Crashed truck delivers free beer
January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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Amateur footage uploaded onto the internet revealed traffic slowed to a steady crawl along the North-South Expressway as motorists – as well as a bus driver - stopped to take advantage of the January 19 crash.
The truck, delivering Carlsberg beer, can be seen lying on its side with cartons of booze littered on the road.
The camera operator can also be heard describing the scene in English while driving past a long line of cars parked on the side of the highway.
“All these people stopping just to take the beer,” he said.
“They’re all obsessed with the free beer.”
Wife shocked to death during sex
January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
A husband who used an electrical cord to stimulate his wife during a night of “bizarre sex” allegedly gave her a deadly shock.
Toby Taylor first said his 29-year-old wife, Kirsten, was shocked by a hair dryer. But when police found burns on her body, Mr Taylor told police that he had clipped an electrical cord to his wife and plugged it into a power strip which he then turned on and off, the Associated Press reported.
Mrs Taylor was found unconscious on Thursday night at the couple’s Pennsylvanian home. She was taken to York Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Mr Taylor, 37, who was jailed yesterday on $133,733 bail for involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges, reportedly told authorities that he had used the technique on his wife in the past.
York Country coroner Barry Bloss said it was a case of “bizarre sex”.
“I have never seen anything like this,” Mr Bloss said.
“Even if you did it before, you have to know you could kill someone.”
Police chief, David Sterner, said Mrs Taylor was thought to have died from a heart attack caused by an electric shock.
Further testing of the electrical equipment and a toxicology test will determine the exact cause, he said.
Suge Knight named in gang crackdown
January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment
Rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight has been named by police as a member of a notorious gang in a crime-plagued suburb of Los Angeles.
Knight, best known as the co-founder of the rap label Death Row Records, was one of some 200 people named as members of the Mob Piru street gang in a crackdown by authorities in the city of Compton, the Los Angeles Times reported today.
Knight, who was raised in Compton and spent five years in prison, said that including his name on the list of gang members was a “publicity stunt” by police.
“This is crazy,” Knight told the newspaper. “I’m a 42-year-old businessman, not a gang member. I don’t even live in Compton anymore. This injunction lists people who are already in jail - and at least one guy who is long dead.”
Gang violence in Compton, a working class suburb of about 90,000 people, has long been a popular subject for rappers, including the seminal 1988 NWA album Straight Outta Compton.
Authorities there say Mob Piru members have been terrorising the neighbourhood with drug dealing and shootings and are seeking an injunction that would ban gang members from gathering there.
Knight, whose Death Row label released a string of top-selling rap albums in the 1990s, was famously driving rapper Tupac Shakur when he was killed in a 1996 drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
Later that year, Knight was sentenced to prison for violating his probation by beating a gang rival in the lobby of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
Priest says Mass with dead man on floor
January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
A Priest who continued saying Mass while the body of a man who died of a heart attack during the service was still on the church floor says that is what the parishioner would have wanted.
Pio Lieta, an 86-year-old pensioner, suffered a heart attack during the Roman Catholic Mass in the northern city of Trento this week.
When ambulance services arrived, Mr Lieta, a regular at the daily early morning Mass, was already dead and they covered his body with a white sheet.
The Mass was briefly suspended but the priest, Mario Peron, decided to resume and complete the religious service while waiting for undertakers to collect Mr Lieta’s corpse.
A picture of the body covered by the sheet was published in local and national newspapers, some of which criticized the priest for not waiting until the body had been removed.
“This is what he would have wanted,” the priest told the Italian news agency Ansa yesterday, the day he celebrated the funeral for Mr Lieta.
Only a handful of parishioners were present for the early-morning service, and some expressed their surprise at the priest’s decision to L’Adige, the local newspaper.
“We should have stopped as a sign of respect,” said one unnamed worshiper.
Man pinned under bike eats rotten animals
January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Ken Hildebrand was trapped face down for four days and three nights in the Crowsnest Pass area of southwestern Alberta, where he tried numerous ways to free himself in below-freezing temperatures.
Throughout the ordeal, he kept wolves and coyotes away by blowing on an emergency whistle.
“I thought of my family and God and that was it,” Mr Hildebrand, a paramedic, said from his hospital bed in Lethbridge, Alberta.
He was finally rescued from the wreck on a little-used trail in the foothills by hikers.
Mr Hildebrand, who declined to give his age, was taken to a hospital in the Crowsnest Pass then transferred to Lethbridge, where he has spent the past eight days being treated for leg injuries and frostbite.
He said he was checking animal traps on January 8 in an area about 130km southwest of Calgary, where ranchers had complained of wolves preying on livestock.
The quadbike hit a rock, throwing him off and falling on his legs.
He tried into the night to pry the bike off with an axe to no avail. He also attempted to lift it up by pounding animal bones into the ground, but his awkward position made that impossible too.
“So I’m in survival mode now,” he said. “I had to use what I had at my disposal.”
He stayed alive by eating the animals he had collected, although the rotting flesh made him sick, the Calgary Sun newspaper reported.
A hospital official said Mr Hildebrand’s injuries were not life-threatening, but the newspaper, quoting an Emergency Medical Services official, said one leg that was pinned might have to be amputated.
