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Men Spent 50 Years In Prison Without Trial

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Crazy: Men Spent 50 Years In Prison Without Trial picture80-year-old D.P.James from Shri Lanka has been released from prison after spending 50 years on delayed trial.

Arrested in August 1958 for attacking his father, he was sent to jail, than moved to mental hospital for treatment and finally went back to jail in mid-80′s, until the court had finally forgotten his case.

James, who was never put on trial, was a victim of prison bureaucracy in Sri Lanka explained his lawyer.

James went to jail when he was 30. He has been robbed of his youth and is now a grey-haired man of 80 with failing eyesight,” Dharmavijaya Seneviratne said.
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Crazy YouTube Video Closed Another School

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Oslo police announced that a secondary school near Oslo was closed after a video warning of a high school massacre was discovered on YouTube.

Creator of the video, a 15 year old Kjenn school student whose name has not been disclosed, has admitted posting the video.

“He has not been arrested (and) he is not in police custody. We will speak with him and his father during the day,” said Loerenskog police chief superintendent Jens Bruun.

The 50-second video, posted on YouTube on Saturday, was removed late yesterday.

With music playing in the background, it showed a picture of the school, Braun said. Pictures of six teachers then popped up, as a voice said: “It will happen one day, it will be a bloody machine, one day you will die.”
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Crazy Woman Kept Her Dead Children In Apartment

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Crazy Woman Kept Her Dead Children In Apartment pictureWhen Larry Jones noticed a foul odor coming through a vent in his apartment, he chalked it up to dead mice and spoke to his landlord. But it was not until Wednesday, when U.S. marshals delivered an eviction notice next door, that Jones learned the real source of the stench. It was something way more crazy than a dead mouse. The smell came from the decomposing bodies of four young people.

Banita Jacks, 33, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and appeared in District of Columbia Superior Court. She did not speak during the hearing and superior Court Magistrate Judge Karen Howze ordered her held without bond.

When investigators came Jacks told a crazy story about children being possessed by demons. She said they began dying in their sleep, one by one, within a seven-day period, and added that she had not fed them for a substantial time before their deaths.

According to the police she said that the deaths occurred before a utility turned off her electricity, which prosecutors said was in September 2007, according to charging documents.

“I don’t think anyone in the city can remember a case involving this many young people who have died in such a tragic way,” Mayor Adrian Fenty said.

Medical examiner Dr Marie-Lydie Pierre-Louis said that Investigators believe the bodies had been there at least two weeks based on the insects that were found, but it was unclear exactly how and when the victims died. Authorities have said the children might have been dead since May.
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Cool Cash

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

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Colleen and Jim Mesler moved into a rented apartment on July 1st 2007. But in early December, the fridge’s self-defrosting freezer wasn’t working right, so Colleen decided to clean the refrigerator and made one crazy discovery.

I pulled this tray out. It was wrapped in tin foil and plastic, but it was moldy,” Colleen said of the package she found.

I said, ‘Why don’t you throw it out?” Jim said. “I thought it was old meat, stale meat.

But it didn’t smell like bad meat,” Colleen said. “I pulled it apart and found $100 bills. I was more shocked. ‘I’m not throwing this away,’ I thought.

They’ve spent the day trying to separate the bills apart with a pair of tweezers.

About $2,000 of it was torn up, or we couldn’t get the mold off it,” said Jim.

They took it to the M&I Bank, hoping to exchange the moldy, broken-up bills for fresh ones. The M&I bank employee advised them to call the police.

Unfortunately, the previous renters of the apartment had been charged with drug trafficking. In a February raid, police uncovered crack cocaine, marijuana, a scale, and other piece of evidence that pointed to drug sales. About $1,100 was also found on purpotrators.

The Meslers are still waiting the official word on whether they would be allowed to keep the money.
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Crazy New Taser

Friday, January 11th, 2008

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Crazy New Taser pictureAn Arizona-based electronic company has unveiled a new gadget which integrates a Taser stun gun with an mp3 player at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This crazy new device known as the Taser Music Player Holster – has already earned the nickname the iTaser.

It fires a 50,000-volt electric charge, but the ampage of the shock the victim receives is as low as 0.00.21 amps. The built-in MP3 player can store 1GB of songs.

The manufacturers hope that it will be popular among women. They’ve already made it available in “red-hot” red, “fashion” pink and even leopard skin print for customers who are as style conscious as they are safety conscious.

Rick Smith of Taser International said that this new product is a result of listening to the customers and stated that “Personal protection can be both fashionable and functionable.

A lot of women aren’t going to go into a gun store and feel comfortable enough buying a Taser, so now we have some outdoor companies and dealers – some cell phone places are starting to carry them and hang them next to phones.
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Dead Man’s Crazy Shopping Spree

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Dead Man's Crazy Shopping Spree pictureDavid Dalaia and James O’Hare, were seen wheeling Virgilio Cintron’s body on a chair from their Manhattan apartment to a cheque-cashing store a block away.

Their crazy plan was simple enough: stick their pal in an office chair, wheel him round the corner to the Pay-O-Matic at 763 Ninth Avenue and leave him on the sidewalk while they cashed the $355 (£180) cheque.

Hell’s Kitchen has a rich history but this is one for the books,” police spokesman Paul Browne told the New York Times.

The witnesses saw the two pushing the chair with Cintron flopping from side to side and the two individuals propping him up.” he explained.

They went in leaving Clintron’s body in front of the store. When clerk, who knew Clintron asked them where he was, Dalaia and O’Hare told the clerk they would go and get him.

By this time detective Travis Rapp who was at the restaurant next door noticed a crowd forming around Clintron’s body. He went to investigate, Browne said, and it was “immediately apparent to him that Cintron [was] dead“.
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Cool Chocolate Fuelled Truck

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Cool Chocolate Fuelled Truck pictureAndy Pag, 34, and John Grimshaw, 39, made the 2,600-mile trip in a cool truck, using bio-diesel made from waste chocolate.

The BioTruck is a “recycled” 1989 Ford Iveco Cargo flatbed that was rescued from the scrap heap.

The trip was fuelled by 2,000 litres of bio-diesel made from 4,000 kilograms of chocolate – the equivalent of 80,000 chocolate bars. The fuel was made from cocoa butter extracted from waste chocolate.

They Set off from John’s home at Poole, Dorset on November 26 and arrived in Mali, West Africa on Boxing day.

They overcame crazy sand storms and corrupt customs officials and drove through a town where days later al-Qaeda terrorists shot dead a French family, to deliver a biodiesel processing unit and the vans to a charity.
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Crazy Glue vs School

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

10-year-old Diego Palacios glued his hand to his bed because he didn’t want to go back to school after Christmas.

The holidays were such fun,” he said.

Diego who lives outside Monterrey, got up early to fetch some industrial strength glue.

His mother Sandra found him watching television with his hand stuck to the bedstead. She tried to free him with nail polish but after two hours she called the experts.
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Crazy Junk Mafia

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Scrap metal thieves in Russia managed to steal a 200-tonne steel bridge. Surprisingly they stole it without anyone noticing.

38ft bridge vanished over night from Khabarovsk. The bridge was a part of the only road leading to heating plant.

Bosses at the company said “The costs of replacing the missing bridge would be ten times the value of the scrap metal that was stolen.”

They plan to replace the bridge with one made of concrete.

Funny Dude Brings Pot To Bail Hearing

Monday, January 7th, 2008

20-year-old Stephen West secured a whole page in a book about most stupid villains with this act.

He pulled a lump of cannabis resin out of his pocket as he walked trough security check at Wigan Magistrates Court last year when appearing for alleged breach of licence conditions. He showed the substance to surprised security staff asking what to do with it while he went into his hearing.

Of course they told him he could not take the cannabis into court and said he would have to leave it with them.

Belive it or not he agreed and even signed his name on a receipt confirming the cannabis was his.

West, who lives in Jasmine Road, Worsley Hall, pleaded guilty to possession of the Class C drug and was fined £50 and ordered to pay £43 court costs.