Actor Gary Dourdan, who stars in TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, has been arrested on suspicion of drug possession, police have said.
The 41-year-old was held after being found asleep in a parked car in Palm Springs, California.
Police allegedly found substances believed to be cocaine, heroin and ecstasy in the vehicle.
The car had been parked on the wrong side of the street with its inside light left on, according to a police press release.
This said Dourdan appeared to be disoriented and "possibly under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs" when approached by an officer.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Group seeks to remove 'Titmouse Park' sign
Environmentalists are attempting to have a sign reading "Titmouse Park" removed from Los Angeles' Ballona Wetlands area, saying the sign insults women. Ballona Institute organizers said they are working to petition city leaders to have the sign removed and the park renamed after a native animal, plant or landmark. Environmentalist Roy van de Hoek said the park was not named after titmouse birds, which are not native to the area. Rather, the name was chosen as an insult to a group of women who blocked local businessmen from turning the area into a parking lot 20 years ago.
Van de Hoek said he had a conversation about 18 months ago with a businessman who claimed to have participated in the naming. "He said the name came about because he and his buddies were playing a joke on the women," he said. "It was a reference to a woman's body part. He was chuckling and laughing." However, retired sign painter Bud Harris said he painted the park sign, naming the area after a group of mice he encountered that he mistakenly thought were titmice.
Van de Hoek said he had a conversation about 18 months ago with a businessman who claimed to have participated in the naming. "He said the name came about because he and his buddies were playing a joke on the women," he said. "It was a reference to a woman's body part. He was chuckling and laughing." However, retired sign painter Bud Harris said he painted the park sign, naming the area after a group of mice he encountered that he mistakenly thought were titmice.
Small Bits of News
Police think person lived with dead skeleton on couch
The skeletal remains of a 93-year-old woman may have remained on a couch in her living room for months while other people continued living in the house, authorities said. Neighbors reported seeing cars come and go from the home as recently as this week before police, doing a welfare check at the request of a neighbor, found a body inside on Monday.
"What is a little bizarre is it appears that someone was living there with her for some time," Dallas police Sgt. Gene Reyes said. The remains of a dog also were found in another room. Investigators suspect the human remains belong to the elderly woman who lived there, but DNA testing may be needed to confirm the identity. Dallas police spokeswoman Janice Crowther said there were no obvious signs of trauma on the skeleton. Months have passed since anyone apparently last saw the elderly woman. Electricity was still on at the home and the lawn and exterior were well-kept, but police described the interior as messy.
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Australian man charged with pouring superglue into ear
Four months after his ear was filled with superglue as a prank, Ben Ferrett is $10,000 out of pocket and faces being permanently hard of hearing. The 26-year-old Brisbane plumber has undergone numerous painful procedures culminating in surgery last month to try to remove the rock-solid glue from his right ear. He said the prank happened when he fell asleep at a party at Greenslopes, on Brisbane's south, on January 12. "First they glued my hand to my face, and then he took it one step too far and filled my ear up with superglue.''
Fellow partygoer Ryan Liam Upton, who had only met Ferrett just before the prank, yesterday fronted the Brisbane Magistrate's Court on a charge of assaulting Ferrett, causing him grievous bodily harm. It is understood part of the prank included an attempt to also glue Ferrett's hand down the front of his pants.
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Australian politician admits sniffing woman's chair
An Australian political leader broke down at a news conference yesterday as he admitted that he had sniffed the chair of a female colleague. The confession came from the leader of the conservative Liberal Party in Western Australia, Troy Buswell, who has previously owned up to snapping the bra strap of an opposition party staffer.
The skeletal remains of a 93-year-old woman may have remained on a couch in her living room for months while other people continued living in the house, authorities said. Neighbors reported seeing cars come and go from the home as recently as this week before police, doing a welfare check at the request of a neighbor, found a body inside on Monday.
"What is a little bizarre is it appears that someone was living there with her for some time," Dallas police Sgt. Gene Reyes said. The remains of a dog also were found in another room. Investigators suspect the human remains belong to the elderly woman who lived there, but DNA testing may be needed to confirm the identity. Dallas police spokeswoman Janice Crowther said there were no obvious signs of trauma on the skeleton. Months have passed since anyone apparently last saw the elderly woman. Electricity was still on at the home and the lawn and exterior were well-kept, but police described the interior as messy.
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Australian man charged with pouring superglue into ear
Four months after his ear was filled with superglue as a prank, Ben Ferrett is $10,000 out of pocket and faces being permanently hard of hearing. The 26-year-old Brisbane plumber has undergone numerous painful procedures culminating in surgery last month to try to remove the rock-solid glue from his right ear. He said the prank happened when he fell asleep at a party at Greenslopes, on Brisbane's south, on January 12. "First they glued my hand to my face, and then he took it one step too far and filled my ear up with superglue.''
Fellow partygoer Ryan Liam Upton, who had only met Ferrett just before the prank, yesterday fronted the Brisbane Magistrate's Court on a charge of assaulting Ferrett, causing him grievous bodily harm. It is understood part of the prank included an attempt to also glue Ferrett's hand down the front of his pants.
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Australian politician admits sniffing woman's chair
An Australian political leader broke down at a news conference yesterday as he admitted that he had sniffed the chair of a female colleague. The confession came from the leader of the conservative Liberal Party in Western Australia, Troy Buswell, who has previously owned up to snapping the bra strap of an opposition party staffer.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Being Starved
An overweight prisoner is suing the authorities for not feeding him enough after he lost about 98 pounds.
Broderick Lloyd Laswell, who is awaiting trial for murder, dropped to 308 after eight months inside the Arkansas prison.
He claims his vision has gone blurry while trying to exercise.
The prison says the meals average 3,000 calories a day - more than the US recommended daily intake for adults.
Laswell has filed a federal law suit complaining Benton County jail does not provide inmates with enough food.
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Because apart from a few Pacific islands, the US is the world leader in obesity.
It has the most obese population in the developed world, and the rate of increase is alarming.
So where to go in the US? You could choose any state. But one stands out more than most.
Mississippi in the Deep South is proud of its hospitality and of being the home of Blues music.
But one thing it is not proud of is being the fattest state in the union.
Broderick Lloyd Laswell, who is awaiting trial for murder, dropped to 308 after eight months inside the Arkansas prison.
He claims his vision has gone blurry while trying to exercise.
The prison says the meals average 3,000 calories a day - more than the US recommended daily intake for adults.
Laswell has filed a federal law suit complaining Benton County jail does not provide inmates with enough food.
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The Fattest State In America
If you want to look at obesity trends, then the US is the place to visit.Because apart from a few Pacific islands, the US is the world leader in obesity.
It has the most obese population in the developed world, and the rate of increase is alarming.
So where to go in the US? You could choose any state. But one stands out more than most.
Mississippi in the Deep South is proud of its hospitality and of being the home of Blues music.
But one thing it is not proud of is being the fattest state in the union.
Small Bits of News
Shiga Prefecture's schoolgirls boast of skimpiest skirts in Japan
The rumors that schoolgirls in the central Japan prefecture wear the skimpiest uniforms of anywhere in the country. Local schoolboys seem to agree, saying one school in particular is known for its micromini uniforms.
"When the girls from the school all get off the train together in the mornings, it's a real sight to see," adding that many people deliberately go to look. "We call it the Schoolgirl Rush Hour in these parts." Shiga schoolgirls don't deny their reputation either.
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Porn filmed in Japanese McDonald's? I'm rubbin' it!
McDonald's customers suspected something amiss when one guy pulled out his whopper. They knew for sure when he began partaking of fur burger. The upshot was four people trying to make an adult movie in a fast food outlet ended up getting arrested.
Arrested in the case earlier this month for indecent exposure and obstruction of business were Kunikazu Ishii, 52, the director, Nahoko Shimada, 21, an actress and dental nurse, and actors Yuya Ochiai, 29, and Makoto Nishizumi.
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10 cops, 5 cars required to tame teen trio
A trio of feisty public schoolgirls have stirred up a ruckus after they attacked the police officer who told off two of them for riding together on the same bicycle.
The brouhaha broke out in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, on the afternoon of April 12, after the police officer grabbed one of the girls and her two friends retaliated, kicking and spitting at the lawman.
One of the girls called her friends and asked them to rush to the scene to help, but the cop also called in reinforcements. It eventually took 10 male officers and five police cars to quell the 14-year-old trio.
One of the girls was thrown into a cop car, but she punched and kicked the interior before making a break for freedom through the open window of the passenger side door. She was quickly recaptured and slapped in handcuffs –- once an almost unthinkable treatment for a minor in Japan -- so she couldn't get away.
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Newlyweds Spent Their Honeymoon In Jail
PITTSBURGH — A newlywed couple spent the night in separate jail cells — she in her wedding gown — after police said they brawled with each other, then members of another wedding party, at a suburban Pittsburgh hotel.
The fight started Saturday night after a reception when he knocked her to the floor with a karate kick in the seventh-floor hallway of a Holiday Inn — and escalated when she attacked two guests from another wedding party who came to her aid, police said.
She left with her father, still dressed in her white gown. Wielechowski left alone, sporting a swollen eye, tuxedo pants, a bloody T-shirt and one shoe.
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Austrian Monster
Austrian Man Confesses to Keeping Daughter, Her Children Captive in Cellar
AMSTETTEN, Austria — A man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a windowless cell with a soundproofed door and fathering seven children with her including three who "never saw sunlight," police said Monday.
The man, now 73, also told investigators that he tossed the body of one of the children in an incinerator when the infant died shortly after birth,
Investigators said an electronic keyless-entry system apparently kept the daughter from escaping from the cell, which was made of solid reinforced concrete.
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Transient dies in motel, $263,000 found left behind
SHELDON, Iowa -- Police say a transient man who stayed at the Sheldon Motel left behind a surprising mystery -- $263,000. The Sioux County sheriff's office was called to the motel on March 31 to investigate the death of a man who lived there five months of the year. The investigation has turned into what sheriff's Sgt. Jamison Van Voorst is calling the most interesting case he's seen in his 14 years with the sheriff's office. As Van Voorst and Sheriff Dan Altena investigated the death of John Richard Grant, they discovered some papers, the back of a gold watch, and other belongings. Nothing they found in room 20 was too unusual they say. Then came the surprise. In two vinyl cassette tape cases was $263,000, most of it in $50 and $100 bills.
The rumors that schoolgirls in the central Japan prefecture wear the skimpiest uniforms of anywhere in the country. Local schoolboys seem to agree, saying one school in particular is known for its micromini uniforms.
"When the girls from the school all get off the train together in the mornings, it's a real sight to see," adding that many people deliberately go to look. "We call it the Schoolgirl Rush Hour in these parts." Shiga schoolgirls don't deny their reputation either.
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Porn filmed in Japanese McDonald's? I'm rubbin' it!
McDonald's customers suspected something amiss when one guy pulled out his whopper. They knew for sure when he began partaking of fur burger. The upshot was four people trying to make an adult movie in a fast food outlet ended up getting arrested.
Arrested in the case earlier this month for indecent exposure and obstruction of business were Kunikazu Ishii, 52, the director, Nahoko Shimada, 21, an actress and dental nurse, and actors Yuya Ochiai, 29, and Makoto Nishizumi.
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10 cops, 5 cars required to tame teen trio
A trio of feisty public schoolgirls have stirred up a ruckus after they attacked the police officer who told off two of them for riding together on the same bicycle.
The brouhaha broke out in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, on the afternoon of April 12, after the police officer grabbed one of the girls and her two friends retaliated, kicking and spitting at the lawman.
One of the girls called her friends and asked them to rush to the scene to help, but the cop also called in reinforcements. It eventually took 10 male officers and five police cars to quell the 14-year-old trio.
One of the girls was thrown into a cop car, but she punched and kicked the interior before making a break for freedom through the open window of the passenger side door. She was quickly recaptured and slapped in handcuffs –- once an almost unthinkable treatment for a minor in Japan -- so she couldn't get away.
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Newlyweds Spent Their Honeymoon In Jail
PITTSBURGH — A newlywed couple spent the night in separate jail cells — she in her wedding gown — after police said they brawled with each other, then members of another wedding party, at a suburban Pittsburgh hotel.
The fight started Saturday night after a reception when he knocked her to the floor with a karate kick in the seventh-floor hallway of a Holiday Inn — and escalated when she attacked two guests from another wedding party who came to her aid, police said.
She left with her father, still dressed in her white gown. Wielechowski left alone, sporting a swollen eye, tuxedo pants, a bloody T-shirt and one shoe.
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Austrian Monster
Austrian Man Confesses to Keeping Daughter, Her Children Captive in Cellar
AMSTETTEN, Austria — A man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a windowless cell with a soundproofed door and fathering seven children with her including three who "never saw sunlight," police said Monday.
The man, now 73, also told investigators that he tossed the body of one of the children in an incinerator when the infant died shortly after birth,
Investigators said an electronic keyless-entry system apparently kept the daughter from escaping from the cell, which was made of solid reinforced concrete.
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Transient dies in motel, $263,000 found left behind
SHELDON, Iowa -- Police say a transient man who stayed at the Sheldon Motel left behind a surprising mystery -- $263,000. The Sioux County sheriff's office was called to the motel on March 31 to investigate the death of a man who lived there five months of the year. The investigation has turned into what sheriff's Sgt. Jamison Van Voorst is calling the most interesting case he's seen in his 14 years with the sheriff's office. As Van Voorst and Sheriff Dan Altena investigated the death of John Richard Grant, they discovered some papers, the back of a gold watch, and other belongings. Nothing they found in room 20 was too unusual they say. Then came the surprise. In two vinyl cassette tape cases was $263,000, most of it in $50 and $100 bills.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Weirdest Deformities You’ll ever see
This guy has an extra set of testicles attached to his right ear.
No not really, its just a deformity.
No not really, its just a deformity.
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These 4 African siblings have an unknown foot deformity that gives them lobster claws instead of feet
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This 2 year old is not a Spider, although she has 8 limbs. 4 arms and 4 legs. Lakshmi was born joined to a "parasitic twin" and absorbed the undeveloped fetus’ limbs, kidneys and organs when it failed to fully develop still inside the mothers womb. The Hindu’s believe she is the reincarnation of the Hindu Goddess Vishnu.
This 2 faced baby will not have surgery. The Hindu community worships her as the reincarnation of the Hindu god, Lord Ganesha.
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Leonardo da Vinci-500-year-old Parachute Design Works
Swiss Olivier Vietti-Teppa prepares to land with his 12 kg pyramid-shaped parachute designed by Leonardo da Vinci in Payerne.
A 36-year-old Swiss amateur parachutist made a successful 650-meter (2,130-foot) drop Saturday using a replica of a parachute designed more than 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. "I came down... smack in the middle of the tarmac at Payerne military airport," said Olivier Vietti-Teppa. "A perfect jump."Vietti-Teppa is the first person to have made it safely to the ground with the Leonardo model.
Vietti-Teppa jumped from a hovering helicopter and the Leonardo parachute opened at 600 meters, he reported. The parachute he used was made using modern fabric along lines designed by the Renaissance genius. The specifications were found in a text dating from 1485. The parachute consists of four equilateral triangles, seven meters on each side, made of parachute fabric, Vietti-Teppa explained. The base of the pyramid is a square of mosquito net, which enables the parachute to open.
A 36-year-old Swiss amateur parachutist made a successful 650-meter (2,130-foot) drop Saturday using a replica of a parachute designed more than 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. "I came down... smack in the middle of the tarmac at Payerne military airport," said Olivier Vietti-Teppa. "A perfect jump."Vietti-Teppa is the first person to have made it safely to the ground with the Leonardo model.
Vietti-Teppa jumped from a hovering helicopter and the Leonardo parachute opened at 600 meters, he reported. The parachute he used was made using modern fabric along lines designed by the Renaissance genius. The specifications were found in a text dating from 1485. The parachute consists of four equilateral triangles, seven meters on each side, made of parachute fabric, Vietti-Teppa explained. The base of the pyramid is a square of mosquito net, which enables the parachute to open.
'Pastie Lady'
A activist who bikes through town wearing only pasties and a G-string has some fans, but she may face prosecution for public indecency.
Jennifer Moss, 32, known in Ojai as "Pastie Lady" or "Earth Friend Jen," rides around town in pasties and a G-string made of hemp to support natural-fiber clothing and the healing powers of water. In the year since she began pedaling in her scant attire, Moss has been arrested and ticketed.
Cars were whizzing past one of Ojai's busiest corners when Jennifer Moss decided to do a headstand, clad in only a G-string and flower-shaped pasties.
Why?" Headstands are good for you!" she said, beaming, as she pulled a yellow smiley-face pillow out of her bicycle's small trailer. With athletic grace, Ojai's "Pastie Lady," a self-described social artist and environmental activist, quickly pulled her legs up to salute her adopted hometown.
Small Bits of News
Wildlife park visitors pay £100 to see lions kill tethered cattle
British tourists are paying more than £100 to watch endangered Asian lions kill tethered cattle at an Indian wildlife reserve.
According to local officials, some visitors eat lunch at dining tables as they watch cows and buffalo being devoured.
To ensure that tourists do not go home disappointed, tour guides are offering "baitwalla shows", in which the lions are lured out of the forest towards villages on the outskirts of their sanctuary by cattle tied to tractors.
When the lion picks up the scent, the cow is dragged towards the tour group waiting close by and finally untied so that the tourists can watch it being caught, killed and eaten from as little as 10ft away. They blame western tourists for encouraging the practice.
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Tunisian family sues over girl's "phone rape"
A Tunisian court is looking into an unprecedented rape case filed by a Tunisian family against a man who allegedly "raped" their daughter over the phone during an erotic call, press reports said on Thursday.
The defendant, 30, denied having ever touched the 20-year-old victim, but admitted that in one of their phone calls, while they were "totally into it," he heard her scream and say that a few drops of blood had come out of her.
The victim's lawyer, Maha al-Metebaa, told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabs that the forensic report showed that the girl had lost her virginity recently, but was not subjected to any sexual assault. According to Metebaa, this supports the fact that the phone call was the reason. But Metebaa said this was an unprecedented case that required the court's thorough investigation and jurisprudence to reach a decision. "The intercourse did take place with all its details but verbally only. The sexual act did not really happen because the physical proximity factor is not there, yet it happened because there is a direct physical impact – the loss of virginity."
British tourists are paying more than £100 to watch endangered Asian lions kill tethered cattle at an Indian wildlife reserve.
According to local officials, some visitors eat lunch at dining tables as they watch cows and buffalo being devoured.
To ensure that tourists do not go home disappointed, tour guides are offering "baitwalla shows", in which the lions are lured out of the forest towards villages on the outskirts of their sanctuary by cattle tied to tractors.
When the lion picks up the scent, the cow is dragged towards the tour group waiting close by and finally untied so that the tourists can watch it being caught, killed and eaten from as little as 10ft away. They blame western tourists for encouraging the practice.
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Tunisian family sues over girl's "phone rape"
A Tunisian court is looking into an unprecedented rape case filed by a Tunisian family against a man who allegedly "raped" their daughter over the phone during an erotic call, press reports said on Thursday.
The defendant, 30, denied having ever touched the 20-year-old victim, but admitted that in one of their phone calls, while they were "totally into it," he heard her scream and say that a few drops of blood had come out of her.
The victim's lawyer, Maha al-Metebaa, told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabs that the forensic report showed that the girl had lost her virginity recently, but was not subjected to any sexual assault. According to Metebaa, this supports the fact that the phone call was the reason. But Metebaa said this was an unprecedented case that required the court's thorough investigation and jurisprudence to reach a decision. "The intercourse did take place with all its details but verbally only. The sexual act did not really happen because the physical proximity factor is not there, yet it happened because there is a direct physical impact – the loss of virginity."
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