China Daily
25 February 2019
Lucky Air to sue man who
tossed coins at jet engine
Lucky Air will sue a passenger who tossed coins at a
jetliner's engine to wish for a safe flight, causing the plane to be grounded
overnight at great expense, the company said on its social media account on
Friday. […] Twice before, elderly Chinese travelers have been caught throwing
coins into a plane's engine for good luck. Both were spared prosecution because
of their age. […]
Shanghai Daily
27 June 2017
Flight delayed after woman
throws coins into engine at Pudong airport
A SENIOR female passenger threw some coins into the
aircraft's engine before boarding a China Southern Airlines flight, which
delayed the flight for over four hours at the Pudong International Airport. […]
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The Sun [UK]
17 February 2019
STRIP TEASE
Police called to move a broken down limo were greeted by a
hen party who thought they were strippers
COPS were left
red faced after being called out to a hen party’s broken down limo – and being
mistaken for STRIPPERS. The Road Policing Unit received reports that the
vehicle needed moving to safety but were stunned when the rowdy girls expected
them to undress. Officers eventually managed to convince the women they were
actually police officers and arrange them alternative transport. […]
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The Daily Times [Maryville, TN]
25 February 2019
Maryville man faces felony charge of tampering with salsa for
delivery
A Maryville man accused of dipping
his privates in salsa being delivered to a low-tipping restaurant customer
faces a felony charge. Howard Matthew “Matt” Webb, 31, Tuckaleechee Pike, is
being held in the Blount County Jail in lieu of $45,000 bond pending a 9 a.m.
hearing today in Blount County General Sessions Court. […]
Knoxville News
Sentinel [TN]
1 March 2019
Testicles in salsa: Lawyers are baffled why the case
is a felony
Dipping your
testicles in someone else's salsa is unappetizing, to put it mildly. But is it
a crime? […] Police arrested Webb last week on a charge of "adulteration
of food, liquids or pharmaceuticals," a Class C felony in this case,
punishable by a sentence of three to six years for first-time offenders. Under
the statute, which is rarely used in Tennessee, a jury would have to find Webb
"adulterated" the salsa with his genitals, and that he did so with
the intent to cause "bodily injury, serious bodily injury or death." Three
seasoned attorneys not connected to the case told the News Sentinel they believe that law doesn't apply here. It's
possible, they said, that no existing law perfectly fits the strange salsa
scenario. […]
Knoxville News Sentinel
[TN]
12 March 2019
Maryville man who dipped his testicles in customer's
salsa pleads guilty, laughs in court
[…] Howard Matthew
Webb, 31, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of misdemeanor assault/offensive
touching, and avoided the potential of serving prison time. Webb initially was
charged with "adulteration of food, liquids or pharmaceuticals," a
Class C felony. […] Webb was sentenced to a six-month suspended sentence on
supervised probation. He is required to serve 30 days in jail first, minus 21
days' credit for the time he's spent locked up since his arrest last month. […]
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Owen Davies, A
Supernatural War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 180; citing Bible Society Record 62 (1917), 194.
An American Bible Society member reported that on one
occasion, in 1917, when free pocket Scriptures were being handed out to troops,
he overheard a soldier advising all his comrades to accept them. They were
printed on nice paper he told them, ‘and just the right size with which to roll
cigarettes, and that he had already smoked through to II Corinthians’.
