World’s Top Five Weird, Funny and Hot News of May 02, 2013
Top 5-Why New Zealand's banned names: Lucifer, Christ, and Anal
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, May 1 (UPI) -- New Zealand officials released the country's list of banned baby names, including Lucifer, which has been requested six times since 2001. The Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, which must approve all requests for
baby names, said the last 12 years have seen six failed requests for the name Lucifer as well as 62 rejections for Justice, 31 failed requests for King, 28 rejected requests for princess, 27 failed requests for Price and 25 rejections for Royal, CNN reported Wednesday. Other names on the registrar's banned list include Duke, Major, Bishop, Majesty, Knight, Lady, Messiah, Christ, Lord and Rogue. Officials said they also received one request for the name Anal, which was rejected. The registrar's list also bans the use of brackets around middle names, which were requested four times, and using a backslash between names, which was requested eight times. The agency said approved names must not be considered offensive to a reasonable person, must not be unreasonably long and must not resemble an official title or rank.
(Source- upi.com)
Top 4-Why Cop ticket armless man for not wearing seatbelt
A Saskatoon man with no arms is vowing to fight the fine he received for not wearing his seatbelt. "I'll go to the Supreme Court, I'll go to jail over this. I'm not ever gonna pay this ticket," Steve Simonar told QMI Agency on Wednesday. Simonar's custom-fitted truck was stopped as part of a two-day traffic blitz last week. "Officers can use their discretion," police spokeswoman Alyson Edwards said, but during the province-wide, multi-agency crackdown on traffic offences "perhaps the discretion used would have been less than (in) an individual traffic stop." As a result of the $175 fine, Simonar discovered that Saskatchewan Government Insurance has to issue him an exemption to the seatbelt law — a law that was not in place when he was electrocuted and lost his arms 28 years ago. The 55-year-old said he went and got a note from his doctor the next day, which he presented to Saskatoon police Wednesday morning. "The officer that gave me the ticket was as arrogant and ignorant today as he was the day he gave me the ticket," Simonar said. "He said, 'I treat everybody the same, and you people expect things different.'"
(Source-QMI Agency)
Top 3-Suspected peeping Toms fall through bathroom ceiling
DULUTH, Ga., April 30 (UPI) -- Police in Georgia said two men accused of trying to spy on women in a movie theater restroom were busted when they fell through the ceiling. Gwinnett County police said the manager of Venture Value Cinema in Duluth told officers he suspects the men climbed into the ceiling in the men's restroom and then crawled over to the women's room, where they fell through the ceiling, WSB-TV, Atlanta, reported Monday. The arrest report said the men were "invading the privacy" of multiple customers. Eduard Petrovich Kovynev, 26, and Eduard Alexander Kovynev, 27, were charged with peeping Tom and criminal damage to property. They were released on bond
(Source- upi.com)
Top 2-Porn Studies academic journal to begin publishing next year
Next time you're caught looking at NSFW material; just say you're doing it in the name of research. The new academic journal Porn Studies, due to start publication in spring 2014, has called for submissions of articles, scholarly papers and book reviews. U.K. publisher Taylor & Francis says it will be "the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal" devoted to the study of pornographic products and services in the contexts of culture, history, economy, society and the law. Content will explore the "intersection of sexuality, gender, race, class, age and ability."
Several educators and authors have provided endorsements for the journal, which will be edited by two women — British academics Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith. "Porn Studies is a wonderful and much-needed resource for anyone interested in pornography and its relationship to wider cultural contexts," Ronald Weitzer of George Washington University said. "The journal addresses virtually every aspect of porn and will challenge readers with novel, cutting-edge articles on the topic."
(Source-QMI Agency)
Top 1-Air Force Woman instructor pleads guilty in liaison with trainees
SAN ANTONIO - The first woman Air Force training instructor to face a court martial in a scandal involving sex with recruits at a Texas military base has entered a guilty plea, and faces up to a year in prison.
Staff Sergeant Emily Allen admitted to having a sexual relationship with a male technical trainee, attempting to have a sexual relationship with another man, and having or trying to develop social relationships with two female and one male technical trainees. “She pleaded guilty to having a relationships with all four of the technical school Airmen,” Lackland spokesman Brent Boller said. Technical training is the course immediately after basic training where new Air Force recruits learn the skills needed to enter their military work assignment. It is a violation of military law for Military Training Instructors to have any kind of personal relationship with trainees under their command. Allen faces up to one year in prison. The offenses took place in 2011. More than two dozen Air Force training sergeants have been investigated for engaging in improper sexual activities, from flirting to rape, with both male and female recruits. Some 62 current and former Air Force members have come forward to claim they were victims of abuse while undergoing training at Lackland. The scandal has prompted some members of Congress to criticize the Pentagon and hold hearings on what they said was a failure of top military leaders to deal with a culture of sexual harassment and abuse. Allen is the 18th Air Force instructor to face court martial in what has become the largest sex scandal in the U.S. military in nearly 20 years. Seventeen have faced trial at Lackland, which is the home of all Air Force basic training, and the other faced court martial at Keesler Air Force base in Mississippi. Allen’s defense lawyer, Major Willie Babor, argued that it is precisely because the scandal has grown so large that his client has been charged.
“The only reason she’s in court is that commanders are being bullied by the Judge Advocate General’s office,” he said. Babor said that senior commanders are being pressured to bring charges against as many instructors as possible to show that the Air Force is serious about dealing with the high profile scandal. “If you don’t play ball, they are going to fire you, and for any senior officer, that is a serious repercussion,” he said. He submitted reports indicating that several senior Air Force leaders have been reprimanded for failing to properly report sexual misconduct in basic training. Allen entered the guilty pleas after the military judge declined to throw out the charges against her. She is now a military dental school training instructor. In addition to prison time, she could be handed a bad conduct discharge
(Source- Reuters)
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