Islamabad residents say no to posters
Islamabad: Posters and flyers displaying information about upcoming events continue to be put up in the Pakistani capital. This has led to growing resentment among its citizens who say such posters were a nuisance.
Residents lament that people who paste posters did not spare any public space, be they government buildings, walls of houses even when expensively painted and decorated by their owners, mosques, public shelters, lamp-posts, buses, sign-boards, traffic posts, public toilets, trees and even electricity transformers on roadsides.
People paste all sorts of things like artwork, slogans and advertisements without prior permission, the news agency reported.
“Workers of political parties and followers of religious leaders paste their campaign pictures over prohibited places and on others’ property without permission,” complained a resident named Zeeshan.
“I just painted my house,” grumbled Shabbir Ahmad Khan. “Workers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have ruined it by pasting photos of Imran Khan all over my walls. The authorities should do something about this.”
He said authorities should designate specific locations for political and religious leaders to place their posters.
That would satisfy many campaigners and their followers. Municipalities should also reserve the right to remove such posters if they provoke the residents.
Tariq, a Tehreek-e-Insaf activist, said: “We are not aware of any specific location approved by the government in Islamabad.”
In most areas, there are local by-laws against posters, but these vary from area to area. Police can catch an offender, but he can be let off by just paying a fine. (IANS)
Freak accident kills woman
Melbourne: A woman in Australia died when a tow ball used by her car to pull another car broke off and flew through the car’s window, hitting her in the throat.
The freak accident occurred in Western Australia.
According to police, the 29-year-old was in the passenger seat of a car with her partner, who was attempting to tow a friend’s car out of sand at a beach Saturday. (IANS)
Waiter kills two Britons
London: Two British women were killed by a waiter in Turkey after one of them didn’t allow him to marry her 15-year-old daughter, it was reported here.
Marion Graham and Kathy Dinsmore, who are both in their 50s, were taken to a forest where the waiter stabbed them and then slit their throats, The Sun reported.
Marion’s daughter Shannon, 15, raised an alarm after the women went missing in the Turkish resort of Kusadasi.
The waiter Recep Celik, 17, who was having a relationship with Shannon, led police to the bodies.
He said Marion had told him her daughter was too young to get married.
The media report said the waiter offered to take both women on a jaunt to meet his father. He drove them to a forest where he stabbed them to death. (IANS)
British pilot dies in air show crash
London: A pilot died when his aircraft plunged to the ground after a display at an air show in Britain.
Flight Lieutenant Jon ‘Eggman’ Egging, 33, was killed when his plane crashed near Bournemouth Airport in Dorset after a demonstration, The Sun reported.
“I heard a rushing sound and I saw a plane about 15m above the ground racing across the fields.
“It impacted and bounced across the field, made it across the river…Members of the public jumped into the water to search for the cockpit,” Shaun Spencer-Perkins, an eyewitness, was quoted as saying. (IANS)
Man faces 20 years jail for dropping ship’s anchor
London: A cruise ship passenger is facing about 20 years in prison besides an over 151,000 pounds ($250,000) fine for dropping the anchor of the moving vessel in a drunken state.
Ehlert conceded his offence, stating that he was drunk at the time. He also explained that the liner’s anchor system was similar to that of his own 50ft boat, said investigators.
According to prosecutors in Florida, 45-year-old Rick Ehlert pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to damage a maritime facility, Daily Mail reported.
Authorities said, the ship MS Ryndam was Tampa-bound from Mexico’s Costa Maya when Ehlert put on work gloves and released the anchor of the 1,260-passenger ship in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico Nov 27 2010.
A surveillance video showed Ehlert entering a restricted area and dropping the 18-tonne stern anchor.
According to investigators, the Holland-America ship avoided damage as the anchor didn’t hit the sea floor.
Releasing the rear anchor could have punctured the 719-foot ship and caused it to sink or be severely flooded, the FBI said. (IANS)
Visiting a crime spot to repent
Beijing: A Chinese man who took part in the gang rape and murder of a woman has been returning to the crime spot every year on the day the crime took place — to repent.
Mei Chunhui, 27, visits the scene to repent and pay homage to the victim, reported China Daily.
On Nov 24, 2001, Mei robbed a woman along with his friends. They then raped and killed her. His associates were caught, but Mei escaped — until this year.
He told police that from the woman’s ID card, he learned the victim’s address. He then began to go to crime spot to repent and pay homage to her every Nov 24. (IANS)
US man claims to have found ‘world’s smallest chicken egg’
Washington: A man in the US claims to have found the world’s smallest chicken egg, a media report said. Donnie Russell has said that he found the egg last month on his farm in West Virginia — it’s 2.1 centimetres long, or a bit bigger than a penny, and weighs 3.46 grams — a little more than one-tenth of an ounce, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported.
“It’s really something. If you want to know the truth, I can’t put it into words,” Russell was quoted as saying.
Russell said his wife is an animal lover and she’s collected cats, geese, ducks, chickens and other types of birds over the years.
Normally, the chicken eggs are donated to people from the Rock Creek Community Church, where Russell is the pastor.
“Lo and behind, we went out and gathered these eggs. We had to do a double take. We both looked with our mouths open for about five minutes before we said a word. We said this has got to be a record,” he said.
The chicken that he believes laid the egg is normal sized.
“When you see something like that, you wonder how in the world did that ever happen? We’re still taking it in,” Russell said.
Guinness World Records lists the smallest recorded chicken egg as 2.7 centimetres, although a man from Great Britain in May claimed earlier this year to having one that was two millimetres smaller. (PTI)