Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed

Sex act caused fatal crash, driver jailed
A drunk-driver who killed a father and son in a motorway crash was performing a sex act on himself minutes before the collision, a court heard.
Imran Hussain was driving at speeds of up to 120mph minutes before he ploughed into the back of a Fiat Punto carrying the Proctor family, from Wakefield.
Gary Proctor, 47, and son James, 16, died in the smash on the M62 motorway near Rochdale, on 3 August.
Hussain, of Bradford, was jailed for eight years at Manchester Crown Court.
Death threat
The 32-year-old, of Como Avenue, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and one count of driving with excess alcohol at a previous hearing.
The court heard that Hussain's erect penis was exposed when motorists came to his aid after the crash.
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Nagging Wife Help Man Win $4.2M Lottery
A "nagging" wife who pushed her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the $4.2 million first prize — with only minutes to spare. The man from New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, bought his ticket just two minutes before ticket sales closed Saturday night.
"My wife had been nagging me all week to get a ticket, so I when saw the Lotto sign ... I sprinted in to get the ticket before they closed," said the man, who asked not to be identified — normal practice among lottery winners in New Zealand .
"I must have been their last customer of the night," he said, adding that the young married couple had had a "rough" couple of years, reduced to one income after having children.
"I have never been so glad to listen to my wife's nagging," the man said Tuesday.
He discovered their newly won fortune Sunday thanks to his wife's request for a barbecued sausage.
Out shopping for bargains, the man said he didn't have enough money to buy his wife the sausage she'd asked him for. So he decided to check his Saturday lottery ticket in case he'd won a small prize.
"I could not believe it when they said I was actually the big winner," he said.
When he showed the printout to his wife, she initially thought they had won $4,200.
"When she realized how much it really was, she fell to the floor, and then said: 'but all I wanted was a sausage.'"

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MICHIGAN NEWS
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Woman Accused of Letting Teen Daughter Dance at Sex Party
Police say they raided a sex-for-cash party involving 19 adult female prostitutes and two 16-year-old girls, including the hostess's daughter.
Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans says authorities raided the Detroit home about 4 a.m. Sunday and discovered about 20 adult men, 19 adult female prostitutes, the 39-year-old homeowner, her daughter and another 16-year-old, both of whom were dancing partially nude.
Evans says the men paid a $15 cover charge plus whatever the prostitutes charged for sex. It isn't known whether the underage girls had offered sex for money.
The sheriff says most of the prostitutes and johns were ticketed and released, but the homeowner and three men believed to be involved in operating the party were arrested.
The woman's daughter was taken into protective custody. The other 16-year-old was released to her parents.
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Field Trips Canceled After Students See Autopsy of Classmate
A medical examiner's office in Michigan has canceled public school tours after a high school group watched the autopsy of a 14-year-old girl from their district.
The Detroit News reports Monday that Oakland County officials decided to stop the tours in Pontiac after they were contacted by the girl's parents, who were very upset about the March tour.
Mike Zehnder, the county's director of public services, says it was "a poor decision" to let the tour go on.
The newspaper reports the teacher who brought in the Waterford Kettering High School group was told the autopsy would be of a Waterford middle school student and discussed that with students.
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FLORIDA NEWS
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Man Put Father's Body In Freezer
Authorities responding to a suicide in West Palm Beach have made a chilling discovery -- a body stored in a carport freezer.
Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies said they received a call Saturday morning after a man found a suicide note stuck in his door from his father. He found his father dead in a van in front of the resident.
When authorities came to the home, they also found the grandfather's body in a freezer, deputies said. In the suicide note from the father, he said his elderly father was in his 80s died and he could not bear to let go, so he froze the body, according to deputies.
An autopsy will be performed to determine the official cause of death.
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Man with corn dogs hidden down pants in theft attempt
A man accused of jamming pilfered corn dogs in his pants before leaving a grocery store with a stolen 18-pack of Bud Light was thwarted by a loss prevention officer, but still managed to get away, according to a police report released Monday.
A loss prevention officer at Publix in the 3200 block of Southwest Port St. Lucie Boulevard told police she saw a tall, unshaven man come in about 6 p.m. Saturday.
The 42-year-old loss prevention officer watched the man pull a $6 pack of State Fair Corn Dogs from the freezer aisle and stick them in the front of his pants.
After grabbing an 18-pack of Bud Light, valued at $12, the man, described as about 6 feet 1 inch tall, 175 pounds and in his early to mid 20s, left the store.
He returned when the loss prevention officer asked him to, putting the beer down near the exit. He pushed an assistant customer service manager out of the way and apparently ran off.
The beer and corn dogs were recovered, but the alleged thief got away.
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Note to self, don't buy any corn dogs at Publix...
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