Disguise-Man dressed like 'Mannequin' spies on ladies in toilet

A MAN "dressed like a mannequin" has been caught spying on women using the ladies toilet at a shopping mall.

Student Joel Hardman was wearing a mask and wig at Birmingham’s showpiece Bullring mall when a shopper reported seeing someone "dressed like a mannequin" walk into the loos.He later emerged from a locked cubicle and admitted performing a sex act.

And Birmingham Magistrates’ Court heard Hardman’s phone contained three images of women's feet taken beneath cubicle doors and an audio recording of a flushing toilet.Hardman, 22, of Norfolk Road, Edgbaston, yesterday pleaded guilty to observing another person doing a private act for his own sexual gratification. Jonathan Purser, prosecuting, said Hardman, believed to be an MSc student at the University of Birmingham, told a Bullring security guard: "Yes, I've been a bit weird.

Wow-Yes, men really can make it longer – study

SOME non-surgical methods for increasing the length of the male sex organ do work, while others are likely to result only in soreness and disappointment, a review of medical literature has shown. Surgical procedures, however, could be dangerous and had an "unacceptably high rate of complications," according to the study, published this week in the Journal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons.

"An increasing number of patients seek urological advice for the so-called 'short penis'," the researchers reported.

This is true despite the fact that "penile length is normal in most of these men, who tend to overestimate normal phallic dimension".

A male member - measured on the upper side - can be considered normal in length if it is at least four centimetres when limp, and 7.5 centimetres when rigid, noted several of the studies evaluated.

Some allowances, they added, must be made for a man's height and his body-mass index (BMI), which measured deviation from optimal levels of body fat.To determine the efficacy and safety of surgical and non-surgical techniques for so-called "male enhancement", Marco Orderda and Paolo Gontero of the University of Turin in Italy canvassed scientific literature. They found 10 relevant studies. Half reported on surgical techniques, performed on 121 men. Among the non-invasive methods, tested on 109 subjects, so-called penile extenders which stretched the phallus through traction were shown to be most effective.

One study reported an average increase of 1.8 centimetres, while another measured an extra 2.3 centimetres in a flaccid state, and 1.7 centimetres when erect. But the regimen for achieving these gains was arduous: six hours of daily traction over four months in the first case, and four hours every day over six months in the second.

Another device, known as a "penis pump," used a manual or motorised pump to create a vacuum inside a hard cylinder sheath, stretching the phallus.

Six months of treatment, however, "was not found to be effective for penile elongation, although it provided some sort of psychological satisfaction for some men", the researchers said.

So-called peno-scrotal rings - expandable or rigid bands which fitted around the base of the scrotum and penis - "might help to augment penile size and maintain erections in men suffering from anxiety", they reported, but only two cases were evaluated.

Advertisements claiming another popular technique - so-called "penile lengthening exercises" - could add centimetres to one's manhood were unfounded, say Oderda and Gontero.

Weird-Depressed man cooked, ate own finger

A New Zealand man struggling with depression cut off his own finger, cooked it with vegetables and ate it, doctors reported in the latest issue of medical journal Australasian Psychiatry.It's only the eighth identified case of self-cannibalization, and is particularly rare because of the patient's lack of severe psychosis, the article abstract says.The patient, a 28-year-old man, amputated and ate the finger without any evidence of impaired reality testing or substance abuse. "Mr. X," as he was referred to in the report by forensic psychiatrist Erik Monasterio and clinical psychologist Craig Prince, suffered from bouts of low mood, and sometimes thought of suicide, the New Zealand Herald reported, citing the report.

Once while depressed, he was attacked by two men, and fantasized about killing his assailants and eating them, the report said.

Nature-Footballers and fans forced to buzz off as bees invade AC Pavia stadium, Italy

PLAYERS and fans were forced to flee from a football stadium as a swarm of bees invaded AC Pavia’s league match in Italy.

Stupid-Air traffic controller suspended for watching movie on duty

WASHINGTON — an air traffic controller has been suspended for watching a movie when he was supposed to be monitoring aircraft, deepening the Federal Aviation Administration's embarrassment following at least five cases of controllers sleeping on the job.

In the latest incident, the controller was watching a movie on a DVD player early Sunday morning while on duty at a regional radar center in Oberlin, Ohio, near Cleveland that handles high-altitude air traffic, the FAA said in a statement Monday.

The controller's microphone was inadvertently activated, transmitting the audio of the movie — the 2007 crime thriller "Cleaner," starring Samuel L. Jackson — for more than three minutes to all the planes in the airspace that the controller was supposed to be monitoring, the agency said.

The controller's microphone became stuck in the transmit position, preventing him from hearing incoming radio calls or issuing instructions to planes during the incident, the agency said.

Good-#@*! Swearing really is a powerful painkiller, study shows

Next time you stub your toe, go ahead and let those four-letter words fly. Cursing actually does help dull our perception of pain, research suggests.In the study, researchers from the UK's Keele University asked participants for five words they'd likely use after hitting their thumb with a hammer; the first word listed would be their go-to profanity during the experiment. (They were also asked to list five boring words -- ones they'd use to describe a table.).

Participants were then instructed to submerge their unclenched hand in a container of 41-degree water, and keep it there -- while repeatedly cursing -- for as long as they could. Before and after plunging their hands into the chilly water, their heart rate was recorded. And after they could no longer stand the cold temperature, they were asked to rate the amount of pain they were in, too.What's surprising is that the researchers had thought that swearing would make the cold water feel much colder, lowering the participants' tolerance for pain and heightening their perception of it. "In fact, the opposite occurred -- people withstood a moderately to strongly painful stimulus for significantly longer if they repeated a swear word rather than a nonswear word," write the team, led by Keele University psychologist Richard Stephens, in the journal Neuroreport.

Talented-Moonwalking Romanian politician told to stop moonwalking – video

On one TV show Talmacean showed just what a mover and a shaker he is by putting on a solo dance routine in front of clapping studio guests – he even displayed some seductive moves to two of the females, who found it hysterical.

Talmacean, who's a member of the Democratic Liberal Party, is no one-trick pony, though. He's also known for his impersonations of celebrities and late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.As a result his ratings have soared, with his blog rocketing from the 49th most viewed to the seventh in just two weeks, and women gossiping about him in coffee bars and hairdressing shops.

'I think he expressed the way he felt which is good,' said Valentina Tudor, 25, a sandwich vendor in Bucharest, the capital.

'It's not as if he stole or did something bad. He is talented. I can't imagine (President) Basescu doing the moonwalk.'