Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Dog food that shames the Philippines

This is a shocking menu where half million dogs a year end up after being snatched off the streets and illegally killed in the Philippines.
After being trussed, muzzled with rusty cans and slaughtered, they end up in restaurants which flout the law to satisfy the growing taste for dog meat.
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Customers dine on dog’s head, considered a delicacy, for the equivalent of £2.50.
A dish of dog liver costs about £1.80 while a particular favorite, deep fried paws, are just 85p. “Particularly popular is pulutan, a dog meat bar snack. Another very popular dish is deep fried dog paws, known as ‘spare parts’.
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed

Apology for email with female officers' bra sizes
Indianapolis police commander issued a personal apology to 13 female officers after their bra size; height and weight were included in a departmental email.
"We made a mistake," Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief Valerie Cunningham said. "We want to hold ourselves to the highest professional standards. The measurements should not have been included."
The email was sent to 37 commanders and was intended to tell supervisors to inform their officers that their new protective vests were ready to be picked up.
Attached to the email, however, was a spreadsheet listing the names and sizes of 91 officers, including the chest and waist sizes for 13 women whose vests needed special tailoring, Cunningham said.
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United hails its 10-million-mile traveler
A Chicago-area auto sales consultant has become the first United Airlines frequent flyer to log 10 million miles in the air.
Tom Stuker of Bloomingdale, Ill., sets the record somewhere over Iowa on United Flight 942 from Los Angeles to Chicago.
Champagne was popped during the flight, and when he landed at O'Hare, United Chief Executive Officer Jeff Smisek and other executives welcomed him with the first titanium Mileage Plus membership card. His name also was painted on the fuselage of a Boeing 747 jet, after already adorning one of United's 777s.
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14 million bees were spilled on Idaho highway
Cleanup crews in Idaho have finished clearing honey and an estimated 14 million bees that got loose after a delivery truck overturned on a highway.
Fremont County Sheriff deputies say several workers were stung during the first few hours of the cleanup.
Some observers report seeing a strange black cloud and roaring noise above the spill area before realizing it was a massive swarm of bees.
Authorities say a truck was hauling the bees from California to North Dakota when the driver veered off the shoulder, tipping more than 400 hive boxes and honey.
Crews worked all day removing the honey from the roadway, though deputies say a significant amount of bees were still buzzing.
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Sheriff selling pink underwear to the public 
The Arizona sheriff famous for making prisoners wear pink underwear is introducing a Spanish-language version of the shorts he sells to the public.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio began issuing pink underwear to inmates more than 15 years ago to cut down on theft. He began selling them to the public after speaking about them on national television.
The versions that went on sale are imprinted with "Vamos Jose!" The original shorts, also $15, feature a sheriff's star and a "Go Joe" logo.
"Vamos" translates to "We go" in English. A similar-sounding word, "Vamanos," means "Let's go!" in Spanish. A more accurate translation of "Go Joe!" would be "Andale, Jose!"
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Woman attacks with frying pan when she was refused a razor
A North Naples woman is accused of hitting her live-in boyfriend on the head with a frying pan after he refused to let her use his razor.
Collier County deputies arrested Mary G. Batson, 22, of the 11000 block of Windsong Circle, at home on a battery charge.
Batson’s boyfriend, with whom she has a child, told deputies that his girlfriend became angry with him when he refused to let her borrow his razors to use in the shower.
According to the arrest report, Batson began attacking her boyfriend while he attempted to hide the razors. After first being clawed and scratched by the woman on his face and chest, the victim told deputies that his girlfriend then grabbed a frying pan and hit him on the head with it, leaving significant cuts on his face.
Batson stated that she slammed the pan against the counter during the altercation but denied striking him on the head with it, according to reports.
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Strip Search at a Strip Club
Four exotic dancers and two female bartenders in Daytona Beach, Fla., this week were awarded $195,000 in federal court to compensate them for illegal strip searches conducted during a drug raid at a gentlemen's club.
The women who endured the improper searches will each get $5,000, while their lawyers are the big winners, banking $165,000.
Besides using a search warrant the judge ruled was illegal, the strip searches took place in front of 20 male police officers or, as it happens, 91 percent of the city of Daytona Beach Shores public safety officers, given the city's Web site says there are 22 public safety officers on the police force.
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Monday, July 11, 2011

Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed

Man finds 'toenail in pizza'
Supermarket chain Asda has ordered an investigation into claims of a toenail being found in one of its pizzas.
Shereena Pengelly claims she was having dinner at her sister's house in Kemsley when her brother-in-law discovered the offending object in to the Chosen By You deep pan pepperoni pizza at.
"He took a mouthful and thought it was a bit of onion as you do sometimes get a tough bit. He picked it out and held it up and was like 'what's this?'
"It was absolutely disgusting. He was sick all night and the following day.
"It says on the box it's topped with spicy tomato sauce, creamy mozzarella and sliced pepperoni - it doesn't say anything about toenails.
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Woman chops off her ex-husband's genitals
Karachi: An attempt by a Pakistani man to get in touch with his divorced wife ended in disaster as the woman chopped off his genitals in a city hotel.
Abid Pervaiz, 25, was lucky to have survived the attack, a doctor on duty said.
"He was brought to the Jinnah hospital in a bad shape with severe genital mutilation wounds. It is a miracle that the man had survived despite severe bleeding," doctor said.
According to Mehmoodabad police station's duty officer SI Mohammad Azeem, Abid hails from Sukkur and was living with some distant relatives.
He was divorced, but began communicating with his ex-wife again. The couple decided to meet again and hired a room at a city hotel, where the woman mixed some sleeping pills in his juice.
When Abid woke up, he discovered that his genitals had been cut off, Azeem said. 
"Abid told me that before he passed out completely, he heard his former wife speaking to someone on the phone, saying that she had carried out her plan," the officer said.
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Man with tractor pushed sheriff car off his property
A Canadian man was charged with assault after he allegedly scooped up a sheriff's car with a forklift and carried it off his property, police said.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Wilfred Doyle, 45, of St. Andrews also was charged with mischief and obstructing a police officer as well as assault with a deadly weapon after the run-in at his home last week.
The Mounties told the C.B.C. that the sheriff went to Doyle's place on Prince Edwards Island to serve him a court order. Doyle turned the routine process into a confrontation when he fired up his tractor, which was equipped with a forklift, and pushed the car out of his yard.
Doyle was released after spending a night in jail.
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Woman dies after doggie sex

A 43-year-old woman died after suffering a massive allergic reaction brought on after she had sex with a dog in Limerick.
The woman, a mother of four children, suffered the reaction to the dog’s semen after willingly engaging in sex acts with the Alsatian dog in a house in the Patrickswell area of the county.
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The woman passed away shortly after having sex with the dog, and after investigation it was confirmed that her death occurred due to an adverse reaction suffered after having sex with the animal.
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An ambulance was called on the night that she died and rushed the woman to the Mid-Western Hospital, where she passed away.
A source said that the unfortunate woman involved came in contact with a man who provided the dog on an internet chat room. “Both these people would have been visiting bestiality websites and at some stage it appears they agreed to meet up for sex,” the source said.

An arsonist has been banned from owning matches for life.

John Anthony Bell today received the life-time ban, from possessing matches, lighters and accelerants, under an ASBO. If he breaks it, he could face a jail sentence.
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It emerged that he had been responsible for starting a series of fires across North Wales – then he rang the fire service.
Mold Crown Court heard how Bell, 27, had been depressed and drawing attention to himself.
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service had spent more than £16,000 tacking the fires he started in Rhos on Sea, Old Colwyn and in Holywell, North Wales.
But significantly their time was being diverted from potentially life-threatening incidents, the court heard.
Bell was tracked down after fire service personnel noticed that his mobile phone number was appearing a large number of times to when fires were being reported.
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Police arrested him and he admitted that he was responsible for starting more than 50 separate fires in wheelie bins, skips (Dumpsters), sheds, hedges, fencing panels, rubbish and even grass fires.
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Spending spree lands woman in jail

A woman loaded up her cart with $4,752.45 worth of items at Wal-Mart, and then tried to pay with a credit card that turned out to be stolen, authorities said.
A suspicious sales clerk refused to complete the transaction. Deputies arrested Adrienne Kelly Lipsey, 29, on charges of grand theft and fraudulent use of a credit card.
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The card, deputies determined, belonged to the 89-year-old best friend of Lipsey's grandmother.
While the Walmart on State Road 54 did not allow any purchases on the card. Lipsey however racked up $99.97 in charges at a Kangaroo gas station, Redbox video rental and 7-Eleven, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said. Lipsey, of Holiday, remains in Land O'Lakes jail in lieu of $8,000 bail.
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