World's Top Five Weird, Funny and sizzling News of Apr 06, 2013
Top 5-Flight diverted after family complains about movie
A United Airlines flight was diverted after a family argued with the crew that Alex Cross, a detective thriller, is too violent and sexually explicit to be shown as an in-flight movie. In a letter to The Atlantic, the parents said they didn't want their four- and eight-year-
old children to see the PG-13 movie, but the flight attendants wouldn't comply with their request to turn off the fold-down screen. "Cruising at 30,000 feet, leaving was not an option," the family stated. The unnamed parents said the captain even came out to speak with them, and although they say the conversations were collegial, the flight from Denver to Baltimore was diverted to Chicago for "security issues." The family was questioned by border security, police and FBI, before being put on another flight. In a statement, United Airlines said it was reviewing its entertainment policies.
Source-QMI Agency
Top 4-Now dogs needs medical marijuana
Now that many U.S. states have legalized marijuana possession and use, a veterinarian says people aren't the only ones who should be able to benefit from the occasional puff - pot can also help dogs deal with chronic pain or other debilitating conditions. No, blowing pot smoke in your pooch's face is not cool, Dr. Doug Kramer says in an interview with the irreverent and often risque Vice magazine. But Kramer said after he "dosed" his dog Nikita, suffering from terminal cancer, she was up and around, and had a better quality of life until she reached the end. Medical marijuana can also be used to give cats the munchies. "We're using it on cats ... as an appetite stimulant," he said, noting how finicky felines get when they're sick. In fact, any animal with cannabinoid receptors - pigs, chickens, monkeys and rats, for instance -- could feel the effects of THC. But they wouldn't smoke it. They would receive it in a tincture or in food cooked in oil or butter made from cannabis.
Source-QMI Agency
Top 3-Scientists can read dreams
Scientists in Japan have discovered a way to read someone's dreams while they're sleeping. A team at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto used MRI machines to monitor people while they slept. When the subjects began to dream, the scientists woke them and had them describe what they saw. They did this 200 times and built a database of all the images that showed up in the dreams. Then, the same subjects looked at those images on a computer screen while the researchers mapped their brain patterns. When participants went back into the MRI machine for more sleep, the researchers predicted what they were dreaming about based on their brain patterns. They were accurate 60% of the time -- a percentage that should grow as more data is collected. "Dreaming is a subjective experience and we quickly forget the contents after awaking," lead author Yukiyasu Kamitani told the journal Science. "Our method ... could provide unambiguous interpretations about spontaneous neural activity."
Source- QMI Agency
Top 2-Woman, 26, Arrested For Extorting Money from Sugar Daddy
An online relationship that began on a “sugar daddy” web site ended in a series of extortionate demands by a Florida woman who threatened to distribute nude photos sent to her by the 56-year-old male victim, according to investigators. Stephanie Starling, 26, was arrested Monday in connection with her alleged shakedown of a married Las Vegas businessman identified in court records by his initials, “H.T.”As detailed in a felony extortion complaint, Starling, seen at right, met “H.T.” on sugardaddyforme.com, a “dating” web site that matches women in need of money and men with said money. “H.T.” told FBI agents that he joined the site (which charges up to $53.85 a month) in mid-2012 and “began an online relationship” with Starling in September or October.Starling, “H.T.” recalled, claimed to be a 21-year-old college student from Jacksonville. The photos she first shared with “H.T” actually depicted a blonde model who appeared in porno films. Starling is pictured above in an photo from her Facebook page.
During their initial communications, “H.T.” voluntarily agreed to send Starling $7000 to cover “various school and living expenses.” The pair also exchanged “several revealing and nude photographs of each other.” But while “H.T” sent Starling explicit photos of himself, she sent naked images of another woman she found online. Starling claimed she signed up to sugardaddyforme.com because she was “struggling to pay bills and feed” her young son. Starling, who said that “H.T.” “told me he wanted to have me as his side girlfriend,” told agents that she had relationships with “approximately five or six men” she met via the web site.
Source- thesmokinggun.com
Top 1-Referees charged for 'Sex bribe’ in a soccer match
Three Lebanese soccer referees have been charged over allegations of receiving sexual bribes in exchange for fixing a match in Singapore, the government's anti-corruption bureau said. Referee Ali Sabbagh, and assistants Ali Eid and Abdallah Taleb, were charged before a district court for "corruptly" receiving sexual gratification "as an inducement" to fix the match they were to officiate on Wednesday, court documents showed. The charge sheets said the three committed an offence punishable under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The three had been due to officiate in Tampines Rovers' AFC Cup fixture with East Bengal when they were abruptly dropped and questioned by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB). Replacement officials were brought in for the game, which was won 4-2 by the Indian team. CPIB said in a statement on Thursday they had acted on "prior information of match fixing" involving the three referees. "Subsequent investigations revealed that the trio corruptly received gratification ... in the form of free sexual service from three females," the CPIB said in a statement. "Singapore has always adopted a zero tolerance approach towards corruption, and match fixing of any form is not condoned in Singapore," it said.
The CPIB added that it "investigates into match-fixing through bribery cases and will not hesitate to take action against any parties involved if they had given or received bribes to fix a match". Singapore has a long record of match-fixing scandals and criminals from the tiny but wealthy Southeast Asian country have been blamed by Europol for orchestrating an international network responsible for rigging hundreds of games worldwide. In February, Singapore came under pressure to act against the cartels, whose activities fuel illegal gambling estimated to be worth billions of dollars, when the head of Interpol called for the arrest of an alleged ringleader. Singapore police later said the suspect, Tan Seet Eng or Dan Tan, was assisting investigations, but he was not arrested or charged with any crime.
(Source-couriermail.com.au)
