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Imho this guy should be in an institution for the criminally insane. Being in prison won't help either him or society.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_worl ... _a_lo.html
A transvestite hider in the house?! That has to be a new one.
A transvestite hider in the house?! That has to be a new one.
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Ambulance men arrested for 'ignoring dying man'
Two ambulance medics have been arrested for allegedly failing to treat a dying man because "he was not worth saving".
By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
Last Updated: 8:08AM GMT 31 Dec 2008
Ambulance controllers overheard a private conversation between the crew members in which they supposedly made disparaging remarks about the victim's untidy home, allegedly failed to attempt to resuscitate him, and then apparently decided to claim he was already dead when they arrived.
Barry Baker, 59, dialled 999 from his home in Patcham, near Brighton in the early hours of November 29 and said that he was suffering from severe chest pains.
Controllers sent a paramedic and ambulance technician immediately, and although Mr Baker collapsed while talking on the phone, the line to the control centre was left open as he lay on the floor.
Minutes later the control staff heard the crew enter the house. A police source said: "What they heard after their ambulance crew arrived frankly astonished them.
"Apparently their first reaction was to comment on the untidy and unkempt state of the house. Then they are heard to comment on seeing Mr Baker and allegedly saying that it was not worth bothering to try to carry out resuscitation to try to save him. They then are heard discussing what to tell ambulance control and allegedly decide to say that he was already dead when they arrived.
"Obviously the crew did not realise that the phone was still connected and, of course, the 999 call was all recorded on tape," said the source.
The unnamed ambulance staff were arrested after the tape was handed to the Sussex Police Major Crime Team.
They have been suspended from duty and a file has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider prosecuting the pair for wilfully neglecting to perform a duty in public office.
Police confirmed the two medics, both based at Brighton ambulance station, were detained on December 5, six days after Mr Baker's death. They were later freed on bail until next month, pending further inquiries.
A spokesman said: "The men, aged 35 years and 44 years and from the Brighton area, have been arrested and questioned following the death of a man in Brighton. They were detained on suspicion of wilfully neglecting to perform a duty in public office, contrary to Common Law."
A spokesman for the South East Coast Ambulance NHS Trust said that both men had been suspended from duty.
"We have suspended two male members of staff from duty as police conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of a man at his home. We are giving the police our full co-operation in this matter and are not in a position to comment further at this time due to the police investigation taking place."
Mr Baker, who walked with the aide of two sticks after undergoing hip replacement operations, was said to be a popular local figure in village.
He was described by neighbours as a smartly dressed civil servant who was picked up by taxi every morning at 8.30am to go to the job he had been working at since he was 16.
Ralph Virgo, 79 said: "He was always picked up at the same time every morning to go to his job in the benefits office and was always smartly dressed. He had had two hip operations over the years and walked with two sticks and he was quite overweight but he was a very friendly chap and always said hello."
Mr Virgo who has lived in the neighbouring house for 15 years said Mr Baker's parents had died before he moved in when he had inherited the house.
"I always used to offer to help him out getting the trees cut and such like but he always said no. He didn't like to let anyone in the house."
Another neighbour who asked not to be named said Mr Baker was a regular in the local pub where he liked to drink real ale and was a member of the Campaign for Real Ale.
The neighbour added: "He seemed to have a good social life and by all accounts he was quite outgoing. He was a decent chap and always friendly."
Mr Baker's dilapidated detached house lies in a well-to-do street not far from the centre of Brighton.
Paul Newman, landlord of the local Ladies Mile pub, said: "He used to come to the pub every Sunday morning at opening time. He arrived by bus and met friends here and together they played a few hands of cards. He did it every Sunday without fail and was a really nice chap," said Mr Newman.
His funeral has been delayed but a memorial service is due to take place next month.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... g-man.html
Two ambulance medics have been arrested for allegedly failing to treat a dying man because "he was not worth saving".
By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
Last Updated: 8:08AM GMT 31 Dec 2008
Ambulance controllers overheard a private conversation between the crew members in which they supposedly made disparaging remarks about the victim's untidy home, allegedly failed to attempt to resuscitate him, and then apparently decided to claim he was already dead when they arrived.
Barry Baker, 59, dialled 999 from his home in Patcham, near Brighton in the early hours of November 29 and said that he was suffering from severe chest pains.
Controllers sent a paramedic and ambulance technician immediately, and although Mr Baker collapsed while talking on the phone, the line to the control centre was left open as he lay on the floor.
Minutes later the control staff heard the crew enter the house. A police source said: "What they heard after their ambulance crew arrived frankly astonished them.
"Apparently their first reaction was to comment on the untidy and unkempt state of the house. Then they are heard to comment on seeing Mr Baker and allegedly saying that it was not worth bothering to try to carry out resuscitation to try to save him. They then are heard discussing what to tell ambulance control and allegedly decide to say that he was already dead when they arrived.
"Obviously the crew did not realise that the phone was still connected and, of course, the 999 call was all recorded on tape," said the source.
The unnamed ambulance staff were arrested after the tape was handed to the Sussex Police Major Crime Team.
They have been suspended from duty and a file has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider prosecuting the pair for wilfully neglecting to perform a duty in public office.
Police confirmed the two medics, both based at Brighton ambulance station, were detained on December 5, six days after Mr Baker's death. They were later freed on bail until next month, pending further inquiries.
A spokesman said: "The men, aged 35 years and 44 years and from the Brighton area, have been arrested and questioned following the death of a man in Brighton. They were detained on suspicion of wilfully neglecting to perform a duty in public office, contrary to Common Law."
A spokesman for the South East Coast Ambulance NHS Trust said that both men had been suspended from duty.
"We have suspended two male members of staff from duty as police conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of a man at his home. We are giving the police our full co-operation in this matter and are not in a position to comment further at this time due to the police investigation taking place."
Mr Baker, who walked with the aide of two sticks after undergoing hip replacement operations, was said to be a popular local figure in village.
He was described by neighbours as a smartly dressed civil servant who was picked up by taxi every morning at 8.30am to go to the job he had been working at since he was 16.
Ralph Virgo, 79 said: "He was always picked up at the same time every morning to go to his job in the benefits office and was always smartly dressed. He had had two hip operations over the years and walked with two sticks and he was quite overweight but he was a very friendly chap and always said hello."
Mr Virgo who has lived in the neighbouring house for 15 years said Mr Baker's parents had died before he moved in when he had inherited the house.
"I always used to offer to help him out getting the trees cut and such like but he always said no. He didn't like to let anyone in the house."
Another neighbour who asked not to be named said Mr Baker was a regular in the local pub where he liked to drink real ale and was a member of the Campaign for Real Ale.
The neighbour added: "He seemed to have a good social life and by all accounts he was quite outgoing. He was a decent chap and always friendly."
Mr Baker's dilapidated detached house lies in a well-to-do street not far from the centre of Brighton.
Paul Newman, landlord of the local Ladies Mile pub, said: "He used to come to the pub every Sunday morning at opening time. He arrived by bus and met friends here and together they played a few hands of cards. He did it every Sunday without fail and was a really nice chap," said Mr Newman.
His funeral has been delayed but a memorial service is due to take place next month.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... g-man.html
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'Mummified' head found on pathway
A human head found in a bag in Edinburgh is that of an adult who may have died between five and 10 years ago, according to police.
The remains, which appeared to be mummified, were discovered by a woman walking along a footpath at Hawthornvale, Leith, at about 1030 GMT.
Police believe the bag may have been left within the past week or so.
Officers have been carrying out forensic examinations at the scene and the area was cordoned off.
A Lothian and Borders Police spokesman said: "Obviously we are at the very early stages of this investigation and at the moment we are trying to establish the identity of the deceased.
"At this stage cause of death is unknown and we will continue our enquiries in order to establish how the remains have came to be on the footpath."
Det Supt Alan Jones told BBC Scotland he wanted to hear from anyone who had seen the bag, which he said was blue and located about 250 yards from Lindsay Road.
He said: "Clearly it's been prominent enough for one individual to go and have a look at it, but we're interested to know if anyone else has seen it in the recent past."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 806326.stm
A strange enough story in itself, but even stranger for me, as the location is within a couple of hundred yards of where my cruise ship docked last October!
A human head found in a bag in Edinburgh is that of an adult who may have died between five and 10 years ago, according to police.
The remains, which appeared to be mummified, were discovered by a woman walking along a footpath at Hawthornvale, Leith, at about 1030 GMT.
Police believe the bag may have been left within the past week or so.
Officers have been carrying out forensic examinations at the scene and the area was cordoned off.
A Lothian and Borders Police spokesman said: "Obviously we are at the very early stages of this investigation and at the moment we are trying to establish the identity of the deceased.
"At this stage cause of death is unknown and we will continue our enquiries in order to establish how the remains have came to be on the footpath."
Det Supt Alan Jones told BBC Scotland he wanted to hear from anyone who had seen the bag, which he said was blue and located about 250 yards from Lindsay Road.
He said: "Clearly it's been prominent enough for one individual to go and have a look at it, but we're interested to know if anyone else has seen it in the recent past."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 806326.stm
A strange enough story in itself, but even stranger for me, as the location is within a couple of hundred yards of where my cruise ship docked last October!
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Pink Bras posted to village residents
Residents in a Cumbrian Village woke up on Christmas morning to an unuasual "present" from a Saucy Santa.
Persons unknown have posted Pink Bras through peoples letter boxes, leaving many of them not a little mystified as to the reason.
Link to the video on BBC news here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/7805366.stm
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Residents in a Cumbrian Village woke up on Christmas morning to an unuasual "present" from a Saucy Santa.
Persons unknown have posted Pink Bras through peoples letter boxes, leaving many of them not a little mystified as to the reason.
Link to the video on BBC news here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/7805366.stm
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'Penis fire' suspect is charged
An Australian woman has appeared in court in Adelaide charged with murdering her husband by setting fire to his penis.
Rajini Narayan, 44, is alleged to have doused her husband, Satish, with a flammable liquid while he was sleeping.
When she set him alight, Mr Narayan jumped out of bed and knocked over the substance, causing the fire to spread.
Mrs Narayan told the court she had not intended to kill her husband but to punish him for his alleged infidelity.
Prosecutor Lucy Boord said Mrs Narayan had confessed to her neighbours, telling them she was a "jealous wife" and believed her husband was having an affair.
"I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else, I didn't mean this to happen," Ms Boord quoted Mrs Narayan as saying.
The fire, on 8 December 2008, caused damage to the couple's house estimated at 1m Australian dollars ($715,000, £490,000).
Mrs Narayan was initially charged with arson and endangering life - including the lives of her three children who were in the house at the time.
The charge was upgraded to murder after Mr Narayan died from his injuries last week.
She has been held in police custody pending the results of a psychological assessment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 812875.stm
An Australian woman has appeared in court in Adelaide charged with murdering her husband by setting fire to his penis.
Rajini Narayan, 44, is alleged to have doused her husband, Satish, with a flammable liquid while he was sleeping.
When she set him alight, Mr Narayan jumped out of bed and knocked over the substance, causing the fire to spread.
Mrs Narayan told the court she had not intended to kill her husband but to punish him for his alleged infidelity.
Prosecutor Lucy Boord said Mrs Narayan had confessed to her neighbours, telling them she was a "jealous wife" and believed her husband was having an affair.
"I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else, I didn't mean this to happen," Ms Boord quoted Mrs Narayan as saying.
The fire, on 8 December 2008, caused damage to the couple's house estimated at 1m Australian dollars ($715,000, £490,000).
Mrs Narayan was initially charged with arson and endangering life - including the lives of her three children who were in the house at the time.
The charge was upgraded to murder after Mr Narayan died from his injuries last week.
She has been held in police custody pending the results of a psychological assessment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 812875.stm
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"I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else . . . "
The widow has since received some three hundred and forty marriage proposals from perverts all over the globe. :?
The widow has since received some three hundred and forty marriage proposals from perverts all over the globe. :?
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Thieves make clean getaway after stealing hot tub
The owners of a spa company were left baffled after thieves stole a working £6,000 hot tub which was installed outside their showroom.
By Murray Wardrop
Last Updated: 7:54PM GMT 06 Jan 2009
Undeterred by the jacuzzi's third of a tonne weight, or that it was filled with water and connected to mains electricity, intruders set about taking it.
But first they had to scoop more than a tonne of water from the outdoor hot tub using a nearby water butt, before carrying it away.
The thieves lifted the six-seater bath through a hole they had cut in a six-foot high metal fence and over a ditch by building a makeshift bridge out of wooden planks.
It then had to be carried 80ft across a field before it was loaded onto the back of a waiting vehicle and driven away.
Police believe the top-of-the range tub may have been stolen to order.
Denise Mason, who runs Fenland Arctic Spas in a business park near Littleport in Cambridgeshire, said the thieves struck over the festive period while they were closed.
She said: "We only found it had gone when we came back to pick up some paperwork.
"It is bizarre that someone has just walked off with it. We thought it was a joke at first. We think the tub must have been carried 80ft through a field to a vehicle on the main road.
"They did drop it because we found bits of it in the ditch, although it wasn't fundamental damage that will stop it from working."
Her husband, Steve, added: "Police think it was stolen to order. It would have taken at least four people to shift it. It's a major thing to steal something of that size and they had specialist equipment to cut off the electricity."
Cambridgeshire police said the jacuzzi was stolen between Tuesday and Saturday last week.
A spokeswoman said: "It certainly is an unusual theft. Unknown persons entered the area by cutting open a metal fence panel and stole a hot tub, which was connected up to the mains outside the showroom.
"The hot tub was full of water and it appears that the water has been emptied using a water butt.
"The hot tub was carried away through the opened fence and over a ditch into a field next to the unit. Offenders used planks from the yard to create a bridge to get over the ditch."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... t-tub.html
The owners of a spa company were left baffled after thieves stole a working £6,000 hot tub which was installed outside their showroom.
By Murray Wardrop
Last Updated: 7:54PM GMT 06 Jan 2009
Undeterred by the jacuzzi's third of a tonne weight, or that it was filled with water and connected to mains electricity, intruders set about taking it.
But first they had to scoop more than a tonne of water from the outdoor hot tub using a nearby water butt, before carrying it away.
The thieves lifted the six-seater bath through a hole they had cut in a six-foot high metal fence and over a ditch by building a makeshift bridge out of wooden planks.
It then had to be carried 80ft across a field before it was loaded onto the back of a waiting vehicle and driven away.
Police believe the top-of-the range tub may have been stolen to order.
Denise Mason, who runs Fenland Arctic Spas in a business park near Littleport in Cambridgeshire, said the thieves struck over the festive period while they were closed.
She said: "We only found it had gone when we came back to pick up some paperwork.
"It is bizarre that someone has just walked off with it. We thought it was a joke at first. We think the tub must have been carried 80ft through a field to a vehicle on the main road.
"They did drop it because we found bits of it in the ditch, although it wasn't fundamental damage that will stop it from working."
Her husband, Steve, added: "Police think it was stolen to order. It would have taken at least four people to shift it. It's a major thing to steal something of that size and they had specialist equipment to cut off the electricity."
Cambridgeshire police said the jacuzzi was stolen between Tuesday and Saturday last week.
A spokeswoman said: "It certainly is an unusual theft. Unknown persons entered the area by cutting open a metal fence panel and stole a hot tub, which was connected up to the mains outside the showroom.
"The hot tub was full of water and it appears that the water has been emptied using a water butt.
"The hot tub was carried away through the opened fence and over a ditch into a field next to the unit. Offenders used planks from the yard to create a bridge to get over the ditch."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... t-tub.html
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Drunk teenager stole double-decker bus and drove it 60 miles to see girlfriend
A drunken teenager stole two buses and drove a Stagecoach double-decker 60 miles in an attempt to visit his heavily-pregnant girlfriend, a court heard.
By Paul Stokes
Last Updated: 12:15AM GMT 09 Jan 2009
He was intercepted on a motorway by police after calling into a service station for cigarettes which he asked to be put "on the Stagecoach account". :shock:
The 17-year-old had been heading along the M6 in Cumbria towards Scotland and was found to be almost twice over the drink-drive limit.
He had only been released from custody 12 hours earlier after stealing another bus from the Stagecoach depot in Barrow-in-Furness. :shock: :shock:
On the first occasion he had drunk five pints and 10 cans of lager and was arrested after driving the wrong way around a roundabout and crashing through a fence.
John Appleby, prosecuting, told Barrow Youth court that within 48 hours police received a call from a member of staff at a Little Chef in Penrith concerned about a bus being driven by someone "very young".
A police patrol followed the teenager, who cannot be named as a juvenile, for several miles as he drove the 14-ton vehicle on the motorway.
Maureen Fawcett, defending, told the court: "He is a very, very young 17-year-old and a foolish one, he said he took the first bus to commit suicide."
The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted two counts of aggravated vehicle taking, attempted deception, failing to stop, dangerous driving, drink driving and driving without a licence or insurance.
He was sent to a detention centre for 12 months and banned him from driving for two years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... riend.html
A drunken teenager stole two buses and drove a Stagecoach double-decker 60 miles in an attempt to visit his heavily-pregnant girlfriend, a court heard.
By Paul Stokes
Last Updated: 12:15AM GMT 09 Jan 2009
He was intercepted on a motorway by police after calling into a service station for cigarettes which he asked to be put "on the Stagecoach account". :shock:
The 17-year-old had been heading along the M6 in Cumbria towards Scotland and was found to be almost twice over the drink-drive limit.
He had only been released from custody 12 hours earlier after stealing another bus from the Stagecoach depot in Barrow-in-Furness. :shock: :shock:
On the first occasion he had drunk five pints and 10 cans of lager and was arrested after driving the wrong way around a roundabout and crashing through a fence.
John Appleby, prosecuting, told Barrow Youth court that within 48 hours police received a call from a member of staff at a Little Chef in Penrith concerned about a bus being driven by someone "very young".
A police patrol followed the teenager, who cannot be named as a juvenile, for several miles as he drove the 14-ton vehicle on the motorway.
Maureen Fawcett, defending, told the court: "He is a very, very young 17-year-old and a foolish one, he said he took the first bus to commit suicide."
The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted two counts of aggravated vehicle taking, attempted deception, failing to stop, dangerous driving, drink driving and driving without a licence or insurance.
He was sent to a detention centre for 12 months and banned him from driving for two years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... riend.html
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Shepherd allowed sheep to intimidate neighbours
A shepherd who allowed his wayward sheep to intimidate his neighbours has admitted breaching an Asbo which banned the flock from the village.
Last Updated: 1:20AM GMT 13 Jan 2009
Jeremy Awdry, 59, was deprived of his ancient right to graze sheep in Bream, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, after they were reported straying into gardens and damaging fences.
The 500-strong flock were in fact part of the "intimidation of people living in the area", prosecutor Brendon Moorhouse told Gloucester Crown Court on Monday.
Awdry, who lives just outside the zone covering most of Lydney, pleaded guilty to five counts of breaching the five-year Asbo, between January and July last year.
Awdry is a 'sheep badger' - someone who has the right by birth to graze sheep anywhere in the Forest.
For 500 years Forest of Dean-born commoners have been able to let their livestock graze freely, but in recent times the district and parish councils have received complaints relating to sheep mess, property damaged and the animals becoming a highway hazard.
Before he pleaded guilty today Awdry was due to stand trial on 21 counts of breaching the order, made after more than 40 complaints were submitted to Gloucestershire police.
The order prohibited Awdry from threatening, or engaging in any conduct likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to residents of Bream and Forest of Dean District Council staff.
It also banned him from intimidating or communicating with certain named individuals and prevented him from allowing sheep under his ownership or control to enter a 'designated settlement area'.
Giles Nelson, defending, said Awdry had lived in the village for 36 years and had in fact worked as a milkman for most of that time.
Mr Nelson said: "He pursued a line that brought him at loggerheads with the authorities. His wife is not in good health. He had a son who has also now become involved in the shepherding. There is a raft of character references."
Mr Nelson said the case might make "entertaining reading" but was in fact serious.
Judge William Hart said that the case did "cross the custody threshold" but because of Awdry's good character the prison sentence could be suspended.
He adjourned the case for pre-sentence reports and bailed Awdry to return on the week of January 26 to learn his fate.
After the case Mr Awdry said: "I just wanted to get it over with. If I had continued it may have affected my family."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... bours.html
A shepherd who allowed his wayward sheep to intimidate his neighbours has admitted breaching an Asbo which banned the flock from the village.
Last Updated: 1:20AM GMT 13 Jan 2009
Jeremy Awdry, 59, was deprived of his ancient right to graze sheep in Bream, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, after they were reported straying into gardens and damaging fences.
The 500-strong flock were in fact part of the "intimidation of people living in the area", prosecutor Brendon Moorhouse told Gloucester Crown Court on Monday.
Awdry, who lives just outside the zone covering most of Lydney, pleaded guilty to five counts of breaching the five-year Asbo, between January and July last year.
Awdry is a 'sheep badger' - someone who has the right by birth to graze sheep anywhere in the Forest.
For 500 years Forest of Dean-born commoners have been able to let their livestock graze freely, but in recent times the district and parish councils have received complaints relating to sheep mess, property damaged and the animals becoming a highway hazard.
Before he pleaded guilty today Awdry was due to stand trial on 21 counts of breaching the order, made after more than 40 complaints were submitted to Gloucestershire police.
The order prohibited Awdry from threatening, or engaging in any conduct likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to residents of Bream and Forest of Dean District Council staff.
It also banned him from intimidating or communicating with certain named individuals and prevented him from allowing sheep under his ownership or control to enter a 'designated settlement area'.
Giles Nelson, defending, said Awdry had lived in the village for 36 years and had in fact worked as a milkman for most of that time.
Mr Nelson said: "He pursued a line that brought him at loggerheads with the authorities. His wife is not in good health. He had a son who has also now become involved in the shepherding. There is a raft of character references."
Mr Nelson said the case might make "entertaining reading" but was in fact serious.
Judge William Hart said that the case did "cross the custody threshold" but because of Awdry's good character the prison sentence could be suspended.
He adjourned the case for pre-sentence reports and bailed Awdry to return on the week of January 26 to learn his fate.
After the case Mr Awdry said: "I just wanted to get it over with. If I had continued it may have affected my family."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... bours.html
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Drunk man fined for riding horse
A horse-rider caught trotting through the streets of Newcastle has been spared jail after pleading guilty to being drunk in charge of an animal.
Godfrey Blacklin was fined £150 by city magistrates after he admitted drinking cans of lager before riding bareback through Wallsend.
The 31-year-old, of Byker, was charged under the 1872 Licensing Act, and could have faced a month in prison.
A police spokesman said Blacklin had been riding in the middle of the road.
David Thompson, prosecuting, said: "It is not a charge that you see every day. 8)
"The police had concerns about him and, in the process of speaking to him, became aware of his intoxication.
"The concerns were that he was in control of a large animal where there were other road users.
"There are no definite parameters for this offence, but it is clear that he was drunk."
The 1872 Licensing Act states that a person can be fined or face a prison sentence of up to a month if caught drunk in charge of a carriage horse, cattle or steam engine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7861406.stm
A horse-rider caught trotting through the streets of Newcastle has been spared jail after pleading guilty to being drunk in charge of an animal.
Godfrey Blacklin was fined £150 by city magistrates after he admitted drinking cans of lager before riding bareback through Wallsend.
The 31-year-old, of Byker, was charged under the 1872 Licensing Act, and could have faced a month in prison.
A police spokesman said Blacklin had been riding in the middle of the road.
David Thompson, prosecuting, said: "It is not a charge that you see every day. 8)
"The police had concerns about him and, in the process of speaking to him, became aware of his intoxication.
"The concerns were that he was in control of a large animal where there were other road users.
"There are no definite parameters for this offence, but it is clear that he was drunk."
The 1872 Licensing Act states that a person can be fined or face a prison sentence of up to a month if caught drunk in charge of a carriage horse, cattle or steam engine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7861406.stm
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Un crime de nos jours...
Lee Hurst smashed audience member's mobile 'to protect his jokes'
Valentine Low
The comedian Lee Hurst is not alone in regarding the mobile phone as one of the great curses of the modern age. While most complain about the intrusive ringtones or incessant chatter, however, Hurst has a novel complaint — that it is being used increasingly for stealing comedians' jokes.
He demonstated his unconventional method of dealing with the problem in September at a pub in Guildford, Surrey — seizing a phone from a member of his audience whom he believed to be committing comedy piracy, throwing it to the floor and smashing it.
Defending the rights of comedians, Hurst called it. Criminal damage, Guildford magistrates called it, and fined him £60. Hurst, 46, who pleaded guilty, was also ordered to pay £80 compensation with a £15 surcharge and £87 costs.
The confrontation occurred at the Stoke pub, where Hurst, a former panellist on the BBC television sports quiz They Think It's All Over, was doing a stand-up show. Liz Highams, for the prosecution, told the court that he believed a member of the audience, who was sending a text message, was filming him. “He walked off the stage and grabbed the mobile phone. He then returned to the stage, throwing it on the floor and damaging it beyond repair,” she said.
Hurst, who conducted his own defence, originally pleaded not guilty on the ground that he was not there — a novel if somewhat shaky defence, one might have thought, given that there were about 300 witnesses. :shock: It turned out that he was right: the prosecution had got the date wrong — September 4 instead of September 3 — and, once it was amended, the comedian duly changed his plea to guilty. 8)
He told the court that he believed a member of the audience standing at the back was filming his act. “This happens from time to time and there is nothing that you can do about it. Even if it's just for their own personal use, they could lend it to a friend or have it stolen and it could end up on YouTube. I'm talking on behalf of comedians in general.
“There are also writers who go to gigs and take material and it is sold to the BBC and ITV. You perform on stage and then you are accused of stealing your own material from a comic on national television.” :shock:
Jon Curtis, the chairman of the bench, said: “While we have some sympathy with the situation you find yourself in it is clearly no excuse for causing criminal damage.”
Outside the court, Mr Hurst said: “People should stop filming people at live gigs. When you go to watch a film you get adverts from the Federation Against Copyright Theft, but comedians aren't protected so they are taking the law into their own hands. I don't regret what I did. I have to defend myself. The public probably don't know that every time you send a joke text someone has written that, and they deserve credit.”
One promoter, James Punnett, of the Bearcat Comedy Club in Twickenham, southwest London, said filming acts on mobile phones was prevalent at comedy clubs. “One time Lee Mack was playing and his girlfriend rang up and said: ‘I've just heard a comedian on TV using two of your jokes'.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 748313.ece
Lee Hurst smashed audience member's mobile 'to protect his jokes'
Valentine Low
The comedian Lee Hurst is not alone in regarding the mobile phone as one of the great curses of the modern age. While most complain about the intrusive ringtones or incessant chatter, however, Hurst has a novel complaint — that it is being used increasingly for stealing comedians' jokes.
He demonstated his unconventional method of dealing with the problem in September at a pub in Guildford, Surrey — seizing a phone from a member of his audience whom he believed to be committing comedy piracy, throwing it to the floor and smashing it.
Defending the rights of comedians, Hurst called it. Criminal damage, Guildford magistrates called it, and fined him £60. Hurst, 46, who pleaded guilty, was also ordered to pay £80 compensation with a £15 surcharge and £87 costs.
The confrontation occurred at the Stoke pub, where Hurst, a former panellist on the BBC television sports quiz They Think It's All Over, was doing a stand-up show. Liz Highams, for the prosecution, told the court that he believed a member of the audience, who was sending a text message, was filming him. “He walked off the stage and grabbed the mobile phone. He then returned to the stage, throwing it on the floor and damaging it beyond repair,” she said.
Hurst, who conducted his own defence, originally pleaded not guilty on the ground that he was not there — a novel if somewhat shaky defence, one might have thought, given that there were about 300 witnesses. :shock: It turned out that he was right: the prosecution had got the date wrong — September 4 instead of September 3 — and, once it was amended, the comedian duly changed his plea to guilty. 8)
He told the court that he believed a member of the audience standing at the back was filming his act. “This happens from time to time and there is nothing that you can do about it. Even if it's just for their own personal use, they could lend it to a friend or have it stolen and it could end up on YouTube. I'm talking on behalf of comedians in general.
“There are also writers who go to gigs and take material and it is sold to the BBC and ITV. You perform on stage and then you are accused of stealing your own material from a comic on national television.” :shock:
Jon Curtis, the chairman of the bench, said: “While we have some sympathy with the situation you find yourself in it is clearly no excuse for causing criminal damage.”
Outside the court, Mr Hurst said: “People should stop filming people at live gigs. When you go to watch a film you get adverts from the Federation Against Copyright Theft, but comedians aren't protected so they are taking the law into their own hands. I don't regret what I did. I have to defend myself. The public probably don't know that every time you send a joke text someone has written that, and they deserve credit.”
One promoter, James Punnett, of the Bearcat Comedy Club in Twickenham, southwest London, said filming acts on mobile phones was prevalent at comedy clubs. “One time Lee Mack was playing and his girlfriend rang up and said: ‘I've just heard a comedian on TV using two of your jokes'.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 748313.ece
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Skating pensioner fined by court
A roller-skating pensioner has been fined £300 after he was filmed skating along a street in Southport.
Geoff Dornan, 71, of Ormskirk, Lancashire, was caught on CCTV skating through Chapel Street in October 2008.
He said it was to keep fit but Sefton Council said his skating was a nuisance and a danger to the public.
He was found guilty at North Sefton Magistrates' Court of two counts of breaching a by-law but has since lodged an appeal.
He was also ordered to pay £1,800 costs, but the fines were suspended after Andrew Scott, defending, said an appeal notice had been handed to the prosecution.
The appeal case will be heard at a crown court at a later date.
In his defence, Mr Dornan, a retired youth worker, told the court he took up skating seven years ago as a way of keeping fit.
He said he enjoyed skating down the town's main street as he enjoyed moving to the music from buskers, but he insisted that he always gave right of way to pedestrians.
He also told the court he tried to give people as much space as possible and used his skates responsibly.
But the council said he was contravening a by-law which forbids skating on Chapel Street.
The by-law states that "no person shall skate, slide or ride on rollers, skateboards or other self-propelled vehicles in such a manner as to cause danger or annoyance".
Chairman of the bench, Fraser Wallace, said: "We find the manner of your skating put pedestrians at risk and exposed them to harm."
He said it was clear Chapel Street was not meant to be used as a "skate park" and said Dornan's behaviour "causes a danger" to the public.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mers ... 908446.stm
With video - this could also possibly go in Growing Old!
A roller-skating pensioner has been fined £300 after he was filmed skating along a street in Southport.
Geoff Dornan, 71, of Ormskirk, Lancashire, was caught on CCTV skating through Chapel Street in October 2008.
He said it was to keep fit but Sefton Council said his skating was a nuisance and a danger to the public.
He was found guilty at North Sefton Magistrates' Court of two counts of breaching a by-law but has since lodged an appeal.
He was also ordered to pay £1,800 costs, but the fines were suspended after Andrew Scott, defending, said an appeal notice had been handed to the prosecution.
The appeal case will be heard at a crown court at a later date.
In his defence, Mr Dornan, a retired youth worker, told the court he took up skating seven years ago as a way of keeping fit.
He said he enjoyed skating down the town's main street as he enjoyed moving to the music from buskers, but he insisted that he always gave right of way to pedestrians.
He also told the court he tried to give people as much space as possible and used his skates responsibly.
But the council said he was contravening a by-law which forbids skating on Chapel Street.
The by-law states that "no person shall skate, slide or ride on rollers, skateboards or other self-propelled vehicles in such a manner as to cause danger or annoyance".
Chairman of the bench, Fraser Wallace, said: "We find the manner of your skating put pedestrians at risk and exposed them to harm."
He said it was clear Chapel Street was not meant to be used as a "skate park" and said Dornan's behaviour "causes a danger" to the public.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mers ... 908446.stm
With video - this could also possibly go in Growing Old!
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Three village post boxes stolen
Three Royal Mail post boxes have been stolen from villages in west Somerset.
The boxes all contained mail and two were taken with their stands and concrete fixings - leaving a hole in the ground. The third was cut off.
The thefts in the villages of East Huntspill, Mark and Wedmore are thought to have happened on Saturday, 21 February.
Police believe the boxes were probably taken as items of memorabilia rather than for scrap metal.
"There is a market for them - through a reclamation yard or an internet auction site - you could expect to pay anything between £200 and £400," Insp Samuel Williams said. :shock:
"They are all clearly identifiable so if anyone is concerned about an item they have or are offered for sale we can easily see if it is one that has been taken from the area.
"One of the thefts involved some sort of cutting equipment, the others they've either been pulled from the concrete or the whole post has been taken leaving a hole in the ground."
A spokeswoman at Royal Mail said: "The post boxes that were stolen at the weekend had been emptied on Saturday morning but unfortunately we have no way of knowing how much mail was in them when they were taken.
"All the boxes were in rural areas so it is possible that only a very small amount of mail would have been affected.
"Any mail that is recovered will be forwarded to the intended addressee."
Police say anybody concerned about post in the boxes should contact them at their Burnham-on-Sea office.
The boxes which were stolen were located at Cornmoor Crescent in East Huntspill, The Causeway in Mark and Mudgley Crossroads, Mudgley, in Wedmore.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7907462.stm
Three Royal Mail post boxes have been stolen from villages in west Somerset.
The boxes all contained mail and two were taken with their stands and concrete fixings - leaving a hole in the ground. The third was cut off.
The thefts in the villages of East Huntspill, Mark and Wedmore are thought to have happened on Saturday, 21 February.
Police believe the boxes were probably taken as items of memorabilia rather than for scrap metal.
"There is a market for them - through a reclamation yard or an internet auction site - you could expect to pay anything between £200 and £400," Insp Samuel Williams said. :shock:
"They are all clearly identifiable so if anyone is concerned about an item they have or are offered for sale we can easily see if it is one that has been taken from the area.
"One of the thefts involved some sort of cutting equipment, the others they've either been pulled from the concrete or the whole post has been taken leaving a hole in the ground."
A spokeswoman at Royal Mail said: "The post boxes that were stolen at the weekend had been emptied on Saturday morning but unfortunately we have no way of knowing how much mail was in them when they were taken.
"All the boxes were in rural areas so it is possible that only a very small amount of mail would have been affected.
"Any mail that is recovered will be forwarded to the intended addressee."
Police say anybody concerned about post in the boxes should contact them at their Burnham-on-Sea office.
The boxes which were stolen were located at Cornmoor Crescent in East Huntspill, The Causeway in Mark and Mudgley Crossroads, Mudgley, in Wedmore.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7907462.stm
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OMG the skating man of Ormskirk.
As far as I know he has never knocked into anyone but he does go very fast and there are lots of elderly in that have got nothing better to do but moan.
He also goes out skating around the time the pubs are closing and because of that he has a huge following amongst the students in the area. I think he has his own Facebook page.
I say good on him for still being so active and full of life.
btw he is not the strangest person living in the area by far. I was going to put some of them on the strange folk thread but would still be writing next christmas!
As far as I know he has never knocked into anyone but he does go very fast and there are lots of elderly in that have got nothing better to do but moan.
He also goes out skating around the time the pubs are closing and because of that he has a huge following amongst the students in the area. I think he has his own Facebook page.
I say good on him for still being so active and full of life.
btw he is not the strangest person living in the area by far. I was going to put some of them on the strange folk thread but would still be writing next christmas!
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Photo at link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 948055.stm
The bow is a nice touch. If it's supposed to be a present, who is it a present for?
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The secret life of the 'guerilla gardener'
Guerilla gardening is illegal - but that's not stopping the middle classes from prettifying their neighbourhoods
By Louise Gray
Last Updated: 10:43AM BST 15 Apr 2009
"Thank-you for the sunflowers," shouts the old woman over the roar of the traffic. "They were lovely!" Evidently, she approves of the strangers in wellies and luminous vests who, every few weeks, turn up at the dead of night to plant bulbs along the fume-choked roadside in her neighbourhood. Although what these so-called "guerrilla gardeners" are doing is illegal, she has no intention of calling the police.
Guerrilla gardening may sound anarchic but it is the preserve of middle-class people frustrated by the downtrodden appearance of their local community. When I go out with a small band of them, armed only with trowel and pitchfork, I find well-spoken, university-educated, socially aware individuals – the kind of nice boys and girls you tend to see protesting against runways or signing petitions on climate change.
'When a passing police car slows to have a closer look, the law is far too busy – or sensible – to bother stopping. After all, what could be more community-spirited than quietly getting on with picking up litter and planting flowers?
Digging in some daffodils on a central reservation in East Dulwich, a well-to-do part of south-east London with a bohemian spirit, a charming accountant and a charity fund- raiser tell me they decided to start tidying their neighbourhood after hearing a programme about guerrilla gardening on Radio 4.
The act of illicit gardening has a long history in Britain; some date it as far back as the Diggers, a group of socialists who fought for the right to cultivate land in the 17th century. Today, it is more commonly perceived as a hippie movement that grew out of the so-called Summer of Love in 1967, and has been causing problems ever since; think back to the May Day riots in London in 2000 when the statue of Winston Churchill was given an impromptu turf mohican.
But guerrilla gardening does not have to be a political protest. It can be as genteel as planting cowslips on a neglected verge – which may be why it is being taken up by people who have never broken the law before.
Around the country, frustrated urban gardeners are digging up roundabouts; working mothers who can't get an allotment are spiking spears of asparagus into unused flower beds to grow their own; and office workers are throwing "seed bombs" out of their train window to brighten the daily commute.
etc...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/51 ... dener.html
Guerilla gardening is illegal - but that's not stopping the middle classes from prettifying their neighbourhoods
By Louise Gray
Last Updated: 10:43AM BST 15 Apr 2009
"Thank-you for the sunflowers," shouts the old woman over the roar of the traffic. "They were lovely!" Evidently, she approves of the strangers in wellies and luminous vests who, every few weeks, turn up at the dead of night to plant bulbs along the fume-choked roadside in her neighbourhood. Although what these so-called "guerrilla gardeners" are doing is illegal, she has no intention of calling the police.
Guerrilla gardening may sound anarchic but it is the preserve of middle-class people frustrated by the downtrodden appearance of their local community. When I go out with a small band of them, armed only with trowel and pitchfork, I find well-spoken, university-educated, socially aware individuals – the kind of nice boys and girls you tend to see protesting against runways or signing petitions on climate change.
'When a passing police car slows to have a closer look, the law is far too busy – or sensible – to bother stopping. After all, what could be more community-spirited than quietly getting on with picking up litter and planting flowers?
Digging in some daffodils on a central reservation in East Dulwich, a well-to-do part of south-east London with a bohemian spirit, a charming accountant and a charity fund- raiser tell me they decided to start tidying their neighbourhood after hearing a programme about guerrilla gardening on Radio 4.
The act of illicit gardening has a long history in Britain; some date it as far back as the Diggers, a group of socialists who fought for the right to cultivate land in the 17th century. Today, it is more commonly perceived as a hippie movement that grew out of the so-called Summer of Love in 1967, and has been causing problems ever since; think back to the May Day riots in London in 2000 when the statue of Winston Churchill was given an impromptu turf mohican.
But guerrilla gardening does not have to be a political protest. It can be as genteel as planting cowslips on a neglected verge – which may be why it is being taken up by people who have never broken the law before.
Around the country, frustrated urban gardeners are digging up roundabouts; working mothers who can't get an allotment are spiking spears of asparagus into unused flower beds to grow their own; and office workers are throwing "seed bombs" out of their train window to brighten the daily commute.
etc...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/51 ... dener.html
What an amazing headline:
Scuba-diving 'Satanists' hack off arms of submerged Jesus statue
17th April 2009
"Scuba diving Satanists who hacked off the arms of a submerged statue of Jesus Christ are being hunted by Italian police.
The attack was carried out at a depth of 75ft below the surface of the sea on the statute which is known as the Christ of the Abyss.
It was sent to the bottom of the Mediterranean by Pope John Paul II in December 2000 at a ceremony for the Italian Diving Association and is a well known landmark for divers."
"A police spokesman on Giglio said: 'Because of the depth it is very unlikely that the statue was damaged by a propeller or net.
'It looks like a very deliberate attack and because it is 25 metres underwater someone was very well equipped to go down there and take off the arms.
'It's possible it could be an attack by Satanists who knew the statue was there and who also knew that it was a very revered symbol for the locals so it is a line of investigation.""
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... l?ITO=1490
Scuba-diving 'Satanists' hack off arms of submerged Jesus statue
17th April 2009
"Scuba diving Satanists who hacked off the arms of a submerged statue of Jesus Christ are being hunted by Italian police.
The attack was carried out at a depth of 75ft below the surface of the sea on the statute which is known as the Christ of the Abyss.
It was sent to the bottom of the Mediterranean by Pope John Paul II in December 2000 at a ceremony for the Italian Diving Association and is a well known landmark for divers."
"A police spokesman on Giglio said: 'Because of the depth it is very unlikely that the statue was damaged by a propeller or net.
'It looks like a very deliberate attack and because it is 25 metres underwater someone was very well equipped to go down there and take off the arms.
'It's possible it could be an attack by Satanists who knew the statue was there and who also knew that it was a very revered symbol for the locals so it is a line of investigation.""
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... l?ITO=1490