Florida inmate convicted for pleasuring self in cell

JULY 25--In a verdict that could chill lonely inmates everywhere, a jury today convicted a Florida inmate for masturbating in the privacy of his Ft. Lauderdale cell.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years...725071lee1.html

So all you tossers better watch out !

Talk about kicking a man when he is down...

Anyhow, I predict this rash decision will be thrown out on appeal to a constitutional court, citing the Eighth Amendment as the basis for overturnning the verdict

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendm...es_Constitution

Florida inmate convicted for pleasuring self in cell

JULY 25--In a verdict that could chill lonely inmates everywhere, a jury today convicted a Florida inmate for masturbating in the privacy of his Ft. Lauderdale cell.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years...725071lee1.html

So all you tossers better watch out !

Talk about kicking a man when he is down...

Anyhow, I predict this rash decision will be thrown out on appeal to a constitutional court, citing the Eighth Amendment as the basis for overturnning the verdict

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendm...es_Constitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendm...es_Constitution

I think it's indeed absurd to convict this chap for 'indecent exposure',....how on earth could he have known a female guard was watching him...? And WHY was she watching him...?

Absurd.

LaoPo

Think of how much more time Steve McQueen could have received while in that solitary cell for his time in Papillion!

Think of how much more time Steve McQueen could have received while in that solitary cell for his time in Papillion!

He did more ball bouncing in The Great Escape.

Anyhow, I predict this rash decision will be thrown out on appeal to a constitutional court, citing the Eighth Amendment as the basis for overturnning the verdict

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendm...es_Constitution

And there was me believing that the Americans had actually passed an amendment to the constitution enshrining a person's right to masturbate.

It wouldn't have surprised me that much.

My knowledge is limited on these (except the fifth which I have occasionally used , normally when I was being interrogated by a female).

Think of how much more time Steve McQueen could have received while in that solitary cell for his time in Papillion!

He did more ball bouncing in The Great Escape.

I love that movie.

Think of how much more time Steve McQueen could have received while in that solitary cell for his time in Papillion!

He did more ball bouncing in The Great Escape.

I love that movie.

Yes, a true classic!

Ya. Dunno which part I like better, the kethunk of the baseball hitting the wall or where the Germans let him try to jump the barbed wire fences on his hog.

I'm watching Band of Brothers this week. Makes me sad.

It's a wierd world that we live in

Ya. Dunno which part I like better, the kethunk of the baseball hitting the wall or where the Germans let him try to jump the barbed wire fences on his hog.

I'm watching Band of Brothers this week. Makes me sad.

I like war movies, had 38 on DVD at the last count.

My second coz was in Darby's Rangers. Got any movies on that outfit, Scea?

Think of how much more time Steve McQueen could have received while in that solitary cell for his time in Papillion!

He did more ball bouncing in The Great Escape.

I love that movie.

Yes, a true classic!

Ran across Jack Nicholson in "Witches of Eastwick" on HBO today.

Old movie but funny as fok!

The man/woman dichotomy in that movie is also classic!

b]German drives down subway stairs

A German woman in Dusseldorf blocked the entrance to an underground station when she mistook it for a subterranean car park, police said on Wednesday.

The 52-year-old drove her Volkswagen Beetle across the pavement and into the entrance, where it came to a halt five steps down.

Police estimated the damage to the station at around 1,500 euros (£1,000).

The VW Beetle-Cabrio remained balanced on the fifth step and the woman was able to get out unaided and unharmed.

The accident happened in the Nordstrasse underground station, in the centre of Dusseldorf.

A truck later towed the car out of the stairwell.

A local newspaper said the woman was more shocked and embarrassed than hurt.

A similar incident happened four years ago in the same underground station, when a 50-year-old man from Dortmund also mistook it for an underground car park.

Andrea Blome, head of Traffic Management in Dusseldorf said: "We had only recently transformed the entrance to the station".

She said the stairwell had been painted a brighter colour and extra lighting had been installed.

But she said no further changes were planned following the latest incident, and that the station was not considered dangerous.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6705323.stm

Why not put up a large 'No parking' sign?

Ric Hoogestraat is married to Sue and works at a call center in the Phoenix area but spends 30-plus hours a week inside the online Second Life video game, pretending that he is the digitally drawn Dutch Hoorenbeek, a 6-foot-9, muscular babe magnet who lives on his own island. That unnerves Sue, according to an August Wall Street Journal profile, especially since Dutch recently "married" a digital woman and set up housekeeping with their two digital dogs. (The real-life creator of the new Mrs. Hoorenbeek has never met Ric and says she never will.) Dutch and his wife spend hours shopping and motorcycling together, leaving Ric little time for Sue. "Is this man cheating on his wife (meaning Sue)?" the Journal asked. Lamented Sue: "You try to talk to (Ric) or bring (him) a drink, and (he)'ll be having sex with a cartoon." [Wall Street Journal, 8-10-07]

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^ hmmm, is he a TV member?

^ hmmm, is he a TV member?

Asks a TV member who has over 4000 posts in just 9 mths?

Australians cook up wild cat stew

By Phil Mercer

BBC News, Sydney

Australians have come up with a novel solution to the millions of feral cats roaming the outback - eat them.

The felines are the descendants of domestic pets and kill millions of small native animals each year.

A recent Alice Springs contest featured wild cat casserole. The meat is said to taste like a cross between rabbit and, perhaps inevitably, chicken.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6974687.stm

It remains to be seen whether this will catch on.

If your curious just ask the next Australian you see in a bar (they're easy enough to spot) if he eats pussy.

Australians cook up wild cat stew

By Phil Mercer

BBC News, Sydney

Australians have come up with a novel solution to the millions of feral cats roaming the outback - eat them.

Kentucky Fried Cat - staple diet around the world.

CB

My mum used to send me out to buy skinned rabbit - and always told me to check the size of the paws.

My mum used to send me out to buy skinned rabbit - and always told me to check the size of the paws.

The ribs are slightly different shape but the actual carcase is very similar. In Australia it was common for commerical rabbiters to accidentally add a cat or two by mistake The law changed and the carcase had to be sold with the liver and kidneys still in place (to check for disease, including Mixomytosis) and the feet and tail still attached. This helps to reduce the number of ring ins.

Even so given Australians mania with pets, which is only eclipsed by the English it is extremely unlikely that the idea of cat stew catching on. Every few years there are pushes by groups such as the Livestock and Pasture Graziers Association to run a cat bounty but the idea gets knocked down by cat lovers sitting in the city who think that a feral cat is just the same as their domestic house cat. The cat fanciers association get involved and they represent votes, the politicians back off the idea and the RSPCA declare it illegal. Meanwhile the feral cats decimate the ground bird and small marsupial population.

CB

Yep, there's no justice. I'm an animal lover, however, there are times when you have to be cruel to be kind!

I saw a show once about the do-do (spelling?) which said it was the arrival of the household pets, especially cats, that killed the do-do and not man eating them, as they tasted awful!!!

Hopefully, this won't bring them the same problems the Coke bottle did:

In August, the Discovery Channel reported on the equipping of Bushmen (indigenous to Africa's Kalahari Desert) with handheld Palm Pilot personal digital assistants to track animals and locate plants via special software. The illiterate hunters can tap screen icons representing various animals, the activities they're engaging in, and how many they see, with a global positioning satellite automatically recording the location. [Discovery.com, 8-1-07]

My mum used to send me out to buy skinned rabbit - and always told me to check the size of the paws.

Whilst we are talking about food, see attached menu from a Sorrento trip.

TBWG

Now that's an interesting menu!

I saw a show once about the do-do (spelling?) which said it was the arrival of the household pets, especially cats, that killed the do-do and not man eating them, as they tasted awful!!!

Ah, yes, the famous Dodo from Mauritius:

"The Dodo is a lesson in extinction. First sighted around 1600 on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, the Dodo was extinct less than eighty years later.

Some of the birds may have been eaten by the Dutch sailors who discovered them. However, the primary causes of their extinction were the destruction of the forest (which cut off the Dodo's food supply), and the animals that the sailors brought with them, including cats, rats, and pigs, which destroyed Dodo nests."

http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http...ficial%26sa%3DN

LaoPo

I saw a show once about the do-do (spelling?) which said it was the arrival of the household pets, especially cats, that killed the do-do and not man eating them, as they tasted awful!!!

Ah, yes, the famous Dodo from Mauritius:

"The Dodo is a lesson in extinction. First sighted around 1600 on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, the Dodo was extinct less than eighty years later.

Some of the birds may have been eaten by the Dutch sailors who discovered them. However, the primary causes of their extinction were the destruction of the forest (which cut off the Dodo's food supply), and the animals that the sailors brought with them, including cats, rats, and pigs, which destroyed Dodo nests."

http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http...ficial%26sa%3DN

LaoPo

Thanks for the link LaoPo, the show I saw was quite comprensive. It had no breast meat, and what meat it did have was tough, stringy and greasy! Hence, not good for food. i was always taught at school that we ate them to extinction! Not so apparently...

Yep, there's no justice. I'm an animal lover, however, there are times when you have to be cruel to be kind!

I saw a show once about the do-do (spelling?) which said it was the arrival of the household pets, especially cats, that killed the do-do and not man eating them, as they tasted awful!!!

Rats from the ships caused havoc with the DoDo and many other birds that nest on the ground. The rats ate the eggs and young chicks while the adult birds sat around watching them. The same thing happened in many islands in the pacific including Hawaii where they lost ground parrots within only a few years of the arrival of the rodents.

Where my family property is in South Australia we trap, poison, and shoot about 1,000 cats per year. When I was a kid my dad said he would give me 5 cents for every cat I killed around the homestead. He had to stop me when I had reached 500 in only a couple of weeks. I had the skins pegged out in the shearing sheds and sold them for making into felt for the Australian Akubra hat. Normally they use rabbit but some hats are made exclusively out of cat fur which gives it a different texture.

Around our area the concerted erradication of cats and rabbits have brought back native plants not seen in over 100 years. The seeds from these plants have survived that long and are now being recorded as new/lost species. My dad said that the University of Adelaide have been on our property almost continuously for two years recording plant patterns. Unfortunately animals such as the ground parrots that ate the seeds and were killed by cats will never come back. Dad was also saying that the Callista virus used to control the rabbits is losing it effectiveness and the rabbits are starting to appear. The CSIRO is being hampered in its research into new strains of the virus because "pet rabbit owners" are (justifiably) concerned about their family pet being killed as well. There are antivaccines available for the virus but pet owners don't want to pay the $20 for a vet to innoculate their rabbit.

CB

Old news, but I love it.

Pets Livin’ Large: London’s The Mirror released a list in March of the world’s 20 inheritance-wealthiest animals, topped by the dog "Gunther IV" (now worth over US$320 million, from the late German countess Karlotta Libenstein), followed by Kalu the chimpanzee (about US$95 million, from the late Australian Olympic swimmer Frank O’Neill) and the dog Toby Rimes (about US$80 million, from the late New Yorker Ella Wendel). The list consists of 10 cats (4 of them American), 5 dogs, a hen, a tortoise, a parrot, Kalu the chimp, and a herd of cattle supported by a British royal trust. (Most on the list are offspring of the original recipient, with trust funds even larger because of investments.) [The Mirror, 3-15-04]

Leona Helmsley's pooch only got $12 mil. 55555555

Detective posed as corpse to catch funeral parlour vandals

Last updated at 11:44am on 5th September 2007

A private detective hid inside a body bag to catch the man who waged a three-year campaign of vandalism against a firm of funeral directors.

The bag was put in the back of a hearse, one of a number which had been repeatedly attacked over the years, and for days the detective lay in wait.

His perseverance paid off when he caught Richard Bullen stabbing the wheels of the vehicle.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...&ICL=TOPART