Here are World's Top Five Weird, Funny and Hot News of May 17, 2013
Hero helps catch burglar by pulling down his trousers
A hero helped police get to the bottom of a crime by pulling off a burglar’s trousers. Courageous Chris Newbury, 56, caught Mohammed Ali, 21, upstairs in his home and clung
to his clothes as he tried to escape. Ali wriggled out of the baggy trousers and fled in his underpants but police arrested him after forensic officers identified his DNA. Chris, a heating engineer, said: “He threatened me that he had a knife but I was determined to
hang onto him. “I grabbed hold of his trouser leg and they just came down. "They were those baggy trousers that youngsters wear half way down their backsides these days. "He just stepped out of them and ran away in his underwear. But I was left holding the evidence.“It was actually quite comical but I was upset because he got away.”
(source- www.mirror.co.uk)
Deer crashes through bus windshield
A Pennsylvania bus driver and his lone passenger got a fright when a deer hitched a ride by crashing right through the windshield. Security camera caught the poor animals’s panic when it flew into the front cab of the bus and started flailing around, trying to find its footing and locate a way out. After several unsuccessful attempts to jump back through the windshield and the closed front doors, the animal goes leaping through the bus, which was empty at the time save for one woman in the back row, according to the local CBS station.
(Source- QMI)
Waitress fired for Facebook picture of deputies
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 16 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma Chili's said a waitress was fired for a Facebook photo of police dining at the eatery with a caption saying they "better hope I'm not their server."Piedmont Police and Oklahoma County sheriff's deputies said they were concerned when Ashley Warden posted a picture to her Facebook page of a group of deputies dining at the Oklahoma City restaurant, WFOR-TV, Oklahoma City, reported Thursday. "Stupid cops better hope I'm not their server," a comment in Warden's name reads.
Authorities said they were concerned about the incident. "It could mean bad service," Piedmont Police Chief Alex Oblein said. "It could mean tampering with food. You don't know what it means. It just makes you a little weary." Oblein said Warden has had previous run-ins with the Piedmont police. "Those are Oklahoma County Deputies, [they] had nothing to do with Piedmont, but I guess she got a bad taste in her mouth for law enforcement in general," Oblein said. A Chili's representative sent an email to WFOR-TV saying Warden has been fired.
"With the changing world of digital and social media, Chili's has Social Media Guidelines in place, asking our team members to always be respectful of our guests and to use proper judgment when discussing actions in the work place. When we find that team members violate these policies, they are subject to termination. After looking into the matter, we have taken action to prevent this from happening again," the representative wrote.
Man stuck in McDonald’s baby high chair freed by police
It started with an innocent McDonald’s Happy Meal and ended with police having to free a grown man stuck in a baby’s high chair. A man in Cork, Ireland, was left truly embarrassed after getting himself stuck in the seat for toddlers at the fast food restaurant earlier this week. The hungry customer had popped into the McDonald’s in the early hours of Tuesday morning before he landed himself in hot water with three unimpressed police officers. A witness who snapped the unusual incident said the man had clearly had a few drinks before getting jammed in the grey seat.
(source- metro.co.uk)
Showgirls dressed as Obama, nuns at Berlusconi party
MILAN - The nightclub dancer at the centre of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s “bunga bunga” sex trial told a court on Friday that guests at the media tycoon’s parties dressed as nuns, nurses and U.S. President Barack Obama. Karima El Mahroug, better known by her stage name “Ruby the Heartstealer”, spoke as a witness
in a trial at which talent scout Lele Mora, television anchor Emilio Fede and former showgirl and regional councillor Nicole Minetti are accused of inducing and aiding prostitution. Berlusconi is being tried separately for paying for sex with El Mahroug when she was a minor and then abusing office by having her freed from police custody after her arrest for theft. Her appearance is nevertheless an embarrassment for the 76-year-old billionaire, serving as a reminder of the legal threats the leader of the centre-right and key partner in the governing coalition faces.
A verdict in the sex trial is expected in June, and a conviction for tax fraud is moving to a final appeal. Berlusconi says he has never paid for sex, denies any wrongdoing and says judges are politically motivated against him. El Mahroug failed to appear as a witness at Berlusconi’s trial in December because she was on holiday in Mexico. In her Friday testimony, she challenged Berlusconi’s assertion that events at his villa were elegant dinner parties.
DRESSING AS OBAMA
Glamour model Marysthelle Polanco, one of 14 women who became notorious after they were discovered to be housed at a Milan address at Berlusconi’s expense, dressed up as Obama and Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho, El Mahroug said. On one occasion Minetti, Berlusconi’s former dental hygienist who graduated to a career in showbusiness and politics, “dressed up as a nun ... and as she danced, she took off her clothes and was left in her underwear,” El Mahroug told the court. Wearing a large grey scarf and her hair tied back in a sleek ponytail, she entered the Milan courtroom flanked by police, walking quickly past waiting journalists. It was the first time she has testified about the parties. El Mahroug said she received envelopes containing thousands of euros in cash from the then-prime minister and spent the night at the villa on one occasion, after which she and several other women who had slept there shared breakfast with him. She denied ever having sexual relations with Berlusconi, and said she did not see him engaged in physical contact with other women at the parties, repeating statements she has made to the media in the past.
The Moroccan-born El Mahroug was 17 when she attended the parties at Berlusconi’s villa outside Milan. She said she lied about her age and that she had told guests that she was a relative of former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. Berlusconi’s defence against the abuse of office charge is that he acted under the belief that El Mahroug was related to Mubarak, and that he needed to free her from police custody to prevent a diplomatic upset.
(Source- REUTERS)
Topless protest disrupts opening of Barbie house in Berlin
BERLIN - Women’s rights protesters disrupted the opening of a giant pink doll’s house in Berlin on Thursday, saying the Barbie “Dreamhouse Experience” objectified women. Promoting the doll made by Mattel Inc, the house allows paying visitors to try on Barbie’s clothes, play in her kitchen and have a go on her pink piano. The exhibition will be open until Aug. 25. A handful of protesters gathered outside the shocking pink house that has been erected in one of central Berlin’s greyest areas.
A topless woman, a member of the Femen protest group, who had the slogan “Life in plastic is not fantastic” scrawled across her chest, set fire to a Barbie doll tied to a mini crucifix. “There’s too much emphasis on becoming more beautiful and on being pretty and that puts an awful lot of pressure on girls as well as wasting capacities which they could use to simply be happy or for school,” said Stevie Meriel Schmiedel, a founding member of the “Pink Stinks” protest group. “We’re protesting because Barbie would not be able to survive with her figure and yet she is an idol for many girls and that’s not healthy,” she said. One placard read: “Dear Barbie - don’t just bake cupcakes, eat them too!”
(Source- REUTERS)
