Archive for June, 2010


FED up with a crying toddler during the World Cup, a Texas man allegedly killed his own stepdaughter and jammed a screw down her throat to cover up the murder, according to a local report.

Hector Castro, a 28-year old illegal immigrant, allegedly snapped when the young girl would not stop crying during the USA-Ghana match on Saturday afternoon (local time).

He allegedly severely beat the child, cracking several of her ribs. He followed up by suffocating her in front of the television set View full article »

A United Airlines pilot was briefly detained at the international airport in Rio de Janeiro after lowering his pants during a security screening, police said Saturday.

Pilot Michael D. Slynn, 49, was asked to remove his belt and shoes as part of a routine security screening Friday afternoon. In response, Slynn laughed at security guards and lowered his pants to his ankles, said a police spokesman who was prohibited by departmental rules from giving his name. View full article »

A three-year-old from China is the latest child to hit the world spotlight for smoking, but this little girl also easily downs three beers a day.

The mother of Ya Wen says her daughter’s personality changed after she was hit by a speeding van last year. The little girl was in a coma for five days and suffered severe injuries, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reports.

The girl’s mother, Gao, said when her daughter awoke, she started acting like an adult and she caught the child with her father’s cigarettes in the washroom. At first the little girl stole them, but now she gets them on credit from a local store.

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Bethany Lott, 25, was struck and killed by lightening atop a mountain, minutes before her boyfriend was poised to pop the question.

Richard Butler, 30, took Lott hiking in the North Carolina Mountains on Friday.

The couple, who had been together a year and were both from Knoxville, Tenn., were walking up Max Patch Bald, near Asheville, Tenn., in the pouring rain.

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An 18-year-old Indonesian man says he was seduced by a cow, and that’s why he was having sex with it.

A neighbour caught Gusti Ngurah Alit allegedly wooing the farm animal on Sunday, the village chief on the resort island of Bali said, the Times newspaper in Johannesburg,

“He was caught by one of the residents standing naked while holding the back of the cow,” village chief Embang Ida Bagus Legawa said in the newspaper.

Alit said he didn’t see an animal, he saw a beautiful young woman.

“She called my name and seduced me, so I had sex with her,” the man told the newspaper.

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IT’S a record that’s not to be sniffed at. Teenager Stephen Booth has battled through coughs and colds for the past 12 years without taking a single day off school.

The Stoke Sentinel said hard-working Stephen Booth last took a day of when he was aged four.

Since then he’s refused to miss a single class, earning himself a 100 per cent attendance rate and the title of Britain’s most dedicated schoolboy.

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In an unbelievably weird and phenomenal performance, a Chinese martial arts expert has defied the laws of gravity (not to mention the limits of human belief) and actually pulled an airplane for five meters (more than 17 feet) by a rope hooked onto his eyelids!

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For the last two years, a homeless man who refuses to give his name or even converse with anyone has been living in a phone booth in Dalian city, Liaoning province, China.

No one knows the identity of this poor soul who sleeps during the daylight hours by curling up into a ball on top of cushions and ventures out at night begging for food.

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A US woman has been accused of stabbing her husband with scissors because she was unhappy with his performance in bed.

Michelle Thomas, 26, was arrested on Tuesday after police were called around 1am to the couple’s house in the east Texas town of Hudson, Lufkin Daily News reports.

The man told police Ms Thomas became angry with him after a sex session left her unsatisfied.

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Twinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a strange disorder which means she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched.  She has even undergone transfusions after pints of it seeped through her eyes, nose, hairline, neck and the soles of her feet. Sometimes her condition is so bad she wakes up with her entire body covered in dried blood.

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