Everybody Is Cane Fu Fighting At Senior Centers
Older People Get Healthful Exercise And Learn to Wield a Ready Weapon
Source: WSJ
The St. Leonard retirement village in Centerville, Ohio has a whole new way of thinking about recreation: cane fighting.
Senior centers and retirement communities are looking for new ways to promote exercise in order to stave off [...]

Plans by Google to photograph millions of British homes and publish them online have been condemned as a ‘gross invasion of privacy’.
source: Daily Mail:
The internet giant’s StreetView website will allow anyone in the world to type in a UK address or postcode and instantly see a 360-degree picture of the street. It will include close-ups [...]

You heard it right.
Source: CBS
A dwarf charged with prostituting an underage runaway will appear in Kings County, N.Y. Supreme Court on Monday. Jacqueline Green, a.k.a. ‘Shorty,’ due to her 3 foot 9 inch height, is charged with promoting prostitution and child endangerment for allegedly pimping a 15-year-old that ran away from a troubled home.
According to [...]

Stephanie Ragusa is back in the news.
Since we last saw her, Ragusa had been out on bail after being arrested for allegedly having sex with two students in early 2007. The students were 14 and 15. She was initially released March 18, 2008 after posting bail, but was re-arrested April 15 when investigators found out [...]

Source 1: CNN
Source 2: BBC
A 25-year-old man, Tomohiro Kato, plowed into pedestrians with a truck in a crowded Tokyo neighborhood (Akihabara) Sunday and then stabbed 17 people in three minutes, killing at least seven in a grisly attack. “He was screaming as he was stabbing people at random,” an unidentified witness told public broadcaster NHK.

Kato [...]

Here’s a story from MSNBC:
Police in the town of Arvada, Colorado are searching for two robbers who used women’s thong underwear for masks. On May 16th, one man wearing a green thong on his face and another man wearing a blue one robbed a convenience store, getting away with cash and cigaretes.

Who were these guys? [...]

Bye, Bye, Bye
Source: Orlando Sentinel
Boy band mogul Lou Pearlman was sentenced this morning to 25 years in federal prison for running a lengthy, systematic con that artificially inflated his net worth and cheated people out of $300 million.

During Pearlman’s sentencing in U.S. District Court this morning, Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp offered Pearlman [...]

From the Washington Post:
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, facing a likely prison term of four to six years for running a Washington area call-girl ring, apparently hanged herself Thursday in a storage shed behind her mother’s mobile home in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

Photo of “D.C. Madam” Deborah Palfrey, courtesy of Getty Images
Dubbed “the D.C. Madam” after a grand [...]

USA Today: 4 Questions That Need Answers:
Three weeks after Texas authorities removed more than 400 children from a polygamist compound, the facts remain distressingly murky.
1. Did Texas have any option short of taking the children from their families for weeks?
2. Did the state infringe on the group’s right to practice its religion?
3. Did anyone inside [...]

BBQ-smoker-turned-’Robocop’ chases off drug dealers

It’s midnight on the streets of Atlanta, and bar owner Rufus Terrill patrols his neighborhood with a rolling crime fighter of his own creation. Meet “Bum-bot,” as Terrill describes it; others in his neighborhood call it simply, “Robocop.”
This former BBQ smoker is armed with a water gun to chase off [...]