Friday, July 13, 2007
Cardboard Main Ingredient in Chinese Steamed Buns
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289081,00.html
July 12, 2007
BEIJING — Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said.The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's problems with food safety despite government efforts to improve the situation.
Countless small, often illegally run operations exist across China and make money cutting corners by using inexpensive ingredients or unsavory substitutes.
"What's in the recipe?" the reporter asks. "Six to four," the man says. "You mean 60 percent cardboard? What is the other 40 percent?" asks the reporter. "Fatty meat," the man replies.
The bun maker and his assistants then give a demonstration on how the product is made.
Squares of cardboard picked from the ground are first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda — a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap — then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning are stirred in.
Soon, steaming servings of the buns appear on the screen. The reporter takes a bite.
"This baozi filling is kind of tough. Not much taste," he says. "Can other people taste the difference?"
"Most people can't. It fools the average person," the maker says. "I don't eat them myself."
The police eventually showed up and shut down the operation.
Police investigate bizarre dog attack claim
Police are trying to determine whether a pit bull sexually assaulted a 2-year-old boy, and why.
Lockport Police Detective Capt. Larry Eggert said they are interviewing witnesses and meeting with dog behavioral experts to try and figure out what motivated the dog.
The boy's mother told police the dog, a 2-year-old pit bull named Bear, sodomized the boy while the mother was in another room. “She left the baby alone for a short period of time,” Eggert said. “She heard a scream; she ran in the room and saw the dog and the boy.” Eggert said the toddler had removed his own soiled diaper and asked to be changed just before the attack. His mother sent him into the living room to get a new diaper, Eggert said. The boy was alone with the dog for only a brief time. When the mother heard the boy scream, she told police she went into the living room and found the dog had mounted the child, Eggert said. The mother told police she began yelling at the dog and spooked it.
The dog dragged the boy out onto the porch, where neighbors saw what was happening. A passerby who helped rescue the boy said he heard the woman screaming and saw the dog's mouth holding the child's leg and stomach. The toddler was taken to Women’s and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, where he remained after having surgery on Sunday night. A DNA sample was taken from the dog to compare with DNA taken from the boy to ensure the attack actually did take place as reported. “It’s not a pleasant case to have to work with,” Eggert said. “It’s almost unbelievable.”
Lockport Police Detective Capt. Larry Eggert said they are interviewing witnesses and meeting with dog behavioral experts to try and figure out what motivated the dog.
The boy's mother told police the dog, a 2-year-old pit bull named Bear, sodomized the boy while the mother was in another room. “She left the baby alone for a short period of time,” Eggert said. “She heard a scream; she ran in the room and saw the dog and the boy.” Eggert said the toddler had removed his own soiled diaper and asked to be changed just before the attack. His mother sent him into the living room to get a new diaper, Eggert said. The boy was alone with the dog for only a brief time. When the mother heard the boy scream, she told police she went into the living room and found the dog had mounted the child, Eggert said. The mother told police she began yelling at the dog and spooked it.
The dog dragged the boy out onto the porch, where neighbors saw what was happening. A passerby who helped rescue the boy said he heard the woman screaming and saw the dog's mouth holding the child's leg and stomach. The toddler was taken to Women’s and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, where he remained after having surgery on Sunday night. A DNA sample was taken from the dog to compare with DNA taken from the boy to ensure the attack actually did take place as reported. “It’s not a pleasant case to have to work with,” Eggert said. “It’s almost unbelievable.”
Man drives around with a corpse
A man got into the dead person's car, and drove the corpse to a cash machine so that he could take money out of dead person's account, according to police. Police discovered the dead guy in a state of mild decomposition in a truck in a parking lot in Allentown Pennsylvania, after they were initially called to arrest a man for a completely different crime.
The man, identified as 45-year-old Dennis James Laslo, was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly tried to snatch a purse from a woman shopping in a supermarket.
However, in the process of investigating that crime, the police happened upon the corpse of 50-year-old Maynard Samuel Anthony, which was sitting in a pickup truck. According to police, it turned out that Laslo had discovered Anthony's body in the truck earlier that day. Naturally, his first response was to drive the vehicle, with the corpse still inside, to a bank in Allentown. There, he tried to use Anthony's cash card to withdraw money from an ATM, before then driving to the supermarket – still with the corpse – and attempting to steal the purse.
He has now been charged with attempted theft, theft, and the delightful crime of 'abuse of a corpse'.
The man, identified as 45-year-old Dennis James Laslo, was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly tried to snatch a purse from a woman shopping in a supermarket.
However, in the process of investigating that crime, the police happened upon the corpse of 50-year-old Maynard Samuel Anthony, which was sitting in a pickup truck. According to police, it turned out that Laslo had discovered Anthony's body in the truck earlier that day. Naturally, his first response was to drive the vehicle, with the corpse still inside, to a bank in Allentown. There, he tried to use Anthony's cash card to withdraw money from an ATM, before then driving to the supermarket – still with the corpse – and attempting to steal the purse.
He has now been charged with attempted theft, theft, and the delightful crime of 'abuse of a corpse'.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
What in the Hell were they thinking
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289089,00.html
July 12, 2007
13 Hospitalized After Running With the Bulls in Spain
MADRID, Spain — Charging bulls gored seven people and seriously injured several others Thursday as this year's San Fermin festival in Pamplona served up its longest and most dangerous run yet.
Thirteen people in total were hospitalized, seven for goring and six for treatment of head injuries and other injuries, the local government said in a statement. Three were reported to be in very serious condition after undergoing operations
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July 12, 2007
13 Hospitalized After Running With the Bulls in Spain
MADRID, Spain — Charging bulls gored seven people and seriously injured several others Thursday as this year's San Fermin festival in Pamplona served up its longest and most dangerous run yet.
Thirteen people in total were hospitalized, seven for goring and six for treatment of head injuries and other injuries, the local government said in a statement. Three were reported to be in very serious condition after undergoing operations
• Click here to view photos from the festival.
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Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo Reveals Alleged Blackmail Photos.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289066,00.html
July 12, 2007
Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo released the photos allegedly used to blackmail her on Thursday, the day on which directors of the pageant were to decide if she can continue to wear her crown.
Photo Essay: Click here to see the photos
Polumbo told NBC's "Today" show that the photos show her "not in a ladylike manner" and that she "felt sick to her stomach."
"I want to end this," Amy Polumbo said hours before she was to meet with pageant officials who will decide whether she will represent the Garden State in the Miss America pageant.
The pictures include one showing what Polumbo said was her boyfriend apparently biting her breast through her shirt, another of Polumbo in a limousine wearing jeans with her legs spread in the air, and another of her in what appears to be a Halloween costume dress holding two small pumpkins up to her breasts."It's not in a ladylike manner. I'm not a robot. I'm a human being," Polumbo said.
There were also photos of Polumbo drinking, but the 22-year-old college student said she was of legal age when they were taken.
Polumbo said she didn't think the pictures should lead to the loss of her crown but said other people might interpret them differently.
"What I think is OK, someone else's eyebrows could be raised," she said.
All New Meaning of “BEWARE of DOG”
At 6ft 5ins (1.96m) on his hind legs, Samson must be the perfect guard dog. But to his owners, Julie and Ray Woods, of Boston, Lincolnshire, the three-year-old Great Dane-Newfoundland cross is simply a much-loved pet.Samson - who weighs in at 125 kilograms = 275.6 pounds is being billed as "Britain's biggest dog" after scrap merchant staff who weighed him contacted the media.
Mrs. Woods says Samson has been "very unsettled" by the media interest and so she and her husband have ruled out any more photographs or filming.
She added: "He's a very placid, laid-back dog and I don't think he liked being ordered about - he just likes the quiet life." With video.
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