Growling prostitute tried to murder client buy biting off his penis
POLICE have taken a call from an Orange County, Florida, hotel room. A woman told the police:
“Someone is fighting here, someone is fighting… like the person is trying to kill the person.”
The woman’s daughter adds:
“All I knew was that there was like something, and you could… hear, like, someone was screaming… for help. I don’t even know what was being done to them. And then there was growling in our hallway.”
Posted: 21st, May 2013 | In: News | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Woman bites boyfriend’s penis because he’s not in the mood
TV would have you believe that it is always women who aren’t in the mood for a bit of the other. However, here’s a story that flips the roles and takes it to a rather nasty place.
A 19-year-old woman has been accused of biting her boyfriend’s penis after he turned down her advances. The delightfully named Krystle Harrison was arrested last week on domestic battery charges following the alleged incident in Florida.
Posted: 21st, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Desperate mother who ‘sold’ her toddler on Craigslist deserves help not hatred
OTHER parents – our occasional look at bad parenting - presents Stephanie Redus, the mother who tried to sell her three-year-old son Conner Danger Redus on Craigslist. The 29-year-old Texan has been charged with “unlawfully intentionally and knowingly” placing the boy in danger.
Her ad went thus:
“Hi, I’m trying to adopt out my three year old son. I’m not in a good place in my life and don’t feel like I can care for him properly, but I don’t know where to start. If you or know anyone who is interested in caring for him please let me know. I’m a single mom and can’t do this. Thanks, Desperate.”
This desperate woman is admitting to her own failings and crying out for help, right? Good that Craigslist reported her to the authorities. But Redus is pregnant and says her condition means she is unable to “take her medication to combat her depression and her anxiety”. Can we be compassionate?
Of course, her ad has worked. Conner will surely be removed from his mother’s care, although not placed in a home of her choosing. Chances are Redus’s other child will be removed from her at birth.
The law appears to state that the mother is in line for a $10,000 fine and/or a prison sentence ranging from two to 20 years. How will a long sentence and a hefty fine help her children?
Note: In 2012, 202 babies were born to imprisoned Texas offenders. Some get access to the Baby and Mother Bonding Initiative (BAMBI). Offenders and their newborns are housed at the Santa Maria Hostel in Houston. Others are placed with carers.
Does keeping mother and baby together in a secure environment work at BAMBI?
Prison officials and policy-makers are increasingly aware of how much damage can result from separating mothers and infants. Those who experienced it firsthand, like social worker, advocate and mother Veronica Lockett, said the trauma of losing a mother to prison led her straight into prison as well. In an eloquent letter to then-chairman Jim McReynolds of the Texas House Corrections Committee in 2010, Lockett described how a chaotic family was still a family.
“At 12, my mother’s rights [were] terminated without my consent, and my younger siblings and I were adopted out like slaves during the trade. No one ever asked me if I wanted to see my mother again. No one even asked me if I wanted to visit my mother in prison,” Lockett wrote.
“A mother who drinks or sometimes takes drugs is still the mother of her child,” said state Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat and sponsor of the bill that created BAMBI. And if that mother could receive intensive therapy and education, he asks, wouldn’t a rehabilitated mother be a healthier role model for the child and possibly break the cycle of incarceration?
Spotter: The Daily Dot, The Frisky
Posted: 21st, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Cumbria news special: Simply Red Singer’s uncle releases memoirs
WHAT news from Cumbria:
Posted: 21st, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Mooning passenger falls on driver
TO Australia’s Northern Territory. Senior Sergeant Garry Smith tells what occurred when an 18-year-old woman was overtaking a semi-trailer travelling at 100km/h on the Stuart Highway, in Virginia:
“It was a complete act of stupidity. The passenger decided it would be a great idea to ‘moon’ the driver of the semi-trailer.”
WIth his trousers down, the passenger lost his balance as he was trying to get himself into the right position. He fell on the driver. With her view blocked, she lost control of the car.
“She veered off the road and travelled for about 100m through the scrub, hitting a large rock which caused it (the car) to roll over on to its roof… If it wasn’t so dangerous, it could have been quite funny. But under the circumstances, we were lucky we weren’t telling a family of a death.”
Posted: 21st, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
A Good Boy Always Sleeps With His Hands Above The Covers
A GOOD Boys Always Sleeps With His Hands Above The Covers. A Good Boy Never Sleeps:
Posted: 21st, May 2013 | In: Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Fruit truck crash causes jam in LA (America drops jelly for accidental pun)
ARE Americans now au fait with jam? Isn’t it jelly over there? The LA Times reports on an accidental pun:
Big rig carrying fruit crashes on 210 Freeway, creates jam
Posted: 20th, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Newsnight jumps the shark hunt: 99% of Clark County, Ohio, viewers polled say Ian Katz must go
THE new editor of Newsnight, the BBC news show that spiked the Jimmy Savile expose, is the Guardian’s Ian Katz. Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman said in the wake of the Savile debacle that BBC’s news division had been “taken over by radio … Helen Boaden, a radio person. Steve Mitchell, a radio person. Peter Rippon was a radio person. These people belong to a different kind of culture.”
How will a newspaper man with no experience of telly work out, then?
Guido Fawkes notes:
Fair, balanced and impartial Ian Katz will have no trouble fitting in at his new role as Newsnight editor … Katz certainly has top drawer left-wing credentials. Back in 2004, he was editor of the Guardian’s G2 magazine during their infamous ‘Operation Clark County’ plot to swing the state of Ohio in favour of John Kerry and against George W. Bush. Katz organised thousands of letters written by lefty Britons to be sent to individual voters in Ohio, imploring them to cast their ballot for Kerry. The result was uproar, a near diplomatic incident, and victory for Bush.
Posted: 20th, May 2013 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
FACES of the day: Indian brides, and bridegrooms, unseen, sit in customized vehicles during a procession held ahead of a mass marriage held on Akshaya Tritiya in Bhopal, India, Monday, May 13, 2013. SMILE! It’s the happiest day of the parents’ life!
Posted: 20th, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Global warming will boiled us all to death, say Manhattan experts
THIS is a fascinating little example of how the debate of climate change gets very skewed. In fact, the report is more interesting for what it says about that than it is in its intended actual result.
The number of people dying from unbearable heat in big cities could almost double because of climate change, according to new research.
A study in Manhattan found the number of fatalities caused by global warming will far outstrip the reductions in those perishing from the cold.
It follows a report last year by the Health Protection Agency that warned heat related deaths in the UK will increase by more than 10,000 annually – a fivefold rise.
It’s undoubtedly true that if and when global warming happens then more people will die of the heat than happens now. So the finding isn’t all that odd.
Posted: 20th, May 2013 | In: Money, News | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
No News special: Lancaster University students get on a bus
WHAT news from Lancaster University? AlexSiddle tweets:
BONG! “Residents help Lancaster University research roadside particulate pollution”
BONG! “Billion-year-old water could hold clues to life on Earth and Mars”
BONG! “First, carbon footprints… now you can calculate your ‘nitrogen footprint’”
And:
BONG! “Staff and students get on the bus”
Posted: 19th, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Orthodox Church of Moldova wants gays to expect ‘severe consequences’
GAY Rights are hard won in Moldova. The Orthodox Church of Moldova have issued a statement about a Gay Pride at the “Rainbow Over the Dniester” festival:
His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir addressed a message to General Mayor of Chisinau, Mr. Dorin Chirtoaca, pleading that the authorities do not allow the organization of a gay pride planned for the 19th of May.
It is mentioned in the message: “The Metropolis of Chisinau and All Moldova continues to believe that this is a defying initiative, conflicting with moral values and decency. At the same time, a potential march of sexual minorities on the streets of Chisinau will be nothing else but a strong provocation with severe consequences, taking into account general repulsion of the population towards the deviant behavior of homosexuals and lesbians…”
Posted: 19th, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Test Your Patriotism: how artists tested their value to the US in 1963
TEST Your Patriotism with the Intelligence Centre Inc., New York, and stand a chance to win a scholarship worth $495!
It’s 1963 and the world in the grip of a Cold War. You need to pick a side.
Americans look like this? They have Presidential hair and clear complexions.
Posted: 19th, May 2013 | In: Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: the couple who heard a child crying at night and went to help
IN “WHO SOOTHED WEEPING MADDIE, the Daily Express leads with a Madeleine McCann “exclusive”. It adds: “Police seek couple who entered McCann apartment when Madeleine was crying.”
This becomes:
Mystery couple seen going into McCanns’ flat on night before sobbing Madeleine disappeared
The night before? A couple of strangers walked into the McCanns’ apartment where a child was crying the night before that child vanished? How does the Express know it was Madeleine who was crying? Three children were in the McCanns’ apartment.
SCOTLAND YARD detectives are trying to find a middle-aged couple said to have entered Madeleine McCann’s holiday apartment to comfort her because she was crying, we can reveal today.
Posted: 19th, May 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, News | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Amanda Knox and that kiss: Italians weep and wail at death while Americans do the splits and yoga
AMANDA Knox has tapped into the realisation that the media will not leave her in peace. That’s one view. Another is that she’s courting the media to make any conviction for her alleged part in the murder of Meredith Kercher less likely. What we believe boils down to whether or not we in the court of public opinion like her or not.
Posted: 18th, May 2013 | In: News | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
1970s: Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks and “FREE DR Who Badges!”
FLASHBACK to the breakfasts of yestedday with Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks and “FREE DR Who Badges!” John Pertwee played the BBC time traveller between 1970 and 1974. He drove a jalopy called Bessie.
UNIT was the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. The Brigadier was its stalwart. Jo Grant was a junior civilian operative for UNIT. The Master was the enemy, naturally.
Posted: 18th, May 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer, TV & Radio | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
IN the early 20th Century, tiger hunting was all the rage. King George V went looking for them after a good lunch with the Nepalese King. In 1902, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sheffield went tiger hunting. He recorded his adventures in How I killed the tiger; being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger.
He tells his readers:
My main purpose in writing this little book, was to place in a permanent form a description of my wonderful preservation from death in a chance encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger. My life had been adventurous up to that time. I had shot big game of various kinds. But this episode, so marvellous in itself, so important in its influence upon my after life and character, marks the close of my career as a hunter of big game.
These are the plates:
Posted: 18th, May 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
MADELEINE McCann: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the missing child in the news: 20 new suspects with Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell:
The Front Pages:
Daily Mail (front page): “20 New Suspects”
The Sun (front page): “Brit Cops List 20 Maddie Suspects”
The Star (front page): “Maddie: Cops Hunt New Suspects
Express (front page): “Police Identify Maddie Suspects”
Daily Mirror (front page): She May Be Alive”
Posted: 18th, May 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Mechanic threatened by man wielding large black dildo over ‘lost’ Mercedes-Benz
WE join in the action in Sydney’s Central Local Court. Mr Aaron Sabbah’s is appealing for bail:
Magistrate Eve Wynhausen: “What is the alleged arm?”
Prosecutor Christian Hearn: “It’s a black dildo, your honour.”
Posted: 18th, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Man set fire to neighbours’ home over refusal to mow lawn
PHILLIP Roger Bennett, 58, was so upset by his neighbours’ apparent reluctance to mow their lawn in Bartow County, Georgia, that he set fire to their house.
Mr Corbitt tells us what happened:
“He kicks my door, tells me I’ve got five seconds to come outside. I turn around and call 911. And while I’m on the phone he comes back with two gas cans in his hand. He walks up to my kitchen door again, takes a gas can, smashes it against the glass, breaks the first pane… Then he turns around and grabs a brick, throws it through the window. And then he grabs a gas can and starts pouring it into the kitchen. And as he’s pouring he takes his lighter and lights it. And flames were everywhere. I ran back to my little girl’s room, grabbed her, ran out the back door over to my neighbor’s and watched the house burn.”
Posted: 18th, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
In photos: Indian Muslim Sufi devotees use sharp objects and self flagellate during the Urs festival
IN photos: Indian Muslim Sufi devotees use sharp objects and self flagellate during the Urs festival procession to mark the death anniversary of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, in Ajmer, India. Some of these photos are challenging viewing:
Posted: 17th, May 2013 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
IN Georgia, being gay is difficult. Today there was an anti-gay pride rally, in Tbilisi, Georgia. You might call it bigot pride. Thousands of anti-gay protesters, including Orthodox priests, occupied a central street in Georgia’s capital Friday, with some threatening to lash with nettles any participant in a gay pride parade which was to take place there. The gay parade was to feature around 50 marchers. Police in Tbilisi guarded the gay activists and bused them out of the city center shortly after they arrived at the gathering. In other words, they were rounded up and booted out of town.
Posted: 17th, May 2013 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
In photos: The Hong Kong Bun Festival
THE Hong Kong Bun Festival:
Climbers collect mock buns during the Bun Scrambling contest at the bun festival at midnight in Cheung Chau island, Hong Kong Friday, May 18, 2013. The Bun Festival is the traditional event celebrating the islanders’ deliverance from famine centuries ago and is meant to placate ghosts and restless spirits.
Posted: 17th, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Watch the video of a stupid deer leaping through a bus window
STUPID animals are rife, but one dim-witted deer had a bloody lucky escape after being hit by a bus. Instead of dying, it ended up going through the window and wobbling around like Bambi.
The deer jumped across the path of the bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and smashed through the windscreen and was caught on video.
Posted: 17th, May 2013 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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