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
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Ghost yacht found drifting
A New Zealand yacht missing for 16 days has been found drifting off the Chatham Islands with its damaged sails still up.
But there was no sign of life on solo sailor Paul Janse van Rensburg's 11m steel craft Tafadzwa.
Last night, a fishing vessel pulled alongside, but the 3m swell made conditions too rough for the crew to try to board the ghost yacht.
An attempt was to be made this morning
I think this is very sad because the person on the boat could have fallen off or died and is sad for all his family and friends.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
glasgow- centre of arts scene
hahahahahahahahaha
Sunday, March 14, 2010
5-Year old Sex offender
They were among 716 children aged under nine who were reprimanded in the 2008/09 financial year for offences from unlawfully taking a bicycle and possession of cannabis to threatening to kill and assault with a weapon.
The youngest children apprehended in 2008/09 included a 4-year-old girl, two 5-year-old girls and five 5-year-old boys.
They were reprimanded for dishonesty offences such as shoplifting, burglary or theft of property valued under $500.
I think this is a problem (SERIOUS) problem because these kids are destined for Crimanal behaviour later in life.
But as it says "children who committed crimes generally modelled their behaviour on that of their parents" So this is what needs to be stopped.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Man jailed over gecko theft
Manfred Walter Bachmann, a German resident of Kampala, Uganda, will be immediately deported upon his release from prison.
Judge Farish said that given the value of the geckos - worth up to $200,000 in Europe - perhaps the penalty needed to be increased to deter this type of crime.
"I do need to make it abundantly clear to you that commercial trafficking of protected species is dealt with in a serious way in New Zealand."
I think that the value of the geckos is so much that it is almost better than selling drugs in europe and you dont get as harsh charges.
i also think that the gecko can be exhausted because they are a rare endangered creature and people are taking them and selling them elsewhere and because the penalty isnt that bad its not as dangerous.
This is a problem for new zealand and and should be considered as a new law that endangered, indeginous animals being taken from NZ Should have a very tough penalty.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Wests turn into American Scoundrels
Most of the core cast of Scoundrels - as the series has been renamed - is confirmed, and the show is due to screen on the ABC in the northern summer.
I think this is a pretty big thing for nz and the writers of outrageous fortune because it shows that nz has got good ideas and creative people.
the show is going to be toned down "But people should expect the more controversial content commonplace in the Kiwi version - the sex, swearing and drug-use - to be toned down"
Which is a bad thing.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Frisbee inventor dies.
Morrison sold the production and manufacturing rights to his "Pluto Platter" in 1957. The plastic flying disc was later renamed the "Frisbee," with sales surpassing 200 million discs.
It is now a staple at beaches across the world and spawned sports like Frisbee golf and the team sport Ultimate.
I think that this is an interesting news story because he is completely unknown and for him to pass away is tragic but amazing to know that the "Frisbee" was actually invented by somebody.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Crooks Turn To Twitter.
They sent a warning on Twitter that went like this: "We have a snitch in our midst"
(Original Posting: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/web-2-0/news/article.cfm?c_id=363&objectid=10624061)
The report Outlines technically advanced "gangstas" and the way they are utilizing the internet and pages such as Twitter, Facebook and Myspace to announce recent gang activity such as shootings, stealing, killings.
This is not as much a problem for anybody except for themselves as they are pretty much telling cops about their plans.
I think that this is a good thing because if they are stupid enough to post things on the internet about what they are going to do and what they have done and reveal themselves and their gang to police then they deserve to be caught.