Sunday, June 20, 2010
AEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Swift justice meted out to soccer thieves
World Cup host South Africa may have a soaring crime rate, but the swiftness with which justice is administered looks to be keeping pace with the tide of offenders.
Three men accused of robbing two Portuguese and one Spanish journalist on Wednesday were arrested, tried and sentenced by Saturday.
Two were sent to jail for 15 years and the third for four years, after the trio relieved the correspondents of money, camera equipment, laptop computers and mobile phones in a town northwest of Johannesburg.
One of the journalists was held up at gunpoint.
Two Kiwi journalists have also fallen victim to thieves, losing more than $100,000 worth of equipment from their hotel.
I think this is really bad because south africa claimed that they could handel this world cup, but then the people do this... Not good enough for the biggest sporting event in the world...
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Canadian man beheaded while riding bus
A man on a Greyhound bus travelling across the Canadian Prairies was killed and decapitated in a violent attack by a fellow passenger.
A witness said the victim was stabbed 50 or 60 times by the man sitting next to him, who severed his head with a large knife.
According to the BBC, the bus had been travelling from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba.
"All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream," passenger Garnet Caton told CBC television.
A stand-off ensued, after which a 40-year-old man was arrested.
Sergeant Steve Colwell said the suspect was apprehended after a confrontation lasting several hours, in which he broke a bus window and tried to escape.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Turkey hunt Gone Baaaaaad.
A man is dead after he was shot during a hunt for turkey turkey with two relatives on private farmland.
The incident occurred in remote farmland off Ridge Road, about 9km south of Paengaroa in the Bay of Plenty, at about 6pm yesterday.
The 59-year-old Tauranga man was found down a gully and the Herald understands he was shot in the head.
I think that this news article just summs up how dangerous hunting for wild turkeys... in the wild is. i mean... he was so frustrated he turned the gun on himself.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Dark Days in Disneyland.
In a Magical Kingdom somewhere between a place where you wish upon a star and dreams come true, Disney heroes and heroines live in fairytales that are, happily, never ending.
This is the introductory promise of the official website of Disneyland Paris, the most-visited tourist site in Europe. More than 15.4 million people flocked to the park last year, a new record. For most of them, the promise was fulfilled.
For many of the 14,500 people who work at the site, 30km east of Paris, there is a less magical side to the Kingdom.
"We sell smiles and the happiness of children," said Hervé Saumade, 37, a maintenance man and union activist at the park. "But in the past few years, a new management approach has made our working lives intolerable."
Since the beginning of the year, two employees have committed suicide.
One of them, Franck, a cook for 10 years, killed himself on the day he was supposed to return to the park after a long period of sickness.
According to his father-in-law, Pierre-Louis Neut, he scratched a message on the wall of his home which read: "Je ne veux pas retourner chez Mickey" [I don't want to work for Mickey any more].
Neut says Franck was depressed by staff cuts and a policy switch away from "freshly-made food" to frozen produce.
The other employee, also a cook, killed himself in February after what one trade union, Force Ouvrière, insists was "humiliating" treatment at work.
A Disney staff and management health committee investigation has found no evidence of work harassment.
The moderate unions accuse Force Ouvrière of "exploiting" the two deaths to win support in delegate elections this year. But even the moderate unions insist that something has gone desperately wrong.
Over the past five or six years, a younger, mostly French, top management has taken over at Eurodisney. The number of jobs in restaurants and hotels has been sharply reduced, unions say. The number of visitors - attracted by cut-price deals - has increased. Seasonal workers' numbers have been slashed. A tier of middle management has been removed, leaving lower-level employees feeling undervalued and ignored.
Longer hours and six-day weeks are frequently demanded of everyone. The number of industrial accidents has risen to 1500 a year, a higher rate than in the accident-prone building trade.
The moderate CFTC trade union federation, which has the widest support among employees, sent the president of Eurodisney, Philippe Gas, an excoriating open letter, urging him to "wake up".
Cona - This is Odd seeing as its ment to be the happiest place on earth.....
Sunday, May 2, 2010
BOMB IN TIMES SQUARE!!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
fat is normal in NZ - expert
New Zealand's high rate of obesity is no surprise, because of its fat-promoting environment and its love affair with cars, an international health leader says.
"It's a normal human response to get fat in the New Zealand environment," Professor Philip James said yesterday.
"Most governments assume it's all your fault if you're fat. But in Britain, the chief scientist's advice, which has been accepted by the Cabinet, is that it's not true."
An adviser to the World Health Organisation and president of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, the London nutrition expert was invited by AUT University to lecture in Hamilton and Auckland.
Well... it is your fault actually - cona