Oddly enough in the news........

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100 arrested for not having toilets





Local authorities have arrested at least 100 Ugandans for failing to build toilets in their homes in the midst of a cholera epidemic that has killed 8 people and infected 164, state media reported Wednesday.

"We cannot watch as people die (of cholera)," northwestern Bulisa district administrator Norbert Turyahikayo told the New Vision daily, justifying the arrest of Ugandans found to have huts with no pit latrines Tuesday.

Police spokesman Hassan Kasinje told Reuters the building of homes without proper toilets was forbidden in Uganda, though he did not know of the arrests.

"It is illegal ... but it is not an arrestable offence. Whoever arrested them is wrong," he said. "A health officer is supposed to instruct them to build or they can be cautioned."

In September, 70 Ugandans in the east were seized for the same offence. Many in remote villages lack latrines.

Cholera epidemics spread by poor sanitation are common.

[UltimateNaneki]

what were they doing?? going to the neighbours a mile away?? why??

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A pedestrian has been charged with damaging property after walking over a car that was parked illegally on the sidewalk in Greece's congested capital.

"I could not get past the vehicle, a four-wheel drive, which had been parked right on the pavement so I got angry and just walked over it, slightly denting its hood," Tasos Pouliasis told state television Tuesday.

Greeks are notoriously unruly drivers leaving their cars on sidewalks, wheelchair ramps and even hospital entrances.

The owner of the vehicle in Athen's Exarhia neighborhood saw him and called police who arrested Pouliasis and his girlfriend and briefly detained them in a police cell.

"Now I will be tried for property damage but police did not even bother giving the car owner a parking ticket," Pouliasis said.

[Pebbles]

Daniel Anceneaux has probably canceled his Internet service out of sheer embarrassment. The skirt-chasing x-ray technician from Marseilles, France, was fond of seeking out young ladies to flirt with in Internet chat rooms. He thought he had found the online woman of his dreams when he met "Sweet Juliette" and began talking with her, calling himself "The Prince of Pleasure." They spent six months online chatting back and forth, sharing their hopes and dreams, and even sexual fantasies. Finally, longing to see what his sweetie looked like, Daniel asked her to send him a picture. The photo he received showed a curvaceous, skimpily clad woman that Daniel immediately ached to meet. So they arranged a romantic rendezvous at an out-of-the-way beach at night. And that’s when Daniel got the worst shock of his young adult life.

"I walked out on that dark beach thinking I was going to hook up with the girl of my dreams," the visibly shaken bachelor told reporters. "And there she was, wearing white shorts and a pink tank top, just like she’d said she would. But when I got close, she turned around—and we both got the shock of our lives." Daniel was horrified to see that "Sweet Juliette" wasn’t the cutie in the photograph. In fact, she was his matronly mother, Nicole.

Daniel was speechless. "I mean, I didn’t know what to say. All I could think was, ‘Oh my God! It’s Mama!’" Just as the two were trying to get their wits about them, a patrolman happened by and ticketed them for being on a restricted beach after dark. According to Nicole, 52, the two were so flustered that they immediately told the policeman the whole story, and it ended up in his report. "The policeman wrote a report, a local TV station god hold of it, and the next thing we knew, our picture and our story was all over the six o’clock news. People started pointing and laughing at us on the street, and they haven’t stopped laughing since."

"Mom called herself Sweet Juliette and I called myself The Prince of Pleasure, and unfortunately, neither of us had any idea who the other was," said Daniel. "The conversations even got a little racy a couple of times." But beneath the flirting, Daniel started to fall for Juliette, because there was a sensitive side to her that he hadn’t seen in other girls he’d met online. "She sent me poems she had written and told me about her dreams and desires, and it was really very romantic."

The photo Sweet Juliette had e-mailed to her online suitor was one she’d scanned from a men’s magazine. "The girl in the picture was so beautiful, I begged Juliet to meet me on the beach," Daniel said. "Mom says she was falling for me, too, and she just wanted to meet me, even though she knew I’d be disappointed when I saw her." Nicole, who lives six miles away from her son, is normally a straitlaced, typical suburban mom. "As for me," Daniel said," I figured I was going to find the girl of my dreams. I guess that’s about as wrong as I’ve ever been."

Daniel told reporters that after their embarrassing escapade, he and his mother avoided eye contact and had trouble talking with each other for days afterward. Daniel’s father, Paul—Nicole’s husband for 27 years—was quite upset when the story made headlines and his friends and neighbors got wind of what had happened. His beer-drinking buddies wasted no time in making Paul the butt of their jokes, and he sternly forbade his wife to talk to anyone on the Internet again.

Even though the incident gave Daniel the heebie-jeebies and a temporary bad taste when it comes to cyber-flirting, he still feels like the time he spent courting his mother wasn’t wasted. "The truth is, I got to see a side of my mom I’d never seen before," he said. "I’m grateful for that."


http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/12-19-2005-84400.asp

[PunkyBob]

Oh...my...GOOOODD...that is so hilarious...

[mrdiscreet]

I just threw up a little bit in my mouth eeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[SirFox]

Daniel Anceneaux has probably canceled his Internet service out of sheer embarrassment. The skirt-chasing x-ray technician from Marseilles, France, was fond of seeking out young ladies to flirt with in Internet chat rooms. ...."The truth is, I got to see a side of my mom I’d never seen before," he said. "I’m grateful for that."


http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/12-19-2005-84400.asp

This story reminds me of a man and woman who chatted online for about three monthsin the USA. He was a doctor and she was in a customer service. They talked: he had a doctro's convention in Chicago. They decided to meet in a specified hotel in a specified room.
The made love in the dark and, lo and behold, woke up to find that it was father and daughter!

A lot of fibbing goes a long way...

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Newborns visit relatives as cuddly rice bags





New-born babies in Japan who can't make it around to visit all their relatives can now send them proxies instead - cuddly bags of rice.

A small rice shop in Fukuoka, southern Japan, has been swamped with orders for "Dakigokochi" rice-filled bags shaped like a bundled baby and printed with the new-born's face and name.

Each rice bag is tailor-made to weigh as much as the new-born and shaped so the rice fills the bag up. Holding the round-edged bag would feel like holding a real baby.

"Other rice shops sell bags printed with baby photos, but they use regular bags. People say they aren't good for holding," said Naruo Ono, owner of the rice shop, Yoshimiya.

"Rice for small babies would be stuck at the bottom of the bag, and the baby's photo would be scrunched at the top."

It is customary in Japan to give people gifts or money on occasions such as births, and the recipient then responds with other gifts, often worth half the amount they received.

The rice bags have made perfect "half-return" gifts, Ono said, although relatives face a dilemma once they are done with the cuddling.

"People say they have a hard time opening them up and eating the rice," Ono said

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81-year-old Aussie nabbed selling weed





An 81-year-old woman was arrested and charged with growing and selling marijuana in eastern Australia, police said Tuesday.

The woman, whose identity was not immediately released, was the seventh person arrested in a police operation against drug dealers in the rural town of Young, about 155 miles southwest of Sydney, New South Wales state police said in a statement.

The woman was charged with one count of cultivating marijuana and one count of supplying the illegal drug. She was granted bail and ordered to appear in the Young Local Court next month.

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Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.

A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBI's lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations. In one office alone, unpaid costs for wiretaps from one phone company totaled $66,000.

In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation "was halted due to untimely payment," the audit found. FISA wiretaps are used in the government's most sensitive and secretive criminal and intelligence investigations, and allow eavesdropping on suspected terrorists or spies.

"We also found that late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence," according to the audit by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.

More than half of 990 bills to pay for telecommunication surveillance in five unidentified FBI field offices were not paid on time, the report shows.

Assistant FBI Director John Miller said wiretaps were dropped only a few times because of the backed-up billing, which he said didn't significantly set back the investigations under way. He said the FBI "will not tolerate financial mismanagement, or worse," and is working to fix the problems.

"While in a few instances, late-payment of telephone bills resulted in interruptions of the timely delivery of surveillance results, these interruptions were temporary and in our assessment, none of those cases were significantly affected," Miller said in a statement Thursday evening.

The report released Thursday was a highly edited version of Fine's 87-page audit that the FBI deemed too sensitive to be viewed publicly. It focused on what the bureau admitted was an "antiquated" system to track money sent to its 56 field offices nationwide for undercover work. Generally, the money pays for rental cars, leases and surveillance, the audit noted.

The American Civil Liberties Union called on the FBI to release the entire, unedited audit. The group, which has been critical of some of the government's wiretapping programs, also took a swipe at telecommunication companies that allowed the eavesdropping — as long as they are getting paid.

"It seems the telecoms, who are claiming they were just being 'good patriots' when they allowed the government to spy on us without warrants, are more than willing to pull the plug on national security investigations when the government falls behind on its bills," said former FBI agent Michael German, the ACLU's national security policy counsel. "To put it bluntly, it sounds as though the telecoms believe it when the FBI says the warrant is in the mail but not when they say the check is in the mail."

The audit also found that some field offices paid for expenses on undercover cases that should have been financed by FBI headquarters. Out of 130 undercover payments examined, auditors found 14 cases of at least $6,000 each where field offices dipped into their own budgets to pay for work that should have been picked up by headquarters.

The faulty bookkeeping was blamed, in large part, for an FBI employee who pleaded guilty in June 2006 to stealing $25,000 for her own use, the audit noted.

"As demonstrated by the FBI employee who stole funds intended to support undercover activities, procedural controls by themselves have not ensured proper tracking and use of confidential case funds," it concluded.

Fine's report offered 16 recommendations to improve the FBI's tracking and management of the funding system, including its telecommunication costs. The FBI has agreed to follow 11 of the suggestions and one additional recommendation was found unnecessary. But it said that four "would be either unfeasible or too cost prohibitive." The recommendations were not specifically outlined in the edited version of the report.

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A man who believed he bore the "mark of the beast" used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said.

The man, in his mid-20s, was calm when Kootenai County sheriff's deputies arrived Saturday in this northern Idaho town. He was in protective custody in the mental health unit of Kootenai Medical Center.

"It had been somewhat cooked by the time the deputy arrived," sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said. "He put a tourniquet on his arm before, so he didn't bleed to death. That kind of mental illness is just sad."

It was not immediately clear whether the man has a history of mental illness. Hospital spokeswoman Lisa Johnson would not say whether an attempt was made to reattach the hand, citing patient confidentiality.

The Book of Revelation in the New Testament contains a passage in which an angel is quoted as saying: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink the wine of God's fury."

The book of Matthew also contains the passage: "And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell."

Wolfinger said he didn't know which hand was amputated

[TIGUY]

I heard this on the radio coming home from work tonight.....will nothing cease to amaze us?



Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.

A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBI's lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations. In one office alone, unpaid costs for wiretaps from one phone company totaled $66,000.

In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation "was halted due to untimely payment," the audit found. FISA wiretaps are used in the government's most sensitive and secretive criminal and intelligence investigations, and allow eavesdropping on suspected terrorists or spies.

"We also found that late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence," according to the audit by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.

More than half of 990 bills to pay for telecommunication surveillance in five unidentified FBI field offices were not paid on time, the report shows.

Assistant FBI Director John Miller said wiretaps were dropped only a few times because of the backed-up billing, which he said didn't significantly set back the investigations under way. He said the FBI "will not tolerate financial mismanagement, or worse," and is working to fix the problems.

"While in a few instances, late-payment of telephone bills resulted in interruptions of the timely delivery of surveillance results, these interruptions were temporary and in our assessment, none of those cases were significantly affected," Miller said in a statement Thursday evening.

The report released Thursday was a highly edited version of Fine's 87-page audit that the FBI deemed too sensitive to be viewed publicly. It focused on what the bureau admitted was an "antiquated" system to track money sent to its 56 field offices nationwide for undercover work. Generally, the money pays for rental cars, leases and surveillance, the audit noted.

The American Civil Liberties Union called on the FBI to release the entire, unedited audit. The group, which has been critical of some of the government's wiretapping programs, also took a swipe at telecommunication companies that allowed the eavesdropping — as long as they are getting paid.

"It seems the telecoms, who are claiming they were just being 'good patriots' when they allowed the government to spy on us without warrants, are more than willing to pull the plug on national security investigations when the government falls behind on its bills," said former FBI agent Michael German, the ACLU's national security policy counsel. "To put it bluntly, it sounds as though the telecoms believe it when the FBI says the warrant is in the mail but not when they say the check is in the mail."

The audit also found that some field offices paid for expenses on undercover cases that should have been financed by FBI headquarters. Out of 130 undercover payments examined, auditors found 14 cases of at least $6,000 each where field offices dipped into their own budgets to pay for work that should have been picked up by headquarters.

The faulty bookkeeping was blamed, in large part, for an FBI employee who pleaded guilty in June 2006 to stealing $25,000 for her own use, the audit noted.

"As demonstrated by the FBI employee who stole funds intended to support undercover activities, procedural controls by themselves have not ensured proper tracking and use of confidential case funds," it concluded.

Fine's report offered 16 recommendations to improve the FBI's tracking and management of the funding system, including its telecommunication costs. The FBI has agreed to follow 11 of the suggestions and one additional recommendation was found unnecessary. But it said that four "would be either unfeasible or too cost prohibitive." The recommendations were not specifically outlined in the edited version of the report.

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A couple discovered after they had married that they were twins who had been split up at birth and adopted by separate families, according to a member of Britain's House of Lords.

British peer David Alton recounted the story to parliament last month to support his argument that artificially conceived children should be told who their biological parents are.

Alton said he had heard the story of the separated twins from a High Court judge who had dealt with the case.

"This did not involve in vitro fertilization: It involved the normal birth of twins who were separated at birth and adopted by separate parents," said Alton, an independent member of the Lords. "They were never told that they were twins."

"They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation," he said.

"I suspect that it will be a matter of litigation in the future if we do not make information of this kind available to children who have been donor-conceived," he said.

Alton could not immediately be reached for comment and no further information was available about the twins or where they were from.

"I think it's a very tragic story for the people involved," said Pam Hodgkins, head of a group that helps adults affected by adoption.

"It is a lesson that we need to learn and apply to the situation of donor-conceived children," she told Sky News.

"Whilst ... nowadays it would be most unusual for siblings to be separated ... the risk of secrecy affecting the lives of people born as a result of egg and sperm donation is exactly the same as the risks that have affected adopted people in the past," she said

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Spanish driver who killed teen sues





A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says.

Enaitz Iriondo, 17, died instantly in August 2004 when businessman Tomas Delgado's Audi A8 crashed into him at 100 mph near Haro in northern Spain, an Interior Ministry traffic report said. The speed limit was 55 mph.

Iriondo was not wearing reflective clothing or a helmet, the ministry report said. As the sun had set when he crossed the path of Delgado's car from a side road, a regional court found both parties at fault and closed the case, the report said.

Delgado, whose insurance company paid Iriondo's parents $48,500 in compensation for their son's life, filed a suit in late 2006 to recover $29,400 in damages to his car and car rental costs, the ministry traffic report said.

"It's the only way I have to claim my money back," Delgado was quoted as saying by the newspaper El Pais, which first reported the story on Friday. El Pais said a ruling was expected next week.

Iriondo's parents were shocked.

"It's the final straw, a stab in the back," Iriondo's mother, Rosa Trinidad said, according to El Pais. "Before the lawsuit we thought the poor guy would find it hard to live the rest of his life with the thought of having caused our son's death.

[Pebbles]

Gangs of criminals are hiding dwarves in sports bags and smuggling them onto buses to steal luggage.
The tiny terrors are placed in the luggage hold where they are free to rummage through personal belongings.

Travellers in Sweden are now being advised not to leave valuables in their bags.

Among the bus companies to be hit is Swebus, which operates services across the

A spokeswoman for the firm said: "It is very possible that a small person is being placed in a bag in order to search through the other bags.

"We are taking extra security measures and are thinking of installing video surveillance cameras."

Police have received similar reports from other parts of the country.

As well as dwarves, children are used in the scam.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1302176,00.html

[sexytiger]

This article I heard about this morning and than saw in on the internet.....I hope there is no one here this crazy.....I would have to knock some sense into them:nu

Wanted: Someone to kill my boyfriend's wife


Sun Jan 27, 7:28 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US woman was arrested this week after she allegedly tried to hire a hitman to murder her married lover's wife by posting an ad on the popular website craigslist, law enforcement officials said Sunday.

Anne Marie, 48, from Grand Rapids, Michigan offered www.craigslist.org (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/afp/od_afp/storytext/uscrimeoffbeat/26091245/SIG=10rt4urrh/*http:/www.craigslist.org) users the chance to kill Carol, a 56-year-old woman in California, in a vaguely worded free ad under the category of "Freelance," according to court documents.

Two women and one man responded to the ad, with at least one applicant believing it to be an offer for freelance writing work. During subsequent emails, Anne Marie divulged that the task was actually a hit.

"Marie informed (one of the people who responded) that she was looking for 'silent assassins' and she asked him to eradicate a targeted victim," offered 5,000 dollars for the job and provided the address, name, age and occupation of the man's wife.

"Asked what she meant by 'eradicate,' Anne Marie said 'Duh. Well to have her killed," the court documents said.

The woman, who also goes by the name Anne Marie Linscott, was charged with three counts relating to murder for hire and using interstate commerce to commit a felony.

"This complex investigation was initiated in November 2007 and we have been very concerned for the well being of the victim," said Butte County Sheriff Perry Reniff, according to a statement released by the Sacramento FBI.

The potential victim's husband "acknowledged meeting Linscott through an on-line college course in 2004 or 2005," and said "he and Linscott developed a very deep and intimate online relationship," the FBI statement said.

The pair met for sex on at least two separate occasions in 2005 and 2007, and "have continued to communicate via telephone and email."

Asked by law enforcement officials how she would feel if her target were murdered by a respondee on craigslist, the suspect "stated she would be scared that law enforcement would track it back to her," court documents said.

[Pebbles]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7214066.stm

A boy who has been partially deaf for nine years was suddenly cured - when a cotton wool bud popped out of his ear.

I was really surprised they couldn't tell his deafness was caused by a cotton bud. I can see one doctor missing it, but in the articles I've seen, he's been to see dozens of doctors and specialists over the years. They had diagnosed it as a build up of wax, but surely if that was the case they would use one of the many methods for removing/depleting wax build up in the ear? Makes you wonder exactly what kinds of tests and thorough examinations they really did.

[Annie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7214066.stm

A boy who has been partially deaf for nine years was suddenly cured - when a cotton wool bud popped out of his ear.

I was really surprised they couldn't tell his deafness was caused by a cotton bud. I can see one doctor missing it, but in the articles I've seen, he's been to see dozens of doctors and specialists over the years. They had diagnosed it as a build up of wax, but surely if that was the case they would use one of the many methods for removing/depleting wax build up in the ear? Makes you wonder exactly what kinds of tests and thorough examinations they really did.From a flippin Q-Tip? Wow...

[Pebbles]

Soy is making kids 'gay'

There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular. Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless it's organic. I state my bias here just so you'll know I'm not anti-health food.
The dangerous food I'm speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they're all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.


I have nothing against an occasional soy snack. Soy is nutritious and contains lots of good things. Unfortunately, when you eat or drink a lot of soy stuff, you're also getting substantial quantities of estrogens (http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327#).
Estrogens are female hormones. If you're a woman, you're flooding your system with a substance it can't handle in surplus. If you're a man, you're suppressing your masculinity and stimulating your "female side," physically and mentally.
In fetal development, the default is being female. All humans (even in old age) tend toward femininity. The main thing that keeps men from diverging into the female pattern is testosterone, and testosterone is suppressed by an excess of estrogen.




http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327


OMG! Is this guy a nut case or what. The things you find when you look something up.