Ghost swing spooks locals
October 27, 2007 | 3 Comments
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AN out-of-control playground swing has spooked families and police in Argentina.
The swing rocks back and forwards without being touched - and anxious parents have decided the playground must be haunted.
Watch the YouTube video of the swing below:
In an attempt to explain the swing’s mysterious movement, police called in physics professors. But even they have been unable to explain the why the swing keeps moving. Residents claim the middle swing in a playground in the north-eastern town of Firmat can keep moving continuously for ten days before suddenly coming to a halt.Teacher Maria de Silva Agustina said one child had nicknamed the area the “Blair Witch Playground”.
“We believe it is haunted,” she said.
Some have tried to explain it as a hoax using a piece of fishing wire or a mechanism installed in the swings frame. Although both of the explanations have been investigated and have proved not to be the cause.
Scientist theorize it is a phenomenon known as harmonic resonance. Investigations continue.
Prostitutes on hunger strike sew lips together
October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
We reported earlier that Bolivian Prostitutes had gone on a hunger strike, they have since taken their protest up a notch by sewing their lips together (it should be confirmed that we are referring to their mouth.)
Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto sewed their lips together Wednesday as part of a hunger strike to demand that the mayor reopen brothels and bars ordered closed after violent protests by residents last week.
“We are fighting for the right to work and for our families’ survival,” Lily Cortez, leader of the El Alto Association of Nighttime Workers, told local television.
“Tomorrow we will bury ourselves alive if we are not immediately heard. The mayor will have his conscience to answer to if there are any grave consequences, such as the death of my comrades,” she said, surrounded by about 10 prostitutes who had sewn their lips together with thread.
Some 30 other women were shown fasting inside a medical clinic nearby.
Mayor Fanor Nava told local radio he would not reopen the brothels and bars closed after city residents fed up with underage drinking and crime stormed the red-light district in El Alto, an impoverished city just north of La Paz.
Prostitution in Bolivia is legal but pimping is outlawed.
Student activists who want the bars and brothels permanently shut down were also on a hunger strike, along with the leaders of an association representing bars, restaurants and karaoke establishments.
“It’s not only us owners and the sex workers who are affected, there are thousands of waiters, cooks, bartenders, taxi drivers and street vendors who will be without income,” said Ramiro Orellana, spokesman for the business group.
El Alto is one of the largest urban areas in Bolivia, with nearly 1 million inhabitants, mostly Aymara and Quechua Indians.
Russian Serial Killer convicted of murdering 48 says killing was like falling in love
October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
A Russian supermarket worker, dubbed “the chessboard murderer”, was convicted on Wednesday of killing 48 people after he confessed in court that the first time he took a life was like falling in love.
Given his nickname by Russian media because he had hoped to put a coin on every space of a 64-place chessboard for each of his victims, Alexander Pichushkin also admitted to killing 11 more people not included in the court case.
The verdict, handed down by a jury in a Moscow courtroom, makes the 33-year-old Pichushkin Russia’s deadliest serial killer since Andrei Chikatilo, known as the “Rostov Ripper”.
He was convicted in 1992 of killing more than 50 people and was executed.
Pichushkin preyed on the marginals of Russian society - drug addicts, alcoholics, the poor and the elderly… Read more
50 Hooker hunger strike
October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
50 prostitutes near La Paz went on a hunger strike today and threatened to march naked down the streets of El Alto to reopen the bars and strip joints closed down by the local population last week.”We’ve all taken our HIV-AIDS test and we’re going on a hunger strike,” the protest leader said inside a local AIDS clinic where the street workers undergo regular checkups and have holed up for now.
Withholding her identity, the woman said that if El Alto wants to get rid of prostitutes “then the government should give us a hand and take care of our children, and afterward provide us with jobs”.
In addition to taking over the AIDS clinic and refusing to eat, the prostitutes are threatening to march naked down the streets of the town to defend their right to work.
Many of El Alto’s residents last week demonstrated outside the town’s 32 bars and strip joints forcing them to close, complaining that they are magnets for lawbreakers and a bad influence on children.
According to unofficial estimates, there are between 400 and 500 prostitutes plying their trade in El Alto for an average income of $US40 a day.
Evil monkey kills senior official
October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
A wild monkey that attacked the deputy mayor of New Delhi has been blamed for his death.
The rhesus monkey reportedly attacked S S Bajwa on the balcony of his home. He fell, hit his head on a flowerpot and later died of head injuries after trying to fend it off.
Mr Bajwa was alone at the time of the incident. He is survived by his wife and son.
Delhi BJP President Harsh Vardhan said foreign experts could be called in to “control the monkey menace” in the capital, Sify.com reported.
“Though we are not setting up any special committee on the issue, we have suggested various brainstorming ideas to revive the efforts to control monkeys and we also take experts’ help in striking balance between human beings and animals in the urban area,” he said.
Earlier this year, the Delhi High court had asked the civic authorities to move all monkeys to the Asola Wildlife Sanctuary within three months.
The MCD, which missed the deadline, sought for an extension by a year, which is yet to be granted.
