China: Chinese dissident
Liu Gang, 34, was arrested in September in Liaoyuan and charged with failing
to honor a previous court order that required him to report to the police
periodically and inform them of his latest thoughts.
(Source: People's Daily)
Florida: Derick W. Williams,
40, of Lauderhill, Florida was arrested after quarreling with a girlfriend
in the parking lot of a police station in Penny Hill, Delaware. When police
asked Williams for identification, he reached into the front seat of his
car, on which police noticed a small box containing seven ounces of cocaine
worth about $11,000.
(Source: USA Today)
Cairns: Cairns police were forced
to close off several streets in the inner city earlier this month after a
strong smell of ammonia was reported by shopkeepers around the Cairns Reef
Casino. Fearing a chemical leak, police declared a state of emergency and
closed down several streets in the city's CBD before the smell was traced
to a nearby Taiwanese fishing vessel which was being cleaned.
(Source: The Courier-Mail)
Brisbane: A day's fishing trip
for two friendly neighbours ended in a punch-up when Pauline Hanson's name
was raised, Brisbane Magistrate's Court heard earlier this month. The court
heard how the men had been fishing and drinking when talk turned to indigenous
issues and Hanson's name was raised. The younger man - Brian Peacock - said
he'd felt "betrayed" by the support of his 53-year-old neighbour Rex Rogers
for Hansonism and had hit him repeatedly. Peacock, 38, was given a four month
sentence when it was revealed that he was currently on probation for attacking
his wife on Christmas Eve the previous year. Acting Judge Mike Byrne, QC,
said said that topic of Hansonism tended to "give rise to strong feelings
in the community," when sentencing Peacock. "All the same, you really need
to look at an anger management course".
(Source: The Courier-Mail)
Sydney: A dead man emitting
toxic fumes was taken to Sydney's Westmead Hospital morgue by firemen in
protective suits earlier this month, according to a fire brigade spokesman.
The man had eaten 100 aluminium sulphide tablets.
(Source: Daily Telegraph)
Turkey: "Call it Fate, call
it Kismet, but I believe that I was destined to finish this case," 94-year-old
lawyer Mustafa Yildirim told the Anatolian News Agency in Ankara. "I first
filed this land ownership case in 1939 claiming that a small plot of grazing
land belonged to my clients, not their neighbours. 15 judges have worked
on the file since then, and 11 of my colleagues, all of them long since dead.
The clients have also died, as have all the defendants, but the case lived
on. And now - finally - the Court of Appeals has ruled in my favour. If anybody
who cared was left alive I'd celebrate with them. But sadly, I'm the real
loser in all of this because there's no-one left alive to pay my fees and
the land has been so badly damaged by storms that it's unsaleable. Still,
the law is the law."
(Source: Associated Press)
Hey! Have you picked
up your FREE game yet? If not, click
here! |
|
