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Manila, Philippines (AHN) — “Better convert it into fertilizer than let the consuming public suffer,” stressed the National Meat Inspection Commission (NMIC) as it ordered Wednesday the burning of 10 tons (10,000 kilos) of rotten ham. The meat seized by police authorities during a sting operation at Pasay City, south of the capital Manila.

The 10 tons of processed ham were contained in 20-foot long van and were being unloaded in front of the house of the consignee known as Susan Co. The foul odor coming from the van led to the discovery of the seized pork, which the NMIC declared as unfit for human consumption.

In an interview with reporters, City veterinarian Dr. Ronald Bernasor claimed that the contaminated meat was already in the state of decomposition, with green and white molds in it. He added that the seized pork lacked meat inspection clearance from Davao City, the point of its origin.

Bernasor said that the items should have been packed in crates instead of plastic bags and should have been placed in a refrigerated and not a regular container van.

The drivers of the container van, Erik Ravela, 24 of Lakandula, Tondo, Manila and his helpers, were detained at the city hall pending the investigation of the case. Appropriate charges are also being readied against companies involved in the transport.

Since the seized pork amounted to millions of pesos, the NMIC found it logical to just burn it in a slaughterhouse located in the province of Bulacan. The ashes would make good use as fertilizer, a flash report over radio DZRH said.

Ham is a very popular Christmas giveaway in the country and costs around $12 per kilo. The seized products were believed to be intended for early delivery to the ham suppliers throughout the provinces in the country in time for the holiday season.

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(AP) A father tied his 10-year-old daughter’s hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours in a task he said Thursday would help the girl achieve her dream of swimming across the English Channel.

Huang Li swam more than a mile in the Xiang River on Tuesday, traveling with the current, her father said. The girl swam by moving like a dolphin and would sometimes paddle with her bound hands.

“Her swimming skills are perfect and she insisted on doing this,” Huang Daosheng said in a telephone interview. The girl, who lives in the city of Zhangjiajie in Hunan province, got the idea after seeing something similar on a local television program.

With the Beijing Olympics less than a year away, sports is grabbing greater attention in an already sports-crazed country. Huang Li’s swim is at least the second time in recent months that a child athlete has drawn media attention.

This past summer, 8-year-old Zhuang Huimin ran 2,212 miles from her home on the southern island province of Hainan to Beijing in 55 days, her father trailing behind her on a motor scooter. The run drew criticism from some media commentators as excessive for a young child.

News photos showed Huang Li, wearing a skirted swimsuit, being picked up out of the water by her father. Her ankles were tied together with string and her hands were bound by a strip of cloth. A newspaper report said the girl was so cold her face had turned blue.

“It’s not dangerous because, first, her swimming skills are really good and second, I was swimming with her, staying close to her,” the father said. “I had her when I was 35, so she is my heart. I would never play around with her life.”

The father, a teacher who enjoys swimming, coaches his daughter and said the family does not have enough money for her to have a better coach. The girl started the sport when she was six and her father said her goal is to one day swim across the English Channel.

“She asks me every day, ‘Can I achieve this? Is the English Channel wide? Are the waves really big?’” Huang Daosheng said.

Source: CBS News

Sydney, Australia (AHN) — The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and their Irish counterparts are investigating the source of illegal drugs smuggled inside an Action Man figure and a smiling Mr Potato Head toy after the Australian Customs officers say they found banned ecstasy tablets and cocaine inside the figurines placed in a package that arrived at the Sydney International Mail Centre from Ireland, in late July.

The Australian Customs officers say they found the MDMA tablets intended for a home in western Sydney, in a small taped bag inside the toy after an X-ray examination revealed suspicious substances.

While 293 grams of ecstasy tablets was discovered inside the Mr Potato head, AFP Commander David Stewart says the Action Man figure, also intended for delivery to the same home, yielded 50 grams of cocaine inside.

With the discovery of the attempt to smuggle the illegal drugs, Commander Stewart says the supply chain to the home has been stopped, although adding that so far, no arrests have been made but

“We’ve been quite confident that we’ve disrupted this operation as far as this syndicate is concerned,” Stewart said. “It does not look to be widespread.”

The Australian Customs and the AFP however clarified they do not want to release further information of the haul until to avoid disrupting the police investigation.

Australia imposes a maximum penalty for importing drugs into of life imprisonment.

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Norwich, England (AHN) — It was supposed to be the centrepiece of a display at a Norwich art gallery but local police has to turn the bronze Buddha statue with a banana and two eggs on its lap around after the sculpture was declared to be offensive.

The Daily Telegraph reported that the gallery also features Christ crucified on the back of a flying bomber and Hindu god Ganesh sitting beneath a Nazi helmet, but only the Buddha has been deemed offensive.

Local police from the hate crime unit swooped down the gallery after receiving complaints from local Buddhists.

“We have had a complaint in respect of the prominent exhibition of this statue on the basis that it causes religious offense,” a Norfolk police spokesman said.

Gallery owner David Koppel, who faces arrest, acceded to the police request to turn it so that it is facing away from the street, - at least, for the time being.

“The police have now threatened to impound the sculpture and arrest me if it remains on public display,” said Koppel. “I have, for the time being, agreed to turn it away from the window.”

However, he added that he intends to return it to its full glory and turn it back facing the street as soon as returns from holiday next week.

Colin Self, the artist who created the statue, justified his opus saying, “One of the points of the work is to highlight how, in a global village where different cultures collide.”

“You cannot help but upset somebody, somewhere, somehow,” he added.

However, Tom Llewellyn, of the Norwich Buddhist Centre, said he doesn’t believe “it has much value or imagination.”

“It is clearly intended to be provocative,” he said.

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London, England (AHN) — Fearing a chemical attack, police did everything to evacuate a busy London street, only to find out later the cause of the commotion: A Thai restaurant’s spicy chilli sauce.

Local police had to close off three roads and evacuated homes as a mysterious cloud of acrid smoke hovered over the streets of Soho for three hours.

Firefighters wore specialized breathing apparatus and entered the deserted streets to seek out the source.

Once identified, the firefighters broke down the door of the Thai Cottage restaurant only to emerge later carrying a huge cooking pot containing about 4 kilos of smouldering dried chillies.

The quick response of the emergency services caught the staff at the restaurant by surprise including Chef Chalemchai Tangjariyapoon.

“I was making a spicy dip with extra-hot chillies that are deliberately burnt,” said Tangjariyapoon. “I can understand why people who weren’t Thai would not know what it was. But it doesn’t smell like chemicals. I’m a bit confused.”

Tangjariyapoon told investigators he was just preparing Nam Prik Pao, a red-hot Thai dip served with prawn crackers.

A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed the police operation saying “The street was closed off for three hours while we were trying to discover the source of the odor.”

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(AP) Add another victim to North Carolina’s prolonged drought. Donald Meeks set out Monday morning with bow and arrow in hand to hunt for carp on Falls Lake. He almost didn’t return. The retired landscaper from Durham went one foot out on the lake because the drought had left the water level so low.

High school friend David Minshew came along for the ride and waited for Meeks at the car, expecting him to return in a few hours.

Those few hours passed. The afternoon faded. Darkness began to fall and still no sign of the 68-year-old Meeks.

A motorist stopped around 7 p.m. and asked if they were stranded. Minshew used the driver’s cell phone to report his friend was missing and to call Meek’s wife.

Durham County sheriff’s deputies responded, using boats to search the grassy area to no avail.

It was now midnight. Maj. Mike Andrews asked for a Highway Patrol helicopter.

Using thermal-imaging equipment, the helicopter crew found Meeks at 2:11 a.m. Tuesday, about 300 yards north of Interstate 85.

He was surrounded by tall grass and “buried up to his chest in some mud, quicksand-type matter,” Andrews said.

Deputies were unable to pull Meeks out using a rope. They created a walkway with plywood and used some “elbow grease” and finally freed Meeks about two hours later, Andrews said.

Meeks says he was simply walking when he fell in a hole, and that he began hallucinating while he was cold and wet and stuck in the mud.

“I thought about being in my warm bed and not out here shivering,” he said. “I asked Jesus what in the world I had done to deserve this.”

Source: CBS News

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Westlake –An officer who tried to make a routine speeding stop on Interstate 90 early Saturday wound up having his cruiser stolen. According to a news release, events unfolded like this:

The officer — who was not named — tried to pull over a speeding car on I-90 at 1:23 a.m. near the Lorain County border. The driver, however, didn’t stop until he plowed into a ditch near Ohio 83.

The 33-year-old driver and his 15-year-old passenger then ran.

The officer chased and caught the teen. But while he was trying to put handcuffs on her, the driver — identified as Frankie Molina — circled back and drove off in the officer’s cruiser.

Molina didn’t go far. Avon police found the car abandoned, about four minutes later in a field at Ohio 83 and Main Street.

Meanwhile, at least five other law enforcement agencies joined in the hunt for Molina. Police found him near the abandoned cruise at 1:47 a.m. When they tried to arrest him, he resisted. By the time he Molina was taken into custody, he was bitten by a police dog and zapped with a police Taser weapon.

Molina initially told officers he was 17-years-old. But the teenager betrayed him, revealing that Molina was lying.

Molina was treated and released from Lakewood Hospital and is in Westlake City Jail. He faces a slew of charges.

The 15-year-old was released to her parents. She, too will face a half-dozens charges — including underage drinking — in Cuyahoga County juvenile court.

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The man at the back of the Metro bus was older, wore glasses and apparently drew the attention of a group of alleged gang members who reportedly began harassing him.

But when one of them tried to take the man’s glasses, he pulled a knife and fought back, Seattle police said.

“He began swinging at his attackers in self-defense,” spokeswoman Renee Witt said.

When the melee was over, four of the teens had cuts, including some with superficial cuts to their buttocks, and one had a dislocated shoulder. The man was not hurt.

The incident began about 11:15 p.m. on a northbound bus traveling along Rainier Avenue South, Witt said. The five teens boarded near Rainer Beach High School, having attended a football game there, she said.

Police reports described the teens as known to officers and active members of a local gang.

Officers called to the bus after the fight initially believed the wounded teenagers were the victims, until other passengers aboard the bus told officers that it was the teens who started the disturbance.

All were treated at the scene by Seattle Fire Department medics and released to their parents, Witt said. The man was interviewed and released; his knife taken as evidence.

Detectives on Monday expect to review videotape of the fight captured on cameras mounted in the bus, Witt said.

Charges are likely to be filed against at least some of the teens, Witt said, but that decision rests with the King County Prosecutors Office.

Source: Seattlepi