Drink-drive killer sentenced to death

A drink driver who crashed into and killed four people has been sentenced to death in China, according to state media.

Sun Weiming was found guilty of endangering public safety after speeding in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, last December.

The 30-year-old reportedly struck four other cars, killing four people and seriously injuring another.

He was also driving without a licence, news services added.

It is the first time in China that a person has been given the death penalty for endangering public safety by drink driving, according to the Tianfu Morning Post and the Sichuan News Network.

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Setuju tak kalau hukuman sebegini dipraktiskan diMalaysia? Rasanya boleh kurangkan bilangan orang mabuk yang bawak kereta, secara tak langsung mengurangkan orang mabuk. Nak hapuskan arak terus tak boleh sebab kerajaan bergantung sangat2 dengan cukai arak ni.

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This email really make me shock this morning!

War Crimes charges filed against 15 Israeli officials

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Merpati bawa dadah ditahan

Merpati bawa dadah ditahan:

"SARAJEVO: Pihak berkuasa Bosnia menahan seekor burung merpati yang didakwa menyeludup dadah ke satu penjara paling dikawal ketat di negara itu.

Media tempatan dipetik akhbar Britain, Daily Tele

Graph melaporkan semalam, muslihat burung yang juga haiwan peliharaan seorang banduan, terbongkar selepas pegawai penjara mendapati empat tahanan khayal selepas kehadiran burung itu di tingkap kurungan.

“Hasil ujian mengesahkan mereka mengambil dadah dan kami melancarkan siasatan,” kata Timbalan Warden Penjara Zenica, Josip Pojavnik. - Agensi"

p/s: hebat aaa

Armpit sniffer gets jail and cane

Armpit sniffer gets jail and cane - Yahoo! News:

"SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore man with a penchant for sniffing women's armpits was sentenced to 14 years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane for molesting his victims, a local newspaper reported Friday.

The 36-year-old, who the Straits Times said was mentally unstable, had previous convictions for drug and sex-related offences.

He molested 23 women over the course of 15 months, smelling their armpits and touching them in lifts, staircase landings and their homes, the paper said. He was caught after a housewife reported him to the police."

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D. B. Cooper

D. B. Cooper is the name commonly used to refer to a hijacker who, on November 24 1971, after receiving a ransom payout of US$200,000, jumped from the back of a Boeing 727 as it was flying over the Pacific Northwest of the United States possibly over Woodland, Washington. Despite hundreds of suspects through the years, no conclusive evidence has surfaced regarding Cooper's identity or whereabouts. The FBI believes he did not survive the jump. Several theories offer competing explanations of what happened after his famed jump.  The nature of Cooper's escape and the uncertainty of his fate continue to intrigue people.

The Cooper case remains an unsolved mystery.  It has baffled both government and private investigators for decades, with countless leads turning into dead ends.  In March 2008, the FBI thought it might have had one of the biggest breakthroughs in the case when children unearthed a parachute within the bounds of Cooper's probable jump site near the town of Amboy, Washington.  Experts later revealed that it did not belong to the hijacker. Still, despite the case's infamy for its enduring lack of evidence, a few significant clues have arisen.

Read the rest of this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

p/s: ingatkan dalam prison break tu rekaan je, rupa2 mmg ada betul2

Murung dinoda guru sendiri

Murung dinoda guru sendiri:

"TEMERLOH: Rahsia murung seorang pelajar perempuan berusia 15 tahun sejak setahun lalu terbongkar apabila dia mendedahkan diperkosa seorang guru kanan sebuah sekolah menengah di sini, lebih setahun lalu.

Mangsa menceritakan kejadian itu kepada kakaknya yang juga guru di sekolah sama, kelmarin, selepas didapati sering murung.

Dia bersama kakaknya membuat laproan di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Temerloh, kira-kira jam 4 petang.

Dalam laporannya, pelajar tingkatan tiga itu mendakwa dia dua kali dinodai guru berusia 40 tahun itu yang sudah berkahwin dan mempunyai anak di kuarters guru dan bilik darjah pada 26 dan 29 Mac tahun lalu.

Ketua Bahagian Siasatan Jenayah daerah, Deputi Superintendan Mohd Radzuan Bachik, berkata kakak mangsa mengesan perubahan sikap adiknya itu yang murung sejak beberapa bulan lalu.

Selepas didesak, katanya, pelajar itu menceritakan perkara sebenar kepada kakaknya.

Mangsa mendakwa dia dirogol guru berkenaan yang bertugas menjaga hal ehwal pelajar sekolah itu menyebabkan kakaknya terkejut.

Katanya, susulan laporan mangsa, sepasukan anggota polis menahan guru terbabit yang ketika itu sedang mengajar dalam sebuah kelas.

Beliau berkata, mangsa dibawa ke Hospital Sultan Ahmad Shah untuk menjalani pemeriksaan kesihatan.

Hasil pemeriksaan mengesahkan dia pernah dirogol.

“Berdasarkan siasatan awal, mangsa merahsiakan kejadian itu daripada"

p/s: ish3 penolong kanan sekolah manalah sangap sangat ni, anak murid sendiri tuu ... hmmmm ...

Woman Arrested for Not Watering Lawn

A widow and grandma spent the morning in jail, arrested for refusing to give a policeman her name when he tried writing her a ticket for failing to water her yard. The woman hasn't watered her lawn in more than a year, and the condition of her yard violates an Orem zoning ordinance.

Tonight, the woman says she is traumatized and shocked that she was hauled to jail, just because she says she can't afford to water her lawn.

Betty Perry says, "I never thought they would ever do anything like that to a person that is 70 years old. I've never bothered anybody, I've never hurt anybody." Link (w/ video)

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Man Accidentally Shoots Self While Pistol Whipping His Ex

While pistol whipping his ex-girlfriend, a 29-year-old man accidentally shot himself in his hand Thursday night, police reported.

Police say Tarvaris Jones confronted Latasha Heart, of Tampa, outside a 7-Eleven convenience store at the corner of North 22nd Street and East Sligh Avenue.

Jones knocked Heart to the ground and repeatedly struck her in the face with a handgun, police said. He then accidentally shot himself in his left hand and fled in his car. Link

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Inmates cover hole with pancake batter

Inmates cover hole with pancake batter:

SCOTT CITY, Missouri - Police said inmates used pancake batter and toothpaste to cover a hole they made to allow a female inmate to slide into the next cell and join a male inmate. Now steel plates are being added to the Missouri jail's interior walls.

The hole at the Scott City Jail was discovered this weekend, said police Chief Don Cobb. He said inmates removed a block from the wall, after making a digging tool with a nail, a wire from a light fixture and a toothbrush.

The mixture of pancake batter and toothpaste looked like mortar, he said.

Prisoners will stay in a county jail until a security check is completed at the city building.

The city jail's exterior walls already are reinforced with steel to prevent inmates from escaping, Cobb said.

"Unless they can smuggle in an arc welder, they aren't getting through that," he said.

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Man 'Shot Wife's PC'

p/s: kalau dah kawen tu jgn nak menggatal he he ...

A US man allegedly shot his wife's computer after he caught her chatting to other men on MySpace.

Jason Griffith, 23, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was arrested on charges including reckless endangerment, terrorist threats and harassment.

Police allege he fired a single .40-calibre bullet into his wife's computer tower after a 2am argument in their bedroom, reports the Times Tribune. Link






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'Net Addict' Kills Mum For Cybercafe Cash

A 16-year-old Chinese "Internet addict" stabbed his mother to death and then seriously injured his father after he was refused money to go to a cybercafe, state media reported Thursday.

The boy, identified only by his surname Wang, asked his mother for the money on Tuesday afternoon in their apartment in the southern city of Guangzhou, The Beijing News reported.

After she refused, he grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed her to death, it said. The mother's name was not given.

The boy's father Wang Jianjun then rushed into the home and was stabbed three times in the head by his son.

He was later rushed to hospital and reported to be in stable condition.

The boy fled the scene but was found early Wednesday morning by local police. Link




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Prisoner posts himself to freedom

Prisoner posts himself to freedom:

A convicted fraudster escaped from a high security jail in Germany after climbing into a cardboard box and posting himself to freedom.

Max Friedener, 28, escaped from prison in Darmstadt after hiding in the box in the mailroom. He escaped from the mail van as it was driving away.

The escape was only noticed when the mail truck arrived at the sorting depot and the hole in the box was spotted.

It is the second time a convict has earned a ticket to ride by using the mail system.

Only last month a convict in neighbouring Austria escaped from Graz prison by posting himself out in a large box that was supposed to contain lamp post parts. Both escapees are still at large.

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Train kills man trying to kill woman

ABC News: Train Kills Man Trying to Kill Woman:

A man trying to kill his girlfriend by stopping a car in front of an approaching train was himself killed Monday when the train hit the vehicle and launched it into him as he tried to flee, police said.

The girlfriend survived.

The man drove the car in front of a group of other vehicles stopped at a railroad crossing in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Sunland, Officer Mike Lopez said.

The driver, who was seen arguing with his girlfriend, parked the car on the tracks and jumped out, leaving her behind, Lopez said.

A northbound commuter train hit the rear of the car, hurling it into the man. The girlfriend was taken to the hospital, where she was in stable condition, Lopez said.

"She gets hit by a train and lives. He gets hit by his own car and he dies," Lopez said. [more]

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Guards made inmates lick toilets clean

Guards made inmates lick toilets clean:

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) -- Prosecutors issued arrest warrants Tuesday for eight former prison employees accused of abusing inmates, including forcing some to clean toilets with their tongues.

The eight were among 13 prison employees who had already been fired from the 605-inmate medium and minimum security wards at the Hendry Correctional Institution in the Everglades.

The previous warden and an assistant warden resigned, and three others were reassigned after an inmate was beaten and choked by guards in March.

State prisons chief Jim McDonough said the warrants include charges of battery and failing to report inmate abuse against former guards William Thiessen, Phillip Barger and Randy Hazen, Gabriel Cotilla, Kevin Filipowicz, Ruben Ibarra and Stephen Whitney. Fired guard James Brown was charged with grand theft.

Some inmates were given choices of eating their food off the floor or providing sexual favors to guards, McDonough said.

"We had cases where inmates were compelled under threat of force to clean a commode with their tongues," McDonough said. "These were improper, illegal heinous and despicable acts and it was done apparently in an organized and conspiratorial fashion."

McDonough said the FBI and the U.S. attorney were also looking into civil rights violations.

None of the eight men could immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.

Thiessen, Barger, Hazen and Whitney's phone numbers were unlisted. Nobody answered at a number under Ibarra's name. A number listed under Cotilla's name was connected to a fax machine, and there was not enough information to locate a number for Brown, who has a common name.

It was not known Tuesday whether any of the men had hired attorneys.

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Boys allegedly urinated in juice, put it in vending machine

p/s: hati2 minum air :P

Boys Allegedly Urinated In Juice, Put It In Vending Machine:

PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- Authorities said two high school students have been arrested for tampering with a drink that was later sold in a vending machine.

Police said two 15-year-olds removed a bottle of apple juice from a vending machine at Palm Harbor University High School and replaced the contents with urine.

The suspects returned the bottle back to the vending machine, after which an unsuspecting juvenile later purchased and drank from it.

When the victim noticed the foul odor and taste, he told his mother when he arrived home.

Authorities said she reported the incident to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, and the bottle was taken for laboratory analysis.

Investigators said they confronted the young suspects, who both admitted to their involvement.

They face a felony charge of one count of poisoning of food or water with intent to injure or cause bodily harm.

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Sleepy man ignores stabbing

Sleepy man ignores stabbing:

A man is recovering in hospital after he was stabbed nine times – but didn't notice, because he slept through the whole thing.

The 23-year-old, from Winona, Minnesota, was stabbed repeatedly early on Saturday morning, but was unable to identify his assailants to police because he was snoozing at the time.

The Winona Daily News reports that the man, who wasn't identified, only realized that he'd been stabbed nine times when his girlfriend noticed that he was covered in blood and pointed this out.

Reports do not indicate whether the girlfriend was also sleeping during the attack.

Police are continuing to investigate the incident, and the man remains in hospital. Probably asleep.

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Indian woman locked in a room for 15 years by family

Indian woman locked in a room for 15 years by family:

New Delhi - Police in India's eastern state of West Bengal have rescued a 40-year-old-woman who was imprisoned by her husband and in-laws in a cramped room for 15 years because she did not get enough dowry, a newspaper reported Sunday. Police found Madhabi Das inside a room at her in-laws' residence in Baruipur district near the state capital Kolkata on Saturday, and said the woman had lost her sanity because of the long detention, the Times of India reported.

Investigators said the woman had spent her youth inside a small and dark room as her in-laws and husband started demanding a huge dowry soon after her marriage.

Police have meanwhile detained three members of her family including her mother-in-law and husband and sent Das to a mental asylum for treatment.

Dowry is exchanged in a majority of Indian weddings though its practice became illegal in 1961. According to a UN report, 70 per cent of married women in India face domestic violence and many of such cases are dowry-related.

Women are abused, beaten and even killed for not getting enough dowry. The government's National Crime Records Bureau reports that more than 18 women are killed for dowry in India every day.

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Hijacked helicopter used to break inmate out of Belgian prison

Hijacked Helicopter Used to Break Inmate Out of Belgian Prison:

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Two men hijacked a helicopter Sunday and forced the pilot to land in a prison courtyard, where they picked up an inmate in a dramatic jailbreak, the pilot told Belgian television.

The accomplices paid for a helicopter ride at an airstrip near the city of Sint-Truiden, about 40 miles east of Brussels, saying they were tourists from Marseilles in southern France, pilot Eric Mathieu told the RTL-TVI network.

After takeoff, they produced a pistol and hand-grenade, ordering Mathieu to fly to Lantin prison outside nearby Liege.

"They pointed a revolver at my forehead," Mathieu told RTBF television. "The prison yard was so small, at first I refused to land there, but they threatened to kill me, so I had to do it."

Mathieu said he touched down while about 200 prisoners were exercising in the yard. One climbed on board while his accomplices threw tear gas canisters into the crowd.

The helicopter then landed less than a half-mile from the prison, where the three men got in a waiting car and drove away, VRT television news said.

RTL-TVI identified the fugitive as a Frenchman who was in pretrial detention on charges of fraud and theft. RTBF said he had previously escaped from prisons in France and Spain.

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U.S. man found innocent, freed after decade in prison

U.S. man found innocent, freed after decade in prison:

ST. LOUIS: After more than a decade in prison, a 41-year-old man was freed Thursday when a Missouri judge found he was not guilty of the carjacking for which he had been convicted.

Antonio Beaver was exonerated based on DNA analysis that was not available when the robbery was committed. Tests determined the blood at the crime scene was not Beaver's.

An hour after arriving in court wearing an orange prison jump suit, Beaver was wearing a sport coat and slacks, talking to reporters during his first moments of freedom.

"This feels strange," Beaver said. "I'd like to give my thanks to God, because there is a God and he knew I was innocent from the start."

Beaver filed his own motion for a post-conviction DNA test in 2001. He was later assisted by The Innocence Project, a New York-based legal center that seeks to uncover wrongful convictions.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, who filed a joint request seeking Beaver's release, choked back tears and told Beaver her office would help him re-enter society.

"I am personally very distressed to see a case such as this," said Joyce, promising to help Beaver seek compensation from the state under a new Missouri law that pays inmates exonerated of crimes.

Beaver could be paid up to $50 (€37.5) for each day he spent in prison, roughly $193,000 (€144,547) in all.

Beaver said the money could not replace all he has lost.

"I just about lost connection with my sons. They're grown now," he said. "I wanted to be a father to them, but I couldn't. That was took from me."

Beaver had been convicted of robbery in 1997 and sentenced to 18 years in prison.

During the carjacking, someone threatened a woman with a screwdriver. The woman stabbed the man with the screwdriver, leaving traces of his blood in the car. The victim later identified Beaver in a lineup, but his lawyers now say that lineup was flawed.

Joyce said authorities have identified a new suspect in the case. He already is incarcerated for another crime, but she would not give details.

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