Top 5 weird, funny and sizzling news of this week
Drink driver allowed living inside car despite being banned from using it
A drink-driver has been told he is allowed to live in his car, even though he has been banned from driving it for 14 months. Egidijus Sakalauska, 24, was also fined £300 after admitting drink-driving. Sakalauska, a lorry driver who came to the UK from Poland three months ago, told Cambridge magistrates he lived in his car in Tilbury, Essex.
He then asked: “Can I still do that now I am banned?” Chief magistrate Claire Robinson replied: “We’ve heard you sleep in your car, but that is no excuse to drive it – so do not be tempted.”Police in Cambridge stopped Sakalauska at 1.30am on October 27 when he was seen driving very slowly with faulty lights on his Toyota Avensis. He had 54mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath.
Man collects 595 pizza boxes from 42 countries
A New York man with a collection of 595 pizza boxes from 42 countries was awarded a Guinness World Record for his hobby. Scott Wiener, who runs a pizza tour company that takes visitors to pizzerias and "points of pizza interest," was awarded the record for largest collection of pizza boxes as part of Thursday's Guinness World Records Day, the World Record Academy reported Monday. Wiener's collection includes boxes from 42 countries and he has published a book titled "Viva La Pizza! The Art of the Pizza Box.
California girls found guilty of defamation for calling teacher 'perv' and 'creeper'
Nov. 18 (UPI) -- A California jury has ruled in favor of a teacher whom students called a "perv" and "creeper" and found the children and their parents financially liable for defamation to the tune of $362,653 in compensatory damages In addition to those unflattering names, the schoolgirls said that former Catholic school physical education teacher John Fischler, 49, inappropriately touched kids and peeked into their restroom. The case began in 2011 when administrators at Holy Spirit school in Almaden Valley were informed that Fischler had inappropriately touched students and spied in the bathroom. He was later cleared of those charges by police and school officials.
After returning to a work environment he called “poisonous,” Fischler filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $1 million in damages. As part of the verdict handed down on Friday, the Santa Clara County Superior Court panel also found that one of the girls acted with malice and is also liable for punitive damages. Fischler's lawyer, Robert Vantress, argued that the families and the children didn’t only discuss the concerns they had about his client in order to promote safety, they basically gossiped about the situation. "I'm grateful the jury was able to see through the smoke screen and the truth came out." Fischler said. "There's always going to be a scar. But the jury saw through the deception." The families and their attorneys cautioned that this sort of ruling could have a big effect on the reporting of school abuse.
Qatar World Cup stadium looks like a vagina
One of nine new stadiums being built in Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup has been likened to a vagina after plans were unveiled.According to architects Zaha Hadid and Aecom, the design of the Al Wakrah stadium was inspired by the flowing shape of a dhow, a traditional sailing vessel used by pearl divers and fishermen in the region for centuries. But the reaction has been much more prosaic, with blogs immediately saying the 40,000 capacity stadium in fact resembled a vagina.
Writing in the Guardian, Holly Baxter, co-founder and editor of the Vagenda blog, applauded the design, unintentional or not. ‘Perhaps the bigwigs behind the design (no doubt all male) should embrace this so-called faux pas and rebrand it as a deliberate nod towards the increasingly liberal Qatari policies concerning women in sport,’ she wrote. ‘In a world where sport and vaginas very rarely come together with such prominence (see every UK female footballer’s salary versus every UK male footballer’s salary), this can only be a good thing. And after all, why not have 45,000 people crammed inside a woman’s reproductive system? It’s not like they haven’t been there before.’
Kids bring sex toy for school show and tell
A BONE from granny before she was cremated, a blob of fresh earwax, a dead owl and baby brother's placenta. Who knew that these are things that children whip out of their
schoolbags on show and tell day? Mums have revealed the cringe-worthy items that make it from home to the classroom on a Facebook page set up by Queensland mother Sam Jockel. The School Mum page was created a few months ago and now has more than 50,000 likes.
Mums love to share the funny things that kids do and have a laugh about it. Some of the stories are really funny and my husband Simon is s schoolteacher so I can relate,'' said Ms Jockel, a mum of two from Clontarf, on Brisbane's north side
Wouldn't you love to see the look on the teacher's face when an excited pupil opens a shoebox to reveal "mummy's rocket ship that lights up and vibrates''?
Or mummy's breast pump or a bra "because it's so enormous''?
"My daughter Eden is six and has started show and tell so I'll be keeping a close eye on my underwear,'' said Ms Jockel.
In one class the kids were told to bring in something old, so one bright spark brought in nanna. Makes sense.
And what kid doesn't love the chance to show off when they have a captive audience?
"My first son took a crocodile skull that we had bought in Darwin years before. We found out he told the class daddy had wrestled it and kept the skull as a souvenir,'' said one mum.
Wouldn't you love to see the look on the teacher's face when an excited pupil opens a shoebox to reveal "mummy's rocket ship that lights up and vibrates''?
Or mummy's breast pump or a bra "because it's so enormous''?
"My daughter Eden is six and has started show and tell so I'll be keeping a close eye on my underwear,'' said Ms Jockel.
In one class the kids were told to bring in something old, so one bright spark brought in nanna. Makes sense.
And what kid doesn't love the chance to show off when they have a captive audience?
"My first son took a crocodile skull that we had bought in Darwin years before. We found out he told the class daddy had wrestled it and kept the skull as a souvenir,'' said one mum.
A teacher reveals: "In my 26 years as a teacher I've had kids bring dogs, cats, geese, horses, lizards, snakes, baby brothers and sisters, grandmas and grandads, photos, souvenirs, funny jokes and sad stories but the big ticket show and tell was when one of my kids wanted to show and tell his dad's job ... he was a Care Flight chopper pilot and he brought the chopper to school.''
One inventive child proudly displayed her favourite Barbie relaxing on a "mattress'' made of a massive sanitary pad.
Another brought in the empty tin from karma sutra lollies.
Then there are the medical reveals. One boy showed off a pool tile that his sister had swallowed and he waited patiently for it to be removed at hospital so he could bring it to show his class..
Another held up a xray of his stomach showing a tap plug he had swallowed.
Then there is the reveal that adds a little chaos to the teacher's day.
"I had a child bring a wallaby into my classroom for show and tell, her parents were wildlife carers. It was jumping all around the room,'' posted a teacher.
