Why-Teen tweets governor 'sucks,' sparks free speech debate
Stupid-Thieves steal booze but forget to fill up getaway car
Farmer couple marry in cow-themed wedding
How- A ring stuck on penis
Wow- Staring at naked women makes you smarter
Why-Pakistani wife kills and cooks husband (video)
Nice-Topless basketball league a booby prize for NBA fans
How- A ring stuck on penis
Two fire engines were called out to perform the cringeworthy procedure, after staff at
Queen Elizabeth Hospital was unable to prise the ring from the penis of the unfortunate individual. urprisingly, this was not the first man to find himself in this sticky situation, with firemen forced to perform the delicate procedure on two further occasions between April 2010 and May 2011.It was just one of 417 incidents involving people being stuck in objects, machinery and furniture that London firefighters attended to during the year.Some of the other objects people managed to become entangled with included an ironing board and a DVD player - and 36 people needed freeing from handcuffs. One man in
Kingston-upon-Thames turned to the emergency services for help after becoming irreversibly wedged in a child's toy car.
Britain's children are not missing out on the action either, with several bright young things getting toilet seats stuck on their heads. Dave Brown, the brigade's assistant commissioner for operations and mobilising, asked that the public take greater care before getting themselves into these 'often ridiculous' situations, ad to think twice about calling 999 in a non-emergency.These incidents are time-consuming, costly and take up the precious time of our crews who are then unavailable to attend other, potentially life-threatening, emergencies,' he said. (metro.co.uk)
Stupid-Thieves steal booze but forget to fill up getaway car
Devlin, 59, and Egan, 52, were caught on CCTV wheeling the alcohol out of Asda. But they came unstuck when their blue Citroen ran out of fuel and they were forced to push it to the store’s petrol station.They then paid to fill up before driving off – unaware the whole fiasco had been caught on camera.
Devlin and mother-of-four Egan, both from north
Manchester, admitted theft at
Manchester magistrates’ court.
The pair struck at the store in
Oldham on June 6. One of the women distracted a security guard while the other pushed the trolley into the car park, the court was told.
(metro.co.uk)
Why-Teen tweets governor 'sucks,' sparks free speech debate
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Kansas teenager's refusal to apologize for tweeting her that state governor "sucks" has drawn widespread support.
Emma Sullivan, 18, was taking part in a Youth in Government program last week in Topeka, Kan., when she tweeted during Gov. Sam Brownback's address to students: "Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot."
"I tweeted it as a joke," the Shawnee Mission East student said. "My friends and I were joking about things we would actually say in person."
But that joke was lost on the governor's communications team, who called Sullivan's school to complain. That landed the outspoken teen in Principal Karl R. Krawitz's office. "He told me that I was an embarrassment to the school and to the district and that we would all have to do damage control to fix the situation," she said.
The principal told her to write a letter of apology due on Monday.
Sullivan initially agreed to the assignment, but after thinking it over during the long weekend, decided against it.
The apology would not be sincere and I don't want to give Brownback or my principal any more power to control what I say," she said (QMI)
Wow- Staring at naked women makes you smarter
Real or false….
It’s high time the SUNshine Girl went topless. I say this not for prurient reasons or to make the circulation manager hysterical or to curry favour with my naturalist friends.
No, this is a public service. A boon to mental health. Yours. I’m happy to report what I’ve always suspected is true. The SUNshine Girl makes you smarter. It’s now a scientific fact. And a topless SUNshine Girl would have you knocking on the door of the Mensa Society. You guffaw? I, too, might have scoffed, before reader Ian of Sparrow Lake alerted me to a story this week in
Britain’s biggest newspaper The Sun, which runs topless models on Page 3.
Looking at Page 3 Makes You Brainy, the headline proclaims. “Scientists (have) discovered that looking at pics of the likes of Lacey, Keeley and Rhian makes the brain react quicker,” the paper says. This raises several questions. Such as: “Don’t people name their girls Martha, Dinah or Lois anymore?” Sorry, no. Only in the Bible.
And: How can gazing upon underclad women possibly boost your brainpower? Doesn’t that usually make men stupid?
Leave it to the fun-loving Finns to figure it ot. Researchers at the
University of Tampere and
Aalto University showed volunteer men and women photos of models in varying stages of undress. Before all you women in sensible shoes cry “sexist pig!”, I hasten to add the models also were male and female.
The volunteers’ electrical brain activity was monitored. Results appear in the current edition of the science journal PLoS One.
They make me proud to work for this newspaper, to share space with such brain food as the SUNshine Girl.
Professor Jari Hietanen reports the less clothes the models wore, the quicker each volunteer’s grey matter kicked into action.
This may have roots in how our cave-man ancestor identified a potential mate. It was easier if they were naked.
“In less than 0.2 seconds, the brain processes pictures of nude bodies more efficiently than clothed bodies,” Professor Hietanen says.
“Responses were the strongest when the participants looked at (nudes), the second strongest to bodies in swimsuits, and the weakest to fully clothed bodies.”
Ergo, looking at our SUNshine Girl, who is usually bikini-clad, is healthy since it jump-starts the brain into processing other images faster, too.
Imagine how quick-witted you’d be if the SUNshine Girl was topless like the Page 3 Girls of our British namesake.
Editor Wallace fell down giggling when I suggested it to him just now. When he saw I was serious, he blanched and urged me to read Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch or watch Thelma and Louise. But topless SUNshine is not entirely a new idea around here.
In the ‘70s, at a precarious point in the
Toronto Sun’s early life, founders Doug Creighton, Don Hunt and Peter Worthington decided the SUNshine Girl would go topless as a last resort. “We figured we wouldn’t go down without a fight,” Peter tells me.
Instead, the Sun caught fire and the notion was dropped. The SUNshine Girl evolved from fully clothed girl-next-door to scantily clad girl-next-door.
When I was editor-in-chief, she did get tantalizingly close to topless. One memorable time, a pair of suspenders was the only difference. The corporate brass were unhappy with me. But I recall our readers seemed especially smart that day. On the other hand, in a jaw-dropping display of dementia, I later toned down the Girl and moved her to inside the back cover, claiming I wanted Page 3 for news. What a dope. Time to make amends.
Time for the SUNshine Girl to doff her top. It’s the least we can do in the name of mental health and readers’ IQ.
Boy, talk about a brain teaser. ((QMI)
Why-Pakistani wife kills and cooks husband (video)
Pakistani woman is being held on suspicion of killing her husband, cutting him up and trying to cook the pieces,
Karachi police said Friday.
Zainab Bibi, 32, was arrested in connection with the murder Tuesday of her husband Ahmad Abbas, police said.
Her 22-year-old nephew, Zaheer Ahmed, is accused of helping Bibi stab Abbas to death and carves his body into small pieces. Police said she wanted to cook her husband's body parts so she could dispose of them without being caught.Neighbors raised the alert when they detected a foul odor in the neighborhood, police said.
Pakistan's domestic satellite channel ARY News spoke to Bibi in the police station where she is being held in the southern city of
Karachi.
In an interview broadcast late Thursday, she claimed to have killed her husband because he wanted a physical relationship with their daughter -- and said she did not regret her actions."I killed my husband before he dared to touch my daughter," she told ARY News.Journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this (CNN)
New-Farmer couple marry in cow-themed wedding
After meeting at a young farmers’ event, the couple wanted to tie the knot in a way that celebrated their country lives – and, after two-and-a-half years together, they certainly did it in style. Dressed in a pair of white wellies, the bride arrived at the church, in her home town of
Llandefalle, Powys, aboard a 2.8-tonne tractor. After the service, it transported the happy couple to a
muddy field at Hayley’s parents’ farm where they had a wedding portrait taken with a herd of cattle.
The pair, from Eardisland, Herefordshire, had a British Blue-themed wedding cake on their big day in August.And at the reception, guets, who were directed to tables named after different cows, enjoyed a four-course dinner of, you guessed it, roast beef.The couple honeymooned in the US state of Texas – the beef farming capital of the world – and spent three weeks touring farming enterprises.Hayley, 31, said: ‘We didn’t want to be all prim and proper – we just wanted to be us and what we do every day.
(metro.co.uk)
Nice-Topless basketball league a booby prize for NBA fans
FIRST there was lingerie football, a popular sport in the
US we hear with women sporting both bruises and blush in equal measure. Now there's the prospect of topless basketball.
With the sport in crisis in the
US and fans deprived of matches thanks to the NBA lockout, a group of nightclub owners appear to have have taken things into their own hands.
This morning it was revealed they want to form a basketball league of topless dancers to attract attention to the sport while the NBA saga drags on after nearly five months of crisis.Rick's Cabaret group's league, consisting of dancers from their 23 clubs, has reportedly said a former NBA star will be announced next week as coach of the New York team, which will unveil its uniforms - we're suspecting some of the most minute ever seen on a court -next week as well.
The team is evidently to to play dancers from a
Minneapolis club and another from
Miami with a full schedule of these game to apparently to be announced in January.
"People will be amazed when we tell them who our coach is, because he was one of the great players in the NBA,"
Gianna, no last name, a player for the
New York team has reportedly said."The girls are really excited. We're practically busting out of our tops. We plan to give him a really warm welcome on Tuesday."
