Karl's Weird News

Stunt man films himself skiing down Underground escalator

A man who filmed himself skiing down a London Underground escalator is being investigated by police.

The 60-second film, which has been viewed by more than 100,000 people on the internet, shows the man hurtling down the 100 metre (300ft) escalator at Angel station in North London at a speed of more than 30mph.

In the footage, shot from a camera in the man’s helmet, passengers can be seen strolling past as he fixes his skis at the top of the escalator. He then launches himself down the stairs, arriving to applause at the bottom seven seconds later.

Wife cut off hubby’s manhood:

A Chinese woman escaped jail after she cut off her husband’s penis and threw it out of the window.

 The man drove himself to hospital – but doctors couldn’t reattach the organ as it had been eaten by a dog, reports Jinling Evening Post.
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He said: “My wife was holding a large part of my penis, and I pleaded with her to send me to hospital immediately, but she refused firmly, and when I pleaded with her to give me back the cut penis, she threw it out of the window.”

Russian Killed Outside Trial in Ukraine

A Russian businessman allied with Ukraine’s president was killed by a sniper Tuesday as he was escorted from a courthouse during a break in his extortion trial, a government official said.

Maksim Kurochkin, 38, was hit by a bullet fired from a building next to the court, said Volodymyr Polishchuk, an Interior Ministry official. A police officer guarding the businessman was seriously wounded.

Charges Dropped In Goat Spray-Painting Case:

Criminal charges have been dropped against a Mahopac man whom police charged last fall with animal cruelty and burglary for breaking into a barn and spray-painting three goats.

Drew Gagnon, 37, was arrested in November after police said he broke into the barn on Croton Falls Road early Thanksgiving morning and used orange spray paint on the genitals of the three goats owned by the Fiero family.

Carjacking thwarted when driver shoots suspect in head

A carjacking victim may have turned the tables late Friday when he shot the suspect in the head as the man drove down the street.

Denver detectives and Aurora police were trying to sort out a violent sequence of events they said involved a carjacking, a possible kidnapping and a traffic collision in which the carjacking suspect slammed into another vehicle carrying five people. The ordeal began about 9 p.m. in the 9800 block of East Girard Avenue in Denver, Detective Virginia Quinones said.

Remains of 8 People Found in Florida Woods

Skeletal remains of eight people were found in southwest Florida woods, and investigators believe the bodies have been there for several years, police said.

The skeletons, which had no skin or clothing, were found Friday in an unlit wooded area about 25 feet from an unpaved section of an east Fort Myers street, Fort Myers police Lt. Brian Phillips said.

Investigators were working to identify the bodies and were handling the deaths as homicides unless they find evidence to the contrary, police said. No trauma was evident, Phillips said.

Toddler found high on coke at pre-school

A toddler was treated by doctors after cocaine was found in her system. The unidentified girl, who is between 18 and 24 months old, was taken to hospital after workers at her church pre-school noticed the girl acting strangely, in Jacksonville, Florida.

Top News- Man Taped Roommates in Shower, Police Say

A man landed in hot water after police say he hid a tiny camera in a shampoo bottle to watch two of his female roommates as they took showers. A male roommate, curious why the shampoo wasn’t moved for some time, found wires protruding from the back of the bottle, then called police, authorities said.

‘Pimp of Year’ Draws Lengthy Jail Term

A man who touted himself as “Pimp of the Year” was sentenced Friday to more than 23 years in federal prison. Matthew “Knowledge” Thompkins pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to transport minors to engage in prostitution and conspiracy to engage in money laundering. Authorities said that the Bronx, N.Y., man had prostitutes working for him in New York; Atlantic City; Las Vegas; Philadelphia; Youngstown, Ohio, and other cities.

Housewife Convicted of Frying Husband

A Brazilian housewife was convicted and sentenced to 19 years in prison Friday for killing her husband, chopping his body into small pieces and frying it. Rosanita Nery dos Santos, 52, drugged her husband in his sleep, then stabbed him to death two years ago in Salvador, about 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo, said police spokesman Idmar Bonfim.

Rat poison found in pet food, official says

Rat poison has been found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Agriculture and Markets said Friday.

Spokeswoman Jessica Chittenden would not identify the chemical or its source beyond saying it was a rodent poison.

The Food and Drug Administration has said the investigation was focusing on wheat gluten in the food. Wheat gluten itself would not cause kidney failure, but the common ingredient could have been contaminated by heavy metals or mold toxins, the FDA said.

State agriculture officials scheduled a news conference Friday afternoon to release laboratory findings from tests on the pet food conducted this week.

The deaths led to a recall of 60 million cans and pouches of pet food produced by Menu Foods and sold throughout North America under 95 brand names. There have been several reports of kidney failure in pets that ate the recalled brands, and the company has confirmed the deaths of 15 cats and one dog.

DVD pirates want sniffer dogs’ heads

Malaysian movie pirates have put a bounty on the heads of two sniffer dogs who busted a fake DVD ring with a seizure of discs worth about $3 million, media and officials said on Thursday.

Lucky and Flo, two female black Labradors deployed by Malaysian authorities in their crackdown on pirated movie DVDs and music CDs, carried out their first major successful operation in Johor state on Tuesday.

The New Straits Times said syndicate bosses had offered an unspecified reward for the killing of the two dogs.

Boca police: Cross-dressing fake deputy arrested:

The granddaughter of NASCAR cofounder Edgar Otto was arrested on a charge of impersonating a sheriff’s deputy Tuesday after she pulled over a driver on Clint Moore Road, ordered him out of his car and handcuffed him, police said.

240-Year Sentence for NYC Hate Crime:

A judge sentenced a man to 240 years in prison Wednesday for taking hostages in a bar and telling patrons that “white people are going to burn tonight.”

State Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley told Steven Johnson, 39, who is black, that he had forfeited his “right to live in society.”

Johnson, 39, was convicted March 1 of attempted murder, assault and other charges, including some designated as hate crimes.

Woman charged with assault in biting attack:

A Bluffton woman was charged over the weekend for nearly biting the nose off a woman and severely biting a man on the cheek, authorities said.

Police say Kellee E. Knight, 34, of 74 Shultz Road was drinking alcohol with her neighbors March 2 and became agitated when a 46-year-old man told her she was sitting on his credit card.

She lunged at him and bit him on the cheek so hard that it broke the skin and left distinct upper and bottom teeth marks on him, said Bluffton Police Chief David McAllister. When a 41-year-old woman tried to pull her off, Knight bit her nose, causing enough damage to require plastic surgery, McAllister said.

“She basically almost bit this lady’s nose off,” said McAllister.