Hugh Grant has joined the fray against the News Corp phone hacking calamity and was on hand to deliver his personal perspective of things outside the British House of Commons yesterday. He told the BBC that Margaret Thatcher was an undignified sycophant and that every prime minister since then has basically tickled Murdoch’s belly for him.
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.
Mail & Guardian editor, Nic Dawes, appeared via phone call on 2oceansVibe Radio‘s Morning Meeting to discuss the potential unraveling of international media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, and his multi-billion dollar News Corp empire, amid reports of phone tapping conducted by The News Of The World, a British tabloid in the News Corp stable. The reports […]
An inmate at a Michigan jail says he’s being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because he has been banned from having porn.
Yesterday, police in Australia’s New South Wales state were handed more authority to remove burqas and other face coverings to identify potential criminal suspects. The move follows the recent case of a Muslim woman who was acquitted after a judge ruled her Islamic veil made a positive identification of her impossible.
Bafana, Benson and Moses are a threesome who really love the finer things in life. Particularly, pricy watches. It appears this Johannesburg trio of thieves will pick up a stray Rolex whenever they get the chance, really. So they were thrilled when their case was struck off the roll in the Pretoria Regional Court yesterday.
Police in Chetumal, Mexico, have said they have caught a woman who was trying to smuggle her common-law husband out of a prison in a suitcase, following a conjugal visit. Judging by the photograph that has been released to accompany the incident, the prisoner hadn’t even put his clothes back on after the romp.
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.
The internet is just the right place to find really disturbing stuff, and I try my very best to steer clear of it. But, when I saw this nightmare story appear in my RSS feed, I had to write about it. Here’s what the feed said: “AUSTIN, Texas — The body of a missing woman has been found inside a restaurant ventilation duct.”
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.
Some people, like Jason Valdez, are just natural multi-taskers. This loco ‘ese held a woman hostage for 16 hours in a stand-off with SWAT teams. During this time he also updated his Facebook status, posted pics of him and his hostage, and added at least a dozen new friends – some even tipping him off about police activities outside. Valdez responded: “Thank you homie. Good looking out.”
Americans put them in pies, Africans make them into bags and now, Russians turn into them. The drug, a mixture of codeine, petrol and paint thinners, is injected and actually turns your skin scaly and green like that of a crocodile. It also bursts blood vessels and results in amputation. Dodgy.
A nine-year-old girl has been found with an eight kilogram suicide vest strapped to her body in Pakistan’s troubled north-west region. The Pakistani police said they detained the schoolgirl on Monday after learning she was allegedly told to blow up a police checkpoint, which wasn’t far from where they stopped her.
A Tunisian court found former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife guilty of theft and the illegal possession of large quantities of money and jewelry. He sentenced them to 35 years in jail, which is great and all, except Ben Ali and his wife are in Saudi Arabia, making extradition a little unlikely.
Ah, the arms deal. It’s like the ANC’s bastard child that won’t go away. The government said it should be dropped, as there wasn’t enough evidence to any investigate further. That was until Saab revealed that they’d paid brides of about 24 million Rand. Now it seems that the Hawks are finally going to take another look at the torrid affair.
Look, if you’re a robber, think again about hiding out in a cave on Table Mountain. Because the Western Cape authorities are going to be cracking down on yo’ ass. Just a warning.
Muammar Gaddafi’s government are in contact across Europe with members of the Libyan rebel army. Earlier this week the head of the World Chess Federation, a man with direct Kremlin links, took Gaddafi on in a ‘diplomatic’ chess game. Maybe his persuasion has helped.
Yes, English security guard Sean Murphy thought it was a good idea to blast off his wart with a shotgun, and in the process, his own finger too. Murphy decided to use a 12-bore Beretta at a Doncaster garden centre to consign the wart to history, along with most of the middle finger on his left hand.
There are people in this world who really do not have very important things to do with their time, as is proven by this woman who called 911 because the Chinese restaurant she was at got her order wrong.
There seems to be no shortage of farmers, businessmen, snake charmers, off-shore call centres and Bollywood movie stars among the world’s second most populous nation of 1.2 billion people. But, they don’t have a single professional hangman left in the whole country who is able to carry out the capital punishment.
This sensational video captures a stolen Team Japspeed Subaru Imprezza weaving between traffic on London’s M25 motorway. The Imprezza was stolen by thieves after being put on display at the Santa Pod Raceway, who managed to find a way of starting the engine, despite it being disabled by engineers.
A man from Hoquiam Washington, carrying a dead weasel, burst into an apartment and assaulted the occupant. As the weasel-wielding attacker burst into the room, the victim said, “Why are you carrying a weasel?” to which the attacker replied, “It’s not a weasel, it’s a marten,” and then punched him in the nose and left the weasel behind. Of course.
You’d think Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez learned his lesson in the past 22 years while he was sitting in jail for being a pedophile. But it seems he was under the impression that if he went for a 77 year-old this time he’d fly under Karma’s radar. Not so, because as he was halfway through his despicable act, he was struck down with a heart attack.
Wind farms are big business in Italy, and the sun-soaked and wind-swept island of Sicily is no exception. Hardly surpising then, that the Sicilian mafia has cottoned on to the idea of harnessing wind and is cashing in on the green movement too.
You would be forgiven for thinking that this image was of two homesexual men, in love. This is definitely not the case in this instance. These two men are in fact two hard-core mafia men, displaying a powerful sign of ‘omerta’ – the mafia’s code of silence. Daniele D’Agnese was being piled into a police […]
A 72-year-old woman, living on her own in St. Francis Bay, killed an intruder early Sunday morning after she had been tied up, threatened and shoved in a cupboard. I am entirely unashamed to say that I think this woman is awesome and should be awarded the Victoria Cross and The Congressional Medal of Honor.
The trouble started when Richard Moore started sending unwelcome gifts and chocolates to Ashley Alford, demanding “sucky-sucky” in return. But Ashley never gave her manager any sucky-sucky. That’s when our boy took things to the next level by sneaking up on Ashley, holding her by her ponytail, and whacking her on the head with his […]
This morning it was reported that the gun used to kill strip-club owner Lolly Jackson, in May last year, belonged to none other than police crime intelligence head, Joey Mabasa.
In a seriously bizarre story, a Virginia inmate, named Ophelia De’lonta, is suing the US Federal Government for the right to have a sex change after “she” failed on numerous occasions to castrate herself.
Former Bosnian Serb army general Ratko Mladic appeared before the UN Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague today on charges of genocide. He is definitely not impressed by the war crimes with which he has been charged, using the words ‘obnoxious’ and ‘monstrous’ to describe some of them. Without a hint of irony. He was just defending his country, he said.