Man Caught Fishing For Women's Pants

Tokyo police said Tuesday they had arrested a man with a passion for women's underwear who used a fishing rod to reel them in. Akira Hino, 51, was arrested last week for stealing a pair of knickers from a laundry pole on a second-floor balcony, a police spokesman said. He stretched out a three-metre (10-foot) rod and caught the underwear on a hook, the Mainichi Shimbun reported. Called to his house, police found more than 500 pairs of women's underwear inside. He reportedly told investigators he had got into the habit of stealing undergarments when he was 18. It was not known for how long he had been using a fishing pole.

World's Fattest Man To Wed

 Mexican Manuel Uribe, the world's fattest man in the 2007 Guinness Book of Records, said Wednesday that he would wed this month, after losing nearly half his original weight. "It will be a hefty wedding, on a large scale, but with a low-calorie banquet," the 43-year-old told AFP. Uribe, who lives in his bed, in February said he had dropped 230 kilograms (570 pounds) from 590 kilograms (1,300 pounds). He said he would marry a widow named Claudia, to whom he has been engaged for two years, on October 26 at home in Monterrey, northern Mexico. The media-friendly Mexican expanded his wedding plans after offers of sponsorship from international magazines, television stations and local mayors who offered a cake for 400 guests. Uribe has also asked a Mexican band called "Pesado," or "Heavy," to provide the music. He thanked God for the "miracles he gave to a man who was on the edge of suicide and who today knows love.”

Beggars Plead For Return To Jail

Two Turkish immigrants who were reduced to begging on the streets after being released from prison are pleading with authorities to send them back to jail, judicial sources said Wednesday. Sahin Eren and Erden Vardar were arrested in July, 2006 in southern Spain in possession of 11 kilogrammes (24 pounds) of heroin. But confusion over their date of arrest forced a judge to release them in July as the two-year legal period of preventive detention had passed. Since then, the two men have begged on the streets of Madrid, where they sleep in a Red Cross hostel. They have pleaded with the judge to send them back to prison, a request he denied as they have not been convicted and sentenced.

 

 

Indian Hemp Less Harmful Than Drinking, Smoking

Cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, according to a report by a research charity Thursday, which called for a "serious rethink" of drug policy. The Beckley Foundation, a charity which numbers senior experts and other academics among its advisors, said banning cannabis has no impact on supply and turns users into criminals. "Although cannabis can have a negative impact on health, including mental health, in terms of relative harms it is considerably less harmful than alcohol or tobacco," says the report by the Foundation's Global Cannabis Commission. The government is pressing for cannabis to be re-classified in law as a Class B drug compared with its current, less serious, Class C classification. Authorities are concerned notably by the growing prevalence of the potent "skunk" form of the drug. Around 80 percent of cannabis seizures are of this strain, said to be linked to mental health problems, official figures show. The Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust, claimed only two deaths worldwide have been attributed to cannabis, while alcohol and tobacco use together kill an estimated 150,000 people in Britain alone. "Many of the harms associated with cannabis use are the result of prohibition itself, particularly the social harms arising from arrest and imprisonment," it said. "It is only through a regulated market that we can better protect young people from the ever more potent forms of dope," it added. The decision to reclassify cannabis upwards into the more punitive Class B category -- which includes amphetamines -- is a U-turn for the Labour government. Cannabis was downgraded from Class B when Tony Blair was prime minister, but Gordon Brown announced a review of its status soon after taking over in June last year. An earlier review of the cannabis classification, at the time of the last 2005 general election, resulted in it remaining Class C.

 

  

 

A country of striking beauty and towering peaks, Kyrgyzstan became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. While Kyrgyzstan does possess oil and gas resources, it imports the vast bulk of what it needs. The economic situation is dire, particularly in the south where unemployment is very high and poverty rife, and the country's politics have turned volatile in recent years. Kyrgyzstan is a multi-ethnic state comprising Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Russians, Ukrainians and Germans, and a small number of Uighur, Dungan - Chinese Muslims - and Koreans. Following the 11 September attacks on the US, Kyrgyzstan agreed to allow US forces to use Bishkek's Manas airport as a base. In September 2003 agreement was reached with Moscow allowing Russian rapid reaction forces to deploy at the Kant airbase in the campaign against terrorism. The Russians are stationed just 30 km (19 miles) from their US counterparts.

•                Full name: Kyrgyz Republic

•                Population: 5.3 million (UN, 2007)

•                Capital: Bishkek

•                Area: 199,900 sq km (77,182 sq miles)

•                Major languages: Kyrgyz, Russian

•                Major religions: Islam, Christianity

•                Life expectancy: 62 years (men), 70 years (women) (UN)

•                Monetary unit: 1 som = 100 tyiyns

•                Main exports: Fruit, vegetables, gold, tobacco

•                GNI per capita: US $440 (World Bank, 2006)

•                Internet domain: .kg

•                International dialling code: +996

•                President: Kurmanbek Bakiyev

 

That China has the highest number of disabled people totaling over 80 million disabled people, which is more than the population of Germany, the largest country in Europe.

 

What Is Politics?

Boy: Dad, what's politics? Dad: Let me set an example with our family. I have all the money so we'll call me the management. Mom receives most of it so we'll call her the government. We'll call the maid the working class, you are the people, and your baby brother is the future. Do you understand now son? Boy: I still don't understand dad. Dad: Think about it for a while son.

That night the boy wakes up because his baby brother is crying. He goes in and finds out he's soiled his diapers. He goes to tell his mom but she's asleep he goes in to the maids room but she's in there having sex with his dad. He bangs on the door but no one can hear him. The next day... Son: Dad I understand politics now. Dad: Good, explain it to me in your own words son. Son: The management is screwing the working class while the government's fast asleep. The people are being ignored and the future is full of SHIT!