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Post by rockkid on Jan 28, 2005 8:33:11 GMT -5
And in a follow up to an earlier story………….fill yer boots errrrr hands it’s 100% government approved!  VANCOUVER -- The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that masturbating at home is not an offence, even if the activity can be seen by peeking neighbours. The case centred on whether a private space - Daryl Clark's living room - became public because others could view it. The high court said No in a unanimous ruling yesterday. The living room of his private home was not a place 'to which the public (had) access as of right or by invitation, express or implied,' " Justice Morris Fish wrote, quoting the Criminal Code. On Oct. 28, 2000, Clark's neighbours across his backyard in Nanaimo, B.C., noticed "some movement" in Clark's living room. The woman had been watching television with her two young daughters in their family room. The woman moved to another room for a better view, then called her husband. The pair watched Clark for up to 15 minutes. The court found they took care to avoid being seen by Clark, peering from under their partially lowered blinds. The neighbours called police. The trial judge concluded he had "converted" his living room into a public place and the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld the conviction. Clark was given a four-month sentence.
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Post by Galactus on Jan 28, 2005 9:30:40 GMT -5
I said the first time I heard that story and I'll say it again. THe neighbors should be fined for being a spying bunch of pervs. They watched the guy whack off in his own goddamn living room for fifteen minutes. They went another room TO GET A BETTER VEIW!
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Post by Philemon on Jan 28, 2005 9:59:20 GMT -5
I would have found that guy guilty
on the sole count of *gross stupidity*
and condemned him to put some blinds
or drapes on his windows or patio door ...
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Post by pissin2 on Jan 28, 2005 10:04:49 GMT -5
if I was the judge I would have just said GET THIS THE HELL OUT OF MY COURTROOM YOU MORONS!
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Post by rockkid on Feb 9, 2005 10:34:21 GMT -5
The only thing I’m opposed to about these pants is if you have a gut then for gods sake spare us.
Unless of course they are seven day shitters then hell ya ban em.
Folks look stupid as F*ck in those!
Va. Bill Sets Fine for Low-Riding Pants
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginians who wear their pants so low their underwear shows may want to think about investing in a stronger belt.
The state's House of Delegates passed a bill Tuesday authorizing a $50 fine for anyone who displays his or her underpants in a "lewd or indecent manner."
Del. Lionell Spruill Sr., a Democrat who opposed the bill, had pleaded with his colleagues to remember their own youthful fashion follies.
During an extended monologue Monday, he talked about how they dressed or wore their hair in their teens. On Tuesday, he said the measure was an unconstitutional attack on young blacks that would force parents to take off work to accompany their children to court just for making a fashion statement.
"This is a foolish bill, Mr. Speaker, because it will hurt so many," Spruill said before the measure was approved 60-34. It now goes to the state Senate.
The bill's sponsor, Del. Algie T. Howell, has said constituents were offended by the exposed underwear. He did not speak on the floor Tuesday.
Spruill and Howell, also a Democrat, are both black.
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Post by Meursault on Feb 9, 2005 10:40:00 GMT -5
That flushing sound just keeps getting louder.
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Post by strat-0 on Feb 9, 2005 11:53:25 GMT -5
They don't have beaches in VA? Sounds more like they disapprove the message. I just think it looks pretty silly and is especially funny when they wind up falling down.
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Post by Galactus on Feb 10, 2005 23:21:01 GMT -5
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Post by rockkid on Feb 13, 2005 17:07:18 GMT -5
Oh well atleast the cops no longer have to worry about the chance of being out run.
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Post by rockkid on Feb 25, 2005 11:41:56 GMT -5
Not at all funny but out there for sure
EDINBURGH, Scotland - A partially sighted man who allegedly bit his guide dog on the head and kicked it has been charged with animal cruelty, Scottish police said Thursday.
An eyewitness reported seeing the 34-year-old bite the Labrador and kick it repeatedly at a shopping mall in Edinburgh on Feb. 8, a spokeswoman for Lothian and Borders Police said.
Officers arrested the suspect on Feb. 10 and charged him with animal cruelty and a breach of the peace, the spokeswoman said. She refused to name the man and didn't give a date for an expected court appearance.
Police took the eight-year-old dog into protective care and handed it to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
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Post by rockkid on Feb 28, 2005 9:23:49 GMT -5
From the give me a break files.
Kraft halts production of contoversial roadkill-shaped candy
TRENTON, N.J. - Production of candy shaped like roadkill has come to a screeching halt. The decision, announced Friday by Kraft Foods Inc., was the result of an outcry by New Jersey animal rights activists who said the candy encouraged children to be cruel to animals.
"We take comments from our consumers really seriously and, in hindsight, we understand that this product could be misunderstood," said Kraft spokesman Larry Baumann.
Kraft plans to stop production as soon as possible and then sell off remaining inventory, Baumann said.
The fruity-flavoured Trolli Road Kill Gummi Candy - shaped like flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels, complete with tire treads - hit store shelves last summer and was supposed to be another offbeat and unusual addition to Kraft's Gummi candy line.
But the nonprofit New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals thought differently. Earlier this week, it threatened petition drives, boycotts and letter-writing campaigns.
Stuart Rhodes, the organization's president, said he never thought his group's efforts would be so successful.
"Did I think it would happen as fast as I did? No. I guess like most people I've become very cynical. All too often it seems that profit rules all. This was refreshing," Rhodes said.
The state of New Jersey designates the NJSPCA the enforcer of its animal cruelty laws. Law enforcement takes up a large part of the group's efforts, but Rhodes has stressed more public advocacy since he took over a year ago.
This is the first time the organization has complained to a company about a product, Rhodes said.
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. is in the process of acquiring the Trolli brand along with other Kraft candy lines as part of a $1.48 billion US deal.
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Post by rockysigman on Mar 9, 2005 10:12:01 GMT -5
Okay, not exactly ha-ha funny, but you know, funny in a she-got-whats-coming-to-her kind of way. From CNN.com....
Food poisoning kills 29 children
(CNN) -- Nearly 30 elementary school children in the Philippines have died after eating fried cassava balls obtained from a vendor, a spokesman for the local mayor told CNN.
Fourteen children died Wednesday before reaching hospitals and 13 died upon arrival, the spokesman for Mabini Mayor Eutiquio Bernales said.
Two more children also have died, but it was not clear when. Thirty-five more are in critical condition.
The victims suffered severe stomach pain, then vomiting and diarrhea after eating the snack during morning recess, The Associated Press reported.
They were taken to at least four hospitals near the school in Mabini, a town on Bohol Island, about 610 kilometers (380 miles) southeast of Manila, AP said.
"Some said they took only two bites because it tasted bitter and the effects were felt 5-10 minutes later," Dr. Harold Gallego of Garcia Memorial Provincial Hospital in the nearby town of Talibon told AP.
The vendor who sold the cassava balls insisted nothing was wrong with them and ate a few to prove the point. Now she, too, is in critical condition.
All of the children were in the first and second grades of San Jose Elementary School in Mabini. Francisca Doliente AP that her 9-year-old niece Arve Tamor was given some of the deep-fried caramelized cassava by a classmate who bought it from a regular vendor outside the San Jose school.
"Her friend is gone. She died," Doliente said, adding that her niece was undergoing treatment.
Grace Vallente, 26, said her 7-year-old nephew Noel died en route to the hospital and that her 9-year-old niece Roselle was undergoing treatment.
"There are many parents here," AP quoted her as saying from L.G. Cotamura Community Hospital in Bohol's Ubay town.
"The kids who died are lined up on beds. Everybody's grief-stricken."
Cassava is a starchy, tuberous root that is a low-cost source of carbohydrates in humid, tropical areas; it is also the source of tapioca.
Cassava contains amino acid-derived cyanogenic glucosides -- some more than others -- and must be thoroughly cooked to remove toxic levels.
Eaten raw, the human digestive system will convert part of it into cyanide. Two cassava roots contain enough to be fatal.
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Post by rockkid on Mar 9, 2005 10:46:23 GMT -5
Yeah that made news here, pretty sad.
Oregon high school football coach accused of licking players' bloody cuts
HALSEY, Ore. - An Oregon state panel plans to investigate a high school football coach who acknowledged licking a bloody cut on the knee of one of his players.
The Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission decided to look at the case after a parent complained Central Linn High School coach Scott Reed's behaviour threatened student safety and health.
Reed, 34, who also teaches science, acknowledged the incident last year after the parent's complaint. The school district placed him on probation and required him to take a "bloodborne pathogens" course.
Police investigated but Reed was not arrested.
Sometimes there are actions that are socially unacceptable or bizarre that aren't necessarily criminal," Linn County Sheriff Dave Burright said.
The student whose knee was licked told police Reed had given team members a pep talk about a coach licking and healing injured players' wounds so they could get back in a game.
Team members urged Reed to do the same for a bleeding scab on the student's knee and Reed did after asking permission. A witness said Reed seemed to be "joking around" and the licked athlete was not offended, the police report said.
Contacted by the Register-Guard newspaper of Eugene, Ore., Reed refused comment.
Saliva-to-blood contact poses a small risk of disease transmission, said Dr. Sarah Hendrickson, public health officer at Lane County Public Health in Eugene.
"We do know that animals lick their own wounds," she said.
"And it may be that saliva has some healing properties. But my very strong recommendation is that you confine yourself to licking your own wounds."
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Post by Philemon on Mar 9, 2005 16:20:55 GMT -5
The KRAFT storey is one of the stupidiest thing I have ever heard in my life ...  Some people have WAY TOO MUCH TIME on their hands and ought to get their PRIORITIES STRAIGHT !! OH !! AND LIGHTEN UP TOO ... !! |
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Post by rockysigman on Mar 9, 2005 16:45:27 GMT -5
Japanese siblings live with dead parent
TOKYO (AP) — Police on Tuesday questioned three siblings after it was discovered they had been living with the decomposed corpse of their father for nearly a decade, an official said.
Police found the body of Kyujiro Kanaoka lying on a futon bed at the family's home in Itami city in Hyogo prefecture in western Japan, said a prefectural police spokesman, who declined to be identified.
Kanaoka's three elderly children, all in their 70s or older, told police they thought their father was still alive but that one of them recently had consulted a relative about the possibility that he might be dead, the spokesman said.
Police were investigating the cause of Kanaoka's death. Judging from the condition of his decomposed body, Kanaoka may have died as long as 10 years ago, the spokesman said.
Had he been alive, the man would be 107 years old. Hyogo prefecture had registered Kanaoka as its oldest living resident, public broadcaster NHK said.
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