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Zimbabwe Torture Camp Exposed
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
“There was a lot of screaming.” The BBC is reporting that Zimbabwean police and military are recruiting civilians to illegally dig for diamonds for them. The report also mention a torture camp, run by Zimbabwe’s security forces, operating in the country’s rich Marange diamond fields.
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Soweto Man Steals Gun, Then Gets Robbed And Shot With It
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Soweto man, who had just stolen a gun, was robbed and shot with it. After which all the men were arrested, the two shooters charged with attempted murder, and the thief, with robbery. Karma’s a bitch.
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South Africa Suffers Child Labour Scourge
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
South Africa has a very real child labour problem. Did you know that? And particularly in the North West province, Cosatu said today. This follows a shocking incident in June where an underage boy named Molefe Mogale lost his hand while operating a machine on the farm where he was employed in Rustenburg. He’s14 years old – and now he only has one hand.
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Baby Saved From Being Buried Alive Dies
04 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A newborn baby girl who doctors declared dead after being delivered was moments from her burial when she awoke and started crying at a Brazilian funeral home. She was immediately rushed back to the hospital placed in an intensive care unit, but sadly passed away for real shortly afterwards.
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Girl Found With Bomb Strapped To Her, In Sydney Suburb
03 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just when you thought you were safe, someone goes and straps a bomb to your rich neighbours daughter. No really. This is exactly what happened to an unfortunate 18-year old girl in the wealthy suburb of Mosman in Sydney, Australia. Somebody call Bruce Willis.
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Super Dad And The Eight Year Old Designated Driver
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
On a family trip from Mississippi to Texas, this loving father of two not only handed his car keys to his eight year old son after a binge on the town, he also passed out while the kid drove. On the highway. Oh, and did I mention that his four year old sister was in the back seat as well?
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Unemployed British Man, 29, And Ex-Girlfriend, 30, Become Grandparents
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
An unemployed man, 29, has become one of Britain’s youngest grandparents after his daughter gave birth at 14. Shem Davies and his former girlfriend Kelly John, 30, were “overjoyed” when their daughter Tia, who was born when her parents were 15, gave birth to little Gracie earlier this month. Tia’s boyfriend is 15.
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Kids Can Be Born Addicted To Prescription Drugs
28 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There’s a growing body of evidence supporting the idea that alcoholism can be passed to one’s children genetically. So too, an addiction to drugs like crack cocaine. But recently, medical facilities in the US have reported an overwhelming number of cases of babies hooked on the same prescription drugs that were abused by their mothers during pregnancy.
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San Francisco Prawn Infestation: A Photo Essay Of Terror
28 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Today we received this harrowing report from San Francisco by a brave 2oceansViber. Before you continue, note that we indemnify ourselves from any angst or emotional complications that you may suffer as a result of reading the following letter.
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TuksFM Nazi Gaff Causes Flurry On Twitter
27 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 14 Comments
The blog of the TuksFM Bang Bang Breakfast Show on the University of Pretoria’s student radio station, TuksFM is trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons. Spicy pics after the jump.
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Local School Principal Beats Pupil With Hosepipe [VIDEO]
25 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Diversity High school in Alberton certainly lives up to its name when it comes to punishing their learners. In this shocking cell phone video the headmaster can be seen viciously beating a Grade 8 boy with a hosepipe. In another video a teacher forces a pupil’s hand into a bucket of cold water before striking the girl’s hands with a chalkboard duster.
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Foxconn Claims Another Life
20 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The infamous Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, has claimed another life, when a 21 year-old male worker “fell to his death” from the sixth floor of a factory dormitory. More than a dozen similar fatalities by falling were reported last year.
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Woman Forced To Deliver Her Own Baby In Local Hospital
20 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Bridget Moleboheng was due to give birth over December and was taken to the Sebokeng Hospital in the Vaal Triangle. But when the time came she was forced to deliver her own baby. The only “help” she received from the nurses on duty was when they took time out of laughing and chatting in the corridor outside her room to tell her to keep quiet.
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Girls Busted For Operating Illegal Lemonade Stand [VIDEO]
18 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Like bootleggers from the olden days, three American girls recently set up an illegal lemonade stand. They actually had the audacity to try and pawn their goods off to the unsuspecting public WITHOUT a city food and beverage permit! Luckily, good police work took care of that and the girls’ illegal and dodgy activities have now been brought to an end.
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Top South African Dog Whisperer’s Rottweiler Mauls Girl, 4, In Jozi Mall [VIDEO]
18 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 89 Comments
Yesterday, the Sunday Times carried a story about a dog attack. A four-year-old girl was mauled by a Rottweiler in the upmarket Hyde Park shopping centre last Monday. But what was unique about this? The dog’s handler is a dog whisperer and also claims to be “Africa’s number one dog expert.”
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News Host Remembers No Terrorist Attacks On US Soil During Last Bush Era [VIDEO]
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Fox News’ Eric Bolling recently decided that one of the guests on his show was being too mean to George W. Bush. So he spoke up in defense of the weapons of mass destruction eff up. Try spotting the slight error in this statement: “America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don’t remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.”
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Waterborne-Prawn Spotted In Finland: A Tale Of Terror
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday we received this harrowing report from Europe by a brave 2oceansViber. Before you continue, note that we indemnify ourselves from any angst or emotional complications that you may suffer as a result of reading the following letter.
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Japan Walks Out On Whaling Talks
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Pro-whaling representatives from Japan, Iceland and some African and Caribbean nations, upped and left the room yesterday at a gathering of the International Whaling Commission. The topic they were touchy about was a proposal to create a sanctuary for whales in the South Atlantic. Guess walking out was a simple way to ensure the vote could not proceed?
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Adderley Street Flower Sellers The Moer In With City Prawn Lane
12 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Flower selling in Adderley Street, Cape Town, is tradition in one of its purest forms. For some 100 years, man has always known he merely has to make a short drive into town, come rain or shine, to demonstrate old fashioned chivalry. Unfortunately, it appears an unused prawn lane is now hurting business, say the sellers.
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Car Knocks Tour De France Cyclist Into Barbed Wire Fence [VIDEO]
11 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A car covering the Tour de France, for a French television station, sideswiped Juan Antonio Flecha of Spain, while Dutch cyclist, Johnny Hoogerland, went flying into a barbed-wire fence at 60 kilometres per hour. Luckily he survived – albeit half-naked, as his pants were ripped off by the fence in the process. The maniac behind the wheel has now been banned by tour organisers.
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Baseball Fan Falls After Taking Crowd Catch, Later Dies Of Injuries [GRAPHIC VIDEO]
11 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
Over the weekend, Shannon Stone, a firefighter, tried to catch a ball thrown into the stands during a game. What is normally great fun at these events, turned into a tragedy, as he lost his footing and plunged six meters to his death. What’s worse is that his young son can also be seen in the video and witnessed everything.
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Local Healthcare Fail: Patients Infected With Lice Found Sleeping On Hospital Floor
08 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eastern Cape Health MEC, Sicelo Gqobana, visited a psychiatric hospital in Queenstown this week. There he found patients infected with lice, as “warm water was not available.” Others were even sleeping naked on the floor due to “linen shortages.” But when Gqobana looked in the cupboards, guess what he found? Clean and unused linen! Those found to be in charge were handed letters of intended suspension.
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Man Builds Home-Made Electric Chair For Wife Who Wanted A Divorce
07 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
When Andrew Castle from the UK’s wife told him that she wanted a divorce after 18 years of marriage, he did not take too kindly to it. After devising a home-made electric chair in his garage, he casually invited her to sit down in it “for a chat”. He then tried to hit her over the head, in a plan to knock her unconscious before connecting her metal armchair to the house’s main electricity board.
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Fattest Woman To Ever Give Birth Gets Four-Year-Old Daughter To Feed Her, While Going For Next Record
06 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Just when it appeared that American moral fabric couldn’t get any worse, it did. Donna Simpson already holds the honour of being the Guinness Book Of Records’ fattest woman to ever give birth. Now she’s after the record for the world’s most obese woman. Did we mention she gets her daughter to feed her? Can you say child abuse?
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India’s Health Minister Calls Homosexuality A Disease From The West
06 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While the rest of us have been wondering whether or not people are born gay, India’s Health Minister has know all along: that it is in fact a disease from the West. The only thing he is still struggling with is identifying sufferers from this illness as it is “difficult to find them because you don’t know who is doing it and where they are.”
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Judge Nkola Motata Involved In Another Accident
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember judge Nkola Motata? He got a bit wasted a couple of years ago and drove his car off the road into someone’s garden. He was terribly sorry about it at the time – so sorry that his 12 months jail sentence was upheld. But during “the early hours” of this morning he was involved in yet another accident – this time with a minibus taxi.
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RICA Your Number Under A False Name For R20
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Come on, you all know what we’re referring to in that headline. It’s just a little bribe and you’re done. In there. RICA sorted. It’s actually hardly surprising, but it deflates the high we all experienced with the relatively hassle-free event that was reported in a lot of the mainstream media.
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TSA Pat-Down: 95-Year-Old Woman Told To Remove Adult Diaper At Airport
28 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here, at 2oceansvibe, we are quite familiar with some of the unusual pat-downs that the American Transportation Security Association (TSA) has conducted, but this one is surely the most controversial yet. They actually said they had identified something “wet and firm” and that they needed to remove the diaper to complete their checks.
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Now There’s A Company Specializing In Finding Your Embarrassing Facebook Photos
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social Intelligence, a company approved a week ago by the Federal Trade Commission, is one that uses deep-search tools to do background checks on other companies’ potential employees. These guys could find your MySpace account, they’re that thorough. And if your deep-search profile doesn’t look good, you don’t get hired.
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The La Fee Absinthe-Minded Moment Of The Week
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La […]
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