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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
While somewhere in South Africa
At least this gentleman has a warning sign on the back of his wheelchair.
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Woman charged with arson
A Carlisle woman faces arson charges after police say she tried to burn down another person’s house on Monday. Alexandria M. Roberson, 26, was charged with two counts of felony arson, loitering and prowling and recklessly endangering another person.
According to police, Roberson intentionally set a fire in the front of an apartment. Newspapers and a red pillow were set on fire by an unknown device, directly in front of the front door. When one of the residents opened the door to investigate, they were met by knee-high flames, police said.
The fire was put out by the resident and no injuries were reported, according to police. Witnesses stated that Roberson was seen hiding in the dark alongside the apartment after the fire was put out.
According to police, the reason for setting the fire was that Roberson was upset over a domestic situation with her baby’s father, who was not at the scene at the time of the fire. She was arrested and taken to the Cumberland County Prison, where she was arraigned. Bail was set at $15,000. She is currently being held on a parole violation, according to court officials. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
According to police, Roberson intentionally set a fire in the front of an apartment. Newspapers and a red pillow were set on fire by an unknown device, directly in front of the front door. When one of the residents opened the door to investigate, they were met by knee-high flames, police said.
The fire was put out by the resident and no injuries were reported, according to police. Witnesses stated that Roberson was seen hiding in the dark alongside the apartment after the fire was put out.
According to police, the reason for setting the fire was that Roberson was upset over a domestic situation with her baby’s father, who was not at the scene at the time of the fire. She was arrested and taken to the Cumberland County Prison, where she was arraigned. Bail was set at $15,000. She is currently being held on a parole violation, according to court officials. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
Woman broke into home 'and tried to breastfeed stranger's baby'
Authorities said that a misdemeanor charge was filed against a woman after another woman accused her of coming into her eastern South Dakota home and attempting to feed her infant.
The mother called 911 around 5 a.m. on Sunday to report that a woman she didn't know had entered her home in Brookings and tried to breast feed her 2-month-old child, Brookings Police Lt. Derrick Powers said. The woman then allegedly treated the home as her own until police arrived.
"After (the resident) called police, she found the suspect lying in her bed," Powers said, adding that alcohol may have played a role in the incident. But the 24-year-old woman taken into custody, Rebecca Silva of Brookings, denied the allegations. She said that she never tried to feed the infant and that she had been invited into the home, saying she'd met the woman the night before.
"I did not break into her house. She invited me in. She gave me her pyjamas. She lied to the cops that I broke into her house. I did not try to feed her baby. That didn't happen," she said, noting that she was only cited for unlawful occupancy. She said she remembered having an argument with the woman, who told police she was awoken by dogs. Silva was charged with unlawful occupancy, which is a misdemeanor, and released on her own personal recognizance. A court date has been set for April 30.
The mother called 911 around 5 a.m. on Sunday to report that a woman she didn't know had entered her home in Brookings and tried to breast feed her 2-month-old child, Brookings Police Lt. Derrick Powers said. The woman then allegedly treated the home as her own until police arrived.
"After (the resident) called police, she found the suspect lying in her bed," Powers said, adding that alcohol may have played a role in the incident. But the 24-year-old woman taken into custody, Rebecca Silva of Brookings, denied the allegations. She said that she never tried to feed the infant and that she had been invited into the home, saying she'd met the woman the night before.
"I did not break into her house. She invited me in. She gave me her pyjamas. She lied to the cops that I broke into her house. I did not try to feed her baby. That didn't happen," she said, noting that she was only cited for unlawful occupancy. She said she remembered having an argument with the woman, who told police she was awoken by dogs. Silva was charged with unlawful occupancy, which is a misdemeanor, and released on her own personal recognizance. A court date has been set for April 30.
Newborn baby who fell into toilet is doing well
A newborn girl who fell into a toilet pit when her mother gave birth in a public bathroom in China is in good condition and will be discharged from the hospital in a few days, the baby's aunt said. "My sister-in-law and niece are both OK now. As soon as doctor permits it, we'll bring the baby home," said Zhang Zhenghua, who came from their hometown in Guangshan county in Xinyang, Henan province on Saturday night.
Cai Qulin, 36, went into labour early on Saturday afternoon, nine days ahead of her due date, and said she urgently needed to use the bathroom before going to the hospital. Unexpectedly, the child was born as she squatted at the public toilet, and the infant girl fell into the pit. Zhang Tao, Cai's husband, called the police and emergency medical help.
"The rescuers could see the baby and hear her crying sometimes in the pit," said a member of Chaoyang district fire brigade. "They broke the nearby pits by hand so they could reach the girl without endangering her." When they removed the cover from the pit, Li Gang, a rescuer, jumped in and lifted the baby girl out 30 minutes after the accident. "She seemed a little pale and stiff," he said. Then she was taken to the First Hospital of Tsinghua University.
The mother was discharged from the hospital and returned home on Saturday afternoon, and the baby was admitted for observation. "My niece is all right now, but she will stay in the hospital so they can make certain that she is healthy. My brother is taking care of the girl, and I'm taking care of the mother," said Zhang Zhenghua at her brother's home, not far from downtown Beijing.
Cai Qulin, 36, went into labour early on Saturday afternoon, nine days ahead of her due date, and said she urgently needed to use the bathroom before going to the hospital. Unexpectedly, the child was born as she squatted at the public toilet, and the infant girl fell into the pit. Zhang Tao, Cai's husband, called the police and emergency medical help.
"The rescuers could see the baby and hear her crying sometimes in the pit," said a member of Chaoyang district fire brigade. "They broke the nearby pits by hand so they could reach the girl without endangering her." When they removed the cover from the pit, Li Gang, a rescuer, jumped in and lifted the baby girl out 30 minutes after the accident. "She seemed a little pale and stiff," he said. Then she was taken to the First Hospital of Tsinghua University.
The mother was discharged from the hospital and returned home on Saturday afternoon, and the baby was admitted for observation. "My niece is all right now, but she will stay in the hospital so they can make certain that she is healthy. My brother is taking care of the girl, and I'm taking care of the mother," said Zhang Zhenghua at her brother's home, not far from downtown Beijing.
Fake police academy exposed in China
A fake police academy in China has been exposed in a bizarre sting operation that involved undercover authentic female officers disguised as schoolgirls. The Jiamusi People's Police Academy, Shandong province branch, offered impressionable school leavers a three year law enforcement studies course taught by veteran officers on a new campus.
The rookie officers prepared to stump up the £2,000 fees were promised their hard won diplomas would land them jobs keeping the streets safe from criminals – including, one imagines, apprehending the innovative counterfeiters who have produced a long list of fraudulent products, including fake walnuts, vintage wine and the ubiquitous plastic Rolex. The sham police school was closed after its "honorary president", Wei Zhenhai, inadvertently exposed the scheme.
He boasted about his friends in high places to two female undercover officers who visited the admission office posing as potential students. Mr Wei claimed his unique constabulary connections would help them secure posts. Genuine constables then pounced and arrested the academy's 23 staff, including the president, Zhao Qingxin. In his charge sheet, it was noted Mr Zhao had previous form, first as a failed instant-noodle entrepreneur who once spent three years in prison for blackmail, and secondly as a bona fide admissions director at a real school. After resigning from his education position, he ploughed his £20,000 life savings into setting up his own mock academic business.
He leased a building complex, and forged a commissioning letter from the real Jiamusi People's Police Academy - located hundreds of miles away in northern Heilongjiang province - which claimed to give permission to open his feeder school in the eastern city of Weifang. Mr Zhao's website was the near plagiarised image of those advertising real police schools and he embarked on an internet shopping spree, buying uniforms and equipment for his squad of veteran police trainers, who it transpired, were retired military personnel. The authentic Weifang City PD was tipped off after a parent of one student who had enrolled for academy's first intake in September became suspicious.
The rookie officers prepared to stump up the £2,000 fees were promised their hard won diplomas would land them jobs keeping the streets safe from criminals – including, one imagines, apprehending the innovative counterfeiters who have produced a long list of fraudulent products, including fake walnuts, vintage wine and the ubiquitous plastic Rolex. The sham police school was closed after its "honorary president", Wei Zhenhai, inadvertently exposed the scheme.
He boasted about his friends in high places to two female undercover officers who visited the admission office posing as potential students. Mr Wei claimed his unique constabulary connections would help them secure posts. Genuine constables then pounced and arrested the academy's 23 staff, including the president, Zhao Qingxin. In his charge sheet, it was noted Mr Zhao had previous form, first as a failed instant-noodle entrepreneur who once spent three years in prison for blackmail, and secondly as a bona fide admissions director at a real school. After resigning from his education position, he ploughed his £20,000 life savings into setting up his own mock academic business.
He leased a building complex, and forged a commissioning letter from the real Jiamusi People's Police Academy - located hundreds of miles away in northern Heilongjiang province - which claimed to give permission to open his feeder school in the eastern city of Weifang. Mr Zhao's website was the near plagiarised image of those advertising real police schools and he embarked on an internet shopping spree, buying uniforms and equipment for his squad of veteran police trainers, who it transpired, were retired military personnel. The authentic Weifang City PD was tipped off after a parent of one student who had enrolled for academy's first intake in September became suspicious.
Japanese policeman in sailor-style schoolgirl uniform arrested for flashing
A policeman in Tokyo has been arrested for allegedly flashing his genitals at a schoolgirl. Reports say the 37-year-old man was dressed in a sailor-style schoolgirl uniform at the time of the offence. The officer, who has been named as Kazuya Tsukada, is an assistant inspector with the traffic division. He is believed to have entered an apartment building in Musashino and got into the elevator at the same time as a 16-year-old schoolgirl.
“Tsukada, while dressed up in a middie blouse resembling a high school girl’s uniform, boarded the elevator in the apartment while the teenaged girl was already in the elevator,” a police source said. “He pressed a button for a floor lower than the girl’s destination, and after disembarking from the elevator turned to her and said ‘Mite kudasai!‘ (Please take a look), and then pulled up his skirt, revealing his genitals. The girl, predictably, reacted with shock, and Tsukada fled the scene. He was not wearing any underwear and had on a woman’s wig.”
Tsukada was apprehended near JR Musashi Sakai station and under questioning confessed to having made similar transgressions in west Tokyo suburbs from October of last year. “There seem to be two types of cross-dressers,” Meiji University lecturer Osamu Seki said. “One is the pattern by which they affect female clothing and behaviour to appeal to gay men. The other would be men who wish to flee from reality. Tsukada would be of the latter type. I often hear about men who claim that wearing women’s garments help them relax, by relieving them from constricted feelings from wearing a uniform or business suit.
“Often such males don’t have a satisfactory sex life, and they compensate by flashing. By dressing up as a female and exposing himself, I would imagine the subject got twice the thrill,” said Seki, who added, “By using polite Japanese when saying ‘Look at me,’ Tsukada shows he is a straightforward person at heart. He would be the type of cop who couldn’t bring himself to patronize a sex shop. His walking around in public close to where he committed his crime may indicate he had a latent desire to be apprehended.”
“Tsukada, while dressed up in a middie blouse resembling a high school girl’s uniform, boarded the elevator in the apartment while the teenaged girl was already in the elevator,” a police source said. “He pressed a button for a floor lower than the girl’s destination, and after disembarking from the elevator turned to her and said ‘Mite kudasai!‘ (Please take a look), and then pulled up his skirt, revealing his genitals. The girl, predictably, reacted with shock, and Tsukada fled the scene. He was not wearing any underwear and had on a woman’s wig.”
Tsukada was apprehended near JR Musashi Sakai station and under questioning confessed to having made similar transgressions in west Tokyo suburbs from October of last year. “There seem to be two types of cross-dressers,” Meiji University lecturer Osamu Seki said. “One is the pattern by which they affect female clothing and behaviour to appeal to gay men. The other would be men who wish to flee from reality. Tsukada would be of the latter type. I often hear about men who claim that wearing women’s garments help them relax, by relieving them from constricted feelings from wearing a uniform or business suit.
“Often such males don’t have a satisfactory sex life, and they compensate by flashing. By dressing up as a female and exposing himself, I would imagine the subject got twice the thrill,” said Seki, who added, “By using polite Japanese when saying ‘Look at me,’ Tsukada shows he is a straightforward person at heart. He would be the type of cop who couldn’t bring himself to patronize a sex shop. His walking around in public close to where he committed his crime may indicate he had a latent desire to be apprehended.”
Jesus Christ TV show to plug coffee-maker
His ability to transform water into wine is well known. But now Jesus Christ will endorse the Magnifica bean-to-cup cappuccino coffee maker as ITV offers brands the chance to embed their products in its new search to find a West End star. The Magnifica is expected to play a starring role in ITV1's next talent show, a Saturday night search for the lead in a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar, with Andrew Lloyd Webber heading the judging panel.
Sir Tim Rice, the hit musical's lyricist, has already called the show "tasteless" and "tacky" after warning that it would be "ill-advised to have people voting for who should be Jesus". His concerns about the programme's overt commercialisation may not be allayed by the news that ITV is asking brands to provide products which will be demonstrated on camera by the singing finalists. In an email exchange ITV said it was "looking for a company to supply a new Saturday night prime-time programme with a coffee machine to be used by the talent".
The plea was forwarded to the brand manager of De'Longhi, producers of high-end coffee machines. An account executive from Clarion Communications, De'Longhi's PR agency, replied the opportunity "sounds great!". She wrote: "The show is a talent show looking for the next Jesus Christ Superstar lead role with Andrew Lloyd Webber. They require two coffee machines to sit in the competitors' house kitchen (it can be a machine of our choice so we suggest providing a Magnifica), and in return De'Longhi get a credit on the website, which can include a blurb about the products, a logo and a link to the De'Longhi website. The machines will be used for the "full length of filming which will be until the autumn".
The De'Longhi brand manager agrees, writing: "Let's go ahead. I would suggest Magnifica too." Viewers expressed concern that performances of the rock opera's climactic song, "The Crucifixion", could be halted while Jesus samples a cup from the £300 Magnifica ESAM4200, a fully-automated "bean-to-cup" machine with integrated coffee bean grinder. Vivienne Pattison, director of viewers' association Mediawatch UK, said: "It shows that with product placement, anything goes. The purpose isn't to make better programmes for viewers but to deliver viewers to advertisers." ITV said the Magnifica was "prop placement" rather than product placement since De'Longhi had not paid to get prominence for its coffee machine during the series.
Sir Tim Rice, the hit musical's lyricist, has already called the show "tasteless" and "tacky" after warning that it would be "ill-advised to have people voting for who should be Jesus". His concerns about the programme's overt commercialisation may not be allayed by the news that ITV is asking brands to provide products which will be demonstrated on camera by the singing finalists. In an email exchange ITV said it was "looking for a company to supply a new Saturday night prime-time programme with a coffee machine to be used by the talent".
The plea was forwarded to the brand manager of De'Longhi, producers of high-end coffee machines. An account executive from Clarion Communications, De'Longhi's PR agency, replied the opportunity "sounds great!". She wrote: "The show is a talent show looking for the next Jesus Christ Superstar lead role with Andrew Lloyd Webber. They require two coffee machines to sit in the competitors' house kitchen (it can be a machine of our choice so we suggest providing a Magnifica), and in return De'Longhi get a credit on the website, which can include a blurb about the products, a logo and a link to the De'Longhi website. The machines will be used for the "full length of filming which will be until the autumn".
The De'Longhi brand manager agrees, writing: "Let's go ahead. I would suggest Magnifica too." Viewers expressed concern that performances of the rock opera's climactic song, "The Crucifixion", could be halted while Jesus samples a cup from the £300 Magnifica ESAM4200, a fully-automated "bean-to-cup" machine with integrated coffee bean grinder. Vivienne Pattison, director of viewers' association Mediawatch UK, said: "It shows that with product placement, anything goes. The purpose isn't to make better programmes for viewers but to deliver viewers to advertisers." ITV said the Magnifica was "prop placement" rather than product placement since De'Longhi had not paid to get prominence for its coffee machine during the series.
Coffin-shaped pie advert slammed
A giant billboard which links death with eating meat has been criticised by the National Obesity Forum (NOF). The advert shows a coffin-shaped pie and asks the question 'Not ready to meat your maker?'. It also recommends veganism in the fight against obesity.
Campaign group Peta said it placed the advert in Gloucester because of a new mortuary in the city for obese bodies. Tam Fry, from the NOF, said the advert was "laughable" and an attempt to make a point out of others' misfortune. Peta said that Gloucester had the first mortuary in Britain to accommodate bodies weighing up to 50 stone.
This has been disputed by Gloucestershire County Council which says that its new mortuary - officially opened last week - is one of many in the country that can take bodies of this size. Mr Fry said it was "ridiculous" that Gloucester had been targeted because the city was one of the less obese areas in the country.
"We want to do all we can to lessen obesity but I do not think it appropriate at all to draw attention to it in this manner," he added. Yvonne Taylor, from Peta, said the billboard was deigned to highlight a link between meat pies and pasties and obesity and other ailments. "The best thing that coffin dodgers can do for their health and to help animals is to go vegan," she said.
Campaign group Peta said it placed the advert in Gloucester because of a new mortuary in the city for obese bodies. Tam Fry, from the NOF, said the advert was "laughable" and an attempt to make a point out of others' misfortune. Peta said that Gloucester had the first mortuary in Britain to accommodate bodies weighing up to 50 stone.
This has been disputed by Gloucestershire County Council which says that its new mortuary - officially opened last week - is one of many in the country that can take bodies of this size. Mr Fry said it was "ridiculous" that Gloucester had been targeted because the city was one of the less obese areas in the country.
"We want to do all we can to lessen obesity but I do not think it appropriate at all to draw attention to it in this manner," he added. Yvonne Taylor, from Peta, said the billboard was deigned to highlight a link between meat pies and pasties and obesity and other ailments. "The best thing that coffin dodgers can do for their health and to help animals is to go vegan," she said.
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