Software glitch leads to 1-cent gas in Dutch town
Nighttime was the right time to get tanked Friday in the Dutch town of Genderen.
An unmanned gas station began offering customers gas for 1 euro cent per liter, or about 1.5 cents Cdn per liter, due to a software glitch that occurred around midnight. That was a discount of more than 99 per cent.
"Most people were home in bed, so it could have been worse," Piet-Hein Bogaers, director of the company that operates the station, Vollenhoven Olie BV, said Monday.
As word of the deal spread, business boomed at the station, 100 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam.
Bogaers said that, by the time the mistake was fixed Saturday morning, customers were lined up to buy gas. Many had even called to alert the company.
"They were saying, 'This can't be right,' " he said.
It wasn't. Bogaers declined to say how much money Vollenhoven lost but hundreds of liters were sold at the discounted price.
"I guess we can consider it good publicity, even if it wasn't intentional," he said.
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Sydney woman at airport had 'heroin in shoes'
A woman faces drug importation charges after Customs officials allegedly found heroin hidden in her shoes.
Police say the 50-year-old from Cabramatta, in Sydney's west, was stopped at Sydney International Airport after arriving on a flight from Vietnam on Monday.
She is the second person in the past month discovered allegedly trying to smuggle drugs through Sydney airport in shoes.
Customs personnel became suspicious of the woman's shoes while searching her luggage, police said.
"A subsequent x-ray examination of the shoes revealed anomalies consistent with the concealment of narcotics," Australian Federal Police (AFP) said in a statement.
"The soles of the shoes were pierced and a white powder weighing approximately 900 grams was revealed."
Initial tests showed the substance was heroin.
Police charged the woman with importing a marketable quantity of a border-controlled drug.
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Man plays chicken with cars, loses
A man who played a strange mix of 'chicken' and car surfing with moving cars on the road has ended up, rather unsurprisingly, in hospital.
The young man, whose name was not released, was found bleeding on the side of the road in Boulder, Colorado.
Police had arrived on the scene after receiving emergency phone calls about a man jumping on hoods of cars driving on the road.
'He was running into cars as they were driving and wandering into the street,' said police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley.
The driver who called police reported that the man had run into one of his rear doors, before jumping on the hood of another car and breaking its front window.
The man was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. He was also ticketed for 'interfering with a vehicle in the road.'
Reports suggest that the man had been drinking with friends in a bar before the incident.
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Pair arrested for eating iguana on Facebook
Two people have been arrested for eating an endangered species of iguana in the Bahamas after posting pictures of the grill on Facebook.
Vanessa Starr Palm, 23, of Illinois and Alexander Daniel Rust, 24, of Indiana, were arrested last Monday after pictures of the two having an iguana feast in the islands were posted on the social networking website.
According to police the pictures showed them "catching an iguana, parts of an iguana on a grill, two men eating the iguana pieces, and a man and a woman cleaning what appears to be undersized conch."
The two were arrested on the Fisheries Regulations and the Wild Animal Protection Act.
The photos ended up in the hands of Bahamian authorities, who tracked down the suspects and arrested them, the article said.
The iguanas are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
The peckish pair could also fall foul of American federal law that links with the Bahamas.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Mans calls 911 after Burger King doesn't have lemonade
A man was charged with misusing 911 today for a midnight complaint that a Boynton Beach Burger King had run out of lemonade, police say.
Jean Fortune, 66, dialed 911 and told dispatchers he was "unhappy with his order" at the Burger King at 1521 W. Boynton Beach Blvd., according to an arrest report.
When a Boynton Beach police officer arrived, the cashier told him she had informed Fortune at the drive-thru that the store no longer served lemonade. He became angry when he picked up his order at the window and threatened to call police.
The cashier told him to "Go ahead."
The officer noted in his report that Fortune could not explain why he resorted to calling 911 for a "civil dilemma." He was issued a notice to appear in court.
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22-year-old man reports mother to police for torture
A Polish student reported his mother to police for psychological torture after she told him to take a bath and tidy his room.
Police rushed to rescue Lukasz Zapalowski 22, when he dialed 999 claiming to be a torture victim at the family home in Warsaw.
But when they got there his furious mother told police all she'd done was ask him to have a bath once a week, tidy his room and help with the rent.
Now the soap-shy student is facing more torment as detectives investigate him for wasting police time.
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Response to sex toy mystery
Residents in the rural area have renamed their street "Dildo Boulevard" after 30 sex toys were found lying in front of a house on Friday morning.
Robert Johns and Laurelle Bates discovered the mysterious toys as they left for work in the morning.
"It's a real mystery. We have no idea where they came from," Ms Bates said.
"I know they aren't new. They look used."
"Yeah, some of the bigger ones are gone," he said.
"There were all different kinds. Some were different colors. One was like a banana," he said.
"I think someone might have done it as a joke."
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Man will deliver sex toys when you need them
Anthony Mikrut got the idea for his business about 3 o'clock one morning, when he and a girlfriend were in search of some ... uh ... products to enhance their ... er ... special evening.
"We figured you can get pizza any time of night," he said. "Why can't you get [sex] toys?"
Thus was born The Kinky Llama, a purveyor of adult goods that promises one-hour delivery—by bicycle, no less — to most places in Chicago.
His West Town home office holds about 1,500 items, from videos to marital aids to specially designed furniture, and he tosses his wares into a bag or bike trailer when it's time for a delivery. So far, he said, all of his rush orders have come at night or in the early morning — and almost all have come from women.
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Escaped prisoner turns up in judge's trunk
A Michigan judge says he's learned a lesson about locking his car after a 16-year-old prisoner who escaped from a courthouse cell was found hiding in the vehicle's trunk.
The Macomb Daily reports the teen had vanished Friday after appearing in juvenile court in Mount Clemens on a probation violation.
Sheriff's deputies searched for about an hour until a security officer became suspicious when he saw a picture that was on the ground outside judge's car.
A deputy checked the car and found the boy in the trunk.
Macomb County Circuit Judge Peter Maceroni says the teen likely used a button inside the unlocked car to open the trunk.
The judge says that from now on he will lock the car when he's at the courthouse.
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Woman nabbed with bags of pot in bra, between legs
A 19-year-old woman faces misdemeanor charges after admitting she had marijuana stashed in her brassiere and in her "private area," according to an arrest affidavit released Friday.
Andrea Pena, of Lake Worth, was arrested Thursday on charges of possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after an officer saw "large amounts of smoke" wafting from the driver's side front window.
Pena was behind the wheel of the 1995 Mitsubishi and a 14-year-old and a 17-year-old also were in the vehicle, which was parked by a wooded lot.
Pena initially said she was doing nothing, then said she was smoking cigars and then admitted having a bag of pot in her bra, which police recovered.
Pena also noted a second bag was "in between her legs in her private area," the report states.
An officer pulled a bag that was tucked in her front pants area.
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A man was charged with misusing 911 today for a midnight complaint that a Boynton Beach Burger King had run out of lemonade, police say.
Jean Fortune, 66, dialed 911 and told dispatchers he was "unhappy with his order" at the Burger King at 1521 W. Boynton Beach Blvd., according to an arrest report.
When a Boynton Beach police officer arrived, the cashier told him she had informed Fortune at the drive-thru that the store no longer served lemonade. He became angry when he picked up his order at the window and threatened to call police.
The cashier told him to "Go ahead."
The officer noted in his report that Fortune could not explain why he resorted to calling 911 for a "civil dilemma." He was issued a notice to appear in court.
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22-year-old man reports mother to police for torture
A Polish student reported his mother to police for psychological torture after she told him to take a bath and tidy his room.
Police rushed to rescue Lukasz Zapalowski 22, when he dialed 999 claiming to be a torture victim at the family home in Warsaw.
But when they got there his furious mother told police all she'd done was ask him to have a bath once a week, tidy his room and help with the rent.
Now the soap-shy student is facing more torment as detectives investigate him for wasting police time.
.
Response to sex toy mystery
Residents in the rural area have renamed their street "Dildo Boulevard" after 30 sex toys were found lying in front of a house on Friday morning.
Robert Johns and Laurelle Bates discovered the mysterious toys as they left for work in the morning.
"It's a real mystery. We have no idea where they came from," Ms Bates said.
"I know they aren't new. They look used."
"Yeah, some of the bigger ones are gone," he said.
"There were all different kinds. Some were different colors. One was like a banana," he said.
"I think someone might have done it as a joke."
.
Man will deliver sex toys when you need them
Anthony Mikrut got the idea for his business about 3 o'clock one morning, when he and a girlfriend were in search of some ... uh ... products to enhance their ... er ... special evening.
"We figured you can get pizza any time of night," he said. "Why can't you get [sex] toys?"
Thus was born The Kinky Llama, a purveyor of adult goods that promises one-hour delivery—by bicycle, no less — to most places in Chicago.
His West Town home office holds about 1,500 items, from videos to marital aids to specially designed furniture, and he tosses his wares into a bag or bike trailer when it's time for a delivery. So far, he said, all of his rush orders have come at night or in the early morning — and almost all have come from women.
VIDEO
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Escaped prisoner turns up in judge's trunk
A Michigan judge says he's learned a lesson about locking his car after a 16-year-old prisoner who escaped from a courthouse cell was found hiding in the vehicle's trunk.
The Macomb Daily reports the teen had vanished Friday after appearing in juvenile court in Mount Clemens on a probation violation.
Sheriff's deputies searched for about an hour until a security officer became suspicious when he saw a picture that was on the ground outside judge's car.
A deputy checked the car and found the boy in the trunk.
Macomb County Circuit Judge Peter Maceroni says the teen likely used a button inside the unlocked car to open the trunk.
The judge says that from now on he will lock the car when he's at the courthouse.
.
Woman nabbed with bags of pot in bra, between legs
A 19-year-old woman faces misdemeanor charges after admitting she had marijuana stashed in her brassiere and in her "private area," according to an arrest affidavit released Friday.
Andrea Pena, of Lake Worth, was arrested Thursday on charges of possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and contributing to the delinquency of a minor after an officer saw "large amounts of smoke" wafting from the driver's side front window.
Pena was behind the wheel of the 1995 Mitsubishi and a 14-year-old and a 17-year-old also were in the vehicle, which was parked by a wooded lot.
Pena initially said she was doing nothing, then said she was smoking cigars and then admitted having a bag of pot in her bra, which police recovered.
Pena also noted a second bag was "in between her legs in her private area," the report states.
An officer pulled a bag that was tucked in her front pants area.
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