Man calls 911 to request prostitute

LEXINGTON, N.C.  — A 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged with calling 911 to request a hooker, according to an arrest report obtained by the Lexington Dispatch.

Records show Lonnie Michael Felts called 911 three times on Sunday. The first time he called, he requested “a hooker and an escort to get boots,” the arrestb report showed, according to the Dispatch.After an officer warned Felts about misusing the system, he made two more calls, the newspaper reported.On the third, “Felts called on 911 again for a non-emergency domestic escort,” the Dispatch reported.

Italian film Qualunquemente imitates real life Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (video)

ROME - A new Italian film portrays a flashy politician who loves easy sex and hates justice, but with the real prime minister embroiled in a prostitution scandal, critics say political reality is looking stranger than fiction.

The comedy “Qualunquemente” hits Italian theatres this week, just as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi battles a growing storm over allegations that he paid for sex with prostitutes. He says the charges are absurd and dreamed up by biased magistrates.

The film revolves around “Cetto La Qualunque,” a small-time fugitive who returns to his hometown in the southern region of Calabria and runs for mayor to combat what he considers a dangerous wave of law and order sweeping the coastal town.

Flanked by half-naked women, Cetto goes on the campaign trail with the intentionally shocking slogan “I have no dream, but I like pussy.”

Off the trail, Cetto parties with topless women in a hot tub, frequents prostitutes and admiringly tells a bikini-clad woman: “Your lovely body qualifies you for town councillor.” Coming just as Italy grapples with leaked accounts of wild “bunga bunga” parties at Berlusconi’s home with prostitutes procured by a showgirl-turned regional councillor, the film has drawn sizable attention and more than a few snickers.

“The filmmaker assures us it is a ‘very funny’ film, but the truth is that there’s little to laugh at because reality — now, more than ever — has vastly overtaken fiction,” film critic Fulvia Caprara wrote in La Stampa newspaper. “The vulgar horrors on the screen are nothing compared to those we see mentioned in the accounts leaked to newspapers.

Flight attendant receives proposal mid-flight

At 30,000 feet above Portugal, flight attendant Vera Silva’s boyfriend asked for her hand in marriage on a loudspeaker. She happily accepted

Be Careful-Girl falls into mall fountain while texting (video)

It’s easily done. You’re walking along engrossed in your phone, completely oblivious to the world around you, when you walk into something.The girl is oblivious to the danger ahead You dust yourself off, try to hide your embarrassment and get on with your day.

But for one avid phone-user, the unfortunate results of a lack of due care and attention when texting were captured on CCTV – and have now been viewed by over 1,400,000 people on YouTube. In the video, the girl is seen walking along texting, oblivious to the large fountain dead ahead. She then tumbles over the side, falling face down in the water, before retrieving her phone and quickly scrambling away.

And if that wasn’t enough for you, the video also includes more than one angle so you can really appreciate the awkward moment.

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Strange naked drunk woman wakes man

Forget asking for a cup of sugar -- this is one way to meet your neighbours and ensure they'll remember you.

A single man in Victoria, B.C., woke up early Saturday morning when he heard someone open the door to his apartment, police said."A few minutes later a woman came into his bedroom, promptly disrobed, slid into the bed next to him and fell asleep," Victoria police said on the force's operations blog. "The difficulty here was that the man lives on his own last time he checked."The man called police at 3:20 a.m. Saturday.

When police arrived, the woman was still asleep. They discovered the woman had the right building and apartment number, but she was on the wrong floor. One officer found her purse, jacket and shoes on the floor in front of her correct apartment door. No one answered when police knocked.

The woman, who police said was "quite intoxicated," was taken into custody until she sobered up.

Why-Iran bans Valentine's Day gifts

TEHRAN - Iran has banned the production of Valentine’s Day gifts and any promotion of the day celebrating romantic love to combat what it sees as a spread of Western culture, Iranian media reported.The Feb. 14 celebration named after a Christian saint is not officially banned but hardliners have repeatedly warned about the corruptive spread of Western values. Under Iran’s Islamic law, unmarried couples are not allowed to mingle.

The printing works owners’ union issued an instruction on the ban, imposed by Iranian authorities, covering gifts such as cards, boxes with the symbols of hearts and red roses.“Honouring foreign celebrations is the spread of Western culture,” said the union’s head, Ali Nikou Sokhan, ILNA news agency reported. “Our country has an ancient civilisation and various days to honour kindness, love and affection.”Valentine’s Day has become increasingly popular among the Iranian youth and is a money-maker for businesses in a country where 70 percent of people are under 30 and have no memory of the 1979 Islamic revolution which toppled the U.S.-backed Shah.

“Printing and producing any products related to Valentine’s Day, including posters, brochures, advertising cards, boxes with the symbols of hearts, half-hearts, red roses and any activities promoting this day are banned,” read the instruction. “Authorities will take legal action against those who ignore the ban.”Some nationalists have suggested replacing Valentine’s Day with “Mehregan,” an Iranian festival celebrated since the pre-Islamic era. Mehr means friendship, affection or love.

Big Fat Gypsy Weddings: Bride Sam Norton 20st illuminated dress - picture

DETERMINED to dazzle on her big day, Sam Skye Lee planned to float down the aisle in a net gown bedecked with fairylights and delicate fabric butterflies with moving wings.

Well, she would have floated if the voluminous dress – wired up to a battery pack hidden inside in her bra – hadn’t weighed 20st. Ex-barmaid Sam, 17, who lives in a caravan in St Helens, Merseyside, said: “I could hardly walk. But it was worth it.”Her marriage to traveller Pat, 20, features in the new C4 series of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, which starts tonight.

Shopkeeper faces jail for locking 40 customers in her store - because she thought one was a thief

A SHOPKEEPER who locked 40 people in her store because she thought one was a thief could face five years in jail.Customers in Szczecin, Poland, were held for an hour but no items were missing. A lawyer said: “This is a case of unlawful imprisonment.”

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