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UK Student Faces Extradition To USA For Copyright Infringement
16 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A UK judge ruled this week that Richard O’Dwyer, an English university student, can be extradited to the United States to face charges of copyright infringement – O’Dwyer being the former administrator of TVShack, a website that linked to pirated content. This sets a dangerous legal precedent for anybody who does anything fun on the internet.
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Top South African Dog Whisperer’s Rottweiler Responsible For Clifton Attack
13 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 47 Comments
Morning spice reported that a dog attacked a two-year-old girl at Clifton’s first beach on Wednesday this morning. It turns out that the same dog whisperer, James Lech, responsible for a dog that mauled a girl in a similar attack last year, is responsible for this latest incident too.
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Guests Tortured At Sun City – Not The First Time
11 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Video footage allegedly showing contracted security guards beating up guests at Sun City has recently been handed over to Cosatu, who plan to march in protest.
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Saudi Businessman’s Son For Sale On Facebook For $20 Million
10 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Instead of selling off some non-essential items like a TV or maybe a set of golf clubs when his financial situation became dire, a Saudi business man chose to sell his son. For $20 million.
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Whites Only: Welcome To East London
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
Lepel Lê, a private beachfront camping site in East London, is a musem of sorts. It’s a museum, in the sense that it is a fine example of apartheid-era ignorance, racism, and hate, and also in the sense that the people inside the place are highly realistic copies of real human beings with souls. Juanelle Landman, of Cape Town, booked a stay at the private resort in East London for her family, and the friend of her son, who happened to be black. After receiving advice that she should phone ahead to confirm that the resort wasn’t subject to the Group Areas Act of 1956, she was told by an official at the camp that the resort was for whites, only.
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Bloggers Paid To Promote Google Chrome
04 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Earlier this week it was revealed that there are literally hundreds of bloggers who were bribed to promote Google Chrome and to claim that their blog’s were “sponsored by Google”. Google’s response has been to point the finger at ad agencies.
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DJ Starts Mandela Hospital Rumour After Watching E-TV Year In Review Special
30 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social media feeds, especially Twitter feeds, started buzzing with a rumour that Nelson Mandela had been admitted to hospital a few hours ago. It appears a DJ just happened to watch a programme airing on E-TV about the year that’s passed, and saw old visuals that prompted him to think Madiba had in fact been hospitalised.
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Catholic Cardinal: “Gay Movement Could Morph Into Ku Klux Klan” [VIDEO]
23 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cardinal Francis George, the Archbishop of Chicago, has warned that the gay movement could morph into Ku Klux Klan. In a breathtaking display of logic he has said that, in the past, both the KKK and the gays have protested against the Catholic Church. Therefore gays equal the KKK.
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Footage Of Courier Throwing Computer Monitor Over Wall Goes Viral [VIDEO]
22 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A US FedEx courier recently threw a computer monitor over a wall. The incident was caught on a nearby security camera, uploaded to Youtube, and has since been viewed nearly 4,5 million times! Fedex has responded with a good example of how any company can circumnavigate a potential PR disaster.
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Rihanna Called N-Word In Dutch Fashion Magazine
21 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jackie, a Dutch fashion magazine recently ran a feature on Rihanna – showing readers how to imitate the singer’s style. In an attempt at humour, they wrote the piece in what they thought was street lingo. But, as it turns out, Rihanna didn’t appreciate being called “the ultimate niggabitch” with “a ghetto ass”.
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High School “Prank” FAIL Sees Children Make Out With Parents
19 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I believe the expression, “oh, America!” is very appropriate here. The principal of a US high school has been forced to apologise after a recent pep rally “prank” provoked outrage. This after a video surfaced online of team captains being blindfolded in front of their classmates and told to wait for a kiss from a “special someone”. After literally making out with this special someone, it is then revealed to them that it was in fact their mother or father.
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Full Gallery Of Nobanda Nolubabalo’s Cocaine Dreadlocks [PICS]
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 60 Comments
By now you must have heard of Nobanda Nolubabalo, the 23 year-old South African who was arrested in Bangkok on Monday. She is accused of being a drug mule and was allegedly carrying 1.5kg of cocaine, hidden in her dreadlocks. Photos of customs officers searching her hair have since appeared online. See them after the jump.
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Congratulations, You’ve Won £37 Million… NOT!
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The sirens go off, the lights flash, you blink in disbelief as you try to comprehend what has just happened – you’ve won the slots jackpot at a casino! Your mental shopping list is already on its third page when an elegantly dressed gentleman taps you on the shoulder to inform you it was a system glitch.
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Man Fakes Mom’s Obituary To Get Off Work
12 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bosses can be real dicks sometimes, refusing to give you the time off you need to attend your kid’s prize-giving at school, or when you just need some “personal time” to recover from that mid-week hangover. A man from the US has just hatched a great plan – by sending his local newspaper an obituary of his still-living in mother, you know, to prove to work that he was entitled to the time off.
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Dutch Architects Apologise For Twin Tower Blast Look-Alike Design
12 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A highly embarrassed Dutch architectural firm has had to apologise for its design of twin skyscrapers in central Seoul, South Korea, because they look pretty much like freeze frames of New York’s late World Trade Center, as both towers exploded. The design for the luxury apartment buildings has enraged families of the victims of the September 11 attacks.
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Rick Perry’s Campaign Video Is A YouTube Fail [VIDEO]
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Rick Perry, you silly Republican. A few days ago, Rick Perry released a campaign video making his views of gays in the military very clear. The video is now second only to Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as the most disliked video on YouTube, overtaking Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” The full video after the jump.
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Christians To Boycott Local Playboy Channels: “Porn is the new crack”
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
TopTV has signed an agreement with Playboy TV to add three adult TV channels from Playboy to their existing line-up in 2012. But Isak Burger and his Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) is threatening a nationwide boycott campaign against TopTV. Burger says pornograhpy is “the new crack.”
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KZN Police Officer Jailed For Life
07 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A former KwaZulu-Natal cop is going to have to spend a long time on the wrong side of the bars, having been sentenced to life imprisonment today for killing three people. The 28-year-old ex-cop, Judea Ntuli, went on an insane shooting spree in 2009, during which he killed two SAPS colleagues and a schoolboy.
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Rhino Poaching In SA Reaches Record High
07 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bloomberg has finally done the number crunching on exactly how high South Africa’s rhino poaching numbers actually are. The number is pretty staggering.
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Smoking Can Make Your Nipples Fall Off
07 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Here’s a warning to everyone that is thinking about getting a breast lift. Don’t smoke. A new column by Dr Anthony Youn tells us that truly horrible things happen to your breasts if you smoke before or after breast augmentation.
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Jeremy Clarkson Says “Strikers Should Be Shot” Comment Was A Joke
02 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jeremy Clarkson appeared earlier this week on the BBC’s “The One Show”. During his interview he said that public servants who are taking part in a strike “ought to be executed in front of their families”. But Clarkson says it was only a joke and that producers of the show were warned in advance and approved of the comments.
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“30 Seconds” With A Brutal Twist
02 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Locally, 30 Seconds is a popular board-game enjoyed by all ages and can often be the kickstart of a festive evening. In Detroit however, it’s a game which takes place in school bathrooms, and has absolutely nothing do with general knowledge.
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Shoplifting Boys Forced To Slap Each Other
01 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Four young boys were forced to slap each other as part of their punishment after they were caught stealing chocolates at a Shoprite in Limpopo. Security footage of the incident shows how the boys took turns in slapping each other, while staff watched, laughed and passed “silly” comments.
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Gun Club Lets Children Pose With Santa And Some High-Powered Firearms
29 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
An American gun club has invited children and their families to pose for pictures with Santa Claus – and a high-powered firearm! They are able to choose between grenade launchers, assault rifles and AK-47s. The picture, taken against a festive backdrop, will then feature on a holiday card. Afterwards, the families also get a chance to test out the machine guns.
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Botox Fail: Woman Gets 100 Silicone Injections In Lips [PICS]
25 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Kristina Rei from Russia clearly never watched that Absolutely Fabulous episode where Eddie tells Patsy that your lips should always be smaller than your face. She has just had her 100th botox injection – bringing her total expenses on these procedures to R50 000 so far. Her quest is twofold: to emulate cartoon diva Jessica Rabbit, and have the world’s biggest pout.
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Mandla Mandela: “Sexual Age Of Consent Is A White, Western Notion”
25 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Three prominent gender rights organisations met with Mandla Mandela yesterday. This, after he made statements regarding South Africa’s sexual age of consent last year, saying that when it comes to culture, the sexual age of consent is a “white, Western notion.” He was specifically referring to the ukuthwala practice, where girls as young as 14-years-old are abducted and forcefully married to older men.
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Cheeky, Illiterate Thief Taunts Victims In “Apology” Letter
24 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As part of what is the ‘most rigorous’ form of non-custodial punishment, a young offender was told to write an apology letter for his crimes. Instead, he took the opportunity to mock and insult his victims.
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“Reply To All” Email Goes Terribly Wrong For Jozi Car Dealership
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
This is why you always double check if you have clicked “reply”, and not “reply to all”, when sending an email, especially when it concerns your annoyance about something. The email in question has to do with repairs being made to a car at a Johannesburg dealership, and, well, it’s rather self-explanatory. Click through to cringe.
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Drunk Idiot Viciously Attacked By Zoo Monkeys [Graphic Video]
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Joao Leite dos Santos is one loco ese! On Sunday he visited a Brazilian zoo in Sao Paulo, got drunk, and decided to take a swim in the monkey enclosure. As you’ll see from this video, he ended up being attacked and badly injured. According to experts, the only reason why he survived was because the monkeys were afraid of the water.
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Sepp Blatter Says Racial Insults On Soccer Field “Should Be Forgotten”
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
FIFA president Sepp Blatter said yesterday that racial insults on the soccer field are nothing more than “on-field provocation”. He also suggested that players should accept this as part of the game and simply shake hands at the end of the match. I was actually trying to think of something sarcastic to insert here, but I’m too busy weeping for humanity at the moment.
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