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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Woman flashes for peace and quiet

Topless woman /Rex

A Canadian woman is to escape charges after flashing her breasts at a five-year-old boy to settle a noise dispute.

Marika De Florio said the boy was driving her mad by driving a loud all-terrain vehicle past her house, the Toronto Sun reported.

She decided to go topless in the street so the boy's grandparents would be forced to call him inside.

The raunchy tactic did the trick but horrified Mike and Nancy Berry called the police in Seeley's Bay, Ontario, to report her.

"I'm not happy with what has been going on," Mr Berry said. "It isn't right to go around topless in front of kids."

Ms De Florio, 56, said her unusual tactic was a last resort after police ignored her complaints about the "maddening" noise.

"I'm going mental," she told the Toronto Sun. "I can't breathe and I'm not moving, but I need some peace.

"I can't believe I did this, but they pulled the kid inside and then called police because of their small town mentality."

Police said that Ms De Florio was not doing anything illegal as Canadian law permits women to go topless in public.

Bank left door open

HSBC /PA

Police in Hampshire were called in to guard an unlocked high street bank after a member of the public found the door open.

Officers were called to the HSBC branch in Tadley and remained on guard until the keyholder arrived, reports the BBC.

Police said everything inside the branch appeared to be in order and nothing had been taken.

A spokesman for HSBC said it was not clear whether the bank had been left open all night.

He said: "We are still investigating the chain of events. It's hard to say how long the door was open - but unlikely it was open all night.

"Nothing untoward happened when the door was open. We would like to thank the member of the public who reported the open door."

A spokesman for Hampshire Police said: "There was nothing suspicious about it apart from the fact that the door was open."

Mayor sorry for trouser mishap

Trouser mishap /Rex

The Lord Mayor of Leicester has apologised after his trousers fell down during a visit to a local library.

Colin Hall suffered the mishap on a visit to Southfields library in Leicester, reports the Daily Telegraph.

He was a guest at a summer showcase organised by the Global Education Leicester/Shire organisation, a city council spokesman confirmed today.

The spokesman said Mr Hall offered his ''deepest apologies'' for anyone who might have been offended when his trousers came loose and fell down at the event.

The spokesman said: ''The Lord Mayor of Leicester, Councillor Colin Hall, attended a function at a local library yesterday where he suffered an unfortunate problem with his trousers.

"He was not wearing a belt and the trousers came loose and fell.

''The Lord Mayor has offered his deepest apologies to those attending the event for any offence caused by the accident.''

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Some interesting facts...

01.A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
02.A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
03.A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
04.A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
05.A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
06.A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
07.A snail can sleep for three years.
08.Al Capo NE's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
09.All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
10.Almonds are a member of the peach family.
11.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
12.Babies are born without kneecaps.
13.They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
14.Butterflies taste with their feet.
15.Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about Ten.
16."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
17.February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
18.In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
19.If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
20.If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
21.It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
22.Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
23.Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
24.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
25.Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
26.Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
27."Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
28.The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
29.The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of die! Sel that it burns.
30.The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
31.The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the l! Azy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
32.The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
33.The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
34.There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
35.There are more chickens than people in the world.
36.There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
37.There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
38.There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
39.Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
40.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
41.Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
42.Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
43.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself

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