Strange but True Stories

[unfrufru]

Horny rhino hits on car
April 22, 2004 - 8:40PM

A rampant rhinoceros gave a group of visitors a glimpse of nature in the raw at a British safari park when he tried to have sex with their car.

Sharka, a two tonne white rhino, got amorous with Dave Alsop's car when he stopped with three friends to take pictures of the animal mating with his partner Trixie at the West Midland Safari Park.

The 12-year-old rhino tried to mount the Renault Laguna from the side, denting the doors and ripping off the wing mirrors before Dave drove away with a puffing Sharka in pursuit.

"He was a big boy and obviously aroused," Alsop told the Sun newspaper. "He sidled up against us. The next thing I know he's banging away at the car and it's rocking like hell."

A spokeswoman for the park, which says "rhinos are not particularly intelligent animals" on its website, said Sharka was a hit with the female rhinos and had fathered two calves in the last five years.

"He's got a bit of a reputation, this lad, and he was obviously at it again," she added.

Reuters

[unfrufru]

Complain about the food if you dareApril 27, 2004

Israel's first sadomasochist restaurant is set to open today, claiming however, that only the surroundings, not the food will be a painful experience, the Israeli Yediot Ahronot daily reported yesterday.

The restaurant, appropriately named the "Dungeon", is to open its doors in the old southern Tel Aviv suburb of Yaffo, with a hostess dressed in a black vinyl outfit welcoming guests by flashing her whip.

Waiters and waitresses in similar outfits serve the diners, who must be 18 years or older, from a French bistro menu.

The diners can tie themselves to the restaurant's metal tables if they like, using the shackles provided.

If they dare to complain about the food or the service, however, they risk being whipped or hung in an iron cage from the ceiling.

"If somebody complains about his steak for example, he will be put in a cage or he must go down on his knees," said owner Amos Levy, who nevertheless says the idea of the restaurant is to "serve high-quality food, but in the framework of an alternative experience".

DPA

[Mythor]

Police seize Jackson's underpants.

It just sounds so wrong...

Herald Sun

Dead man's afterlife delay

A corpse with a false passport spent 16 days at Cairo airport before Egyptina authorities agreed to release it for burial on friday, airport sources said yesterday.
The authorities checked the corpse's fingerprints and then formed a committee to ponder the case, they said.
The coffin had arrived in Cairo from Syria but the airport refused to release it when the dead man's son gave a different name than that on the passport.

SoS

[Spawn of Satan]

Cop off hook in suspect's death
High court says man shot himself during interrogation

By HIROSHI MATSUBARA
Staff writer

The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling that a 55-year-old suspect was shot dead by a policeman during an interrogation in 1997 and instead decided the victim committed suicide, rejecting a redress demand by the man's daughter.
The high court supported the Kanagawa Prefectural Police claim that Yoshio Yanagi committed suicide during an interrogation at the Tobe Police Station in Yokohama's Nishi Ward.

In its 2002 ruling on the daughter's damages suit, the Yokohama District Court said it was unlikely that Yanagi, head of a Yokohama financial firm who also had underworld ties, could commit suicide in the interrogation room and ruled that he had in fact been "accidentally" shot to death by a sergeant who was grilling him.

In reversing the lower court decision, presiding Judge Toshinobu Akiyama of the high court said it was technically possible for Yanagi to snatch a bullet from a plastic bag placed on a table as evidence, when the two interrogators were not looking.

The judge also said that Yanagi was accustomed to using a handgun and thus could load the weapon and shoot himself in the presence of one of the officers.

He also rejected the daughter's claim that police at least bear responsibility for leaving a firearm accessible to a suspect under interrogation, saying the victim's actions in such a situation could not have been predictable.

In a news conference after the ruling, Yanagi's daughter, 28, said while she had been told by lawyers that higher courts are usually more supportive of the government side than lower courts, she was still surprised by the high court's complete dismissal of the lower court ruling.

"Even if he killed himself, the ruling offers no convincing answer as to why and how he did it," she said.

Her lawyer said she will appeal to the Supreme Court.

Yanagi was arrested in October 1997 on suspicion of possessing a handgun.

Police claimed Yanagi shot himself with the same weapon on Nov. 8 the same year while Sgt. Yukio Hasegawa and another officer were interrogating him at the station.

Hasegawa and several others received minor warnings for failing to keep an eye on the suspect. Hasegawa is still on the Kanagawa force.

Refusing to accept the police explanation that Yanagi killed himself, the daughter filed a criminal complaint with the local public prosecutor's office in 2000, charging that Hasegawa somehow shot her father to death. But the prosecutors did not take up the case.

Aiming to uncover what actually happened in the closed interrogation room, the daughter then filed the damages suit, seeking 9.2 million yen in compensation from the Kanagawa Prefectural Office. The district court ordered Kanagawa police to pay her 5 million yen.

She also filed a request with a local Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution, which reviews prosecutors' decisions, last year. The committee has not yet handed down a decision on the case.

The Japan Times: April 29, 2004

[Leishpod]

well holy shit.. reading all that was a helluva mindfuck *laughs*

[DMG]

What Leish said

[Spawn of Satan]

Police warn over naughty gnomes
A "mooning" male gnome and his bikini-clad female companion have sparked uproar in South Yorkshire.
The police have warned gnome owner and former army sergeant Tony Watson, 41, of Doncaster Road, Barnsley, he could face arrest.

South Yorkshire Police said complaints from passers-by had to be taken seriously, particularly as there was a primary school nearby.

But Mr Watson says those who are offended should not look at his garden.


His collection of gnomes included a male flasher, one peeing in a bucket, another mooning, a fully exposed woman and another revealing her breasts.

However, to avoid arrest he has painted knickers and a bra on one of the female gnomes and underpants on a male gnome.

Divorced father-of-two Mr Watson, who served in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment for 22 years, said: "The policeman said they would arrest me unless they were moved and I would have to explain to a court why I have these gnomes in my front garden.

"I was told the gnomes would be taken away there and then. He even turned up with a van to take them away.

"The officer said they had received a complaint under the Public Order Act which basically accused me of indecency.

I bought the gnomes because they reflect my character and personality

Gnome owner Tony Watson

"Rather than lose them I put the gnomes round the back and got a paintbrush out, touched them up and put them back on display in the front garden.

"I can't believe it. I have had buses pull up in front of the house and everybody who sees the gnomes creases up laughing.

"I bought the gnomes because they reflect my character and personality. I just saw them and wanted them for a laugh."

A South Yorkshire Police spokesman said they had received a number of complaints about the gnomes.

"Officers visited the man several weeks ago and warned him that we had received complaints," he said.

"However he did not take any action and officers revisited him on Sunday following a further complaint. "

Mr Watson was told to remove the gnomes or he would be arrested under Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 which states that it is an offence to display something that is insulting or likely to cause distress, harassment or alarm.

He was not arrested because he took appropriate action, police added.



Tony has added a touch of modesty to his naughty gnomes


SoS

[hails]

*cacks* i want one!!!! *starts wondering if she could make a pair of bondage gnomes* hmm....

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by hails

*cacks* i want one!!!! *starts wondering if she could make a pair of bondage gnomes* hmm....

battered gnome

[Scatters]

Could be worse, last time ther was a foul smell in a Milwaukee apartment, it was Jeffery Dahmer doing.. they should be thankful :p

Foul smell reveals apartment zoo
May 7, 2004

A woman kept about 200 creatures, including alligators, scorpions and carnivorous beetles, in an apartment in suburban Milwaukee.

Authorities found the menagerie after neighbours had complained about the foul smell.

"The smell was just unbelievable," said William Mitchell, a state conservation warden who found about 70 ducks cramped in a basement pen with droppings covering the floor. "It was really stinking. ... It made my eyes water."

Authorities said the woman fed the animals roadkill. Animal carcasses were in a freezer and decaying carcasses were in an adjacent garage. Among the dead animals were raccoons, rabbits, opossums and squirrels.

Jamie L Verburgt, the apartment resident, was given two state citations for possessing game animals out of season, Mitchell said. Verburgt's phone number is unlisted.

"She said they were car kills," Mitchell said. "I warned her that it is illegal to take dead animals off the side of a road. . . The dead animals were used to feed the live animals, and some were given to flesh-eating beetles."

Among the other live animals found were snakes, rats, turtles and toads.

The live animals were seized by the Washington County Humane Society, pending investigation by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Mitchell said.

Mitchell said federal wildlife officials plan to investigate those who sold animals to Verburgt through the internet.

"She intended to sell the animals to pet stores," he said.

Verburgt's boyfriend, John Walters, was prosecuted in 2000 for mistreatment of exotic animals.

At that time, police found a female cougar, female leopard, silver-tailed fox, monitor lizard, two caracals, a coatimundi, chinchilla and a reticulated python in Walter's apartment in Greenfield, another Milwaukee suburb.

[hails]

Originally Posted by Gutter Monkey

battered gnome

*squeal!* that's great!! i so have to get me one of them! hee

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by hails

*squeal!* that's great!! i so have to get me one of them! hee

I am *so* going to report you to these people.

[GentleZephyr]

I think that there is a market for fetish gnomes.

And if there isn't, there really should be.

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by GentleZephyr

I think that there is a market for fetish gnomes.

And if there isn't, there really should be.

Try typing "fetish" and "gnome" into a google search and see what you get ...

Apparently 'gnome' is a code word for .... well, I'll leave it for you to discover.