Number 1 in a series - people who aren't very good at their jobs.

[Kopite]

US anti-kidnap expert kidnapped

[Section_31]

[bigredruss]

that's funny

[Stu Monty]

There's a whole load of yanks in Mexico that need their shit kidnapping and vanished.

War on drugs, my fucking arse.

War of NAFTA.

[TE-23]

City Council Chief Anti-Social Behaviour Officer arrested after city centre violence

[Kopite]

And the winner of the Tact in Advertising Award is...

The makers of the recent Robert De Niro and Al Pacino movie have landed in hot water over the film's poster.

The offending image, which includes the tag line 'There's nothing wrong with a little shooting as long as the right people get shot', was criticised for being on display at Stockwell tube station during the Jean Charles de Menezes inquest.

The Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the poster could have caused serious offence, and was deemed a breach of guidelines.

The ASA said: "We understood the siting of the poster at the station was unintentional, but nevertheless considered that the text had the potential to cause serious offence in that location."

Righteous Kill, which was a critical failure and concerned corrupt cops, was De Niro and Pacino's second screen outing together. 50 Cent also starred in the film.

The picture's studio Lionsgate insisted that there was "no intention to offend", adding: "We considered that most people were likely to understand that the poster reflected the content of the film and the quote was intended to be wryly humorous."

De Menezes was shot by police at Stockwell tube station after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.

[King Gheedorah]

This is a few months old

Donkey Arrested and Jailed……Held in the Drunk Tank….. « BlogPile

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - A Mexican donkey has been freed from jail after doing time for acting like a jackass.

The Televisa network on Wednesday showed Blacky gobbling food from a bucket after spending three days in a jail that normally holds people for public drunkenness and other disturbances.

Blacky was jailed for biting and kicking two men near a ranch outside Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of the southern state of Chiapas.

Officials freed the donkey after its owner paid a fine of $36 and the $115 hospital bill of the men, who suffered bites to the chest and a broken ankle. Authorities say he also must pay $480 to each man for missed work days.

The victims said the donkey bit Genaro Vazquez, 63, in the chest on Sunday and then kicked 52-year-old Andres Hernandez as he tried to come to the rescue, fracturing his ankle.

“All of a sudden, the animal was on top of us like it was rabid,” Hernandez said.

Police said it took a half-dozen men to control the enraged beast.

Chiapas police have thrown animals in the slammer before, including a bull that devoured corn crops and destroyed two wooden vending stands in March.

In 2006, a dog was locked up for 12 days after biting someone. His owners were fined $18.




What's this about a kick and bite?

[tokyojoe]

Iran arrests pigeons at nuclear site