RTFA: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JP…

Authorities decided not to seal the tunnel in hopes of catching more smugglers attempting to use it, the official added.

Why would you publish this? Are smugglers illiterate?

RTFA: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/05/strip.search….

A jury awarded $6.1 million Friday to a woman who said she was forced to strip in a McDonald’s back office after someone called the restaurant posing as a police officer.

This story is incredibly fucked up. The term ’strip search’ is not fair. This girl was raped at the instruction of a ‘police officer’ who called in and told the manager to sodomize her. His defense was “i was just following orders”. It gets stranger, because the guy posing as the cop has not been caught and apparently this has happened to a bunch of stores.

RTFA: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/05/owner.suicide.ap/…

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A business owner shot and killed himself during a City Council meeting Thursday night after members voted against his request to rezone his property, witnesses said.

Ronald “Bo” Ward, owner of Bo’s Barber Shop, had told the council his business would go under if he couldn’t get his home rezoned as commercial. After the 5-7 vote Thursday night, Ward stood and walked toward the council.

“Y’all have put me under. … I’m out of here,” he said before shooting himself in the head with a small handgun.

RTFA: http://techdirt.com/articles/20071004/172528.shtml

Just after the federal gov’t screwed up and shut off ca.gov, we find out that the Department of Homeland Security misconfigured its email list software causing a deluge of annoying emails to over seven thousand government employees. The list, normally used to broadcast news summaries of security news, apparently was set up so that any reply messages automatically were broadcast to all members.

RTFA: http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/264061

Now, his son, Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal.

Richard Roberts is accused of illegal involvement in a local political campaign and lavish spending at donors expense, including numerous home remodelling projects, use of the university jet for his daughters senior trip to the Bahamas, and a red Mercedes convertible and a Lexus SUV for his wife, Lindsay.

She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as “underage males.”

RTFA: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-f…

The Iranian president delivered fiery remarks today about Israel and his country’s nuclear program on the occasion of Qods Day, the annual commemoration of the Palestinian fight against the Jewish state.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the annual occasion marking the Palestinian struggle to criticize Israel’s policies and the West’s taboos on questioning the Holocaust. He repeated his suggestion that the West relocate Israel’s Jews to “somewhere in Canada or Alaska.”

Just another typical day.

RTFA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7026150….

Pioneering research into a “gay bomb” that makes enemy troops “sexually irresistible” to each other has scooped one of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes.

Other winners included work on treating hamster jetlag with impotency drugs, extracting vanilla from cow dung, and the side-effects of sword swallowing.