Game show sex cheat the biggest loser
February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment
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A Contestant has confessed her adultery to win $200,000 on a controversial game show then lost the lot - and her husband.
In the latest episode of The Moment of Truth, Lauren Cleri - who was hooked up to a lie detector - said she was cheating on her husband and wished she was married to an ex-lover.
The 26-year-old said she made the confessions to become rich and famous, only to walk away with nothing but an angry husband – 24-year-old New York Police Department officer Frank Cleri.
“We’re kind of up in the air right now – I want to (get back together) but I don’t think he does,” Ms Cleri told the New York Post.
Her husband told the newspaper that he had known about her cheating ways, but was not prepared for her to tell millions of viewers about it for money.
“It’s not very easy to overcome,” Mr Cleri said. “We’ve had our issues … unfortunately now they’re not just our problems. Everybody knows about it.”
Mr Cleri was sitting in the audience while the US game show was being filmed.
During the episode, Ms Cleri netted more than $200,000 for her saucy confessions. Her ex-boyfriend even made an appearance on the show.
But when she said she thought she was “a good person”, the lie detector found evidence of dishonesty and she lost all the prize money.
According to the Post, Ms Cleri has not received any job offers or any money as a result of her appearance.
Channel 9 has bought the rights to the show, but has not revealed when it will premier in Australia.
Terrorists will be out to get me - Prince Harry
February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Prince Harry expects to be a target for home-grown terrorists after news of his deployment in Afghanistan was leaked today.
But the 23-year-old army officer has rejected talk of extra security back in the UK, saying he is used to threats, and had expected to be a “top target” in Afghanistan if his secret came out.
“I think there’s a lot of guys here who hopefully won’t be targeted but … now everyone will know I’m out here no doubt I’ll be a top target.”
Addressing concerns of continued threats from extremists back home, he said: “I suppose I would be in that position anyway, just being part of that family”.
“Once this … comes out, every single person that supports them (the Taliban) will be trying to slot me,” he said.
“Now that you come to think about it it’s quite worrying.”
But he said: “There are threats that come in the whole time, not as many as you’d expect, hopefully”
And he joked: “I’ll be taking my pistol home with me hopefully.”
News of Harry’s Afghan deployment broke this morning after a US website ignored a news blackout.
Now the secrets out details of interviews given during his deployment can be released.
While in the desert, he wore a sheathed Gurkha kukri in his body armor almost constantly.
Spotted without his kukri he joked: “It’s over in my vehicle, ah, I feel unsafe.”
Teenage inmates in Darwin detention centre orgy
February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Juvenile delinquents had a “sex romp” at a detention center after staff accidentally left security doors unlocked.
Boys were able to sneak into a girls’ dormitory at the Don Darle centre in Darwin after dark.
“About six inmates” - aged between 15 and 17 - took part in the Valentine’s Day orgy, the Northern Territory News was told yesterday.
Police were brought in to question the inmates.
A Territory mother said she was “furious” when her 15-year-old son - who is serving three months for a minor crime - told her he had taken part in the jail house sex escapade.
“He told me that they had all had sex in the one room - it was a big Valentine’s Day sex romp,” the 31-year-old mother said.
“The staff on duty that night left the doors open.
“My son said that police had come in and questioned him and some of the girls involved.
“I was furious. No parents have been contacted about this - it had all been kept very hush-hush.”
The mother said she rang detention center general manager Peter Curwen-Walker to demand why she had not been told about the orgy.
“He said a few parents had contacted him about it - he said the incident had definitely occurred.
“He blamed it on staff-to-juvenile ratio but he really couldn’t explain how it had happened,” she said.
Mr Curwen-Walker told the Northern Territory News that he was not able to discuss the details of individual detainees, but said that one juvenile allegedly involved in the sex romp had been questioned by police.
“I can confirm that a detainee has alleged that an incident involving consensual sexual intercourse has taken place within one of the bedrooms at the Don Dale Center involving two detainees,” he said.
“The matter was referred to the police as soon as the allegation was made.”
He said police had spoken to two detainees.
Mr Curwen-Walker said management at Don Dale Center had treated the report with “great concern”.
The mother said her son and the other teens had laughed off the orgy as “fun and games”.
But she said several parents were now “in talks” with a lawyer about possibly taking civil action.
“One father of a girl involved said he was going to sue the pants off them,” the mother said.
“I just felt that the kids had been put at risk by not being supervised.”
School kids urged to eat whale meat
February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Japan’s whaling researchers dumped 10 tonnes of unsold whale meat into primary school lunches, labeling the event “traditional school lunch week”.
In a desperate attempt to revive the flagging market, the Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) supplied the research by-product to 254 Yokohama schools over two days last month, hoping to give their young palates a taste for whale meat.
Faced with a reported 3000 tonne inventory of unsold meat from last year’s cull, the ICR contacted the Yokohama City Education committee, suggesting the department include research meat in their school lunches.
A total of 200,000 lunches of whale meat salad marinated in sesame sauce were served on January 21 and 22. Yokohama children have not eaten whale meat as part of school lunches in 26 years.
The ICR refused to comment on its controversial programs.
Following the delivery of a 131,267 name petition to the Democratic Party of Japan on Thursday, ICR spokesman Gabriel Gomez refused to take calls yesterday, accusing The Daily Telegraph of “activism”.
The ICR shares an office with the private whaling company Kyodo Senpaku, who contract staff for the research fleet and manage the sale of the meat in Tokyo’s Toyomi Bay area. The cold storage facility housing the inventory of unsold meat is also located nearby.
Manager of health education at the Yokohama City Education Committee, Ms Atsukjo Ito, who co-ordinated the lunch days, would not say whether the schools bought the meat, but said there were no plans for a second program.
Proving once again that the scientific program is a facade for commercial scale hunting, leading Liberal Democratic Party Upper House member Yoshimasa Hayashi, who chairs Japan’s International Whaling Commission committee, yesterday admitted there was a deliberate attempt to revive the domestic market for the meat.
He said he saw no problem with feeding the meat to children as part of a public relations campaign.
“We are trying very hard to regain a market for whale eating,” Mr Hayashi said.
But, in a surprise concession, Mr Hayashi said Japan would seriously consider ending whaling operations in the high seas if they were allowed to extend its coastal whaling program.
“There is a chance of an agreement. It will depend largely on US leadership to bridge the differences at the IWC,” he said.
Mr Hayashi said Japan’s withdrawal from the IWC was still an option should this week’s meeting fail to make any progress on legitimising their whale cull.
Police that fired Fifty rounds claim it wasn’t overkill
February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Three policemen are on trial over the death of a man killed in a fusillade of 50 bullets on his wedding day.
In the dramatic opening of the trial, prosecutors recreated the chaos of that fateful night as they sought to portray the unarmed groom as the victim of reckless, trigger-happy detectives.
Lawyers for the officers did not dispute the degree of firepower in the killing of African American Sean Bell, 23.
But they argued that the shooting was justified because their clients had ample reason to believe Mr Bell and his friends were armed and dangerous as they left a Queens strip club in the early hours of November 25, 2006.
The woman Mr Bell was to marry, Nicole Paultre-Bell, wept as she testified about going to the hospital where she learned Mr Bell was dead.
Detectives Gescard Isnora and Michael Oliver are charged with manslaughter while Detective Marc Cooper is on trial for reckless endangerment.
Oliver fired 31 shots - including the one that killed Bell. Isnora squeezed off 11 shots, and Cooper fired four times.
Assistant District Attorney Charles Testagrossa told the judge that once the evidence is heard: “It will be clear that what happened cannot be explained away as a mere accident or mistake. It can only be characterised as criminal.”
Isnora’s attorney Anthony Ricco said there was evidence that Mr Bell was drunk and “out of control” as he left the strip club after his bachelor party.
Witnesses overheard Mr Bell exchange curses with another patron, and heard Mr Bell’s friend Joseph Guzman say to someone, “Go get my gat,” slang for gun, Mr Ricco said.
But Mr Testagrossa said that Oliver would have found there was no threat if he had “paused to reassess” while firing 31 of the shots. He emptied his clip, reloaded, and shot again.
Defence lawyer James Culleton estimated it took only nine seconds for Oliver to fire the 31 rounds.
However, Isnora’s attorney dismissed the notion that race played a role in the shooting.
Oliver and Isnora face up to 25 years in prison if convicted; Cooper faces up to one year on the lesser endangerment count.
