Council bans parents from play areas
Parents have been banned from supervising their children in public playgrounds, because they have not undergone criminal record checks.
Only council-vetted "play rangers" are now allowed to monitor youngsters while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence.
The Watford Borough Council policy has been attacked as insulting and a disgrace by furious relatives who say they are being labeled as potential pedophiles.
It will further fuel concerns over a growing nanny state amid the deepening row over the Government's new national anti-pedophile database.
Councilors in Watford claim they are only following Government guidelines and cannot allow adults to walk around playgrounds "unchecked".
But Osfted dismissed the ban while parents branded it "a joke".
"The whole thing is just a joke and I will certainly not be adhering to the new rules which frankly are crazy."
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Student caught at school with sawed-off shotgun
A student was arrested after bringing a sawed-off shotgun to the Life Skills School on S. Orange Blossom Trail on Monday, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.
Bryan A. Chavis and another student walked into the school Monday morning, each carrying a gym bag, the second student told a deputy, according to the sheriff's office. They dropped the bags off at the reception counter, saying they needed to be locked in the school's security room.
When the security officer picked up one of the bags, its heavy weight led him to ask someone else in the front office to look inside, according to an arrest affidavit signed by Deputy Martin Jiminez.
Deputies found a silver, 20-gauge, New England firearms shotgun. The barrel was silver but rusted and had been cut off to about 13 inches, according to the affidavit. The butt of the gun also was sawed off.
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Zero tolerance strikes again!
An 11-year-old Des Moines girl on suspension for bringing a handful of empty shotgun shells to school last week.
Jazmine Martin, a sixth-grader at Brody Middle School, picked up the shells as souvenirs during a family trip to a ranch in South Dakota, where the rounds were fired as part of a show. They were blanks.
"I didn't think they were going to hurt anyone," Jazmine said. "I wanted to show them to my science teacher because he's into stuff like this."
Principal Randy Gordon said the shells were considered ammunition even though they were empty, and were therefore against school policy.
A copy of the school policy shows that it specifically bans "live ammunition or bullets" but makes no reference to empty shells or casings. However, the policy says it is not limited to the items specifically listed as being banned.
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School Nurse Found Passed Out with Painkillers
Parents in Macclenny, Florida were shocked after hearing a school nurse was found passed out last week next to several prescription painkillers.
The report said three practically empty bottles of liquid prescription painkillers were found next to her purse.
Documents said she got the powerful, liquid painkillers from the Baker Community Hospital, where she worked as an Emergency Room nurse.
Documents said it had been logged out for a patient. According to the documents, Bennett told investigators the patient refused the painkillers and she forgot she had them.
Dennis Markos, CEO for Baker Community Hospital, said the painkillers are toxic and deadly if misused.
"Ms. Bennett was terminated from our facility. It was a serious breach of professional ethics," said Dennis Markos, the hospital's CEO.
Meanwhile, the school's superintendent Sherrie Raulerson said Bennett turned in her resignation letter and no longer has contact with students.
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Rapping teens cited for disorderly conduct
A rap by four teenagers at a McDonald's has gotten them a bad rap in one Utah City.
The teens were cited by American Fork police earlier this week for disorderly conduct after they rapped their order at a McDonald's drive-through.
The teens said they were imitating a popular video on YouTube. They rapped their order, which begins with, "I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce ..." once quickly before repeating it more slowly.
Spenser Dauwalder said employees at the restaurant told him and his friends they were holding up the line and needed to order or leave.
American Fork Police Sgt. Gregg Ludlow says a manager wrote down the car's license plate number and called police. The teens were later cited by officers.
Disorderly conduct citations are issued when someone does something to cause annoyance or alarm, Ludlow said.
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Man sues over lack of 'AXE' effect
An unlucky Indian man is suing Lynx after he failed to land a single girlfriend during seven years of using their products.
Vaibhav Bedi, 26, is seeking £26,000 from parent company Unilever for the "depression and psychological damage" caused by the lack of any Lynx effect.
Court officials in New Delhi have agreed to order forensic laboratory tests on dozens of his half-used Lynx body washes, shampoos, anti-perspirants and hair gels.
Lynx - marketed as Axe in India - is famous for its saucy ads showing barely clothed women throwing themselves at men.
But Bedi says in his court petition: "The company cheated me because in its advertisements, it says women will be attracted to you if you use Axe."
"I used it for seven years but no girl came to me."
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Judge pleads guilty to tampering with vehicle
A Maryland judge has apologized for engaging in a bit of vigilante justice when he let the air out of the tire of a courthouse employee who parked in a restricted area.
Charles County Circuit Judge Robert C. Nalley entered a guilty plea and was given a $500 fine Wednesday for tampering with a vehicle at the courthouse where he usually presides. He also said he was ashamed that he let the air out of the courthouse cleaning woman's tire and said he was "embarrassed for the community."
A visiting judge who handled the case also required Nalley to write a "heartfelt letter of apology" to Jean Washington, the woman whose tire he deflated.
Nalley has been suspended from hearing criminal cases since the Aug. 10 incident. He could face sanctions from state officials.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
How Dumb Can A Person Be?
Suspects in an attempted burglary at a Carroll apartment Friday night weren't too difficult to identify.
A resident of 1844 Randall Road called 911 to report two men with their faces painted black were trying to break into an apartment.
Moments later, Carroll police officers pulled over a car matching the suspects' vehicle a couple blocks away and found the two occupants with faces blackened by a permanent marker.
Matthew Allan McNelly, 23, and Joey Lee Miller, 20, were arrested without incident.
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"SUDS"
Beer lovers are being given the chance to take the plunge in a health spa pool - filled with 42,000 pints of lager.Spa bosses in Starkenberg, Austria, claim that beer can treat skin conditions, blood circulation and can even help cure wounds.
The spa - part of a local brewery - contains seven 13ft long pools filled with beer which you can even ask to be served chilled or heated.
Bathers can try drinking the bathwater but head barman Markus Amann, 23, said: "I'd rather swim than swallow, as we have enough cold beer on tap at the bars next to the pools.
"These pools really can help some health problems - but if they don't work for you, you'll probably have drunk enough not to care about it any more," he added.
Beer bath bosses at nearby Schrammel reckon warm beer is the best for health cures and bathers sit in cut down lager barrels.
Meanwhile, even monks are getting in on the craze for health on tap.
Brewers of the distinctive dark Klosterbrauerei in rural eastern Germany have produced a spa supplement for customers to put in the tub at home.
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
The $400,000,000.00 Question?
Officials in Hartford, Connecticut are trying to solve a $400 million mystery: Who owns the cash?
The state treasurer's office says the unclaimed funds include dormant balances in savings and checking accounts, unclaimed wages and uncashed checks for insurance benefits. The agency says the money belongs to 887,000 people.
The state published the names of nearly 34,000 people who have been recently added to Connecticut's unclaimed properties list, in an effort to find the rightful owners.
Officials say they returned more than $32 million last year to nearly 15,000 people who filed claims.
All unclaimed property and the owners are listed on the Web site
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112-year-old man, marries 17-year-old girl
A Somalian man who claims to be 112 years old has married for the sixth time, to a 17-year-old girl.
A crowd of hundreds attended the wedding between Ahmed Muhamed Dore and Safia Abdulleh in Guriceel, in the Galguduud region of Somalia. Mr. Dore said: "Today God helped me realize my dream."
Mr. Dore and his teenage bride are from the same village, and he said that he had waited for her to grow up before proposing.
He said: "I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love, and then we agreed to marry."
The bride’s family said she was "happy with her new husband".
At 95 years older than her – if his claimed age is accurate – he is old enough to be her great-great-great-grandfather.
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Dead man found at police station
The corpse of a man has been found on the roof of a police station in northern India where it was placed over two years ago during an inquiry, a report said today.
The body of Chukkan Nishad, a 22-year-old who went missing in July 2007, was meant to be sent for DNA testing but was instead put in a body bag and placed on the roof.
Nishad's father and local officials, said the family kept requesting the body at the police station but were repeatedly told there was an investigation underway.
"I admit it is a horrible case, possibly the first of its kind,'' said Ram Sabad Ram, the new station master in Azamgarh in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
"I joined here only recently and didn't know that the corpse was kept on the roof.''
The body was placed there after local authorities refused to release the funds for the DNA test on Nishad, whose death remains a mystery.
Mr Ram said police were now completing the formalities to return Mishad's remains -- no more than bones after two years exposed to the elements - to his family.
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Drug-Sniffing Dog ODs On Methamphetamine
A drug-sniffing dog was recovering in a veterinary hospital -- with his human partner at his side -- after accidentally ingesting methamphetamine.
Thousand Oaks Senior Deputy Dean Worthy said that Balu, a 4-year-old German shepherd, had been commanded to search for a bag of drugs near where a suspect had dropped something else.
"He did his job," Worthy says. Balu alerted to a bag of meth.
However, Balu must also have inhaled or licked up some remnants from the bag. Hours later, he had a bad reaction.
Worthy said the dog had a seizure in the back of his patrol car that last more than two minutes.
He took his K-9 partner to a veterinary hospital where he appears to be on the road to recovery.
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Dead Man Leaves $1.7 Million Estate To Cats
Cats Charities Nip All Of Man's Estate
A Raleigh man has left his nearly $1.7 million estate to four North Carolina cat charities.
Emil Campbell died suddenly last month and left instructions for his lawyer to bequeath his entire estate to cats.
Attorney Bobby Khot said Campbell left the money to four charities: Snowflake Animal Rescue, Marley's Cat Tales, SAFE Haven for Cats and Second Chance Pet Adoptions.
A spokeswoman for Snowflake Animal Rescue said her organization typically gets less than $6,000 a year in donations. She said she had to read the letter about Campbell's donation twice before she believed it.
Khot said his client didn't work at a high paying job but was very frugal and saved money. He said Campbell had one surviving daughter.
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Man drinks water and dies
A boozer banned from supping Stella at his local downed six pints of water in protest – and died.
Heavy drinker Tony Holtam, 47, collapsed on the floor in a corner of the pub “looking like he was having a fit”.
Guzzling so much water so quickly had left him with dangerously low levels of sodium in his bloodstream, an inquest heard.
Locals regularly saw the forestry worker knock back his favorite strong lager at a rate of five pints an hour.
But he had a reputation for “acting up” afterwards and finally pub landlady Sian Davies refused to serve him with the 5% ABV brew.
So I would only allow him to drink weaker lagers. On the day he died Tony came in and only drank water.
“He was in his corner watching the Grand Prix and it looked like he was having a fit. He just went rigid and was clutching his chest.”
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Officials in Hartford, Connecticut are trying to solve a $400 million mystery: Who owns the cash?
The state treasurer's office says the unclaimed funds include dormant balances in savings and checking accounts, unclaimed wages and uncashed checks for insurance benefits. The agency says the money belongs to 887,000 people.
The state published the names of nearly 34,000 people who have been recently added to Connecticut's unclaimed properties list, in an effort to find the rightful owners.
Officials say they returned more than $32 million last year to nearly 15,000 people who filed claims.
All unclaimed property and the owners are listed on the Web site
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112-year-old man, marries 17-year-old girl
A Somalian man who claims to be 112 years old has married for the sixth time, to a 17-year-old girl.
A crowd of hundreds attended the wedding between Ahmed Muhamed Dore and Safia Abdulleh in Guriceel, in the Galguduud region of Somalia. Mr. Dore said: "Today God helped me realize my dream."
Mr. Dore and his teenage bride are from the same village, and he said that he had waited for her to grow up before proposing.
He said: "I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love, and then we agreed to marry."
The bride’s family said she was "happy with her new husband".
At 95 years older than her – if his claimed age is accurate – he is old enough to be her great-great-great-grandfather.
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Dead man found at police station
The corpse of a man has been found on the roof of a police station in northern India where it was placed over two years ago during an inquiry, a report said today.
The body of Chukkan Nishad, a 22-year-old who went missing in July 2007, was meant to be sent for DNA testing but was instead put in a body bag and placed on the roof.
Nishad's father and local officials, said the family kept requesting the body at the police station but were repeatedly told there was an investigation underway.
"I admit it is a horrible case, possibly the first of its kind,'' said Ram Sabad Ram, the new station master in Azamgarh in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
"I joined here only recently and didn't know that the corpse was kept on the roof.''
The body was placed there after local authorities refused to release the funds for the DNA test on Nishad, whose death remains a mystery.
Mr Ram said police were now completing the formalities to return Mishad's remains -- no more than bones after two years exposed to the elements - to his family.
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Drug-Sniffing Dog ODs On Methamphetamine
A drug-sniffing dog was recovering in a veterinary hospital -- with his human partner at his side -- after accidentally ingesting methamphetamine.
Thousand Oaks Senior Deputy Dean Worthy said that Balu, a 4-year-old German shepherd, had been commanded to search for a bag of drugs near where a suspect had dropped something else.
"He did his job," Worthy says. Balu alerted to a bag of meth.
However, Balu must also have inhaled or licked up some remnants from the bag. Hours later, he had a bad reaction.
Worthy said the dog had a seizure in the back of his patrol car that last more than two minutes.
He took his K-9 partner to a veterinary hospital where he appears to be on the road to recovery.
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Dead Man Leaves $1.7 Million Estate To Cats
Cats Charities Nip All Of Man's Estate
A Raleigh man has left his nearly $1.7 million estate to four North Carolina cat charities.
Emil Campbell died suddenly last month and left instructions for his lawyer to bequeath his entire estate to cats.
Attorney Bobby Khot said Campbell left the money to four charities: Snowflake Animal Rescue, Marley's Cat Tales, SAFE Haven for Cats and Second Chance Pet Adoptions.
A spokeswoman for Snowflake Animal Rescue said her organization typically gets less than $6,000 a year in donations. She said she had to read the letter about Campbell's donation twice before she believed it.
Khot said his client didn't work at a high paying job but was very frugal and saved money. He said Campbell had one surviving daughter.
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Man drinks water and dies
A boozer banned from supping Stella at his local downed six pints of water in protest – and died.
Heavy drinker Tony Holtam, 47, collapsed on the floor in a corner of the pub “looking like he was having a fit”.
Guzzling so much water so quickly had left him with dangerously low levels of sodium in his bloodstream, an inquest heard.
Locals regularly saw the forestry worker knock back his favorite strong lager at a rate of five pints an hour.
But he had a reputation for “acting up” afterwards and finally pub landlady Sian Davies refused to serve him with the 5% ABV brew.
So I would only allow him to drink weaker lagers. On the day he died Tony came in and only drank water.
“He was in his corner watching the Grand Prix and it looked like he was having a fit. He just went rigid and was clutching his chest.”
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Man Feeds Fish Milk
Koi Carp which has the right coloration can sell for tens of thousands of pounds and aquarium owner Ding Feng said making sure the fish grew rapidly so that they could be sold for more money was very important.Feng, 47, who owns the Hanzhou Aquarium in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, said: "All my colleagues are doing it. I started to test feed the carps with milk three months ago."
I visited a carp farm, and found they fed the fish with powdered milk from a bottle, and the carp were strong and active.
"It took my fish a little while to get used to it but now they love the new feed.
"I don't use regular food anymore - I just give them milk."
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