Cat In A Hat

 Hatty is a cat. A very conceited cat at that .....

Hatty The Cat ..... All Is Not As It Appears

.... She led the fire brigade and sundry other onlookers and rescue types such as the RSPCA, Network Rail and 'volunteers' a very merry dance, after apparently becoming stuck up the Royal Albert railway bridge in Cornwall over the river Tamar.

Hungry Hungry Man

An Indian fast food delivery driver was dismissed by delivery firm Zomato .......

Hungry Horace ...... Or Hanvesh.

after being filmed eating mouthfuls of the food he a was delivering.

Where's The Justice Nowadays?

In the USA, if you get a sentence for murder, it invariably means whole of life or something quite close e.g. a time period without chance of parole ...

Only One Of These Men Will Stay Behind Bars .....

 .... but if you get a double sentence, it always means all of life, as they serve sentences consecutively, and not, as seems to be the case in the UK, concurrently. 

Just Not Trying

 
Some drug smugglers aren't called 'mules' for nothing .....

This Drug Mule Just Wasn't Trying Very Hard .....

... this dumb ass Columbian, was caught at Barcelona’s International airport with half a kilo of cocaine, hidden under an over-sized toupee, by the Spanish police.

Super Fat Heroes

According to the calculated BMi index levels of over 3,752 characters from the Marvel Comics universe .... 

Marvel Universe Heroes

...... not one is medically fit .... apart from Iron Man who is wearing an armoured suit

Plastic Police Guns

In August 2018, military/police auditors in Capiata, Paraguay, discovered that 42 assault rifles had gone missing from the police armoury .....

FN FAL Rifles Are Popular On Black Market

...... and that they had been replaced with wooden and plastic toy replicas.

Cameltoe Mom

Lisa Cameltoe (previously Bell), a cleaner from Blackpool .....

Ms Cameltoe .... But Not 'Iva'

..... chose this surname herself after acquiring the nickname on a boozy holiday in Magaluf, Spain.

What Next For Justice?

What would you expect to happen if you went to court, after you beat up your girlfriend, then robbed her, after finding out she had had a miscarriage and was possibly dating someone else?

Little Scumbag ....

Prison perhaps? No, you don't understand modern thinking by the courts.

Barely Noticed Banks Crimes

It never ceases to amaze me, how lightly fraud and embezzlement are often treated by the courts in the UK. People will steal thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of pounds from businesses or people.

White Collar Robbing Of Banks Is More Profitable

This crime often puts the businesses at risk of collapse, and sometimes leaves other employees at risk of unemployment, or leaves people in poverty. Yet the sentences remain comparatively light (usually less than five years, with only half of the time in prison), and recovery or compensation not usually possible.

Duvet Dirt

We are it seems, a very dirty nation.

Silverfish .... In a Bed Near You?

Our unwashed Duvets and bed linen, contain more bacteria than a chimpanzees tree top nest.

Cocaine Surgeon

German plastic surgeon Dr Andreas David Niederbichler was another of those whom the drug epidemic in the West had corrupted.

Middle Class Murderer And Serial Rapist .... But A Light Sentence?

 He was a casual recreational user of cocaine ....

Self Identification As Another Race

My passing comment in another post about Canadian icon Buffy Sainte-Marie's claim to be a native indigenous American being challenged ...

Buffy Sainte Marie - Sesame Street

..... ended with me asking why so many white women make these sorts of claims. 

Crime Does Pay Sometimes

According to the latest crime figures, very few crimes are ever solved .......

Most Reported Crimes Never Solved

..... So it seems that crime really does pay after all.

Traumatised For Life?

 Sharleen Ndungu asked Greggs bakery for a 'meat free' sausage roll (strange I admit, but vegan sausage rolls were a big success recently) ......

Greggs Serves Veggie Sausage Rolls -
But Not Always To The Right Customers

.... however the staff at a Greggs branch in Canterbury Kent misheard her, and gave her a real meat sausage roll.

Illegal Immigrant Crisis

On the 22ndof January 2024 more than 500 illegal immigrants (they are not 'migrants as the woke press refer to them .... migrants have visa's and come legally), crossed the English Channel ....

Illegal Immigrants Crossing The Channel

On the same day the House of Lords (the UK's second legislative house) blocked the latest attempt to deport or manage these illegal entrants ... thus ensuring that nothing will be done for at least another few months. 

Big Stink

Scientists and palaeontologists can lean a lot from fossilised human and animal faeces (diets, locations, behaviours and environments) ....

T Rex Poop - Pooseum

..... so they always look out for it on archaeological sites and digs, as well as dinosaur bone hunts.

The Big Tooth Fairy

The record for the biggest tooth extracted from a human mouth, was held by Urvil Patel of India (and his dentist Dr Jaimin Patel) .....

Urvil Patel's Tooth

..... who had the longest human tooth pulled, at 3.67cm (1.44 in).

The Tsar Of Russia

 President Putin's reelection in Russia ..... 

Russian Elections 2024 - A Walk Over

.... with another unopposed walk over, and with 87.3% of the votes cast, and a 77.44% turnout (up 6.70 percentage points), was hardly a surprise to anyone.

Spot The Tip

Google Earth can be used for many things, including spotting Britain's worst fly-tipping site.

M4 Fly-Tipping Spotted From Space

Which was in Coedkernew, Newport Wales.

Ahh Florida Man (The Clue Is In His Name)

 Florida man strikes again ....

Shaft Bang Adams - Florida Man

.... I'm beginning to think that there is a whole separate blog on this subject.

Sticky End

 When the UK joined the then European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 ......

Fanfare For Europe Football Friendly

A series of 'cultural events', such as a football match between old members and new entrants, were organised by a committee set up by the then Pro-European UK Prime Minister, Edward Heath.

Fowl Tempers

Wild gangs of bad tempered and unruly chickens have become a problem on the channel island of Jersey. 

Angry Chickens Were Always A Problem At Easter

Residents of the island who have been out jogging have been chased by the flocks, while gardens have been dug up and the flocks start calling as early as 3am. 

Polluted Planet

In 2001, a research team found a can of spam meat from ....

Seabed Debris

 .... five kilometres down the slopes of the Mariana Trench.

Orthodox Revenge - Sentence Roulette

In a judgement that was a chilling reminder of those given by Nazi judges in Germany .....

Russia's Supreme Court Judge Yuri Ivanenko Reads
The Decision Banning The Jehovah's Witnesses.

...... Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in Russia in 2017, after the justice ministry successfully argued that the group distributed pamphlets which incited hatred of other groups.

Canem Caudis (Doggy Tails)

 Top Dog

A stray dog which had been tracking some mountain climbers in Nepal, and had refused to be shooed away by the Sherpas, ended up making it to the top of the 23,000ft mountain the Baruntse. The Sherpas thought that this was so auspicious that one adopted the cross breed (sheep dog and mastiff), and named her 'Baru'. 

Baru - A True Mountain Dog

To be fair Baru had to be helped for some parts of the climb, and was strapped to climbers for those parts of the climb. She had originally latched on to climb team leader Don Wargowsky from Seattle USA. Its believed to be a record climb for a dog.

Naughty School Girl

When mature South African student at Walter Sisulu University, Sibongile Mani got her monthly student grant June 2017 ....

Sibongile Mani

.... she expected it to be the usual amount of R1,400 rand .... but she found that in fact she had received R14m which is ($1m - £700,000).

Surviving The Next Apocalypse

Way back in August 2009, I wrote a small piece on Zombie Apocalypses  .....

ATM's Stop During A Zombie Apocalypse

.... and the scientists who used it as an analogy for pandemic spreads etc ....

Who Are We Looking For?

In late September 2021, fifty year old Beyhan Mutlu, who had been drinking with friends in Bursa province in Western Turkey, decided to go for a walk in a local forest .....

Confused Searcher Beyhan Mutlu.

..... instead of going straight home, without telling anyone, including his wife.

E=MC2 (Where C = Chipbutty)

Now while we were fighting a world in pandemic and are now  staring down the barrel of threatened nuclear obliteration (from Russia), the scientists at the Nottingham Trent University came up with the following formula.

... now you might be wondering what wonder of the future that this formula will unlock?

More Unintended Consequences

When the Right Wing/Conservative majority US Supreme Court, struck down a nationwide right to abortion in 2022, by overturning Roe v Wade, the law which had guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion up to the point of foetal viability (about 23-25 weeks), it was only a matter of time before some US states would go further in their local laws.

Women's Rights, Are Human Rights

So the news, that in Alabama, the state Supreme Court has now ruled that frozen embryos are considered to be 'children' and that a person could now be held to be legally liable, for accidentally destroying them, should not be a real surprise to anyone .... after all that's been the direction of travel all along.

The Female Of The Species ....

That the female of the species is more deadlier than the male is a given (at least according to Kipling, and in the song) ....

The Worlds Most Deadly Animal.

..... but only women, would dare to claim that they are routinely cleverer than males (😂).

Its All Greek To Me

The Greeks, like all of Europe, and especially the other Mediterranean countries are fanatical about football ('soccer' USA) ..... 

Greek Football Is Passionate And Violent

..... they attend matches and support their clubs with often fanatical (and sometimes violent) passions.

Police Force?

Jordan Walker Brown, a 26 year old was fleeing from the police in Haringey, North London, and had scaled a wall to escape, when he was tasered by a police officer.

Police Tasers - The Alternative To Guns

He fell and hurt his back, and was left paralysed from the waist down. The police officer was later charged with Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH), and it went to a court case. 

Plant Clippings

When I am collecting stories (from the press, or other media), as possible post ideas for this blog, I am usually left with some that are really just one or two sentences ...

Meripilus Giganteus

... so I have collated the plant clippings into a pot pourri post.

Doggone Genius Genus

Man's Best friend is supposedly the dog ......

Man's Best Friend - The Wife Or The Dog?

..... and I certainly have come across men, who would say, well it certainly isn't the wife!

The State Of Relationships

According to a report commissioned by make up company RapidLash .... 

What Most Women Fear

One in 20 British men have never seen their significant female other, without their make-up on, and ladies will usually leave it a full month before they 'go bare' in front of their 'new' other half.

The Rat Pack

A woman living in her van near Del Mar in San Diego, California (street living, is now a major issue in many US cities), wanted some company so had obtained two pet rats, as they took up little space and cost little to feed. 

The Unnamed 'Rat' Lady

However the two rats were a boy and a girl, and nature took its normal course and four weeks later a litter was born. 

Beer Is Best

There are apparently up to 50 million 'good' bacteria in some bottles of beer .... 

Medieval Brewers Made A Healthy Product.

 ....... so these probiotics are a good reason to drink at least one bottle a day .... Yeah!!

The Worst Ever Smell

What is the worst smell in the world? Well, I once smelt a dead sheep in a field in spring, after a snow melt uncovered its bloated remain .....

 

Satan's Backside On A
Throne Of Rotting Vegetables

 

..... that was a pretty bad stench, but it was outdoors so somewhat mitigated by the wind.

Birds Behaving Badly

A Swan, nicknamed 'Cedric the ASBO Swan' has been tormenting the residents of the outskirts of Northampton, England, for the past 5 or 6 years. ASBO's for those who aren't aware are Anti-Social Behaviour Orders .....

Cedric The Swan

He hammers on front doors, and rattles letterboxes for up to 3 hours at the time with his beak. No one is able to explain why this might be the case, and despite a local councillor describing it as a 'flipping nuisance' it shows no sign on stopping. Swans are protected in the UK.

Blessing Satan

The tradition of Christian priests blessing troops about to go to war, or into battle is a long one ....

Blessing Satan

 ..... and I suppose that some weapons have also been blessed through the ages, but I suspect that in the West, this would be rather on an adhoc basis, when an individual priest might bless an aircraft, or possibly a ship.

Just Another Florida Day

On Christmas Eve 2023, 23-year-old Abrielle Baldwin was shot in the chest and killed by her teenage brother Damarcus Coley in Largo, a city about a half hour's drive from Tampa, Florida .....

.... in a row about Christmas presents.

The Only Fat Man In North Korea

Once again famine is stalking North Korea ....

North Korean Propaganda Shows Food Plentiful

.... according to one of the very few escapees to the South in the last four years.

Clever Bee's And Other Animal Shorts

Over the years I collect a lot of media snippets that often don't inspire a full post, but are still worthy of some attention ....

Willow And The Grave Of The Unknown Cat

 ...... in this case, its media stories about animals that would otherwise go wasted (and lost to the ether).

The Appeals Roundabout

I was watching a US television show about criminal justice, which was mainly about criminal conviction trials for murder etc. 

 Curtis Flowers - Tried 6 Times For Same Murder

It briefly touched upon one case where there had been three appeal trials ... and counting.

Inconvenient Truths

Recent analysis of crime levels and types in New York ......

New York Evening Graphic (Dec 1926)
- Sex Entertainment Concerns Not New.

.... found that in areas where brothels and strip clubs operated, the levels of sex crimes reduced significantly.

Elephants Never Forget

Now, its hard to imagine what a 70 year old woman could do to get an elephant really, really pissed off .....

Elephant Attacks In India
Are An Increasing Problem.

 .... but whatever its takes, apparently Maya Murmu managed it.

No Police State

What happens if the police go on strike? 

Police Strike Baltimore (1974) And
The 'Community' Response.

Thankfully, we don't have to answer that question very often.

More Mayhem

Michelle Hannon from South Wales, had been holding her engagement party with her family and friends, and the event had turned into a drunken 'all day bender'.

Absinthe Parties In Wales Often Ended
With A Fight Between Mother And Daughter.

However as these events invariably do, it then degenerated into family arguments, as the drunkenness removed more and more brain cells from the action.

Samson's Farts

There are some anti-social people, who think it's OK to drop farts in a public place or amongst work colleagues (and we have discussed this subject before), but few claim that they have been secretly hypnotised in to repeatedly doing this dreadful deed.

Someone Soiled The Air I Say(!)

But nurse Xandra Samson made this claim at an employment tribunal, where she was claiming unfair dismissal and disability discrimination ... unsurprisingly, she lost.

Welfare Dependent Culture

 The biggest problem with a welfare benefit based society ....

Not In Work Age 16 - 64, Reasons June 2022

.... is the growth of a welfare benefit dependency.