A Rum Doo

(From Yahoo News)

In this Feb. 1, 2009 photo released by the Australian Customs Service, the legs of an Australian man who was caught with two pigeons hidden in his pants on an international flight from Dubai to Melbourne, Australia, are shown. The 23-year-old man arrived in Melbourne on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009 and was questioned by Customs officials after two eggs and some seeds were found in a vitamin container in his luggage. A search of his body found two live pigeons wrapped in padded envelopes and held to the man's legs with a pair of tights.

(AP Photo/Australian Customs Service, HO)

I wonder what the story is behind this?

Someone REALLY needs to get out more...

The best Gumtree advert in the world, to date...

(Thanks Holy Moly!)

Taking The Piss

This is a quality prank, surprised news of this didn't leak out earlier...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7798194.stm

Thinking Inside The Box

You can't help but admire the ingenuity of the protagonist in this story from the BBC...

Inmate escapes German jail in box  

By Greg Morsbach 

BBC News 

 

A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail. 

The 42-year-old Turkish citizen - who was serving a seven-year sentence - had been making stationery with other prisoners destined for the shops. 

At the end of his shift, the inmate climbed into a cardboard box and was taken out of prison by express courier. His whereabouts are still unknown. 

The chief warden of the jail told the BBC this was an embarrassing incident. 

The prison authorities in Willich, near Duesseldorf, said the man, who was tall and broad-shouldered, had hidden in a box that was about 150cm by 120cm. 

When the weekly express courier arrived to pick up several boxes of merchandise, the one containing the prisoner was also loaded into the back of the lorry. 

Shortly after it had passed through the prison gates, the inmate made his dash for freedom by cutting a big hole in the tarpaulin of the lorry and jumping off. 

The driver alerted the police after he noticed the tarpaulin flapping in the breeze. 

Lying low 

The jail's chief warden, Beate Peters, said the man must have had accomplices outside the prison. 

"As soon as the prisoner jumped off the back of the lorry his friends would have picked him up," she told the BBC. 

"We have no idea where the fugitive is hiding. We assume that he is still in the county and is lying low before making his move." 

Ms Peters said fellow convicts must also have known of his plan but that they would not talk because of a "code of honour" and because it is a criminal offence in Germany to help somebody escape from jail. 

She said the incident showed that security needed to be beefed up urgently, something she had been lobbying for in the last few years. 

"I was not surprised that an escape happened on my watch. For years I had been asking for more security guards from the government. But now they'll have to listen."

Link to original story.

Dancing Squirrels

Dancing squirrels!

Surely this is what the interwebthingy was invented for...

Thanks to Neatorama for the link.

The Green Green Grass Of Home

The story of the pensioner getting bollocked by his local council for cutting the grass verge outside his house would be laughable if it wasn't so typical of the attitude of councils in the UK.  

Link to original story

My football club complained recently about the cutting of the grass on the football pitches we use at the weekends.  Basically the grass had not been cut for about a five week period and had grown extremely long.  The council then cut the grass the day before the games were due to take place and just left the overlong cuttings all over the place.  The coaches and parents had to spend over an hour before the game clearing the playing surface to make it safe.

The mindless excuses responses we got from the council were priceless and included this absolute gem!!!

As I thought, Landscape services have confirmed that they are unable to collect grass. 600,000m2 of grass is cut by xxxxx depot staff every 10 working days so there is too much to be disposed of but since most of grass is water it soon naturally dries up. 

Unfortunately on this occasion the grass at xxxx Park happened to be due a cut just before the weekend so didn't have much time to dry out.

I have also, for the first time, been made aware that the staff from the xxxxx depot who do the grass cutting are the same personnel who bury the dead and there has been an increase of those instances over the summer.

Unfortunately, for park users, burials need to take priority over grass cutting.

You couldn't make this stuff up...

Scary Kilty Guy

Whilst I'm back here in the blogowotsit I will take the chance to ask you good people of the 'Deen a question that has been bothering me.

Who is the Scary Kilty Guy?

You know, the guy that you always see about town wearing a strange sort of leather and kilt combination.

Big guy with one of those combo haircuts : shaved at the front with a long black ponytail.

He strides about the place as though he is either on his way to somewhere or on his way back...

Who is he?

What does he do?

What is with the strange garb?

Can anyone enlighten me?  Post any info you have in the comments please.

p.s. I mean the big scary kilty guy, not the weedy but also very scary kilty guy described here.

Shocking Behaviour

Love this news story from Reuters :

Police in central England are hunting for a badly scorched would-be copper power cable thief after finding a hacksaw embedded in an 11,000 volt power cable Saturday night.

The thief, who also left a lit blow torch at the scene, is expected to be badly charred, spiky haired and not exactly the brightest bulb in the socket.

Read the full article here.

Bearly Believable

Maybe everybody else is already aware of this but it came as rather a surprise to me to discover that the very first recipient of a toy Paddington Bear was none other than...

...Top Gear's very own homophobic xenophobe mild mannered presenter, Mr Jeremy Clarkson!

NB : Paddington is 50 years old this year

Police Probe Prison Riot 'Links'

From Yahoo News via Fark

Inmates go on sausage 'temper tantrum'

Thu Sep 13, 5:07 PM ET

HOBBS, N.M. - Some Lea County inmates set fires and broke toilets and windows after being told they would be allowed only one sausage at dinner. Jail officials said the inmates began yelling and banging on their doors in what they described in a news release as a "temper tantrum."

Officers from the Lea County Sheriff's and Hobbs Police departments were called in to restore control, and the jail was locked down after Tuesday night's incident.

Some 33 prisoners were involved, Warden Jann Gartman said.

The remaining 300-plus prisoners at the jail accepted the meal without incident, authorities said.

The damage to the jail was light, with some smoke damage and broken toilets and windows, the warden said.
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Information from: Hobbs News-Sun, http://www.hobbsnews.com

Last Resting Place

Neatorama have a great story about The Weirdest Grave In The West.

The man responsible for it, John Davies, seems to have gone a bit loopy in his old age and blew all of his fortune on creating this overblown monument to himself and his wife.

Truly bizarre.