News thread

[Alinestra Covelia]

So, I'm not sure if "News Threads" are done here, but if they are allowed, I'd be interested in contributing weird and zany news stories. I used to be a journalist and I still like to revisit the fourth estate every now and again.

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I have a modest example here.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/01/world/main4982456.shtml

Couple has sex on Queen's lawn


(CBS) Hoping to catch a glimpse of royalty, tourists at England's Windsor Castle Thursday saw something akin to a skin flick.

A couple was caught having sex on the Queen's lawn, much to the amazement of guests at a hotel overlooking the castle.

"People were shouting things like 'what are you doing?' but the couple didn't seem to care at all. It was going on for about 10 or 15 minutes, which is quite a long time, considering the location," an employee at the Harte and Garter Hotel told The Guardian.

One witness said the couple continued their romantic dalliance even after police intervened.

According to the Associated Press, the Queen was home, but her office has declined comment.


Disgraceful behavior, I say. What more proof do you need that people are devolving and behaving like animals. :qq:

[GrandpaTroll]

So, I'm not sure if "News Threads" are done here, but if they are allowed, I'd be interested in contributing weird and zany news stories. I used to be a journalist and I still like to revisit the fourth estate every now and again.

...

I have a modest example here.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/01/world/main4982456.shtml

Couple has sex on Queen's lawn




Disgraceful behavior, I say. What more proof do you need that people are devolving and behaving like animals. :qq:


I misread, thought this was about two consenting adults, one professed Hardcore male and one professed, am a male but love female clothes, and then on the dressers Lawn, did something:1eye::1eye::nod::sneaky:

I do promise to look at things closer to try to identify what Im looking at before diving in head first:relief:

[Sergeant P. A. Muldoon]

Good on them I say!

[vyeh]

So, I'm not sure if "News Threads" are done here, but if they are allowed, I'd be interested in contributing weird and zany news stories. I used to be a journalist and I still like to revisit the fourth estate every now and again.

A journalist turned lawyer. A killer combination.

[Zoid]

I thought this was quite funny. Big splash on the frontpage and lots of eggs on the face of the stupid tabloid journalists :D

http://www.thelocal.se/articleImages/19654.jpg


Swedish tabloid apologizes for union boss doppelganger mix-up

Published: 25 May 09 14:07 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/19654/20090525/

Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen published pictures and an interview with the head of Sweden’s Trade Union Confederation (LO), Wanja Lundby-Wedin, on Monday, only to find that they had spoken to, and photographed, the wrong woman.

"The person in the picture is not the LO chairperson, nor is she the person cited in the article... As editor I would like to unreservedly apologize to the persons involved, and the readers, for this unforgivable carelessness," Expressen's editor Thomas Mattsson wrote in the newspaper's online edition later on Monday.

Under the headline "Wanja snaps" (Här brister det för Wanja) the newspaper claimed that the embattled LO boss had refused to answer questions over revelations that her husband had stayed with her for free at the union-owned Riva del Sole resort in Italy.

But the woman that the Expressen reporter and photographer had agreed was the union boss was in fact someone unrelated to either Lundby-Wedin or LO.

The erroneous article was quickly removed from Expressen's online edition and editorial staff spent the morning working on an updated print edition for distribution in the afternoon.

Thomas Mattsson underlined however that Expressen's coverage of the story will continue despite the mix-up.

"Expressen's coverage of LO and the LO chairperson has been important and relevant. It has been cited by several other media," Mattsson stated.

The Local reported on Sunday that Lundby-Wedin had been criticized for not declaring her husband's stay in her double room at the luxury resort as a taxable benefit.

Lundby-Wedin initially explained that she was unaware that it constituted a taxable benefit but later explained in a statement that it is her understanding that the issue is subject to Italian tax regulations and is thus not subject to tax.

Peter Vinthagen Simpson (news@thelocal.se/+46 8 656 6518)

[SlowwHand]

Now, that's odd.

[El_Cid]

New tiny sun and planet found 20 light years away :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8077302.stm

"If there are other planets there(other than the known gas giant), this solar system could be a miniature, scaled-down version of our own. "

sort of tiny ones of us posting on tiny compters? :b: