Motorists dupe police, blame dead guy to avoid speeding fines
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — More than 200 Australian motorists have avoided parking and speeding fines by blaming either a dead man or an interstate resident for their errors in what police said Saturday may be a widespread fraud. Under New South Wales state law, if a car owner signs a sworn statement that they were not driving the vehicle when an offense was committed, they can avoid paying speed camera fines, which arrive by mail, and parking tickets left under windshield wipers.
Ok I can understand allowing the signing of a sworn statement but it takes them 3 years to actually check up on the people named in the statement itself? I mean.. its your car.. it was speeding.. so either it was you or someone you know.. 3 years? They wait 3 years??
Sheesh
Officials: Students can use ‘text speak’ on tests
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s high school students will be able to use “text-speak” — the mobile phone text message language beloved of teenagers — in national exams this year, officials said. Text-speak, a second language for thousands of teens, uses abbreviated words and phrases such as “txt” for “text”, “lol” for “laughing out loud” or “lots of love,” and “CU” for “see you.”
Do they think this helps the students some how? As a small business owner I can tell you if someone fills out their application in text-speak they will not be invited for an interview. It is hard enough finding people who can speak and write properly without letting schools lower the standards!
BANGKOK (AFP) — A Thai zoo will show its star residents, a pair of young giant pandas, the equivalent of animal porn videos to teach the famously sexually-inactive animals how to mate, an official said Tuesday
My only question is : Does this porn have Paris Hilton in it? Who knows maybe it could become a whole new adult DVD category.
Voodoo practitioner tries to jinx Bush
BOGOR, Indonesia – A renowned black magic practitioner performed a voodoo ritual Thursday to jinx President George W. Bush and his entourage while he was on a brief visit to Indonesia. Ki Gendeng Pamungkas slit the throat of a goat, a small snake and stabbed a black crow in the chest, stirred their blood with spice and broccoli before drank the “potion” and smeared some on his face.
Was it voodoo or was the man just hungry?? I mean it is Indonesia after all lol
Law Suit: Burger King served pot burgers to cops
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) — Two police officers sued Burger King Corp., claiming they were served hamburgers that had been sprinkled with marijuana.The lawsuit says Mark Landavazo and Henry Gabaldon, officers for the Isleta Pueblo tribal police, were in uniform and riding in a marked patrol car when they bought meals at the drive-through lane October 8 of a Burger King restaurant in Los Lunas, New Mexico.
The officers ate about half of their burgers before discovering marijuana on the meat, the lawsuit said. They used a field test kit to confirm the substance was pot, then went to a hospital for medical evaluations.
“The idea that these hoodlums would put marijuana into a hamburger and therefore attempt to impair law enforcement officers trying to do their jobs is outrageous.” Three Burger King employees were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and aggravated battery on an officer, a felony. They later were indicted.
Ok as funny as this is.. The last quote is the most important part of this. I hope they throw the book at the kids who did this. This could easily have ended up with the cops having an accident or been involved in something and while being impaired without realizing it could have resulted in deadly consequences for someone or themselves.
Doctor ordered to pay for unwanted baby
BERLIN (Reuters) – A court ruling which ordered a gynecologist to pay child support for up to 18 years as compensation for botching a contraceptive implant was condemned by the German media as scandalous on Wednesday. The Karlsruhe-based federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the doctor must pay his former patient, now a mother of a three-year-old boy, 600 euros ($769) a month because she became pregnant after he implanted her with a contraceptive device. “A child as a case for damages — this perverse idea has now been confirmed by one of Germany’s highest courts,” conservative Die Welt daily newspaper wrote in an editorial on Wednesday.
Anyone want to guess how long it will take for similar legal actions to start being brought in the US? I can already see the lawyers here drooling over this.
KFC targets extraterrestrials with huge logo
NEW YORK (Reuters) – From space, extraterrestrials and astronauts can look back to earth and see The Great Wall of China — and KFC’s Colonel Sanders. The KFC Corp. on Tuesday launched a rebranding campaign with an 87,500 square-foot image of Colonel Sanders in the Nevada desert which the company says makes Kentucky Fried Chicken the world’s first brand visible from space.
Ok Hopefully I am not the only person who actually thinks that if the extraterrestrials happen to pass our planet and see a big old white haired man… they will probably keep on trucking past us as fast as their space engines will carry them?
Man accidentally shoots himself in groin
WICHITA, Kan. – A botched kidnapping ended with one of the assailants shooting himself in the groin, Wichita police said. The man had just stuck the gun back into his waistband when it fired, shooting him in the left testicle.
Ok now thats some funny shit!
Is there no end to this womans complete stupidity??
Interesting site on the origin of the peace symbol for those who know how to draw it..
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/peace.html
Police halt strip show at men’s club
MONONA, Wis. – No more bare bodies for the old boys. Police on Monday stripped the local chapter of the International Order of Old Bastards of the exotic dancers who have performed at their meetings for decades. “This is for elderly people who just want to have a good time with their peers,” Story, a 60-year-old retired engineer and tavern owner, told the Wisconsin State Journal for Wednesday’s editions.
Poor guys.. can’t even get an eyeful in their twilight years!