In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.
"We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today," Judge William Murphy wrote in November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, "but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion."
"Technically," he added, "any time a person engages in sexual penetration in an adulterous relationship, he or she is guilty of CSC I," the most serious sexual assault charge in Michigan's criminal code
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Michigan is only blue because of the blacks in Detroit and the Union hacks who vote dem to get their cut. It is actually a fairly conservative state socially wrt both former mentioned groups. (Minus Ann Arbor)
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So having sex out of wedlock between two consenting adults has the same penalty as rape or pedaphilia? Perhaps some newsmen should be asking the legistlature if they read their own laws.
It started with client who wouldn't pay a prostitute and ended in a tractor rampage, two damaged cars and criminal convictions. New Zealand's Timaru District Court has heard how a prostitute tried to get her own back on Christopher Malcolm Duane Muir, a farmhand on the country's South Island, who didn't pay after using her services.
The Dominion Post reports the prostitute and three friends visited Muir on a farm to try to recover the money. Muir could not pay the women, who smashed his car windows and dented a door using a bat, causing about $NZ1400 ($A1240) damage, the court heard.
Muir then drove a tractor at the women's car while they were in it. A front loader on the tractor smashed the car's windscreen, shattering glass on Jacinta Kathleen Borrie, a front seat passenger. Muir tried to stop the car before it was driven away and struck a door of the vehicle with the tractor.
Muir pleaded guilty to dangerous driving of a tractor, five counts of unlawful taking, three of burglary, and incurring debt by deception. He will be sentenced on February 22. Borrie has pleaded guilty to intentionally damaging Muir's car and will reappear for sentencing on January 29.
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The words "sex" and "tractor" should not appear in the same sentence. ("Dangerous Driving of a Tractor"? They've got a law specifically about farm machinery?)
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Great headline. The guy got off easy. They could've hired Clint Eastwood to kill him.
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Did the whores not get in trouble for trashing his car?
Please, no one say they got off on that. I'm in no mood for bad humor.
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Anonymous5089, Amen!
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Oh, Jerry Springer paid his prostitute... but with a signed personal check. He was a good and popular mayor looking toward moving up to the state capitol in the future, until he handed over that check. We were here at the time and I remember the uproar -- Cincinnatians tend to be a strait-laced bunch on such matters.
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She said she was in great pain before she went home. That's not a symptom of water intoxication, as far as I know. I'd be curious if the autopsy found something like a burst bladder or kidney damage.
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Burst bladder & most kinds of kidney damage will not kill someone as quick as she died. Brain swelling, a known complication of water intoxication, could well cause a severe headache prior to loss of consciousness. Latest news tonight: 10 employees of the radio station involved in this stunt have been fired.
A transsexual Norwegian wanted two passports, one as a man and one as a woman, but his request was rejected. The Norwegian, a 63-year-old crime fiction writer, applied to state officials in charge of enforcing sexual equality and anti-discrimination measures. The writer's current passport only shows him as a man, which isn't always how he appears as he undergoes treatment.
Both the Ministry of Justice and the state police agency, which issues passports in Norway, contended, though, that current regulations don't allow issuance of two passports to the same person. "A basic assumption in the issuance of a passport is that it shall apply to one identity, and that this shall be simple to control," Magnar Aukrust of the justice ministry told Aftenposten.no.
The 63-year-old, however, claims it's a "practical problem... which has meant that I have decided against making some trips."
A letter from Norways National Hospital that confirms the Norwegian is under treatment for transsexuality has made it easier for him to travel in Europe. He hesitates, though, to travel outside Europe.
Orville Redenbacher, the popcorn icon who died more than a decade ago, will digitally rise from the dead during Monday's Golden Globe Awards. In a provocative ad whose wizardry will make waves from Madison Avenue to Hollywood a dead-ringer for Redenbacher pitches popcorn while jiving to his MP3 player.
This ad is a big step beyond the bevy of spots in recent years that have featured dead celebrities by using real film clips inserted into other contexts, such as Fred Astaire dancing with a Dirt Devil vacuum or Audrey Hepburn in a Gap ad.
It's the first time a dead spokesman has been re-created as a walking, talking huckster that can be made to say or do anything. Aieeee! It's a popcorn zombie! Flee for your wretched lives!
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Um, it's not really that convincing. At least not in the still pic in that story.
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Nobody tell Raul Castro about this.
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I'm not sure he was all that effective a pitchman anyway. Time to come up with a new idea.
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Still, this is a milestone on the way to the day when there will be no more real-life dunderhead lefty whacko hollywood actors - only digitally created characters who never say or do anything to alienate any segment of the marketplace and who don't cost $20 mil a flick. The studio heads are rubbing their hands together...
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Jeez, they made him look even dorkier now then he did then...
"Bubbe" Maryasha Garelik, who lived through the entire 20th century, surviving the pogroms of czarist Russia, Soviet anti-Semitism and Nazi terror and then dispensing her wisdom to thousands of Lubavitch Jews, has died. She was 106.
She died Wednesday night in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood and was buried Thursday at the Old Montefiore Cemetery near the grave of the ultra Orthodox sect's revered "rebbe," Rabbi Menachem Schneerson. "She was small in size - less than 5 feet tall - but a giant in stature," Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky said.
For decades, the bubbe (grandmother in Yiddish) dispensed wisdom to thousands in her Brooklyn neighborhood who came seeking her guidance. Her advice came from decades of trial by fire.
According to a Lubavitch biography of Bubbe Maryasha, her father was killed in a pogrom, or organized massacre, in Czarist Russia when she was 5, and her grandparents, with whom she and her mother lived, were subsequently executed.
EUROPEAN men are flocking to Bulgaria to buy "breast-boosting beer" after the country's accession to the EU has meant that customs duties on the tipple have been abolished.
The millet-based ale called Boza allegedly makes women's breasts bigger, but was previously expensive.
Now thousands of tourists are travelling to the Bulgarian border town of Ruse to buy Boza for their wives and partners.
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Umm, Cyber, the article says the men are buying it for "their wives and partners". Man, imagine if they could get shipments over here to local colleges : every fraternity and sorority would be having keggers with the stuff.
Colorado Republican Sen. Wayne Allard will not run for a third term in 2008, he announced Monday at a press conference in the state capital of Denver. The 63-year-old Allard, whose retirement had long been the subject of speculation in national and state political circles, told Congressional Quarterly reporter Daphne Retter last Thursday that he had made a decision and would be unveiling it soon.
Allard pledged when he first ran for the Senate in 1996 that he would serve no more than two terms which he cited in his retirement announcement Monday. The people of Colorado placed their trust in me based on a promise I made to them and I am honoring that promise. In an age when promises are cast away as quickly as yesterdays newspaper, I believe a promise made should be a promise kept, Allard said, according to an Associated Press report.
Allard, a veterinarian, began his political career with a state Senate win in 1982. After eight years in the legislature, he won a U.S. House seat in 1990 and serve for three terms. Allard then twice defeated Democratic lawyer Tom Strickland for the Senate.
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PHOENIX (AP) -- The FBI said Monday it was investigating the shooting death of an illegal alien a Mexican immigrant by a U.S. Border Patrol agent that had been criticized by Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico, was killed Friday in a confrontation with the unidentified agent north of the U.S.-Mexico border between Bisbee and Douglas.
On Sunday, Calderon expressed his "most energetic protest" against the shooting. Sounds like Calderon is a graduate of The Sharpton-Nifong School of Advanced Conclusion-Jumping.
A group of seven people were crossing the desert and the agent took six of them into custody without incident, authorities said. But the agent and Dominguez-Rivera began fighting, authorities said. The agent, who believed his life was in danger, shot and killed the man, the Border Patrol said previously. An autopsy was scheduled Wednesday. What says you, Dr. Quincy? Well Sam, and remember this is only preliminary, but I think these unusual holes may have contributed to this young mans untimely death.
The agent was put on paid administrative leave pending the investigation. FBI spokeswoman Deborah McCarley and Gustavo Soto, a spokesman with the U.S. Border Patrol Tucson sector, both declined Monday to provide details of the case.
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I nominate Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, 22, late of Puebla, Mexico, for a 2007 Darwin award, for the action of fighting with an armed officer.
Because of the lack of immagination leading to his death, I feel he is a perfect candidate for the award.
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It sounds like Presidente Calderon is of the "My countryman, right or wrong" school of diplomacy. I vote the unidentified Border Patrol agent be investigated properly, then be promoted for his effective action when in danger.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A transsexual Norwegian wanted two passports, one as a man and one as a woman, but his request was rejected. The Norwegian, a 63-year-old crime fiction writer, applied to state officials in charge of enforcing sexual equality and anti-discrimination measures. The writer's current passport only shows him as a man, which isn't always how he appears as he undergoes treatment.
Orville Redenbacher, the popcorn icon who died more than a decade ago, will digitally rise from the dead during Monday's Golden Globe Awards. In a provocative ad whose wizardry will make waves from Madison Avenue to Hollywood a dead-ringer for Redenbacher pitches popcorn while jiving to his MP3 player.
PHOENIX (AP) -- The FBI said Monday it was investigating the shooting death of 
