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Monday, January 30, 2012
Irish racehorse trainer gets very excited on live TV
Following the win of his horse, Flemenstar at Leopardstown yesterday, Peter Casey tells Tracey Piggott how he intended to celebrate.
Contains NSFW language.
YouTube link.
Update: There's an interview with Mr Casey and his wife the following morning here.
Contains NSFW language.
YouTube link.
Update: There's an interview with Mr Casey and his wife the following morning here.
Pair arrested with baby's head in bag of tomotoes
Two people, Tanko Haruna and Muhammed Yusuf were arrested by the Niger State Police Command for allegedly being in possession of a four-month-old baby girl’s head in a polythene bag at Erena, in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
The two young men were arrested by the policemen on a highway in the area after they were sighted with a bag which also contained tomatoes.
It was gathered that the policemen were taken aback when they searched the bag and discovered a head of a four-month-old baby girl.
The suspects were then arrested and transferred to the Police Headquarters, Minna. Both suspects were about to board a vehicle heading to an unknown destination when the police stop-and-search team apprehended them.
The two young men were arrested by the policemen on a highway in the area after they were sighted with a bag which also contained tomatoes.
It was gathered that the policemen were taken aback when they searched the bag and discovered a head of a four-month-old baby girl.
The suspects were then arrested and transferred to the Police Headquarters, Minna. Both suspects were about to board a vehicle heading to an unknown destination when the police stop-and-search team apprehended them.
Umpire strikes back to kill cricket spectator
A cricket umpire killed a teenage spectator in Bangladesh by hitting him on the head with a bat in a dispute over a contested decision, police said on Sunday.
Nazrul Islam, 15, ran onto the pitch during an amateur game in the remote northern district of Kishoreganj and started an argument with the umpire, who took one of the players' bats and hit the teenager.
Islam showed no serious injury from the blow during the game on Friday but suffered an internal haemorrhage overnight and died in hospital the following day, local police chief Mosharraf Hossain said.
"The two argued over a not-out decision by the umpire. He accused the umpire of bias. At one stage, the umpire became angry, took a bat and hit the young boy on the head," Hossain said. The umpire was being sought for questioning but had gone into hiding, he added.
Nazrul Islam, 15, ran onto the pitch during an amateur game in the remote northern district of Kishoreganj and started an argument with the umpire, who took one of the players' bats and hit the teenager.
Islam showed no serious injury from the blow during the game on Friday but suffered an internal haemorrhage overnight and died in hospital the following day, local police chief Mosharraf Hossain said.
"The two argued over a not-out decision by the umpire. He accused the umpire of bias. At one stage, the umpire became angry, took a bat and hit the young boy on the head," Hossain said. The umpire was being sought for questioning but had gone into hiding, he added.
Children set new world record by dressing up as Mahatma Gandhi
Draped in his iconic khaddar, round spectacles and walking stick, some 485 children in Kolkata created a new Guinness World Record for dressing up as Mahatma Gandhi, the founding father of India, to mark the 64th anniversary of his death.
Most of the children taking part in the event were aged between 10 and 16 and came from underprivileged backgrounds. It was organised to promote the Gandhian ideology of non-violence.
The children marched for half of a kilometre through Kolkata to recreate Gandhi’s peaceful march to Dandi in 1930 to protest against the British salt tax which led to a wider Indian independence movement.
Guinness verified the successful attempt, which broke a previous record set in 2010, when 255 students dressed up as Gandhi in Coimbatore in southern India.
There's a photo gallery here.
Most of the children taking part in the event were aged between 10 and 16 and came from underprivileged backgrounds. It was organised to promote the Gandhian ideology of non-violence.
The children marched for half of a kilometre through Kolkata to recreate Gandhi’s peaceful march to Dandi in 1930 to protest against the British salt tax which led to a wider Indian independence movement.
Guinness verified the successful attempt, which broke a previous record set in 2010, when 255 students dressed up as Gandhi in Coimbatore in southern India.
There's a photo gallery here.
Teenage thief caught after stealing neighbour's jumper then wearing it an hour later
A teenager dubbed Scotland’s thickest robber stole his next-door neighbour’s stripey jumper in a break-in – then wore it an hour later. Jamie Alexander, 18, was caught when his victim looked a few yards across his lawn and saw the thief wearing the distinctive top and trying to tune in his flat-screen TV. Jason Rendall, from St Ninians, Stirling, phoned the police, who were able to recover most of his belongings, including the 42in telly, a Sky HD box and a Freeview box.
Other items stolen included jewellery, an iPod, a camera, a shaving set, a £5 alarm clock, CDs, DVDs and children’s toys. Alexander even took £100 in notes and a cider bottle filled with five pences, worth £60. At Stirling Sheriff Court,Alexander admitted stealing the items on December 19. Jason said: “He smashed my living room window using a hammer from my shed.
“He must have found a key to the back door, which faces his house, and just passed everything over the hedge. He shut my pet dog in the kitchen and took anything he could get his hands on. I walked in the front door after work and noticed there was a hole in the window. There were only cables where the television had been.
“I went in to the garden, looked at my neighbour’s house and there he was – wearing my jumper and trying to tune in my TV. He was wearing my jeans as well so I knew it was him. I was fizzing mad but even I had to laugh at his stupidity.” Sheriff Wyllie Robertson jailed Alexander for seven months. Jason said: “People find it hilarious but he deserves to go to jail.”
Other items stolen included jewellery, an iPod, a camera, a shaving set, a £5 alarm clock, CDs, DVDs and children’s toys. Alexander even took £100 in notes and a cider bottle filled with five pences, worth £60. At Stirling Sheriff Court,Alexander admitted stealing the items on December 19. Jason said: “He smashed my living room window using a hammer from my shed.
“He must have found a key to the back door, which faces his house, and just passed everything over the hedge. He shut my pet dog in the kitchen and took anything he could get his hands on. I walked in the front door after work and noticed there was a hole in the window. There were only cables where the television had been.
“I went in to the garden, looked at my neighbour’s house and there he was – wearing my jumper and trying to tune in my TV. He was wearing my jeans as well so I knew it was him. I was fizzing mad but even I had to laugh at his stupidity.” Sheriff Wyllie Robertson jailed Alexander for seven months. Jason said: “People find it hilarious but he deserves to go to jail.”
Pub landlord suspended for serving pints too full of beer
A pub landlord and landlady have been suspended and threatened with the sack for serving pints “too full” of beer. Pete and Debbie Gibson were ordered to close their Junction Inn pub on New Year’s Eve because brewery bosses said the heads on their pints of beer and lager were not big enough.
Pete, 48, and Debbie, 47, say they have been told they owe brewing firm Samuel Smith £10,733 in lost stock for topping up customers’ pints. The dispute centres on whether or not customers are entitled to ask for more than 95 per cent of their pint glass to be filled and get the pint topped up so there’s less of a frothy head.
Millionaire brewery owner Humphrey Smith turned up at the pub at 8.30pm on New Year’s Eve and told the Gibsons in front of astonished customers that he was shutting it.
Loyal customer Ged Barnes, who has used the pub for 31 years, said: “It’s ridiculous. It’s a scandal, the pint we get off Pete and Debbie here is just perfect. I’ve never heard of anything like it. We have the friendliest landlord and landlady... how can you treat people like that when they are just looking after their customers?”
Pete, 48, and Debbie, 47, say they have been told they owe brewing firm Samuel Smith £10,733 in lost stock for topping up customers’ pints. The dispute centres on whether or not customers are entitled to ask for more than 95 per cent of their pint glass to be filled and get the pint topped up so there’s less of a frothy head.
Millionaire brewery owner Humphrey Smith turned up at the pub at 8.30pm on New Year’s Eve and told the Gibsons in front of astonished customers that he was shutting it.
Loyal customer Ged Barnes, who has used the pub for 31 years, said: “It’s ridiculous. It’s a scandal, the pint we get off Pete and Debbie here is just perfect. I’ve never heard of anything like it. We have the friendliest landlord and landlady... how can you treat people like that when they are just looking after their customers?”
Undercover dog wardens to use night-vision goggles in crackdown on dog fouling
Undercover wardens in Lancashire using night-vision goggles are to start following people and staking out hot-spot areas to target dog fouling. Hyndburn’s team of dog wardens are to use covert techniques to crackdown on the problem including the use of plain clothes officers and surveillance vans after an increase in complaints.
The wardens, who were asked by borough councillors to step up patrols in the worst affected areas, are urging residents to supply intelligence of regular offenders who they should be following. The campaign will see people encouraged to ‘name and shame’ by contacting Hyndburn Council with details of people who regularly flout the dog fouling laws.
A team will continue regular patrols in uniforms but will also use information from the public to stake out certain places covertly. Rishton councillor Ken Moss, launched a campaign for councils to gain powers to raise instant dog fouling fines to £1,000, has asked the Hyndburn wardens team to step up action in the town.
Hyndburn currently hands out £75 penalties in line with neighbouring authorities, whose fines range from £50 to £75. Second time offenders can be taken to Hyndburn Magistrates Court where they face fines of up to £1,000. The council has historically taken a tough stance on the issue, employing one of the first dog wardens, becoming the first to ban dogs without leads from cemeteries and piloting a special street sweeper nicknamed the ‘Super Dooper Pooper Scooper’.
The wardens, who were asked by borough councillors to step up patrols in the worst affected areas, are urging residents to supply intelligence of regular offenders who they should be following. The campaign will see people encouraged to ‘name and shame’ by contacting Hyndburn Council with details of people who regularly flout the dog fouling laws.
A team will continue regular patrols in uniforms but will also use information from the public to stake out certain places covertly. Rishton councillor Ken Moss, launched a campaign for councils to gain powers to raise instant dog fouling fines to £1,000, has asked the Hyndburn wardens team to step up action in the town.
Hyndburn currently hands out £75 penalties in line with neighbouring authorities, whose fines range from £50 to £75. Second time offenders can be taken to Hyndburn Magistrates Court where they face fines of up to £1,000. The council has historically taken a tough stance on the issue, employing one of the first dog wardens, becoming the first to ban dogs without leads from cemeteries and piloting a special street sweeper nicknamed the ‘Super Dooper Pooper Scooper’.
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