I was asleep!!! Honestly!!!

For some reason, I don't buy into this story. But, if it is a real condition, it might help me out in the long run!! "Honey, I have a medical condition that makes me to that......."


Nah, probably won't work.

'Sexsomnia' defence works
By NATALIE PONA, SUN MEDIA

TORONTO -- It wasn't rape -- it was sleep sex.

In an unusual case in Scarborough court yesterday, Jan Luedecke was acquitted of sexual assault after a judge ruled he was asleep during the attack -- a disorder known as "sexsomnia."

"This is indeed a rare case ... His conduct was not voluntary," said Justice Russell Otter, as Luedecke's victim shook and sobbed then left the courtroom.

The judgement outraged women's groups.

"This is infuriating. It's another case of the courts not taking a woman seriously, adding yet another list to the list of excuses which men use for sexual assault," said Suzanne Jay, of the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres.

Luedecke, a 33-year-old landscaper, met his victim at a party on July 6, 2003. Both had been drinking.

The woman, who can't be named, had fallen asleep on a couch. She woke up to find him having sex with her. She pushed him off then reported the rape to police. She didn't know Luedecke before that night.

WOKE UP ON FLOOR

Luedecke claimed he fell asleep on the same couch then woke up when he was thrown to the floor.

He only suspected he had had sex after using the bathroom and discovering he was still wearing a condom, court heard. He confessed to police.

During his trial, sleep expert Dr. Colin Shapiro testified Luedecke had parasomnia -- a disorder with symptoms such as sleepwalking. Shapiro testified Luedecke suffered from sexsomnia, which is sexual behaviour during sleep.

It was brought on by alcohol, sleep deprivation and genetics.

Luedecke had previously had sleep sex with four girlfriends, court heard.

The woman who accused Luedecke of raping her vows she will fight the decision to the Supreme Court.

"I believe the floodgates have been opened," she said. "This isn't the end for me personally. I have the means to pursue this to the highest level. I believe this case has set a precedent."

"For two years I have focused all my energy on this case. It's not stopping here," she said, in a phone interview yesterday afternoon. "I'm not a wimp but this has knocked me to my knees.

"I didn't think I could get back up for this -- but this isn't about me anymore, this is about society."

I feel ashamed to live in the same state as this guy.

This is a VERY disturbing story, thats why I didn't post it on here, just the link. Be forwarned, it involves a very sick and fucked up guy. Not a story for the faint of heart.

Charges Against Teen Upgraded After Dog He Allegedly Raped Dies

Maybe they would have stayed for some cold beer!

We need to get something like this going in the states!! There is not enough monkey appreciation going on around here!

Tourists Converge To Watch 17th Annual Monkey Banquet

LOPBURI, Thailand -- These were no party animals: Almost all the guests were too frightened to make an appearance, and the others ate and ran.

That didn't matter to the tourists who converged in Lopburi on Sunday to watch monkeys eat piles of fruits and vegetables during the 17th annual monkey banquet.

The party was thrown by local hotelier Yongyuth Kitwatananuson, who is thankful for the business the monkeys bring his city, 70 miles north of Bangkok.

The long-tailed macaques are regarded as disciples of Chao Pho Prakarn, a four-armed deity whose likeness is enshrined in the heart of town.

With such status, the monkeys are given free rein. They can be seen dropping peanut shells on street vendors, relieving themselves on curious onlookers and making merry on the electrical wires they use as footpaths. A sign at a local park says, "Beware of monkeys snatching your purse."

But Sunday's festival was a bust. The crowds and noise scared the monkeys off -- except for one or two dozen brave ones who stuffed themselves, leaving a terrible mess behind.

Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Leggo my Lego's!!!!

I am almost 30 years old, and I still love Lego's, but this asshole took it to far!!! On a side note, anyone know where I can score some barcode stickers??

Reno Man Accused of $200,000 Legos Theft

Agents had to use a 20-foot truck to cart away the evidence from a suspect's house — mountains of Lego bricks.

William Swanberg, 40, of Reno, Nev., is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the colorful plastic building blocks.

Swanberg was indicted by a grand jury in Hillsboro, a Portland suburb, which charged him with stealing Lego sets from Target stores.

Target estimates Swanberg stole up to $200,000 worth of the brick sets pilfered from their stores in Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California. The Legos were resold on the Internet, officials said.

Attempts to reach Swanberg at a county jail, where he was being held on $250,000 bail, were unsuccessful. It was not known if he had retained an attorney.

Swanberg is accused of switching the bar codes on Lego boxes, replacing an expensive one with a cheaper label, said Detective Troy Dolyniuk, a member of the Washington County fraud and identity theft enforcement team.

Target officials contacted police after noticing the same pattern at their stores in the five western states. A Target security guard stopped Swanberg at a Portland-area store Nov. 17, after he bought 10 boxes of the Star Wars Millennium Falcon set.

In his parked car, detectives found 56 of the Star Wars sets, valued at $99 each, as well as 27 other Lego sets. In a laptop found inside Swanberg's car, investigators also found the addresses of numerous Target stores in the Portland area, their locations carefully plotted on a mapping software.

Records of the Lego collector's Web site, Bricklink.Com, show that Swanberg has sold nearly $600,000 worth of Legos since 2002, said Dolyniuk.

Lego's Danish founder Ole Kirk Christiansen named the famous bricks in 1934 by fusing two Danish words, "leg" and "godt" meaning "play well."

Children across the world spend 5 billion hours every year playing with Lego bricks, available in 90 different colors, according to the company's Web site.

___

On the Net:

Lego: http://www.lego.com

Don't eat the yellow ice

The things us guys will do on a dare!!! I bet I might have done the same thing, and I also bet its been done a few times before!!


Student allegedly urinates in ice machine

The Associated Press
Friday, November 18th, 2005 01:51 PM (PST)

CARLISLE, Ky. (AP) - A Nicholas County High School student was suspended after he was accused of urinating in an ice machine that at least 31 people got ice from before the incident was reported.

Ben Buckler, chief of police for Nicholas County Schools, said another student dared the boy, who told officials he relieved himself in the ice machine in the gymnasium lobby just before physical education class Wednesday.

School law officials say charges will be filed, although officials were still trying to decide Thursday what to charge him with.

He was suspended for 10 days, pending an expulsion hearing.

Other students witnessed the incident, but it wasn't reported to Principal Doug Bechanan until Thursday morning. By the time the machine was taken out of service, some students and staff had taken ice from the machine.

School officials contacted the Department of Public Health in Frankfort.

"They said it was gross and morally wrong but not a health risk," Buckler said.

Health officials said urine is sterile because the body has its own filtering system. If any bacteria did make it through, the ice's temperature would have killed it.

But some students, parents and staff remained worried.

The Nicholas County School Board is picking up doctor bills "to ease the minds" of those who were exposed and want to be checked out anyway.

1st massage parlors, now tanning salons???

Now it makes sense why video stores with tanning salons in them keep the skin flicks behind doors!!!

Police: No Tanning Beds at S.C. Salon

Fri Nov 18, 5:02 PM ET

Undercover officers noticed something conspicuously absent from a tanning salon — tanning beds. The only tanning bed on the property of VIP Tann Spa was found in a wooden box on the porch, officer Jerry Miller said Thursday.

Miller said the so-called tanning salon was actually a very different kind of business: Three employees and two customers were charged with prostitution and related charges after the undercover visit last month.

The undercover officer found makeshift beds and other evidence people were being paid for sex, Miller said.

Investigators took business receipts, credit card statements and cash before closing the salon. The County Council revoked the owner's business license.

Update from the Land story

And it gets more interesting!!!! (First story here)Seems to want to be on the Pulse on eBay!!! I will be looking for it to actually be posted on there so I can post it here.

Square-Inch Plot of Land for Sale on eBay

Fri Nov 18, 5:05 PM ET

A square-inch parcel of land will be auctioned this week on eBay for a starting bid of $1,224, although Owen County officials say they've had offers for more.

The back taxes, with penalties and interest, total $1,224, which is all the county can collect, said county attorney Richard Lorenz. The rest would go to the bank that owns the land.

"Once we began to get all of these offers, we thought that to be fair we ought to sell it off to the highest bidder," he said. "We'll have it up on eBay for seven days."

The story was first reported last week when The Herald-Times of Bloomington found that a postage-stamp-sized piece of land in the county west of Bloomington had attracted not one bidder at a tax sale. There is a minimum bid of $1,500 for tax sale parcels.

Since then, Lorenz, county Auditor Angie Lawson and First National Bank in Cloverdale say they have fielded interest calls from CNN, NBC's "Today" show, television and radio stations from around the world and potential bidders.

"We've gotten probably 15 calls," Lawson said. "One of my staff was a clerk in Grant County and issued a marriage license to Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts, and she said this had gotten more media attention than that did."

Linda Greenwell, Lorenz's secretary, said she can hardly get any work done.

"We've had calls from around the world — Israel, France, Germany, England, Australia," she said.

First National Bank in the 1960s foreclosed on a 1.12-acre parcel of land that the inch-square had been taken from, probably so a relative could have access to the nearby lake.

___

Information from: The Herald Times, http://www.hoosiertimes.com

Guess the nurse might listen next time!!

Ants eat away woman's eye
From correspondents in Kolkata
15nov05

A WOMAN receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it, officials said today.

The patient recovering from a post-surgery infection shrieked for help as the ants attacked her on Sunday night, but nurses told her it was normal to feel pain from the infection.

Yesterday, the patient's family saw a gaping hole with swarming ants in it when they lifted the bandage on her left eye.

Authorities of the Sambhunath Hospital in Kolkata said they were probing the incident.

"It's not uncommon for ants to attack diabetic patients. We have set up a committee to investigate the unfortunate incident," hospital superintendent A Adhikary said.

Scampering rats and stray cats and dogs sharing bed space with patients are not uncommon sights at India's overcrowded state-run hospitals that are used by millions of poor and middle-class people.

How to survive a terrorist attack

Got this from a friend stationed over seas. The funniest thing about it is that the pics are from an actual US Government handbook!!

Click here to save your ass!!!

And to think, I moved away from here!!

I lived in Spencer for a while, but who knew that the land was so valuable? We have been thinking about moving back to the area, but now I am not sure we can afford it!!

1 Square Inch of Land for Sale at $1,500

By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Saturday, November 12, 2005; 10:21 PM

SPENCER, Ind. -- A tiny parcel of land in southwest Indiana is some of the priciest real estate in the world. Owen County officials are trying to sell a 1-square-inch plot of land for $1,500. At that rate, an acre of land would cost nearly $7 billion.

No buyers ponied up for the postage-stamp-sized plot during a tax sale.

"It's too small to plant a flower on," said Peter Dorsey, with the county's mapping department.

The parcel was originally part of a 1.12-acre tract under a separate deed, said auditor Angie Lawson. Officials think the tiny piece of land west of Bloomington was deeded to someone in the 1960s, when people had to own property to use a nearby lake.

First National Bank foreclosed on the property owner's mortgage, which covered the entire 1.12-acre tract, and the land was up for bid at the tax sale. There is a minimum bid of $1,500 for tax sale parcels.

County attorney Richard Lorenz said he wants to find a way for the county to get rid of the land and the responsibility of selling it, perhaps by giving it away.

"Maybe we could donate that 1-inch plot to Owen County Preservations as the smallest land donation in history," Lorenz said.

© 2005 The Associated Press

And this storie was even picked up by the Australians!!!!!! Damn, that small 3 stoplight town with an old school Wal-Mart has made the big time!!!

Read the Aussie story here.