A Polish couple were pulled apart and arrested by police for having sex on a pavement alongside a busy road in broad daylight.
Pictures of the pair were caught on a shopping centre's CCTV cameras and have been reproduced in local newspapers.
Kamila Steranovska and Tomasz Mienkowicz, both 19, stripped off and started romping in front of astonished passers-by in the middle of the day in the Praga district of the capital Warsaw.
A police spokesman said: "They were so engrossed in their act that when we tried to arrest them they told us to get lost and leave them to finish what they were doing.
"They said they just couldn't help themselves."
Police released the pair without charge after no-one complained. Police may now have to answer a wrongful arrest charge from the couple.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman set fire to her ex-husband's penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka, Moscow police said on Wednesday. Like any self-respecting man would do.
Asked if the man would make a full recovery, a police spokeswoman said it was "difficult to predict".
The attack climaxed three years of acrimonious enforced co-habitation. The couple divorced three years ago but continued to share a small flat, something common in Russia where property costs are very high.
"It was monstrously painful," the wounded ex-husband told Tvoi Den newspaper. "I was burning like a torch. I don't know what I did to deserve this."
DES MOINES, Iowa - A woman who police say assaulted people with a hammer while she was naked was arrested on a variety of charges, including assault and obstruction of emergency communications.
Satin Delfrano, 32, of Des Moines was arrested on Sunday after police were called to a complaint of a woman armed with a hammer assaulting three other women.
Officers went to an upstairs bedroom and found Delfrano. They allowed her to get dressed and then handcuffed her and led her outside.
Delfrano tried to walk away on her knees and kicked an officer in the leg, injuring the officer, police said.
Delfrano also was charged with assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.
VILNIUS, Aug 21, BNS A member of Lithuanias elite VIP Protection Service has been dismissed after an incident worthy of Steven Segal movie Under Siege.
Jonas Paulikas, a major in the service was sacked after drawing his gun and shooting at the chef in a Vilnius restaurant. He will no longer work for us. We will not give further comment, but it has been determined that the officer downgraded the name of an officer [equivalent to bringing the service into disrepute] and according to the statute, the penalty for that is dismissal," Rymantas Mockevicius, the acting head of the Service, told BNS.
Paulikas, who was assigned as a bodyguard to former president Algirdas Brazauskas, was one of the longest-serving officers in the VIP Protection Service, having worked there since 1991.
Last week, after an argument with staff at a Vilnius restuarant, Paulikas pulled out his Sig Sauer gun and fired up to seven rounds at the chef, who was reported to be running around the kitchen trying to dodge the bullets. No-one was injured.
The officer was arrested and discovered to be severely intoxicated. What he ordered from the menu to provoke such an extreme reaction is not recorded.
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Paulikas pulled out his Sig Sauer gun and fired up to seven rounds at the chef, who was reported to be running around the kitchen trying to dodge the bullets. No-one was injured.
So, not only this guy is an un-professional alcoholic, but he's a bad shot as well!
A drunk staggering home from a beer festival took a short cut through a zoo's bear cage - and was found half-eaten next day. Amazingly, Branko Jovanovic, 22, was still alive when zoo staff discovered him - despite having a leg torn off and half his face chewed away. But he died later on his way to hospital in Belgrade, Serbia, after keepers battled to prise him from the jaws of the Tibetan black bears. The man was found naked, with his clothes lying intact inside the cage. Some how, I think there's more to this story, and I really don't want to know.
Zoo director Vuk Bojovic said: "I will never forget what I saw. The bears had taken him to a corner to eat him, and torn off his leg and most of his face, but he was still alive. "The bears were really aggressive - they obviously regarded him as food and fought to hang on to their meal. It took ages to get them away from him." Drunks, the other white meat
Ghoulish visitors have made the two bears - Masha and Misha - an overnight hit with double the usual number of people coming to see them. Officials now plan to make it harder to get into the bear enclosure - even though the wall Jovanovic climbed was 18ft high.
And they also hit out at the beer festival organisers. Bojovic said: "We had warned the organisers to stage it further away. "We have had all sorts of problems from revellers although we did not think anyone would be stupid enough to enter the cage. Don't go to many beer fests, do you?
"The area where the beer festival takes place is up on a hill while the zoo is downhill, and the bears' cage has no roof so the drinkers were always throwing things in there. "Keepers have found beer cans, mobile phones and even used condoms in the cage. "We warned the organisers that they needed to control their guests better. "We want it moved to a new location far from the zoo next year."
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey. Norway is concerned that Al Gore its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting.
Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway's technical university, said a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year. Much like cows, bacteria in Hillary's a moose's stomach create methane gas which is considered even more destructive to the environment than carbon gas. Cows pose the same problem.
Norway has some 120,000 meese moose but an estimated 35,000 are expected to be killed in this year's moose hunting season, which starts on September 25, Norwegian newspaper VG reported. Are there any carbon credits to be claimed here?
Typical clueless MSM reporting on global warming. A human emits about a kilo a day of CO2 by breathing. A moose is about 7 times the size of a man. So a moose will emit more than 2,000 kilos of CO2 a year just by breathing.
(ANSAmed)- A 19-year-old Saudi Arabian woman, Myriam, has undergone a successful s*ex-change operation in Jeddah and now, with her new name of Khaled, aspires for just one thing: a driving licence. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are banned from driving, added Okaz daily, reporting the news today. "The first idea that came to my mind a few hours before the operation, was to have a driving licence," Myriam/Khaled told the newspaper, adding she was encouraged by her family to have the operation. S*ex change operations are rare in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia. "I entered (the hospital) with the abaya (traditional women's garment) and I came out with thub, ghotra and ogal, the white tunic and hat worn by men," Myriam/Khaled said.
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"I entered (the hospital) with the abaya (traditional women's garment) and I came out with thub, ghotra and ogal, meat and two veg the white tunic and hat worn by men," Myriam/Khaled said.
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WOW, last week is was cross-dressing Pakistanis who hate the US, and now Saudi wimmins wanting a driver's license? What has this Muslim world come to?
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It has emerged that two RAF jets have intercepted a Russian bomber over the north Atlantic. Typhoon interceptors shadowed a Russian Tupolev-95 "Bear" reconnaissance aircraft last Friday. It is the first time the £60m Eurofighter has been scrambled on a genuine alert since it took over defence of Britain's airspace in June.
The MoD said in a statement: "RAF Typhoons from Numbers 3(F) and XI Squadrons launched to shadow a Russian Bear-H aircraft over the North Atlantic Ocean on Friday 17 August 2007."
The £67 million fighter jets were officially put on active standby last month. A dozen Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft of 3 (Fighter) Squadron are now on round-the-clock active duty at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire. Tornado F3 jets based at RAF Leuchars in Scotland will share the same role over the northern UK airspace for some five to six months yet before they too are replaced.
It will be at least another year before the controversial fighter jet is ready for air-to-ground combat operations, which could see squadrons deployed to Afghanistan, RAF chiefs said last month.
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RAF 3rd generation fighters intercept rickety old 40s era russkie prop aeroplane...
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Looks like Pootie has had to resort to nationalism to hold his frail state together. I'll bet scrambling the interceptor only plays into his plans for the excuses required to build up his military.
England needs Russia's energy, so they are afraid to get too aggressive.
I would think ignoring these things would work best. He wouldn't dare do anything anyway, so why waste the time and energy for what amounts to a show? If one of these pathetic dinosaurs crashes on British soil without an escort then Russia would have a lot of explaining to do and it would probably take the wind out of Pootie's sails.
It'd be a shame if some of those flying barns just crashed into the Atlantic and disappeared.
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Nope. Bears are turboprop not piston based. They are much faster than piston-based WWII fighters like Cosrasirs or Mustangs and only lightly slower than B52s.
Also Cold War jet interceptors aprticularly eth Jaguar found that Bears could accelarate better than them so it was not that easy to keep them shadowed.
Also the Bear is much newer than late Fourty's. I think it entered service in the in the late 60s after the failure of a project of a jet bomber with a range in the same order than the one of the B52.
The threat of the Bear, who was able to sink a ship with a single hit of the huge missile(s) he carried compelled the Navy to adopt a fighter carrying a very lon,g range, wide angle radar couple with the super long range Phoenix missile. This was the F14
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Also Cold War jet interceptors aprticularly eth Jaguar found that Bears could accelarate better than them so it was not that easy to keep them shadowed.
Maybe this is true, but I have a hard time believing a glorified propeller-driven plane with a top speed in the 500mph range could accelerate faster than a jet plane that can go almost 1000mph. Perhaps this is true if the Bear didn't have any kind of load.
I checked wiki and the bears seem to have their roots in '40s technology, and the turboprops themselves seem to have their roots in '50s technology.
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Bears are 1950s era turboprops, but then so are C-130s. The Bear was developed because the Soviet jet engines at the time were unable to push a heavy bomber to range with a good load. The dual contra-rotating props on each engine develop the needed power and give a good range to the plane. If the Russians bother to update the avionics, the Bear is still a good plane to have and a threat to maritime shipping.
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Also, for long range at moderate speeds over open oceans, turbo-props are an acceptable approach. The P-3 Orion is a turbo-prop and it has been patrolling the oceans since 1962. That is the big strength of the Bear for the Russians : it has long legs and can carry some pretty devastating anti-shipping missiles. Plus, it is already built and doesn't eat fuel like a standard jet bomber.
Jet engines take more time than piston or turboprop ones to go from low to high power ( a feature wo allowed Mustangs, Tempests and Spitfires to hold their own against German jets) and that can allows the Bear to get some lead and perhaps hide in cloud. Also third genaration fighters were not optimized for high cruise speed and are able of crossing the sound barrier only when using fuel thirsty afteburners. In fact their predecessors were better at supersonic sustained flight than them (look at the charts to be convinced). It could be that the Jaguar had a particulrly poor cruise speed for a jet. Also don't forget that the mission is not to catch with teh Bear and down it but to shadow it for as long as possible thus the jet needs to avooid going beyond its econmy speed. I don't think it was unrelated that the F14, the primary Bear hunter, was the westen fighter who could stay longer at transonic or near transonic speeds (at these speeds the F14's wing was at prcatical effects a delta).
With Russia becoming agressive agsin the wisdom of not replacing the F14 can be questionned. The Hornet be it in noraml or Super version does not fill Tomcat's niche: high cuise speed and endurance, ability to engage the traget at very long distances well before it can close with the carriers.
Jet fighters need to use afterburners for crossing the sound barrier and these will burn the plane's fuel load very quickly. (I don't think it is unrelated that US Navy's "anti-bear" plane is at parcatical effedcts when its wings are positionned for high speed a delta plane and this uses muvch less fuel
Michael Jordan coming out of retirement sounds neat, but the reality on the playing field doesn't measure up to some Hollyweird dream story. Give it a rest. Your family needs clothes, shoes, food on the table, and a roof over their heads. Save the need for 'flash' for another day and time.
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Air to air missile accelerates faster than turboprop or jet...
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Before the Tomcats came along, the CV's launched the Phantoms to escort any approaching Bears. Agree with JFM's assessment of the Hornet; a one size fits most is at best a compromise, and not excellent at anything. Short legs, or light ordnance load, one or the other because you cannot hang missles on pylons holding drop tanks. And the loss of the carrier based tanker platforms ( think KA-6D and to a lesser extent, the KS-3A experiment) for deep penetration means that you give up long time surveillance of the incoming bad guys. Yes the Super Lawn Dart can carry a buddy store, but it reminds me of the old joke about mopeds and fat chicks (no I do not know why).....
I do not expect the CV version of the JSF to do any better in the Bear escort role either.
Missing from this is any reference to the LTV A-7E, the Corsair II; single engine light attack, it was also pressed into Bear escort duty from time to time. Missles and guns and fairly long legs.
What I see is the gradual dismantling of Naval Air Pwer and the USAF getting it all. planes and CVs are not getting any cheaper; and with the push to UAVs, expect the Fly-Boys to grap everything with wings......
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Thanks, JFM. Do you think all this is still true if the Bear is hauling some kind of weapons load that we care about?
Practically speaking, I think the Bears would get one good attack, and after that they would all be big, slow, shiny flying targets/deathtraps. All the talk of endurance, acceleration, hiding in the clouds, fuel efficiency, etc. would mean nothing to a Jaguar, JSF, or just about any plane with radar that is attacking a Bear instead of just "escorting" it with radar turned off.
Anyone know if Bears have been retrofitted with some kind of defensive capability? Seems to me they have guns, but I don't know how useful they would be (except at ranges far closer than they would be attacked from).
Practically speking I have seen the video where a single missile from the Bear virtually desistnegrated what looked like a destroyer or bigger ship. A carrier could survive (perhaps) but would be out of action for months.
After that it doesn't matter if the Bear is downed (except to her crew). That is why the Navy wanted so badly an interceptor able to down them from sixty miles or so.
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BEARS are still good as standoff platforms for ALCM's, ASW,+ anti-SAT. However, GMD-TMD > as wid Russ LR missles, armed/arming Russian bombers can be detected while still readying for takeoff on their airfields, which in turn gives US-Allied interceptors more time to catch-and-destroy. The Russians know GMD will potens nullify any of their military advantage(s) > 'TIS ONE REASON WHY THEY ARE PO'ed/BELLIGERENT RIGHT NOW, AND WHY FOR "WAR AGZ USA NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED" circa 2018 or after.
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I think the trend will be towards creating a air-to-air UAV units to each carrier task force for CAP purposes. Ground-launched aircraft with 500-600 mph cruising speed and 35-48 hour loiter time.
Global Hawk has a published speed of 400mph now. With a slightly more powerful engine, and armed with the appropriate radar system and AIM-120Ds, it could escort a Bear from the moment it left Soviet Russian-Cuban-Venezuelan airspace to wherever the Bear lands.
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Give me an F-35C over the F-14 for the interceptor role any time. It carries more fuel (19K lbs vs 16K), longer ranged (600+nm vs 500nm combat radius), better radar, sensors, comms, and missiles, more maneuverable, possibly supercruise, and won't be hogging maintenance bays all day. And did I mention stealth? Let the F-14 enjoy its well earned retirement.
As for the F-18E/F. Want more range? Build it with advanced versions F-414 engines and get 20% more power (and a better fighter) as a bonus.
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I think the Bears would get one good attack
They only need one good attack. Unlike these patrol missions where they fly around in onesies and twosies, a strike against a carrier would involve a swarm of Bears.
Worst case, they appear suddenly out at the edge of your radar coverage. At 250-300 miles out, they launch of shitstorm of missiles and turn for home. Maybe your Hornets have the legs to catch them if you have been paying attention; maybe not. Right now you have other worries. Missiles, lots of them, inbound at supersonic speeds. Life will be very exciting soon.
Police were called to the Australian National University in Canberra last week after the student continued to disrupt lectures - despite repeated warnings from staff.
Reform Jew? Hindu? Buddhist? Baptist? Mormon?
An internal email reveals the student had not responded to repeated orders to stop the behaviour. "The student ... has been interrupting classes to make statements about his religious convictions," ANU College of Law dean Michael Coper wrote in the email. "It has been pointed out to him, by a number of colleagues over a considerable period of time, that, while we respect his religious beliefs, there are appropriate and inappropriate ways of expressing them, and that to disrupt class is inappropriate."
The email does not reveal the student's religion but it does link his comments to current national security concerns. He is understood to be a Muslim.
Oh I never would have guessed!
"We have no evidence that (the student) is likely to pose any physical threat to others yet, but I can understand why you might be concerned given the prominence accorded to security issues in today's world," the email says.
Not to mention his being a general pain in the ass disrupting classes.
"He has now been excluded, as a result of action both by the university and the police, for a period of 28 days pending misconduct proceedings." Police said officers escorted the student from campus but he was not arrested.
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"It has been pointed out to him, by a number of colleagues over a considerable period of time, that, while we respect his religious beliefs, there are appropriate and inappropriate ways of expressing them, and that to disrupt class is inappropriate."
And that right there is the problem. If this lunatic had been advocating a cult founded by a paedophile and whose rewards include rape in this world and rape in the next no professor would "respect" his views and expect to keep his job. Unless, of course, this cult was dressed up as a religion and had a habit of beheading its opponents.
GUWAHATI: An Indian soldier who died in a Himalayan plane crash 39 years ago was cremated on Tuesday after his glacier-entombed corpse was recovered by a military expedition team.
Mahendra Nath Phukon was among 102 army and air force personnel who died when their AN-12 aircraft went down on a flight to the Kashmir outpost of Leh on February 7, 1968. There were no survivors of the crash in the wilds near the 6,264-metre high Chandrabhaga mountain.
The wreckage was first sighted only in July 2003, buried deep inside a glacier. Since then the army has launched recovery expeditions every summer. On August 2, the army recovered three bodies from the glacier, one of them was Phukon -- still in uniform and carrying his identity card. He was a 20-year-old craftsman with the electrical mechanical engineers corps.
It has been a long wait for Phukon's family in Deodhai village, Sivasagar district, about 360 kilometres east of Guwahati. His body was carried in a coffin draped with the Indian flag to his village with full military honours on Monday. Thousands of people turned out for the funeral on Tuesday to pay their last respects.
"It was like a dream -- we feel happy that we were able to perform the last rites even after 40 long years and sad as it was, a tearful reunion for the family," Mahendra's elder brother Tuben said.
Tuben and his brother Durganath have both retired from the army and their parents long since died. "I think it's more the mystery that everyone is intrigued by -- the fact that here's this plane that crashed more than 39 years ago, and there's still somebody up there in fine fettle," Durganath said.
The last time Mahendra came home was to attend Tuben's marriage in 1967. "Unfortunately we didn't even have his photographs to show our children -- at least now they got a chance to see him," Tuben said.
This was the second time the family had performed Mahendra's funeral. "After coming to know about the crash we waited for some days and later performed a symbolic funeral little knowing the corpse would arrive 40 years later," said Jiten, the oldest of the four brothers, said.
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Eleven men convicted of crimes ranging from kidnapping and murder to rape and planting bombs were hanged in Baghdad on Tuesday, the Iraqi prime ministers office said.These people were convicted by the Iraqi judicial process, and a verdict of execution was certified by the appeals chamber under due process, a statement said.
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and may allan have mercy on their rotten dogman souls...
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may a stray dog piss on them after they're cut down.
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May all the farm animals they have molested take a dump on them as they lay in their trench.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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A Polish couple were pulled apart and arrested by police for having sex on a pavement alongside a busy road in broad daylight.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman set fire to her ex-husband's penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka, Moscow police said on Wednesday. 
DES MOINES, Iowa - A woman who police say assaulted people with a hammer while she was naked was arrested on a variety of charges, including assault and obstruction of emergency communications. 
A drunk staggering home from a beer festival took a short cut through a zoo's bear cage - and was found half-eaten next day. Amazingly, Branko Jovanovic, 22, was still alive when zoo staff discovered him - despite having a leg torn off and half his face chewed away. But he died later on his way to hospital in Belgrade, Serbia, after keepers battled to prise him from the jaws of the Tibetan black bears. 
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey. Norway is concerned that 
Eleven men convicted of crimes ranging from kidnapping and murder to rape and planting bombs were hanged in Baghdad on Tuesday, the Iraqi prime ministers office said.These people were convicted by the Iraqi judicial process, and a verdict of execution was certified by the appeals chamber under due process, a statement said.
