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Friday, March 05, 2010
Mother Nature helps score an own goal
Last weekend in a match between TSV Wimsheim and TSV Grunbach, in the lower levels of German football, the weather and Grunbach scored one of the most bizarre own goals of all time.
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Naked snow sculpture covered up after neighbours complain
A family in America was told by police to cover up their snow sculpture after neighbours complained that it was offensive.
Elisa Gonzalez and her family spent hours crafting a nude sculpture in the front garden of their home in Rahway, New Jersey.
Motorists stopped to take photos of their version of the celebrated Greek statue Venus de Milo, and several neighbours were complimentary.
But Rahway police sent an officer to their home after they received an anonymous complaint of "a naked snow woman", and asked the family to cover her up.
When the officer arrived, Mrs Gonzalez said, he was apologetic and appreciative of the snowlady and her assets. "He said, 'It's very good,'" Mrs Gonzalez recalled.
Despite his appreciation, the officer then asked the family to dress the snowlady.
Elisa Gonzalez and her family spent hours crafting a nude sculpture in the front garden of their home in Rahway, New Jersey.
Motorists stopped to take photos of their version of the celebrated Greek statue Venus de Milo, and several neighbours were complimentary.
But Rahway police sent an officer to their home after they received an anonymous complaint of "a naked snow woman", and asked the family to cover her up.
When the officer arrived, Mrs Gonzalez said, he was apologetic and appreciative of the snowlady and her assets. "He said, 'It's very good,'" Mrs Gonzalez recalled.
Despite his appreciation, the officer then asked the family to dress the snowlady.
Naked woman tied to tree ‘consensual'
A report of a naked woman tied to a tree in the Owen Beach area brought Tacoma police to Point Defiance Park on Tuesday.
A witness called 911 and reported seeing the woman, police spokesman Mark Fulghum said. A man was spotted nearby.
Several police officers responded to the park and traffic officers were posted at its entrances and exits, Fulghum said.
The officers talked with the man and woman and determined it was a “consensual rendezvous,” Fulghum said. No arrests were made.
A witness called 911 and reported seeing the woman, police spokesman Mark Fulghum said. A man was spotted nearby.
Several police officers responded to the park and traffic officers were posted at its entrances and exits, Fulghum said.
The officers talked with the man and woman and determined it was a “consensual rendezvous,” Fulghum said. No arrests were made.
Mannequin head injured woman's foot ruining sex life
A Queens woman is suing a wig store claiming a hair-raising accident left her unable to curl her toes - or her husband's. Germaine Bowman McDonald, 40, was trying on a Diana Ross-style hairpiece at the Hollis store Baobob when a plastic mannequin head fell and hit her left foot.
Despite months of physical therapy, the city teacher has serious nerve damage, according to the suit filed in Queens Supreme Court. "It just doesn't seem to be healing," said her lawyer, Kenneth Wilhelm.
"At this point she can't make a fist with her toes. I've been doing this for 40 years and I don't recall anything like this." Bowman McDonald's husband, Dean McDonald, made a separate claim - saying his sex life suffered because of his wife's injury.
The suit accuses Baobob of negligence for failing to keep their premises "free of dangerous, hazardous, unsafe, traplike and defective conditions."
Despite months of physical therapy, the city teacher has serious nerve damage, according to the suit filed in Queens Supreme Court. "It just doesn't seem to be healing," said her lawyer, Kenneth Wilhelm.
"At this point she can't make a fist with her toes. I've been doing this for 40 years and I don't recall anything like this." Bowman McDonald's husband, Dean McDonald, made a separate claim - saying his sex life suffered because of his wife's injury.
The suit accuses Baobob of negligence for failing to keep their premises "free of dangerous, hazardous, unsafe, traplike and defective conditions."
US woman sues after getting four breasts
Maria Alaimo wanted a breast augmentation, not a breast duplication.
But "four breasts" is what the Staten Island mother got after a 2003 visit to Dr. Keith Berman, which was intended to enlarge the woman's breasts to a full 36 C cup.
Instead, Alaimo wound up with "double-bubble" deformities that caused "pain ... disability, loss of self-esteem, humiliation and embarrassment," according to her lawsuit.
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"Maria came out of that operation with essentially four breasts," her attorney, Michael J. Kuharski, told jurors during Monday's opening arguments in Staten Island Supreme Court.
Postoperative photos showed heavy scars on Alaimo's breasts, which appear flattened on the bottom with "severe swells the size of a softball on top.
The surgery also subsequently led to Alaimo's divorce from Dominic Alaimo after she refused to undress due to embarrassment, Kuharski told the court. The 47-year-old is now seeking $5 million in damages from Dr. Berman.
But "four breasts" is what the Staten Island mother got after a 2003 visit to Dr. Keith Berman, which was intended to enlarge the woman's breasts to a full 36 C cup.
Instead, Alaimo wound up with "double-bubble" deformities that caused "pain ... disability, loss of self-esteem, humiliation and embarrassment," according to her lawsuit.
Photo from here.
"Maria came out of that operation with essentially four breasts," her attorney, Michael J. Kuharski, told jurors during Monday's opening arguments in Staten Island Supreme Court.
Postoperative photos showed heavy scars on Alaimo's breasts, which appear flattened on the bottom with "severe swells the size of a softball on top.
The surgery also subsequently led to Alaimo's divorce from Dominic Alaimo after she refused to undress due to embarrassment, Kuharski told the court. The 47-year-old is now seeking $5 million in damages from Dr. Berman.
Male hairdressers banned from women's salons in Gaza
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has said it is to ban male hairdressers from working in salons where women get their hair styled.
The announcement is part of a campaign by Hamas to introduce more Islamic customs to the Gaza Strip.
The Interior Ministry have said there will be legal consequences for anyone who disobeys the new rule, but they have not specified what they might be.
In Islamic tradition women cannot show their hair to men not in their family.
The announcement is part of a campaign by Hamas to introduce more Islamic customs to the Gaza Strip.
The Interior Ministry have said there will be legal consequences for anyone who disobeys the new rule, but they have not specified what they might be.
In Islamic tradition women cannot show their hair to men not in their family.
North Korean man executed for calling a friend in South Korea on mobile phone
A North Korean factory worker has been executed by firing squad for sneaking news out of the country on his illicit mobile phone.
The armaments factory worker was accused of divulging the price of rice and other information on living conditions to a friend who had defected to South Korea years ago.
The man, surnamed Chong, made calls to the defector using an illegal Chinese mobile phone, according to an unnamed North Korean security agency official. The execution took place by firing squad in late January in Hamhung.
Mobile phone use in North Korea is tightly restricted, although the country introduced an advanced network in partnership with Cairo-based Orascom Telecom in 2008. North Koreans who manage to make illegal overseas mobile calls mostly use networks in China.
The armaments factory worker was accused of divulging the price of rice and other information on living conditions to a friend who had defected to South Korea years ago.
The man, surnamed Chong, made calls to the defector using an illegal Chinese mobile phone, according to an unnamed North Korean security agency official. The execution took place by firing squad in late January in Hamhung.
Mobile phone use in North Korea is tightly restricted, although the country introduced an advanced network in partnership with Cairo-based Orascom Telecom in 2008. North Koreans who manage to make illegal overseas mobile calls mostly use networks in China.
Tree exorcist arrested for attacking trees by Eiffel tower
A self-styled exorcist who believes woodland carries evil spirits has been arrested for attacking 100 trees next to the Eiffel tower.
The 38-year-old hammered nails into branches and trunks, and painted graffiti on them.
Gardeners, in Paris, called police on Monday after the man was spotted baying at the top of a large chestnut tree on the Champs de Mars.
The unnamed man told officers that he was "trying to rid the trees of demon forces" before being taken into custody, pending psychiatric reports.
The 38-year-old hammered nails into branches and trunks, and painted graffiti on them.
Gardeners, in Paris, called police on Monday after the man was spotted baying at the top of a large chestnut tree on the Champs de Mars.
The unnamed man told officers that he was "trying to rid the trees of demon forces" before being taken into custody, pending psychiatric reports.
Polish plumber becomes faith healer after finding mystical stone
A Polish plumber has become a faith healer after finding a mystical stone while he was digging up the drains under his home.
Baffled Jacek Slominski has been swamped by demands from hundreds of patients since he pulled the stone from the earth where it had laid undisturbed for hundreds of years.
"It has a huge Z carved into it and as soon as I touched it I felt this tremendous energy coming from it. I've had a bad back for years but all of a sudden all the pain left me and never returned," he said at his home in Bialystok.
Now Jacek has become a full time healer as patients travel hundreds of miles just to touch his healing stone. "I don't understand it but it works and it's better than fixing broken toilets," he said.
Baffled Jacek Slominski has been swamped by demands from hundreds of patients since he pulled the stone from the earth where it had laid undisturbed for hundreds of years.
"It has a huge Z carved into it and as soon as I touched it I felt this tremendous energy coming from it. I've had a bad back for years but all of a sudden all the pain left me and never returned," he said at his home in Bialystok.
Now Jacek has become a full time healer as patients travel hundreds of miles just to touch his healing stone. "I don't understand it but it works and it's better than fixing broken toilets," he said.
Men vandalise 100 homes to get on TV
Deputies arrested one adult and two teenagers on Monday night in connection to the spray-painting of more than 100 eastern Hillsborough County homes on Sunday morning.
The suspects told investigators that they did it because "they wanted to get on the news."
Detectives arrested Aaron Dennis Green, 21, of Lithia, and two 17-year-old boys and charged all three with 80 plus counts of misdemeanor criminal mischief. The names of the teenagers weren't released because they were charged with misdemeanors.
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Detectives received an anonymous tip that led to the identification of the suspects involved in the graffiti, the sheriff's office said.
When detectives arrived at the home of one of the juveniles arrested, all the suspects were there. They had seen the news coverage and were trying to get their stories straight, the sheriff's office said.
Three of the four were arrested without incident. The fourth person is an adult witness who was in the car and didn't participate in the spray-painting. He won't be charged, said sheriff's Lt. Michael Willette.
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The suspects told investigators that they did it because "they wanted to get on the news."
Detectives arrested Aaron Dennis Green, 21, of Lithia, and two 17-year-old boys and charged all three with 80 plus counts of misdemeanor criminal mischief. The names of the teenagers weren't released because they were charged with misdemeanors.
Photo from here.
Detectives received an anonymous tip that led to the identification of the suspects involved in the graffiti, the sheriff's office said.
When detectives arrived at the home of one of the juveniles arrested, all the suspects were there. They had seen the news coverage and were trying to get their stories straight, the sheriff's office said.
Three of the four were arrested without incident. The fourth person is an adult witness who was in the car and didn't participate in the spray-painting. He won't be charged, said sheriff's Lt. Michael Willette.
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Pilot arrested after flying with fake licence for 13 years
A Swedish pilot without a valid licence to fly has been arrested at Amsterdam as he was about to fly a jet with 101 passengers to Turkey, Dutch police say. The 41-year-old man said he had been flying for European airlines for 13 years and had logged 10,000 hours.
Police said he once had a licence to fly small planes but it had expired and it did not allow him to fly large jets. Reports say the man was relieved his long deception was uncovered and tore off his pilot's stripes in the cockpit.
Turkey's Corendon Airlines said he had been flying for the airline for two years and had "expertly misled the company with his false papers". The airline said it had been alerted by police and had a pilot standing by to fly the Boeing 737 from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to Ankara.
Dutch police were acting on a tip-off from Swedish authorities. The man is in custody awaiting trial for forging documents and flying without a licence.
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Police said he once had a licence to fly small planes but it had expired and it did not allow him to fly large jets. Reports say the man was relieved his long deception was uncovered and tore off his pilot's stripes in the cockpit.
Turkey's Corendon Airlines said he had been flying for the airline for two years and had "expertly misled the company with his false papers". The airline said it had been alerted by police and had a pilot standing by to fly the Boeing 737 from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to Ankara.
Dutch police were acting on a tip-off from Swedish authorities. The man is in custody awaiting trial for forging documents and flying without a licence.
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Hen that thinks it's a dog takes litter of puppies under its wing
A hen has astonished its owners by taking a litter of puppies under its wing. The one-year-old, called Mabel, took a shine to the pups at a farm in Shrewsbury and now keeps them warm by roosting on top of them in their dog basket.
Her owners – Edward and Ros Tate – said she waited until the puppies' mother – Nettle – left them before hopping into the basket to keep them warm. Nettle is now left out in the cold – pining for her puppies in the yard as they nest with their adopted mother.
Mr Tate, 43, of The Isle at Bicton Heath, Shropshire, said: "Mabel was hatched here about a year ago. She would have gone onto someone’s dinner plate but we saved her and brought her into the house. Unfortunately, she got into an accident with a horse, which accidentally trod on her foot. Because of that, she gets terribly cold during the winter so we decided to bring her into the house."
"And then we had puppies about three weeks ago. Mabel observed Nettles behaviour and, as soon as there was a chance, she hopped into the dog basket to roost on the pups. She keeps them and herself warm, while Nettle is outside on the yard. It was within a week Mabel was jumping in the box with them and brooding over them. She took to them like they were her own chicks. Nettle was a bit startled to say the least – but she didn't mind too much eventually. She's happy to have a helping pair of wings."
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Her owners – Edward and Ros Tate – said she waited until the puppies' mother – Nettle – left them before hopping into the basket to keep them warm. Nettle is now left out in the cold – pining for her puppies in the yard as they nest with their adopted mother.
Mr Tate, 43, of The Isle at Bicton Heath, Shropshire, said: "Mabel was hatched here about a year ago. She would have gone onto someone’s dinner plate but we saved her and brought her into the house. Unfortunately, she got into an accident with a horse, which accidentally trod on her foot. Because of that, she gets terribly cold during the winter so we decided to bring her into the house."
"And then we had puppies about three weeks ago. Mabel observed Nettles behaviour and, as soon as there was a chance, she hopped into the dog basket to roost on the pups. She keeps them and herself warm, while Nettle is outside on the yard. It was within a week Mabel was jumping in the box with them and brooding over them. She took to them like they were her own chicks. Nettle was a bit startled to say the least – but she didn't mind too much eventually. She's happy to have a helping pair of wings."
There are more photos here.
Man accused of possessing image of someone having sex with a squid
A Welsh man has appeared in court charged with possessing an "extreme pornographic" image of someone having sex with a dead octopus or squid. Andrew Charles Dymond, of Dunns Lane, Mumbles, is also alleged to have had images which showed a person performing sex acts with horses and dogs.
The 46-year-old, who faces a total of 25 porn charges, entered a unanimous no plea when he came before Swansea magistrates. The charge involving the sea creature states the image was of someone "performing an act of intercourse with a dead animal, namely an octopus/squid, which was grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character".
Four of the allegations state he had images showing an act which would or was likely to result in "serious injury to a person's breasts". A further charge makes the same allegation but in relation to someone's genitals.
Leigh Davies, defending Dymond, said: "This is a case that's probably better dealt with in the Crown Court". Dymond was granted conditional bail and will next appear for committal to Crown Court on May 12.
The 46-year-old, who faces a total of 25 porn charges, entered a unanimous no plea when he came before Swansea magistrates. The charge involving the sea creature states the image was of someone "performing an act of intercourse with a dead animal, namely an octopus/squid, which was grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character".
Four of the allegations state he had images showing an act which would or was likely to result in "serious injury to a person's breasts". A further charge makes the same allegation but in relation to someone's genitals.
Leigh Davies, defending Dymond, said: "This is a case that's probably better dealt with in the Crown Court". Dymond was granted conditional bail and will next appear for committal to Crown Court on May 12.
Woman says transsexual photographer ruined her wedding
A British bride says her wedding day was ruined when the photographer turned out to be a transsexual. Melanie Vaughan, 34, said she hired the male photographer, Dave Stonestreet, after finding him on the internet.
Vaughan said she was stunned when he turned up wearing a long skirt, make-up and nail polish - and calling himself Kate. The mother-of-four said: "It was like something out of Little Britain. You could hear a pin drop when he, or she, walked in. I'm open-minded but he looked ridiculous.
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"The kids thought it was hilarious but the adults didn't know where to look. It was one of the most embarrassing things I have ever known. It ruined the wedding. He told my mum he had been diagnosed as transgender."
Vaughan, who wed her husband Anthony, 34, in Brighton, said the photographer told her it was the first time he had dressed as a woman. He had previously worked as a Ricky Gervais lookalike. Vaughan added: "What's even worse is I'm not happy with the photos. He sent me 200-odd pictures with black lines through them so we couldn't get them printed, but they're very amateurish. Our friends took better shots."
Vaughan said she was stunned when he turned up wearing a long skirt, make-up and nail polish - and calling himself Kate. The mother-of-four said: "It was like something out of Little Britain. You could hear a pin drop when he, or she, walked in. I'm open-minded but he looked ridiculous.
Photo from here.
"The kids thought it was hilarious but the adults didn't know where to look. It was one of the most embarrassing things I have ever known. It ruined the wedding. He told my mum he had been diagnosed as transgender."
Vaughan, who wed her husband Anthony, 34, in Brighton, said the photographer told her it was the first time he had dressed as a woman. He had previously worked as a Ricky Gervais lookalike. Vaughan added: "What's even worse is I'm not happy with the photos. He sent me 200-odd pictures with black lines through them so we couldn't get them printed, but they're very amateurish. Our friends took better shots."
Parents warned over 'fundamentalist' faith school
Parents have been warned that a private faith school set to open in Hull this year could "indoctrinate" children with "fundamentalist" Christian teaching.
The £2,000-a-year New Life Academy is due to open in Bridlington Avenue in the west of the city this September.
Senior minister Reverend Jarrod Cooper said it would offer "individualised" Christian learning to allow pupils to develop at their own pace.
Opponents say children will be isolated and taught the Bible is literally true.
The school will follow the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum formulated by an educational products company in the US.
ACE lists its principles in a "statement of faith" which includes a belief that the Bible is literally true.
The £2,000-a-year New Life Academy is due to open in Bridlington Avenue in the west of the city this September.
Senior minister Reverend Jarrod Cooper said it would offer "individualised" Christian learning to allow pupils to develop at their own pace.
Opponents say children will be isolated and taught the Bible is literally true.
The school will follow the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum formulated by an educational products company in the US.
ACE lists its principles in a "statement of faith" which includes a belief that the Bible is literally true.
Hospital sends toddler home with plaster cast on wrong leg
A toddler with a broken leg was sent home with a plaster on the wrong limb and then hospital staff implied it was his mother's fault for not spotting it.
The error was made when Bella Powell took 21-month-old son Rafe to Torbay Hospital after he fell from his high chair at his Brixham home.
On returning to get the error resolved, Mrs Powell was laughed at by staff and told she should have said something.
The hospital has apologised for the mistake and the comments made by staff.
"It was all quite an ordeal, with Rafe crying as they held him down while they tried to plaster his leg," Mrs Powell said.
"I couldn't believe my ears when the doctor tried to say it was my fault and why hadn't I said - I felt absolutely awful."
The error was made when Bella Powell took 21-month-old son Rafe to Torbay Hospital after he fell from his high chair at his Brixham home.
On returning to get the error resolved, Mrs Powell was laughed at by staff and told she should have said something.
The hospital has apologised for the mistake and the comments made by staff.
"It was all quite an ordeal, with Rafe crying as they held him down while they tried to plaster his leg," Mrs Powell said.
"I couldn't believe my ears when the doctor tried to say it was my fault and why hadn't I said - I felt absolutely awful."
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