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[Nereus]

NZ teen shocked after gender-bending blindfold sex

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/br ... dfold-sex/

A sexual encounter with a 'female' Facebook friend ended in shock for a New Zealand teen recently when he removed his blindfold to discover he had been fooling around with a tall man.

According to Stuff.co.nz the 19-year-old told police he had gone to the hotel to meet a woman named 'Sam' who he had met through the popular social network.

They had arranged for him to wear a blindfold so he could not see 'her' perform a sex act on him.

When the teen went to leave the room he slipped off the blindfold to sneak a peek at his sexual partner, shockingly being met with the sight of a six-foot tall, heavy-set man.

Stuff.co.nz reported that police have charged Dean Alexander Stebbing, a community leader in his thirties who had reportedly been a guest at the hotel more than 300 times, with sexual violation.

Mr Stebbing died of a heart attack before he could answer the charges.

[STEVE G]

Priests call for Bible thief to be struck down with the runs

Priests from a church in Italy have called for an unknown thief who has stolen valuable Bibles to be struck down by a crippling bout of diarrhoea.
In a rather un-Godly call for vengeance, the Franciscan priests at the church in Florence are praying that a dose of "the runs" will convince the unidentified pilferer of the error of his ways.

"We pray that the Good Lord will visit a strong bout of the trots on this thief and that this will help to convince him not to commit any more thefts," reads a sign put up by clergy at the Basilica of San Salvatore al Monte, a hilltop church which commands views of the Renaissance city.

The notice said that in addition to praying for a sudden loosening of the bowels, the priests were also hoping that the thief will repent of his crime and return the stolen holy books.

Two prized Bibles – one of them donated by a wealthy benefactor – have been stolen in recent days from the church, which is located near Piazzale Michelangelo, an esplanade with an impressive panorama of Florence and the River Arno.

They have been replaced by two new Bibles – one in Italian and the other in English.

"The language used by the brother who wrote the notice may not have been very clean, but the Lord, and the faithful, will understand," an unnamed priest told La Stampa newspaper.

Just in case the Holy Father fails to grant them their prayer, the priests have also taken the precaution of reporting the thefts to the police.

[STEVE G]

Angler catches scuba diver on fishing line

An angler battled to reel-in what he thought was an enormous fish pulling on his line only to discover it was a scuba diver he had caught by the leg.

John Goldfinch, 61, was fishing for mackerel on the beach at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, with mates Colin and Alan Ashley when he felt a huge bite.

The thrilled lifelong angler had to fight to reel in the catch as he looked forward to netting a massive fish.

But his excitement turned to shock when his hook surfaced about 15 metres offshore to reveal the hapless frogman.

To add insult to injury the struggling diver had been hooked between his legs.

Mr Goldfinch, of Exmouth, said: "My mates were falling about laughing. I said 'sorry mate, I didn't see you there' and he just said it was very murky down there.

"The funniest thing was that his girlfriend then surfaced, helped him remove my tackle from his tackle and nonchalantly handed the hook back to me and apologised.

"Despite seeing the funny side of the freak incident he said there was a serious message to be taken on board.

"I didn't see the diver because he didn't have a safety buoy, which they're supposed to have when they're moving underwater," said Mr Goldfinch.

"My brother-in-law's a diver and he said it served the bloke right - at the end of the day he could have ruined his kit or even worse."

Mr Goldfinch is now enjoying telling and retelling the tallest of fishermen's tales.

"One of my friends was on his first fishing trip and he asked if it happened very often - I told him it was a once in a lifetime thing," he said.

"When I went home and told my wife, she just said she was glad I didn't bring him home as she couldn't have eaten a whole one."

[Nereus]

Ferry runs aground after captain stuck in toilet

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/of ... in-toilet/

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish ferry has run aground while its captain was stuck in the bathroom.

One member of staff managed to slow the island-hopping tourist ferry down, but the vessel, carrying 54 passengers, slammed onto a rock near the shore of Helsinki, the Finnish coastguard said Friday.

The captain got stuck in the bathroom because of a jammed lock and yelled for help, the coastguard said.

Some passengers were bruised and tableware was broken in the incident. The coastguard is investigating whether the captain's actions amounted to criminal endangerment.

"He was stuck in the toilet. As soon as the staff member got the door open, it was too late," said Jan Sundell, head of investigation.

[hhfarang]

Not just in, but I just noticed it; recycled plastic bottle, solar and wind powered catamaran sailed from San Francisco to Sydney about a month ago. Barry, maybe a new idea for your boatyard...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... c-crossing

[STEVE G]

Man Arrested For Taking Bite Out Of Python
(Sky News)
A man is in custody in California after being accused of biting a python in what police said was an apparently unprovoked attack on a pet snake.

David Senk, 54, was arrested on suspicion of unlawfully maiming or mutilating a reptile, Sacramento police Sergeant Andrew Pettit said.

The badly injured snake underwent surgery after losing a few ribs.

Speaking from prison to KOVR-TV in Sacramento, Senk said he had no recollection of the incident after having blacked out from drinking but felt "horrible as hell about it".

Asked why he might have bitten the snake, Senk replied: "I get drunk, I get crazy. I don't know. I've been an alcoholic for a long time."


Senk was taken into custody after police, responding to a report of an assault, found him lying on the ground with blood on his face.

Officers were told by another man and a woman that Senk had taken two large bites out of their python when they let him hold the snake, Sgt Pettit said.

"There was nothing to indicate that the snake provoked him at all. He (Senk) just out of the blue took a bite," he added.

"From what I understand, he didn't say anything. He was pretty incoherent."

The beige and brown-coloured snake, measuring three to four feet in length, was reported to be recovering after a vet stitched it up.

Senk said he was "not too fond of snakes (but) I try not to bite them. It's the other way around usually," he added. "They bite me."

[Nereus]

Husband fined $13k for not having sex

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/ne ... having-sex

A French woman was so fed up with her sexless marriage that she decided to sue her husband. And she won.

The former couple, known only as Jean-Louis and Monique, had been married for 21 years and had two children when Monique decided to take her husband to court.

Jean-Louis, 51, was fined 10,000 Euro ($13,370) under a civil code that states married couples must agree to a "shared communal life", Britain's The Telegraph reported.

"A sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of affection they have for each other, and in this case it was absent," the judge said.

"By getting married, couples agree to sharing their life and this clearly implies they will have sex with each other."

Jean-Louis' job and ill-health prevented him from fulfilling his matrimonial duties, the court was told.

[SaSamSa]

Bear takes California family's Prius for a spin, leaves it wrecked

THE McCarthy family of Pleasanton, California, have an unusual explanation for how their 2002 Toyota Prius got totalled over the northern summer.
In short, a bear took the vehicle for a spin from the driveway of their west Lake Tahoe cabin, the Contra Costa Times said.
It seems the bear got into the car easily enough, but once inside became stuck, and got mad about it - ripping seats open, biting a chunk out of the steering wheel and damaged the gear box, which shifted the car into neutral.
Awakened by noise from the 3.30am raid, the family watched from the safety of the cabin as the Prius slowly started rolling out of the slightly sloped driveway. Picking up speed, it rolled across the street, hopped a small rock wall and finally came to stop on the porch steps of a neighbour's house.
Brian McCarthy, 61, said he did not know why the bear, which escaped back into the woods, would want to get in the car in the first place.
"The car was completely closed," he said. "There wasn't any food in there. The only things in there were a beach towel, some CDs and a few phone chargers."
The South Lake Tahoe Police Department's Lieutenant David Stevenson said they got calls about bears often, but McCarthy's August 28 situation was a bit different.
"Normally, you'll get reports of the Dumpster divers and trash divers, but bears breaking into cars is different," he said.

[STEVE G]

A stunned Swede discovered a seemingly intoxicated moose entangled in an apple tree.

Per Johansson, 45, who lives in south-western Sweden, says he heard a roar from the garden of his neighbour, who was on holiday, late on Tuesday and went to have a look. There he found a female moose kicking about in the tree. The animal was likely to have been drunk from eating fermented apples.

With the help of police and rescue services, Johansson later managed to set the moose free by sawing off branches.

But the animal appeared confused and wandered into Johansson's garden, where she was still resting on Thursday.

Other neighbours in the Gothenburg suburb of Saro had seen the animal around the area for days. Johansson said the moose appeared to be sick, drunk, or "half-stupid".

[STEVE G]

Rugby World Cup fans book hotel in wrong country

Two South African rugby fans scoured the Wellington suburb of Eastbourne for their hotel, only to find it was half a world away in the British seaside town of the same name, a report said Tuesday.

Michael and Sunette Adendorff travelled to the New Zealand capital to watch the Springboks play Wales in the Rugby World Cup believing they has secured accommodation at the Majestic Hotel, the Dominion Post reported.

But instead of enjoying the "splendid" beach views advertised on Majestic's website, they found themselves wandering Wellington's streets unable to locate the hotel on their GPS navigator, the newspaper said.

The penny finally dropped when the pair asked for directions at a local shop and pharmacist Linda Burke explained the hotel was actually some 19,000 kilometres (11,800 miles) away on the British south coast.

Burke said Michael Adendorff, who made the online booking, told her he had thought it was strange when the hotel charged him in pounds sterling not New Zealand dollars.

Rather than see the pair without a roof over their heads Burke took them into her own home for two nights, taking them to a pub to watch the tournament opening ceremony on Friday before the Springboks's match Saturday.

While the Adendorffs lost about NZ$360 ($295) on the booking mix-up, Michael said the hospitality they received more than made up for it, even though they had to endure some good-natured ribbing from locals.

"The welcome and the way we were treated was much better than if we have booked into a hotel," he told the newspaper.

"(Burke) took in two strangers and it all worked out well."

The pair, who are following South Africa around New Zealand during the tournament, will be back in Wellington for next Saturday's Springboks-Fiji match and said they had ensured their hotel was in the right country this time.

[hhfarang]

Bust a move: Breast-slapping new health craze in Thailand

WANT bigger breasts but shy away from the idea of surgery? Thailand claims to have the answer.

Already famous for its medical tourism services - including cheap breast implants - Thailand is promoting a “body slapping” technique that it claims can boost breast size, according to a video by the Bangkok Post.

It has even licensed one beauty shop in Bangkok to perform the non-surgical treatment, which involves kneading, massaging and hitting of the breasts, as well as buttock-slapping to firm the rear.

The traditional therapy has been practised by shop owner Khemmikka Na Songkhla – better known as Khunying Tobnom - for more than two decades. She claims the slapping shifts fat from one area to another, while kneading works excess fat towards the breasts.

She has approval from the Thai Government to carry out the technique after a study by the Thai Health Ministry reportedly found vigorous massage left volunteers’ breasts noticeably bigger. The Ministry went so far as to sponsor a program that urged women to learn how to slap their own breasts.

Clients can expect to gain about 5cm after the painful treatment, Tobnom said. However some are turned away as their breasts are too small.

The clinic charges $380 for six 10-minute slapping sessions.

Source: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/bust ... 6142670231

I wonder if this works for men (not their breasts!)?

[PeteC]

Sea lion rescued after crossing Highway 101 in Burlingame

Sluglike, the beast lumbered across Highway 101, vaulting the median barrier, coming to rest on the shoulder of the Broadway exit, dazed and confused and now eight wide traffic lanes away from the bay it apparently emerged from early Saturday.

Not a good place for a sea lion............

http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci ... source=rss

My old home town in the early 90's. California was, and indeed still is a strange place. Pete

[hhfarang]

^ That sea lion is lucky to be alive. I lived in the SF Bay area for over 15 years and 101 is a very busy and dangerous freeway even in a car... I can't imagine trying to slither across it on my belly!

[Nereus]

Men dressed as blondes in bar brawl

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wo ... bar-brawl/

Six burly men dressed as saucy blondes have walked into a pub and got into a major brawl with some locals, The Mirror has reported.

The men had reportedly gone out for a drink at the Lincoln's Jailhouse Rock pub wearing crop-tops, puffy thigh-high skirts and blonde wigs.

But a fight broke out soon after one of the “drag queens” got into an argument with a group of men at the bar.

Soon, chairs were thrown and other drinkers dived for cover as the groups clashed. One of the blondes had a chair smashed over his pigtailed head, CCTV footage of the incident shows.

A police spokesperson told the newspaper that the brawl may have been the result of the way the drag queens were dressed.

"It looked like a scene from a Carry On movie with these busty blondes fighting these blokes. But this was a serious fight and we need to make sure no one gets away with this level of violence,” he said.

CCTV footage of the brawl has been released in the hope people in Lincoln would recognise the men. However, so far it has borne no result.

[dtaai-maai]

Ohhh, Lincoln Austraaaalia, now it all makes sense!