Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Coins Tossed into Plane Engine – Cops Mistaken for Strippers – Bible Pages Used to Roll Cigarettes



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’.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Organ Thefts (Malaysia) – The Poisoned Dress (1953) – Stolen Left Shoes



Malay Mail [Malaysia]
22 February 2019

Serial rapist-cum-organ-seller is fake news from 2014, police say

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 — Police dismissed today a purported wanted notice circulating on WhatsApp about a serial rapist who also sells human organs in Malaysia and the Thailand border. Bukit Aman corporate communication chief Datuk Asmawati Ahmad said the fake wanted notice for a man named Mohd Faris Farhan Akhlaken Ahmad, which was circulated under her name on the social messaging platform, has been going around several times since 2014. […]

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“Death’s Bridal Gown,” Adventures into Darkness #8, Feb. 1953. A bride dies after wearing a dead woman’s wedding dress saturated with embalming fluid. The complete story, a variation of “The Poisoned Dress,” is at http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2019/02/deaths-bridal-gown.html.



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The Deuce (HBO), 14 October 2018, Season 2, Episode 6, “We’re All Beasts.”

Four New York crooks steal a truck transporting footwear, but discover all it contains are left shoes. Their mob boss, rather than being upset, has a good laugh. Holding up a pair of shoes, he says: “They’ve been doing this shit because we’ve been robbing them blind. They send the left shoes in one truck and the rights in the other!” One of the crew exclaims, “Fuck me! So you’re saying we’ve got to hijack the right shoe truck and we’re good to go?” Everyone laughs.