Making the breast of it ... Danish ladies can now go topless
WOMEN in Copenhagen have won the right to swim and walk around topless in public pools.
Feminism may have its downsides but, as the latest victory shows, some things are clearly worth fighting for.
In Copenhagen yesterday, the city's Culture and Leisure Committee voted overwhelmingly to allow topless bathing.
Frank Hedegaard, of the Socialist People's Party, said: "I cannot understand what some people find so offensive about women's breasts."
The decision is the result of a year-long campaign by pressure group, the Topless Front, which says women should be treated the same as bare-chested men.
Campaign leader Astrid Vang, 20, who took her top off with others to protest at a leisure centre at Christmas, said: "We women would like to decide by ourselves when our breasts should be sexual and when not.
"In swimming pools they should not and that is why the breasts should not be covered - We will bathe topless just like men."
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Sex, No thank you ... we're Japanese
Housewife Miyuki Yanagisawa cannot recall the last time she had sex with her husband. She is certain, though, that their physical estrangement can be measured in years, not months.
While she shares a room with the couple's two young daughters, her husband, a company employee, sleeps alone in another room, grateful for the chance to catch up on his sleep after another tortuously long day at work.
'As long as he is healthy and doing well at work, I can put up with the lack of affection,' Yanagisawa, 44 - who asked that her real name not be used - said of her decade-old marriage.
People trapped in sexless marriages blame long working hours, a claim backed up by global surveys of sexual activity conducted by Durex. According to the condom maker, Japanese couples have sex 45 times a year, well below the global average of 103 times.
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Fetus Discovered in Bathroom of NYC Flight
HOUSTON — Authorities are investigating the discovery of what appears to be a fetus in the bathroom of a Continental Airlines plane that arrived in Houston on a flight from New York's LaGuardia Airport.
FBI Special Agent Shauna Dunlap said that while the plane was being cleaned about an hour after the plane landed Sunday, the cleaning crew found the fetus. The medical examiner's office will do an autopsy to determine if it was viable.
Dunlap said that if it is determined that a crime occurred, then the FBI will work with Houston police to determine where it occurred and continue from there.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Baby for sale on Craig's list
PORTLAND, OR. - This story will make almost any parent sick. An Oregon couple tries to sell their child on Craig's list for one thousand dollars, so they can buy meth. The picture shows the baby in a diaper, covered in food or mud.
Pair of kittens chases 200-pound bear up a tree
A 6-foot, 200-pound bear has been perched high above a Central Florida neighborhood for hours on Friday after it was chased up a tree by 6-month-old kittens."(The bear) was out looking for a place to live and got startled and took refuge in the tree," Florida Fish and Wildlife worker Tom Shupe said.
"(The kittens) had the bear just cornered at the fence and it saw the tree and just ran up the tree and has been there ever since," homeowner Jason Daniels said.
Officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have been called to the scene to determine what to do with the bear, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
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Bus shelters with built in Star Wars LightSabers
TV Network Spike have installed these great bus shelters around NYC complete with 4 sabers sandwiched between the glass with instructions to “Use only in case of Sith” or bad tempered bus drivers. This one was shot at West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue.
Whether its still there today is anyone’s guess…
Small Bits of News
What’s for dinner? “DRUGS”
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. - A drug deal became dinner for one Port Charlotte man. The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office arrested 22-year-old Gregory Pascal after he allegedly sold drugs to officials, then chewed up the evidence. "We searched the vehicle and both persons and found nothing, so we assumed that he tried to make lunch out of his drug buying money," says Bob Carpenter of the Sheriff's Office. Detectives found the drug money, about a hundred dollars, mixed with marijuana in Pascal's mouth. He and a woman driving his car were both charged and transported to the Charlotte County Jail.
Kevin said...
Oh my GOD! Mar-uh-wah-nuh!
You'd better lock that dangerous criminal up right away.
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"Don't worry. This is my science project."
NEW YORK (AP) - A college student has apologized for causing a scare on a subway train when his science project short-circuited and started smoking in his backpack. Gregory Kats, 29, said the device was just a model of an elevator's inner workings. But it frightened riders. Kats said he tried to reassure his fellow passengers that it was a school project - not a bomb - but people scrambled for the exits. The box he was holding had a small battery, wires and a motor. "They were panicking, and I realized their fear," an apologetic Kats said. He said he tried to disassemble the contraption on the platform even as he reassured riders, "Don't worry. This is my science project." Kats was questioned by police and later released. Kats is a computer engineering student at the New York City College of Technology. "I'm very sorry for what happened."
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Town Put Itself Up for Sale 5 Years Ago, Still Hasn't Found Buyer
MONSE, Wash. — Juli Doty had big plans for the little ghost town of Monse, just north of Brewster.
A Wenatchee Realtor, Doty listed the entire town for sale five years ago.
She knew the town's owners Donna and Fritz Van Doren and they asked her to sell it for them when they moved from Monse to East Wenatchee.
It was a sweet deal: $575,000 for 60 acres that included seven houses, an old schoolhouse, a general store and post office, all platted into 100 parcels for anyone who wanted to remake their own little town.
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School Security Officer Tasers 11-Year-Old Girl
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A Florida elementary school student was tasered Thursday after punching a school security officer during a fight.
The incident began when teachers at the Moss Elementary School in Orange County confronted an 11-year-old girl for allegedly attempting to push another student into ongoing traffic outside the campus.
Authorities say the young female ignored the teacher and walked inside the homeroom, where she was again approached by teachers over her behavior. The student responded by throwing a desk and chair and attempting to spit on the instructor.
Donna Hudepohl, a school resource officer called to remove the troubled girl from the classroom, was allegedly pushed and punched in the face during a struggle to restrain her.
Hudepohl responded by tasering the girl.
The student was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, disrupting a school function as well as resisting with violence and is being held at the juvenile detention center.
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Anonymous said...
It sounds like she earned it. She was out of control, a danger to hrself and others. What else should the officer have done?
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. - A drug deal became dinner for one Port Charlotte man. The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office arrested 22-year-old Gregory Pascal after he allegedly sold drugs to officials, then chewed up the evidence. "We searched the vehicle and both persons and found nothing, so we assumed that he tried to make lunch out of his drug buying money," says Bob Carpenter of the Sheriff's Office. Detectives found the drug money, about a hundred dollars, mixed with marijuana in Pascal's mouth. He and a woman driving his car were both charged and transported to the Charlotte County Jail.
Kevin said...
Oh my GOD! Mar-uh-wah-nuh!
You'd better lock that dangerous criminal up right away.
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"Don't worry. This is my science project."
NEW YORK (AP) - A college student has apologized for causing a scare on a subway train when his science project short-circuited and started smoking in his backpack. Gregory Kats, 29, said the device was just a model of an elevator's inner workings. But it frightened riders. Kats said he tried to reassure his fellow passengers that it was a school project - not a bomb - but people scrambled for the exits. The box he was holding had a small battery, wires and a motor. "They were panicking, and I realized their fear," an apologetic Kats said. He said he tried to disassemble the contraption on the platform even as he reassured riders, "Don't worry. This is my science project." Kats was questioned by police and later released. Kats is a computer engineering student at the New York City College of Technology. "I'm very sorry for what happened."
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Town Put Itself Up for Sale 5 Years Ago, Still Hasn't Found Buyer
MONSE, Wash. — Juli Doty had big plans for the little ghost town of Monse, just north of Brewster.
A Wenatchee Realtor, Doty listed the entire town for sale five years ago.
She knew the town's owners Donna and Fritz Van Doren and they asked her to sell it for them when they moved from Monse to East Wenatchee.
It was a sweet deal: $575,000 for 60 acres that included seven houses, an old schoolhouse, a general store and post office, all platted into 100 parcels for anyone who wanted to remake their own little town.
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School Security Officer Tasers 11-Year-Old Girl
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A Florida elementary school student was tasered Thursday after punching a school security officer during a fight.
The incident began when teachers at the Moss Elementary School in Orange County confronted an 11-year-old girl for allegedly attempting to push another student into ongoing traffic outside the campus.
Authorities say the young female ignored the teacher and walked inside the homeroom, where she was again approached by teachers over her behavior. The student responded by throwing a desk and chair and attempting to spit on the instructor.
Donna Hudepohl, a school resource officer called to remove the troubled girl from the classroom, was allegedly pushed and punched in the face during a struggle to restrain her.
Hudepohl responded by tasering the girl.
The student was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, disrupting a school function as well as resisting with violence and is being held at the juvenile detention center.
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Anonymous said...
It sounds like she earned it. She was out of control, a danger to hrself and others. What else should the officer have done?
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