Tokyo police said on Tuesday they had arrested a man with a passion for women's underwear who used a fishing rod to reel them in.
Akira Hino (51) was arrested last week for stealing a pair of knickers from a laundry pole on a second-floor balcony, a police spokesperson said. He stretched out a 3m rod and caught the underwear on a hook, the Mainichi Shimbun reported.
Called to his house, police found more than 500 pairs of women's underwear inside. He reportedly told investigators he had got into the habit of stealing undergarments when he was 18.
It was not known for how long he had been using a fishing pole.
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You just know GODZILLA will have something to say about Tokyo humans stealing his -ZILLA Babe stash.
The wreckage of the light aircraft that belonged to missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett has been found. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said a team had found a single-engine Bellanca Super Decathlon plane near the town of Mammoth Lakes in eastern California.
The search began after a hiker found items on Monday thought to have belonged to Fossett who disappeared on a solo flight in September 2007. Fossett, 63, had set off from Nevada for a local flight but failed to return.
The NTSB said on Thursday the wreckage, found 3,200m up the Sierra Nevada mountains, "appears to be the aircraft piloted by Steve Fossett" and that they were sending an investigator to the site.
'No human remains'
Rescuers later reached the plane on foot and confirmed it was Fossett's aircraft but found no human remains at the crash site.
John Anderson, the Madera County Sheriff, said photos of the site appeared to indicate that the plane had smashed head-on into a mountainside at high speed. "The crash looked so severe I doubt if someone would have walked away from it.
"There was no body in the plane. We have not found any human remains at the crash site," Anderson said.
Mark Rosenker, an official from the National Transportation and Safety Board, said preliminary analysis of the site indicated Fossett had died in the crash. "Information is indicative of a high-impact crash, which appears to be consistent with a non-survivable accident," he said, adding it would likely take "weeks, perhaps months" before the cause of the accident was determined.
Fossett's widow, Peggy, welcomed the discovery of her husband's plane. "I especially want to thank Preston Morrow who made this discovery and turned Steve's belongings over to the authorities.
"The uncertainty surrounding my husband's death over this past year has created a very difficult situation for me.
"I hope now to be able to bring to closure a very painful chapter in my life," she said.
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"NOT found any human remains at the crash site" > HMMMMM, well, some Net sites are reporting the contrary that remains have been found, although not yet confirmed as FOSSETT'S.
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...The local fauna could have dragged any remains some distance from the crash site.
Mike
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Now they claim to have found enough "material" to do a DNA run. Lotsa bears around there, and I suppose they dragged him away and that's how the wallet remains were displaced from the crash site. Strange that there was no transponder on the plane. He had told someone he was searching for dry lake beds for high speed runs in Nevada. I wonder how he got over to the Sierras ? The sheriff did say he remembered that they were socked in all Labor Day weekend in 2007 with thunderstorms and low clouds. So Fossett thought he was cruising along at 9500 feet I guess. So long Steve.
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My guess is that he had a heart attack, stroke or some such while flying, passed out and flew into the mountain. Too bad. The sub he was going to use to go to the bottom of the ocean (single man record attempt) sits unfinished about 100 yards from where I type this.
I just don't believe this. Disorder after a Guns & Roses concert, I can believe. After a Jay-Z concert, sure. After a Rammstein concert, totally expected. After Celine Dion--wassup widdat? What's next, gangs of rioting youth incited to mayhem by Lawrence Welk reruns on PBS?
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Can you imagine the horror? Broken nails and sequins everywhere!
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Oh, parking garage rage. You oughta see traffic coming out of the old Yankees stadium parking structure. Hours of breathing fumes and refining one's command of obscenities.
. . . The sheer quantity of young penguins that have washed up on Brazil's sun-drenched beaches this year has confounded nearly everyone who comes in contact with them. Each summer and early fall, some gray-and-white Magellanic penguins could be expected to drift here, washed by ocean currents more than 2,000 miles north from their homes in southern Argentina near the bottom of the world.
This year is different. Like some maritime dust-bowl migration, more than 1,000 of these penguins have floated ashore in Brazil, nearly as far north as the equator. By the time their webbed feet touch sand, many are gaunt and exhausted, often having lost three-quarters of their body weight. Even more have died.
"This year is completely anomalous," said Lauro Barcellos, 51, an oceanographer who founded a rehabilitation center for penguins in southern Brazil. ". . . I've worked in this field for 35 years, and I have never seen anything like this." . . .
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By the time their webbed feet touch sand, many are gaunt and exhausted, often having lost three-quarters of their body weight.
I blame the food police. More water aerobics for everyone. No fat penguins in our world! Just former Vice Presidents.
Flash floods following torrential rain south of Algiers have killed at least 29 people, injured 48 and left one person missing, the interior ministry said Thursday, warning of higher casualties.
Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni described them as the worst floods in a century. "Based on the over flight that we made, the toll unfortunately could be greater," Zerhouni told reporters, after meeting local authorities in the sodden Ghardaia region.
Rain has been falling since Monday in the region, which lies about 500 kilometers (300 miles) south of Algiers.
The government previously said 13 people had been killed in the floods, which have damaged at least 600 homes, many of them in oasis areas.
The wadis, or seasonal rivers, had filled up and spilled into the larger M'zab wadi river, which then flooded, sweeping away everything in its path.
The flooding has cut off roads and rendered telephone connections erratic.
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good for this metric footballer coach...I'd like to mule kick chris mathews in the sternum and then skull f*ck john leibowitz (stewart) for even thinking he's a journalist...myopic little douche bag that he is.
Britain's most senior police officer has resigned after criticism of his leadership and his handling of major investigations including terrorism cases. Ian Blair, commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, said he was stepping down 16 months before his five-year contract was due to expire.
He said on Thursday: "Without the mayor's backing I do not think I can continue in the job."
Blair said Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, who took over as chairman of the police authority on Wednesday, had told him he wanted a "change in leadership".
The decision follows months of negative headlines surrounding the 55-year-old, particularly over the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician killed at a London railway station in July 2005 by police who had mistaken him for a suicide bomber. There have been questions about his handling of events surrounding the shooting.
Regularly criticised
Blair has also been embroiled in a high-profile row with the force's most senior Asian officer, Tarique Ghaffur, the assistant commissioner, who has accused him of racial discrimination.
The Times newspaper had said that ministers and other police chiefs were secretly preparing plans to remove Blair, who has been dogged by controversy since taking over in February 2005. Blair has regularly been criticised in the media.
Questions had also been raised over a series of IT contracts worth £3m ($5.3m) awarded to Impact Plus, a consultancy owned by his long-time friend Andy Miller. Jacqui Smith, the interior minister, said Paul Stephenson, the deputy commissioner, will take over as acting head of the Met.
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This article leaves some big questions unanswered. One, by what means did a 7 year old "break in" to the farm? Did he just walk through an unlocked door? And who was supposed to be supervising this kid during his "35 minute rampage"? Also, perhaps the boy cannot be punished (by the state anyway) but, surely, the parents or guardians must have some financial liability.
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More here. The expressionless lad scaled a fence, then bludgeoned to death some of the reptiles he fed to the crocodile. Psychopath, indeed. But at least it's a family tradition -- his brother did something similar some years ago.
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That kid is seriously f*cked up in the head. Forget the criminal charges, have a pediatric psychiatrist brought in and examine his demonic little brain.
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Unfortunately in Australia, no law is actually enforceable. At least against a 7 year old. They may want to think about changing that.
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I'm told that 'once upon a time in a liberty port far far away' drunken sailors used to buy fluffy ducks and baby chicks from the Hey-Joes that hung around outside their watering holes and fed them (not the Hey-Joes) to crocs and gators. The ability to confirm that no longer exists since Subic Bay is closed.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the fact that he backs the death penalty for the Bali bombers in Indonesia does not signal any change in his opposition to capital punishment in Australia.
Mr Rudd says the three men on death row in Indonesia over the bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, are cowards and mass murderers who deserve the justice that will be delivered to them.
He says the Bali bombers are subject to the Indonesian system, but he has told Fairfax radio he does not believe in the death penalty in Australia or for Australians in other nations.
"That's the view of the Liberals, that's the view of the Australian Labor Party and that'll be the case into the future as well," he said.
"Also when it comes to Australians convicted of sentences abroad, both Mr Howard when he was prime minister and myself since becoming Prime Minister, we regularly intervene with foreign countries arguing the case for clemency for Australians convicted abroad."
Someone logged onto a computer in a Chinatown Internet cafe last month and shot off a bomb-threat e-mail to American airline company Delta Airlines. He wrote that Delta Flight 1778, slated to fly in two days from Atlanta, Georgia to Tampa, Florida, would have a bomb on board. Signing off as 'Mr Islamic Jihad' from the terror organisation Al-Qaeda, he ended the e-mail with 'Long live Al-Qaeda'.
Investigations have led the police to a suspect, Josemaria Miguel Ye Yong Qiang, 39, who was on Friday charged in a district court under the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Regulations. The Act was introduced here in 2001 following the Sept 11 attacks on the United States, to nail those who stoke fears of terrorist attacks by creating false alarms. A conviction brings up to five years' jail and a fine of up to $100,000.
Ye, who was arrested in Geylang Lorong 23 on Thursday, is in police custody and is due back in court on Friday. He is also known to have sent several other e-mail bomb hoaxes to overseas airline companies last month, said the police.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Flash floods following torrential rain south of Algiers have killed at least 29 people, injured 48 and left one person missing, the interior ministry said Thursday, warning of higher casualties. 
Someone logged onto a computer in a Chinatown Internet cafe last month and shot off a bomb-threat e-mail to American airline company Delta Airlines. He wrote that Delta Flight 1778, slated to fly in two days from Atlanta, Georgia to Tampa, Florida, would have a bomb on board. Signing off as 'Mr Islamic Jihad' from the terror organisation Al-Qaeda, he ended the e-mail with 'Long live Al-Qaeda'. 
