Nanaimo : Site of Ancient Rock Carvings

Vancouver Island remains a place of stunning natural beauty and ancient people in the area of Nanaimo  must have thought so too.  Nanaimo  and environs have many ancient rock carvings or...

Joseph Carnevale: Traffic Barrel Monster Brings Fame and Arrest

Joseph Carnevale, a university student in Raleigh, North Carolina, repurposed a bunch of traffic barrels to create a giant hitchhiking traffic barrel monster.The Internet absolutely loved it, but the police...

Torching Cars. (Or a peculiar French National Sport).

If you thought that sport in France was only about people playing cards in bistros or drinking Pastis whilst playing Petanque in a picturesque village square, you were wrong.Burning cars has become a favourite...

Vandals hit French Muslim war veteran graves

Few months after the Vandal attack by Neo Nazis in April, over 500 graves of Muslim war veterans were damaged at the Notre Dame de Lorette cemetery in France. "The attack took place on the eve of Islam's Eid...

Israel: Jewish Settlers spray inflammatory graffiti on mosque

Tensions between Jewish settlers and Muslim Palestinians continue to increase. Jewish settlers decided to ignore a Supreme Court decision ordering them to vacate a building next to a Mosque in Hebron. on...

Israeli Jewish settlers vandalise Arab graves

Just as the Israeli Foreign Minister Livni prepares to announce an early election, this most surprising vandalising event at Hebron shows the rising tension between ultanationalist settlers and...

Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages

Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of...

Euro 2008 fanatics cause early troubles

Euro 2008 had just begun and drunken fans and supporters have also started their brawling and vandalism. Officials fear that more problems will arise as the tournament continues."Austrian police said 17 people...

Three schools vandalized in St. John's

Just after news of vandalism at Exploits Valley Intermediate in Grand Falls-Windsor, more news comes from VOCM saying that three schools in the metro St. John's area were vandalized last night. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary says that "extensive damage" was done to the...

Grand Falls-Windsor school vandalized

The music room at Exploits Valley Intermediate was extensively damaged on Wednesday night, just before the music festival that was set for the next morning. The school is new and just opened last week and already has been vanadalized. While the police don't have any ideas...

Quixotic graffiti artist jailed for two years

The world just wasn't ready for his love, and now he's in prison for it."A love-struck graffiti artist who habitually immortalised his heart's desire in paint was jailed for two years today. For weeks "persistent...

O-No, Steve-O Arrested for Vandalism-o and Drugs-o

Love him or hate him, Steve-O has been arrested."LOS ANGELES - Steve-O of "Jackass" fame was arrested for investigation of vandalism and possession of a controlled substance at his Hollywood home. Police arrested...

Olympic Clock vandalized

"This is not very good. Dozens of the anti-poverty activists threw paint onto the Olympic Clock yesterday, after a rally that spanned from the Victory Square to Robson Street."

Family busts mailbox smashers

Smashing the same mailbox four times in a row is begging to be caught, isn't it?" HATLEY, Wis. - Call this family the mailbox vigilantes. Fed up that their mailbox was smashed four times in...

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