The BBC mistakenly aired the logo from a computer game rather than the United Nations in what seems to be an example of when a Google search goes wrong. In a News at One bulletin about the United Nations Security Council, the channel accidentally used the logo of the fictitious United Nations Space Command from Microsoft's Halo. The presenter Sophie Raworth was talking about Amnesty International's criticism of the UN involvement in the ongoing conflict in Syria. But next to the Amnesty symbol behind her was not the light blue of the UNSC symbol but the black and gold of the computer game organisation. It appears to be the result of a Google image search gone wrong, as a simple search for UNSC only returns images from Halo. This is perhaps because the UN security council does not have a logo of its own, instead using the United Nations globe symbol surrounded by laurel leaves. A BBC spokesman apologised for the mix up in a statement. "BBC News makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all images broadcast, however very occasionally mistakes do happen," a spokesman said. Unfortunately an incorrect logo was used during a segment on last week's News at One bulletin and we apologise to viewers for the mistake. The image was not broadcast in our later bulletins."
5 Wives Vodka offensive to Mormons
Five Wives Vodka was declared to be bad taste for offending Mormons, and will not be stocked or special ordered at stores operated by the state of Idaho, regulators said. It is made by Ogden's Own Distillery in Utah, where the Mormon church is based. Its label carries the name and an image of five women, an apparent reference to polygamy, a practice abandoned by the church more than a century ago. Idaho State Liquor Division administrator Jeff Anderson said the brand is offensive to Mormons who make up over a quarter of Idaho's population. Regulators in Idaho notified Elite Spirits Distributor that the brand's concept is "offensive to a prominent segment of our population and will not be carried," according to a letter sent on Thursday. "The bottom line is, we represent everybody," Anderson added. "It's masterful marketing on their part. But it doesn't play here." Anderson said state stores already make hundreds of vodka brands available for sale and don't have room for another brand priced at around $20 (£13) a bottle. Ogden's Own Distillery is trying to make the most of the rejection with a media campaign and sale of "Free the Five Wives" T-shirts. It says the snub is unfair because a Utah beer named Polygamy Porter is available in Idaho. Anderson said Idaho doesn't decide what beer brands can be sold in grocery and convenience stores. "We're a little dumbfounded by it all," said Steve Conlin, a partner and marketing chief for Ogden's Own Distillery. "The average person can look at our bottle and they don't find it offensive. It's certainly not obscene, which is what it would require for it to be banned". Five Wives Vodka has been approved for sale in Utah, a state dominated by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nobody in Utah is raising a fuss over the brand, said Vickie Ashby, a spokeswoman for the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Utah regulates all sales of hard liquor, wine and heavy beer, making the products available only at state-owned stores. Idaho controls liquor sales with a mix of state-owned and privately-operated stores.
Mack Wolford, a flamboyant Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia, hoped the outdoor service he had planned for Sunday at an isolated state park would be a “homecoming like the old days,” full of folks speaking in tongues, handling snakes and having a “great time.” But it was not the sort of homecoming he foresaw. Instead, Wolford, who had turned 44 the previous day, was bitten by a rattlesnake he had owned for years. He died late on Sunday evening. Mark Randall “Mack” Wolford was known all over Appalachia as a daring man of conviction. He believed that the Bible mandates that Christians handle serpents to test their faith in God — and that, if they are bitten, they trust in God alone to heal them. He and other adherents cited Mark 16:17-18 as the reason for their practice: “And these signs will follow those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” The son of a serpent handler who had himself died in 1983 after being bitten, Wolford was trying to keep the practice alive, both in West Virginia, where it is legal, and in neighbouring states where it is not. He was the kind of man reporters love: articulate, friendly and appreciative of media attention. Many serpent-handling Pentecostals retreat from journalists, but Mack didn’t. He’d take them on snake-hunting expeditions. Last Sunday started as a festive outdoor worship service on a sunny afternoon at Panther Wildlife Management Area, a state park roughly 80 miles west of Bluefield, W.Va. In the preceding days, Wolford had posted several teasers on his Facebook page asking people to attend. “I am looking for a great time this Sunday,” he wrote on May 22. “It is going to be a homecoming like the old days. Good ‘ole raised in the holler or mountain ridge running, Holy Ghost-filled speaking-in-tongues sign believers. Praise the Lord and pass the rattlesnakes, brother” he wrote on May 23. He also invited his extended family, who had largely given up the practice of serpent handling, to come to the park. “At one time or another, we had handled [snakes], but we had backslid,” his sister, Robin Vanover, said late Monday evening. “His birthday was Saturday and all he wanted to do is get his brothers and sisters in church together.” And so they were gathered at this evangelistic hootenanny of Christian praise and worship. About 30 minutes into the service, his sister said, Wolford had been passing a yellow timber rattlesnake to a church member and his mother. “He laid it on the ground,” she said, “and he sat down next to the snake, and it bit him on the thigh.” The festivities came to a halt shortly thereafter and Wolford was taken back to a relative’s house in Bluefield to recover, as he always had when suffering from previous snake bites. By late afternoon, it was clear that this time was different, and desperate messages began flying about on Facebook asking for prayer. Wolford got progressively worse. Paramedics transported him to the Bluefield Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead early on Monday morning. It could not be determined when the paramedics were called.
A driver died after breathing in fumes from an airbag during a car crash, an inquest heard. Ronald Smith inhaled noxious chemicals after the airbag was deployed when he was involved in an accident. Although unhurt in the smash, the 59-year-old began suffering chest and breathing problems almost immediately after coming into contact with the gas. His wife noticed his face was reddened after exposure to the contents of the safety device. South Tyneside Coroner Terence Carney heard Mr Smith, of Whitby Avenue, South Bents, near Whitburn, died in January, after the accident on November 12, 2010. His widow, June Smith, from Marsden, South Shields, said: “I knew from the very beginning that it was the airbag. I just knew. It’s just not fair that you have to lose someone because of something that is meant to save a life.” Mr Smith, a father-of-two, was driving through Hartlepool on his way home, when he was involved in a six-car shunt. The engineer, originally from Paisley, Scotland, crashed into the car in front at the same time that another hit the back of his Vauxhall Insignia. The impact set off the car’s airbag, but also broke a window, which cut the bag, and he inhaled the gas from inside it. Mrs Smith told the inquest that her husband was not injured in the accident, but that his face was red from an irritation caused by the contents of the airbag. She said that following the crash, he then began suffering from a cough and shortness of breath. On January 5 last year, he was taken to South Tyneside District Hospital. Mr Smith was taken to the hospital’s accident and emergency unit where he was given a chest X-ray and, the next day, he was moved to intensive care and died in hospital on January 31, last year. Forensic pathologist, Dr Stuart Hamilton told the inquest that Mr Smith’s lungs were both extremely “heavy and firm”. Dr Hamilton said they showed signs of infection and that he died of bronchial pneumonia. Mr Carney said: “I accept that the death was attributed to bronchial pneumonia and pulmonary fibrosis and that it was developed after this incident in November, and the deceased’s exposure to noxious substances. This man died as a result of this incident and more pointedly because of the explosion of his airbag, and this death should be recorded as misadventure.”
Religious hardliners have ordered the deaths of four men and two women after they were filmed dancing together at a wedding in northern Pakistan, according to local police and relatives. A traditional jirga, or tribal council, condemned the six to death for “staining the honour” of their families after they defied local customs that require men and women to remain separate at weddings. They were sentenced after mobile phone footage of the event surfaced, infuriating residents of a remote village in the mountainous district of Kohistan, 100 miles north of the capital Islamabad. Muhammad Afzal, brother of the two men, said: “A tribal jirga has declared them fornicators and they might be killed any time.” Police officers said they were working to rescue the six and local officials said a cleric had been arrested. Abdul Majeed Afridi, district police officer, said: “It was decided that the men will be killed first, but they ran away so the women are safe for the moment. I have sent a team to rescue them and am waiting to hear some news.” However, he added that the six might be victims of a local tribal dispute and it was not clear whether the six had been dancing together. “All of them were shown separately in the video. I’ve seen the video taken on a cell phone myself, it shows four women singing and a man dancing in separate scenes and then another man sitting in a separate shot,” he added. The wedding happened two months ago but the controversy only came to light this week. “Police have arrested a cleric and his companion for issuing the death decree, but they totally denied it,” local administration official Aqal Badshah Khattak said. The case highlights the issue of honour killings in Pakistan, where women are treated as second-class citizens in conservative, rural areas.
Fire crews were called to put out a blaze at a crematorium. Dozens of mourners at a funeral had to flee when the furnace doors failed to close behind a coffin and sent smoke billowing into the chapel. The drama at Blackley Crematorium in Manchester happened towards the end of a service. It it thought the doors on the furnace – which reaches temperatures of 1,200 celsius – failed after the coffin went in. Two shocked workers spotted the fault and with flames pouring out – putting the building at risk – one hit the stop button on the conveyor belt and called for help. Fire crews raced to the scene to tackle the still-burning coffin as dozens of mourners gathered outside. Subsequent services were delayed, causing a traffic jam of hearses, while the fire was put out. One mourner, who was waiting for the next service, said: “The vicar came out and told us that there would be a delay because the building had caught fire. You couldn’t see anything but you could smell it. “We had a bit of a laugh about it – you don’t expect a cremation to be stopped because of a fire.” Another added: “It was like a Carry On film. They do the funerals one after the other so there was a bit of a back up. There were a couple of hearses backed up and two fire engines.”
Man celebrating opening new parachute business dies in skydiving accident 
Robert Ranieri III, 29, died on Tuesday in a skydiving accident over Lake Tahoe in California. Ranieri was making a skydive to celebrate opening his new business that teaches people how to operate parachutes, according to his grandfather, former Hoboken assemblyman and councilman Robert Ranieri Sr. Ranieri III’s first chute twisted and an emergency chute didn’t open, his grandfather said. Ranieri III’s body was found 15 feet below the surface in Lake Tahoe. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been holding his body pending an investigation to rule out foul play.
Man offered condolences on his death
A Co Antrim man has spoken of his shock after receiving a letter from a finance company offering condolences — on his own death. News of the premature demise of Peter Baird came as a massive surprise, not least to the Rasharkin man himself, who is very much alive and well. The morbid letter dropped through the 34-year-old’s door on Saturday morning. Bizarrely, despite referring to his apparent death, the letter was addressed to Peter. It reads: “Creation Consumer Finance regrets to learn of the death of Mr Peter Baird. Please accept our condolences at this time.” The letter asked for Peter’s death certificate to be forwarded and invited him to contact the company with any questions he may have within the next 28 days. Fitness mad Peter — who runs NI Supplements in Ballymoney — said he was a bit spooked by the mail. “I got the letter on Saturday and from the envelope I thought it was just generic post and took it to work with me,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it when I opened it up and read it. “It’s a bit eerie to read a letter about your own death. My first reaction was that someone had maybe stolen my identity to set up a credit card or that, but when I checked it out the company said it was just a clerical error, and that they had my details from a car insurance policy.” He said the company apologised to him for the mishap.
Man divorces wife who adopts 550 cats
A man from southern Israel divorced his wife this week because she had brought 550 cats into their home. The husband, apparently not a cat lover, told the Rabbinical Court in Beersheba that he was unable to sleep in his bedroom because the surface of the marital bed was constantly covered with cats who refused to lie on the floor. The man, in his divorce request, complained that the cats also blocked his access to the bathroom and did not allow him to prepare meals in the kitchen. When he sat to eat, cats jumped onto the table and stole his food. The couple attempted reconciliation at the behest of the rabbinical court. The wife, however, was unable to part from her cats… and preferred to part from her husband.
A Spanish doctor has been ordered to pay for the upkeep of a child after an abortion sought by the mother failed and she gave birth. A judge on the island of Majorca ordered the unnamed gynaecologist to pay the mother 150,000 euros (£120,000) in "moral damages" for his negligence and a monthly maintenance of 978 euros (£780) until the child reaches its 26th birthday. The court in Palma heard how the woman had sought to terminate an unwanted pregnancy at a clinic in April 2010 when she was eight weeks pregnant but, unbeknown to her at the time, the procedure failed. She returned to the clinic three months later seeking another abortion because she believed that she had fallen pregnant again. But an ultrasound revealed she was five months pregnant and she was refused a termination because it was over the legal time limit of 14 weeks. She was offered a refund of the £320 she paid for the initial procedure and referred to a clinic in Barcelona, which, it was suggested, might have performed a late-term abortion, but doctors there also refused. She later gave birth to a healthy son, who is now 18 months old. Judge Jose Perez Martinez, in a written ruling ordered the gynaecologist and the private clinic he worked at to pay compensation to the woman. The woman, whose identity has been kept secret, spoke through her lawyer of her happiness at the sentence and how she had no regrets about having the child. "I'm fine now and have accepted things, I haven't any other choice," she said. "When the day comes for me to explain to my son what happened I will tell him hoping he understands. I didn't want him when I went to have an abortion but that's not the case now." Her lawyer Eva Munar, admitting the sentence was a legal first in Spain, added: "It's a fair sentence for what is medical negligence." The doctor will launch an appeal to have the sentence overturned.
Lt. James Riter and officer Joseph Borodawka were called to Main Street, Boxford, Massachusets, for an animal complaint on Sunday night that involved a half-dozen cows on a drinking spree. The Boxford police had their hands full when a call came into the station at 9:11 p.m. concerning six black-and-white cows on the loose in the area of Main and Foster streets. “I found evidence of their whereabouts and followed them down Main Street,” said Lt. Riter, who said he stayed behind them in the cruiser, to keep them safe while he contacted the owner who lives on nearby Maple Avenue. “At that point, the cows decided to run behind a Main Street house where there was a party of young adult females in the backyard,” recalled Lt. Riter. “I could hear them [the girls] screaming in the backyard and I hoped they weren’t getting trampled,” said Riter. He witnessed about 10-13 young people run from a picnic table where they had been drinking beer when the cows arrived. The young women all jumped up on the rear deck of the house to avoid contact with the cows. Meanwhile, the party cows were helping themselves to the beer, knocking the beer-filled cups off the table. “I saw one cow drinking the beer on its way down as it spilled off the table,” the lieutenant said. Some of the cows were also picking through the empties in the recycling bin. They just went in and helped themselves. The young women were absolutely in shock” added Riter, who said that they were mostly from out of town and not used to the rural surroundings of Boxford. Riter jokingly speculated that the cows might have worked up a thirst after their long walk from their home field on Maple Avenue to the Main Street party house. After the owner of the cows arrived on the scene, the cows were herded back to their field on Maple Avenue. It took about an hour and 10 minutes to make the trip, said Riter.

A man who went to hospital with a kidney stone was stunned when a nurse gave him his results - and revealed that he was actually a woman. Steve Crecelius, a photographer from Denver, Colorado, was born with both male and female traits and had long repressed his feminine side. But after an ultrasound made the discovery, he no longer lives as a man and goes by 'Stevie' - a move that his wife and their six children support. 'I remember wearing my mom’s clothes and makeup, very secretly, not telling anybody,' Crecelius, who chose to hide behind a male persona,said. But 40 years later, the nurse gave the explanation for his feelings, revealing that he was intersex. 'I had a kidney stone and we’re in the emergency room,' Crecelius said. 'The nurse is reading the ultrasound and says, "Huh, this says you’re a female". It validated everything I had always felt inside.'

La sezione NOTIZIE CELEBRI nella barra laterale destra si arricchirà presto di altre bellezze. La regola è che per entrare nella lista bisogna essere menzionate con immagini in almeno due post, perciò per le prossime settimane posso preannunciarvi Juliette Binoche, Tina Modotti, Laura Morante e Kristin Scott Thomas, mentre per oggi ci accontentiamo dei tacchi dell'adorabile 33-enne Kate Hudson (figlia di Goldie Hawn), che ha le tette piccoline ma i piedonzi tutti da sbaciucciare nei dettagli qui sotto





Sunday fetish on Friday con incubo. Da quando per l'ennesima volta sto cercando di smettere di fumare, mi sono inzuppata di Valium al quale non ero più abituata, e la notte scorsa ho avuto un terribile incubo. Si partiva in quattro da Milano per Roma ad andare a raccogliere firme alla Camera su non so che cosa. Ebbene la tragicomica compagnia era composta da me, Cappato, il suo portaborse Armando Crocicchio e la sua fidanzata frocio radicale unico Nicolino Tosoni. Sono profondamente scossa da questo viaggio del quale vi risparmio gli angosciosi dettagli. Basti pensare che c'erano coinvolti all'andata un camionista-cuoco al posto dell'Autogrill e al ritorno un violento controllore del treno travestito. Sarà meglio lasciare stare il Valium e ricominciare a fumare. Comunque oggi è il 41-esimo compleanno di Cappato e gli auguro che sia l'ultimo, nella viva speranza che il turpe quanto inetto sicario Londradical compia finalmente il suo dovere
Rescue workers have to demolish part of house to get 'Britain's fattest teenager' to hospital 
A teenager had to be cut free from her home in a multi-agency operation because her size meant she could not be taken through the door. A team of at least 40 people were involved in getting Georgia Davis, who it is believed now weighs 56 stone, (784 lbs), out of her home and taken to hospital. It is understood windows and part of a wall were removed from her housing association home and she was carried out on a special stretcher, itself weighing 11 stone, which was lowered down scaffolding erected outside the house’s front and covered in tarpaulin. She was then lifted in to a specially reinforced ambulance before being taken to hospital. Fire engines, search and rescue vehicles, ambulances and a police cars were on the Aberdare street where she lives as care workers, doctors, paramedics, fire crews, council workers and a team of scaffolders spent more than eight hours trying to safely her from the house. It is understood internal walls were also removed to get Miss Davis through the house. Fire and rescue crews could be seen working in a nearby car park before carrying pieces of timber in to the home. Although unwell, Miss Davis was said to be awake and conscious throughout the procedure, and was accompanied by a medical officer, nurse and social worker at all times. Miss Davis was dubbed “Britain’s fattest teen” in 2008 when, as a 33-stone pupil at Aberdare Girls School, she was sent to a US health farm to undergo a strict diet. Following an impressive nine-month effort, her weight dropped to 18 stone. But she regained the weight. Neighbours said the girl’s battle with her weight was common knowledge in the community. One said: “When she first came back from America you would see her walking up to the country park most days. She was going to the gym and doing really well, but then you just stopped seeing her. We haven’t seen her since, not for months." Another said: “It’s easy for us to assume what’s happening but I guess you really don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors"
A young couple believed to have buried an elderly woman alive after knocking her down last month while drunken driving have been placed in criminal detention. "It's certain the woman was not dead when buried," a publicity officer from Yuyao public security bureau, who only gave his surname Zhou, said. "Legal medical experts detected particles identical to those in the surrounding soil in her lungs, which indicates she was still breathing," he said. But police have not formed a definite conclusion on the case, according to Zhou. "Preliminary judgment of the cause of death is brain injury by the impact from the car and asphyxia," he said. Police in Yuyao, Zhejiang province, received a report from construction workers about a car without license plates abandoned in a remote construction site on May 1. Officers found cracks on the windshield of the car. Police received another report the next day from the same people that a body was buried in the mud nearby. They later found the corpse of an elderly woman 300 meters from where the car had been discarded. Judging from the windshield and a bloodstain on the backseat of the car, as well as marks on the body, the police believe the woman might have been buried after being hit by the car on the morning of April 30. "A witness said he heard someone crying and saw an elderly woman lying on the ground near a Santana. A man and a woman got out and put the elderly woman in the car, saying they would send her to hospital," said a policeman surnamed Song, from the criminal investigation brigade of the Yuyao public security bureau, who is handling the case. The woman, surnamed Fang, was a 68-year-old native of Anhui province. The young man and woman, both 25, were captured in Liupanshui city of Guizhou province on May 9. Police believe the couple had been in a karaoke bar all night before the accident. They believe the couple worried about criminal liability because of drunken driving and causing the accident, and may have found the elderly woman was no longer groaning and breathing on their way to hospital, said Song. Shen Ning, a criminal lawyer from Shanghai Watson and Band Law Firm, said it could be considered intentional homicide if the woman was alive when buried.
A drunk Canadian man who passed out on the train tracks was somehow uninjured after being run over by a train on Sunday evening. The man, from Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, was spotted between the rails just outside of Elko in southeast British Columbia by the Canadian Pacific train conductor who sounded the horn and hit the emergency brakes. The train couldn't stop in time and rode over the man. By the time it stopped, he was found by CP personnel under the 26th rail car. "The guy seemed to wake up and he got up, grabbed his beer and headed on his way," said RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk. Unbelievably, he avoided major injuries. "He's of fairly slight stature and the train went completely over top of him. Amazingly, I don't know how you wouldn't wake up even being that passed out drunk, how you wouldn't wake up from that train rumbling over top of you with the brakes screeching". Canadian Pacific police are investigating and no charges have been laid against the man. "There's been tragic stories in the past of people passing out on railway tracks and they lose limbs or their lives," said Dubnyk. "I've never seen the likes of it. Until this, I wouldn't have known that a person could actually fit under (there) especially the engine of the train. They look like there's very minimal clearance". CP spokesman Kevin Hrysak said the conductor tried to alert the man by "every means possible." Crews will have access to counselling. "These types of incidents can have an extremely profound effect on the train crews," he said. They are the first on scene and see the effect of collisions. "Thankfully this didn't result in more serious or fatal injuries", said Hrysak.
A Winnipeg man who was dragged out of an outhouse by a black bear is recovering at home with some cuts on his back and an amazing tale of survival. Gord Shurvell, 65, was camping and fishing with a friend at a cabin by Dunbar Lake, about 60 kilometres north of Sioux Lookout, Ont., when the bear attacked him early on Saturday. Shurvell said he was in the outhouse, with the door wide open so he could enjoy the morning view, when the bear barged in. "I'm sitting on the throne, and my feet are sort of up on the 'poopstool,' we call it," he said in an interview on Wednesday. "So I'm kicking at him to get away, but he grabbed my pants and that gotch that were down around my ankles. And that was the start of it, and he just kept coming." When asked if the attack scared the "you-know-what" out of him, Shurvell replied, "It was already gone! I'd already done my business," he added. "All the defence I had is a … piece of [toilet] paper in this hand." Shurvell said the bear then dragged him by the arm through the bush, and he immediately went into survival mode. "I know if he gets me back there and I pass out, my buddy won't know … it would take too long to find me. So I'm trying to get a tree to slow him down," he said. Shurvell's friend, 63-year-old Daniel Alexander, said he was inside the cabin when he heard the commotion outside. "I started out of the cabin and something clicked in, and I thought 'bear.' I turned around, went back into the cabin and got the gun," Alexander said. "In the meantime, Gord is screaming, 'Danny, Danny, Danny! It's a bear!'" Alexander said when he found Shurvell and the bear in the bush, he initially had a difficult time figuring out how to shoot the bear and not his friend. "Just as I started to do that, the bear dropped Gordy and turned towards me," Alexander recalled. "The bear was down on all fours, with his head was down. And as soon as he done that, that's when I shot him, right in the head. Thank God that that bear turned." Shurvell escaped the attack with some scratches on his head, neck and arms, as well as a puncture in the back of his head. Shurvell was treated in a Sioux Lookout hospital and released, and he returned to Winnipeg late Tuesday. On Wednesday, he received his third rabies treatment.
A western Indian state has declared war on animal poaching, allowing forest guards to shoot hunters on sight to curb attacks on tigers, elephants and other wildlife. The government in Maharashtra says injuring or killing suspected poachers will no longer be considered a crime. Forest guards should not be "booked for human rights violations when they have taken action against poachers", the Maharashtra forest minister, Patangrao Kadam, said on Tuesday. The state will also send more rangers and jeeps into forests, and will offer secret payments to informers who give tips about poachers and animal smugglers, he said. India has about half of the world's estimated 3,200 tigers in dozens of wildlife reserves set up since the 1970s. But illegal poaching remains a serious threat, with tiger parts sought in traditional Chinese medicine fetching high prices on the black market. According to the Wildlife Protection Society of India, 14 tigers have been killed by poachers in India so far this year – one more than for all of 2011. The tiger is considered endangered, with its habitat range shrinking more than 50% in the last quarter-century and its numbers declining rapidly from the 5,000-7,000 estimated in the 1990s, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Eight of this year's tiger poaching deaths in India occurred in Maharashtra, including one whose body was found last week chopped into pieces with its head and paws missing in Tadoba tiger reserve. Forest officials have also found traps in the reserve, where about 40 tigers live. Tiger parts used in traditional Chinese medicine are prized on the black market, but dozens of other animals are also targeted by hunters across India. Rhinos are prized for their horns and male elephants for their tusks, while other big cats such as leopards are hunted or poisoned by villagers afraid of attacks on their homes or livestock. Encounters are rare between guards and poachers, who generally hunt the secretive and nocturnal big cats at night, according to Maharashtra's chief wildlife warden, SWH Naqvi. "We hardly ever come face-to-face with poachers," he said on Wednesday, predicting few instances when guards might fire at suspects. Instead, he predicted that the state's offer to pay informers from a new government fund worth about 5m rupees ($90,000) would be more effective in curbing wildlife crime. "We get very few tips, so this will really help," Naqvi said.
A red-faced TV reporter who faked a sand storm when he missed the real thing has become a laughing stock in Romania after his cameraman let viewers in on the stunt. The reporter, from the Realitatea TV news channel, shows the reporter apparently struggling to keep on his feet as clouds of sand hit him while he says: "The wind blows with incredible power, there are moments when it is impossible to stand up here. The wind blows the sand at over 60 km per hour. The wind blew away the beach umbrellas and the tourists had to leave in a hurry," he added in the live report from the country's Black Sea coast. But as he continued the report, his cameraman pans right, a member of the production crew can be seen kicking clouds of sand into the air towards the reporter. The channel has insisted the report was genuine. The reporter claimed: "The report was not doctored in any way. It was a bad joke made by the cameraman".
A fitness fanatic was crushed to death by weight training equipment as he worked out in his garage. Landlord Oliver Steer found the body of his lodger, Chris Bailey, in his garage in Mill Close, Portslade, after Mr Bailey had decided to go for a workout in the early hours of the morning. Mr Bailey had only bought the work-out bench six weeks ago to save money instead of joining a gym. P&O caterer Mr Steer has paid tribute to his 28-year-old lodger as “a lovely kid”. He said he and Mr Bailey, who had lived at the property for the last three months, had been drinking until 3am on Saturday when Mr Steer, 57, decided to go to bed. When he woke in the morning, he found the lounge light on, the front door open and the garage light on. He said: “I had to try and lift the weight off him which wasn’t easy because it was so heavy. I tried to resuscitate him but he was gone. I found him on the bench with the bar across his chest. I tried to wake him but I knew he was dead. Police told me he must have been dead for at least five hours when I found him. I don’t think he had gone to bed. He was still wearing the same clothes.” Mr Steer said that Mr Bailey was originally from Nottingham and had been living above the Mill House pub in Mill Lane, Portslade, before moving in with him and another lodger. Mr Bailey was working at a bakery in Portslade. He said: “He was right into his fitness stuff, he had a bike and he loved to ride it. He should never have tried to lift weights those heavy by himself, he should have had someone to spot him. I hope he rests in peace but that people learn how dangerous these weights can be.” Officers said there was no evidence at the scene that a crime had taken place The death is being treated as unexplained until the results of a post-mortem examination are known.








#168, 21.V.2012
  noticias
- una política presupuestaria que impedirá cualquier tipo de crecimiento y recuperación
- el Gobierno español es proactivo y agresivo contra la Ciencia, contra nuestro futuro
- seguimos siendo vulnerables, y manejables, por analfabetos
- Bankia, el retrato de las élites (...) de "Madrid"
- Bankia, esa España a la que, mientras quede donde saquear a la ciudadanía, nunca se le acaba la fiesta
- "recortar" Servicio Público para "rescatar" Banca Privada, ¿no es un delito?
- ¿el Gobierno dará 10.000 millones de nuestro recortado Dinero Público a Bankia?, ¿o serán 38.000?
- EUROSTAT, la única solución (externa) a la sistémica ocultación y engaño de la casta política española
- consenso político... ¿o reparto partitocrático?
- ¿qué valoración moral hace la Iglesia Católica de sus privilegios fiscales y su financiación Pública?
- la política gonádica del Presidente José Antonio Monago
- España cañí -53: un uso fraudulento, y bastardo, del sistema jurídico
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Wole Soyinka (Nigeria, 1934), activista civil, escritor (Nobel de Literatura 1986).
A Sri Lankan woman bit off the penis of her 30-year-old lover during a row on Friday, a doctor said, as police investigated two other incidents. The man was rushed to a rural hospital in Andapana, 180 kilometres (110 miles) south of Colombo, after a quarrel with the 45-year-old female turned violent. “About three-quarters of the penis had been bitten off,” a doctor daid, asking not to be named. “We stopped the bleeding and sent him to a urologist at Karapitiya (a bigger town nearby) to see if the severed part can be re-attached”. A police official in the southern town of Hakmana said the man, identified as Chandana Pradeep, a barber, had argued with the woman after she refused to give him money for alcohol. Police had said the couple were married, but later said that the victim had told them in a statement that they were lovers. Meanwhile two other men were also undergoing treatment for injuries to their sex organs at another hospital in the same region. Police said they were investigating to see if there was any link between the three incidents. Police did not say how the other men were hurt or their exact injuries.
Canadian police rushed to a Victoria housing complex after a man’s struggles on the toilet were so noisy that a concerned neighbour called 911. It happened on Wednesday at about 5 a.m. at a home on Empress Avenue. The woman heard moaning and yelling coming from the man’s basement suite, so officers arrived to check on his well-being, according to deputy chief John Ducker, writing on the VicPD operations blog. After repeated knocks and announcements by the officers, the man opened the door. “When questioned about the amount of noise he was making, the man explained that he had been essentially (in his own different words) on the toilet having his morning constitutional but he was done now,” Ducker wrote. The man promised to keep it down in the future.
A man in central Russia had to be rescued by emergency workers from a rubbish chute after he jumped into it to hide from his girlfriend. He plunged three floors from the eighth floor of an apartment building in Tyumen, Siberia, before getting stuck. Residents then heard the 31-year-old man's cries for help. Rescue workers had to use tools to cut him free. He was not seriously hurt. He had had a row with his girlfriend, officials said, without elaborating. Soviet-era buildings in Russia frequently have a metal rubbish chute in the stairwell, with a latch opening on each floor. Tyumen emergency service officials said the incident happened late on Wednesday, but the man is already back at work. "According to the 31-year-old victim, he jumped into the metal chute on the eighth floor to escape his girlfriend".
Wind-powered electric cars could be the answer to China's pollution woes
A Chinese farmer has invented a wind-powered electric car that he says could save his country from the pollution caused by its rapidly growing car market. An hour from Beijing, the dusty village of Banjiehe looks an unlikely place to produce scientific innovation. Its rows of brick, utilitarian houses are surrounded by cornfields and fruit trees. But in a small tractor workshop, 55-year-old farmer Tang Zhenping has invented the prototype of a car that he believes could revolutionise China's auto industry. Mr Tang's model - built in just three months for around £1,000 - is electric. Its engine uses scrap parts from a motorcycle and electric scooter, while its steering wheel, upholstery and headlights all come from a Chinese-made Xiali hatchback. But what makes the one-seater special is the turbine on its nose. When the car reaches 40mph, the blades spring into action and begin generating pollution-free power. "It works just like a windmill," said Mr Tang, who claims the turbine gives his vehicle three times the battery life of other electric cars. The model has a top speed of 70mph.
Indian man marries three times to deal with drought
A man has been forced to marry three times to deal with the drought in villages in Maharashtra's Thane district. Sixty-five-year-old Ramchandra (name changed to protect identity), a resident of Dengalmal village, on a hilltop in Shahapur taluka, said his first wife was ill and cannot go far away to fetch water for the family of 13, while his second wife was weak. Ramchandra's family includes three sons, their wives and three grandsons; his three daughters have got married and now live with their husbands. He said he first married when he was 20 and has six children from her. He married again as his first wife fell sick, hoping that she would take care of the household work. But as she was too weak and could not handle the workload, he went in for the third marriage 10 years back. He justified his marriages, claiming that in a year, they faced a problem of water scarcity for six months in their village. They have to often traverse one and a half kilometres to a well in a nearby village, and sometime to the Bhatsa river three km away. Villagers initially opposed his marriages as they suspected that he was doing it for sexual pleasure. Hussain Shaikh, a villager, said, "Earlier, we opposed his move for a third marriage, but later we realized that whatever he has done was right, as his third wife now takes care of the family's water arrangements." Sakri Shende, a 70-year-old woman from the village who spends nearly five hours in transporting water with her son's wife, said, "We normally find Ramchandra's third wife carrying water. Only when she falls sick, other family members come to the well for water".
Turkish villagers mistook migratory bird for Israeli spy
A migratory bird has caused alarm in a village in south-eastern Turkey after locals mistook it for an Israeli spy. Villagers' suspicions were aroused when the bird, a common European bee-eater, was found dead in a field with a metal ring around its leg stamped "Israel". They called the police after deciding its nostrils were unusually large and may have carried a microchip fitted by Israeli intelligence for spying. It was taken to government experts for examination and declared safe. The regional office of the Turkish agriculture ministry examined the colourfully plumed corpse and assured residents of the village, near the city of Gaziantep, that it was common practice to fit a ring to migratory birds in order to track their movements. An official at the ministry saidthat it took some effort to persuade local police that the little bee-eater posed no threat to national security. At one point a counterterrorism unit became involved in the case. Wildly implausible conspiracy theories take root easily in Turkey, with alleged Israeli plots among the most widely believed. Ties between Turkey and Israel deteriorated sharply after nine Turkish pro-Palestinian Islamic activists died in a raid by Israeli security forces on a boat trying to break the blockade on Gaza two years ago.
New Zealanders puzzled by mystery gifts from Paris 
Police are investigating a series of mysterious packages sent from Paris to residents along New Zealand's remote west coast. At least four unexpected parcels were delivered to homes on the South Island in the last fortnight, all with Parisian post marks, police said. They contained cash – a €50 note (£40) was in one, a New Zealand $100 note (£48) in another – and a special hair-themed gift: in three cases a brand new hairdryer, in the other a set of hair clippers. The parcels included handwritten notes, two of which had the words "thank you for being a true friend" scrawled in a mix of lower and upper case letters. There was no obvious link between the recipients, who were left baffled by the gifts, said police. Police said early on Monday the parcels "appeared to simply be a goodwill gesture", but by the afternoon they had begun to suspect more sinister motives. In a press conference in Greymouth, police suggested the apparently random acts of long-distance kindness could in fact have been a dry run for a money-laundering or drug-trafficking operation. Senior Sergeant Allyson Ealam said New Zealand customs and Interpol had been engaged to help track down the sender of the packages. "We have already been told that the return addresses on each of the parcels exist and we are now checking the names of the senders," she said. Each package had a different return address, she added. Experts had failed to find any concealed drugs in the parcels, while fingerprints had been taken from the packaging. It was unlikely to be an elaborate marketing stunt, she said. "They all did the right thing by contacting police about their surprise parcels. Maybe they have come from someone who won the lottery over there. Or it could be that it's a nice prank."

A German politician ended up trapped in a toppled-over 40-tonne digger at a ground-breaking ceremony to mark the beginning of a new road project. His minders pulled him out through a smashed window. Bavarian state Interior Minister, Joachim Herrmann, had been invited to kick off construction of a new road in the rural Allgäu area. He managed to get into the digger's cabin without mishap, and was preparing to dig up the first clump of earth when the vehicle fell over, trapping Herrmann inside. His two bodyguards and the digger driver rushed to help the 56-year-old out through the front window, which had smashed. Paramedics rushed the ruffled politician to privacy, treating him for minor facial scratches and a bruised ego at the nearby house of Ulrich Netzer, the mayor of Kempten – who had been involved in organising the construction of the new road. Herrmann, who has been Bavaria’s Interior Minister since 2007 and is a member of the Christian Social Union said, “I’m fine, the shock is over”. An emergency rescue helicopter circling overhead was given the all-clear and returned to base. The road, known as the “Kempten Nordspange” has been opposed by residents, but was given the go -ahead by authorities who say it will improve the infrastructure of the area.
Zimbabwean politician proposes women have fewer baths and shave off their hair to stop HIV 
Women must bath occasionally, shave-off their hair, dress shabbily and get circumcised to make them less attractive to men, a Senator has proposed during a conference on HIV. Morgan Femai, the MDC-T senator for Chikomo, said his bizarre prescription was necessary to help curb the spread of HIV/AIDS because men were finding it difficult to resist attractive and well-dressed women. “What I propose is that the government should come up with a law that compels women to have their heads clean-shaven like what the Apostolic sects do,” Femai said Friday while addressing a parliamentary HIV awareness workshop in Kadoma. “They should also not bath because that is what has caused all these problems (spread of HIV)”. Femai also recommended circumcision for women – becoming the latest in a long line of MDC-T lawmakers who have pushed forward bizarre proposals about how to curb the spread of HIV. “Women have got more moisture in their organs as compared to men, so there is need to research how to deal with that moisture because it is conducive for bacteria breeding. There should be a way o suck out that moisture,” he said in comments insinuating that the virus which causes Aids breeds better in women than men. Zimbabwe is one of the countries worst affected by HIV/Aids but has seen a decline in new infections year-on-year over the last decade. Sithembile Mlotshwa, the MDC-T Senator for Matobo, recently suggested that Zimbabweans must be limited to one sexual encounter per month. Men, she said, should be administered a drug that reduces their libido.
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Gertrude von Merkel
(Milano 27 novembre 1038 - Venezia 9 maggio 2012)

Frau Gertrude von Merkel fu una strega che visse in Europa per quasi 973 anni, superando così il record in precedenza appartenente a un tale Matusalemme (fonte: Guinness dei primati), ma la cui notorietà è principalmente legata alla sua concupiscenza con il Sommo Poeta.

Scrisse infatti di lei lo stesso Sommo Poeta;

Peccatrice dai facili costumi
Tra i quali un orripilante pigiama anti-sesso
Ella tuttavia, servendosi delle sue arti di seduzione
Concupì un innocente volatile acquatico
Ovvero un pàpero che fui io medesimo Sommo Poeta


In seguito ad accurate indagini, autorevoli studiosi storici dell'epoca hanno stabilito e confermato con certezza come la deprecabile von Merkel avesse abusato sessualmente del Sommo Poeta, il quale si inoltra nei dettagli della peccaminosa relazione che Egli dovette subire in questi altri (nonché alti) suoi versi:

Anziana donna violenta
Violenta come il colore dei suoi calzini
Ella stuprò costui pàpero Sommo Poeta
Per contagiare la di ella corruzione morale
All'innocente volatile acquatico


Riuniti in un congresso mondiale, linguisti e semiologi di fama internazionale concordano sul fatto di come in questi versi venga espresso il lamento, un disperato grido di dolore per l'abuso sessuale subìto dal Sommo Poeta, che si identifica in un "volatile acquatico", ovvero un ANATRONE. Infatti fu proprio grazie a questa sua qualità di esperto volatile acquatico che finalmente, per il bene dell'umanità. il Sommo Poeta riuscì ad ammazzare la perfida strega Gertrude von Merkel, annegandola a Venezia nel canale contiguo alla calle Boselli

Ode a Gertrude del Sommo Poeta - versione 1

O Gentile Nobildonna
Le cui sembianze aggraziate
Dalle fattezze diafane ed eteree
Con la chioma di seta e gli occhi azzurri
Evocano alla memoria l'eleganza di un delfino
E la gioia che dona la vista di un pettirosso
Ebbene io Sommo Poeta
Ti dedico la mia eterna devozione
Con affetto, stima e considerazione


Ode a Gertrude del Sommo Poeta - versione 2

O Nobile Gentildonna
Il cui decadente corpo sfasciato
Consta di tette flaccide e ammuffite
Chiappe raggrinzite come prugne secche
Minacciose manacce grosse come badili
E zampe di merlo che poggiano su
Enormi piedoni da calciatore di terza categoria
Ebbene io Sommo Poeta
Mi accingo a subire da te
Una scarica di violenti ceffoni



Activists from Ukraine’s nationalist party Bratstvo have mocked Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin by installing a Pissing Stalin Golden Monument in Kiev and in the western city Lvov. The 1.5 metre wooden sculptures are covered in golden paint. The party also planned to unveil two Pissing Stalin Golden Monuments in Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk. Kiev and Lvov police dismantled the Stalin Pis monuments hours after they were unveiled. Initially, Lvov activists planned to set up the monument on Lvov’s downtown Rynok Square, but later changed their minds. Several Lvov journalists and local police officers gathered on Rynok Square at 2 p.m. local time to see the monument, however nothing happened. Later, a young man came and invited them to come to the trade centre nearby and enjoy the sculpture. “It’s obvious that the sculpture would not have remained for long in the middle of the square, but here, we hope, it will stay for a while,” said Vitaly Cherny. He emphasized that the sculpture brings up associations with the famous Manneken Pis fountain in Brussels. The campaign with the golden monuments is a joke aimed to attract the attention of “mad fans of Stalin,” he added.

Security guards grappled with a topless protester as she made a grab for the Euro 2012 football trophy. Women’s rights activist Yulia Kovpachik, 23, tricked them by pretending to pose for a snap next to the trophy, on display in Kiev. But she then yanked down her T-shirt to reveal the words “Fuck Euro 2012” scrawled on her chest. She grabbed the two-foot high cup with both hands before being grabbed by burly guards. Yulia, dragged away covered in a sheet, is a member of Ukraine-based group Femen which claims next month’s tournament will make the country a magnet for sex tourists. The trophy wasn’t damaged and remained on display. Yulia, who staged the protest on her 23rd birthday, will appear in court later today charged with hooliganism. Ukraine is co-hosting the Euros with Poland next month with the final in Kiev on July 1.
In what may be a record for narcotics recovered from a suspect’s rectum, Vermont police last week arrested a New York City man who hid large quantities of crack cocaine, marijuana, and Oxycodone inside his body. Alex Boulet, 29, is facing felony drug charges stemming from a May 4 traffic stop in Rockingham. Boulet, a Staten Island resident, was driving a 2012 Chevrolet Malibu when a state trooper pulled the vehicle over after it swerved across lanes at around 11 PM. During a subsequent pat down of Boulet (who used the alias “Elijah Jones”), a trooper “felt a hard object, the approximate size of a golf ball that was separate from his genitals.” In short order, investigators secured a warrant to search Boulet--via X-ray or other non-intrusive medical procedures - for narcotics, according to a court affidavit. After an initial X-ray at a local hospital revealed a foreign object in his rectum, Boulet was given a laxative by hospital staffers (he also requested a cup of coffee). Boulet subsequently passed a plastic bag containing several other bags that contained a total of 84 crack rocks “all packaged individually.” After a second X-ray showed “more foreign objects,” Boulet returned to the commode in his hospital room. He then passed two plastic bags containing a total of 218 Oxycodone pills. Boulet expelled the powerful painkiller from his rectum more than five hours after passing the crack cocaine. When a third X-ray revealed that Boulet was still holding, he was transferred to the intensive care unit of a second hospital. While there, he “passed his fourth bag of contraband,” noted Trooper Kevin Hughes in the May 7 affidavit. The final bag - covered like the others in unpleasantness - contained 11.5 grams of marijuana. As a result of his secret dispensary, Boulet was charged with possession of crack cocaine, marijuana, and a regulated drug. He is locked up in the Marble Valley Correctional Center in lieu of $50,000 bail.

A German Catholic boys' school is fighting for the right to give its pupils suppositories, in the face of a city council report on the use of rectally-administered medication. The Collegium Josephinum (CoJoBo) in Bonn, a private school for around 1,200 boys, is struggling to maintain its reputation for excellence. One of the teachers, who was also a priest, was recently suspended pending an investigation into allegations that he sexually abused two of its pupils. The investigation threw a spotlight on the school's medical service. For decades, the school followed the practice, common in Germany, of giving children painkiller suppositories for a variety of non-specific ailments – migraines, stomach aches, sprained joints [...] But that did not stop Bonn city council from commissioning a report into when suppositories can or should be given to children or young people. Its result was somewhat embarrassing for the CoJoBo school. "An emergency administration of a suppository for children older than toddler age is, from a medical point-of-view, a contradiction in terms," criticised Dominique Singer, of the Hamburg-Eppendorf University hospital, who helped write the report. "Either it is a real emergency, in which case suppositories are not effective enough, or the suppositories have a certain effect alleviating symptoms, in which case it is not an emergency." Singer went on to say that administering suppositories was highly unusual after a certain age. She also criticised in-school medical services generally, because they offer a false sense of security and could delay the proper diagnosis of serious illnesses. But another independent report, conducted by Cologne educational sociologist Michaela Schumacher, said that the CoJoBo school had always made "responsible use of this unusual medication," and that there had been no "sexual association" in its administration...
92-year-old selling suicide kits faces sentencing for failing to file tax returns 
A 92-year-old American woman who sold suicide kits over the internet is due to be sentenced for failing to submit her tax returns. Sharlotte Hydorn has said she began making and selling the $40 (£24.75) helium packs to people across the United States and abroad because she wanted to help people who were in pain. The retired school teacher thought she could design a product that could assist suicide after watching her husband die of colon cancer. He had suffered "agonising pain" and she regretted not being able to let him die at their home, instead of being "filled with tubes in a hospital". But Hydorn came under scrutiny by law enforcement officials when her kits were linked with the deaths of people who were not terminally ill. Prosecutors said she took no steps to screen her customers and therefore had no idea whether her kits were being bought by people suffering from depression. The elderly woman has claimed she was not responsible for who used the kit, but she thought they would be used by the terminally ill. Her home in El Cajon, east of San Diego, was raided last year and federal authorities found cheques that were not cashed and thousands of dollars in cash from buyers. "To Ms Hydorn, her involvement in the suicide kits was an act of compassion and not based on greed," her lawyer Charles Goldberg has said. In December she pleaded guilty to failing to lodge tax returns for her company that sold the kits, but under an agreement with prosecutors she was not charged with involvement in six suicides. She has been allowed to remain free on $10,000 (£6,188) bail on the condition she does not assist any suicides.
Swiss politician offered mother and child to cannibals 
A 53-year-old Conservative Party politician goes on trial this week in Winterthur for placing an advertisement on behalf of his friend’s wife and daughter, claiming they wanted to be slaughtered and eaten. Hans Ulrich R, a convicted murderer and Winterthur council employee, put out a “wanted” ad on the internet in 2010, supposedly on behalf of his friend Peter J’s wife, the 27-year-old Patricia J, and their 12-year-old daughter. The ad said the pair were offering themselves up as sex slaves and looking for a “sadistic master or butcher who can educate us mindless creatures. We are also keen to meet gentlemen interested in slaughter and dolce who would like to roast us on a spit." He later told police that "dolce" in this context meant cannibalism. A trained cheese maker, Hans Ulrich R, also known by the name “Marquis el Diablo”, co-founded the Embrachertal branch of the Conservative Party with his policeman friend Peter J. The pair had got to know each other at a gathering for sadomasochists. Hans Ulrich told the police that he had posted the ad in the hope that someone would get the wife out of the way so that his friend, who was going through a traumatic divorce, could get custody of their children.He was hoping Patricia would “be picked up by a butcher and never show up again”, and that she would play along with the sadomasochistic game that would ultimately result in her death. According to Hans Ulrich, about 20 people responded to the ad, one saying that he had a special dungeon in his farm basement. Another described himself as an "ideal and very experienced master butcher". Hans Ulrich responded, detailing the woman and girl’s supposed sexual repertoire. “We are tired of the normal life. Will you pick us up?” Hans Ulrich wrote on the woman and child’s behalf. He sent through pictures of the woman and child, and posted their address. Luckily for the would-be victims, the "master butcher" turned out to be an undercover policeman. He arrested the killer in October 2010. Hans Ulrich had previously served ten years in prison for the murder in 1988 of a woman he found sleeping in her car. Having shot her several times, he dragged her into the woods and impaled her naked body on a tree branch. Although reports found that he was unable to control his aggressive tendencies, he was nevertheless released and later secured a job with the Winterthur town council. He now faces charges of plotting murder. The trial begins on Wednesday.
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Man allowed to keep interest from €200 million bank error 
A German man whose bank mistakenly gave him €200 million has been told he can keep the €12,000 interest earned while it was “resting in his account” overnight. The man, named only as Michael H., sold shares last April for €20,000 – but his online bank, Comdirect, accidentally put €200 million into his account. Michael H. swiftly transferred €10 million of it into his current account in a different bank. And although Comdirect successfully clawed back all the €200 million, it demanded €12,000 on top – 14.4 percent interest on the money he moved. The district court in Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, ruled on Thursday that Comdirect should repay the man the €12,000 – plus the interest it accrued over the last year. But the bank – which is owned by Commerzbank – is going to appeal. “People who want to use money that does not belong to them generally have to pay interest," a bank spokesman said. “That is the same for everyone. We only implemented normal procedures – it was nothing more than correct protocol.” Michael H. admitted it was fun to be a multimillionaire for a moment, but now regrets moving the money. “It would have been better if I had done nothing.”
BANKS / 2

Bank gave unemployed woman €18 million by mistake 
An unemployed single mother with just 35 cents became a multi-millionaire for a few hours after her bank mistakenly deposited over €18m into her account. When Laura Hughes (32) from Athenry, Co Galway, checked her Ulster Bank account on Thursday morning to see if she had received her carer's allowance for her disabled son, she was left lost for words when she realised she had €18,099,425.99 in 'available funds'. "I nearly died," said the mother of two young sons. "Before I went to bed on Wednesday night I had 35c in my account, but when I checked on Thursday morning I thought I was seeing things. First I thought it was €18,500 but I quickly realised I had over €18m in the bank," she said. "I don't work, I'm a full-time carer to my two kids aged seven and four. I rang all my family straight away to tell them and I just assumed it was an error. I have internet banking on my phone and I kept checking to see if I still had the money. Then as a test I decided to transfer €9,000 from that account into another account, just to see if it would work. I started to really panic when it worked and everyone was telling me to run off and spend it" [...] Her wealth was short-lived, however, as the bank immediately shut down her account once they learnt of their costly blunder. "The money was in my account for five hours. I went in to see somebody in the bank but they said they didn't have time to see me. But when I told her what it was about she ran off to get the manager and he immediately freaked out. They kept me there for about an hour trying to figure out what was going on and how it happened - they were completely panicked. The bank told me it was simply human error. One of their employees opened up an overdraft facility for me of €20m. My youngest boy, Shay, is four and has autism. Cian is seven today and I bought him a go-kart. I keep thinking of all the things I could have bought him if I had all those millions in the bank. It was a nice dream while it lasted!"