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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 20, 2005 18:53:39 GMT -5
Oh man, there are so many points during that story where you could say "that guy was a complete tool"... first of all buying a SIM from the sam chain as the one you stole the phone from... 1 stubbie short of a six pack, thats for sure...
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Post by maarts on Jan 25, 2005 8:36:08 GMT -5
You thought he was a tool? Check this one!
Try harder
A Serbian car thief told police he was Bruce Willis and produced a fake passport as ID.
Goran Markovic, 46, was pulled over by police at a roadside check in Pirot, local daily Blic reported.
When asked for his ID, Markovic, who was wearing dark sunglasses and a cap, told them he was the Die Hard star and handed over the passport.
But police arrested him when they saw the passport was Australian and soon discovered dozens of other passports with fake identities.
A police spokesman said: "It's not very often we get American film stars driving around southern Serbia on their own."
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Post by maarts on Jan 25, 2005 8:39:23 GMT -5
Chook's luck runs out
A chicken called Lucky, which helped its owner pick out winning lottery numbers, has been eaten by a fox.
Lucky was rescued by Billy Gibbons who found it close to death while he was out walking in 2003, reports The Daily Post. A week later, while recuperating at Mr Gibbon's home in Cheshire, UK, it tapped five numbers into a calculator and netted its owner £1300 ($3170).
But Lucky's number finally came up when Mr Gibbons forgot to lock its coop and it was snatched by a fox. Mr Gibbons, 48, said: "I am upset if any of my chickens get killed by a fox. That was obviously a special chicken. I rescued it from certain death. I think it knew that and it followed me everywhere."
Mr Gibbons is now trying to train his remaining hens to peck out winning numbers.
Now that wouldn't be the dude from ZZ Top getting very desperate, would it?
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Post by maarts on Jan 25, 2005 8:42:24 GMT -5
Who's a silly boy then?
An Israeli who taught his pet parrot the name of his mistress now faces divorce after the bird kept squawking it to his wife.
The wife grew suspicious when the parrot kept greeting her with the strange name, and hired a detective to unravel the mystery, the newspaper Maariv reported.
It said the detective took compromising pictures of the husband and mistress - with the parrot right next to them!
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Post by maarts on Jan 25, 2005 8:44:58 GMT -5
Modern-day Romeo and Juliet
A modern-day Romeo and Juliet tragedy took place this week in the north-eastern Italian city of Padua, the Ansa newsagency reported.
Rossana Bianchetto, a 67-year-old retired nurse, had been in a state of deep unconsciousness since suffering from a stroke in September. She had undergone surgery twice and doctors had become increasingly sceptical about her chances of recovery.
While in hospital, she was visited four times a day by her husband, 71-year-old Ettore Benvegnu.
On Wednesday, however, Ettore decided he could no longer bear the situation and took his own life in the garage of their home.
But just hours after her husband's suicide, Rossana came out of her coma and immediately asked: "Where is Ettore?"
Doctors reportedly have not had the courage to tell her what has happened.
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Post by maarts on Jan 27, 2005 5:40:25 GMT -5
Cockboxing anyone?
An American senator hopes to revive cockfighting in the state of Oklahoma by putting tiny boxing gloves on the roosters instead of razors.
The Oklahoma legislature outlawed the blood sport in 2002 because of its cruelty to the roosters, which are slashed and pecked to death while human spectators bet on the outcome. But State Senator Frank Shurden, a Democrat from Henryetta and a long-time defender of cockfighting, said the ban had wiped out a $US100 million ($129 million) business.
To try to revive it, he has proposed that roosters wear little boxing gloves attached to their spurs, as well as lightweight, chicken-sized vests configured with electronic sensors to record hits and help keep score.
"It's like the fencing that you see on the Olympics, you know, where they have little balls on the ends of the swords and the fencers wear vests," said Shurden. "That's the same application that would be applied to the roosters."
Janet Halliburton, president of the Oklahoma Coalition Against Cockfighting, which led the drive for the 2002 law, said Shurden was really seeking to loosen the ban.
"What this is going to do is make a platform for him to continually try to amend the existing ban," Halliburton told The Oklahoman newspaper.
The Oklahoma State Senate will consider Shurden's proposal next month.
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Post by maarts on Jan 27, 2005 5:44:59 GMT -5
Making crime pay
A bank robber has been allowed to claim the cost of a pistol used in a hold-up as a legitimate business expense.
A Dutch court has permitted the 46-year-old man to set the €2000 ($3400) cost of the gun against his gross proceeds of €6750, gained during his raid on a bank in the southern town of Chaam. The judge at Breda Criminal Court duly reduced his fine by the same amount, while sentencing him to four years in jail.
In a timely boost for the Netherlands' image as a bastion of liberal extremism - dented recently by spiralling racial tensions - a spokesman for the Dutch prosecutors' service said the judge had followed sound legal precedents on the confiscation of criminal assets.
Leendert De Lange said: "You can compare criminal acts to normal business activities, where you must invest to make profits, and thus you have costs."
Thus drug dealers would be within their rights to claim the cost of a car used to ferry those drugs around, he said. However, Mr De Lange scoffed at the hypothetical example of a drugs dealer claiming his Ferrari against the proceeds of his crimes. "No, he would have to prove that he needed the car to transport the drugs around, and I hardly think he would transport them in a Ferrari," he said.
Dutch judges also insist on receipts, invoices or other forms of proof when calculating how much to confiscate from convicted criminals, Mr De Lange said. "You can't just tell the judge you spent €10,000, without any proof."
Gerard Sta, national director of the Office of Criminal Assets, told the Belgian newspaper De Standaard of other strict conditions: a criminal's costs must be directly related to the crime, and not just day-to-day expenses. "A second condition is that the criminal offence must be carried out," Mr Sta said.
Mr De Lange said: "The idea is that crime does not pay, but you are allowed to claim your expenses."
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Post by Philemon on Jan 27, 2005 8:30:23 GMT -5
The last one has got to be a joke ...  |
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on Jan 27, 2005 8:53:52 GMT -5
oh, those crazy Duth, what will they do next?
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Post by Philemon on Jan 27, 2005 9:06:25 GMT -5
Equip fighting Roosters with little AK-47 ...  |
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Post by strat-0 on Jan 27, 2005 10:03:45 GMT -5
Cockfighting - what a cruel and sick "sport." When I lived in OK many years ago I worked for a while at a feed store. The owner had his own special blend of cock feed that we would mix up in the middle of the floor of the warehouse and bag up in 25# sacks. He sold a lot of that stuff. No drugs, just high-quality foodstuffs and vitamins. I never saw a fight (nor ever wanted to), but those mean-ass birds do seem to enjoy fighting - maybe there's a case to be made for the little boxing gloves.
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Post by maarts on Feb 1, 2005 5:53:26 GMT -5
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Sadly enough it has been on the front page of many Dutch papers. you get a lot of these stories lately- the latest one is the outrage created by the directors of a Dutch highschool who ordered two of their students to remove a little Dutch flag that was embroidered on their bags because they wwere afraid that it would be seen by their Moroccan schoolmates as a sign of nationalism/racism!
Can you believe it?
Man, am I glad I escaped that lunatic asylum on time!
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Post by ScottsyII on Feb 3, 2005 6:22:27 GMT -5
Sounds like there is some mad crazy legislation going on there Maarts... all sorts of weird little loopholes by the sounds of it! Makes you wonder what's going on behind the walls of those administrative and legislative offices sometimes, I'm sure!
Hope you are keeping well Maarts! excuse my lack of boards presence this week... have found myself working on a few projects around the house this week... I'm likely to be around a bit more in the weeks to come though!
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Post by maarts on Feb 5, 2005 8:01:15 GMT -5
Clueless
A Swedish policeman has confessed he robbed a bank and later investigated the crime himself, telling reporters at the time police had no clues.
A court has charged the 36-year-old for the armed robbery on December 17. The amount of money stolen was described as sizeable.
An hour after the crime the police officer returned to the bank as a leading investigator handling the case. Colleagues became suspicious when he bought a new car in mid-January, paying in cash using banknotes from the robbery, the court heard.
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Post by maarts on Feb 5, 2005 8:06:02 GMT -5
Ref red cards himself
A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league football match for eyeballing a player who disagreed with a decision.
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper.
"It was totally unprofessional. If a player did that I would send him off, so I had to go," Wain, 39, was quoted as saying by the BBC.
"I heard the keeper say 'It's always the bloody same with you, ref. We never get anything'. It was the last straw, but fortunately I came to my senses."
Northamptonshire Football Association refused to comment.
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