In further news of dismembered body parts in South Africa, ... Where else?
... a man was arrested for carrying the severed head of his grandmother in his luggage.
He wasn't immediately arrested for that particular element of his crime. When he was orignally detained on a bus by the police, the first thing they found was a human finger, in his pocket (he was arrested after a tip-off). It was only after the finger was discovered that the man - by this time held at a police station - mentioned that his luggage was still on the bus.
There ensued a fun chase as the police tried to catch up with the bus. When they finally managed to recover the luggage, inside it they found the man's grandmother's head, along with a couple of arms. A headless body was found in the man's village. 'It is alleged the man murdered his 85-year-old grandmother on Friday by cutting her throat like a goat in a village near in Butterworth,' said police spokesman Captain Jackson Manatha.
This incident is not believed to be connected to the disembodied penis found in another part of South Africa on Friday, because it is unlikely that the man's grandmother had a penis. You gotta love british newspapers. Masters of finesse and understatement.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian carpenter who stole diamonds worth more than a million dollars from a jewelers was arrested in a dance bar after he splurged to ensure the band play one song repeatedly, alerting a police informer, reports said.
Divesh Borse decided to let his hair down in Mumbai after selling part of his haul, the Sunday Times newspaper said. During two evenings at the bar he spent hundreds of dollars as he requested the Bollywood song "Humko Deewana Kar Gaye" (He Made Me Crazy) by nasally balladeer Himesh Reshammiya be played over and over again.
But when a drunk Borse insisted on the song for a third straight evening others in the bar protested, the Times said. To try and get his way he started showering 1,000 rupee notes on dancers, but hadn't counted on the presence of a police informer, who alerted his handlers.
Borse was arrested carrying diamonds, which he had stolen while carrying out work at the store, worth 3 million rupees ($67,110).
DEFYING police warnings, a Dutch group is set to roll the world's biggest joint, sending the previous record for a marijuana cigarette up in smoke. The world's largest joint will be a 500g, metre-long monstrosity, rolled with cigarette paper and easily dwarfing the previous 100g winner, ANP news agency reported overnight. To beat the record, it must be made entirely of marijuana with no tobacco mix.
"Afterwards we'll light it up," predicted event organiser Thijs Verheij, who is hoping his feat will land in the Guinness Book of Records.
The Dutch police are not amused, however, warning they will intervene if the joint surpasses the five grams of marijuana allowed for consumption and sale in the Netherlands.
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Please do drop by www.weedhustler.com - new board game for Canuck afficionados. Support your local Thinemp who produced this game. Launched yesterday.
Not sure if Americans have the same or similar expression.
Scientists believe they have worked out a formula to calculate how "beer goggles" affect a drinker's vision. The drink-fuelled phenomenon is said to transform supposedly "ugly" people into beauties - until the morning after.
Researchers at Manchester University say while beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder, the amount of alcohol consumed is not the only factor. Additional factors include the level of light in the pub or club, the drinker's own eyesight and the room's smokiness. The distance between two people is also a factor.
KEY TO FORMULA
An = number of units of alcohol consumed
S = smokiness of the room (graded from 0-10, where 0 clear air; 10 extremely smoky)
L = luminance of 'person of interest' (candelas per square metre; typically 1 pitch black; 150 as seen in normal room lighting)
Vo = Snellen visual acuity (6/6 normal; 6/12 just meets driving standard)
d = distance from 'person of interest' (metres; 0.5 to 3 metres)
They all add up to make the aesthetically-challenged more attractive, according to the formula. The formula can work out a final score, ranging from less than one - where there is no beer goggle effect - to more than 100.
Nathan Efron, Professor of Clinical Optometry at the University of Manchester, said: "The beer goggles effect isn't solely dependent on how much alcohol a person consumes, there are other influencing factors at play too.
"For example, someone with normal vision, who has consumed five pints of beer and views a person 1.5 metres away in a fairly smoky and poorly lit room, will score 55, which means they would suffer from a moderate beer goggle effect."
The research was commissioned by eyecare firm Bausch & Lomb PureVision.
A poll showed that 68% of people had regretted giving their phone number to someone to whom they later realised they were not attracted.
A formula rating of less than one means no effect. Between one and 50 the person you would normally find unattractive appears less "visually offensive". Non-appealing people become suddenly attractive between 51 and 100. At more than 100, someone not considered attractive looks like a super model.
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What happened to the old formula where the point is reached when the number of minutes left till closing matches the number of standard drinks consumed?
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Remember the Mickey Gilley's song, "The Girls Get Prettier at Closing time"? I always said that can't be true because that's when they turn the lights back up. This formula confirms it.
A MYSTERY man called the Hairy Christmas Fairy has been splashing out hundreds of pounds spreading cheer to stunned shoppers.
The beefy middle-aged man dresses in a pink fairy outfit including tutu, tiara, wings and wand, tiger-print pants and white fishnet tights.
A "must-see", lol
Over the past few days he has paid for peoples shopping and handed out free lottery tickets in towns across Cornwall.
Each time the 6ft 4in man in his 50s leaves a card with a picture of a fairy and a handwritten note saying: Youll be hearing a lot about me the Hairy Christmas Fairy.
He first appeared in Warrens Bakery in Helston when he spent £40 on pies and pasties for every customer.
Shocked shop worker Sonia Hocking revealed: He said, Its not a joke, or a hoax, I just want to buy everybody pies. We thought it was bit odd - but he said trust me. Every time a customer came in hed say lunch was on him.
You just have to go with your feelings when a big hairy tatooed guy in a pink tutu sez "trust me"
He got a few odd looks but if someone is offering to buy you a sausage roll you dont say no. He was very friendly.
The next day he showed up at Morrisons supermarket in Penzance where he paid for the contents of several shoppers trollies including a disabled pensioner.
The day after he handed out free Lottery scratch cards outside a newsagent in Liskeard and bought teas and coffees in a cafe in Launceston.
Morrisons said: The Hairy Fairy was here and caused quite a stir. Pix at link, and they promise a video later in the day, lol. Trust me.
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This is a "pastie", a traditional Cornish meal in a crust.
They're also popular in the upper peninsula of Michigan where Cousin Jacks migrated to, and probably can be found anywhere else people from Cornwall have resided.
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When an hairy beefy middle-aged man dressed in a pink fairy outfit including tutu, tiara, wings and wand, tiger-print pants and white fishnet tights offers you his very special "sausage roll"... you know it's time to leave and head for a well-lighted area with people and a phone.
A Japanese military submarine collided with a civilian vessel during exercises in waters off southern Japan on Tuesday, defense officials said. The Maritime Self-Defense Forces submarine grazed against an unidentified civilian cargo ship during surfacing exercises about 30 miles off the southeastern coast of Miyazaki on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, a defense agency spokesman said on condition of anonymity by protocol.
No injuries were reported among crew members of the submarine Asashio, but officials have found a dent in the vessel's topside, the spokesman said. He said the submarine apparently hit the vessel's hull while surfacing. The number of crew members and the direction the submarine was heading could not be released, he said.
The spokesman said details of the civilian vessel, which was moving northward, were not immediately known. The vessel might not have noticed the incident due to the minor impact, he added.
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Two wrongs certainly don't make a right, but I think it's apparent now that not only U.S. submarines can collide with civilian vessels.
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The direction the sub was heading was up, wasn't it?
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Lemmee guess, another goth loner into violent video games and guns with aspirations to join the army.
Yep. And who says profiling doesn't work. I dated a guy like this in college. He was smart, not bad looking, good at chess, musically talented, and wrote beautiful poetry.
But the coffin adorned as an altar in his living room had me a little concerned, and, ah, he was really into Nazis and Anton LaVey. I had a very large friend follow me for a few weeks after I broke it off. I'm rather surprised I lived. I still expect to find his name in a story like this.
Anyway, funny how the MSM rolls out wall-to-wall coverage only when these shootings occur in the US.
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Germany has some of the strictest gun laws in the western world. Nobody under 18 can even own one. Those who can must demonstrate a "need" to own the weapon, register the weapon, be licensed, be trained, and periodically demonstrate technical proficiency. All done in order to curb "gun violence".
Unfortunately, none of this has ever had any effect on murderers. There is no such thing as "gun violence".
I've closely watched my guns for many years, to mane sure they remain non-violent. So far, so good. I'm keeping an eye out though....that SIG P229 is a sneaky lil' bastard.
You shouldn't spank your kids, UNICEF chief says
That's the view of UNICEF Canada President Nigel Fisher. And he's an expert on, um, stuff.
He says the Criminal Code should be amended to bar spanking, saying no violence should be allowed against children. I wuz spanked when I was little. For nothing! It was only a garage, sheesh. And the cars. And the boat. But insurance covered it! Mostly. I'm scarred, scarred forever!
He was attending a forum in Vancouver where UNICEF International released a new report on violence against children around the world. And spanking is just as bad as child prostitution, forced labor, and slavery! Mebbe worser!
He says most of the violence children experience is at the hands of adults they trust, including at school and home. Well okaaaay then. Now we know. What this pontificating gomer thinks.
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"Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare him for his crying." Prov 19:18
"He that spareth his rod hateth his son, but he that loveth him chasteneth him in good season." Prov. 13:24
"Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell." Prov 23:13-14
So lets see. The wisest man in ancient history says to chasten your children, a method that has worked for more than 5,000 years. Nigel says no. Hmmm. I'm perplexed.
A Fremont man has been deported to Pakistan for lying about his academic bona fides and posing as a Nobel Prize nominee in order to secure a green card, immigration officials reported Monday. Although prosecutors once claimed Shehrezad Faruk Czar had ``association with at least one leader of a recognized international terrorist organization,'' Monday's news release called it a ``controversial Pakistani political group... linked to several acts of violence.''
Czar, 38, arrived Saturday in Pakistan aboard a commercial flight, according to the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in April and pleaded guilty in September to making fraudulent statements in order to obtain legal permanent residence here.
He falsely claimed to have graduated as a medical doctor from Dow Medical College in 1987. He also claimed in his visa application that he had been nominated for a Nobel Prize for ``outstanding research in applied economics, quantum physics and mathematical sciences,'' and had earned doctorates in ``quantum economics'' and ``econo-physics'' from the ``University of Berkley.''
He admitted that in applying for an employment-based visa as an alien of ``extraordinary ability'' five years ago, he had falsely claimed to have graduated as a medical doctor from Dow Medical College in 1987. He also claimed in his visa application that he had been nominated for a Nobel Prize for ``outstanding research in applied economics, quantum physics and mathematical sciences,'' and had earned doctorates in ``quantum economics'' and ``econo-physics'' from the ``University of Berkley.''
San Francisco ICE Chief Counsel Ronald LeFevre said ``those who use fake documents and fraudulent information to obtain visas and gain immigration benefits are stealing a precious gift from the American people. Beyond that, visa fraud poses a serious threat not only to the integrity of our nation's legal immigration system, but also to the security of our country.''
Prosecutors filed court documents in April to prevent Czar's release on bail, claiming Czar admitted knowing and e-mailing Altaf Hussain, the founder and leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM): a Pakistani political party representing Urdu-speaking Muslims and allegedly responsible for crimes including murder, kidnapping and at least one bombing. But neither the MQM nor Altaf Hussain living in exile in London are on State and Treasury department lists of foreign terrorist organizations and individuals.
Ibad Rehman, a Virginia lawyer for the MQM, said in April he knew of no other U.S. court filing in which the government had claimed the MQM is a terrorist group. This case's claims were a ``100 percent different position'' than that taken by U.S. diplomats in Pakistan, he said, and any claims that Hussein faced criminal charges or was responsible for violence are ``untrue.''
The MQM, which holds seats in Pakistan's National Assembly, issued a statement in April saying it's ``the only political party in Pakistan which is openly challenging and peacefully struggling against religious extremists,'' and has ``unconditionally supported the international community and the United States in the war against terrorism.'' The investigation found that while Czar received public assistance from Alameda County since April 2003, he received an overseas cash transfer of almost $10,000 in late 2005.
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he had falsely claimed to have graduated as a medical doctor from Dow Medical College in 1987. He also claimed in his visa application that he had been nominated for a Nobel Prize for ``outstanding research in applied economics, quantum physics and mathematical sciences,'' and had earned doctorates in ``quantum economics'' and ``econo-physics'' from the ``University of Berkley.''
yikes! Even Zenster doesn't have that resume
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I just want to meet his wife, Morgan Fairchild.
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I'm surprised Cal Berkeley didn't immediately confer an honorary doctorate in order to keep him here...after all...he is Islamic and we wouldn't want to offend...
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But... he already had a degree from the University of Berkley.
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LOL. Perfect graphic. Absolutely perfect.
What was it John F'in Kerry said in 2004: "How can we be LOSING to these idiots?"
And yet, sadly, I'm mindful that one of the infamous 19 that flew the planes on 9-11 put down on his Visa application when asked where he would be staying while in the USA, he wrote: H-O-T-E-L.
He still got in, no further questions asked.
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Play it again and again and again, Sam.
DEFYING police warnings, a Dutch group is set to roll the world's biggest joint, sending the previous record for a marijuana cigarette up in smoke. The world's largest joint will be a 500g, metre-long monstrosity, rolled with cigarette paper and easily dwarfing the previous 100g winner, ANP news agency reported overnight. To beat the record, it must be made entirely of marijuana with no tobacco mix.
A Fremont man has been deported to Pakistan for lying about his academic bona fides and posing as a Nobel Prize nominee in order to secure a green card, immigration officials reported Monday. Although prosecutors once claimed Shehrezad Faruk Czar had ``association with at least one leader of a recognized international terrorist organization,'' Monday's news release called it a ``controversial Pakistani political group... linked to several acts of violence.''
