A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday.
St Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her
husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after
an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a
wall.
The couch, which doubles as a bed, folds up automatically in order
to save space. The man fell between the mattress and the back of the
couch, Channel Five quoted emergency workers as saying.
The woman then walked out of the room and returned three hours later
to check on what she thought was an unusually quiet sleeping husband.
Police refused to comment.
The St Petersburg Emergency Services Ministry said a private rescue service removed the man's body.
Video on the television channel's website showed emergency workers
sawing away the side panels of a couch to remove a man in his underwear
lying headfirst between the cushions.
Crowds in Arkansas came
for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got
instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing -- a stunt
suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of
Borat fame.
"We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived," said
Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in
Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions
last month.
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The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and
share a brief kiss reminiscent of one between Baron Cohen and Will
Ferrell in the film
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Husband and wife Francisco and Casilda Figueiredo are among the last exponents
of a traditional Portuguese handicraft -- making ornamental ceramic penises.
For more than three decades, the couple have carefully shaped thousands of ceramic male organs, moulding them into upright shapes and painting them in life-like colours for export to Germany, France and North America.
Francisco and Casilda, aged 68 and 65, still toil away in a humble village workshop in the Caldas da Rainha region, about 100 km (60 miles) north of Lisbon, but say the tradition is dying out.
"The days of the ceramics trade here are numbered, I see no possibility of survival," Francisco said as he prepared moulds of the couple's top-of-the-range two-foot phallic-shaped bottles in his workshop. "It will never be like it was in the past."
The bottle sells for 15 euros (11.8 pounds)
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The traditional craft has faced a slow decline as buyers in Portugal and beyond become more liberal and the figures lose their ability to provoke.
The couple produce ceramic mugs with a penis sticking out of the bottom or the side, penis-shaped bottles and ceramic soccer figures with the male organ popping out from under a flag.
Francisco said that during the peak of their business they were producing 1,000 bottles a month.
DUBLIN, Ohio (WBNS) - A convicted sex
offender faces charges after he allegedly hid inside public restrooms
as part of an attempt to obtain and drink boys' urine.
According
to police, Alan Patton was discovered trying to collect urine inside a
men's restroom at Sports Ohio in Dublin on June 14, 10TV's Kurt Ludlow
reported.
Police
said that Patton, 56, had shut off water to the urinals and placed cups
inside them. Police subsequently charged Patton with criminal mischief,
Ludlow reported.
At
the time of his arrest, Patton told officers that "he wasn't hurting
anyone and that he suffers from an illness," according to a police
report.
Patton, who is a registered sex offender, was first arrested in 1994 on charges of voyeurism, Ludlow reported.
After
another arrest in 2006, he told Gahanna police that he suffered from
urophilia - a sexual fetish involving urine. He also told police that
drinking boys' urine made him feel like he was " drinking their youth,"
Ludlow reported.
Drivers along I-291 had quite a sight Saturday, as a man wearing
nothing but a thong, fake breasts and a wig sauntered along the side of
the highway.
Police said they received several calls about the man, which prompted
an hour-long search. Police said they found the man, fully clothed and
collecting cans behind a business on Batson Drive in Manchester. Police
said they found a wig and fake breasts in the man's car.
David Gebhardt, 42, of Manchester, was charged with disorderly conduct and simple trespass and was released on $2,500 bail.
