Sexy meat
In a bid to fool customs officers
in Dubai, a German man attempted
to hide two sex toys inside large
sausages. The man had purchased
the “Schwartenmagen” sausages,
then returned later in the day to
the butcher shop to ask if they’d
wrap and cool them until he left
the next day for Dubai. Staff at
the butcher shop noticed that
the meat had gotten heavier and
called the police. Officers found
two latex dildos packed inside the
sausages.
Teacher sues to
pack heat
A high school teacher in Oregon
is suing her school for the right
to bring her gun into the classroom.
The teacher has a permit
to carry a concealed handgun
legally, but school district rules
prohibit bringing weapons onto
school grounds.
The Oregon Firearms Federation
is paying for the teacher’s legal
fees. The teacher, whose abusive
ex-husband has made threats
against her and her children, said
she wants to be armed for the sake
of personal protection and that the
school district cannot adequately
protect her. The school district is
arguing that being gun-free is a
condition of her employment.
The teacher-versus-school
standoff has grabbed the attention
of both sides of the national
gun debate. After a student shot
dead 32 people at Virginia Tech
in April, pro-gun advocates have
argued that teachers and maybe
even students should be allowed
to be armed in order to prevent
similar future tragedies.
Bathroom fun-time
While high on drugs, an Australian
burglar broke into his
neighbor’s house, spread pornographic
magazines all over the
bathroom and made a sex toy out of
a bottle of toilet detergent, a piece
of wood and a rubber glove.
Also found in the bathroom
was a vacuum cleaner, which was
never conclusively tied to any
sexual activity.
Three years after the incident
occurred, the 27 year old has finally
been sentenced to 12 months of
community service. Police did not
connect him to the crime until they
matched his DNA to that on the
rubber glove in 2006. The judge
said he decided not to send him
to jail because he has since held
a steady job for two years and
become a father.
Stripped and shaved
A man found illegally posting advertisements
on walls was stripped
and had his head shaved by security
guards in a southern Chinese city.
The perpetrator/victim is a 17-yearold
migrant worker who was trying
to make a bit of extra money by
posting fliers for a hotel.
Ten men who travel on scooters
and refer to themselves as “city
inspectors” stripped the ad-poster to
his underwear, beat him and made
him get on his knees while they
shaved his head as punishment.
The man was then humiliated
as he had to walk home in his
underwear.
Clashes between members of the
public and the inspectors are common.
The inspectors are mainly
responsible for cracking down
on unlicensed vendors suspected
to be selling unsanitary food or
fake goods. In June, hundreds of
students fought with police after
a female student was beaten up by
street inspectors.
Machine-gun
toting cops
The Chinese city of Chongqing
has taken the unusual step of arming
its night-shift traffic cops with assault
weapons. Police wearing bulletproof
vests and packing sub-machine guns
will now enforce violations including
speeding, drunk driving and driving
without a license.
Violent crime, once virtually
unheard of, has soared in the past
few decades along with China’s
economic boom in cities across
the country.
City police already carry pistols,
wear head protection and are
authorized to open fire on suspects
in accordance with the law. The
move is an effort to establish police
authority, strike fear into criminals
and make residents feel safer.
The new force has proven
shocking to some residents who
questioned whether police would
actually use the guns or be mugged
by criminals themselves.