On 12th Dec 2007, a starving and limping pony was found by the side of the road, it was in such a poor condition that vets held out little hope for it. Reports said that he’d had his legs tied together and had been put in the boot of a car.
One year on …
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7778318.stm
De Beers, let the exploitation rights to a diamond ‘field’ lapse in 2006 because the quality of the diamonds found wasn’t good enough, it was then taken over by a British company, but when large quantities of excellent diamonds were discovered Mugabe’s government ousted them.
No government work has started at the site so opportunist miners have been digging and finding riches that have enabled them to feed their families, which is no small miracle in Zimbabwe’s current economic climate.
Greedy Mugabe is not happy with this turn of events and has sent in the police and troops and at least 140 miners have been killed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/11/diamond-miners-zimbabwe-war-mugabe
Yesterday residence of Sark (an an island in the channel isles) overturned 450 years of feudalism, and voted in a democratic election for members of its Parliament. They had a turn out of 90% of the 474 eligible to vote and provisional results are in.
http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline/displayarticle.asp?id=373352
Sark has no cars, the only motorised vehicles on the island are tractors, so most travel by foot or horse and carriage. When we visited 10 years ago, the residents were not allowed to put on their washing machines at milking time because the power generated was limited. Tourism is the islands biggest industry and sat amist a beautiful and technology free ‘Main Street’ was an Internet Cafe!
A man was killed because he refused to hand over the microphone at a karaoke bar.
Anyone heard from Saul lately?
Wanna be Policeman, Chris Woodruff, was caught with forged car insurance documents, because he had dated the fake certificate 31/02/08.
Plymouth Crown Court heard that it was ‘probably the worst forgery you have ever seen’, at the hearing where Woodruff admitted ‘Perverting the cause of Justice’
Its a shame, with his level of intelligence, cunning and skill, he probably would have had a very successful career in the Met.
So you heard the one about the married mother of three who answered the call of nature during an American Football game and ended up losing her job because of it?
It must have been a classic ‘our eyes met across a crowded (wash) room’ moment, only Lois Feldman can’t remember a thing about her ‘meeting’ with Ross Walsh. Just like she can’t remember taking refuge in a disability toilet and wowing the crowd with some live porn action.
I suspect that she can, however, remember being caught red (cough) handed by the police and being booked for indecent conduct.
Next time Lois, remember to shut the door.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20081127091317lill.nb/topstory.html
At least 80 people have been killed and over 200 injured in a series of co-ordinated attacks across Mumbai (Bombay) including Hemant Karkare, head of the anti terrorist squad. A previously unknown group called Deccan Mujahideen have claimed responsibility for the shootings.
The situation is still confused and reports of hostages are across the web. Coming at a tense time when elections are being held in, the much fought over state of, Kashmir, Indian Police have already accused Pakistan’s Intelligence agency of planning the attacks.
This is President elect Obama’s second huge challenge and the poor man’s not even taken office yet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7751160.stm
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The makers of the Whizzinator have pleaded guilty to ‘conspiracy’ charges in a US Federal court. The Whizzinator is a fake penis, that produces fake urine for drug testing.
Although it was advertised as ‘the ultimate solution for a drug testing device’ , they presumably failed to notice an obvious flaw in their design. One wonders whether Marion Jones was ‘caught’ while using one!
It comes in a choice of 5 colours, but rumours abound that male sprinters have objected to it’s ‘rather average’ size.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7747833.stm
Now that they’ve been ‘outed’, the manufacturers are reportedly trying to find an alternative market for this product…
http://carmenscafe.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/only-in-america3-or-4/
