Here are top five weird, hot and funny news of August 30 2013
Top 5-How a Parking ticket issued with time still on meter
BALTIMORE, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A Maryland man says he was issued a $32 parking ticket an hour before his meter was timed to expire, and he has the receipt to prove it.Dennis
ONeal told The Baltimore Sun the parking ticket on the windshield of his car was issued just 9 minutes after he paid for an hour of parking at 12:06 p.m. in Baltimore last week and the ticket read "EZ PK Pass expired @ 1:07p" despite the expiration time still being nearly an hour away. ONeal kept his kiosk receipt from his $2 parking purchase and provided it to the Sun in addition to a copy of the citation. ONeal said officials initially told him he would have to go to court to fight the ticket, but he was later given an email address to contact about having the citation voided. He said he has sent an email to the address, but has not yet received a reply. The Sun said city officials did not respond to a request for comment
ONeal told The Baltimore Sun the parking ticket on the windshield of his car was issued just 9 minutes after he paid for an hour of parking at 12:06 p.m. in Baltimore last week and the ticket read "EZ PK Pass expired @ 1:07p" despite the expiration time still being nearly an hour away. ONeal kept his kiosk receipt from his $2 parking purchase and provided it to the Sun in addition to a copy of the citation. ONeal said officials initially told him he would have to go to court to fight the ticket, but he was later given an email address to contact about having the citation voided. He said he has sent an email to the address, but has not yet received a reply. The Sun said city officials did not respond to a request for comment
Top 4-Watch out-Website targets deadbeat gamblers
HONG KONG - Hustler, cheater, robber, rogue. Gamblers who skip out on casino debts in Macau risk being branded with these monikers and having personal details made public by a website that says it has helped to recover 50 million yuan ($8 million) so far. But the novel strategy to combat bad debts in the world's largest gambling destination is under scrutiny from the police for possibly breaking the law and from the Chinese territory's gaming authority over privacy concerns. The bilingual website, called Wonderful World in English, features a blacklist of more than 70 people from across
China who it says have failed to repay gambling debts ranging from thousands to millions of yuan. Photographs of alleged deadbeats, along with their date of birth and marital status, are displayed prominently. A bounty is often offered for help in tracking them down. Macau, a former Portuguese colony and the only place in China where casinos are allowed, raked in $38 billion in gaming revenues last year, with 70% of that coming from the lucrative VIP sector.
China who it says have failed to repay gambling debts ranging from thousands to millions of yuan. Photographs of alleged deadbeats, along with their date of birth and marital status, are displayed prominently. A bounty is often offered for help in tracking them down. Macau, a former Portuguese colony and the only place in China where casinos are allowed, raked in $38 billion in gaming revenues last year, with 70% of that coming from the lucrative VIP sector.
Top 3-Birds sense speed limits on roads to avoid collisions
BIRDS sense posted speed limits on roads and react to avoid collisions, a study suggests. Researchers say birds appear to have adapted to the local speed limits as a feature of their environment, such as the risk of predators. Strict enforcement of speed limits could therefore significantly help with conservation, especially for endangered species in populated areas, lead researcher Pierre from the University of Quebec, said. "I realised that the birds were not reacting to the actual speed of my car, but to the average speed of cars on these roads, to the posted speed limits," Legagneux, a behavioural ecologist, said.The birds "associate road sections with speed limits as a way to assess collision risk", he added in the study published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. "So strictly enforcing speed limits could reduce bird collisions.
Top 2-Strip Club Patron Left Daughter, 7, In Locked Car
AUGUST 28--A Florida man was arrested early this morning for child neglect after he allegedly left his seven-year-old daughter in a parked car while he spent about an hour inside the Diamond Club strip joint, police report. Responding at 1:22 AM to a call about a child locked in a vehicle, a cop discovered the girl sleeping inside a Nissan registered to Elliut Gonzalez. According to an Orange County Sheriff’s Office report, a cop was standing by the car when she spotted “a Hispanic man wearing a yellow shirt and blue jeans exit the main entrance of the Diamond Club,” an Orlando gentlemen’s club. As noted by Officer Angela Keller, the 38-year-old Gonzalez acknowledged ownership of the Nissan, adding that he was supposed to meet a friend at the club, “but he never showed up.” Keller reported that she “could smell the impurities of alcohol” on Gonzalez, who admitted, “I’m not going to lie to you, I had one drink.” A bartender told police that she had served Gonzalez two drinks. Since Gonzalez “intentionally left his daughter inside the vehicle, with the windows rolled up, doors locked and vehicle turned off for nearly an hour,” he was busted for felony child neglect. Gonzalez told police that he has “full guardianship” of his daughter and lives with the child and his girlfriend, who came to the strip club to take custody of the girl. Officer Keller noted that she contacted a child welfare official who “stated she will be taking a report on the matter.”
Top 1-Couple Shacking up At Home Depot shed
AUGUST 29--A South Carolina couple was arrested yesterday for having sex inside a display shed at a Home Depot, police report. Emily Craig, 20, and Shaun Bowden, 31, were nabbed after cops were called to the store in North Charleston around 8:40 AM.
Officers were dispatched to the business “in reference to an male and female entering a display shed on the property, closing the door behind themselves and remaining inside,” according to a North Charleston Police Department report. An inspection of the outdoor sheds turned up Craig and Bowden. Craig, cops noted, was “partially clothed; the top of her dress was untied, hanging at her waist.” Bowden was shirtless and “had his pants down near his knees; his penis was exposed.”During subsequent questioning of the duo, “it became apparent that they were engaged in sexual intercourse within the shed.
