Student has collection of 30 Supercars

A mega-wealthy car nut has amassed one of the world’s greatest collection of supercars worth £4.5million – at the age of just 21.
Student Dhiaa Al-Essa has 30 luxury motors in his garage including five Ferraris, five Porsches, three Lamborghinis, two Rolls Royces and a McLaren Mercedes.
Incredibly, the value of his collection will nearly DOUBLE next year when he takes delivery of a Koenigsegg Agera as his 22nd birthday present and a Bugatti Veyron – worth $2.4 million EACH.

All his cars have a personalized number plate featuring the figures 070 – which set him back around £100,000 every time he buys a new car.
The international playboy – son of a super-rich Saudi businessman – has spent the summer flying his cars around the globe to take part in driving tours with his wealthy mates.
Speaking from his mansion in New York, he said: ”I love speed, but the limit in Saudi Arabia is 75 mph so I’m pretty limited.
”When the Bugatti arrives I hope to take it to Germany where you can drive as fast as you can on parts of the autobahn.

”The Mercedes McLaren SLR is my favorite. I love the way it looks and drives and it’s also been reliable for a car out in the 50 degree Celcius temperature. With a top speed of 205mph it’s also very fast.”
Dhiaa – whose father’s business empire spans everything from property to stock markets – is currently studying for a degree in engineering in Riyadh, his home city.
He is one of many rich youngsters from the Middle East who descend on Europe and America every summer to escape the scorching desert temperatures.
His summer tour this year includes jaunts to London, Montreal, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York.

His new Ferrari 458 – which he’d only had for two weeks – was destroyed in an enormous blaze at Heathrow Airport.
The car cost him $450,000 and was decked out with a $75,000 Dolce and Gabbana interior.
”I was devastated by it,” he said. ”I flew back to Riyadh for a week before returning to London where I drove a Mercedes and used the underground – I actually love travelling on public transport.”
Dhiaa was planning to drive the 458 from London to Paris and then on to Cannes, Monaco – where his family’s 180ft yacht is docked – Milan and Geneva before heading back to London via the French capital.
”I won’t be getting another Ferrari 458 Italia,” he said. ”I think it was an unlucky car as I had to take it back to the dealer because of heating problems.”
Dhiaa is considering legal action against Emirates and warehouse owner Servisair over the episode after he was offered just $45,000 compensation for the $375,000 car.

Speaking shortly before heading off to Los Angeles, he added: ”I’m disgusted by what happened and will never, ever use Emirates again.
”If they were the only airline left I’d travel by horse. They ruined my summer.”
But Dhiaa’s torment will be short-lived as he is replacing the wrecked 458 with the new Ferrari 599 Roadster, production number 70 of 70.

And next year he will take delivery of the new Koenigsegg Agera, a Swedish hypercar looking to topple the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport’s 267 mph world record top speed.
The car will feature a diamond-laced leather interior with Dhiaa’s signature stitched into the seats and a special key made out of GOLD.

Dhiaa’s father is buying the $2.4 million Agera as a joint present for turning 22 and completing his engineering degree.
And as if that weren’t enough, Dhiaa also has a $2.4 million Bugatti on order.
Stuart Milne, deputy web editor of motoring website Auto Trader, said: ”Just owning one of these cars would make any car enthusiast very happy indeed, so what it must be like for a imagine having 30 of them?
”The running costs must be enormous, but if you’ve got the world’s fastest car -  a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport – on order, that’s not going to be a problem.”

police confiscate woman's phone, she fears her nude photos will be misused

When Bridget Polaski stored naked pictures of herself on her cell phone, she never dreamed they would fall in the hands of cops she fears will slap them all over the Internet.

"I'm just really upset about my pictures being all over the Internet, if that's where they end up landing," Polaski, 45, said of the seven or so nude cell phone photos that are now in police custody.

Polaski, a former stripper and club manager, said she is also worried by the prospect of the photos being digitally altered in such a way that it appears she is engaged in some depraved act.

"My daughter's 14. I'm concerned about that," she said.

Polaski lost her iPhone to the police Aug. 26 after they stopped her as she was walking home from the Weber Road Wal-Mart with her friend Tess Mulay. The two women say Polaski was handcuffed and one of the officers "asked me if my boobs were fake or real," Polaski said. "Asked me straight out."
Polaski said she "is a size 3 with fake boobs," but still found it inappropriate to be questioned about her figure by the police.

The officers confiscated her cell phone, she said, and then took her to the police station where she was questioned for about two hours. While at the station, Polaski said she heard some cops in a hallway laughing it up about her "fully nude" photos.

Deputy Police Chief Mark Turvey said none of his officers looked at Polaski's pictures and that the phone was taken as part of probe into car vandalism.

"She's a suspect in a criminal damage to property investigation and the officer had reason to believe she had text messages on her phone related to the damage and some threats she had made," Turvey said.

After seizing the cell phone officers secured a search warrant and only then began checking for messages, Turvey said.

Even though Polaski faces no charges so far in connection with the Romeoville car vandalism investigation, she is fighting a pair of driving under the influence cases out of Joliet. One is from a felony arrest in June, the other a misdemeanor charge from March.

Polaski is confident she will be acquitted in both cases.

In the meantime, Polaski said she has called the police about her cell phone so often that she "should have been arrested for telephone harassment." Her requests to have the phone returned were rejected, she said, and a detective explained that it is now at a crime lab.
"Crime lab? What is this, 'CSI: Miami?'" Polaski asked.

Polaski explained that she has the photos on her phone because "I had a couple ex-boyfriends ask me to send them a picture. I had my girlfriend Tess take some pictures so I could text them."

Now Polaski fears a lot more people than a couple of her ex-boyfriends will get an eyeful of her, and she is not too happy with her treatment by the police either.

"I'm very upset about my rights being violated," Polaski said.

"I will fight this to the bitter end," she said. "I will not give up. I'm tired of people messing with me, just because I'm blonde and halfway decent looking."

Polaski, who describes herself as a "very right-wing, conservative Republican," said she returned to the police station hours after she was released and tried to file a report for the theft of her phone and for sexual harassment allegedly suffered at the hands of the officers. She said the police would take neither report and refused to return her phone.

A week later, still without the phone or the sensitive photographs stored on them, Polaski says she remains determined to correct her situation.

"I don't like my rights to be violated," she said.

JOKE: HEAVENLY

The time has come for St. Peter's annual three-week vacation, and Jesus volunteers to fill in for him at the Pearly Gates.

"It's no big deal," St. Peter explains. "Sit at the registration desk, and ask each person a little about his or her life. Then send them on to
housekeeping to pick up their wings."

On the third day, Jesus looks up to see a bewildered old man standing in front of him.

"I'm a simple carpenter," says the man. "And once I had a son. He was born in a very special way, and was unlike anyone else in this world. He
went through a great transformation even though he had holes in his hands and feet. He was taken from me a long time ago, but his spirit lives on
forever. All over the world people tell his story."

By this time, Jesus is standing with his arms outstretched. There are tears in his eyes, and he embraces the old man.

"Father," he cries out, "It's been so long!"

The old man squints, stares for a moment, and says,

"Pinocchio?"

GOT CAPTION? 9/8

Woman murdered after crying wrong name during sex

Joanne Kitchen, 41, was making love with 44-year old Gary Higgs in their bedroom when she suddenly cried out: ''Chris, harder.''

Higgs was so enraged he stormed downstairs to the kitchen grabbed a chef's knife and stabbed Joanne once in the back and once in the chest.

Afterwards as she lay dying from her wounds, Higgs throttled mum-of-two Joanne to death with the electrical cord of their alarm clock.

When police caught up with him he confessed: ''I didn't know exactly what I was thinking. I picked the knife up and carried it upstairs to the bedroom.

"I don't remember thinking I wanted to harm Jo at this time. I was just so mad.

"She was hurting so much. I wanted to end the hurting for her. I got hold of the electrical flex from the alarm clock next to the bed and strangled her to death.

"I am truly deeply sorry for what I have done."

Higgs was jailed for life after pleading guilty to murder. He must serve a minimum of 15 years before he will be considered for release.

Sentencing him, Judge Andrew Gilbart QC, "As can happen in all relationships, there were tensions and worries - including those about money.

"Those tensions can lead to mistrust and sexual jealousy.

"It seems you were over-come by your view that she could still be interested sexually in others and be as readily welcoming to conduct an affair with others as she had been with you.

"There is no evidence of that whatsoever, but even if there were, it cannot justify what you did.

"In my judgement, this is a case of an unreasonably posessive man killing his lover in a rage."

Manchester Crown Court was told the couple met in 2009 through playing games of ''social networking poker'' on Facebook which in which users play to meet each rather than win any cash.

Both were already in long term relationships but they finished with their respective partners and moved into together at a rented two bedromed terraced house in Dumers Lane, Radcliffe, near Bury, Greater Manchester.

Mr Paul Reid QC, prosecuting, the couple struggled financially with only Joanne working as a security officer at Holy Cross Catholic College in Bury.

Despite Higgs getting a �5,000 windfall from his mother he failed to get a job and the couple were seen arguing outside the college gates.

The murder occurred on April 13 this year the morning after Joanne was driven home from work by her daughter Rebecca, 20, who had a boyfriend called Christopher James

At 8.55am a woman waiting a bus stop heard ''a cluster of argumentative screams'' from a woman at the couple's home and another man saw Higgs standing bare chested at the window.

The alarm was raised when Joanne failed to show up for work and Rebecca and elder sister Belinda, 22, failed to contact their mother by phone or text.

The landlord of the house eventually let the two young women in and he found Joanne's body in the upstairs room covered by a duvet. Higgs was eventually tracked down to the home of his mother Evangeline in Swindon, Wilts.

When informed police wanted to speak to him, Higgs ran off saying: ''I'm off. I can't tell you. I love you and it might be a while before I see you again.''

He was later found by his two brothers staggering around on nearby wasteland near an empty bottle of whisky.

Higgs later told police he and Joanne had been on ''good terms,'' and tragedy struck when they woke up together in bed.

Mr Reid told the court that in a statement to police, "He described what he says happened. They were having sex and during the course of that she used the name 'Chris, harder'.

"He says that that incensed him, and he became angry. He went downstairs to make a cup of coffee and went back upstairs and questioned her about it.

"She said she must have mentioned the name perhaps because Chris had been there the day before."

Higgs said Joanne told her she had said 'Chris' because Christopher James and Rebecca had given her a lift home the night before and any mention of his name was innocent.

Higgs vowed to check if Joanne had any friends called Chris on Facebook but before he did so, he grabbed the kitchen knife and stormed back up stairs to find Joanne lying on the bed facing the wall.

Mr Reid added, "He described getting more and more angry about it. He described how he stabbed her on the back and stabbing her in the chest, and her saying 'you've killed me.'"

Defending Higgs, Mr Nigel Lickley QC said, "He has asked me to express to the daughters of Mrs Kitchen and their family, he has taken the life of their mother.

"That is a burden he will have to shoulder for the remainder of his life."

Speaking after the case, senior Investigating Officer Vincent Chadwick from Greater Manchester police said, "What happened today will never bring back Joanne but it does bring some closure for the family.

"If we are to believe Higgs' account of what happened, he erupted with rage following a minor argument.

"Instead of talking things through he took out a kitchen knife and attacked Joanne from behind. She quite simply never stood a chance.

"Joanne was a popular woman and her murder has deeply affected all of her family and many friends.

"I don't think words can describe Gary Higgs as a person. He has taken the way the life of a mother and a grandmother. Two grandchildren will not see their grandmother and that is horrific."

Joanne's family said in a statement: ''Joanne was always cheerful and smiling, she would do anything for anyone, so much so that all Rebecca's friends called her mum.

'''Her death will leave a massive hole in the family. Things will never be the same again.''

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In Local News: Eat My Shorts

It's the kind of thing that would make Bart Simpson proud. The Seattle Department of Transportation,however, is not laughing after one of their construction signs in West Seattle was hacked to read "Eat My Shorts".

Drivers headed down Southwest Dawson Street couldn't help but check out the sign on Sunday. SDOT says this is the first time in the last three years one of their signs has been hacked.

"For us in Seattle, it's very rare," says spokesman Rick Sheridan, "all the devices are locked with either a key lock or pad lock so they're physically secured." A crew fixed the sign late on Sunday afternoon, but for a while at least, residents who live nearby loved it.

"I just thought it was absurd," says Geoffrey Garza. "What was funny about it is, at first I was like, of course that's what it should say, than i was like wait, that traffic sign just told me to 'eat my shorts' and I just loved it, its very comical."

Lady with OCD stole $1300 a week for skincare

An Australian hospital canteen lady who stole $1300 a week to feed her obsessive compulsion for using skin care products has been handed a two-year suspended sentence. Elaine Pearl Bartlett, of Dianella in Perth's north, pleaded guilty in June to stealing more than $186,000 between 2004 and 2009 while working as a canteen attendant at Princess Margaret Hospital.

During those five years, the 57-year-old, whose responsibility was preparing money for banking, stole $170,202 in cash takings at a rate of $1300 a week. Bartlett did this by deleting details of customer purchases from the computerised cash register and physically stealing some of the bank notes she was counting.

She also admitted to stealing a further $16,610 which officers from the state's corruption watchdog, the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC), found in plastic bags when they searched her home. Chief Judge Peter Martino said she used the money to fund the cost of skin care products, which she had developed an obsessive compulsion for using.

"Since being charged with these offences, you have taken steps to address your disorder by seeking appropriate medical treatment," Chief Judge Martino told Perth District Court. "It is likely that you will require treatment for a number of years."

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