Archive Category: Crime & Law

Prostitute Traded Sex for … Frito-Lay Chips!

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on June 28, 2009 at 1:18 pm

The economy is so bad that even prostitutes are desperate! Oklahoma City resident Lahuma Sue Smith, 36, pled no contest to prostitution charges that she traded sex for … a box of Frito-Lay chips:

According to the police report, undercover officers noticed Smith "trying to catch a date” by flashing her headlights at SE 33 and Robinson. Officers said they followed Smith’s car and found her with her blouse open and found a man in the passenger seat pulling his pants up.

The man told police he was having marital problems and knew he could pick up a prostitute there.

Smith told police the man told her he was looking for company but he didn’t have any money, so she agreed to be paid with a $30 case of Frito-Lay chips he had in the back of his car.

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Luxury Russian Cruise Hunts Somali Pirates

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Travel & Places, Weapons & War on June 26, 2009 at 1:23 am

Perhaps this is the way to deal with Somali pirates, and get a little R&R at the same time: a Russian luxury cruise line is offering wealthy customers the chance to hunt pirates!

Wealthy punters pay £3,500 per day to patrol the most dangerous waters in the world hoping to be attacked by raiders.

When attacked, they retaliate with grenade launchers, machine guns and rocket launchers, reports Austrian business paper Wirtschaftsblatt.

Passengers, who can pay an extra £5 a day for an AK-47 machine gun and £7 for 100 rounds of ammo, are also protected by a squad of ex special forces troops.

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Update 6/26/09 - It’s a hoax, though I think the proposed (morbid and not to mention unethical) solution is still a matter of interesting debate - Thanks rb!

 
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Sharks: Serial Killers of the Sea?

Posted by Queuebot in Animal, Crime & Law, Science & Tech on June 25, 2009 at 1:21 am

Researchers using a criminology method made an interesting observation about great white sharks.  It turns out the hunting habits of the great whites were similar to human serial killers.

The scientists adapted geographic profiling, a mathematical technique used to track down serial criminals, to investigate the hunting habits of great whites.

They observed the location of 340 shark attacks and used the data to locate the sharks’ “anchor points”.

In criminal investigations, a series of linked crimes - usually murder, rape or arson - is used to determine the rough location of the perpetrator’s “anchor point”. Most often this is a home or place of work.

Serial killers or rapists tend to operate within a confined area around the anchor point, so knowing its location allows police to avoid being swamped with suspects and prioritise those who live or work in certain areas.

The shark scientists linked the “crimes” of great whites off the South African coast - attacks on seals - and found that the sharks had a well defined search base.

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Neither Snow Nor Rain … But Pot Will Do a Postman In!

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on June 22, 2009 at 10:18 pm

While it’s debatable on whether marijuana will lead to harder drugs, it’s now fact that it can lead to laziness.

Here’s the story of a postman who got so lazy after smoking so much pot that he decided to burn mail instead of delivering it:

Neil Goddard, 32, was given a 12-month sentence after he set up a huge cannabis factory in his bedroom and managed to cultivate 8,000 pounds of the drug.

But he smoked so much of it over a year-old period that he was too high to bother delivering thousands of items of post.

So let’s revise that (unofficial) postal service motto: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, but pot surely can!"

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A Family That Steals Together …

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on June 20, 2009 at 3:20 pm

Quick: what do you usually do on a family outing? Do you go to the movies? Maybe eat out? How about steal together? That’s exactly what one family did in Boerne, Texas.

Kim Fischer of WOAI reports:

Boerne police said that they’ve never seen anything like it. A family stealing items right off a store counter. Then, caught on surveillance video, a child walking out the door with them.

Wal-Mart camera saw it all. First a man cases the jewelry section. Next, he brings in a child to cover him as he steals an entire carousel of jewelry worth $1,600. Then police say the adult let this small child do the dirty work. "She was the one who pushed that grocery cart out the front door …"

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Man Arrested Mid-Hairdo

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Fashion on June 19, 2009 at 4:24 am

There’s probably never a good time to get arrested, but you have to admit, this is kind of awkward: Marcus T. Bailey, 25, was in the middle of getting his hair done when he stepped out to deal drug … and got arrested!

The mug shot is priceless:

A 25-year-old Evansville man was arrested Wednesday when he stepped out of a South Side barbershop to conduct an apparent drug deal, police said.

Marcus T. Bailey, 25, was actually being sought on a parole warrant when authorities arrived at 952 Washington Avenue and found him in a car with two other people and about 21 grams of crack cocaine, said Evansville Police Department Spokesman Steve Green. Bailey was apparently having his hair braided inside when he stepped out, Green said.

Link - via BuzzFeed

 
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‘National’ Sues ‘Naughty’ American University

Posted by Urbanist in Advertising, Crime & Law, Odd News on June 16, 2009 at 7:50 pm

Well, the headline pretty much sums this one up -  disgruntled university is suing an adult content site for treading on their trademarks. Unfortunately for National American University, however, the similarities mostly end at the same-sounding names starting with the same letters. One of the more hilarious claims of the former of the two NAU’s is that students, faculty and others may begin confusing one for the other. When folks affiliated with a school begin to confuse their campus for a pornography production set, however, it might just mean something is missing from the curriculum.

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45 Famous Last Meals

Posted by John in Crime & Law, Food & Drinks on June 16, 2009 at 7:08 pm

Ryan Deal of Top Cultured has a list of last meals given to condemned criminals, both real and fictional.  Here are a few:

Adolf Eichmann: He declined a special meal, preferring a bottle of Carmel, a dry red Israeli wine. He drank about half of it.

John Wayne Gacy: A dozen deep-fried shrimps, a bucket of original recipe chicken from KFC, French fries, and a pound of strawberries.

Timothy McVeigh: Two pints of mint chocolate-chip ice cream.

 Marv in Sin City: A “pretty decent” steak and a beer.

What do you plan on asking for?

Link [Link pointed to original source at Wikipedia - by Alex 6/17/09] - via Urlesque

 
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Saudi Princess Refuses to Pay $25 Million Shopping Bill by Claiming Diplomatic Immunity

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Politics on June 14, 2009 at 1:29 pm

It’s good to be a princess! You can run up a £15 million (US$24.7 million) shopping bill and then refuse to pay it due to "diplomatic immunity"!

One of the most senior members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family, Princess Maha al-Sudairi, is claiming diplomatic immunity in France after running up unpaid shopping bills of more than £15 million including £60,000 on designer lingerie.

She has ignored her furious debtors and locked herself in her £2,500-a-night suite at the George V Hotel in Paris.

When a royal aide was approached about settling the underwear bill he replied: "I’m afraid we can’t go around settling bills for the Princess’s knickers."

Princess Maha, whose husband, Prince Nayef, is interior minister and second-in-line to the Saudi throne, is said to have spent millions on designer clothes, jewels and other luxury products in the French capital over the past year. Her weekly dry cleaning bill alone was said to be £30,000.

Every time the Princess and her entourage visited a shop a representative would offer staff an embossed document stating "Payment to Follow".

Link - via Arbroath | The BBC reports that she has paid up after a judge ordered bailiffs to confiscate the knickers

 
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Go Directly to Jail: 4 Brilliantly Bungled Crimes

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Mentalfloss on June 14, 2009 at 12:45 am

They Should Have Stolen a Watch First

Long before he was an outlaw country crooner, Merle Haggard was a real outlaw - albeit a bad one. At the rebellious age of 20, Haggard and a few friends planned to rob a restaurant.

They got drunk and waited until 3 o'clock in the morning, when they knew it would be empty. But when they broke in, they were surprised to find the restaurant full of people. Turns out, in their drunken haze, they accidentally wandered in at 10:30 pm. The attempted burglary landed Haggard in notorious San Quentin State Prison, where he saw Johnny Cash perform three times, inspiring him to pick guitars instead of locks.

Always Case the Joint


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In the olden days, crooks used to "case" joints, staking out a place and detailing all the intricacies before attempting to rob the business. But on March 12, 2008, two young criminals in Port St. Lucie, Florida, proved that tradition is dead. The would-be robbers confidently entered the lobby of a business, hid their hands in their jackets like guns, and demanded money from the woman at the front desk. Unfortunately, there was one flaw in the plan - the "business" was actually a police station.

When God Closes a Window ...

Never come between a defensive lineman and his chalupa. Employees at a Lawrence, Kansas, Taco Bell learned this lesson the hard way in 1999 when they forgot to include one of the deluxe tacos in the order of Dion Rayford, a former member of the Kansas Jayhawks.

Enraged, Rayford lunged through the store's drive-thru window, going after the employees like they were chalupas themselves. But drive-thru windows aren't meant to accommodate a 6'3", 270-lb. lineman, and Rayford got stuck. There he remained, half inside and half outside the Taco Bell, until the police arrived to dislodge him, and then arrest him.

Pier Review

Despite being a former child star, late actor Brad Renfro (The Client, Sleepers) could never afford a $175,000 yacht. So, in 2000, the 18-year-old actor decided to steal one from a Ft. Lauderdale marina.

Unfortunately for him, the 45-ft. vessel was still tied to the dock. When Renfro fired up the engine for a joy ride, the yacht inched forward and was quickly yanked back into the dock, damaging the stern and alerting everyone that something fishy was afoot. Nearby boaters held the beardless pirate until police arrived. (Photo: Brad Renfro's mugshot at The Smoking Gun)

Go Directly to Jail: 4 Brilliantly Bungled Crimes is written by Adam K. Raymond. It is reprinted with permission from the Scatterbrained section of the May/June 2009 issue of mental_floss magazine.

Be sure to visit mental_floss' entertaining website and blog for more fun stuff!

 
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Art or Vandalism?

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Crime & Law on June 11, 2009 at 11:50 am

A deviant artist nicknamed ULiveandYouBurn turned roadside traffic safety barrels into monsters and alligators, but is it art or vandalism?

Sometimes there’s a fine line between art and vandalism. Blurring that line is Raleigh, North Carolina-based ULiveandYouBurn (nickname used to protect his identity). Part Urban Explorer, part fine-art photographer and social critic, ULiveandYouBurn is constantly pushing the boundaries of acceptable art.

As an Urban Explorer, he’s traveled into many closed-off areas including construction sites, abandoned buildings, and mine shafts, and he’s climbed his share of dizzying construction cranes.

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N.Y. Store Owner Gives Would-Be Thief Lecture, $40, Bread

Posted by Queuebot in Crime & Law on June 11, 2009 at 11:40 am

Most people put their hands up or hand over valuables in a robbery. However, this N.Y. store owner foiled an attempted robbery with a lecture, $40 and a loaf of bread.

Mohammad Sohail, a Long Island convenience store owner confronted by a bat-wielding would-be robber said Tuesday he decided to show mercy on the man after he collapsed in tears claiming he was only committing the crime to support his starving family.

Instead of getting loot from a stickup, the store owner provided the man with $40 and a loaf of bread, but only if he promised never to rob again.

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Man Ripped Politician’s Wig Off, Got Jail Time for Depriving His “Freedom To Look Pretty”

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Politics on June 9, 2009 at 5:27 pm

Politics in Taiwan have always been rough, but this is downright dirty. A man was sentenced to 5 months in jail for tearing a wig off Taiwan legislator Chiu Yi. The sentence was for depriving Chiu of the "freedom to be pretty."

Yes, you read that right:

The Taipei District Court sentenced Huang Yung-tien, 50, to jail for snatching the toupee off the head of ruling Nationalist Party lawmaker Chiu Yi. Chiu has become a household name for his media-friendly offensives against the political opposition.

"The judge thought Chiu Yi had the freedom to wear what he wanted, and Chiu felt the wig made him look prettier," court spokesman Huang Chin-ming said. "The judge thinks that to remove it intentionally was to take away that right."

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Judge Rules “Crunchberries” Are Not Real

Posted by Queuebot in Crime & Law, Food & Drinks on June 7, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Here’s proof that people will sue just for about anything: a plaintiff named Janine Sugawara sued the makers of Cap’N Crunch Crunch Berries cereal because she found out that the "crunchberries" are not really berries!

In another proof that the judicial system works,  the judge dismissed her complaint:

On May 21, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed a complaint filed by a woman who said she had purchased “Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries” because she believed “crunchberries” were real fruit. The plaintiff, Janine Sugawara, alleged that she had only recently learned to her dismay that said “berries” were in fact simply brightly-colored cereal balls, and that although the product did contain some strawberry fruit concentrate, it was not otherwise redeemed by fruit. She sued, on behalf of herself and all similarly situated consumers who also apparently believed that there are fields somewhere in our land thronged by crunchberry bushes.

Cap’n According to the complaint, Sugawara and other consumers were misled not only by the use of the word “berries” in the name, but also by the front of the box, which features the product’s namesake, Cap’n Crunch, aggressively “thrusting a spoonful of ‘Crunchberries’ at the prospective buyer.” Plaintiff claimed that this message was reinforced by other marketing representing the product as a “combination of Crunch biscuits and colorful red, purple, teal and green berries.” Yet in actuality, the product contained “no berries of any kind.” Plaintiff brought claims for fraud, breach of warranty, and our notorious and ever-popular California Unfair Competition Law and Consumer Legal Remedies Act.

Link - via kevinunderhill

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5 Kidnap-For-Ransom Stories

Posted by Queuebot in Crime & Law on June 1, 2009 at 2:17 pm

Holding a person for ransom makes big headlines, but years later or in another placec, you may not be familiar with these stories that gripped the public in their time.

The kidnapping and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., son of aviator Charles Lindbergh occurred in 1932 and was one of the most horrific crimes of its time, prompting the “Lindbergh Law”, which made kidnapping a federal crime. (Prior to, it was classified as a local crime.)

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God’s Debt Cancellation Plan

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Religion on May 28, 2009 at 7:45 am


Morris Cerullo in a poster advertising for his "Mission to London" (Photo: LoopZilla)

Loan modification and debt cancellation are hot businesses right now. So hot that God himself apparently decided to get in on the action.

Here’s a story of how one man built himself a surging evangelistic ministry, complete with "God’s debt cancellation" program - yours for the unbelievably low payment of a mere few hundred bucks:

Emotional on-air pitches generate much of the money used to pay network salaries. In March, Morris Cerullo appeared on Inspiration’s “camp meeting” with a message to fire up prospective donors.

“Is anybody ready for the greatest financial breakthrough you’ve ever experienced in your life?” he asked.

The elder Cerullo, a Pentecostal minister, at times appeared to speak in tongues. His gravelly voice periodically rising to a shout, he urged members of the audience to fill envelopes with $900 donations.

“When you sow for your financial anointing, the windows of heaven are going to open for you,” he said. “ … In the next nine months, you are going to experience more financial blessings than you’ve ever experienced in your life! 100 fold! Debt cancellation!”

Soon, these words appeared on the screen: “Call now with your $900 offering and receive God’s debt cancellation.”

Ames Alexander and Tim Funk of Charlotte Observer have the investigative report: Link - via Raw Story

 
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Prisoners Smuggle In Stuff with a Toy Chopper

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Gadget, Toy & Video Games on May 26, 2009 at 12:21 pm

Remember the story of how prisoners in Brazil have been smuggling in cell phones using pigeons?

Well, that’s low tech compared to what these other prisoners did:

Four suspects were arrested late on Sunday outside a maximum security facility in the southern town of Presidente Venceslau in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state after the mini-chopper, 14 mobile telephones and the equivalent of 500 dollars in cash were found in their rented car, according to reports in local media.

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Note that this is also in Brazil: what’s up with that? Can’t they smuggle things the good ol’ fashioned way - in their butts - just like all other prisoners do in the rest of the world?

 
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The Man Who Sues

Posted by Miss Cellania in Crime & Law, World Records on May 26, 2009 at 9:51 am

Despite being incarcerated at a federal prison in Kentucky, Jonathan Lee Riches has made it into the Guiness Book of World Records. He was named as the person who has filed the most lawsuit ever. So what did he do next? He filed a lawsuit against the folks at Guinness!

In the injunction filed in Richland, Riches – who acknowledges he is receiving treatment for mental-health problems – said: “The Guinness Book of World Records have no right to publish my work, my legal masterpieces.”

Those include lawsuits against New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, former President George W. Bush, Somali pirates, Britney Spears and Martha Stewart, according to a Wikipedia page dedicated to Riches’ litigious exploits.

He’s also filed lawsuits against Plato, Nostradamus, James Hoffa, “Various Buddhist Monks,” the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel Tower and Three Mile Island.

In his latest court filing, Riches wrote about how he sued Black History Month, the president of Iran and butter substitute I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!

Link -via Arbroath

 
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The Strangest Anti-Drug PSAs Ever

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Politics on May 25, 2009 at 6:22 pm

YesButNoButYes blog has a post about anti-drug PSAs that look like they were made by people who were under the influence themselves!

The post includes such gems PSAs by Hanna-Barbera, Pee Wee Herman (I half expected him to giggle by the end), and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Link - via Rue The Day!

 
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Fight Crime by … Banning Pizza!

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Food & Drinks on May 25, 2009 at 1:36 pm

Jim Graham, a Washington D.C. councilman, has an unusual proposal to fight crime in his neighborhood: ban pizza!

Democrat Party councilman Jim Graham says the late-night “Jumbo Slice” pizza shacks operating on the popular Adams Morgan club and bar strip in Ward 1 attract the element that is likely to commit crime.

“Even though it’s a legal business and everything, they have become a nuisance,” Graham said. “Behaving the way they do in terms of music, in terms of letting people hang out and also in terms of tolerating a certain level of violence.”

Needless to say, the pizza joint owner is not amused: Link

 
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Would-Be Gangster Shot Off Own Manhood

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Weapons & War on May 23, 2009 at 1:33 pm

Here’s a lesson for all you tough guys: don’t stick a gun in your pants to impress friends, lest you shoot off your manhood!

Lukas Neuhardt, 27, had forgotten to put the safety catch on when he stuffed the gun into his trouser pocket to impress pals in Saarbruecken, Germany.

He told paramedics that a masked mugger had blasted him in the crutch in a bungled robbery.

But police found a hole in his statement when they saw that the gunshot had miraculously left his trousers intact.

"Instead there was a charred hole in his pocket so either it was the shot of the century or he did it himself," said a police source.

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Man Robs Store with Banana, Eats Evidence

Posted by Miss Cellania in Crime & Law on May 17, 2009 at 8:10 am

John Steven Szwalla was arrested for attempted armed robbery of a computer cafe in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He approached the store owner, Bobby Ray Mabe while pointing something that was under his shirt. Mabe and a store customer jumped on Szwalla, held him down, and called police. The “weapon” turned out to be a banana! Szwalla ate the banana before the police arrived.

“And the deputy said, ‘Ah hah! He ate the evidence,’” Mabe said. “But we had the banana peel and they took a picture of it.”

John Steven Szwalla, 17, was charged with one count of attempted armed robbery. Warrants and records with the sheriff’s office list different addresses for him, with a most recent address in Clemmons.

Deputies joked about charging him with destroying evidence, said Major Brad Stanley, a spokesman for the Forsyth County Sheriff’s office.

Szwalla is in the Forsyth County Jail with bond set at $50,000.

Link -via Arbroath

(image credit: Flickr user Jason Gulledge)

 
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Cocaine and LSD in the Air of Spanish Cities

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Travel & Places on May 14, 2009 at 2:00 pm

If the residents of Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, seem a little bit high, that’s probably not because they’re high on life. Instead, it may just be because of the cocaine and LSD found in the air. Yes, you read that right:

A new study has found the air in Madrid and Barcelona is also laced with at least five drugs - most prominently cocaine.

The Superior Council of Scientific Investigations, a government institute, said on its website that in addition to cocaine, it found trace amounts of amphetamines, opiates, cannabinoids and lysergic acid -a relative of LSD - in air-quality control stations in the cities.

But authorities say that the amount is so miniscule that there’s no reason for alarm: Link (Photo: cuellar [Flickr])

 
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Facebook Justice: Fighting Crime with Facebook

Posted by Alex in Blog & Internet, Crime & Law on May 14, 2009 at 1:58 pm

Stupid criminals who love to brag about their crimes aren’t new, but add social networking to the mix and police have a new tool to bust them. It’s a new kind of justice … Facebook justice!

Asylum has a nifty post about the 6 crimes solved by the popular social networking website. For example:

Lesson #1: If you spray paint a special tag all around town, you might not want to brand it to your Facebook page.

We totally get the need to broadcast talents to friends on Facebook — that’s what it’s for, right? But unless you’re Banksy, your masterful tags probably won’t go over too well with the feds. That’s why, when specific tags were appearing all over Winnipeg, officers received a tip directing them to Facebook, where they found the same designs on an 18-year-old’s page.

Lesson #2: If you get caught on surveillance camera, just because you don’t have a mug shot on file doesn’t mean your face isn’t already out there for the finding.

Smile! … Or not. The Queenstown police of southern New Zealand nabbed their first Facebook crook after they caught a good shot of a burglar looking directly at the security camera after removing his mask. Quickly after posting the shot to their two-month-old page, tipsters sent suggestions and they identified the 21-year-old thief.

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Saudi Judge: Slapping a Spendthrift Wife is OK

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on May 11, 2009 at 1:31 pm

Not content with allowing old men to marry underaged girls, a Saudi Arabia judge is doing one better in promoting equal treatment of womenkind in the Kingdom:

Husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic violence, Saudi media reported Sunday.

Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily newspaper based in Riyadh, reported that Judge Hamad Al-Razine said that "if a person gives SR 1,200 [$320] to his wife and she spends 900 riyals [$240] to purchase an abaya [the black cover that women in Saudi Arabia must wear] from a brand shop and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment."

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Update 5/11/08 - Clarification: it’s not the same judge that ruled that the marriage between a 58-year-old man and the 8-year-old girl was legitimate - Thanks seefish3!

 
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Paragliding Cops

Posted by Miss Cellania in Car & Vehicle, Crime & Law on May 11, 2009 at 10:50 am

Officers of the Palm Bay Police Department in Florida keep an eye on a large area by using motorized paragliders!

Police Chief Bill Berger says they are a way for the department to have a bird’s eye view of the semi-rural city at minimal cost.

“Because we don’t have a lot of roadway here, this gives us the ability to basically take short cuts,” said Berger.

The vehicles and training cost $10,000 per officer, which is cost-effective compared to using helicopters. And they have other benefits.

Chief Berger sees the gliders as an ideal tool for searching for missing elderly people who have wandered away.

“The problem with helicopters is you can’t go below 1,000 feet,” said Berger. “The canopy of trees in our community prevented the helicopter from seeing a woman who had [died] close to her car. The paragliders would have been able to get much lower.”

Link -via Fark

(image credit: ABC News)

 
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Anti-Elephant Begging Graffiti

Posted by Alex in Animal, Arts & Crafts, Crime & Law, Pictures, Politics on May 10, 2009 at 1:18 pm

Australian artist Brooke Bobridge, who is currently living in Bangkok, Thailand, took a series of graffiti by local and international artists imploring passer-bys NOT to feed the elephants. They want to discourage "elephant begging" where the pachyderms are used to part tourists from their dollars (or technically, bahts).

Link - via amy sol blog

 
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Chuck Norris Protects Croatian Bakery From Burglars

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Movies & SciFi on May 6, 2009 at 12:52 pm

Tired of getting burglarized regularly, a bakery in Split, Croatia, decided to solicit the protection of a certain Hollywood action star. At least in spirit:

The posh bakery shop in Split, Croatia, had often been broken until they put up the poster of the karate champ with a sign saying: "This shop is under the protection of Chuck Norris."

Now the bakery hasn’t had a single burglary for more than a month. "People seem to respect him," said a sales assistant.

Link (Photo: Europics.at)

Best Chuck Norris Fact in the comment about this post gets a Free Neatorama T-shirt. Ready, Set, Chuckify!

Update 5/13/09 - Congratulations to chrome who won with this bakery-themed Chuck Norris Fact: the bakers briefly switched the bear claws with “chuck norris claws” how ever the lack of survivors ran down business.

 
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Your Car Warranty Is About To Expire Spammer Identified!

Posted by Alex in Car & Vehicle, Crime & Law on May 6, 2009 at 1:09 am

Tired of getting those "Your car warranty is about to expire" robo-call? I get those several times a week, even though I’m on the do not call list.

Well, thanks to some clever people over at reddit (oh, how I love reddit - can’t beat the sophisticated level of snark there …), we now have the identity of one of the spammers … and their phone number! Link

Will this stop them? Probably not - according to the Arizona Daily Star, it’s not just a one company operation.

 
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Man Bobbitized in Car Accident

Posted by Alex in Car & Vehicle, Crime & Law, Medicine on May 6, 2009 at 12:40 am

Sin Chew Daily (coincidence? I. Don’t. Think. So) and China Press reported a bizarre car accident that led to a man being Bobbitized in Singapore:

The daily reported that the incident occurred in a Singapore park where the couple met after work. To make matters worse for the woman, her husband had sent a private investigator to spy on her after suspecting that she was being unfaithful. The investigator said he had followed the woman and her boss to the park.

“On reaching the park, they did not alight from the car. Not long after, the car started to shake violently. After the car was hit by the van, there was a loud scream from the woman whose mouth was covered with blood,” he said. The woman later followed her lover to the hospital with part of the sexual organ.

Link - via Arbroath

 
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