Lesson-Brick tied to man's Penis as punishment

A Bangladeshi man was forced to parade naked through his village with a brick tied to his penis. It was his punishment for kidnapping and marrying a minor.According to AFP news service, the punishment was meted out Saturday to the 30-year-old man by the local council of his village, about 30 km south of the capital, Dhaka. At least 200 people watched. He allegedly kidnapped and then forcibly married a 12-year-old girl, who later escaped. But Bangladesh's penal code doesn't include a penile code. Police are reportedly investigating the matter; because local councils are only allowed to settle land disputes and other minor issues, not hand out physical punishment

How- Fake Apple Store in China even fools staff

SHANGHAI - Chinese counterfeiters have had a field day pumping out knockoffs of Apple Inc’s best-selling iPhones and iPads, but one appears to have gone a step further — a near flawless fake Apple Store that even employees believe is the real deal. The store in Kunming was stumbled upon by a 27-year-old American blogger living in the city, the capital of China’s mountainous southwestern Yunnan province. Complete with the white Apple logo, wooden tables and cheery staff claiming they work for the iPhone maker, the store looks every bit like Apple Stores found all over the world, according to the blogger, who goes by the name “BirdAbroad”. But Apple has no stores in Kunming and only 13 authorized resellers in the city, who are not allowed to call themselves Apple Stores or claim to work for Apple. “This was a total Apple store rip-off. A beautiful rip-off — a brilliant one — the best rip-off store we had ever seen,” the anonymous blogger posted on Wednesday. “Being the curious types that we are, we struck up some conversation with these salespeople who, hand to God, all genuinely think they work for Apple.”
An Apple spokesman in California declined to comment on the fake stores but said consumers can go to the company’s website to locate authorized outlets.

Nice-Disabled man builds DIY wheelchair

The result is truly uplifting. Now when he wants to get into or out of his fifth floor flat the 32-year-old from Voronezh heads outside. Mr Bibikow, from Voronezh, south-western Russia, was badly injured after falling from a balcony but his determined spirit still drives him on.‘When I bought the flat I had been told an elevator would be built,’ he said. ‘But after waiting six years I decided to take matters into my own hands.‘Living on the fifth floor without a lift was a nightmare because I couldn’t get in or out of the block without someone’s help. It was like being in a prison.’

Why-Bride Arrested, jailed after vows

IT is meant to be the happiest day of your life, but one bride's wedding day picture was today being splashed across news websites for all the wrong reasons.

Tammy Lee Hinton, 53, was arrested on a felony warrant just moments after saying her wedding vows on Sunday in Jackson, Michigan. She was also briefly jailed - while wearing her wedding dress and veil - The Jackson Citizen Patriot reported.Police mugshots released of Ms Hinton show her staring glumly into the camera while dressed in a white dress with a veil on her head.Wanted in Michigan for identity theft, Ms Hinton had been living in Florida recently and police received information she would be back in Michigan for the wedding at City of Zion Ministries."We can't ignore it when we have good information on where she's going to be," Blackman-Leoni Township Public Safety Officer Rick Gillespie said. "We had to do what we had to do."He said police gave her the opportunity to change out of her wedding dress before taking her in but she declined.

Wow-Vibrations from Seoul Tae Bo class cause high-rise building to shake for 10 minutes

SOUTH Korean experts said today a vigorous gym exercise session caused a high-rise building in Seoul to shake for 10 minutes earlier this month, prompting hundreds to flee it in panic. In front of journalists they re-created the scenario on July 5 - a group of 17 middle-aged people working out to the tune of a pop song, The Power by German group Snap - and caused the building to shake in a similar way.The group had been engaged in Tae Bo - an aerobic exercise routine that combines boxing and martial arts like Taekwondo - in the 12th floor gym of the 39-storey TechnoMart mall building.

"Participants in Tuesday's test said they felt the building rolling greatly while others said they had felt lesser oscillations," TechnoMart spokesman Andy Yang told AFP.