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Monthly Archives: August 2007
I miss Concorde
I really do.
I remember watching them take off as a little boy and seeing them fly over in formation with the Red Arrows.
It was almost enough to make you feel patriotic. I miss that.
Boy is accused of sausage assault
A 12-year-old boy was charged with assault and taken before the courts – for throwing a cocktail sausage.
The boy was accused of throwing the pork snack at a 74-year-old man in Woodhouse Park, south Manchester.
He denied the charge in a hearing at a Manchester Youth Court, where the judge questioned the decision to prosecute.
Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) are now reviewing the case, which the boy’s mother described as an “utter joke”.
She told the BBC: “They came to arrest him in my house, they took him into a police van. They took him to Elizabeth Slinger [police station], put him in a cell, took his photographs, his fingerprints, then interviewed him.
“And then they decided to charge him with common assault – with a sausage.
~ BBC News
Banana Laxative
An Indian suspect was forced by police to eat 50 bananas as a laxative, to retrieve a necklace he was accused of stealing and swallowing.
When the bananas failed to produce the desired effect, police fed Sheikh Mohsin rice, chicken and local bread.
Finally the necklace, which appeared on an X-ray taken on the suspect, was excreted and retrieved.
~ BBC News