Keeping Up With The Walshes

‘IS it just coincidence or has Pamela Anderson named her two sons after characters in the TV series Beverly Hills 90210?

The Lee-Andersons

The actress-model has two sons called Brandon and Dylan – the characters played by Jason Priestley and Luke Perry in the hit 1990s show.

But the former Baywatch babe, who was married to Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, denies that was her inspiration, claiming that she has never even watched it.

‘When Tommy heard that, he wanted to change their names,” she said. “I named Brandon after Marlon Brando and Dylan after Bob Dylan. It had nothing to do with 90210.’

If the next child’s a Brenda, however, she’ll have a bit of explaining to do…’

Posted: 25th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

The Joy Of Text

‘YOU have to be careful with mobile phones, as Romania’s top footballer Marian Aliuta found out when he mistakenly sent a text message criticising his club coach to the club’s owner.

Aliuta intended to send the text criticising new Steaua Bucharest coach Walter Zenga to his old coach and friend Victor Piturca.

Instead, he sent it to Steua owner Victor Becali.

The message read: ‘It was much better when you were here. Zenga isn’t worth anything.’

A few days later, Aliuta bought himself out of his contract and joined rivals Rapid Bucharest.

‘The story is true,” admitted Aliuta, “I did send the SMS to my boss and that only made my situation at the club worse.”

Posted: 24th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Frau Barbie

‘BARBIE comes in many guises, not all true to her original calling. And the latest is as a beer-swilling, sausage-eating German.

Munich designer James Waldron has created a special Oktoberfest Barbie wearing a traditonal Alpine dirndl dress and carrying a beer jug.

The head designer for the fashion label Rena Lange says he created the ‘Mountain Dirndl Barbie’ based on Julie Andrews’ character Maria in The Sound of Music, her one-off ensemble consisting of a hand-woven French tweed skirt, a red apron with Swiss embroidery and frilly blouse with a cotton gauze and lace décolleté.

The miniature is a preview of the life-sized dirndl that will be part of the Rena Lange 2005 summer collection.

Mr Waldron won’t say whether a lederhosen-clad ‘Comatose Ken’ would be joining Barbie.’

Posted: 23rd, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

A Matter Of Life And Death

‘IT’S results time for both Katy and Sunita as the pair wait to learn if they’re going to live or die; Sunita from her brain tumour and Katy from her dad Tommy once he finds out she’s messed up her A-levels.

The street bike

Sunita’s operation was a complete success and she’s been told there’s nothing wrong with her brain now. She may want to get a second opinion, however, as the first thing she did on leaving hospital was ask Dev to marry her.

“You’ll be worth three and a half corner shops when you split up,” Blanche told Sunita. “Well done, lass!” High praise indeed.

Things aren’t looking so good for Katy, however, as she lied to her father about her exams results. “Straight A’s” she told him.

To be fair to Katy, she knew that if she’d told him the truth then boyfriend Martin was likely to end up picking pieces of his face off the Weatherfield cobbles.

“I’m so proud of yer!” Tommy exclaimed before handing her a cheque for £200. Katy guiltily took the money – well, she’s going to need it to put towards her flight to Australia for when Tommy finds out the truth.

There were more secrets and lies on the Street this week as Warren, Frankie and Danny’s younger son, turned up on their doorstep, claiming that he’d injured his ankle and the football club he plays for had told him to take two weeks off.

Coronation Street producers need to tread carefully in their attempts to turn Weatherfield into ‘Footballers Wives With Pigeons’. Mike Baldwin was tolerated as ‘the only Cockney in the village’, but bring in many more characters from the Dick Van Dyke school of Cockney accents and viewers will start revolting.

Warren, it turns out, has actually been dropped by his football club for having a bad attitude – a fact he tried to keep quiet from new girlfriend Candice.

Candice was revelling in her status as the new Posh Spice of Weatherfield. “My Warren’s not flash like other footballers,” she smugly told Leanne in the caff. “That’s cos he’s not a footballer,” Leanne took great delight in telling her.

Leanne is in fine stirring form this week, managing to wind up not only Candice but also boyfriend Jamie and his mother, Frankie.

Leanne stayed over at Jamie’s for the first time this week and took great delight in rubbing stepmother Frankie’s nose in it. “What’s fer breakfast?” she asked after coming bounding down the stairs. “I’ve worked up a right appetite me.”

A fuming Frankie threw her out the house. “You little slut,” she screeched, “you stay away from my son.”

Maria lost no time in telling Frankie all the gory details of Leanne’s past. “That bitch cost me my fiancé,” she told her, conveniently overlooking the fact that it was actually her inability to believe a word Nick said that drove him away.

Frankie lost no time in imparting her news to her stepson. “’Ere! Is it true you’re a druggie and the street bike?” he confronted Leanne in that endearingly intelligent, caring way of his.’

Posted: 23rd, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Swearing Blind

‘KIDS today, eh? Joan Hopkins had waited night and day for 41 days by the bedside of her 22-year-old son as he lay in a coma following a car accident.

And what were his first words to her when he eventually regained consciousness? “Thank you”? “I love you, Mum”? Not a bit of it. The first think young Joey said was “F*** Off!”

‘I told the nurse I’d know when he was getting better because he’d swear at me,” said 37-year-old Joan.

“At that moment he told me to ‘f*** off’. It was such a relief – it was his way of telling me he was going to be all right. He hasn’t stopped talking since.’

The builder now faces up to two years fighting back to full health from head injuries, a collapsed lung and a broken neck and back sustained in the accident in Portsmouth.’

Posted: 20th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Biology Practical

‘MOST students need little encouragement to masturbate – in fact, teenage boys do little else in the years following puberty.

But three 15-year-old pupils at a school in Brazil are suing their biology teacher after he asked them to masturbate during a lesson.

The teacher made the request so the class could study sperm under a microscope, but parents were horrified when they found out and called the police.

A police spokesman said: ‘It is a disrespectful and bizarre thing to ask a student. We are all horrified.’

And Nossa Senhora do Rosario school in Campo Grande issued a statement saying they were equally shocked by the teacher’s behaviour.’

Posted: 19th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Beggars’ Belief

‘NORMALLY staff at internet firms have to wait a couple of months before they are thrown out on the streets to beg for all their unpaid wages, but a Chinese company is doing it as part of its training.

Owner Li Jing-hua explained that the exercise was designed to teach new staff to be thick-skinned and less self-conscious after 10 trainees were spotted begging every 100 metres along Changchun’s Chongqing Road.

‘Making the staff kneel on the busiest street is meant to rid them of their shyness so that they can be brave enough to face clients,’ she said.

Li said the company would not sack anyone who refused to beg, but a local sociologist said the practice was ‘insulting’ and infringed upon the human rights of the trainees.

So, expect to see it in the UK in a matter of weeks.’

Posted: 18th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Who Ate All The Pies?

‘FOOTBALL fans like giving the opposition a bit of grief during the match to the strains of “Who ate all the pies?”, but the joke was on 50 Cardiff supporters when they were left stranded near Caerphilly.

The bus that was transporting them from the Welsh capital, where they had been watching the home team play Coventry, got stuck on a steep mountain road because its occupants were too heavy.

The driver told the lardarses that his bus was not powerful enough to reach the top of the hill and had to send for another to pick them up.

‘I didn’t think we were that heavy,” said one fan, “although we do like the pies they sell at the match.

‘A bus should be capable of carrying 50 people even after we’d eaten all the pies.”

Posted: 17th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Wicked And Lazy

‘LAZY people have feelings too – and when Beryl King tried to put an advert in her local job centre asking for hardworking staff, officials moved quickly to avert any harm.

They told the 57-year-old businesswoman that her ad would have to be reworded because it discriminated against people who were not industrious.

‘I’ve been running my business for 27 years and it’s getting harder to find people who want to do a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay,” she complained.

‘How long before someone says you can’t pay people for working because it discriminates against those on benefit who are paid for not working?’

Much as Mrs King, who owns two job agencies in Totton, Hampshire, might like not to have to pay people for working, we’re not sure that’s going to happen.

Instead, she was offering £5.42 an hour for ‘warehouse packers who must be hard-working and reliable’.

Reliable! Blatant discrimination against unreliable people…’

Posted: 16th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Stony Broke

‘MIYI Shongi is not a good shopper.

But a trader in Zimbabwe who took exception to her non-payment of his bill did not resort to the usual legal means of recourse.

Instead, as Shongi alleges, he put a spell on her. Now everywhere she goes, she is plagued by a hail of stones.

Police called to investigate, arrived at Shongi’s home in the village of Lombani and were amazed.

“We were there for nearly the whole night and saw stones falling from the sky like rain,” says one cop.

As a result, police have advised Shongi to find a healer who can break the curse. Or pay her bills.’

Posted: 13th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Money Matters

‘DEV had better start stocking a range of bullet-proof vests in the corner shop now that he’s finally had the sense to chuck Mental Maya.

Tracy had her own ideas about fusion

“I’ve been fighting it for months,” he confessed to Shelly over a late night drink. “I can’t believe I’ve been so blind” Unfortunately he wasn’t referring to his taste in horrendous waistcoats, but his love for Sunita.

Sunita didn’t take Dev’s declaration as well as he’d hoped. “You make me sick! Get out!” she screamed at him. Sunita hasn’t forgiven Dev for rejecting her for Maya in the first place and now thinks he only loves her because she’s got a brain tumour (obviously).

It’s clear though that the shop assistant doth protest too much and it’s only a matter of time before she gives in.

Maya isn’t likely to go quietly, however – she already destroyed Dev’s shop when she caught him talking to Sunita so the mind boggles at what she’s capable of now.

If she’s clever though, she’ll take a few lessons from our Cilla. Cilla won Les back by appealing to his greed and, even when Cilla confessed that she hadn’t been left a fortune, he still didn’t chuck her out.

Of course it helps that Les has an IQ slightly lower than an amoeba. Cilla had told Les that she’d been left a fortune and so he chucked in his job and threw away every stick of furniture in the house – as you do on the word of a convicted thief and prostitute.

When Cilla had to admit to him that it had all been “a mistake,” Les dashed off to the Weatherfield skip to try and retrieve what was left of his worldly goods. Unfortunately for Les, his furniture already looked like it had come off a skip and so was impossible to find.

Tracy is having much more luck hitching herself to someone with money – but then she’s had far more experience at selling herself…and her baby come to that.

Tracy has decided to hook up with Ciaran, a decision that surely has nothing to do with the fact that Penny King has just given him £50,000 in invest in his new wine bar project.

She had better hold off booking that flight to Florida, however, as Ciaran unveiled his ambitious plans for Fusion. “We’re going to serve Irish-Thai food,” he proudly announced to a dumbstruck Shelly.

Elsewhere in Weatherfield, Martin and his child lover Katy have kissed and made up, much to the horror of their families and 16 million viewers. At least the pair have had the decency to go away on holiday, thus sparing us any more bedroom scenes for a while.

“How could yer do this to me?” screamed Sarah Lou when she heard the news. “Yer disgust me.”

Out of the mouths of babes…’

Posted: 13th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Tigger Paws

‘LITTLE about the American legal system amazes us – this is the country that, after what passed for due process, saw fit to declare George Bush as its president.

So we barely raise an eyebrow when we hear of the goings on in a Florida courthouse.

In an effort to illustrate the innocence of his client, one Michael Chartrand, lawyer Jeffrey Kaufman dressed up as Tigger. Kauffman’s aim was to prove that the costume affords only limited movement and vision to the wearer.

And his plan worked, since he was able to convince a jury that Chartrand – who wears the costume as part of his job as a Walt Disney World – could not have fondled a 13-year-old girls while posing for a photograph with her and her mother.’

Posted: 12th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

The Art of Liposuction

‘HAVING tried toenails, hair and dandruff, the enterprising modern artist that lurks deep within all of us will be interested to hear what Nicola Constantino has been up to.

The Argentine artist has taken to sculpting objects from her own fat, which was taken out during a liposuction. Two kilos of her fat have been moulded into two sculptures of the female naked body. And they can be yours for a mere £250 each.

Entitled Take a Shower With Me, Constantino’s exhibition also features 100 soaps made from her siphoned off lard.

‘My work has always been about the body and consumerism,” says she. ‘I know it is disgusting but I am also aware that those soaps have something that wakes up people’s sexuality and eroticism. It is an invitation to put our bodies in contact.”

Posted: 11th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Don’t Have A Cow, Man

‘LONELINESS can make us do strange things. We can hire prostitutes to talk to, call up strangers on the phone just to hear another human voice or make pets of insects found behind the fridge.

Or if you’re Gynge Lajos, a 74-year-old pensioner living in the Romanian town of Aita Media, you can shack up with a cow. And not just any old cow but a dead one.

But not everyone was happy with Lajos’ roomy, and health officials were called to investigate a strange smell of gas coming from his flat. And when the officials entered Lajos’ domicile they were surprised to see a dead cow in his living room.

In his defence, Lajos claimed the cow was also his dining companion, and he cut off a strip and cooked it every time he was hungry.

A police spokesman said: ‘The animal was already in putrefaction and the old man was telling us he was still eating from it from time to time and so he wanted to keep it. He was really angry when it was taken away.’

And hungry…’

Posted: 10th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Making Cow Eyes

‘AUSTRALIANS can love their animals and livestock too much.

The organisors of the annual Tasmanian Agricultural Show say that things are getting out of hand. So they’ve issued a decree stating that all cattle breeders must stop altering their prize steers’ looks by way of cosmetic surgery.

‘We don’t want cows’ teats sealed or glued,’ says a spokesperson for the Tasmania Agricultural Show Council. ‘We don’t want people pumping cows’ stomachs up to expand the stomach. We don’t want any interference at all as far as the conformation of the animal is concerned. We want to put them in the show ring as they have bred them.”

Posted: 9th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

The Pits

‘WE all know about ridiculous corporate team-building exercises in the Brecon Beacons, but top German mangers are being sent off with buckets and spades to the country’s first ‘Sandpit Academy’.

Organisers of the course at the Holiday Inn hotel near Dusseldorf airport say being in the sandpit will teach the managers to communicate with each other as they build sandcastles together.

In preparation for the courses, up to 80 tons of sand have been dredged up from the bed of the Maas River and dumped in the interior courtyard of the hotel, and companies from all over Germany can now send their high-paid managers to practise, er, building sandcastles.

Oh, and of course to enhance their solution-oriented communications skills, team spirit and creativity.’

Posted: 6th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Choc Horror!

‘NEW York mayor Michael Bloomberg has some way to go to ensure the Big Apple’s position as the most illiberal city in the United States.

In Washington DC, 45-year-old Stephanie Willett was handcuffed and arrested…for eating a chocolate bar inside a Metro station.

Eating and drinking is banned on the Metro system in the capital and the officer had warned Willett to finish the bar before entering the station.

Willett said she put the last piece in her mouth and threw the wrapper away.

The officer continued to follow her into the station and Willett was searched, handcuffed and arrested for chewing after passing through the fare gates.

She was only released several hours later after paying a $10 fine.’

Posted: 5th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Cock(neys) Of The North

‘CORONATION Street is set in the land of flat caps, pigeons, cobbled streets and loudmouthed fishwives. At the moment, though, you could be mistaken for thinking that Weatherfield is a suburb of the East End borough of Walford.

Mad fer it

Producers have unwisely decided that what the nation’s favourite northern street needs is yer salt of the earth East End Mockney family.

If we wanted bad acting and far-fetched storylines we’d switch over to BBC1. Unfortunately for viewers, the Baldwins have decided to make Weatherfield their permanent home, with both Danny and Jamie now employed at the factory and mum Frankie moving in all her best Argos furniture up from “Chingford”.

Frankie likes to think of herself as a footballer’s wife type, unfortunately, she’s more dart player’s wife. “I can’t believe it’s come to this!” she moaned, “livin’ in a pokey ‘ouse in a back street.”

Danny has lost everything to pay off Vinnie, his former best friend and lover of Frankie. Son Jamie decided to meet out some Jerry Springer style justice to Vinnie for his affair with his step-mum and kicked his head in. Vinnie agreed to drop the charges but only after Danny gave him every penny he owed.

“I’ll pay yer back, I promise I will, dad,” a grateful Jamie told his dad. Sadly for Danny, Jamie went out and got a low-paid job at the factory.

Jamie turned up for his first day at work sporting a black eye and the sort of cut of vest that made him look like he was carrying two ham shanks under his arms. Yet, for some unfathomable reason, he’s being touted as the new Justin Timberlake.

Leanne Battersby is the latest to fall under his spell, and the pair spent the afternoon together in the pub instead of doing the factory delivery he’d been paid to do.

Another unlikely new pairing are Penny and Ciaran. Ciaran turned on his Oirish charm, and Penny has agreed to have lunch with him. (After Bev, you’d have thought that Ciaran would have learnt his lesson about dabbling in the older lady.)

But Ciaran really loses the plot when he takes up with Tracy Barlow in the next couple of months. That’s Tracy, whose track record of relationships includes sleeping with a man in a cardigan for a penny-bet and a pensioner who pretended to be a millionaire.

There’s more mad coupling down Weatherfield way as Martin and Katy get back together. Katy managed to tempt Martin back into bed in spite of her horrendous new haircut that makes her look like a mad cockerel. Mind you, Dev’s been looking like a cock for years – and it hasn’t stopped him attracting the opposite sex.’

Posted: 5th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

A Prize Chump

‘LES has never been the brightest penny in the jar but, even by his standards, dumping Janice for Cilla has got to be the stupidest thing he’s ever done.

Streetcars Named Desire

Cilla was determined to win back her man/meal ticket at any cost. Les was proving remarkably strong in resisting her ‘charms’ – helped by the fact that Janice was usually hovering in the background like a pit bull.

He’d even agreed to Janice kicking Chesney out so that Cilla would have no excuse to visit. But like a sexually transmitted disease, Cilla just won’t go away.

This week she turned up in the street at the wheel of a flash red convertible. “Hello, lover boy!” she screeched at a shocked Les. “Fancy comin’ for a ride?”

Fizz happened to see Les hop into the car and went running into the factory to tell Janice. “Right!” shouted Janice, grabbing her handbag and fags before getting into Patrick’s cab. “Follow that slut!”

By the time they’d caught up with the errant pair, however, Cilla had persuaded Les to try out the reclining seats and had managed to undo his trousers in about five seconds – demonstrating that practice does indeed make perfect.

Janice took one look at the pair and stormed off back to Weatherfield. “Yer not going to let that woman win, are yer?” Leanne asked her mum. “I am when the prize is Les,” she replied.

Les was hardly bothered at losing Janice once Cilla had told him that she’d been left a fortune by a mysterious long last aunt.

“I’ll need someone to protect me from all those fortune hunters out there,” she told Les, who took all of five seconds before inviting her to move back in with him.

Unfortunately, even a child of ten could see through Cilla’s lies and one did. “Yer haven’t got a long lost aunty, have yer mam?” asked Chesney. “If you don’t shut up you’ll be back on the social worker’s doorstep, waitin’ to be put in a home,” hissed Cilla.

Cilla in for a nasty shock, however, when Les reveals that he’s given up his job at Streetcars to become a kept man. It’ll be the Department of Social Security that’ll be keeping them both soon enough.

Elsewhere in Weatherfield, it seems that Ciarian really has hit the jackpot when Penny King agrees to lend him the money to open a trendy wine bar and restaurant. Mike is less than enthusiastic about the idea, however.

“The bloke was a chef on a submarine! If people didn’t like his food they had nowhere else to go. It’s hardly in the same league, is it?”

And on the subject of leagues, The Rovers has started it’s very own bowls club to take part in the Newton and Ridley ladies’ league.

Jack has agreed to coach the factory ladies in the gentle art of throwing. “It’s all in the wrist,” he told them.

Hayley is proving to be the star of the team – although that’s hardly surprising. As a former man, (s)he’s probably spent plenty of time building up that particular muscle.’

Posted: 5th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Tough Love

‘IF you thought David Blunkett was an unforgiving Home Secretary, a court in Turkey has sentenced six children to up to 22 years in prison…for stealing less than 40 pence from two classmates.

The children, who at the time of the incident three years ago were aged between 11 and 15 years, were found guilty of theft and using threatening behaviour.

The judge ruled that the children had been old enough to realise what they were doing heard when they threatened two children with a knife and stole 1 million Turkish lira – around 37 pence.

After two years in custody, the oldest children have now been sentenced to 22 years in jail with the youngest children given 10 year sentences.

Unsurprisingly, the children are appealing to the country’s High Court.’

Posted: 4th, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

A Bad Habit

‘HUGH Grant, Gillian Taylforth, Stan Collymore – the list of celebrities caught having sex in a car is a long and distinguished one and now includes a Catholic priest and nun who were caught in flagrante delicto in an airport car park in Malawi.

The 43-year-old priest and 26-year-old nun received a suspended six-month jail sentence with hard labour after being spotted hard at it in a tinted saloon car parked at Lilongwe International Airport.

‘It was a bizarre spectacle, the public alerted airport police after noticing the car shaking in a funny way,’ police spokesman Kelvin Maigwa said.

The priest and the nun both pleaded guilty to the charge of indecent behaviour in a public place and disorderly conduct.

The nun told the magistrate she regretted her brief lapse in judgement, while the priest said that as a man of God he accepted Satan had tempted him.

Magistrate Arthur Mtalimanja warned that if the couple repeat the offence in the next 18 months they will go to jail.’

Posted: 3rd, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Crap Coffee

‘WE’VE all had a crap cup of coffee in our time, although most of us haven’t paid £20 for the privilege.

But that is what coffee fanatics will pay for a cup made from Kopi Luwak beans, which sell for more than 250 pounds per pound.

And, according to Canadian scientist Massimo Marcone, the reason why the Ethiopian beans – the world’s most expensive – taste better than anything else is because they have been eaten and defecated by a wild cat.

Mr Marcone used taste machines and humans to establish that there really is a difference in taste between beans that have passed through a civet cat’s digestive system and those that have not.

The University of Guelph professor claims it is because digestion breaks down protein, and protein makes the non-digested beans bitter.

However, he insists there is no health risk in drinking coffee from the digested beans, as there is very little bacteria left on the beans once they are washed, and roasting destroys the rest.’

Posted: 2nd, August 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Caught On Camera

‘EROTICISM and Britain have never been easy bedfellows.

The saucy postcard is as far as the British like to go. But things are changing, apparently.

And now we Brits are being invited to submit our home made sex films for the country’s first erotic film festival this September.

The Xplicit British Film Festival is offering a contract to the maker of the best amateur film.

Xplicit 984 founder Amanda Kiss says: ‘We are so excited about the Xplicit British Film Festival – it represents a milestone in history and demonstrates that sex is no longer a taboo here in the UK.

‘It really is refreshing to see that us normally prudish Brits are finally realising that adult entertainment is not a sin.

‘Sex is mainstream now, it’s here to stay, so let’s embrace it!’

Makes you wonder how the British used to procreate in the years before Ms Kiss happened along…’

Posted: 30th, July 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Pet Names

‘WE British love our pets. Kill a man or invade a country and we’ll debate the whys and wherefores until we’re all blue in the face. But be cruel to a dog and you’ll be stung up from the nearest lamppost.

But one man in Beijing, China, couldn’t find a dog. Or a cat. Or even a rat. So he took to keeping around 200,000 cockroaches as pets. The pensioner told police he had begun breeding the cockroaches as a hobby after his wife died.

That’s fine – but how did he remember all their names?’

Posted: 29th, July 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Guilty Of Love In The First Degree

‘SANDHU Gurguiatu, 47, has his day in court almost every day. The Romanian can’t stay away ever since he appeared before Judge Elena Lala three years ago. It was love at first sight. But the only way Gurguiatu could guarantee seeing his true love was to appear before her in court.

‘It was, I daresay, love at first sight. I fell in love like a fool and when I heard she was married I didn’t know what to do to keep seeing her,” says Gurguiatu. “Then it came to me. The only solution was to see her in court so I began studying the law and calling into justice the company where I used to work. I started over a hundred lawsuits and thus I could see her almost every week.’

Says Judge Lala: ‘I feel pity for this man. But I am not amused at all. I am surprised to hear this. It is true I judged many labour lawsuits in which Mr Gurguiatu was involved but for me all the people who come into justice are equal.”

Posted: 28th, July 2004 | In: Strange But True | Comment