Tragedy Averted in Olympia?
Parents walking out of their home in Olympia, Wash., last week to check on the kids in the yard (ages 6, 8, and 8) apparently scared off the 20ish man who had mysteriously come on to the property and begun taking photos. The kids say he had gotten out of a car (driven by an older man) and begun playing what was perhaps a kazoo to attract their attention and then produced his camera. When he saw the parents, the man jumped back in the car, which sped off. Said a police spokesman, “We like to ask [the men] some questions and make sure everything is fine." [In Yr Ed's opinion, it's too late for the latter.] [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8-16-01]
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Below the Fold for Friday
Carmel High School (Carmel, Ind., pop. 25,000) resumed classes with 3 unrelated teacher-student sex scandals that broke over summer vacation; one teacher shot himself to death, and charges are pending against the other 2. [Evansville Courier & Press, 8-16-01]
This Will Fix Men's Image of Ben-Gurion Airport Forever
The Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot reported this week that a “beautiful blonde” woman was found nude in the airport’s parking lot taking on all comers in a space between 2 cars, just because, she told police, she had time before her flight and wanted to get in a little sex. Forget that it was a German woman and a one-time event: How many men flying into Tel Aviv now will be a little extra-vigilant, expecting that it could be their lucky day? [Jerusalem Post, 8-15-01]
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Lysistrata in Rural Turkey
It came over the Reuters wire on Monday, but it was one of those 100-word wonders (and datelined Ankara, Turkey, though the venue was a faraway village, the equivalent of Podunk), so Yr Ed let it sit, but a longer Associated Press story ran yesterday, giving it more credibility, so here it is: The water system in Sirt (pop. 600) has been on the fritz for months, forcing women to tote buckets for miles, and since Islam requires cleansing after sex, the women have simply cut off men’s supply: No washing, no Newting. A men’s delegation has contacted the governor. [San Jose Mercury News-AP, 8-14-01]
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Nigerian Wife Makes Insufficient Case for Divorce
Yr Ed is not totally sanguine in relying on the Independent Online newspaper consortium that gathers the best of a dozen or so of Africa’s finest English-language newspapers, but, in any event, here it is, out of Nigeria, reported in the largest daily in Cape Town, South Africa, on Saturday: Ms. Amina Haruna, 22, of Gusau, Nigeria, has been turned down by a Muslim court in her quest to divorce her husband, Mr. Malam Hassan Mujahid, on the apparently-sole ground that his clinton is too large for her. [NOTE: In the spirit of the federal Communications Decency Act, Yr Ed euphemizes dirty words; if you don’t like it, well, go Newt yourself.] It came down to the evidence, with the court seemingly saying that it had medical word on both spouses’ sizes and that there was no discrepancy. [Cape Argus, 8-11-01] [Yr Ed could not make the url work here, but click this Link and then the Search button; enter nigeria and divorce; and it’s the first story to appear]
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Our Boy Kevin Erwin Beats the S&M Rap
We reported here last week that things looked bleak for Kevin Erwin, trying to defend against sexual assault charges at his trial in Canton, Ohio, by claiming a consensual relationship in which the “victim” simply failed to use the agreed-upon safe words (“tomato” and “pepper”) when the going got rough. On the day before he was arrested, as reported in News of the Weird .704, he had written up a contract whereby the “victim” agreed in writing to anything sexual Kevin wanted to do to her (and to leave her husband and marry Kevin and give him $100G in liquidated damages if she ever broke the contract). Well, Kevin won a slam-dunk jury verdict on Thursday and is a free man, although the jurors were not pleased with themselves: Said one, “This was a lifestyle that all of us were ignorant of up until this point and would have rather remained ignorant of.” [Canton Repository, 8-10-01]
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Organizers of the Erotica Adult Lifestyle Expo in Auckland, New Zealand, last week gave away 1,000 vibrators on the street, for publicity, saying Aug. 8 was “int’l orgasm day.” [Japan Today-Reuters, 8-8-01]
Nude portraits are becoming more popular in China, mostly among young, educated women who want a record of what they look like in their prime, according to a Wall Street Journal report. [Wall Street Journal, 8-10-01]
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