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Crime
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Breaking: Cape Town Police Arrest Heavily Armed Man In Woodstock
06 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Cape Town police arrested an as yet un-named man today holding a virtual armoury of weapons, and a literal pharmacy of illegal narcotics in Woodstock. What was this man on a mission packing? We’ve got the whole list!
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Taxidermist Behind Bars For Importing Exotic Animal Parts [PICS]
22 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Miami taxidermist, Enrique Gomez De Molina, is facing five years of jail time and a quarter million US$ in fines for importing body parts of rare and exotic animals to build a series of bizarre hybrid taxidermy sculptures.
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There’s A Banksy Art-Stealing Competition Going On
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Melbourne-based Art Series Hotel chain is holding an art-stealing competition, starting this Thursday. For the next month, a signed print of Banksy’s “No Ball Games,” worth ZAR 125 500, will be hidden in different locations throughout the chain’s hotels. If people can find and steal it without getting caught, they get to keep it.
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Why Trying To Rob An Ultimate Fighting Champion Is A Bad Idea
06 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The old saying goes that you shouldn’t bring a gun to an Ultimate Fighting match. Anthony Miranda, the guy in the picture, learned that lesson the hard way over the weekend when he tried to rob the wrong guy.
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Swiss Study Finds Illegal Downloading Doesn’t Actually Hurt Copyright Holders
05 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the wake of a worrying shift towards censorship of the internet, this is sort of comforting. A recent study conducted by the Swiss government has found that illegal downloading doesn’t necessarily negatively impact copyright holders, as many downloaders end up purchasing the products anyway – and “illegal” downloading is therefore remaining legal in Switzerland.
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84-Year-Old Woman Pepper Sprayed At Occupy Seattle
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I don’t know that there are such things as iconic photographs anymore, what with the proliferation of media and all, but if there are, this is one – of Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacting to being hit with pepper spray by cops during an Occupy Seattle protest on Tuesday, November 15, 2011.
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Woman Catches Burglars With Private Home CCTV [VIDEO]
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
How’s this for awesome? A woman in America has successfully stopped a robbery in progress, by using an in-home CCTV that she streamed from work. Hit continue to check out the video.
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Even Superman Wants A Piece Of Julius
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I think it’s safe to say that hatin’ on Julius has now officially saved more conversations than the weather. Having said that, after a good rant most of us move on. Most of us. One Eastern Cape man, however, decided to put on a cape, jump on some cars and claim that he is a superman from the clouds, sent to kill Malema.
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Will We Ever Have The Internet Police?
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Information wants to be free, man! So says Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks geeks. Info wants to be free! The internet is free! Don’t police it! It’s a nice idea, isn’t it? The internet being the last place on earth that is unpoliced. Well, that may be about to go away.
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Wife Kills Star Wars Collection, Man Kills Wife
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week, a 30 year old man from Preston in the north of England was jailed for life for the brutal murder of his Thai wife, Pornpilai Srisroy. Her only crime: she had the audacity to destroy his extensive collection of Star Wars memorabilia following a fight.
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Could This Be Jack The Ripper’s Knife?
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If this six-inch blade truly is the notorious murder weapon of the famed “Jack The Ripper”, than you can expect to see it fetch a pretty penny on auction. The knife was found in a stack of possessions belonging to Sir John Williams, the surgeon thought to be the infamous killer. A surgeon, with a surgeon’s knife? Never!
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New York Burglars Inspired By Ben Affleck
20 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A group of four copycats told police they used techniques from his recent movie, “The Town”, after they were arrested for a string of 62 small time, New York robberies. In the film, a group of four friends rob a string of banks and always douse the scene with bleach, destroying any DNA evidence that may have been left behind.
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Census Safety: How Do I Lust After Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
18 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Female census workers in Pretoria have reported that they fear for their safety entering some homes, claiming that sometimes, men in the houses attempt to lure them inside with promises of cash and alcohol and make “sex or love advances” to them.
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Hillbilly Haircutters And Hell’s Granny: 2oceansVibe’s Bizarre Crime Round Up
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Here in South Africa, we suffer some of the worst excesses of violent crime. But don’t think for a minute that other countries are spared the onslaught of criminal masterminds.
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Stop The 21st Century, I Want To Get Off
28 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Imagine being cut off from society for so long that you have no idea how to use a computer, the internet or a cell-phone. Such was the case for Randall Lee Church, a 46-year old Texan who was released from prison earlier this year, and subsequently set fire to a house so he could go back to prison, unable to deal with the stress of living in a society 26-years ahead of him.
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Prime Suspect For Lolly Jackson’s Lawyer’s Murder Also Found Dead
28 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In another pretty sensational twist in the Lolly Jackson murder tale, the man identified as the prime suspect for killing the late Jackson’s lawyer was found dead this morning. Ian Jordaan, lawyer of the slain Teazers owner, disappeared last week, and the body of suspect Mark Andrews was found in the East Rand earlier today with a gun shot wound evident.
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What Not To Send Your Child To School With For Show And Tell
22 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The mother of a young school child in Missouri has been arrested, following her son’s show and tell day with his kindergarten class. Because, unfortunately, the subject of the little boy’s S&T presentation this month was his mom’s crack pipe.
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Man Sidesteps Criminal Charges For 15 Years By Using Father’s ID
15 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s a plan to avoid prosecution – just use your dad’s ID every time the cops come looking for you. It almost worked for Siphiwe Tembe, from Soweto, who was finally arrested yesterday in connection with a murder which dates back to 1996.
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Doctor Secures Property With HIV-Infected Needles
29 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’ll just leave this here: A female doctor from Brazil has reacted to the frequent robberies Sobardinho property by studding the walls around her property with HIV-infected needles to keep burglars away. We know this because she’s kindly put up a hand-written sign,saying “HIV positive blood. Do not trespass.”
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‘Flash Mob’ Robs 7/11 In Less Than A Minute [VIDEO]
17 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
And suddenly the real use of online flash-mobs becomes clear: stealing junk from convenience stores. Yesterday, a group of about 28 ‘young people,’ believed to have coordinated online, cleaned out a Maryland convenience store in under a a minute.The police have attempted online identification, but no arrests have been made.
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English Man Arrested For Planning Water-Fight With BBM
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A 20-year-old man in Essex has been charged with “encouraging or assisting in the commission of an offence” because he used Blackberry Messenger to invite people to a public water fight. Whether this means British cops can now wiretap the Blackberry messaging network is unclear, but either way: great job, democracy.
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They’ve Invented A Date-Rape-Detecting-Straw
11 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Two Israeli scientists say they have developed a sensor that can accurately detect date-rape drugs in drinks 100 percent of the time – a tiny, drink-stirrer-looking device that, when dipped into your appletini or other refreshing beverage, can detect the presence of dissolved drugs. Nice job, science.
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One Of SA’s Most Wanted Criminals Walks Out Of Court, Unnoticed
11 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Bongani Moyo, standing trial for more than 35 bank robberies, escaped from the Pretoria Regional Court yesterday. He found a pair of crutches and simply walked out the front door – along with the rest of the public. But how did he escape from his cell to begin with? No one locked it.
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Mosman Collar Bomb A ‘Very, Very Elaborate Hoax.’
04 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Police have confirmed that the device attached to terrified Australian schoolgirl Madeleine Pulver was not a bomb, just a tremendously elaborate hoax. The device, attached to the girl by a masked intruder in her parent’s home, “gave the appearance of a legitimate improvised explosive device.”
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Adriaan Bergh Robbed At Gunpoint – Is Furious
13 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Do you remember Adriaan Bergh? Of course you do. He blessed us with the most incredible viral video to ever emanate from South Africa. Of course, he was merely a Mr South Africa contestent when that was made. Now days, he likes to go by the name of Mr South Africa, 2011. Which, of course, he is. And now, after being robbed, he’s a very angry Mr South Africa.
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Rolex Robbers Not Off The Hook
05 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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French Journalists, Held By Taliban Since December 2009, Freed
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After 547 days of being held as hostages in Afghanistan, two French journalists,Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, have been released and are due back in France today. The two were kidnapped on the 30th of December 2009 along with their Afghan translator, fixer and driver in the mountainous Kapisa province northeast of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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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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FBI’s Search For Hacking Group Takes Out Random, Unrelated Websites
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The cyber-war on cyber-terror now has innocent bystanders, apparently. In a hunt for LulzSec, the hacking group claiming responsibility for the compromise of huge amounts of Sony user accounts and for briefly taking the CIA website offline, the FBI raided DigitalOne’s data – finding nothing, but causing a bunch of unrelated websites to go offline.
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Former Tunisian President Sentenced To 35-Year Jail Sentence In Absentia
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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