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Guy kidnaps ex-girlfriend to get ironing done
Mon Jun 16, 2:16 PM ET
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.
The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her, they said.
Police arrived at his house after being tipped off by a friend of the woman who watched the scene at the pub.
The man, who was apparently furious at his ex-girlfriend for leaving him, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, police said.
(Writing by Deepa Babington)
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06-16-2008, 11:34 PM
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Reminds me of the acoustic silencers from Larry Niven's book Ringworld.
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assalamu alaykum
Reminds me of Harry Potter !
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06-17-2008, 01:33 AM
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the first one is so funny
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06-18-2008, 12:09 PM
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Can someone please tell GotFive about this?
Japan makes robot girlfriend for lonely men
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I don't think he would go for it. The robot isn't desi, so he wouldn't have anything to complain about.
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06-18-2008, 01:31 PM
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Man Robs Lemonade Stand
this belongs in the humor section
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It's official, some things just get lost in translation
China makes "kung pao chicken" official for Olympics - Yahoo! News
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Wed Jun 18, 12:01 AM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - It's official. Hungry foreign hordes craving a fix of diced chicken fried with chili and peanuts during the Beijing Olympics will be able to shout "kung pao chicken!" and have some hope of getting just that.
As it readies for an influx of visitors for the August Games, the Chinese capital has offered restaurants an official English translation of local dishes whose exotic names and alarming translations can leave foreign visitors frustrated and famished.
If officials have their way, local newspapers reported on Wednesday, English-speaking visitors will be able to order "beef and ox tripe in chili sauce", an appetiser, rather than "husband and wife's lung slice".
Other favourites have also received a linguistic makeover.
"Bean curd made by a pock-marked woman", as the Beijing Youth Daily rendered the spicy Sichuanese dish, is now "Mapo tofu." And "chicken without sexual life" becomes mere "steamed pullet".
According to one widely repeated story, the Chinese name of "kung pao chicken" comes from the name of an imperial official who was fed the dish during an inspection tour.
With the Beijing Olympics 51 days away, a notice on the city tourism bureau website (首页_电*政务) told restaurants to come and pick up a book with the suggested translations.
In China, where meetings are almost as popular as banquets, agreeing on the English-language menu has taken many rounds of discussions over previous drafts since last year.
Just as predictably in this country where nationalism and the Internet make a potent brew, controversy has already broken out over the blander new translations.
""I don't like this new naming method, it's abandoning Chinese tradition," one Internet comment declared. "There are many stories in the names of these dishes."
(Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Jerry Norton)
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LOL@ the kidnapping case ahahahahaahaha!!!!!!!!!!
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06-18-2008, 01:57 PM
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Escaped German thief asks police to open handcuffs
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A handcuffed thief in Germany who gave officers the slip made short work for his pursuers when he made straight for a police station to get his cuffs removed.
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"It was stupid of him" said a police spokesman in Frankfurt on Monday. "They took the cuffs off, but they kept him."
A security guard cuffed the man to a railing after thwarting a late night supermarket break-in. By the time officers came and arrested his accomplices, he had somehow escaped, police said.
Shortly afterwards, the 19-year-old reappeared at the nearby police station, where he told officers he had been locked up by a friend as a joke, and asked for help removing the cuffs.
The officers at first went along with the ruse, "also laughing at the man's apparent misfortune," police said. But having already heard about the missing man at the break-in, they then dropped their light-hearted facade and demanded the truth.
The man confessed his involvement and was promptly re-united with his three helpers in the local prison cell, police said.
(Reporting by Dave Graham)
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