Detained activist Hua Huiqi escapes from sleeping Chinese guards

Hua Huiqi, a prominent Chinese Christian activist and 'underground pastor,' escaped from Chinese police after being detained on his way to the Kuanjie Protestant Church in Beijing. Huiqi is now in hiding. "Human Rights in China says underground pastor and religious dissident...

Canadian Bus Beheader "a Cannibal" : Police Claim, "Li Ate Victim's Flesh"

The Canadian Bus murder suspect "ate the flesh of his victim" a blogger has claimed police noted in the filed report into the crime.   The Canadian Press in the meantime have reported that "over 1,000"...

US Air Farce: Crew members fell asleep while holding missile launch devices

"Three ballistic missile crew members fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices, US authorities revealed today.'Decisive and urgent steps' are now needed to restore respect for nuclear weapons within the US Air Force following this latest incident at a base in...

Older People May Need Less Sleep, Study Finds

Along with all the other changes that come with age, healthy older people also lose some capacity for sleep, according to a new report published online on July 24th in Current Biology. When asked to stay in bed for 16 hours in the dark each day for several days, younger...

Drunken Swede tries to row home from Denmark

This old Swede man must not have any clue about consequences of such a daring act. " A drunken 78-year-old Swede stole a dinghy after a night out in the Danish town of Helsingor and tried to row back to Sweden, but fell asleep halfway, Danish police said on Monday. When...

Man in wheelchair charged with drinking and driving

I personally do not know the exact rules and law to this, but drinking and operating a motorised vehicle can definitely be quite hazardous. Getting hit by a wheel chair is definitely not fun, but they could also dart...

The Canadian Press: Brazilian house thief arrested after falling asleep durin...

That was funny , a very ease target to Brazilian coops'.   " SAO PAULO, Brazil — A thief caught napping in the house he was burglarizing for the second time is under arrest in southern Brazil. Police spokeswoman Giovana Schafer says 20-year-old Maicon Kovalski...

Deputies nab snoozing break-in suspect in Comstock

"Deputies nab snoozing break-in suspect in Comstock AP Posted: 2008-06-16 09:13:35 COMSTOCK, Mich. (AP) - Kalamazoo County sheriff's deputies arrested a suspected burglar they say ransacked a home, stacked electronic equipment outside and then fell asleep on a couch back...

A Flower Sellers Secrets

Great little portrait piece in first person... words of wisdom from flower seller Dennis Madden. "While you're upstairs asleep, roses can drink two inches, I'm warning you. The stall with the edge is the stall...

Alleged drunk driver plows into bike race

One is confirmed dead and 10 injured after an alleged drunk driver fell asleep at the wheel and careened into a bike race in Mexico. The photo that accompanies the story is truly horrific--I've never seen anything like it."(AP) A car plowed into a bike race along a...

Widow: My husband died from online drugs

"WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) -- She found her husband on their bed in a pool of his own vomit, dead from an accidental overdose of drugs he received from an online pharmacy....

Sleep-texting: lol or wtf?

Remember that drunken text message to your boss telling him exactly where to stick his managerial skills? Turns out you might actually have a legitimate excuse for that, er, lapse of judgment." Move over,...

Freud work sets new world record

" Freud work sets new world record Sue Tilley posed for Freud over a four-year period in the early 1990s A life-sized Lucian Freud painting of a sleeping, naked woman...

Police: Suspected burglar fell asleep

"KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 4 (UPI) -- Police in Kalamazoo, Mich., said a suspected burglar fell asleep during a home invasion early Friday morning.Scott Merlo, acting captain of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety's Criminal Investigations Division, said officers...

Police Incident at Waterfront Station

"I had some excitement on the commute home today. Still half asleep from my skytrain ride, I ambled out of Waterfront Station and noticed a pair of harassed-looking policemen...no big deal, this is downtown. I started to wake up as I headed to my bus stop and noticed an...

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