CNN) — A man, who doused himself with gasoline and charged at an officer, burst into flames when he was hit with a Taser, police in Australia said Tuesday. “He was carrying a lighter and pouring himself with petrol,” said Inspector Bill Munnee with the West Australian Police. “We don’t know if the lighter set it off or something from the Taser.”

Authorities have launched an inquiry into what happened Monday when an officer arrived at the 36-year-old man’s house in the remote desert community of Warburton. Read More

John Demjanjuk, born Ivan Demjanjuk taken away by authorities…. Again.

John Demjanjuk is taken from his home in Seven Hills, Ohio by immigration agents. John Demjanjuk is being deported to Germany to face charges he was a guard at a Nazi death camp during World War II. This is not the first time for John.

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from Wiki..

John Demjanjuk, born Ivan Demjanjuk (April 3, 1920; in Dubovi Makharintsi, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine)^[1][2] is a retired auto worker and former^[3] naturalized United States citizen, who gained notoriety after being accused of war crimes.

Born in Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War (when territories in Ukraine quickly turned hands) Demjanjuk migrated to the United States in 1951. He was deported to Israel in 1986 and later sentenced to death there in 1988 for war crimes, based on his identification by Israeli Holocaust survivors as “Ivan the Terrible”, a notorious SS guard at the Treblinka extermination camp during the period 1942–1943 who committed murder and acts of extraordinarily savage violence against camp prisoners. His conviction for crimes against humanity was later overturned by Israel’s highest court in 1993 due to a finding of a reasonable doubt as to whether Demjanjuk really was “Ivan the Terrible”, and he was returned to the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

By Kevin Drawbaugh and Glenn Somerville

Wall Street faces curbs on risk taking and the prospect of lower profits under sweeping U.S. proposals to prevent a repeat of the credit crisis.

The Obama administration’s plan to rewrite financial rules, announced on Thursday, would create a single regulator to monitor any firm whose failure could threaten the financial system, while also tightening rules for big hedge funds and private equity firms.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress “comprehensive reform” was needed to prevent a repeat of the current credit crisis, the most virulent since the 1930s. “Not modest repairs at the margin, but new rules of the game.” Read the rest of this entry »

More political corruption…

BEIJING: The corruption trial of Taiwan’s former president, Chen Shui-bian, opened in a heavily guarded Taipei courtroom on Thursday, hours after Mr. Chen blasted the proceedings as a “tool for political suppression and persecution” by his successor. Read the rest of this entry »

170 animals were destroyed at the Tangipahoa Parish animal shelter without much planning, warning nor explanation. The shelter blames a mysterious virus but some in the town believe there may have been other motives.

HAMMOND — When Besty Pittman walked into the Tangipahoa Parish Animal Shelter on Tuesday morning, she was struck by the silence.

The day before, on her day off, all of its scores of cats and dogs had been euthanized because of what parish officials described as an unknown, highly contagious, airborne virus.

“It was devastating,” Pittman said Wednesday evening. “There were no animals anywhere.”

After a sleepless night and many tears, Pittman, an euthanasia technician, said she turned in her resignation Wednesday over what she described as the senseless putting down of all 170 animals at the shelter.

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Mystery deepens as fifth human foot washes up. Seems there has been an abundance of severed feet, all unclaimed.

A fifth human foot in a year has washed ashore off the coast of British Columbia, and this time it’s a left one.

Police said two people out for a walk spotted the left foot floating in water off Westham Island on Monday morning.

Delta Police Constable Sharlene Brooks said officials are working with the B.C. Coroner’s office to see if this foot is linked to any other partial remains recovered in the province.

Westham Island is at the mouth of the Fraser River, about 15 miles south of Vancouver.

“A passerby noticed a shoe floating in the water, pulled it in and notified police,” Brooks said. “We’re treating it as a criminal investigation.”

While the similarities to the other found feet is strong, she said there’s no indication this foot is related to the other cases.

“We’re certainly not discounting the possibility that this may be linked to the other recovered feet, but it’s just too premature and very speculative for us to even entertain that right now,” she said.

The last foot was found May 22 on Kirkland Island in the Fraser River, about one mile away from Monday’s discovery.

The first in the series was found nearly a year ago on Jedidiah Island in the Strait of Georgia. Within days, another right foot was found inside a man’s Reebok sneaker on nearby Gabriola Island. The third was found in the same area, on the east side of Valdez Island in early February.

The origin on any of the remains is still unknown. They also said something along the lines that they are not CSI and it may take some time to find the owners.

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From the Sydney Morning Herald we get this bizarre incident. Well, at least it seems like a bizarre attack to me, I guess its not that bizarre in Cambodia where boys are taught to never piss off the little fish.

This one puffer looks livid

A Cambodian teenager was recovering in hospital after a puffer fish attacked him in the groin, local media reported on Tuesday.

The Khmer-language Koh Santepheap daily ran a picture of the unnamed 13-year-old in a hospital bed with heavy strapping around his testicles, saying he was lucky to be alive.

The paper quoted the boy’s father, Sok Ly, as saying the fish had become enraged when it was accidentally trapped in the boy’s net and, when it was freed, had attacked the boy’s scrotum.

Cambodian legend has it that the bite of the fish is even more dangerous than its poisonous spines, especially for boys, and Cambodian boys are traditionally advised not to swim in waters where the fish is common.

The victim, from Prek Pneuv commune outside Phnom Penh, was expected to recover from yesterday’s attack, the paper said, but the extent of the damage had yet to be determined.

A mexican Donkey is spending some time in the pokey for assaulting a man. I guess someone actually felt the donkey should be punished for breaking human laws. I wonder if they read the donkey his rights when he got arrested. Now does the donkey get a lawyer or does he simply represent himself. Can he put up some hay as bail?

Metro actually reported this story where the locals had this to say… “Around here, if someone commits a crime they are jailed,” Gomez said - “no matter who they are.”

The donkey’s owner is Mauro Gutierrez and the donkey inmate will be in his new accommodations in the jail until Mr. Guitierrez pays some medical bills to the donkey’s victim. Seems the donkey bit victim, Mr. Vazquez then kicked another man who came to his rescue.

The police in that region have jailed animals in the past including a bull that stole some corn and a dog that bit someone.

Seems Chiapas is an equal opportunity jailer treating everyone the same no matter what species you may be.

POLICE broke into a flat to check who lived there 42 years after its owner was reported missing - and found the mummified remains of the woman sitting in front of her TV.

Croatian police say Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cuppa and sat down to watch her black-and-white television before she died.

Officers believe that would have been in 1966, when she was last seen by neighbours. They said one day she seemed to have just disappeared and they thought she had moved to the capital Zagreb.

But they found her remains in the tiny 13sq m flat after breaking in with bailiffs.

A police spokesman said: “So far we have no idea how it is possible that someone officially reported missing so long ago was not found before in the same apartment she used to live in.”

Some people are just too stupid to be criminals - Stupidity the redneck way - Tennessee. A man apparantly took that slogan “to protect and serve” to the extreme as he emptied his pockets in order to pass through a metal detector. He took out his weed and rolling papers from his pockets and placed them into the Sheriff’s bowl. Protect his weed they did, by confiscating it. The man may now have another court date. This may be a good thing since this man really can not afford to lose any more braincells.
Now if you are already going to court, meaning you did something stupid and got caught.. maybe, just maybe you should refrain from taking your dope to court with you, much less, handing the dope to the cop for safe keeping while going to your court appearance for your prior stupidity.

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