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A Norwegian man was fined a staggering 700,000 kroner ($109,000) for driving his car 400 yards with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .188. Norwegians are legally allowed to drive with a BAC of less than .02. His license was also revoked for two hears and three months. The...
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Saddam Hussein’s Babylon palace, one of several palaces that the deposed dictator built during his lifetime, is now open to the public. The building, which was gutted during the war, and vandalized by troops of various countries that stayed there, can now be visited for $1 per day....
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In a move that is claimed to be designed to raise money through the cigarette tax, the Gong’an county government in Hubei province in China has ordered its staff to smoke their way through 230,000 packs of cigarettes per year. If they don’t manage to smoke all of them...
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If United Kingdom business leaders and local community authorities are to be believed, then there is no greater threat to the country than gatherings of young people. They must be prevented from enjoying each others company by any means at any cost, lest they befoul surroundings with their bad...
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When a New Brunswick police officer pulled over a Sean Leach of Jersey city for an expired registration sticker, Leach was quick to inform him that while he planned to register his vehicle, he just hadn’t got round to doing so. That did not stop Officer Jason Zier from...
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Due to unprecedented levels of violence in Guatemala, the government has taken the step of banning motorcycle riders from carrying passengers. The move has been made to try to reduce rising levels of violence that have seen the Guatemala become one of the most violent countries in Central America....
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Forty-two-year-old Thomas Frazier of Genesee County, Michigan has been jailed for failing to pay more than $530,000 in child support for the fourteen children that he has fathered by thirteen different women....
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Thirty-eight-year-old Kelly Coffman-Lee had her application for a customized numberplate reading “ILVTOFU” refused for being obscene....
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An airline passenger faces federal charges in the United States after allegedly twisting the arm of a flight attendant who blocked his way when he tried to use a business class lavatory. Whilst on route to Atlanta from Honduras, Joao Correa, 43, found himself desperately needing to void his...
