News stories that aren't worth starting a thread for

[Gym Beglin]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-37103668

 

Three people, including two children, have died after their throats were slit by glass-coated strings used for flying kites on India's Independence Day.

Saanchi Goyal, 3, and Harry, 4, were looking out through the sunroof of their cars in different parts of Delhi when sharp strings slit their throats.

Zafar Khan, 22, died in the same manner when he was riding his motorbike.

Glass-coated strings are used to bring down competitors' kites, but they also end up injuring and killing people.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Grim

[Gym Beglin]

Fucking gay is what it is.

Even the original premise of wanting to cut the strings on someone else's kite is fucking gay.

Imagine being their parents and having it explained to them in this whimsical BBC News fashion that the reason your two toddlers had their throats slit and died was because of some kite-flying hi-jinx.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Why are they using sharp kite strings?

[alles ist gut]

Why are they using sharp kite strings?

 

To cut your rivals string and improve your chances of winning the kite-flying Olympics.

[Arl arse]

This one doesn't seem to have the same frivolity as the pictures one.

 

Depressing stuff.

[cochyn]

[RJ Fan club]

This one might have been worth starting a thread for

 

 

Sex pigs halt traffic after laser attack on Pokémon teens

 

http://www.thelocal.se/20160816/pig-mask-pair-enjoy-waterwheel-sex-after-pokmon-hunter-attack

[Grinch]

Flood destroys home of man who said gays were responsible for floods

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/18/flood-destroys-home-of-man-who-said-gays-were-responsible-for-floods-6075192/#ixzz4HgEtebWX

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Flood destroys home of man who said gays were responsible for floods

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/18/flood-destroys-home-of-man-who-said-gays-were-responsible-for-floods-6075192/#ixzz4HgEtebWX

[stringvest]

Ha!  Look at Mal Evans!

[Guest]

How on earth does a man have sex with a snake? A Doctor as well!

 

A GP has been found guilty of having a stash of pornography, including a video of a man having sex with a snake.

Cyprian Okoro, 55, from south-west London was found guilty of five counts of possessing extreme pornography and one indecent image of a child.

The Old Bailey heard the videos were of a "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise obscene character".

Okoro was bailed for sentencing on 30 September.

Some of the five videos featured women having sex with dogs and one woman having sex with a horse.

The defendant, of Cameron Place, Streatham, had denied the charges.

But, after deliberating for less than a day, the jury found him guilty of all but two charges of possessing extreme pornography relating to bestiality with dogs.

Sexual assault

The court heard Okoro stored the images on his mobile phone having received them via WhatsApp.

He had also moved an indecent video of a two-year-old boy into a password-protected "vault" on his phone.

Following the verdict, the jury was told it was Okoro's second conviction.

In 2014 he was handed a nine-month jail term suspended for 18 months at Norwich Crown Court after a woman made an allegation of sexual assault against him.

Judge Richard Hone QC said: "He is very lucky not to be immediately imprisoned and this was quite a bad case.

"It would be unfair to put him immediately in prison when the first trial gave him a suspended sentence - even if it was frankly, pretty lenient."

Okoro qualified as a doctor in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1986, and received an interim suspension by the General Medical Council in September 2013.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37247160

[magicrat]

How on earth does a man have sex with a snake? A Doctor as well!

 

A GP has been found guilty of having a stash of pornography, including a video of a man having sex with a snake.

Cyprian Okoro, 55, from south-west London was found guilty of five counts of possessing extreme pornography and one indecent image of a child.

The Old Bailey heard the videos were of a "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise obscene character".

Okoro was bailed for sentencing on 30 September.

Some of the five videos featured women having sex with dogs and one woman having sex with a horse.

The defendant, of Cameron Place, Streatham, had denied the charges.

But, after deliberating for less than a day, the jury found him guilty of all but two charges of possessing extreme pornography relating to bestiality with dogs.

Sexual assault

The court heard Okoro stored the images on his mobile phone having received them via WhatsApp.

He had also moved an indecent video of a two-year-old boy into a password-protected "vault" on his phone.

Following the verdict, the jury was told it was Okoro's second conviction.

In 2014 he was handed a nine-month jail term suspended for 18 months at Norwich Crown Court after a woman made an allegation of sexual assault against him.

Judge Richard Hone QC said: "He is very lucky not to be immediately imprisoned and this was quite a bad case.

"It would be unfair to put him immediately in prison when the first trial gave him a suspended sentence - even if it was frankly, pretty lenient."

Okoro qualified as a doctor in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1986, and received an interim suspension by the General Medical Council in September 2013.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37247160

Dr Trousersnake I presume

[alles ist gut]

Ah, Canada...

 

Cops called to gas station after man squirts bear spray down pants, strips nude, then pours milk on genitals

 

 

 

PENTICTON, B.C. — Mounties in Penticton, B.C., say they got quite an eyeful last week after a man peeled off his clothes and began washing himself with milk after inadvertently spraying bear spray down his pants.

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Don Wrigglesworth said officers were called to a local gas station shortly before 2 a.m. on Aug. 24 to find the victim completely naked.

“He was in excruciating pain and vigorously using his shirt to scrub his genitals with homogenized milk in an attempt to relieve the pain,” said Wrigglesworth.

The man told police he had been attacked by three unknown men, but Wrigglesworth said an investigation revealed the spray pattern “was consistent with the alleged victim carrying his own can of bear spray and it went off unintentionally.”

He said the victim then became uncooperative.

Later that night, police were called to a home and found five people outside rolling on the ground after they, too, were hit with bear spray.

Wrigglesworth said the five were also uncooperative, but told police they were attacked over a debt.

[Captain Turdseye]

Was it Carvalho Diablo that posted a gif on here of someone shagging a snake? I remember it drawing one or two complaints. Bunch of fucking prudes.

[alles ist gut]

Tortoise dies after starting fire at fish shop

 

VILLAGE OF WALES, WISCONSIN — Officials with the Town of Genesee Fire Department on Sunday, September 4th responded to a fire at a fish store apparently caused by a 12-year-old tortoise.

According to fire officials, the tortoise, who served as the mascot of “Aquatica” on James Street near Genesee Street jostled a heat lamp above his tub. The heat lamp then fell into the tub and started some hay inside it on fire.

Unfortunately, the tortoise did not survive the fire.

The tortoise was apparently used in ads for the business, which is a pond supply business which also sells fish. The business consists of two garage units and an office. We’re told the fire was contained to one garage unit.A damage estimate hasn’t been released.

Ten fire departments had to be called in to fight this fire due to a lack of hydrants in the area. The Wales/Genesee Fire Department had to return to the scene following reports that the fire had reignited. We’re told the business should reopen this week.

The cause of the fire has been determined to be accidental.

 

http://fox6now.com/2016/09/04/fire-officials-12-year-old-tortoise-responsible-for-fire-at-fish-store-in-town-of-genesee/

[skend04]

Disgusted by this protest by 'Sikhs' in Leamington where the religious weddingng ceremony between a Sikh and a Muslim was interrupted by a bunch of pathetic little racists.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/55-people-arrested-after-leamington-spa-temple-occupied-by-armed-men-a7237286.html

 

Leamington Spa Sikh temple: 55 people arrested after Gurdwara occupied by armed men

 

A 'significant number' of bladed weapons have been confiscated from the scene

 

Police outside the Gurdwara Temple in Leamington Spa after it was stormed by a group of men armed with knives PA

Some 55 people have been arrested after dozens of masked men occupied the entrance to a Sikh temple in Leamington Spa in what appeared to be a protest against an interfaith marriage between a Sikh and a Muslim.

 

Warwickshire Police said the people had been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after men, described as carrying “bladed items" entered the the gurdwara on Tachbrook Drive.

 

Police were called to the Temple at 6:47am on Sunday morning and set up a cordon of armed police around the entrance.

 

 

The force said a "significant number" of bladed weapons had been confiscated from the scene.

 

 

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Armed men occupy temple in protest 'over marriage of Sikh and Muslim'

The men were believed to be carrying the items in reference to the ceremonial daggers carried by Sikh men.

 

A group identifying itself as Sikh Youth Birmingham posted a video on Facebook apparently from inside the temple, showing men sat on the floor, many with hoods up, chanting and raising placards.

 

Another video showed wedding guests waiting outside the temple, where more protesters had also assembled.

 

Protest outside temple at sikh wedding in Leamington

Jatinder Singh Birdi, a former treasurer at the temple, confirmed a marriage had been due to take place in the temple on Sunday morning between a Sikh and non-Sikh.

 

He told the BBC: "There have been tensions that have been going on for a couple of years with some people objecting to mixed marriages taking place in the gurdwara."

 

The incident is understood to be isolated with police describing the situation as "an escalation of a local dispute".

 

Sikh Youth Birmingham claimed to have up to 100 people involved in the protest, both inside and outside the gurdwara.

 

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Leamington Spa temple occupied by armed men in protest 'against marriage of Sikh and Muslim'

Leamington Spa temple 'occupied' by dozens of armed men, police say

One protester broadcast a Facebook Live video from among the wedding guests at the gate, where tensions were clearly high.

 

Religious leaders were reportedly involved in negotiations to end the standoff.

 

Some on social media questioned the use of armed officers in response to a peaceful protest.

 

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Superintendent David Gardner said: "We would like to reassure people that this was a contained incident that we believe was an escalation of a local dispute.

 

"A significant number of bladed weapons were seized from the scene. As a result of reports that the men were in possession of these weapons we deployed armed officers as a precaution. Nobody was injured in the incident.

 

"Over the coming days we will be working with local the Sikh community to address some of the ongoing issues that have culminated in today's events.

 

"We would like to thank local people for their patience while we dealt with this incident."

[Furmedge]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/12/jailed-agadoo-singer-led-a-conga-in-prison/

 

Can't post full story as on phone but well worth clicking the link.

[scudger99]

You just know the conga he was involved in was the same type that the gay butler had in Wolf of Wall Street.  Dirty daisy chain bastard !

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Merseytravel buys a plot of land for a fucking fortune, with a view to building a tram through it.

The Government withdraws the offer of tram money.  The value of the plot of land tanks and Merseytravel tries to scrape it off quietly, receiving a pittance in return.

Developer pretends that they're going to build something on it.  The book value of the land promptly goes through the roof.

 

Ain't capitalism wonderful!

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/hundreds-flats-behind-royal-set-11902999#ICID=sharebar_facebook

 

Hundreds of new flats could be built on a hilltop site above the city centre.

 

Developers Ascot Property Group want to build a £40m block containing 316 apartments and 80 student flats on land at Low Hill, Kensington.

 

The site includes the remains of the former Gregsons Well pub as well as other derelict buildings that were used a builders’ merchants. Most of the site is currently used as a car park by workers on the new Royal Liverpool Hospital.

 

The buildings, designed by architects Brock Carmichael, would form a U-shape around the edge of the site, rising to a height of seven stories at its peak overlooking the city centre. There would be car parking inside the courtyard, with a communal garden on the sixth floor.

 

Stuart Howard, head of sales at Ascot, described it as a “£40m mixed residential/student/key worker and retail development” that would house more than 1,000 residents.

 

And Ascot chairman Terry Riley said: “We are now looking to progress plans for this fantastic new development.”

An earlier application for the site was submitted in 2015 but was withdrawn after concerns over its scale.

 

The latest planning application was submitted earlier this year and will be debated at next week’s Liverpool Council planning meeting - where officers have recommended that it should be approved.

 

The council report says: “The Interim Head of Planning considers The development would enable the regeneration of a long-term derelict site and would provide a mixed use development in a highly accessible location.

 

“He considers that the development represents an appropriate response to the site in terms of its height, scale and massing and would contribute positively to the character and appearance of the area without undue loss of amenity for neighbouring occupiers.”

 

In 2014 the ECHO reported that Merseytravel was selling the Gregsons Well pub site for £18,000, despite having spent more than £100,000 buying it as part of the doomed Merseytram scheme.

[alles ist gut]

“Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb : We've got another fat bastard to shift..."

 

 

The number of obese people being rescued by the fire service because they are too large to move on their own has gone up by more than a third over the past three years.

Figures obtained by BBC Radio 5 Live show that there were more than 900 incidents in the UK in the past year.

Rescuers said they often used lifting equipment, special slings and sometimes removed windows, walls and banisters.

The National Obesity Forum said severe obesity was a worsening problem.

In 2012, a new category was created for the fire and rescue services to report incidents involving obese patients.

 

Stuck indoors

 

'Bariatric' rescues - which involve coming to the aid of severely obese people, who are often stuck in their homes - have increased from 709 in 2012-13 to 944 in 2015-16, figures collected from all 50 UK fire and rescue services show.

The cases recorded included helping the ambulance service with lifting equipment to remove an "extremely large" patient who had been stuck on the sofa for days and carrying a 40-stone man from the upstairs of a pub.

A number of incidents involved helping with the removal of a deceased obese person from their home to an undertaker's ambulance.

Darren Sharman, 39, from London, worked for 10 years in the private ambulance sector, helping obese people who were unable to move themselves to get to hospital.

"We dealt with the most extreme patients; they would be coming up to, and often exceeding, 660-770lb (300-350kg) in weight," he told the BBC News website.

"They would call us out on jobs where a patient needed to be extricated using specialist equipment and we would use stair-climbers, hoists and lifting equipment to remove them.

"The vast majority of people I encountered were obese because of medical reasons - lymphedema in particular. Some were partially mobile, some were wheelchair-bound and some were completely bedridden.

"All of them needed specialist transportation to hospital, quite often for emergency reasons."

Chris Jones, watch manager from South Wales Fire Service, which carried out the highest number of rescues last year, said his team were now equipped to deal with severely obese people but some of the rescues were very complicated.

"Some of these incidents have become protracted overnight while we've needed to change certain elements to the building to make that rescue safe before we can bring the patient out.

"If we are doing what we call an external rescue where we're taking the patient out through a window, quite commonly we'll remove the window frame itself and we will actually sometimes drop courses of brickwork down to create that space.

"Internally we might have to take doors off, move furniture, we may even have to put supporting systems into the house to make sure everything's structurally sound as well."

Dr David Kerrigan, one of the UK's leading bariatric surgeons, said patients who become that big "are prisoners, not just within their own body but within their own home".

"The bigger and bigger they get the less confident they feel about engaging with the outside world," he said.

"They are big users of the internet - so they don't even go out to shop anymore and do a lot of their socialising using social media and they just become more and more trapped."

Greg Lloyd, head of clinical operations at the Welsh Ambulance Service, said they worked closely with the fire service and GPs to try to provide care closer to home without patients having to go to hospital.

"The fact of the matter is with this type of rescue we might not be able to get patients to hospital as quickly as we'd like."

 

'Scared to be seen'

 

Compared with the total number of rescues carried out by fire and rescue services in the UK, bariatric rescues were still a small proportion.

In Scotland, for example, there were 33 bariatric rescues in 2014-15 out of more than 10,000 special service call-outs, which are all non-fire related.

Tam Fry, from the charity National Obesity Forum, told BBC Radio 5 live the figures were on the increase because the obese were getting bigger.

He said: "This is not about more people being obese. This is about those who are already obese now getting to a size where they now need assistance."

Mr Fry said the figure could be a lot higher.

"Senior doctors I speak to say there are many people who don't leave their homes so they don't even put themselves in a position where they may need to be rescued.

"They are scared of being seen in public."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37384318

[Jairzinho]

This is ace. Loads of pictures, which I can't be arsed to try and format, so click on the link if you want to see them.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-37289713

 

The hilltop medieval village of Riace on Italy's south coast was almost a ghost town 15 years ago. Houses were derelict and the local school was near to closing.

 

The village was in danger of becoming extinct as residents disappeared to northern Italy, and abroad, for jobs during the economic boom.

 

Since then Riace has seen a change in its destiny, by openly welcoming a controlled number of migrants, who live and work as part of the community.

 

This transformation was instigated by the mayor, Domenico Lucano, who set up a scheme, funded by the Italian government, to offer refugees the abandoned apartments and training. It has helped to rebuild both the town's population and economy.

 

"I do nothing more than what I think is right for our little community," says Lucano, who started the pioneering programme in 1998.

 

"The multiculturalism, the variety of skills and personal stories which people have brought to Riace have revolutionised what was becoming a ghost town.

 

"There were people without a house here, and there were houses without people here. It's simple."

 

This year, Lucano was named by Fortune magazine as one of the world's 50 greatest leaders. The honour puts him in the company of names such as Pope Francis, Apple chief Tim Cook and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

 

About 450 migrants, drawn from more than 20 countries beyond Europe, are living in Riace - about a quarter of the village's total population. Inevitably, there are some tensions with locals - yet Lucano has earned enough respect to be serving his third term as mayor.

 

Some of the children are originally from Ethiopia but have grown up in Riace and speak fluent Italian, in addition to English and their native tongue.

 

Not all the residents are confident Italian speakers though. Tahira (above) fled Afghanistan and since arriving in Riace has learned embroidery from a resident. She works as an apprentice and is improving her language skills. Her job is part of the European Integration programme for asylum seekers.

 

"What I hope from this story is to spread a message of humanity, hope and anti-racism to the world," says Mayor Lucano (below right).

 

"Others should see how the welcoming of migrants is possible but also beneficial to the host communities.

 

"This policy gave the village a new lease of life, it didn't trigger any wars between the poor, or xenophobic hysteria or fraudulent speculations. It helped to give new values to the people involved."

 

Local funding has spurred the opening of artisan workshops where migrants like Rawda (above) can earn a wage, learning trades that were dying out locally. The handmade souvenirs are sold to tourists.

 

"I don't feel like a foreigner or a stranger here in Riace," says Rawda, who travelled from Somalia with her husband and daughter five years ago. "This is a new life for our family. My daughters couldn't go to school in Somalia. Now I'm feeling really lucky, I can give my children a new future. They'll grow up to be world citizens."

 

Another workshop is run by an Italian potter, Franco (above, centre). "When I started I learned ancient techniques from local potters. Now, while I exhibit my original works in international fairs, I can also teach my knowhow to those guys from all over the world, hopefully giving them important skills to find a job out there."

 

Husband and wife Osayomore and Nicole (above) say they survived a perilous journey across the Mediterranean having been attacked by rebel groups on the beach as they prepared to leave Libya. The women and children were already on board and headed to sea as the men took shelter from bullets on the beach.

 

Grace, their daughter, was born nine days after Nicole arrived in Palermo, on Sicily.

 

"I was worried for my wife. She was alone on board, in shock and she didn't know where I was for days," says Osayomore.

The arrival of so many refugees means people like Luca (above, bottom left), who works for Protezione Civile (the civilian protection agency), are in demand.

 

"I am proud of Riace and our mayor but I am also worried about the future as there are many more arrivals every day and their needs are great," says Luca.

 

He works long days trying to find jobs for everyone.

 

"With funding, the re-population of Riace is solving the problem of derelict housing, and many feel it gives the town a new lease of life. There are some cultural problems, of course. Not every citizen here is in 'welcome mode'," adds Luca.

 

And not every migrant has settled easily. Sheriffo (above, right), a refugee from Gambia, was rescued by the Italian coastguard 10 months ago and relocated to Upper Riace with his wife. Though they feel welcome, he is struggling to find a permanent job, currently selling goods to tourists on the beach.

 

"There is no job here and the government subsidies is not enough for me and my wife," says Sheriffo.

 

"We found a good welcome but there is lack of employment for locals and for refugees. I'm trying to resist, I'm selling some stuff that my wife buys from another seller, but there is not tourism in this area, I don't know why."

For many though, Riace is a safe haven.

 

"I'm happy to be here after a long and tough journey. It has been dangerous for me but I've been most scared for my daughter," says Esther, 25, who travelled from Nigeria. "Thanks to Riace and its mayor, my daughter has a chance for a better future here."

 

So what is the village of Riace doing that others are not?

 

The key, says one migration expert, is its mayor.

 

"[He had] a long-term vision of rejuvenating his area and showed leadership to help his new residents feel welcome," says Manos Moschopoulos, programme officer for Open Society Initiative for Europe.

 

"Riace's model offers migrants the ability to participate in their new society, free from the extreme economic and social pressures many have faced as they tried to earn enough to sustain themselves. Migrants are then able to focus on inclusion, learning the local language, interacting with locals and getting the skills they need to build a better future for themselves."

[alles ist gut]

‘We done bitches’ sign celebrating end of Edmonton road construction not ‘the wording…we would use’: ministry

 

 

 

A sign celebrating the opening of the last leg of Edmonton’s Anthony Henday Drive ring road caused a stir on social media over the weekend.

 

Photos of an electronic traffic sign that read “We done bitches” were shared on social media.

Transportation ministry spokesperson Aileen Machell said her department was made aware of the wording and had taken action to change it.

“Two thousand people worked very hard to bring this project to completion, and there’s obviously a lot of pride in that work,” Machell said in a statement Sunday. “It seems someone changed the sign as part of the celebrations; however, the wording is not the kind we would use and we had it changed immediately.”

 

It is not clear who programmed the sign in the first place, or if that person could face disciplinary action. The northeast leg of the Anthony Henday Drive was officially opened Saturday, bringing decades of planning and construction on the $4-billion project to a close.

 

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/we-done-bitches-sign-celebrating-end-of-edmonton-road-work-not-the-wordingwe-would-use-ministry

[skend04]

 

If anyone is in the Church Street area my Liverpool Sikh brothers and sisters (I think that's the correct way to address them) are putting on some free Langar (food) to highlight all the good things about Sikhism. Get yourselves down there before 2pm. I promise they won't try to convert you.

[Mook]

I saw the headline to this one & thought it was because the woman at the counter couldn't see them...

 

"Jockeys urged to avoid High Street banks"

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37555025