AN Italian motorist plunged to his death early Sunday after stopping at the side of the road to urinate without realizing in the darkness that he was on a viaduct nine meters (30 feet) above the ground, a report said.
His companion told emergency services that 36-year-old Ermes Calautto jumped over a security rail after stopping the car near Cavolano di Sacile in the northeast at around 3:00am local time, the ANSA news agency reported.
When he had not returned after a few minutes, she got out of the car to see what happened and heard him groaning in the darkness, the report said.
The woman alerted authorities but he was dead when they arrived.
A government employee sat in his office, and out of boredom, decided to see what was inside his old filing cabinet. He poked through the contents and came across an old brass lamp. "This will look good on my mantel," he said, and took it home with him. While polishing the lamp, a genie appeared and, as usual, granted him three wishes. "I would like an ice-cold Coke right now." He gets his Coke and drinks it. Now that he can think more clearly, he states his second wish. "I wish to be on an island with beautiful women, who find me irresistible. " Suddenly, he's on an island with gorgeous women. eyeing him lustfully. He tells the genie his third and last wish. "I wish I'd never have to work again." Instantly, he was back in his government office.
Two young boys were arrested in North Las Vegas for holding up two clerks at gunpoint to steal some cash. Surveillance video from a donut shop shows an 11-year-old, with his shirt pulled over his head, point a BB gun at the clerk and demand money. The 12-year-old accomplice was waiting outside the store.
The clerk described the boy as only up to her chin, but she believed the BB gun was a loaded handgun. The boys then went to a Subway restaurant across the street, where they are accused of executing a similar plan.
According to North Las Vegas police, the 11-year-old boy was brazen enough to hold his BB gun to an employee's head at Subway. The 11-year-old boy's mother didn't apologize for her son's actions, but she did acknowledge that her son and his 12-year-old partner deserved punishment.
Police said this wasn't the first time the 11-year-old committed such a crime. Investigators alleged that police were able to track him down because of his prior felony charge.
Environmental campaigners 10:10 have withdrawn a film showing a teacher graphically exploding two of her students who refuse to reduce their carbon emmissions, after complaints. In a statement, the group apologised to anyone offended. The film aimed to "bring this critical issue back into the headlines whilst making people laugh," the group said.
Starring Gillian Anderson it was scripted by Richard Curtis, whose films include Four Weddings and a Funeral.It was directed by a leading commercials director. In the film, which was subsequently posted to Youtube and which contains disturbing images, a teacher invites her class to take part in the environmental campaign. Two children, who do not want to, are asked why.
The teacher tells them: "Fine, it's absolutely fine. It's your own choice." But moments later she presses a button and the children explode into a mess. Similar scenes are played out in an office where four workers are blown up and a football training session where footballer David Ginola, who also says he does not want to do his bit to combat climate change, disappears in an explosion.
In the final scene, Gillian Anderson, who provides the voice-over is similarly dispatched after saying she thought doing the voice over was enough of a contribution to the campaign. In the official campaign statement, the group said: "At 10:10 we're all about trying new and creative ways of getting people to take action on climate change. Unfortunately in this instance we missed the mark. Oh well, we live and learn." However, 10:10 said they would not make any attempt "to censor or remove other versions currently in circulation on the internet."
RCMP responded to a break and enter Monday at the Petro Canada in Radium Hot Springs, B.C. Police were shocked when a surveillance video revealed the suspect to be much furrier than expected. The surveillance video shows a black bear charging into the store at around 4 a.m. on Monday and walking up and down the aisles.
Petro Canada employee Lori Ellingboe said that she arrived with police at the scene to find significant damage to the storefront. "The front door had been smashed and there was glass all over the place. We thought it was a robbery," she said.
Ellingboe said they were confused that the robber hadn't caused more damage to the store. "Nothing was missing and nothing had been vandalized. But then we saw that it had gone to the bathroom - left us a little gift," she said. "That was our first sign it was a bear."
Ellingboe said the bear also left a trail of blood as it spent six minutes wandering the store. "Oddly the bear didn't eat anything. We have a Subway restaurant in here and fresh pizzas - it's like the best place to break into for a bear," she said.
