London: A woman in California drugged her husband, and tied him to his bed, and when he woke up she cut off his penis and tossed it in the garbage disposal, police said on Tuesday.
Catherine Becker, 48, is said to have made her husband dinner on Monday night and put an unknown poison or drug in the food to make him pass out, reports the Daily Mail.
When he woke up, he was tied to a bed and could not move while his wife took a knife to his genitalia before throwing the organ into the garbage disposal and turning it on, police said.
Authorities were called to the couple’s home in Garden Grove, just south of Los Angeles, after Becker called 911 reporting a medical emergency.
When officers arrived, they found her husband bleeding profusely.
The 52-year-old man was rushed to UCI Medical Center, where he is now in a serious condition following emergency surgery.
While searching the home, officers found a knife and a rope.
After officers arrived at the scene and saw the man suffering, Becker allegedly told them he ”deserved it”.
Becker is now being held at the Orange County jail, charged with aggravated mayhem, false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, administering a drug with intent to commit a felony, poisoning and spousal abuse. (ANI)
Hitler’s fake currency notes to be auctioned
London: Four examples from the 134 million-pound worth set of counterfeit bank notes that Hitler had got printed as part of ‘Operation Bernhard’ to spark inflation and a cash crisis in Britain during World War II, will go under the hammer next month.
The dodgy bank notes, printed in 5, 10, 20 and 50 pound denominations, were recovered from Lake Toplitz in Austria and are expected to fetch 2,000 pounds when it is put up for auction at Ludlow Racecourse, Shropshire on August 18.
Nazi spies had been ordered to smuggle the cash into Britain and flood the economy with the fake money.
But Hitler’s plan was foiled when British spies got wind of the idea and intercepted the shipment of the notes.
The Bank of England first learned of a plot from a spy as early as 1939. It first came across the actual notes in 1943, and declared them ‘the most dangerous ever seen.’
“These notes are extremely rare,” the Daily Mail quoted auctioneer Richard Westwood-Brookes as saying.
“They were taken out of the lake by divers but have amazingly stayed in great condition.
Westwood Brookes added: “It was a completely audacious plot by Hitler and if it had worked it would have been a serious blow to our economy.
“It is a great story and these notes represent a major triumph for the British intelligence services over the Nazis.” (ANI)
A track of the world’s most expensive cities
New York: Angola’s oil rich capital Luanda is the world’s most expensive city, while New York is now placed at a distant 32 in a yearly study undertaken by the Mercer Group.
According to the New York Daily News, the report, which is published annually to help companies assess compensation allowances for workers, compared the cost of over 200 items, including housing, food and transport in 214 cities, using New York as a reference. Limited infrastructure and inflation mean that the cost of food is high and the rent on a small two-bedroom apartment in Luanda can cost 7,000 dollars a month.
Tokyo is the second most expensive city in the world, while the city of N’Djamena in Chad is third. (ANI)
Now, sleep at the ‘snore-proof’ Plaza hotel
Washington: There really is nothing worse than being kept up all night because of your partner’s snoring.
That’s why Crowne Plaza Hotels have designed a specific snore absorption room to help give their guests a great night’s sleep without medication or specialised equipment.
The new hotel room features sound proofing on walls to absorb the loud frequencies, a special sound absorbing head board, an anti-snoring bed wedge which acts as a body pillow, an anti-snoring pillow which uses magnets and a white noise machine which is proven to help drown out the droning snoring noise and help sleep and relaxation, reports Fox News.
That’s not all about Crowne Plaza’s whole idea of sleep. Their Sleep Advantage Program features dedicated quiet zones, luxurious bedding and pre-sleep in-room Aromatherapy. (ANI)