From The Register
Merseyside police have ordered the local community to “stop grieving” after Liverpudlians flocked to deposit flowers, cards and teddy bears in tribute to a dead chicken found in an alleyway. According to the BBC, one card read: “RIP Little Baby. Safe in the arms of Jesus. From someone who is a loving mother xxxx.”
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In what is turning out to be an embarrassing oversight, the body of a dead man was left to rot in his car for nine days and even ticketed for over parking.
A TOP-LEVEL investigation will examine how the body of an elderly Melbourne man could lie unnoticed in a car for nine days.
Hundreds of people walked past and a parking officer stuck a ticket on his windscreen.
From The Herald Sun
I’m not sure about elsewhere but certainly here if you about to be booked and are in the car the parking inspectors will let you know that its time to move on. They no more want to issue the ticket than you want to receive it and they would certainly notice that your in your car before sticking a ticket to your windscreen.
As for the parking ticket being stuck to the back windscreen, sounds like an excuse to me as who would really stick it to the back windscreen as i am sure as hell not going to be looking for parking tickets on the back of the car when i get in the car to drive off.
The Register reports a mother spotted her own stolen ipod on an auction site weeks after it was stolen …
US mum tracked down a thief who burgled her home after the ill-gotten gains were offered for sale on eBay. Karen Todd, a US Census Bureau computer programmer, spotted a personally-inscribed iPod on the auction site weeks after it was robbed from her Washington DC area home.
Todd’s home was burgled on 7 April. Thieves made off with an Apple iBook laptop, a digital camera, an amethyst dinner ring inherited from Todd’s grandmother and the iPod. The latter, a Christmas gift from Todd to her husband Dan, was inscribed with lyrics from the song Have a Little Faith in Me, by John Hiatt.
Apple had stopped making that model, so Todd was advised by work colleagues to look on eBay for a similar model. Her search was initially fruitless but it didn’t take long for the stolen iPod with the distinctive inscription “When your back is against the wall, turn around and see” to appear on the site.
“I was shocked and almost in tears,” Todd told the Washington Post. “I was like, ‘That’s mine! That’s mine!’ I was just floored. When I found it, I clicked on ’see seller’s other items,’ and when I scrolled through, lo and behold, there was my [laptop].”
Todd reported the find to police who traced the stolen items back through a Maryland sports memorabilia dealer - who unwittingly offered several sets of stolen goods for sale - to Ibrahima Kalil Toure, 21, the suspected burglar. Toure was subsequently charged with 12 counts of burglary realating to breaks-ins at various homes in the DC area. He is in jail on remand awaiting trial.
As reward for her community-spirited efforts, Todd will receive a $100 Best Buy gift from police as well as the return of the stolen items and a special commendation from Bowie City Council. “She pretty much cracked the case,” Prince George’s County police Detective Ray Gignac told the Washington Post.
The Australian is reporting pizza was used to disarm prisoners holding a hostage inside a maximum security prison in Australia.
” SIXTEEN takeaway pizzas costing $188 were the final key to securing the freedom of a hostage held by a hard core of violent criminals at Hobart’s Risdon prison yesterday.
Inmate ringleaders finally agreed to release a prison officer held hostage along with about 15 inmates early yesterday morning, after negotiators agreed to provide the 16 pizzas and six 1.25-litre bottles of Coke.
The inmates’ “last supper” was the final barrier to the release of the guard and all other hostages, freed in stages between midnight and 8am yesterday.
“At about midnight, the final sticking point with the inmates was that they were requiring pizzas to be delivered,” Tasmanian prison director Graeme Barber said.
“We had held off on that. We obviously wanted the release of our staff member. Our staff member was negotiated out with the delivery of about 15 pizzas.”
CLOVIS, N.M. Apr 29, 2005 — A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.
Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.
The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.
(Taken from ABC
Reports are now being carried that Anna Ayala, the woman who said she found a finger in a bowl of chilli while eating at a Wendy’s Restuarant has been arrested and charged over the incident. After news of the incident Wendy’s claim that sales have dipped markedly and launched an investigation into the incident.
The origin of the finger is still unknown
According to a report in the register, horny New Zealands are spending so much time surfing the internet looking at porn that fully 20% of New Zealand police computer capacity is devoted to the storage of the images downloaded.
The report does not specify how much of the content involved sheep.