Outrageous News Stories from Around the Globe

[Words]

I'm re-titling this one The Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of a Bargain. What were they thinking?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091114/tuk-woman-murderer-escapes-during-shoppi-45dbed5.html

[PoeticWitch]

I was reading the above story when I came across this one...

I am seriously disturbed that someone would do this....

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091114/tuk-briton-caught-with-spiders-in-bags-6323e80.html

[Words]

You're not kidding.

BIRD EATING spiders?:(

Really though, he deserved to be caught for being so stupid (not to mention cruel).

Thanks for the link!

Words

[MrSunshine]

this is a true story and I can't effing believe it. You cannot send this sites addy in a pm at another site. WTF?

[Words]

this is a true story and I can't effing believe it. You cannot send this sites addy in a pm at another site. WTF?

You haven't been following the news, have you.

That's an old, old story now.;)

[Mister Bent]

this is a true story and I can't effing believe it. You cannot send this sites addy in a pm at another site. WTF?

Outrageous, and yet hilarious in a pathetic sort of way.


Back to the news, Fla. man arrested for calling 911, asking for sex (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33907396/ns/us_news-weird_news/)

[MrSunshine]

Outrageous, and yet hilarious in a pathetic sort of way.


Back to the news, Fla. man arrested for calling 911, asking for sex (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33907396/ns/us_news-weird_news/)

Dammit! they said they would never tell

[Words]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091115/tod-man-butchered-and-eaten-by-three-tra-870a197.html

[Jet]

I wouldn't say this is outrageous, but it is interesting. the 20 most miserable US cities according to Forbes.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/11/americas-most-miserable-cities-business-beltway-miserable-cities_slide_15.html

[Jet]

Outrageous.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100223/ap_on_re_us/us_frozen_corpses

[Jet]

Three busted in infection of 13M computers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_botnet_busted

[Semantics]

Three busted in infection of 13M computers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_botnet_busted

Good.


I always wondered if these jokers ever get caught.

[Jet]

Shit like this makes me really angry. WTF is up with people?

Boy Hit By Balloon Filled With Bleach May Lose Sight In Eye


Posted By - Kevin Rowson
Last Updated On: 5/27/2010 11:05:09 PM

LILBURN, GA -- Throwing water balloons on a hot summer day can be fun. But a water balloon filled with bleach thrown at a 14-year old boy from a passing car is an assault according to police.

The balloon hit Lilburn Middle School student Miguel Mesa right in the face. His right eye is bloodshot and black and blue. His left eye is covered with a bandage and Mesa said it is much worse.

He looks like he went 12 rounds with a heavyweight contender. "It hit me right in the eyes," Mesa said. "I thought I broke my nose, but then I felt my eyes were like burning."

Mesa, Juan Rivera and Oscar Rodriguez are students at Lilburn Middle School. Wednesday was their last day of school before summer vacation. Mesa said they chose to walk home from school rather than take the bus because they wanted to spend some time together.

The boys were walking on the sidewalk along Highway 29 when Rivera saw a gray minivan driving by with the side sliding door open. Rivera said he saw two teenagers in the front and one in the back. "I just heard Juan say they're throwing water balloons and I just looked up and (it hit me)," Mesa said. "I just fell down and it started bleeding and everything."

"At first I thought he was kidding around and then when I saw his eyes bleeding that's when I knew it was more than water," Rivera said.

Mesa's father wishes his son took the bus after getting a call at work from a Lilburn police officer. "I was praying my way to the hospital, actually thinking the worst," Severo Mesa said.

His son was transported by ambulance to Gwinnett Medical Center. "They (doctors) tell me that the Clorox really wasn't that much of a problem but the impact was," the boy said.

His father said his son will have an MRI on Friday to determine if he will ever see out of his left eye again. "What I was thinking is I would give my vision for his," the older Mesa said. "He's just beginning (his life) and I already lived half of my life."

There were several pieces of broken balloons along Highway 29 where Mesa was hit. The boys said the person in the back of the car was throwing balloons at other kids too.

Lilburn police are hoping someone knows the teenagers in the gray mini-van. I hope the police do everything they can to find them because it's a crime," Rivera said. "My friend could be blind by now but thanks to God he's not."

Severo Mesa said even if it was a prank, the teens need to be punished. "Anything we do has consequences," he said. "I believe they will have to deal with those consequences sooner or later."

"Lilburn police are seeking information from the public on the location of the van as well as the identity of the suspects involved in the incident," said Captain Bruce Hedley.

He said the gray minivan had a black stripe on the lower portion of the vehicle.

[Gemme]

Shit like this makes me really angry. WTF is up with people?

Boy Hit By Balloon Filled With Bleach May Lose Sight In Eye


Posted By - Kevin Rowson
Last Updated On: 5/27/2010 11:05:09 PM

LILBURN, GA -- Throwing water balloons on a hot summer day can be fun. But a water balloon filled with bleach thrown at a 14-year old boy from a passing car is an assault according to police.

The balloon hit Lilburn Middle School student Miguel Mesa right in the face. His right eye is bloodshot and black and blue. His left eye is covered with a bandage and Mesa said it is much worse.

He looks like he went 12 rounds with a heavyweight contender. "It hit me right in the eyes," Mesa said. "I thought I broke my nose, but then I felt my eyes were like burning."

Mesa, Juan Rivera and Oscar Rodriguez are students at Lilburn Middle School. Wednesday was their last day of school before summer vacation. Mesa said they chose to walk home from school rather than take the bus because they wanted to spend some time together.

The boys were walking on the sidewalk along Highway 29 when Rivera saw a gray minivan driving by with the side sliding door open. Rivera said he saw two teenagers in the front and one in the back. "I just heard Juan say they're throwing water balloons and I just looked up and (it hit me)," Mesa said. "I just fell down and it started bleeding and everything."

"At first I thought he was kidding around and then when I saw his eyes bleeding that's when I knew it was more than water," Rivera said.

Mesa's father wishes his son took the bus after getting a call at work from a Lilburn police officer. "I was praying my way to the hospital, actually thinking the worst," Severo Mesa said.

His son was transported by ambulance to Gwinnett Medical Center. "They (doctors) tell me that the Clorox really wasn't that much of a problem but the impact was," the boy said.

His father said his son will have an MRI on Friday to determine if he will ever see out of his left eye again. "What I was thinking is I would give my vision for his," the older Mesa said. "He's just beginning (his life) and I already lived half of my life."

There were several pieces of broken balloons along Highway 29 where Mesa was hit. The boys said the person in the back of the car was throwing balloons at other kids too.

Lilburn police are hoping someone knows the teenagers in the gray mini-van. I hope the police do everything they can to find them because it's a crime," Rivera said. "My friend could be blind by now but thanks to God he's not."

Severo Mesa said even if it was a prank, the teens need to be punished. "Anything we do has consequences," he said. "I believe they will have to deal with those consequences sooner or later."

"Lilburn police are seeking information from the public on the location of the van as well as the identity of the suspects involved in the incident," said Captain Bruce Hedley.

He said the gray minivan had a black stripe on the lower portion of the vehicle.

Ditto. What idiots.

[Jet]

Tight pants ban takes effect in Indonesia's Aceh

MEULABOH, Indonesia – Authorities in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province have distributed 20,000 long skirts and prohibited shops from selling tight dresses as a regulation banning Muslim women from wearing revealing clothing took effect Thursday.
More....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_no_tight_pants_2

[ravfem]

'Raghead' slur is new ugly twist in S.C. race

1 hr 24 mins ago

Lee Atwater would be proud. Or ashamed. Or both.
Atwater, the famed GOP operative who ran George W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign, was the universally acknowledged master of the political dirty trick — his was the diabolical mind behind the "Willie Horton" ad that did Michael Dukakis in — until a deathbed conversion in which he regretted the "naked brutality" of his career. Atwater was also a native of South Carolina, and in recent months his home state has been living up to his political legacy in ways he never could have imagined — most recently with a Republican state senator using the slur "raghead" for GOP gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, a Christian of Indian Sikh descent, and for President Obama.

South Carolina has always had a singularly mean-spirited and crafty political culture, especially on the GOP side, where dog whistles about race and religion come across loud and clear to its good ol' boy base. There were the rumors floated during the 2000 Republican presidential primary about a supposed illegitimate black child of Sen. John McCain, and there was the time in 1990 when political consultant Rod Shealy conspired to increase the turnout among anti-black white voters in the GOP primary by recruiting a black candidate (which he correctly reckoned would benefit his candidate) to run for Congress.

South Carolina has also of late become known for the sexual peccadilloes of Gov. Mark Sanford and the anti-Obama rage of one of its congressmen, Joe Wilson (he of the "You lie!" outburst during the president's address to Congress on health care).

And now the state's Republican primary for governor has tied those threads of political deviousness, sexual innuendo and white rage into an Atwaterian nightmare.

Front-runner Haley, an attractive "pro-family" candidate who has the backing of the tea party movement and Sarah Palin, has been the target of not one but two claims of infidelity to her husband — both lodged by conservative political operatives who claim to have slept with her.

And on Thursday a state senator who is supporting one of Haley's opponents casually referred to her as a "raghead" and claimed that she is a Manchurian candidate launched by a "network of Sikhs" to take over the governorship.

During a visit Thursday to "Pub Politics," an online political chat show hosted from a bar in Columbia, S.C., state senator Jake Knotts said: "We already got one raghead in the White House; we don't need a raghead in the governor's mansion." Haley's parents are Sikhs of Indian descent; she has converted to Christianity but still attends Sikh religious ceremonies on occasion out of deference to her parents.

According to the Columbia Free Times, Knotts also claimed that Haley was a plant being controlled by nefarious handlers:

Knotts says he believed Haley has been set up by a network of Sikhs and was programmed to run for governor of South Carolina by outside influences in foreign countries. He claims she is hiding her religion and he wants the voters to know about it.

The "raghead" remark seemed like an inevitable grace note in the gubernatorial primary. Knotts is supporting South Carolina Attorney General Andre Bauer's candidacy, and this week a campaign consultant for Bauer named Larry Marchant came forward to claim he had a "one-night stand" with Haley — a married mother of two — at a school-choice conference in 2008. That allegation came just a week after Will Folks, a right-wing blogger and former campaign worker for Haley, claimed to have engaged in an "inappropriate physical relationship" with her.

Haley has categorically denied the charges and says she has been "100 percent faithful" to her husband. Bauer, who fired Marchant and says he has had nothing to do with the charges of infidelity, has chosen a curious approach to staying out of the fray: He's demanding that Haley take a lie-detector test to prove that she never cheated on her husband. Haley, meanwhile, has pledged that if she's elected, she will resign if proof ever comes out that she did sleep with Folks or Marchant.

Neither Marchant nor Folks has come forward with proof of their claims, though Folks has released phone records showing that he frequently spoke to Haley on the phone late at night and claims to have seen a photo, allegedly taken by a private investigator, of himself and Haley in a "compromising position."

As for Knotts, he has issued an apology for the "raghead" comment, claiming that it was "intended in jest" and that the "humorous content was lost in translation." Though the "Pub Politics" show was webcast, host Wesley Donehue, a South Carolina political consultant, Tweeted that "technical issues" with prevented Knotts' remark from being archived on the show's site, so no video of it was immediately available. But he later Tweeted that he had his own version, as yet unreleased. (To add to the insular, high-school nature of the campaign's glorious disarray, Donehue was the person Folks accused of first peddling Folks-Haley rumors to the press, allegedly prompting Folks' confession.)

Even in his apology, Knotts managed to get another underhanded dig in at Haley, whom he says "is pretending to be someone she is not." Bauer used identical language in his statement challenging her to a lie-detector test. The implication that she is, as Knotts put it, "hiding her true religion." Meanwhile, the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody published a story Thursday saying her emphasis on her Christian faith has evolved over the years.
Haley has thus far used the bizarre attacks to her advantage, painting herself as a victim of a corrupt political culture, and has maintained a healthy lead in the polls. The primary is Tuesday, which leaves only three more days for Haley's opponents to systematically eviscerate the myth of the Southern gentleman.
— John Cook is a senior national reporter/blogger for Yahoo! News.

and just an FYI about Andre Bauer, our current Lt. Gov.:

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better," Bauer said.

...Bauer's remarks came during a speech in which he said government should take away assistance if those receiving help didn't pass drug tests or attend parent-teacher conferences or PTA meetings if their children were receiving free and reduced-price lunches.

:vigil:

[Jet]

Iran to review woman's stoning verdict

TEHRAN, Iran – The lawyer for an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned to death for an adultery conviction expressed cautious optimism Saturday after Iran said it will review the decision, which has drawn international condemnation.

More...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_stoning

[Soon]

Cindy Jacobs: God Devastated Japan Because They Worship Dragons

Jacobs: God Is Using Earthquake To Break Japan's Pagan Idolatry

Submitted by Kyle on March 16, 2011 - 8:01am


Like her close colleague Chuck Pierce, who yesterday declared that the earthquake and tsunami in Japan was an attempt by God to topple "a stronghold of spiritism," Cindy Jacobs weighs in on the tragedy to declare that Japan has always been a "hard group for the gospel" because it was rooted in idolatry - even the island itself "looks like the head of a dragon" - and so God is trying to shake the nation because "the Holy Spirit wants to breathe the wind of revival across Japan and bring a mighty spiritual awakening to the land of the rising sun with healing in His wings":

I have personally felt that one of the reasons Japan was such a hard group for the gospel was the fact that they have had a direct link with the Imperial family and a direct link with the sun goddess, Amaterasu.

After the end of the second world war, under the U.S. agreements with Japan, this connection with Amaterasu was renounced. It is hard for those in the western world to understand the connection idolatry had with the suicide bombers in WWll as try dedicated their lives to the Emperor and this principality. After the nation no longer had this idolatrous connection, Japan flourished economically.

However, of recent years, this link with Amaterasu and sun worship was reinstated in a ceremony in which the new Emperor once again participated and "spent the night with the goddess" after eating the sacred rice.

I believe this is one major reason that Japan has gone downhill economically in such a drastic way. The debt ratio to GDP is now 200%. With the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the economy and banking system, insurance industry, etc., will certainly take a massive hit.

In the early nineties, the Lord gave me a prophecy for Japan that it was a "sickle in the hand of the Lord" that will be used for great harvest. The physical geography of the islands look like a curved sickle with the handle being the island of Hokkaido in the north. One could also say that it looks like a curved sword. Where Japan has historically been a sword of war across Asia. I see God raising up young revivalists from the nation who will impact Asia and the world for the gospel.

On the other hand, if you look at it another way, this island, Hokkaido, looks like the head of a dragon with the body being the rest of Japan. The people of Asia have worshipped the dragon for 5,000 years. If one looks at the place where the earthquake took place, it looks like the soft underbelly of most vulnerable part of the dragon. Let's pray that the deep idolatry and the worship of hundreds of idols under the guise of Shintoism, Buddhism, and allegiances to being "sons of the dragon" will be broken and thousands will turn to the Lord.

My interpretation of this is that while God did not want people to perish, He is going to use this to "pierce" the darkness surrounding the Japanese people if we will cry out to God for them in the midst of this crisis ... If we respond correctly, the darkness and the grip of idolatry of all forms that has blinded the eyes of so many in Japan will be broken off of them. The faithful believers in Jesus Christ will be strengthened as they are used for great harvest across Asia and the face of the earth.


http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-god-using-earthquake-break-japans-pagan-idolatry

[weatherboi]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42113363/ns/local_news-jacksonville_fl/

[justkim]

I just saw this video and wanted to share it here with all of you...
Through all of the heartache in Japan this story and video should warm your heart...
Warning... it will bring tears to your eyes... Read the article before viewing so that you get the translation of what is being said by the reporters...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/dog-in-japan-stays-by-the-side-of-its-ailing-friend-in-the-rubble

[Soon]

Texas Bill Would Outlaw Discrimination Against Creationists (http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/03/texas-bill-would-outlaw-discrimination-against-creationists)

:explode:

[betenoire]

Texas Bill Would Outlaw Discrimination Against Creationists (http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/03/texas-bill-would-outlaw-discrimination-against-creationists)

:explode:

Oh well thank goodness. Because I know that I personally have been fired from at least 7 jobs (that I know of!) for believing in intelligent design!

*holds up sarcasm sign*

[Ms. Tabitha]

http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/art/global/icon_ap_byline.gif
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysian police say they have recovered about 700,000 condoms that were stolen while being shipped to Japan two months ago.
Mohamad Shukri Dahlan, police chief of Malaysia's northern Perak state, says authorities found hundreds of boxes of condoms at a warehouse and a home last week. Police arrested six men who allegedly were storing the condoms in hope of eventually selling them.
Mohamad Shukri said Thursday some of the suspects work for a company that was transporting the condoms from a factory to a port.
They face 10 years in prison if convicted of corruption.
He says the condoms will be returned to Sagami Rubber Industries, one of Japan's biggest condom makers. The merchandise is estimated to be worth $1.5 million.

(Copyright ©2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

:|

[Linus]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/16/republican-lawmaker-blames-11-year-old-victim-of-alleged-gang-rape/


Elected officials should know better than to blame the victim of a sex crime.

While it's a common tactic of abusers, it's something no one expected of Republican Florida state Rep. Kathleen Passidomo.

During debate over a bill that would legislate a dress code for Florida students, Passidomo blamed the alleged gang raping of an 11-year-old in Cleveland, Texas on the way the young girl was dressed.

"There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gangraped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute," Passidomo declared (http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/sagging-pants-bill-passes-house-committee).

"And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students," she added.

Broward/Palm Beach New Times' Brandon Thorp was shocked.

"Whoa!" he wrote (http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2011/03/eleven_year_old_raped_because.php). "As a genus, politicians aren't the brightest wicks in the candelabra, but they usually possess sufficient self-awareness to shield the public from the horrorshows of their minds. Blaming the rape of an 11-year-old girl on her parents' sense of fashion -- and to do so out loud -- smacks of rank amateurism."

At a civc meeting in Cleveland following the crime, local residents there had also placed blame on the girl.

"Many who attended the meeting said they supported the group of men and boys who have been charged in the case," The Associated Press reported (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7467292.html). "Supporters didn't claim that the men and boys did not have sex with the young girl; instead they blamed the girl for the way she dressed or claimed she must have lied about her age — accusations that have drawn strong responses from those who note an 11-year-old cannot consent to sex and that it doesn't matter how she was dressed."
Even a New York Times article on the alleged rape was widely criticized for lack of balance.

"[Residents] said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s," the Times reported (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/us/09assault.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=gang%20rape&st=cse).
"These elements, creating an impression of concern for the perpetrators and an impression of a provocative victim, led many readers to interpret the subtext of the story to be: she had it coming," Times public editor Arthur Brisbane noted (http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/gang-rape-story-lacked-balance/?scp=1&sq=gang%20rape&st=cse) several days later.

"We live in a society that continues to blame and shame victims of sexual assault," Kelly Boros, communications manager of the Houston Area Women’s Center, told El Gato Media Network (http://uhelgato.com/2011/03/rape-and-victim-blaming-medias-response-to-clevelands-rape-case/).

"It is disheartening but not surprising to see rape myths perpetuated in the news; sometimes subtly and sometimes blatantly.":blink: :rant:

[MsDemeanor]

Texas Bill Would Outlaw Discrimination Against Creationists (http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/03/texas-bill-would-outlaw-discrimination-against-creationists)

:explode:


Yes, please, by all means, let's allow the untethered spread of ignorance in colleges and universities.

[Mister Bent]

Remember Nadya Suleman (http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/30/nadya-suleman-babies-disgust-me/)?


"Some days I have thought about killing myself. I cannot cope," Suleman tells In Touch. She says of her kids, "Obviously, I love them - but I absolutely wish I had not had them."

[Words]

She's not the only one who wishes she hadn't had them.

Those poor kids.

Words

[MsTinkerbelly]

NORWAY: Lesbian Couple Saved Dozens Of Campers During Terrorist Attack

JMG reader Homer sends us this story I missed earlier in the week:
Hege Dalen and her partner Toril Hansen were eating supper in the camping area opposite Utoya [sic.] island when they started hearing gunshots and screaming. Dalen and Hansen drove their boat to the island, and fished out of the water people who were in shock and young people who were injured and transported them ashore. Every now and then bullets almost hit the boat. Since they couldn’t fit everyone into the boat all at once, they returned to the island four times. They might have saved as much as forty people from the clutches of the killer.