Thursday, April 28, 2005

Pretty in pink

Hardened criminals were forced to wear nothing but pink underwear, flip-flops and handcuffs to walk to their new prison.

The prisoners were made to wear the outfits as they were transferred from their old overcrowded jail to a brand-new facility in Pheonix, Arizona.

Humiliating the tough inmates by forcing them into shocking pink underwear, flip-flops and handcuffs was the brainchild of Joe Arpaio - America's toughest sheriff.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Man Saves Moms Remains In Freezer

TOWN OF CAMPBELL, Wis. (AP) As a teenager, Philip Schuth was teased mercilessly by the other kids because his mother still walked him to school. As an adult, he lived with his mother, cut his backyard with a scythe, and once bought $150 worth of Spam in a single grocery store outing. But the strangest thing of all would come to light over the weekend: Schuth had kept his mother's remains in a basement freezer for years while he went on collecting her Social Security checks.

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Casino Camera Operators Accused Of Ogling

Caesars Employees Charged With Training Their Cameras On Low-Cut Blouses And Revealing Clothing.

ATLANTIC CITY (AP) Four more surveillance camera operators at Caesars Atlantic City Hotel Casino have been accused of using the equipment to ogle women, according to a complaint filed Tuesday.

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NZ police under investigation for porn images

WELLINGTON, April 23 (Xinhuanet) -- New Zealand police is investigating it's 330 staff for sexual images found in their email systems.

Saturday's local media reports quoted Police Commissioner Rob Robinson as saying that about 5,000 images were found in the official Police email system, about 20 percent of the system's capacity.

A police news release said the 330 staff were handed a letter Friday, informing that they are under investigation for those pornpictures.

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Monday, April 25, 2005

'Naked Day' gets teacher in hot water

Oak Forest educator said he thought students knew he was kidding.

A veteran Oak Forest High School teacher has received a written reprimand for telling students last week they could earn extra credit if they took part in a "Get Naked Day" in his classroom.

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Exploding toads baffle experts

Hundreds of toads have met an unexplained, explosive demise in Germany in recent days, it was reported on Saturday.

According to reports from animal welfare workers and veterinarians as many as a thousand of the amphibians have perished after their bodies swelled to bursting point and their entrails were propelled for up to a metre.

It is like "a science fiction film", according to Werner Smolnik of a nature protection society in the northern city of Hamburg, where the phenomenon of the exploding toad has been observed.

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Sunday, April 24, 2005

Oldest hippo put on the pill

Europe's oldest hippo has been put on the pill to curb her sexual appetite and safeguard her health.

Zoo keepers were stunned to see 53-year-old Bullette energetically mate with her long-term partner Ede last week.

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Saturday, April 23, 2005

E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot'

LONDON, England -- Workers distracted by phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana, a British study shows.

The constant interruptions reduce productivity and leave people feeling tired and lethargic, according to a survey carried out by TNS Research and commissioned by Hewlett Packard.

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Sunday, April 17, 2005

Man barred from making slavery tax claims

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man was temporarily barred on Friday from preparing income tax returns for others because he has been including bogus tax credits such as reparations for African-American slavery and segregation.

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Saturday, April 16, 2005

Woman beats off burglar with gnome

LONDON, England (AP) -- A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him, police said Friday.

Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England.

"I grabbed the first thing that came to hand -- one of my garden gnomes -- and hurled it at him, and hit him," she recalled.

"He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."

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Friday, April 15, 2005

Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.

Charlie, a grown male chimp and the Bloemfontein Zoo, has been picking up cigarettes thrown to him by visitors and smoking them -- a habit he probably picked up by observing humans, zoo officials told the SAPA news agency on Thursday.

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Porn Flick Profits Offered to Hospital

TORONTO (Reuters) - A porn star's first, and last, film about lesbian sex could end up boosting the coffers of Canada's best known children's hospital, if the agent for dead actress Natel King has his way.

Agent Stephan Sirard said he had approached Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children about accepting the proceeds from King's last movie, "Lesbian Lover," in memory of the 23-year-old Canadian star, who was stabbed to death last year in the United States.

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Thursday, April 14, 2005

Nurses in Nighties Stage South Africa Pajama Protest

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African nurses are wearing pajamas and nighties to work to demand a higher uniform allowance, drawing criticism from health officials who say they are confusing patients and turning hospitals into bedrooms.

The protest in South Africa's North West province began on Monday and nurses vowed to continue wearing pajamas to work until their demands were met, the national SAPA news agency said Wednesday.

"This campaign is the only way we can exercise our rights," Itumeleng Molaplhegi, provincial shop steward for the Democratic Nurses Organization of South Africa, told SAPA.

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Cigarette Butt on Auction for $5,400

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A cigarette smoked in the dying seconds before New Zealand smoke-free laws came into effect last year is set to fetch more than NZ$7,500 ($5,400) in an Internet auction.

The butt, witnessed as smoked at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 9 by the owners of an Auckland bar, has exceeded its NZ$1 reserve price by NZ$7,574 on New Zealand-based Internet web auction site TradeMe (www.trademe.co.nz).

It costs about NZ$10 to buy a packet of cigarettes in New Zealand.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Woman sold daughter for car

OKEECHOBEE, Florida (AP) -- A woman was arrested for allegedly forcing her 12-year-old daughter into prostitution and trading a 14-year-old daughter for a car.

The 39-year-old woman was charged with aggravated child abuse and sexual performance by a child. Both girls have been turned over to the Department of Children & Families.

The youngest girl and her mother were living out of their car, and would sell sex for food and an occasional shower at the men's homes, according to a report by Okeechobee County Sheriff's Detective K.J. Ammons.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Police fail to track down 'dumbest criminal'

Cape Town's dumbest crook award must surely go to the man who stole an activated security camera from a building in Woodstock, leaving video footage of himself taking his loot.

But in spite of having the damning footage, Cape Town central detectives have been unable to solve the crime in more than four months.

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City Goes After Tree Wreckage Art

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Harley-Davidson enthusiast Richard Woodworth has an unusual piece of art in his back yard, and it’s causing him quite a headache with the city of Raleigh.

It’s the gnarled metal of a wrecked motorcycle hanging in a tree.

In February, a city inspector walked on Woodworth’s wooded property and decided the dangling metal fell under Raleigh’s code definition of a nuisance motor vehicle. But even though Woodworth lives a mile outside the city limits and has posted no-trespassing signs, he falls under some city code enforcement.

For Woodworth, that meant receiving a city inspections letter telling him to pay a $100 administrative inspection fee and demanding that he remove the motorcycle.

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Monday, April 11, 2005

Strippers on Public Access TV

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.
Viewers expecting to see the latest local meeting on their public access channel got an eyeful recently when Cablevision played a tape of nude dancers accidentally.

The mistake affected customers in parts of Dutchess, Ulster, Putnam and Orange counties.

Hopewell Junction resident George Morton returned home from Palm Sunday Mass and turned on his television to see a striptease contest.

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Sunday, April 10, 2005

Deliveryman stuck in elevator for days

New York man rescued Tuesday after disappearing Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A deliveryman who vanished after taking Chinese food to a Bronx high-rise apartment building was found alive Tuesday after apparently spending more than three days trapped in an elevator that had become stuck between floors.

Ming Kuang Chen, 35, had been the subject of a widespread search after he failed to return to his restaurant Friday night with $200 in receipts, prompting speculation that he was the victim of armed bandits or some other urban horror.

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Venice teacher arrested on drug charges

VENICE -- A Venice High School math teacher was arrested Wednesday morning after allegedly taking two female students to his house, giving them vodka and showing them his marijuana farm.

Michael B. Ziemian, 34, of Mt. Vernon Drive, was arrested on a warrant at his home and charged with possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana, cultivation of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, delivery of a controlled substance to a person under 18 years old and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

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Sixth-grader accused of counterfeiting

WEST SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- A sixth-grader and two of his friends were suspended after being accused of using phony dollar bills made on a home computer to buy food in the school cafeteria.

On Monday, a cafeteria worker at James Madison Middle School found a dollar bill that didn't look or feel like the real thing. Seattle School District spokeswoman Patti Spencer said people in the lunch room were told to watch for more counterfeit bills.

An assistant principal called Seattle police the next day after a sixth grader tried to use one of the fake bills to buy beef jerky from the cafeteria.

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Saturday, April 09, 2005

Poll finds Americans too sleepy for sex

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many Americans are so sleepy that they are having problems in their marriages, making mistakes at work and even going without sex, according to a report.

The poll by the National Sleep Foundation found that 75 percent of adults frequently have a symptom of a sleep problem such as frequent waking during the night or snoring. But few believe they have a sleep problem and most ignore it.


"Half of the country sleeps pretty well -- the other half has problems," Foundation chief executive Richard Gelula said in a statement.


What is to blame? The survey of more than 1,500 adults found that 87 percent usually watched TV in the hour before going to bed, 47 percent usually had sex and 64 percent read.


"Only about one-half of respondents are able to say on most nights, 'I had a good night's sleep'," the Foundation, which issues regular reports showing Americans do not get enough sleep, said in a statement.


Nearly a quarter of those in a marriage or relationship said they had sex less often or had lost interest in sex because they are too sleepy.

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