Weird News Stories

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Headline on the Independent website

[size=“5”]‘My daughter is not a rapist or a lesbian’[/size]

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Her being convicted for Lesbian rape would suggest otherwise

Its in the eyes

http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00907/annemarieP_indo_907661t.jpg

Didnt Ashley get in trouble before for a little live streaming of himself online?

Indeed he did, if it was with the bird above, I hope he had a wide angled lens on his webcam.

Ooo aar.

Two men are being questioned in Britain on suspicion of conspiracy to rob and murder after being arrested close to the home of singer Joss Stone.

Police said the two men, aged 30 and 33, were arrested in Cullompton, Devon, at around 10am yesterday.

Police said the men were initially arrested for possession of offensive weapons and being equipped to steal.

Officers found swords, rope and a body bag when they arrested the men near the 24-year-old star’s isolated country home, the Sun newspaper reported.

The men also had detailed maps and aerial photos of her rural property, it was reported.

A Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman said: “Police attended an address in Cullompton yesterday morning after alert residents notified officers about a suspicious-looking vehicle.

“Officers attended the area at around 10 am and subsequently arrested the occupants of a red Fiat Punto.

“Major crime detectives are continuing to investigate.”

Last month the Sunday Times Rich list placed Stone, who grew up in Devon, as the fifth wealthiest British and Irish pop star aged under 30, with a fortune of ÂŁ9 million.

PA

A court has heard how a man used a shotgun instead of ointment to get rid of a wart – a drastic decision which cost him his finger and landed him with a suspended jail sentence.

Sean Murphy, of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, appeared at Doncaster Magistrates Court this week with only a stump for a left middle finger after firing a 12-bore Beretta at his stubborn five-year-old wart.

The 38-year-old had been out drinking before resorting to the unconventional wart treatment on 13 March, the court heard.

However, he denied that the beer affected his aim and blamed his now missing finger on the recoil.

The man, who claims to have found the weapon in a hedge months earlier, pleaded guilty to theft and possession of a firearm without a valid certificate – an offence which carries a maximum 15-year jail term.

Police are investigating how exactly the Beretta came to be under the hedge. It is alleged that it could have been used during a local burglary in 2009.

His defence said he was the “victim of his own stupidity.”

The former security guard told the court that he was happy with the decision he made: “[The wart] was giving me a lot of trouble. It was as big as my thumbnail. I’d tried all sorts of things, but it wouldn’t go.”

“I didn’t expect to lose my finger as well when I shot it, but the gun recoiled, and that was it. The wart was gone, and so was most of my finger. There was nothing left so no chance to re-attach it.”

District Judge Jonathan Bennett said: “This was a most unusual way of treating a wart. I don’t know what was going on in your mind.”

Murphy was slapped with a 16-week suspended prison sentence, 100 hours of community service and ordered to pay a ÂŁ100 fine.

South Yorkshire Police were unable to comment in time for publication.

Hooray. 75 convictions between the pair of them though. That’s fucking ridiculous.
And one other thing…it said he was shot “while he slept”…was it ricochet that killed him? Or was his bed level with a window? Maybe he slept downstairs I suppose.

Life sentences for Bray murderers

Proven correct.
The conviction has been quashed and she is free to return home.

How do you prove somebody isn’t a lesbian?

I’ve rode tonnes of birds and sure I’m gay as Christmas.

Mother-in-law a web hit with advice for ‘uncouth’ bride-to-be

Thursday June 30 2011

THE wedding was already going to be difficult. It now promises to be excruciating for all concerned.

A bride-to-be has received a very public etiquette lesson after an email from her future mother-in-law, attacking her ‘uncouthness’ and ‘lack of manners’, went viral over the internet.

Heidi Withers (29) a London PA, was sent the email by Carolyn Bourne, the stepmother of her fiance, Freddie Bourne (also 29) and a businessman, after she visited her future in-laws in Devon, southwest England.

In the withering message, Mrs Bourne (60) a championship-winning flower breeder, said: “It is high time someone explained to you about good manners. Yours are obvious by their absence and I feel sorry for you.”

The email, which listed examples of Miss Withers’ “lack of grace” and “insulting” behaviour, was forwarded by its startled recipient to a few of her close friends.

They forwarded it to a few of theirs, and it has now arrived in the inbox of thousands of others.

Ladette

Mrs Bourne, a renowned breeder of pinks and dianthus flowers who runs the Whetman Pinks nursery, described her future daughter-in-law as “an ideal candidate for the ‘Ladette to Lady’ television series”.

She continued: "Unfortunately for Freddie, he has fallen in love with you and Freddie being Freddie, I gather it is not easy to reason with him or yet encourage him to consider how he might be able to help you.

"It may just be possible to get through to you, though. I do hope so. Your behaviour on your visit to Devon during April was staggering in its uncouthness and lack of grace.

“Unfortunately, this was not the first example of bad manners I have experienced from you.”

The email catalogued Miss Withers’ failings during the Devon trip, including her fussiness over her food, sleeping in late and insulting the family to others in a pub.

“I pity Freddie,” Mrs Bourne concluded.

A friend of hers said: “She’s a lovely person , calm, charming, always smiling. As the mother of teenage children myself, I can only imagine that this situation has driven her to distraction.” (© Independent News Service)

  • Adam Sherwin

Irish Independent

MRS BOURNE’S EMAIL TO MS WITHERS

"It is high time someone explained to you about good manners. Yours are obvious by their absence and I feel sorry for you.

Unfortunately for Freddie, he has fallen in love with you and Freddie being Freddie, I gather it is not easy to reason with him or yet encourage him to consider how he might be able to help you. It may be just be possible to get through to you, I do hope so.

If you want to be accepted by the wider Bourne family I suggest you take some guidance from experts with utmost haste. There are plenty of finishing schools around.

Please, for your own good, for Freddie’s sake and for your future involvement with the Bourne family, do something as soon as possible.

Here are a few examples of your lack of manners:

WHEN you are a guest in another’s house, you do not declare what you will and will not eat - unless you are positively allergic to something. You do not remark that you do not have enough food. You do not start before everyone else. You do not take additional helpings without being invited by your host.

WHEN a guest in another’s house, you do not lie in bed until late morning in households that rise early - you fall in line with house norms.

YOU should never ever insult the family you are about to join at any time and most definitely not in public. I gather you passed this off as a joke but the reaction in the pub was one of shock, not laughter.

YOU should have hand-written a card to me. You have never written to thank me when you have stayed.

YOU regularly draw attention to yourself. Perhaps you should ask yourself why.

NO one gets married in a castle unless they own it. It is brash, celebrity-style behaviour.

I understand your parents are unable to contribute very much towards the cost of your wedding (there is nothing wrong with that except that convention is such that one might presume they would have saved over the years for their daughters’ marriages).

If this is the case, it would be most ladylike and gracious to lower your sights and have a modest wedding as befits both your incomes."

The mother and daughter in law to be both sound like right cunts

The mother in law less so. Precious few have any bloody manners these days.

The only issue with the mother in law I would have is the hand written card bit, the rest is just manners and its obvious the little cunt of a future daughter in law has none.

Here is Freddie with the uncouth bitch

http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00934/heidiWithers_FB_934353t.jpg

And a nice quote from her father:

“My humble opinion of this Carolyn is that she is so far up her own backside she really doesn’t know whether to speak or fart,” said Alan Withers, (64), after a scathing email sent to his daughter from her future stepmother-in-law, Carolyn Bourne, went viral.

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/07/05/137627235/some-22-billion-in-gold-diamonds-jewels-found-in-indian-temple

About $22 Billion In Gold, Diamonds, Jewels Found In Indian Temple

Devotees walk inside the premises of the 16th-century Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Trivandrum, India.
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Devotees walk inside the premises of the 16th-century Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Trivandrum, India.

In Southern India a story that sounds like the plot line of a Hollywood adventure is unfolding. Over the past week, on orders from the country’s Supreme Court, a panel has found a treasure estimated to be worth $22 billion in the underground vaults of a Hindu temple in Trivandrum, India.

The AP reports:

Inside the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, investigators were counting the staggering hoard of gold coins and statues of gods and goddesses studded with diamonds and other precious stones. Outside, small groups of armed policemen patrolled the temple grounds in the heart of the Kerala state capital, Trivandrum.

Metal detectors were hurriedly installed at temple entrances after six days of searches revealed a treasure trove of artifacts, statues and temple ornaments made of gold and embellished with jewels.

The valuables were donated to the temple by devotees over hundreds of years, and India’s erstwhile royal family has been the custodian of the treasures.

The vaults had not been opened in about 150 years and the treasure spans some 500 years. India’s Supreme Court ordered that the vaults of the temple be inventoried after a man filed a suit that worried about how the trust was caring for the riches.

In some ways, that’s where the story gets interesting. With the find, India is in the middle of a heated discussion about what rights to afford former royalty and what should happen to riches like these that include historic pieces destined for museums. The Christian Science Monitor offers a condensed family history:

The temple is controlled by descendants of the royal family of Travancore, the former princely state of the region. It is believed the former rulers donated much of their wealth to the temple, where it lay in safe keeping for decades. Offerings by the many worshippers making pit stops there along the global trade routes probably also contributed to the treasure.

It was no stumbled-upon find, however. While the vaults have been kept under lock and key for around 150 years, the wealth has been on the public record.

Still, $22 billion (yes, billion with a “B”) is a lot of money. We wondered why it wasn’t put to use. The Hindu newspaper reports that the royal family ruled Travancore as “padmanabha dasasas,” which means they were servants of the temple’s deity. The BBC explains a bit better in between some legal history:

The Supreme Court stayed a ruling by the high court in Kerala, which ordered the state government to take over the temple and its assets from the royal trust. It also ordered the trust to hand over responsibility for the temple’s security to the police.

The members of the Travancore royal family entrusted their wealth to the temple because they consider themselves to be servants of its presiding deity. The deity, Padmanabhaswamy, is considered by devotees to be an aspect of the Hindu God Vishnu in eternal sleep.

But there was a public outcry when the Maharajah attempted to retain control of the temple by citing a special law, with many arguing that the wealth belonged to the people now.

The panel appointed by the Supreme Court has opened five of the six vaults. The panel managed to open the sixth vault but found an iron wall inside it, reports the BBC. As if the story couldn’t get any weirder, The Hindustan Times reports the sixth vault has a snake on the front door and quoting an unnamed royal family source, it reports that opening it “might be a bad omen.”

The Guardian reports that the sixth vault has “special locks” but experts should be able to examine them and open it by Friday. The Guardian also reports that the inventory is being conducted under the watch of police, but no pictures or video of the vaults will be taken or released because it “is strictly prohibited” within a “sacred space.”

Update at 2:43 p.m. ET. On The Value Of The Treasure:

As we said, $22 billion is an almost unimaginable number. But that is likely a conservative estimate. The Hindu reports that the panel is simple counting and weighing the valuables. “Their value, including antique value, is not being assessed,” The Hindu reports.

Who does this research?! :blink:

http://www.midlands103.com/news_detail.aspx?footer=1&news_id=12756

71 Midland dogging sites
There are 71 dogging sites in the Midlands according to the website Swing 4 Ireland dot com.
Dogging is an avtivity where people engage in sex acts in their cars while being watched by others.
The site lists the locations and gives specific directions.
Westmeath has the majority in this region with 48 locations, Laois has 12 and Offaly has 11.
Westmeath has the joint fourth largest number in the Country alongside Claire. Dublin has the most at 129 followed by Cork at 89 amd Galway at 58.

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‘I don’t know who’s more likely to go blind from this, Jeffs or the guards’
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Legendary Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong has been granted a restraining order against Massive Attack singer Shara Nelson - who claimed she was his WIFE.

Nelson, who sang on the Bristol group’s 1991 hit single Unfinished Sympathy, also harassed him with nuisance calls, a court heard.

Nelson even gave her surname to the court as Tong and claimed she was married to the DJ and had his child. She was also accused of telling colleagues at his work that she was his manager.

However, the claims are false and her campaign caused ‘distress and embarrassment’ for Essential Mix host Tong, the court heard.

The Sun reports Nelson was banned indefinitely from contacting Tong, 51, or his friends and family.

She was given a 12-month community order and 80 hours’ community service by West London magistrates.

Nelson, 46, went on to have a solo career after Massive Attack in which she landed five UK Top 40 hit singles as well as a gold-selling album What Silence Knows, which was also nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize.