Maybe he felt he just reached his plateau in life?
Foley has been quiet the last whileâŚ
A 20-year-old man has been given a four-month suspended jail sentence after admitting to repeatedly stealing underwear from a womanâs washing line. Skip related content
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Luke Wicker, 20, formerly of Whitby Close, Biggin Hill, south east London, stole the underwear from the victimâs garden in Melody Road, Biggin Hill, during the early hours of the morning on four separate occasions between June 1 and 11.
He pleaded guilty to four counts of theft at Bromley Magistratesâ Court in June, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said.
He was caught after the woman set up CCTV in her garden after noticing underwear she had hung out had gone missing.
When police went to Wickerâs home they found 65 items of clothing hidden behind his bed, including 15 bras and 26 pairs of knickers, with many of the items belonging to her 13-year-old daughter.
Wicker, who now lives in a Sussex night shelter, was also given a 100-hour community sentence in addition to the prison sentence, which is to be suspended for 12 months.
He was also given a restraining order against the victim and ordered to pay her ÂŁ250 compensation.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100825/tuk-man-sentenced-over-underwear-theft-6323e80.html
Luke Wicker, The Knicker nicker
Sooooooperb. 
A Kuwaiti MP proposed Wednesday state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich emirate. Skip related content
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âThe proposal aims at solving the problem of unmarried women, which is a problem facing our society, and encourages widows and divorced men and women to form new families,â independent Shiite MP Faisal al-Duwaisan said.
The Gulf state already grants Kuwaiti men who wed a female citizen for the first time a âmarriage aidâ of 4,000 dinars (14,000 dollars, 11,000 euros), half of which is a grant and the rest an interest-free loan with easy installments.
But Duwaisan wants the government to grant an additional aid package for men to take second wives, provided certain conditions are met.
The prospective grooms must obtain written permission from their existing wives to marry again, or they must be widowed or divorced.
The women they marry must be widows, divorced or at least 40 years of age and never married, Duwaisan said in his proposal, which was submitted to parliament.
Parliamentary panels will review the proposal, then send it to parliament for consideration. If approved, it will become law.
Kuwait, the fifth-largest producer inside the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, provides a cradle-to-grave welfare system by offering most public services at highly-subsidised rates. Education and health are free for citizens.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100825/tod-kuwaiti-mp-wants-state-aid-for-men-t-7f81b96.html
Is there any spy or MI6 related threads I can post the news story of the lad found in the bag in? The minimum 4 character search thing is a pain.
I find that annoying as well. Just put site:thefreekick.com into Google instead followed by your search term. Much handier.
Sound. There are no threads which seem to fit the bill though.
I wonder is it worthy of a new thread?
This story is a couple of years old but fuck me it is a fucked up one.
Three animal rights extremists involved in the theft of the body of an elderly woman from her grave were yesterday jailed for 12 years each in what is seen by police and prosecutors as a groundbreaking case.
The militants, including a vicarâs son and a psychiatric nurse, led what they called a âholocaustâ against a farm which bred guinea pigs for medical research. Jon Ablewhite, John Smith and Kerry Whitburn pursued a six-year hate campaign against Darley Oaks farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire. Whitburnâs girlfriend, Josephine Mayo, was sentenced to four years for a lesser part in the campaign.
Almost 100 people connected to the farm were targeted. Explosive devices were sent to some, mail threatening to kill and maim to others. There were attacks on homes, cars and businesses. The relentless campaign culminated in the theft of the body of Gladys Hammond, a close relative of the Hall family who ran the farm, from her grave in October 2004.
For months, activists taunted the Halls, telling them the body would be returned if they closed the farm. The body was found only last week in woodland after Smith told the authorities where it was.
Sentencing the men, Judge Michael Pert described them as wicked and a danger to society. He said: âYou assumed the right to dictate which lawful activities you would permit and which you would not. You sought to enforce your views not by lawful protest but by subjecting wholly innocent citizens to a campaign of terror.â
Police welcomed the sentence. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Baker, who led the inquiry, said: âI hope the sentence sends a strong message to those tempted to engage in such extremism. Your cowardly tactics will not be tolerated. You will be caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.â
The four pleaded guilty to conspiracy to blackmail - the first time such a charge has been used successfully against animal rights extremists.
At yesterdayâs sentencing hearing, Anthony Glass QC, prosecuting, described a âprolonged and vicious attackâ against the Hall family, their relatives, friends and contacts. It began in 1999, when members of the protest group Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs began to turn up at the Hallsâ farm with placards comparing their operation to a Nazi concentration camp. In September 1999, more than 600 guinea pigs were âliberatedâ in a raid.
The activists conducted painstaking research - helped by a mole at the DVLA - to trace anyone connected with the family and terrorise them. They threatened a cleaner who worked for them, leaving fake explosive devices outside her home and throwing paint bombs through her windows. They wrote threatening to attack her unless she stopped working for the Halls. âWeâre tooled up and ready, are you?â they wrote in one letter. The extremists left a doll with a knife in its chest and pins in its head outside the house of a farm labourer and spelled out his name in shotgun cartridges. Some of the hate mail was signed the Animal Liberation Front, others the Animal Rights Militia.
The extremists turned their attention to a business that collected milk from the Hallsâ dairy herd and, after searching the bins of one of its executives, found he had an embarrassing medical condition and published details on a website.
The fanatics threatened a family firm that supplied the Halls, and vowed to go after other members of the female darts team to which one of the bosses belonged.
But the most outrageous incident was stealing Mrs Hammondâs body from the churchyard at Yoxall, Staffordshire, in October 2004. The activists wrote to the Halls telling them they could get the body back if they shut the farm. âThis is a serious offer,â they wrote. The blackmailers ensured the Halls knew they had the body by mentioning a toy left in the coffin.
In March 2005, Staffordshire police appeared on the BBCâs Crimewatch programme asking the authors of anonymous letters sent to the Halls to prove they had the body. As soon as the programme ended, Smith drove Ablewhite and Whitburn to Brakenhurst Wood, close to Darley Oaks farm. Police were tailing them. They stopped them early in the morning and found a collapsible spade, head torch, balaclava and camouflage clothing in the car. On a mobile phone at Smithâs home, they found a text message sent that morning. It read: âFlies hoverin [sic], cld be a whileâ.
Police raided the homes of Ablewhite, 36, Smith, 39, Whitburn, 36, and Mayo, 38, in the West Midlands and Manchester. They found mobile phone and computer records which proved their part in the campaign.
Darley Oaks farm was forced to shut in January. Christopher Hall, one of the principal owners, said his family had felt âunder siegeâ for years.
Mrs Hammondâs daughter, Janet Palmer, told the court the theft of her motherâs body was a âgruesome and alien thing to doâ, an act of âterrorismâ.
Hulda Regehr Clark (18 October 1928â3 September 2009) was a controversial naturopath, author, and practitioner of alternative medicine. Clark claimed that all human disease was related to parasitic infection, and also claimed to be able to cure all diseases, including cancer and HIV/AIDS, by destroying these parasites by âzappingâ them with electrical devices which she marketed. Clark wrote several books describing her methods and operated clinics in the U.S.
In her book The Cure For All Cancers, Clark postulated that all cancers are caused by the flatworm Fasciolopsis buski. However, this worm does not live in the USA and Europe but mainly in India, parts of China, Vietnam and other east-Asian countries, and only in rural areas where people are eating unboiled food from water plants, or where pigs live close to humans. She also said that HIV is a worm virus and that the worm is responsible for AIDS: âI find it (F. buski) in every case of HIV, Alzheimerâs disease. Without this parasite you canât get HIV.â According to Clark, depression is caused by hookworms.
Regarding the effectiveness of her treatment, Clark wrote, âThe method is 100% effective in stopping cancer regardless of the type of cancer or how terminal it may be. It follows that this method must work for you, too, if you are able to carry out the instructions.â
Hulda Clark died on 3 September 2009 of multiple myeloma (a blood and bone cancer)
A US doctor involved in an âon-again, off-againâ relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriendâs home by sliding down the chimney, say police.
Her decomposing body was found there three days later in the chimney of his Californian home.
Dr Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, first tried to get into the house with a shovel, then climbed a ladder to the roof last Wednesday night, removed the chimney cap and slid feet first down the flue, Bakersfield police Sgt Mary DeGeare said.
While she was trying to break in, the man she was pursuing escaped unnoticed from another exit âto avoid a confrontationâ, authorities said.
DeGeare said the two were in an âon-again, off-againâ relationship.
The manâs identity was not revealed by police, but the man who resides in the home is William Moodie, 58.
âShe made an unbelievable error in judgment and nobody understands why, and unfortunately sheâs passed away,â Moodie told The Associated Press.
âShe had her issues, she had her demons, but I never lost my respect for her.â
Reached by telephone, Moodie did not dispute the policeâs characterisation of his relationship with Kotarac. He would not comment on the circumstances that led to her death, saying it was more important to focus on the good she did in life.
Moodie, who runs an engineering consulting firm, said Kotarac was a superb internist who often provided service and medication free of charge to her patients.
Kotarac apparently died in the chimney, but her body was not discovered until a house-sitter noticed a stench and fluids coming from the fireplace on Saturday, according to a police statement.
The house-sitter and her son investigated with a flashlight and found Kotarac dead, wedged just over half a metre above the top of the interior fireplace opening.
Firefighters spent five hours late on Saturday dismantling the chimney and flue from outside the home to extract Kotaracâs body, DeGeare said.
Officials said Kotaracâs office staff reported her missing two days prior when she failed to show for work. Her car and belongings remained near the manâs house.
A cause of death has not been determined, and an autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday. Foul play is not suspected, though investigators have been looking into the incident as suspicious.
Reuters) - Drug lord Pablo Escobarâs hippo died the same way he did, hunted down and shot by the authorities for posing a danger to the public.
The African-born hippopotamus that escaped three years ago from a ranch once owned by Escobar was killed on orders of the government, authorities said on Friday.
Cocaine king Escobar, who was gunned down by police on a rooftop in the city of Medellin in 1993, was so flush with cash that he flew in hundreds of exotic animals, including kangaroos, flamingos, elephants, rhinos, and nine hippos.
Many were given away to zoos after his death and collapse of his cartel. But two dozen hippos continued to live and mate on his former estate in northern Colombia.
A male and a female escaped in 2006, freely roamed the wetlands near the Magdalena River and even reproduced in the wild. They were rarely seen and became something of a local legend until two journalists found them grazing 65 miles (100 km) away from the ranch last month.
Colombiaâs environmental agency ordered the animals killed, saying they were carriers of disease and posed a risk to local communities.
Colombians were shocked by television images broadcast on Friday of the carcass of the male hippopotamus surrounded by hunters and soldiers dressed in camouflage. Animal rights groups denounced the killing.
âThey could have been captured and kept in a safe place until a permanent refuge was found for them,â said Marcela Ramirez of a local group called Animal Protection Network.
The hunt was still on for the surviving adult hippo.
âIt was only a question of time before those animals hurt someone,â Environment Minister Carlos Costa told reporters. âAfter more than two years of trying to capture them, the decision (to kill them) was a sound one.â
The slain hippo was known locally as âPepeâ and had recently sired a calf by his mate, according to local fishermen who had caught glimpses of the three together.
(Reporting by Hugh Bronstein; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Bit old too
3 Colombian teens on Facebook hit list killed in past 10 days
Three teens who were on a 69-name hit list posted on Facebook have been killed in the past 10 days in a southwestern Colombian town, officials say. Police say they do not know who posted the list or why the names are on it. âIt is still not clear,â Colombian national police spokesman Wilson Baquero told CNN. âThis is part of the investigation.â
But officials note that a criminal gang known as Los Rastrojos and a Marxist guerrilla group called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia operate in the area.
The hit list on Facebook, which was posted August 17, gave the people named three days to leave the town of Puerto Asis or be executed, said Volmar Perez Ortiz, a federal official whose title is defender of the public.
Police at first thought the posting was a joke, Perez said in a statement issued Saturday. But the publication of a second list with 31 additional names led authorities to convene a special security meeting Friday, Perez said.
The posting of the lists and the meetings occurred after the first two killings, which took place August 15, Perez said. On that day, officials say, 16-year-old student Diego Ferney Jaramillo and 17-year-old CD retailer Eibart Alejandro Ruiz Munoz were shot and killed while riding a motorcycle on the road between Puerto Asis and the town of Puerto Caicedo. Both their names were later found on the first published hit list.
Also on the list was Norbey Alexander Vargas, 19, who was killed August 20, Perez said. Another young man, 16-year-old student Juan Pablo Zambrano Anacona, was wounded in the same incident when he gave chase to the assassins, Perez said. Colombian media said Monday the number of those threatened has grown and panic has overtaken Puerto Asis, with some parents sending their children out of town because their names are on the Facebook notice. The names of 31 women were posted on the other list, said Radio RCN, semana.com and other news outlets.
Residents have been overcome with âpanic and anxiety,â several news outlets quoted Putumayo state official Andres Gerardo Verdugo as saying. Several of those residents posted their concerns on Twitter, an online messaging site. âPanic in Puerto Asis, Putumayo, because of threats against young people,â wrote a user who goes by JuanSepulvedah. âOur youth must be protected.â
Someone who posted under the name JulianEco brought up the Facebook connection. âThe situation in Puerto Asis is tenacious, that a social site be used to add fire to the Colombian conflict,â the post said. Twitter user hugoparragomez likened the situation to the drug-fueled crime waves in other Colombian cities.
âWhat is happening in Puerto Asis, Putumayo, is grave, the same as in Medellin,â the tweet said. âAuthorities should take control of the situation. Who is investigating?â
Still others inflated the death count.
âIn Puerto Asis they have killed 20 young people threatened on Facebook and the authorities have not said anything,â wrote jesusmhenriquez âThat is Colombia.â
Federal officials say they are taking the threats seriously and have sent investigators from Bogota, the nationâs capital, to Puerto Asis. Internet experts are among the investigators assigned to the case.
Authorities also are offering a reward of 5 million pesos (around $2,750) for information on the killings
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Perez, the federal defender of the public, noted that the Los Rastrojos criminal gang is active in Puerto Asis, âexecuting violent actions, resolving community conflicts, imposing living and conduct norms, intimidating and meting punishment against ⌠drug sellers and consumers, sex workers, people with criminal and unlawful histories and threatening social leaders, business people, taxi drivers and motorcycle taxi drivers.â
Perez said the Marxist guerrillas, commonly known as the FARC, also are active in the remote area, which borders Ecuador. Two Facebook representatives did not return a message Tuesday asking for comment.
Serie A players announce plan to strike on weekend of 25 September
Serie A players plan to strike during matches on 25 and 26 September because of a dispute over contracts, the Italian footballersâ association said today.
The Milan defender Massimo Oddo told a news conference: âThe association, in perfect symphony with the players of Serie A, has decided not to go on the field for the fifth round of matches of the Serie A championship on 25 and 26 September, in protest against requests to impose new contractual rules.â
A full programme of Serie A games is planned for that weekend and if the strike goes ahead it will cause problems for broadcasters and the league schedule for the rest of the season.
The Italian playersâ association has threatened to strike over a number of disputes but it has always stepped back. This time there is a considerable weight of ill-feeling over a complex contractual issue.
A collective contract between the association and the league, guaranteeing playersâ rights, expired in the close season and attempts to draft a new deal have not succeeded.
Serie A, which broke away from the rest of the Italian league at the start of the season, had said it would propose a new collective deal this Monday.
The playersâ association is also alarmed by the trend of clubs trying to force players to accept transfers in the last year of their contracts.
The Guardian
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20100913/tod-irish-siblings-plan-to-get-married-045b8e8.html
Irish siblings plan to get married
Irish couple are planning to defy the law and get married later this month, despite being brother and sister
The pair, who already have a child together, have been warned that it is illegal to marry a sibling but say they are determined to do so anyway and spend their lives together.
The couple, who have assumed the pseudonyms of James and Maura to protect their identities, claim they were unaware that they shared a father when they first met and fell in love.
They say their attraction was so strong that within just one week of meeting they felt that they had known each other for a lifetime and within two years their son, Mark, was born.
Speaking to the Irish Mail on Sunday, âJamesâ explained that despite setbacks they will be able to marry by the end of the month.
âWe were aiming for Christmas but we have decided to do it sooner,â he declared.
"Maura has got her wedding dress, weâve ordered identical suits for myself and our son.
"It will be a very small wedding. We have two witnesses who we know very well and they know about our situation.
"I donât know whether our father will come or whether any of our parents will be there.
âOur son is getting excited about the wedding. He knows what is happening. As for Maura and me, it hasnât really sunk in yet that weâre getting married.â
When Jamesâ mother first learned who Mauraâs father was she was shocked and told her son the disturbing truth about their incestuous relationship.
James and Maura explained that it was only through DNA tests and constant questioning that they discovered the full details of how they came to be half-brother and sister.
They say that in the â80s Jamesâ mother dated a man named Tom for five weeks and never told him she was expecting his child.
She was in a new relationship by the time James was born and named this partner as Jamesâs father on the babyâs birth certificate.
However, when his true father returned four years later and questioned if âJamesâ was his, a complex court case denied him access to the boy.
James stated, "The way I see it, if the system can know about things and hide the facts, then I can do the same. They turned a blind eye and so can we.
âPeople can criticise and say it is not right but they should say the same about what was done to me in the family law courts.â
This shitâs not right. Iâll probably read the book though, if I can get through it.
WTF?
Cowen denies being hungover during interview
listen Tuesday, 14 September 2010 12:53
Taoiseach Brian Cowen has denied being drunk or hungover during an interview on RTĂâs Morning Ireland.
Speaking to TV3, he said such comments were ridiculous and âuncalled for.â
Following the interview Fine Gaelâs Finance Spokesman Michael Noonan claimed there were concerns over the leadership of the country.
Mr Noonan said there was little to inspire confidence.
âThere was a feeling this morning ⌠that this canât continue, the game is up.â
Mr Noonan said the Taoiseach sounded tired, but that he was a long way from Galway and he did not want to say anything personal about him.
He did say, however, that what struck him was the uncertainty in Mr Cowenâs approach and that the Taoiseach had no clear answers.
Labour Spokesperson on Social and Family Affairs Roisin Shortall said the interview was inept and claimed only an election could save the country.
During the interview, Mr Cowen mistakenly referred to the Croke Park Agreement as the Good Friday Agreement.
Minister for Foreign Affairs MicheĂĄl Martin said the Taoiseach was âvery hoarseâ during the interview on Morning Ireland.
He said that the content of the interview was quite clear and focused on the estimates and the Budget.
âThere is always a social dimension to occasions such as this weekâs Fianna FĂĄil gathering, but no more than that.â
When asked was the Taoiseachâs interview an embarrassment, MicheĂĄl Martin said that there are always challenges in politics.
Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey has said he is âabsolutely astoundedâ at the controversy surrounding the Taoiseachâs tone of voice in the Morning Ireland interview.
He said the reaction to Mr Cowenâs performance was a âsideshowâ generated by Fine Gael.
Minister Dempsey said anybody who heard the interview and the content of it would be quite satisfied that the Taoiseach dealt with all of the serious questions that are facing the country.
Final day of Fianna FĂĄil conference
Brian Cowen was speaking at Fianna FĂĄilâs parliamentary party conference in Galway, which concludes today.
The Taoiseach said it was important to emphasise the strengths of the Irish economy before the forthcoming tough Budget.
Yesterday, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan indicated that further cuts beyond the âŹ3bn already signalled could be necessary.
Fine Gael warned that making deeper spending cuts could âdo more harm than goodâ.
The economy is continuing to dominate exchanges between the two main political parties with two weeks to go before the DĂĄil resumes.
Last night, Fine Gael spokesman Leo Varadkar said that the Taoiseach, Minister Lenihan and former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern should appear before an inquiry into banking.
He accused Mr Cowen of practising âlight touch regulationâ when he was Minister for Finance and said the consequences of the Governmentâs arrogance and incompetence would be felt for generations.
His party leader, Enda Kenny, echoed those comments, describing Mr Cowen as having been âthe worst Minister for Finance in the history of the Stateâ.
The Taoiseach ridiculed suggestions from Mr Kenny that it would take a decade of Fine Gael policies to undo the damage wrought by Fianna FĂĄil.
I read that earlier, thereâs hardly any mention of him being hungover past the first line. Itâs bullshit.
International Football - Turkish manager stabbed during match
Eurosport - Wed, 15 Sep 11:04:00 2010
A Turkish professional football match was suspended after the manager of one of the teams was stabbed on the touchline by his own brother.
Mersin Idmanyurdu boss Yuksel Yesilova was watching his side play at Samsunspor in a first division (second tier) match on Monday when the incident happened.
Forty minutes into the match Yesilovaâs older brother, Murat, jumped out of the crowd and attacked his brother, stabbing him six times in the stomach and hip.
The match was immediately suspended and Yesilova was rushed to hospital. His injuries were ruled not to be life-threatening, and he was released from hospital on Tuesday.
Governor Huseyin Aksoy told the Anatolia news agency: "It was discovered that Murat Yesilova, the elder brother of the coach, carried out the assault.
âIn his first statement to the police he said he did it because of personal issues.â
According to the Daily Mail, a Turkish television station reported allegations that the motive for the attack was that Yuksel had abused Muratâs son, Metin Yesilova.
However, Yuksel denies the claims, and said: "This person is interfering with me, my mother, my father and my other siblings. He has psychological issues. I have filed complaints against him several times and he was hit with a three-month ban for that.
"Three years ago, I wrote a letter to the Interior Ministry asking for help because it was obvious that this person wanted to harm me or a member of my family.
âThere are many allegations in the papers and on television and all of them are wrong. I will continue to seek my rights.â