.Saturday, October 24, 2009
Man has world's strongest finger
Bingli – who has been studying martial arts for 32 years since the age of just seven – can stand upside down supporting himself on just one index finger.On Monday he scooped the Guinness world record for completing 12 press ups on just one finger of his right hand.
"I've been training since I was seven years old and my index finger has as much strength in it as most people's entire body," said Fu of Lianyungang, eastern China.
Shopowner Strikes Back With Shock Tactics
John O’Connor has installed a device at Custy’s Traditional Irish Music Shop that will give anyone who relieves himself on the premises an electric shock.He also put up a sign warning ‘Electric Current in Operation – Urinate at Your Own Peril’ to let revelers’ know of the consequences of what he called "al-fresco urination".
The music shop is located on Cooke’s Lane off Ennis’s main street, O’Connell Street and Mr. O’Connor described installing the electric shock treatment as "total desperation".
"I hate having to do this, but I’m not willing every Monday to be confronted with human detritus where I have to clean up human feces, urine and vomit. Sometimes it can take 40 minutes to clean it all up."
He said last Monday was particularly bad when the urine seeped into the building.
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
10-year-old girl got gassed at party
A furious mother yesterday claimed her 10-year-old daughter was sprayed in the face with CS gas by police who raided a birthday party.
Abbie Symonds spent five hours in hospital being treated for swollen eyes.
They arrested her step-brother Robert, 20, on suspicion of breaching his bail curfew. He was dragged from the garden in handcuffs but a court later threw out the case for lack of evidence.
Officers in riot gear also arrested Abbie's dad Nigel,50, and birthday boy Nigel for alleged public order offences during the raid in the quiet cul-de-sac on Saturday.
Careworker Delia said: "I asked why they used the gas and they told me that if officers felt threatened they could use it without warning. But how is my 10-year-old a threat to a fully grown policeman? I think it is disgusting.
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Man prefers prison to house arrest with wife
A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home.
Santo Gambino, 30, did time for dumping hazardous waste before being moved to house arrest in Villabate, outside the Sicilian capital, Palermo, Italian news agencies reported.
Gambino went to the police station and asked to be put away again to avoid arguing with his wife, who accused him of failing to pay for the upkeep of their two children.
Police charged him with violating the conditions of his sentence and made him go home and patch things up with his wife.
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Store clerk ran off with $1M lottery ticket
A 25-year-old Austin, Texas convenience store clerk pocketed a customer's $1 million winning lottery ticket, claimed the prize and skipped town, possibly back to his native Nepal, authorities said.
Pankaj Joshi took 67-year-old Willis Willis' winning Mega Millions megaplier ticket after Willis asked Joshi in May to check whether any of his numbers were winners, investigators said in a search warrant affidavit last month.
Joshi claimed the prize — about $750,000 after taxes — at the lottery claim center in Austin, had the money wired to a bank account and disappeared, authorities said.
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You won’t take me alive
A convicted sex offender burned to death when he set himself on fire as authorities served a warrant at his rural Tulsa County home Thursday.
Law officials went to a house in the 14100 block of East Apache Street to contact Johnnie Joe Hobbs, 47, Capt. John Bowman said.
After finding the house empty, the squad peered into a cargo van that sat in the cluttered yard about 3 p.m. Hobbs, who was inside the van, reached out and slammed the door shut, Bowman said.
He then doused the van with gasoline and ignited it, Bowman said. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Bowman said Hobbs had spent time in prison and had indicated that he would do anything to avoid capture.
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A furious mother yesterday claimed her 10-year-old daughter was sprayed in the face with CS gas by police who raided a birthday party.
Abbie Symonds spent five hours in hospital being treated for swollen eyes.
They arrested her step-brother Robert, 20, on suspicion of breaching his bail curfew. He was dragged from the garden in handcuffs but a court later threw out the case for lack of evidence.
Officers in riot gear also arrested Abbie's dad Nigel,50, and birthday boy Nigel for alleged public order offences during the raid in the quiet cul-de-sac on Saturday.
Careworker Delia said: "I asked why they used the gas and they told me that if officers felt threatened they could use it without warning. But how is my 10-year-old a threat to a fully grown policeman? I think it is disgusting.
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Man prefers prison to house arrest with wife
A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home.
Santo Gambino, 30, did time for dumping hazardous waste before being moved to house arrest in Villabate, outside the Sicilian capital, Palermo, Italian news agencies reported.
Gambino went to the police station and asked to be put away again to avoid arguing with his wife, who accused him of failing to pay for the upkeep of their two children.
Police charged him with violating the conditions of his sentence and made him go home and patch things up with his wife.
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Store clerk ran off with $1M lottery ticket
A 25-year-old Austin, Texas convenience store clerk pocketed a customer's $1 million winning lottery ticket, claimed the prize and skipped town, possibly back to his native Nepal, authorities said.
Pankaj Joshi took 67-year-old Willis Willis' winning Mega Millions megaplier ticket after Willis asked Joshi in May to check whether any of his numbers were winners, investigators said in a search warrant affidavit last month.
Joshi claimed the prize — about $750,000 after taxes — at the lottery claim center in Austin, had the money wired to a bank account and disappeared, authorities said.
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You won’t take me alive
A convicted sex offender burned to death when he set himself on fire as authorities served a warrant at his rural Tulsa County home Thursday.
Law officials went to a house in the 14100 block of East Apache Street to contact Johnnie Joe Hobbs, 47, Capt. John Bowman said.
After finding the house empty, the squad peered into a cargo van that sat in the cluttered yard about 3 p.m. Hobbs, who was inside the van, reached out and slammed the door shut, Bowman said.
He then doused the van with gasoline and ignited it, Bowman said. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Bowman said Hobbs had spent time in prison and had indicated that he would do anything to avoid capture.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
SC man drives 160 miles to give explosives to cops
Authorities say a South Carolina man's good intentions almost caused an explosive situation.
After the man's uncle died, he discovered that his relative had collected potentially explosive materials including grenades, dynamite and black powder.
The man, who was not identified by police, feared the materials might fall into the wrong hands, so he drove 80 miles to his uncle's house and loaded his truck with some of the items. Then he drove back to his home county of Union on Wednesday to give the materials to police.
Union County Sheriff David Taylor says the man brought the items to him because the two know each other.
Taylor says deputies closed off several streets and called the bomb squad when they learned about the items. The materials were later destroyed.
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Woman flashes $27,000 at Mass. bar, gets robbed
Massachusetts police say they are searching for two men suspected of robbing a woman of $27,000 after she flashed the cash in a Springfield bar. Sgt. John Delaney said on Friday that the 22-year-old woman was robbed Monday night by two men wearing dark clothing and bandanas, one armed with what appeared to be a semiautomatic handgun.
According to police, the woman bragged in the bar of receiving the $27,000 from an insurance claim. Police say she was later robbed after she left the bar with a male friend.
Delaney said the woman should have put her cash settlement in a bank.
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Man climbs on Walmart roof to evade police
Gerald Linwood "Tay Tay" Hayes III, 28, needed money to pay court fees from a criminal case.
So he devised a criminal plan to get the money: stealing several flat screen televisions from a Wal-Mart store.
A surveillance video caught him in the act -- twice.
It caught Hayes picking up a 46-inch TV and placing it near the entrance to the store's garden center. He then scoped out the area for watchful eyes. When the coast was clear he slipped into the darkened garden center and headed toward the rear where there's a large gate. He slipped the TV through the gate doors, then scaled the fence and walked away with the TV.
Employees recognized him the next time he came into the store and called cops.
He tried getting away by climbing up on the roof.
Cops got him.
Now he has to figure out how to pay for two criminal court cases.
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Authorities say a South Carolina man's good intentions almost caused an explosive situation.
After the man's uncle died, he discovered that his relative had collected potentially explosive materials including grenades, dynamite and black powder.
The man, who was not identified by police, feared the materials might fall into the wrong hands, so he drove 80 miles to his uncle's house and loaded his truck with some of the items. Then he drove back to his home county of Union on Wednesday to give the materials to police.
Union County Sheriff David Taylor says the man brought the items to him because the two know each other.
Taylor says deputies closed off several streets and called the bomb squad when they learned about the items. The materials were later destroyed.
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Woman flashes $27,000 at Mass. bar, gets robbed
Massachusetts police say they are searching for two men suspected of robbing a woman of $27,000 after she flashed the cash in a Springfield bar. Sgt. John Delaney said on Friday that the 22-year-old woman was robbed Monday night by two men wearing dark clothing and bandanas, one armed with what appeared to be a semiautomatic handgun.
According to police, the woman bragged in the bar of receiving the $27,000 from an insurance claim. Police say she was later robbed after she left the bar with a male friend.
Delaney said the woman should have put her cash settlement in a bank.
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Man climbs on Walmart roof to evade police
Gerald Linwood "Tay Tay" Hayes III, 28, needed money to pay court fees from a criminal case.
So he devised a criminal plan to get the money: stealing several flat screen televisions from a Wal-Mart store.
A surveillance video caught him in the act -- twice.
It caught Hayes picking up a 46-inch TV and placing it near the entrance to the store's garden center. He then scoped out the area for watchful eyes. When the coast was clear he slipped into the darkened garden center and headed toward the rear where there's a large gate. He slipped the TV through the gate doors, then scaled the fence and walked away with the TV.
Employees recognized him the next time he came into the store and called cops.
He tried getting away by climbing up on the roof.
Cops got him.
Now he has to figure out how to pay for two criminal court cases.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Heads up, Postmaster General John E. Potter
The coconuts are coming, 500 of them, stamped and addressed to your office on L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C.The bulky brown seeds are serving as postcards, bearing about $4 worth of postage, paid for by post office fans from Lantana and nearby communities, who use the small post office on Ocean Avenue just off Federal Highway.
On the back are polite messages written in marker pens, entreating Potter to reconsider the proposed closing of the Lantana post office, one of three Palm Beach County branches on the chopping block for the fiscally challenged U.S. Postal Service.
Around the nation, 371 stations are being considered for closing, although postal officials have said the final number closed could be around 200.
Besides coconuts, residents have collected more than 5,300 signatures on petitions and filled out public-comment forms left in the post office, which must be returned (no postage required) to the regional postmaster by Oct. 25. About 102 comment forms had been received by this afternoon.
The coconut mailing is no mere goofy publicity stunt. It is a historically based publicity stunt.
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