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Police seek habitual bicycle seat masturbator
THE Copenhagen Post reports in bald terms: “Woman stalked by serial bicycle-seat wanker.”
The story goes that the furtive seat tosser has struck five times, and always on a Wednesday. Each time, the woman has got off the train by Mørdrup Station in north Zealand to find that a man has masturbated onto her bicycle seat.
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Posted: 7th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Cycling ‘carnage’ and a runners’ ‘stampede’ in the New Forest: what really happened?
THE New Forest Journal is reporting on looming “carnage“. By the paper’s front-page news of a dead child and a missing student, we read of the Wiggle New Forest Spring Sportive, a cycling event scheduled for April 13 and 14. Before news of how the race brings death to the woods, more on the event itself. The Wiggle website tells us:
The aim of the Wiggle Super Series is to encourage riders of all levels to get out and ride!
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Posted: 7th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Is the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye paper racist?
IS the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye paper racist? No.
On Facebook we spotted the news that the paper used 300 words to report on a shooting in a “white” part of Chicago but just 20 words top tell the story of four shootings in “black” neighbourhoods.
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Advice for Yeti hunters from the Us Embassy in Kathmandu
ADVICE for Yeti hunters from the US Embassy in Kathmandu comes in the form of a 1959 contract. Hunters can photograph the Yeti but they must not shoot it dead, except in an emergency. If killed, the Yeti becomes the property of Nepal, which also owns all image rights.
Police arrest chicken chocker for assault
TO Pacolet, South Carolina, where a police have arrested a hungry chicken choker. Police claim Clifford Smith, 44, was at Sunday dinner when a wheelchair-bound woman ate the last piece of chicken. Smith had wanted to eat it. So. He hit the woman and then chocked her.
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Heather Frost: which of benefits pirate’s 11 children should die in a house fire? You decide
THE Daily Express has read the Mail’s account of Heather Frost’s “terror” campaign against her neighbour. It leads with: “Benefit mum’s shocking reign of hate.”
We are once more show diaries written by Doreen Freeman, 81. She’s dead. But her diaries live on. She ways Frost made her life “a living hell”. You can read extracts from of Doreen’s Diaries here.
Yesterday Dr James Freeman, a university lecturer, hit out at the council that has agreed to build a £400,000 house to accommodate benefits scrounger Frost’s huge family.
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Highway Hi-Fit Phonograph
FLASHBACK to the Highway Hi-Fi Phonograph:
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Posted: 7th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment (1)
Daily Mail trolls want Tewkesbury mum Heather Frost and her kids murdered
WHAT’S Heather Frost been up to? The Tewkesbury Tribal elder (11 kids – one more and she can rival Jacobs and the Jews) is scheduled to move into a 1,850 square foot council-provided “mansion”. The Mail’s Simon Tomlinson holds his nose and writes:
Noise really bad… no hope of watching TV… mattresses burning… greenhouse glass smashed by rocks’: Widow’s diary reveals ‘hell’ of living next to ‘benefits queen’ mother-of-11 for five (long) years
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Posted: 6th, March 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Car thief identified after being on X Factor
GETTING away with a crime is hard enough at the best of times, but if you’ve been on television, chances are someone will find it very easy to spot you.
And that’s exactly what happened when Paige Flaherty stole a car and someone recognised her from her audition on the X Factor.
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Cardinal Keith O’Brien was ‘always straight’ with me, says Monsignor in Rome
“I MET him a few times when I was in Rome. I always found him very affable, very straight.” The words of Monsignor Michael Starkey on Cardinal Keith O’Brien.
With others, he was less straight, allegedly…
Gang Wang banged up for brothel murder
THE Bedford brothel worker who battered the “madam” to death with a dragon ornament has been jailed. Mr Gang Wang, appearing at Luton Crown Court, will serve a minimum of 15 years.
File under: nominative determinism.
Knitting reduces fear of crime in Leicester parks
TO Bede Park and Great Central Way Leicesters, where Leicestershire Police have been “guerilla knitting”. By stringing up pom-poms from trees, police hope to reduce the fear of crime.
Charlotte Bilby, a senior lecturer in criminology at Northumbria University, thinks it a good idea to wrap the park in cotton wool, and to house police officers in trees:
“I think that making an area look cosier certainly makes an area feel safer. If you see something that makes you smile, that makes you think that other people have enjoyed being in that space, then that’s going to change your perception.”
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The terrifying Ten Little Indians anti-drug PSA
IN 1972, you were warned about taking drugs with the ditty Ten Little Indians:
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Spare the children from photoshopped creep shots for their own good
PROTECTING children from abuse online is a big deal.
Barnardo’s is running a campaign. It features this image:
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Posted: 6th, March 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
‘Rapefruit’ are ‘good for every meal’ in Mankato
The Mankato Free Press has news of a new kind of fruit.
Spotter: @BryanAGraham and citypages.com
CCTV image of Manchester semen tosser?
DO you know this man? Manchester police say he was recorded by CCTV after teenage girls in Bury were smeared with a white substance in the street. It might be semen. Or it might not be.
In 2009, a man wiped a white substance on women walking in Prestwich, Whitefield and Bury town centre. Police analysed it.
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Posted: 5th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Costa Concordia: did cowardice and panic lead to the death of five-year-old Dayana Arlotti?
WHEN the Costa Concordia cruise liner sank off the coast of Italy, the face of the disaster was Captain Francesco Schettino. Well, now the disaster has a news face: five-year-old Dayana Arlotti. She died along with her father William on January 13, 2011. They drowned looking for lifeboat. The prosecution want Schettino tried for manslaughter. Their report alleges:
“Not having found space in the lifeboats on the port side of Deck No.4, she was directed by members of the crew to the starboard side of the same deck and, while she was crossing the inside corridor near the stern lifts and the Milan Restaurant, she fell into a hole created when the ship rolled onto its starboard side. She fell into a flooded area of the same deck and died of asphyxiation from drowning.”
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Indian motorcyclist women are much, much harder than you
PEOPLE who ride motorbikes think they’re pretty tough, waddling around in their leather romper suits and Street Hawk crash helmets, doing 23mph down the road with ‘Born To Be Wild’ playing in their heads.
The freedom of the road! The constant terror that you might fall over and scratch that lovely paintwork! Motorcycling! It is like riding a car, but colder!
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Posted: 5th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Yorkshire terrier-rist found aboard Tel Aviv to London jet
A WOMAN managed to smuggle her pet Yorkshire Terrier aboard a British Airways flight from Tel Aviv to London. Her caper was discovered only onboard the craft when passenger heard a squeaky noise from beneath the woman’s seat.
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Peter Wyngarde: when ‘Rape ‘ was King and gross indecency wore vinyl and velvet
THE Daily Mail is never slow to point out, in merciless detail, the physical and sartorial shortcomings of any celebrity, be they great or small.
“When Seventies television star Peter Wyngarde was spotted out shopping near his West London home last week it was clear his fashion sense had deserted him a long time ago” ran the caption to a picture of a well-preserved gentleman in his late seventies, dressed in fashionable casual clothes.
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Posted: 5th, March 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Key Posts, Music, TV & Radio | Comment
Cannibal Cop Gilberto Valle and the Canterbury Chop Chop
IN “Cannibal fancies a Chinese… me“, Lian Chen, 27, a worker at the Chop Chop takeaway in Canterbury, Kent, is concerned that cannibals want to eat her. Dale Bolinger, 57, was arrested as part of the investigation into Gilberto Valle, aka the ‘Cannibal Cop’. He’s accused of plotting to kidnap and eat 100 women. It’s alleged that he and Bolinger talked online. One email from a ‘Moody Blues’ said:
“Her name is Lian. Very cute Chinese accent… will do, get a pic of her this weekend if she meets me for coffee sometime this weekend… I’ve got so many plans for her!.. Once she comes to my house I’ll just snap her neck. It’s worked before.”
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Posted: 5th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Norwegian girl’s Knife Game Song gives British border police an idea
HAVE you heard the ‘Knife Game Song’? It’s the new tune that all would -be immigrants and migrant workers hoping to live in David Cameron’s ‘Broken Britain’ have to sing. The song is the work of Hanna Fylling Ellingseter, a Norwegian girl with a dream of eating like the locals do a kebab shop in South London:
Spotter: Reddit
