A Texas businessman and pastor has been jailed after co-workers say he concluded a PowerPoint presentation by trying to open another file and accidentally projected an image of a nude boy. The man was fired from his job at Exel, Inc. and has resigned his position as pastor at his church. The man now faces child pornography charges and is in jail under $300,000 bond.
A 30-year-old designer drug user was cleared yesterday of using pliers to pull out 18 of his girlfriend’s teeth after she testified she had removed her own teeth during a night when the couple had used a large amount of GHB. The Bolton crown court, sitting in Bury, Greater Manchester was told that the couple’s drug-induced visions had included clowns, witches and floating furniture.
A UK mother has been awarded more than £2,000 after she was fired from her fast-food delivery job for not being Chinese. The woman told the employment tribunal that ruled for her: “They told me not to come in any more as they didn’t need me. When I asked why, they said ‘The Chinese people deliver now’.
A Chicago man who caught fire after he lit a cigarette while pumping gas died Thursday. He was filling up at an Amoco station earlier this week when his clothes caught fire, burning him over 80% of his body.
Farmers in an Ethiopian village have reported a local hippo herd has developed a taste for meat, devouring eight cows in the past eight weeks. A local wildlife expert thinks the normally herbivorous hippopotami’s strange behavior may have been provoked.
A con artist who treated Wall Street investors to fancy dinners at Spark’s steakhouse and paid with a worthless check for $20,000 has been found guilty of grand larceny and could receive seven years in prison. The man also owes tens of thousands of dollars to others.
Two commercially available chocolate products, Dove dark chocolate bars and M&M Baking Bits, are known to contain high levels of flavanol, a substance that may prevent heart attacks and promote a healthy heart, according to researchers. Ordinary milk chocolates lack significant amounts of flavanol.
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