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that was quite fowl! :lol:rynner said:..and if they were on drugs at the time, that would mean cold turkey!Ronson8 said:Bet they'll do some bird if the police catch up with em!
that was quite fowl! :lol:rynner said:..and if they were on drugs at the time, that would mean cold turkey!Ronson8 said:Bet they'll do some bird if the police catch up with em!
And watch out that they don't get goosed.Ronson8 said:They'll have to join the pecking order in jail!
With teamwork like this, we could be on Have I Got News For You! 8)Pietro_Mercurios said:that was quite fowl! :lol:
Kings cross!rynner said:With teamwork like this, we could be on Have I Got News For You! 8)
And watch out that they don't get goosed.
Who moo-ved our cow?
By Raymond Brown
A LIFE-SIZED statue of a cow was stolen from a Cambridge store and ditched by thieves at the city's Diana Memorial Garden.
The black and white cow, named Sharon by shop workers, and her calf Tracy were rustled on Sunday night from Origin8 delicatessen in St Andrew's Street.
They were then dumped next to the rose garden planted in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, and became an instant hit with tourists visiting Christ's Pieces yesterday (Monday, 07 January).
Natalie Davidson, 23, from Arbury, Cambridge, a trainee team leader at the shop, which sells local food from East Anglia, was not over the moon when she found that Sharon had got her into an udder fine mess.
She said: "We have had trouble with Sharon before. She wouldn't fit into the window display and we had to cut a bit of her off to squeeze her in. She is a massive cow.
"She used to be in our shop window so a lot of people recognised her. We had taken her out of the window display and put her behind a security fence. It must have taken three or four strong men to lift her. She weighs a tonne and is really awkward to lift - being a cow with four legs.
"It was really funny this morning. A bloke from the Local shop nearby was out having a cigarette when he saw Sharon in the park. We were shocked - we couldn't believe it."
Sam Prior and Natalie Davidson try to shift Sharon - but find she weighs a ton.Miss Davidson and fellow worker Sam Prior, 18, of Cambridge, headed down to the park in a bid to round up Sharon.
Miss Davidson said: "We tried to lift her but we are just two small women and there was no way we could shift her. There were a few tourists down there taking pictures. One of them said they were going to put their film on YouTube. Maybe Sharon will become a star.
"We haven't reported the theft to the police yet as we wanted to try and get Sharon back. But we think we will have CCTV footage of the theft."
Indeed, the popular cow is set to be put out to pasture - on the city's stages.
Miss Davidson said: "We have had two Cambridge theatres which wanted to use Sharon as a prop for their plays. I think she would do well - but her acting would be a bit wooden."
Sharon has now been returned to the shop after four people carried her from the park.
Cambridge City Council created the memorial garden in response to public grief at the princess's death in a Paris car crash in August 1997.
It was dedicated by the Bishop of Huntingdon and officially opened by the Mayor of Cambridge at the time, Richard Smith, in September, 1999.
Italian motorist covers 120 kilometers ... in wrong direction Sun Jan 20, 11:34 AM ET
ROME (AFP) - A septuagenarian drove some 120 kilometers (75 miles) down the wrong side of a motorway in northern Italy Sunday, terrifying other motorists, the ANSA news agency reported.
Police managed to stop the 71-year-old man, who seemed disoriented, with their second attempt, ANSA said.
Two officers were slightly injured in a first collision, after which the driver proceeded on his way, only to collide with another car a few kilometers later, causing no injuries.
The motorist, who was returning home to Modena from Bologna in the early hours of Sunday, gave police the impression that he was unaware that he was even on the motorway, ANSA said.
Mini-Thief Packed in Luggage Robbing Swedish Buses
A gang of thieves is employing Trojan Horse tactics by smuggling a 'short person' -- a dwarf or child -- on Swedish buses inside a large bag in order to ransack other bags in the luggage compartment.
Thieves are believed to have been robbing Swedish coaches by smuggling a "short person" into luggage compartments inside a large bag, the coach operator said on Tuesday.
Swebus, which operates coach services across Sweden, said cash and a number of items went missing from bags on two separate occasions this month.
"We think it is a short, young person," Ingvar Ryggasjo, sales manager for Swebus, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "We are taking extra security measures and are thinking of installing video surveillance cameras."
He said the person is believed to have been smuggled onto the coach in a hockey equipment bag.
One woman travelling from the town of Vasteras to Stockholm reported seeing two men squeezing a large, heavy bag into the luggage space under the bus. After arriving she found a camera, purse and other items missing.
"We have got reports about several thefts on the stretch between Vasteras and Stockholm," Swebus customer services manager Pia Kravall said in a police statement. "It is very possible that a very small adult or a child is being placed in a bag in order to search through the other bags."
Woman struck by mobility scooter
A mobility scooter driver left an elderly woman with a broken leg and wrist after a hit-and-run accident in Tewkesbury.
Audrey Lane, 84, from the Gloucs town was hit by the electric vehicle which drove off at less than 8mph.
Mrs Lane is being treated in hospital while CCTV footage is being used to try to trace the driver.
He could face assault charges, or even be charged with dangerous driving under the Road Traffic Act.
Mrs Lane's son, Daniel, 59, said: "My mother was standing with her shopping in the High Street, waiting to cross the road.
"The next thing she knew, she had been hit from behind by this man on a mobility scooter. She was in the middle of the road lying on the floor and her shopping bag was thrown half-way across the street.
"She remembers the incident clearly. He told her, 'I can't stop. I'm busy', then went off."
Inspector Les Pritchard said: "The information we have is that a fairly elderly lady was waiting to cross the road outside Somerfield in Tewkesbury High Street.
"As she was waiting, she was struck by a mobility scooter which then drove away."
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Assault rap for rough handshake
A Florida lawyer has been charged with assault for over-vigorously shaking the hand of a fellow attorney.
Kathy Brewer Rentas, 49, shook the hand of Assistant US Attorney Jennifer Keene so hard her arm was nearly ripped out of its socket, a court official said.
Moments before, Ms Keene successfully prosecuted Ms Brewer Rentas' husband.
Anthony Rentas was accused of violating the terms of a probation order for supplying cocaine, and sentenced to 90 days of house arrest.
After the hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Mrs Brewer Rentas insisted on shaking the prosecuting lawyer's hand.
In shaking it, she nearly floored Ms Keene with the vigour of her hand-action.
The strong arm of the lawyer
"With Keene in hand, Brewer made an upward, then a quick downward motion and pulled Keene toward the ground moving her forward, almost causing Keene to fall to the ground," said a court security officer.
Alicia Valle, a spokeswoman for the US Attorney's Office, said assaulting a federal officer was a serious matter and that Mrs Brewer Rentas would be prosecuted "vigorously".
"As a member of the bar, she should know better," she said.
Mrs Brewer Rentas was freed on Friday on $100,000 (£50,000) bail, after spending a night in solitary confinement, and ordered to undergo psychological examination.
She was also ordered to stay away from Mrs Keene, and faces up to a year in prison if convicted of assault.
Mrs Brewer Rentas says she did not intend to cause any harm.
Man nailed to cross in attack
POLICE are investigating an attack on a man whose hands were nailed to pieces of wood in the same area where the search for missing Shannon Matthews is being carried out.
A 43-year-old man was taken to Pinderfields Hospital after officers were called to his house in School Lane, Dewsbury Moor, just after 11am on Sunday.
The man, who needed surgery for his injuries, is believed to have been found lying outside the property on a grassed area unable to move.
His 39-year-old neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: "I was leaving my neighbour's house when I heard him singing. I told him to get up, thinking he was drunk, but he cried 'I can't'.
"My nephew Mark shouted 'Get over here, he's nailed to some wood."
The scared neighbour said, as she came closer, she realised it wasn't just wood – it was a cross.
Yesterday the house – part o
f a block of two-storey homes – was cordoned off with police tape while detectives inspected the scene.
Uniformed officers stood guard at the front door and another at a boarded up rear door which overlooks the lawn.
Yesterday officers were also carrying out bin searches of flats on the other side of the road as part of the on-going search for missing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews.
A large poster appealing for information on the missing youngster could be seen displayed in the ground-floor window next to the boarded up door.
But police have denied any link to the Shannon case, adding the incident was minor and no-one had been arrested.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman told the YEP: "A 43-year-old man was assaulted around 11pm on Sunday. His injuries are not believed to be serious and the attack is not believed to be connected with the Shannon Matthews investigation."
Race in high heels for Hannah Montana tickets trips Conn. man collecting workers comp
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Prosecutors say a video shows a Connecticut correction officer running a 40-yard-dash in women’s clothing and high heels — at a time he had claimed he was too injured to work.
Garrett A. Dalton of Naugatuck has been charged with workers compensation fraud. He’s accused of taking part in a radio station’s contest for Hannah Montana concert tickets last year. Not only did he have to dress in drag but he had to carry an egg on a spoon.
Authorities were alerted after someone saw Dalton in a TV news report. Prosecutors say the 41-year-old collected more than $5,000 in workers’ compensation after he reported a work-related injury in June.
Court documents do not list an attorney for Dalton, and his phone number is unlisted. And no, he didn’t win the contest.
Fine for back-to-front thong man
Batchelor had gone out in the thong to feed the pigeons a pie
A 58-year-old man who fed pigeons wearing only a skimpy thong which was back to front has been fined £150.
Neighbours spotted David Batchelor in his street in Perth in the underwear which left his genitals partly exposed.
Perth Sheriff Court heard that children walking home from school had been passing by at the time.
His lawyer said that Batchelor had been drunk and there was no sexual element to the way he had behaved. He admitted committing a breach of the peace.
When officers had turned up to investigate they found Batchelor still partially dressed and with his flimsy thong on the wrong way round.
At the court previously, Fiscal Depute Hannah Kennedy said: "The witnesses watched as the accused walked between the common close entrance and the pavement. He went behind some bushes outside his house.
The witnesses were alarmed by his actions and concerned for the children who had passed
"There were a large number of schoolchildren passing his home address at this stage.
"He returned to his flat then reappeared still wearing this item.
"It was still exposing his genitalia. The witnesses were alarmed by his actions and concerned for the children who had passed."
Batchelor claimed he had not seen anyone around, but then confessed he looked at everyone as they went past and the "schoolgirls were bonnie."
Mrs Kennedy added: "Asked why he did it, he replied 'I don't know. I was just feeding the birds and if I was wanting to do that I would just go down town and get a whore'."
Sheriff Michael Fletcher said: "The alcohol seems to be at the root of the problem and nothing much can be done about that, given his attitude towards it."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/26/italy
Circus sisters rescued from snake and piranha acts
Claire Truscott and agencies. guardian.co.uk, Wednesday March 26 2008
Two teenage Bulgarian sisters have been rescued from a circus in southern Italy where they were forced to swim with flesh-eating piranhas.
As part of the circus "entertainment", the elder sister, 19, swam in a transparent tank, while the 16-year-old was forced into a container where the circus staff tossed snakes at her.
Police who rescued her said she was injured by one of the snakes.
Three Italians who ran the circus in the Salerno region, have been charged with holding the Bulgarian girls in slavery and breaching international human rights conventions. The trio were named as Enrico Raffaele Ingrassia, 57, the owner, his son William Ingrassia, 33, and his son in law Gaetano Belfiore, 25.
The women were forced to work up to 20 hours a day, paid €100 a week and lived in a cockroach-infested trailer that had previously been used to transport animals, police said.
The Marino Circus has been offering shows at Petina, south of Naples, in a tent with 200 plastic seats inside it. Police have now closed down the circus.
The owner's daughter, who was not named, told police that a Bulgarian couple and their two daughters had been held as slaves since January.
A spectator tipped off the police after watching, Giusi, the elder girl, try to escape from the piranha tank as her head was allegedly held down.
Her sister Olga was bitten by snakes that she was forced to drape on her body, and she had injuries to her stomach where the snakes had wound themselves too tightly around her.
The owners had apparently treated her wounds but refused to let her see a doctor.
According to reports, Giusi had a tumour on her ear and was told to never submerge it in cold water. But the piranha tank was kept at almost freezing temperatures to make the fish lethargic.
The Bulgarian family have now been taken to "safe premises" and police said they were investigating "trafficking in humans" by organised criminals supplying circuses with cheap labour.
The girls' mother worked as a cook at the site while their father did manual labour on site. The mother had once tried to run away but had been captured and beaten, police said.