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Strange Crimes

You hear of this type of thjing often enough but the volume of mail involved in this is extraordinary.

Another lazy postman.

A postman who allegedly hoarded 24,000 mail items at his home because delivering them was “too much bother” has been accused of violating postal law in Japan.

The 61-year-old courier had apparently been stockpiling the undelivered post since 2003 in his Kanagawa home, near Tokyo. The postman reportedly told police: “It was too much bother to deliver them. I didn't want my colleagues to think I was less capable than younger people.”

The man, who has not been named, was fired last year by the Yokohama branch of Japan Post after an internal investigation revealed the hidden mail. Japan Post, the government-owned mail service, apologised for the incident and said that all the recovered post will make it to its intended destination.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...hoarded-24000-mail-items-much-bother-deliver/
 
It's the official (firefighters') justifiable response that makes this otherwise minor and ordinary crime strange and noteworthy ...
Firefighters run hose through illegally parked vehicle

It's happened again - this time in New Jersey ...
Firefighters in New Jersey shared a video reminding residents why they shouldn't park next to fire hydrants.

Camden Fire Officers Local #2578 posted a video to Facebook showing what happened when crews had to extinguish the flames at an occupied residence.

The video shows a vehicle with both windows broken out by firefighters so they could run their hose through the vehicle.

The fire was extinguished and no injuries were reported.

SOURCE (With Video): https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/0...le-parked-next-to-hydrant/4491580155088/?sl=6
 
Woman in Spain gives sex toys to friend for safekeeping. But the box contains a severed head.

Bit more on this case than was in the FT Sideline:
Severed head news

Seems her cleaner may have thrown out the rest of the body accidentally with the rubbish (it was in bin bags, possibly). Can't find any more updates!
 
Woman in Spain gives sex toys to friend for safekeeping. But the box contains a severed head.

Bit more on this case than was in the FT Sideline:
Severed head news

Seems her cleaner may have thrown out the rest of the body accidentally with the rubbish (it was in bin bags, possibly). Can't find any more updates!

The only updates I can see are in the Spanish press, e.g.

https://elcaso.elnacional.cat/es/su...stamento-asesinato-mari-carmen_25267_102.html

Seems money was a motive. He had it (savings and pension), she wanted it.
There was no cannibalism involved, despite rumours.
Investigators say she bought cutting power tools and a hammer around the time of disappearance.
 
Woman in Spain gives sex toys to friend for safekeeping. But the box contains a severed head.
Bit more on this case than was in the FT Sideline: Severed head news Seems her cleaner may have thrown out the rest of the body accidentally with the rubbish (it was in bin bags, possibly). Can't find any more updates!
We are all ignoring the elephant in the room... Perhaps the severed head was in that place for a very deliberate reason...
 
Bizarre crime and his wife gets killed by a mob,

An Indian man who arranged a fake birthday party for his one-year-old daughter, then held more than 20 children hostage, has been shot dead by police.

Local media identified the man as Subhash Batham - saying he was accused of murder but out on bail.

Locals in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad district later beat his wife to death.

Police tried to negotiate with him during a 10-hour stand-off before forcing their way into the building. The hostage-taker was killed in a shootout. All of the children, aged between six months and 15 years were brought to safety.

Batham's wife, who has not been named, was then attacked as she apparently tried to flee. Police said locals threw bricks and stones.

"She had head injuries and was bleeding when she was taken to hospital," senior police officer Mohit Agarwal told India's NDTV.

The woman later died of her injuries. It is unclear if she was involved in the hostage-taking or not.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-51320991
 
More North Wales madness, fortunately not fatal this time -

Drunk man who fired harpoon gun at neighbour told him he was a 'dead man'

A man who fired a harpoon gun at a neighbour in a "very frightening" incident has been locked up.
Neil Brynley Jones fired a three-pronged bolt at Timothy Judge after confronting him with the weapon, but it missed and hit a picture frame instead, Caernarfon Crown Court heard.

Jones, 27, of Yr Eifl, Pwllheli, had banged on the door of Mr Judge's flat in an adjoining block shortly after midnight on December 10.
When he was eventually let in, he shouted at Mr Judge: "I'm going to f****** kill you. You're a dead man."
etc
 
This one's not so much strange as "WTF?!?" ... The thief made his hit and got away in one fell swoop, and the situation makes the employer look pretty bad.
Police: Worker stole $17,000 worth of stuff on first shift

Police in Connecticut are trying to identify a man they say got a job at a gas station and proceeded to steal $17,000 worth of merchandise and cash on his first, and only, solo overnight shift before disappearing.

The man also stole his employment folder, which contained his personal information, so the store’s owner does not even know the worker’s name, Hamden police said in a statement Tuesday. ...

The owner told investigators he used an app on his cellphone to view the store security cameras and noticed that the new employee had left.

The owner went to the store and determined that the worker had stolen lottery tickets, 89 boxes of cigarettes and money worth a total of more than $17,000. The employment file was also missing.

Anyone who recognizes the suspect in a surveillance image released by police is asked to contact investigators.
SOURCE: https://apnews.com/e4c516b254fe84adca0c3a36b67960b8
 
I am just amazed that the owner would put them on the job unsupervised and on their own.
Gets a 'WTF' from me.
 
Do lottery rickets have serial numbers? and are they issued in a block?
 
She pleaded guilty.

A woman has admitted trying to open an aeroplane door mid-flight prompting two fighter jets to be scrambled.

Chloe Haines, 26, of High Wycombe, also scratched a crew member who tried to stop her opening the door on the Jet2 flight to Dalaman, Turkey, on 22 June. Two RAF fighter jets rushed to escort the plane back to Stansted Airport, causing a sonic boom across Essex. Haines, who admitted two charges, is due to be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on 24 January. She pleaded guilty on Monday to endangering the safety of a passenger plane and assault by beating.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-50893117

And she got 2 years.

A woman who tried to open a passenger plane door mid-flight, prompting two fighter jets to be scrambled, has been jailed for two years.

Chloe Haines, 26, from High Wycombe, scratched a crew member as she lunged at the door shouting "I'm going to kill you all," the court heard. Two RAF fighter jets rushed to escort the plane back to Stansted Airport, causing a sonic boom across Essex. Haines, who admitted two charges, was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court. She pleaded guilty to endangering the safety of a passenger plane and assault by beating.

The incident took place on a Jet2 flight with 206 people aboard, heading to Dalaman in Turkey on 22 June. Haines said that she "blacked out and didn't really remember what happened" after mixing alcohol with medication, prosecutor Michael Crimp told the court. Cabin crew member Charley Coombe suffered scratches as she tried to prevent Haines from opening the plane door.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-51478329
 
I think this is strange, a woman not allowed to have a dog, so they shoot the dog.

Sahba Barakzai, her family and seven-month-old husky Aseman, tried to get out into the mountains near their home in western Afghanistan every Friday.

But last Friday, the hike turned to tragedy after an unidentified group of men approached the family and shot Sahba's beloved puppy dead. The attackers told her a woman could not own a dog. But Sabha fears this may have been something more - that it may have been to do with her teaching girls sport.

"We still don't know about their goal but we think it is because of her career," her sister Setayesh told the BBC. "She was the first woman who has her own club and these things are taboo."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51449514
 
Another victim of domestic violence, what is strange is the response to the leaking of photos of her mutilated body.

Outraged Mexicans are flooding social media with nature and animal photos to drown out gruesome photos of a murdered woman.

Ingrid Escamilla, 25, was killed by the man she lived with, and forensic workers leaked pictures of her body. By posting "beautiful" pictures and quotes with her name activists aim to "honour her memory and her life". Femicide, gender-based killings of women, is on the rise in Mexico. More than 700 cases are currently being investigated, and activists say the number of women killed because of their gender is much higher.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51488124
 
Femicide, gender-based killings of women, is on the rise in Mexico. More than 700 cases are currently being investigated, and activists say the number of women killed because of their gender is much higher.

A worrying trend: it's happening here too.

Number of women and girls killed in England and Wales at highest level in 14 years

The number of women and girls killed in England and Wales has risen to its highest level in 14 years, official figures show.

There were 241 female victims of murder, manslaughter or infanticide in the 12 months up to March 2019 - a 10% increase on the 220 recorded the year before - and the highest total since the year ending March 2006.


And almost half - 48% - of the victims were killed in a domestic homicide, with the suspect a partner or ex-partner in 38% of cases, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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The joke attributed to Margaret Atwood that "men are scared women will laugh at them, women are scared that men will kill them" doesn't sound very funny when you read reports like that. If it was a joke.
I'm pretty sure that she did not say it in jest. I think her comment was made when referring to domestic violence. Though I have nothing to link my assumption to.
 
Some boring old context:

“...the majority of homicide victims in the year ending March 2019 were male. Just under two-thirds were male victims (64%) and just over a third were female (36%).”

“...the rate for males (15 per million population) [is] around double that for females (8 per million population).”

The same number of women were killed in 2006 [as in 2019].

“In the 1960s, the proportion of homicide victims was fairly evenly split between males and females. Since then trends in homicide have generally been driven by changes in the number of male rather than female victims. Over the longer term, the number of female victims has tended to fluctuate between 200 and 250 a year from the 1960s. In contrast, the number of male victims increased...”

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...homicideinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2019

maximus otter
 
Some more boring old context. Over 90% of murderers are male.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/08/killing-of-women-by-men-record-database-femicide

Official figures show that, between 2002 and 2012, 6.1% of adults who were convicted of murder were women, leaving 93.9% men.
“People are falling for the line that women can be violent too,” she said. “Men kill men, obviously. But nearly always when a woman kills a man, the woman herself has been a victim of his violence or abuse. When men kill women they tend to have been perpetrators of violence against that woman and other women for years.
 
I'm pretty sure that she did not say it in jest. I think her comment was made when referring to domestic violence. Though I have nothing to link my assumption to.

If it was a "joke", then the old adage "Many a true word spoken in jest" applies. Mind you, I have read that she didn't say it at all, and it was attributed to her.
 
An appalling case, it looks as if the workers were just abandoned to die. Those arrested hadn't informed the police about them.

An illegal cigarette factory has been uncovered in Spain where six foreign workers were found gasping for air before being rescued, authorities said.

Twelve British nationals suspected of running the factory were arrested.

The bunker under horse stables in the southern province of Malaga could produce up to 3,500 counterfeit cigarettes an hour. It is the first underground counterfeit cigarette factory found in the EU, Europol and Spanish police said. Six Ukrainian and Lithuanian workers were found struggling to breathe due to a generator designed to pump air into the bunker running out of gas, police said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51577694

More info:

An escaped British prisoner has been arrested by Spanish police raiding an underground counterfeit cigarette factory.

Daniel Dobbs was convicted of drug trafficking in 2014 and serving a 13-and-a-half year sentence when he fled.

He absconded from HMP Hatfield Lakes, a category D open prison in South Yorkshire, in November 2018.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) tracked him down to Malaga, where the 31-year-old was living under a false name.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-51580378
 
Random duck left behind by burglars ..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-51598527

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