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[Ludderz]

We've done it, after sseing HQ's idea of this we thought well what the heck lets give it a try

so we have, hope it goes well

get posting your dumb news everyone

[fatgirlgreen]

I'll start this off shall I?


STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish police officer has confessed he robbed a bank and later investigated the crime himself, telling reporters at the time police had no clues.



A court in the central town of Bollnas Monday officially charged the 36-year-old for the armed robbery on Dec. 17, court documents said Tuesday, adding he had pleaded guilty.


The amount of money stolen was not disclosed but was described as sizeable. An hour after the crime the police officer returned to the bank as a leading police investigator handling the case.


Colleagues became suspicious when he bought a new car in mid-January, paying 219,000 Swedish crowns ($31,400) in cash using banknotes from the robbery, the court said.

[Scorpio]

I've posted this somewhere else today but I'll put it here as well...

Yet another weirdo finds the face of christ on something - Frying Pan

[Harlequin]

(This is just too surreal to be true...but it is true)

Referee sends himself off
Tue Feb 1, 9:18 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league match for eyeballing a player who disagreed with a decision.

Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper.

"It was totally unprofessional. If a player did that I would send him off, so I had to go," Wain, 39, was quoted as saying by the BBC.

"I heard the keeper say 'It's always the bloody same with you, ref. We never get anything'. It was the last straw, but fortunately I came to my senses."

Northamptonshire Football Association refused to comment

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CENTER MORICHES, N.Y. (AP) - A hospital that accidentally placed the amputated leg of a deceased patient in a plastic bag with the personal belongings of another patient apologized Tuesday, and a spokeswoman said officials were trying to determine how the error may have occurred.

"We regret that the situation has happened . . . and we have expressed our feelings to the family," said Nancy Uzo, a spokeswoman for Central Suffolk Hospital in Riverhead on eastern Long Island. She added that the hospital was investigating how the mistake occurred and would take any corrective action to prevent a repeat.

The gruesome discovery was made on Monday, when Christopher Runyan received the personal belongings of his father Paul, 77, who died at the hospital last week. The bag was given to Runyan by employees of Sinnickson's Moriches Funeral Home, who handled the elder Runyan's funeral and collected the belongings for the family from the hospital.

Suffolk County police Sgt. George Kelly said Tuesday that an investigation determined that the severed leg belonged to a man named James Jordan, 82, of Calverton. Jordan had a history of diabetes and the leg was amputated prior to his death on Jan. 13, police said.

The county medical examiner's office was making arrangements to return the leg to Jordan's relatives, Kelly said. Jordan's body has already been cremated, the sergeant said.

"We believe it was just a case of human error."

[Harlequin]

Radar Police Stumped by Parking Ticket
Fri Feb 4, 2005 02:28 PM ET


BERLIN (Reuters) - An over-zealous policeman slapped a parking ticket on the windshield of a fellow officer's squad car while his colleagues were setting a radar trap to catch speeding motorists in a town in eastern Germany.
"Traffic regulations apply for everyone," Hans-Joachim Schneider, head of the Jessen town office, told the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

The radar police had parked their squad car on the wrong side of the road -- facing the oncoming traffic.

[Harlequin]

Ananova:

Drivers made to hop like frogs
Truck drivers who are caught speeding in an Indian state are being made to hop like frogs.

Police in Bihar dish out the humiliating punishments instead of taking offenders to court, reports Newindpress.com.

For the most popular punishment, leapfrog, speeding truck drivers have to sit on their haunches, hold their ears and hop for almost half a kilometre.

And the drivers are made to chant the name of the political leader they like most while they are being punished.

One policeman was quoted as saying: "If they remember their leader when they are being punished, it's like they are insulting them. If they have any sense, they won't do the offence again."

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LONDON (Reuters) - A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror reported Tuesday.



Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday's match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, "If Wales win I'll cut my balls off," the paper said.


Friends at the club in Caerphilly, south Wales, thought he was joking.


But after the game Huish went home, severed his testicles with a knife, and walked 200 yards back to the bar with the testicles to show the shocked drinkers what he had done.


Huish was taken to hospital where he remained in serious condition, the paper said.


Wales's 11-9 victory over England at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was their first home win over England in 12 years.

[Harlequin]

*Reads last posting*....*whimpers*

[fatgirlgreen]

Not a trick you want to repeat if say, England win the football World Cup then HQ?

[Harlequin]

[Harlequin]

Thursday February 10, 12:38 PM

Phone company helps end date hell

CANBERRA (Reuters) - It's every single person's nightmare: You're on a date, it's a disaster but there's no way out.

With Valentine's Day looming, a mobile phone company in Australia has come to the rescue with a service offering an escape from the date from hell.

All you have to do is discreetly dial three numbers and then hang up without saying a word.

"Virgin Mobile will call them back a minute later with a perfect excuse to get them out of there. We'll even talk them through what to say," the company, a joint venture of the Virgin Group and Optus, said in a statement on Thursday.

A survey of 402 people by Virgin Mobile found that 53 percent arrange in advance to have a friend call them mid-date to check they are all right or if they need an excuse to get out.

The results showed women were twice as likely as men to use the tactic.

[oolongcha]

Apologies - I actually this funny; the article rather than the actual event: there are some great quotes to be got from this!

Stabbing in Ikea chaos

By Oliver Finegold, Evening Standard
10 February 2005

A man was stabbed and hundreds of people were crushed as the opening of
the biggest Ikea store in England descended into chaos.

Nine ambulances were sent to the store in north London after reports
that up to 20 people suffered heat exhaustion when the midnight opening
turned into a riot. Staff closed the doors after half an hour amid fears
the stampede could become a Hillsborough-style crush.
Six people were still being treated in hospital today.

More than 4,000 flocked to the new store in Edmonton last night, lured
by adverts promising huge discounts, including sofas at £45 each and bed
frames cut to £30.

As soon as it was declared open, the crowds tried to push their way
through the main doors, leaving many people pinned against the wall.
Security guards were overwhelmed and scores of shoppers were thrown to
the ground.

A man, believed to be in his twenties, was stabbed at a Tesco petrol
station yards from the store. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "It was
all part of the same incident." Today the victim was "stable".

Paramedics at the scene said they feared a disaster. An ambulance
service source said. "I thought it could be another Hillsborough. It's a
miracle no one was killed."

Video footage showed shoppers fighting over furniture. One man was
pinned against a wall by a burly customer as they argued over a sofa. A
woman was left with blood pouring from her nose after she was pushed
against a wall, while another was heard screaming in pain as she tried
to escape the crush. Shoppers were stretchered into ambulances while
others sat on the floor, where staff gave them first aid.

After half an hour the store was closed - but at the main doors, staff
were reduced to writing signs in black marker pen and holding them up
against the windows to announce the fact. The crowd refused to disperse,
and at one point some outside the main entrance ried to smash down the
glass doors.

Fights broke out between Ikea staff and shoppers. More than 30 police
officers were drafted in to keep the sides apart as firefighters tried
to free customers who were still trapped in the crowd.

Meanwhile, traffic on the North Circular ground to a halt as people who
had been in jams for over an hour simply abandoned their cars.
Ikea apologised for the chaos but a spokeswoman said some shoppers had
"behaved like animals".

Customers criticised the store for being understaffed. Karni Mahmood,
37, from Enfield, said: "I'm amazed at how badly organised it was. Ikea
failed to provide the staff to control such a big event. They are to
blame for this mess. I was near the main doors and I couldn't move in
any direction. I only came here to buy a cheap sofa."

Student Latyia Arpesh, 23, from Tottenham, said: "I was pushed to the
ground. I tried to get up but had people all clambering over me. It was
terrifying, I feared for my life."

Plumber Gary Woodman, 39, said: "My wife was punched in the eye. She's
in a lot of pain. All they had to do was plan this opening properly and
the night would have passed off peacefully."

One woman claimed she suffered an asthma attack in the store after staff
refused to let in a friend who had her inhaler.

However, an Ikea spokeswoman said: "I think it's fair to say we
misjudged it and maybe were a bit naive, but some shoppers behaved like
animals and started shoving and pushing everyone else. There's not much
we can do to stop that.

"We took advice from the police and council over how many people we
would need for the opening. We followed all the safety guidelines."

Ikea staff said they were shocked by the stampede. One said: "When we
opened the doors there was this almighty rush. We didn't know what to do
so we closed the doors straightaway, but some people got stuck in them
and others were rammed up against the glass. We tried letting in people
one by one but they ran through again.

"We were looking forward to selling loads of nice furniture at very
cheap prices. It was never meant to turn into a riot."

Customer Ben Adetimle, 31, an accountant from Leytonstone, said: "I
bought a sofa but as soon as I turned my back someone had stolen it. But
I'm not upset, it's just furniture and it's not worth dying over."
As paramedics treated the injured, many shoppers continued to wheel
their trolleys around the store. A woman with a set of pot plants said:
"I've come all the way from Birmingham for this and I can't come back
empty-handed."

Jilal Patel, 29, from Tottenham, said: "I started queuing at 11am and
nothing is going to stop me from getting my sofa."

[Harlequin]

Re: IKEA story......Unreal. If I hadn't just seen the article for myself I would think I was still on the "Little Jims" thread and you were taking the mickey, it's that surreal.

[oolongcha]

For some reason, I'm not entirely unhappy that I missed this one:

Thursday February 10

Woman jailed for ripping off lover's testicle

LONDON (Reuters) - A woman has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for ripping off her ex-lover's testicle with her bare hands during a drunken brawl after he refused her sex.


Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage in May last year after Geoffrey Jones, 37, who had ended their long-term relationship, rejected her advances.


She grabbed him by the genitals, tearing off his left testicle, then hid it in her mouth before a friend of Jones handed it back to him saying "that's yours".


Monti, of Birkenhead, near Liverpool, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding at an earlier hearing.


Her lawyer said on Thursday her client had little memory of the night.