A Palestinian woman was caught trying to smuggle three crocodiles from Egypt into the Gaza Strip via Rafah Border Crossing. Maria Telleria, spokeswoman for EU BAM, which monitors the border as part of an agreement between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, said that the smuggler tried to cross Thursday into Gaza with the three crocodiles taped to her upper body. A Palestinian guard noticed the woman was oddly obese and became suspicious. He notified the monitors, and the reptiles were discovered on further inspection. The crocodiles measured 40 to 50 centimetres in length. They were returned to Egypt, and the woman was questioned by Palestinian security officials. She related that she wanted to sell the reptiles to a local zoo.
Uhuh. Right. Why do I suspect "Mahmoud, throw the interlopers to the crocodiles!" was supposed to be in somebody's future?
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"I knew there was something fishy about her. She never smiled. Never."
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Must be on a suicide bomber rehab clinic .. As part of the therapy , crocodiles are used as a replacement for boom-vests . Its one step down from a vest and doesnt harm the others around you
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From the Rantburg in-box, an update to this story:
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An economical analyst and educated person from the respective area, Sambrial. Standard disclaimer: Rantburg and its owners and operators are not responsible for any doubling or non-doubling of rupees, dinars, shekels, Monopoly money, etc. etc. Objects may be closer than they appear, your mileage may vary.
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Newc, I think most of my generation realize that our Social Security taxes are going to pay for the retirements of our parents and the baby boomers. We're self-funding our retirement with no real expectation that there will be any SS money left by the time we get there.
HOUSTON (AP) - For at least two days, neighbors at a city apartment complex noticed an acrid aroma, black smoke and leaping flames coming from two barbecue grills on the balcony of a second-floor apartment. What, neighbors at the Red Oak Place apartments wondered, was going on in the unit where 27-year-old Timothy Wayne Shepherd lived? What was he burning at all hours, for days at a time? The answer turned their stomachs. According to law enforcement officials, Shepherd dismembered, and then burned the body of his former girlfriend, Tynesha Stewart, a 19-year- old Texas A&M University student. Nothing remains of Stewart's body, Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas said at a press conference Saturday.
"I just don't know what to think about it," said Louis Evans, whose balcony faces Shepherd's in the quiet tree-lined enclave in northern Houston. "I thought he was a nice normal person. I guess you never know what your neighbors are doing." "Such a nice, quiet man..."
Authorities said Shepherd has confessed to strangling and dismembering Stewart, a college freshman who was home on spring break, because he was angry that she had started a new relationship. ...and now their relationship is in pieces...
On March 16, neighbors said they first noticed the unusual activityand the unpleasant odoron Shepherd's balcony.
"The smell was awful," said Evans, who also became alarmed after seeing a blaze shoot out from the grills. "I was wondering: What is he burning? Not cooking, but burning. There is a difference." At times, Evans said, the flames from the grills leapt dangerously close to the roof of the balcony. Evans says he called 911, but when firefighters arrived, the flames had calmed and Shepherd assured them everything was under control. "She just flared up there for a minute nothing to worry about..."
Another neighbor, 18-year-old James Hebert, told The Houston Chronicle that he often cooked out with Shepherd... Uh-oh.
...and even left his grill at Shepherd's apartment. When he wasn't invited over, he asked his neighbor what was going on. Shepherd replied that he was cooking for a wedding, the newspaper said. Oh, man... that's COLD.
"This certainly turned out to be one of the most heinous crimes I've ever seen in my 38 years (in law enforcement)," Thomas, the sheriff, said Saturday. Understatement of the year...
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Methinks the Milwaukee police haven't found all of Jeffrey Dahmer's local victims yet.
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"For at least two days, neighbors at a city apartment complex noticed an acrid aroma, black smoke and leaping flames coming from two barbecue grills on the balcony of a second-floor apartment."
"The smell was awful," said Evans, who also became alarmed after seeing a blaze shoot out from the grills.
Never a good sign. You'd think someone would have suspected something was not quite right and called the authorities.
I don't see a line in the paper with a quote from the family stating, "But he was turning his life around. We just don't understand what happen. He must have snapped."
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"two barbecue grills on the balcony of a second-floor apartment"
Somebody should have called the Fire Marshall. Most places with a fairly modern fire code forbid any grilling on apartment balconies, because of the fire hazard. When I was a firefighter, I saw more than one apartment building fire due to a hibachi on a balcony. It's been against the code in our Virginia county for decades, and I'll bet it's against the Houston fire code, too.
Of course, the neighbors probably didn't want to get involved.... (Or maybe they didn't want the Fire Marshall to notice the grills on their balconies.)
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A Mediterranean-style diet high in olive oil and other "healthy" fats is just as good as the classic American Heart Association low-fat diet for the 8 million Americans who have suffered a heart attack and want to prevent a repeat, new research suggests. And for those that do not want to prevent a repeat heart attack? Whaddabout a study for them?
People on either diet had one-third the risk of suffering another heart attack, a stroke, death or other heart problem compared with heart patients eating in the usual way, the study found. The results of the study were presented Sunday at an American College of Cardiology conference. More at link.
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A man goes to the doctor and ask for advice in order to live longer:
-Go to bed ever at the same hour. No movies, no TV, No pizzas, no meat, eat plenty of broccolis. No tobacco, no alcohol and of course no sex.
-And I will live longer with that?
-I don't know but I am sure it will seem longer to you...
Q. What do you call that crusty brown stuff that forms between elephants' toes?
A. Impatient Malays.
Wait for them to cross and do not honk at them or they could come after you, warns a government official to highway users about elephants reportedly straying onto a main Malaysian highway. Natural Resources and Environment Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Sazmi Miah said motorists honking at elephants could trigger a rampage, state Bernama news agency reported Sunday. It is safer for motorists to stop their vehicles and wait for the elephants to go into the jungle before continuing their journey, Sazmi said, according to Bernama.
Sazmis warning comes after a motorist along the East-West highway was chased by a herd of elephants last week, forcing him to turn west towards Penang island instead of towards eastern Kelantan state where he was headed. As a precautionary measure, to warn motorists of elephants crossing, the Wildlife and National Parks Department would erect signs along the highway, Sazmi said. The signs would include tips on how to ward off wandering jumbos, especially at night.
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Can you scream "Move ya fat ass!" out the window?
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once went to darkest Africa where I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamsa I'll never know. I tried to take his tusks off but they were very tight so I went to Alabama where the Tuscaloosa. Groucho Marx.
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A strong earthquake killed one person and injured at least 160 in central Japan on Sunday, demolishing houses, buckling roads, triggering landslides and cutting off water supplies to thousands of homes.
More than 1 300 people evacuated to shelters after 44 houses collapsed and about 200 others, mostly wooden with heavy tile roofs, were seriously damaged by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake, which struck at 9.42am (0h42 GMT), officials and media said. The focus of the quake - which was also felt in Tokyo - was 11km below the seabed off the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, about 300km west of Tokyo.
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JAPAN + VANUATU double-whammy. Thus far Guam has been lucky to suffer only slight/minor tremors + atmospheric "sparks". Felt a tremor just now while writing this post.
Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded a citizen convicted of murdering an Ethiopian taxi driver, the state-run news agency said. Ahmed Bin Mohammed Farajallah was convicted of murdering taxi driver Mohammed Adam Jamee, an Interior Ministry statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency said. It said Farajallah had made Jamee drive to an unpopulated district and then beat, robbed and finally stabbed him to death.
The execution brings to 16 the number of people executed this year in Saudi Arabia, where death sentences are carried out in public by an executioner with a sword. Farajallah had been on the run after assaulting other taxi drivers in the kingdom, and had confessed to the crimes as well as to being a heroin addict, the press agency said.
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Nothing at all the matter with his blood pressure I see.
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Washrooms on university campuses across Canada may be the latest frontier in the campaign to accommodate all sexualities. Student groups at the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, and Toronto's Ryerson University are lobbying for alternatives to conventional male and female washrooms to protect the safety and privacy of transgendered students.
The campaign comes despite student bodies and university authorities being unable to give any figures for how many transgendered students they need to accommodate. "I think it's important for a couple of reasons. There are individuals on campus who don't feel safe going into either the male or female washrooms, that whatever bathroom they go into they feel ostracized," said Vivian Belik, VP of student services for the University of Winnipeg Students' Association. "Gender-neutral washrooms are important because it deconstructs the idea of gender as a whole." One could argue that is also damn good argument against the idea.
At the University of Winnipeg, the plan under discussion is to convert an existing, ground floor handicapped washroom into one designated for all-gender use. There would still be bathrooms for men and women. "We would like to create these bathrooms into 'all accessible' washrooms that would be accessible to wheelchairs, could have a baby-changing station, perhaps a foot-washing station for Muslim students, and would happen to be gender-neutral. The main idea being as inclusive/ sensitive as possible," said Ms. Belik. Oh yeah Mohammad will have no problem cleansing for prayers next to a six foot guy in a cocktail dress putting on his makeup. I hear Muslims are pretty inclusive about that stuff.
The washrooms are designed to meet the needs of people transitioning from one sex to the other, transvestites, transsexuals, and all others whose identities don't fit into conventional sexual norms. Such washrooms -- which advocates call "all-gender" or "gender- neutral" washrooms -- are already in place at McGill and Simon Fraser universities.
Mr. Wright, Rye Pride's education and campaigns coordinator, insists that the need for this should transcend politics and sexual orientation: "Most people can think of a time when they haven't felt safe in a public washroom."(Come to think of it there was that one time at a truck stop just outside of Detroit.) It isn't about who you are, it's about what you need to do, and everybody needs to go to the washroom."
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"people transitioning from one sex to the other," is this sorta like transitioning to a low sodium diet?
and do they fly south for the winter to transition to one sex and then back north again in the spring to resume the other?? so many questions, but does anybody really give a phuque?
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The campaign comes despite student bodies and university authorities being unable to give any figures for how many transgendered students they need to accommodate.
Oh, c'mon! Why get picky here! How "mean spirited"!
The Nobel Literature Laureate VS Naipaul writes that Pakistan is at least honest about muslim conquests. Unlike in India, where generations of marxist historians have whitewashed muslim rule. Their textbooks speak of "the arrival of muslims". How did they arrive ? Naipaul asks. On a tour bus? Were they tourists? At least the Pakistani textbooks note with pride which muslim invader sacked which city. How many thousands of kaffirs they killed, temples destroyed, booty carried off.
The Army Heritage Foundation (AHF) on March 23 will display models of weaponry and fatigue used during Muslim rule over the subcontinent that began with Muhammad Bin Qasims entry into the area. The display and the Pakistan Day parade will be carried out in the Sports Complex, a senior official of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) told Daily Times. He said, The AHF will, for the first time, introduce floats depicting Muslim armies from the past to highlight the history of Muslim conquests in the subcontinent.
He said the displays would shed light on Muslim civilisations, with enough representation from Kashmir, adding that a Thunder JF 17 jet plane, made jointly by Pakistan and China, would also perform aerobatics. Various battalions of the Pakistan Army, Navy and Air Force will participate in the parade, he said, adding that police and the Frontier Constabulary would also join the parade.
The countrys technological achievements, especially a series of missiles, will also be exhibited in collaboration with the science and technology ministry. The ISPR official said the parade was to be held at the Sports Complex to avoid traffic problems if it had taken place in front of Parliament.
He said about 10,000 spectators were expected to turn up to view the parade, including government officials, parliamentarians and foreign diplomats. He said a full-dress rehearsal of the parade, to be held today (Tuesday), was open for the general public but entry would be on invitation on the Pakistan Day parade on March 23.
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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.
Wait for them to cross and do not honk at them or they could come after you, warns a government official to highway users about elephants reportedly straying onto a main Malaysian highway. Natural Resources and Environment Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Sazmi Miah said motorists honking at elephants could trigger a rampage, state Bernama news agency reported Sunday. It is safer for motorists to stop their vehicles and wait for the elephants to go into the jungle before continuing their journey, Sazmi said, according to Bernama. 
Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded a citizen convicted of murdering an Ethiopian taxi driver, the state-run news agency said. Ahmed Bin Mohammed Farajallah was convicted of murdering taxi driver Mohammed Adam Jamee, an Interior Ministry statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency said. It said Farajallah had made Jamee drive to an unpopulated district and then beat, robbed and finally stabbed him to death.
