.’
‘A teenager stopped by a police officer at the Grand Avenue Mall as a suspected truant became disruptive and threw his colostomy bag at the officer, department spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said this morning.
The officer was responding to a truancy complaint at the downtown mall Monday at 1:17 p.m. and stopped the youth, who refused to tell the officer his name or age, she said. The suspect then became disruptive and threw his colostomy bag containing bodily waste at the officer.’
‘Guy uses computer to text his roommate a false message about drunk horny girls. Hilarious reaction from confused roommate when he comes back [..]’
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‘Russian emergency workers have flown to a Siberian region where smelly, orange-, yellow- and green-colored snow fell earlier this week covering about a 40 square miles, officials said Friday.
The Emergency Situations Ministry said that officials in the Omsk region, about 1,400 miles east of Moscow, had warned local residents not use the snow for drinking or other purposes, and to keep domestic animals from it.
The ministry said the snow, which fell Wednesday afternoon, was yellow, green and orange and had an oily texture and unpleasant smell.’
‘Fiji’s military regime has banned Australian Prime Minister John Howard and New Zealand’s Helen Clark from entering the country.
The move against the two leaders – both vocal critics of coup leader Frank Bainimarama – follows Canberra’s decision to ban the military leader and his supporters from coming to Australia. [..]
Fiji TV has reported that Howard’s and Clark’s names appear on a Fiji Immigration Department list that bans some people from entry, and others from leaving.’
It armoured, has holes you can shoot out of, a fridge and a toilet.
Oh, grenade launchers too. :)
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‘A rubber penis and fake severed head have been stolen from the set of new horror film ‘Hannibal Rising’.
The movie’s director Peter Webber revealed the theft and is convinced the guilty party is planning on selling them.
He said: “There’s a character called Dortlich whose head is severed during the course of the movie. It was stolen by someone. There’s also a scene with a body that Hannibal Lecter is working on. It’s a full-size replica human body, including the genitals. Somebody took the genitals – they had to cut them off. So someone somewhere has got a large rubber penis and a rubber head.”
Webber is going to check internet auction site eBay to see if they turn up.’
‘Indonesia will drop hundreds of concrete balls into a mud volcano in a bid to brake the flow of hot liquid that has displaced more than 10,000 people and inundated entire villages in Java, an official said on Friday.
The torrent of hot mud has been flowing since an oil drilling accident in May in Sidoarjo, an industrial suburb of East Java’s Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city.
Numerous attempts to cap or curb the flow since it started have failed.
But now the government plans to try concrete balls linked by metal chains.’
Followup to Poisonous mud wreaks havoc on Java.
‘NSW transport Minister John Watkins has apologised to train commuters who had to wet themselves or ask for toilet stop because of a lack of facilities on trains.
A number of passengers on the south coast service have suffered the humiliation of wetting themselves due to the lack of facilities on board, The Sydney Morning Herald reported today.
The toilet-equipped cars previously used on the service have been removed for safety reasons and replaced with cars used on the Sydney network that don’t have toilets.
Passengers have reportedly been forced to urinate in cars or wet themselves before the end of their trips of up to two hours.’
‘In an attempt to destroy an indestructible nalgene bottle, this guy uses it to create a dry ice bomb.’
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‘A senior Thai Buddhist monk has been charged with raping a Vietnamese Australian teenager during a ritual he claimed would protect her from bad luck, police said today.
“The victim did not know at first she had been raped because she thought it was part of the rite, until she called her parents and they told her to report to the embassy and the police,” Colonel Thanit Ratanopast said.
The 18-year-old woman went to the police, who told her to plant a camera in her bag when she went back to see Phra Wimonmunee, the 59-year-old abbot of a Bangkok temple, they said.
Police then arrested the monk while he was trying to rape the woman again, they said.’
‘A brewery here has succeeded in producing a low-malt beer with milk, after the drink was suggested as a product that would help use up surplus milk.
The drink, called “Bilk” will go on sale on Feb. 1. It reportedly has a fruity flavor that its brewers hope will be popular among women.
The idea for the drink was conceived after dairy firms threw out a huge amount of surplus milk in March last year. The son of the manager of a liquor store in Nakashibetsu, whose main industry is dairy farming, suggested the idea of producing the milk beer to local brewery Abashiri Beer.’
‘The intimate medical history of hundreds of people has been provided by one of the country’s largest private health funds to a company that uses it to sell its services to vulnerable patients.
HCF has handed over to McKesson Asia Pacific the contact details, gender, age, the broad type of mental illness, and the recent number of hospital admissions for 370 people without their consent. [..]
HCF also rejected the claim that it was in breach of privacy laws, although it admitted that it was providing McKesson Asia Pacific with patients’ contact details, sex, age, a broad mental health category, and the number of recent admissions.’
This little kid doesn’t seem to like donkeys.
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‘The Best Toes on the net!’
People will rate anything. It’s fucken great. :) I should start a website called rateyourmothershairyanus.com. People with start submitting pictures of hairy arseholes within hours.
‘A group of Greek nuns abandoned their convent and went into hiding after running up debts of more than 600,000 euros ($A1.01 million) from a knitting business that went bust, authorities said. [..]
The nuns are believed to have taken refuge at another monastery in central Greece and the Greek press has reported that the Church of Greece has offered to help them pay their debts and come out of hiding.
The church’s representative was not available for comment.’
