Saturday, July 24, 2010

Australian restaurateur tells mothers to keep their legs closed

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A Darwin restaurant owner launched a tirade against a group of mothers - suggesting they "keep their legs closed" - after one diner brought her 11-week-old baby to his eatery. He then accused one woman of having "saggy tits" and suggested another had a "floppy c...". Tramontana restaurant owner John Spellman refused to discuss the incident. "Who cares," he said when asked about the matter.

Health worker Katie, 35, who asked not to have her surname published, said she booked the dinner for five women - including a mother with a newborn - on Wednesday night at the exclusive restaurant. "I rang in the morning to make sure we could bring a pram, because some places you can't," she said.

"As we walked out, he yelled out 'you ladies better keep your legs together or you will end up like your friend'." Public servant Amy, 27, was also with the group and confronted Mr Spellman about his comments.

"He went on about how he had two women in his establishment with babies, and he thought he was on best behavior, considering the other woman started breast feeding," she said. "When I called him a bastard, he said my friend had saggy tits. And I probably had a floppy 'c'. He actually used the word."

Driver parks car IN house

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Maria Rizzo, 34, stopped to admire the spectacular view from the street above the house in Alassio in northern Italy.

But she was so intent on taking a snap that she forgot to put on the handbrake, and her car rolled away, smashing through a barrier and plunging down the hill onto the house below.

It broke through the roof and landed in the bathroom, with the front end wedged in an iron bath which broke the fall and stopped the Fiat Panda plunging further into the house.

A police spokesman said: "luckily no one was home at the time - so nobody was hurt, but the owner of the property did have a surprise when they arrived home."

Treasure hunter unearths 52,000 Roman coins worth $1 MILLION

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An amateur treasure hunter armed with a metal detector has found over 52,000 Roman coins worth $1 million buried in field, one of the largest ever such finds in the UK, said the British Museum.

Dave Crisp, a hospital chef, came across the buried treasure while searching for "metal objects" in a field near Frome, Somerset in southwestern England.

Initially, Crisp found 21 coins, but when he unearthed the pot, he knew he needed archaeological help to excavate them.

The hoard contains 766 coins bearing an image of the Roman general Marcus Aurelius Carausius, who ruled Britain independently from AD 286 to AD 293 and was the first Roman emperor to strike coins in Britain.

Somerset County Council archaeologists excavated the pot -- a type of container normally used for storing food -- it weighed 160kg (350 pounds) and contained 52,500 coins.

The hoard was transferred to the British Museum in London where the coins were cleaned and recorded.

The coins date from AD 253 to 293 and most of them are made of debased silver or bronze.

Roger Bland, Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum, told CNN: "Dave [Crisp] did the right thing, he didn't try to dig it all out. This is the largest ever find in a single pot and the second largest ever [in the UK].

"We think that whoever buried it didn't intend to come back to recover it. We can only guess why people buried treasure, some buried savings, others because they feared an invasion, perhaps this was an offering to the Gods."

Bland said the coins were probably worth about $1 million.

Dave Crisp, from Devizes in Wiltshire, told CNN: "At the time when I actually found the pot I didn't know what size it was but when the archaeologists came and started to uncover it, I was gobsmacked, I thought 'hell, this is massive.'"

Crisp, who describes himself as a "metal detectorist," unearthed the pot in April, although the discovery was officially announced on Thursday. Crisp told CNN he would have to split the value of the find with the farmer who owns the field in which he discovered the treasure.

Somerset Coroner Tony Williams is scheduled to hold an inquest on July 22 to formally determine whether the find is subject to the Treasure Act 1996. This would help towards determining a value of the hoard should any individual or organization want to buy it.

Old woman falls down manhole

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An elderly woman enjoying a morning stroll with her husband suffered a shock when she stepped onto a loose manhole cover and plunged down the hole.

Wang Lu, 87, and her husband Wang Jungcheng were taking an after-breakfast walk in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province, when the unfortunate incident occurred.

According to Jungcheng his wife stepped onto a manhole cover which suddenly moved - causing her to plummet down the hole.

He said: "I instantly caught her clothes, but she still dropped down."

Emergency services were called and a firefighter clambered down into the 3m deep hole in order to help Lu climb out.

She was then checked over by medical staff who declared that she was fine apart from a few scratches.

According to residents, when the cover for the manhole went missing the local community office found another for it.

However, this new lid is smaller than the original and doesn't fit the manhole properly, explaining Lu's accident.


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