The pair, Benjamin Steven Rutkowski, 19, and Kai Matthew Christensen, 21, of Provo, had set trip wires that could send a 20lb ball of spiked branches into a person’s head and also send an unaware victim into a bed of wooden stakes.

The pair were arrested after police identified them through a series of Facebook contacts after speaking to locals who knew the trail. Forest Service officer James Schoeffler came across the traps whilst on routine foot patrol of the area in South Fork Canyon by a building used by families and young hikers, called The Fort. The traps had been designed to go off when someone entered The Fort.

The two men have been booked on counts of reckless endangerment, with police stating that if the traps had been activated then the pair would have faced felony charges. Fox 13 was told by deputies that ‘it does not appear the suspects were attempting to hide anything, and they seem to have been set for fun.’

Forest Service spokesman Sergeant Spencer Cannon told the station: “We hope that they learn a lesson from this. Our point isn’t to get someone arrested. Our point is to get someone to change the behaviour and if this helps them to do that by going to jail, that’s what we want.”

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His mistake resulted in sixteen passengers and crew being injured in the January 2011 incident. The pilot thought that the planet was another aircraft heading right towards them, so he rammed the control stick forward to avoid what he wrongly thought was a US plane.

Canada’s Transportation Safety Board said: “Under the effects of significant sleep inertia (when performance and situational awareness are degraded immediately after waking up), the first officer perceived the oncoming aircraft as being on a collision course and began a descent to avoid it. This occurrence underscores the challenge of managing fatigue on the flight deck.”

The aircraft, a Boeing 767 twin engine passenger that had 95 passengers and eight crew on board and was travelling at night from Toronto to Zurich in Switzerland. According to the report into the incident, the first officer had just woken up, disoriented, from a long nap, when he learned from the pilot that a U.S. cargo plane was flying toward them. When he looked out he mistook the planet Venus for an aircraft, however even though the captain advised again that the target was at the 12 o’clock position (straight ahead) and 1,000 feet (305 meters) below the first officer still took action.

The report stated: “When the FO saw the oncoming aircraft, the FO interpreted its position as being above and descending towards them. The FO reacted to the perceived imminent collision by pushing forward on the control column.”

The aircraft dropped at least 400 feet before the captain pulled back on the control column, with the sudden movement of the aircraft causing injury to passengers who at the time were not wearing seat belts even though the sign was on. In total fourteen passengers and two crew members were hurt, and seven needed hospital treatment.

Apparently the pilot had had napped for 75 minutes rather than the 40-minute maximum laid down by airline regulations so when he awoke from a deeper sleep he was disoriented. He had stated that his young children often interrupted his sleep at home which is why he fell into the deep sleep.

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According to police from the Brazilian town of Guaranhuns, the three members were identified as Beltrao Negromonte and Elizabeth Pires da Silveira, both 51, and Bruna da Silva and that the trio intended to kill three women per year.

They were arrested after police found two bodies in their garden, local police believe that the bodies are of Alexandra Falcao, 20 and Gisele da Silva, 30, who had recently disappeared. According to police the trio of cannibals attracted their victims “by offering them well-paid babysitting jobs”, before choosing their victims when “a spirit warned them they were bad people.”

A police spokesman stated: “The details of the actions of the trio, with drawings and explanations of cannibalism, were found in a 50-page book written by Da Silveira, a man with a diploma in education and a black belt in karate. The three ate the flesh of their victims to purify their souls.”

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Steven Seagal was able to carry out the drugs bust because he had become a deputy with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office drug interdiction unit last October, which meant that the he could take part in the two-day operation which resulted with the arrests. The 60 year old actor arrested the three men who were also illegal aliens in the desert after they were found transporting about 500 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. The drugs which were recovered had an approximate street value of $250,000.

According to deputies, one of the suspects, Jesus Lleyva Castillo has a criminal history in Arizona. He was taken into custody and booked on several drug related charges. Another two suspects were also detained and questioned before they were turned over to the Border Patrol.

Many people will remember Steven Seagal from big budget action films of the 1980’s and the early 1990’s starring in classics such as ‘Above the Law’ and ‘Under Siege’. Also quite ironically one of Seagal’s last films the Rodriguez grindhouse flick ‘Machete,’ saw him star as a corrupt Mexican drug lord. As a martial arts expert, Seagal then turned to border control to help fight the war against drugs.

Seagal is also currently promoting the second series of his TV show True Justice, which means this drugs bust probably couldn’t have come at a better time. This week, the actor has also spoken out about his work for borders control, stating that it is not an issue of race but one of crime.

He said: “It’s an issue that is based on narcotics and money and business, it is really narcoterrorism now. When people talk about it being an immigration or racial issue, those people are dumb.”

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Apparently the organisers of the Kuwait tournament had downloaded the parody from the internet by mistake although some research first into their anthem may have been better than just downloading something from the internet, plus they also got the Serbian national anthem wrong but at least what they had wasn’t as insulting.

The Kazakhstan shooting team today demanded an apology after the incident justifiably so.

The movie Borat was quite an insulting movie to many from Kazakhstan, which featured British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. The films full title is: “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”. The movie praises Kazakhstan for its superior potassium exports and for having the cleanest prostitutes in the region. It also does not show off any of the finest qualities of the country rather some of its downfalls.

Many of the country’s politicians were angered by Borat’s fake TV reporter character who mocks the country’s country wooden carts are pulled by peasant women, and that they drink horse-urine and sing folk song Throw The Jew Down The Well. Unsurprisingly the film was not distributed in Kazakhstan’s cinemas however DVD’s have proved popular in the country according to Amazon.

However Kazakhstan officials have themselves bodged up their own national anthem, a few weeks prior as the announcer at a ski race declared: “Eyes on the flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the anthem of the Republic of Kazakhstan is beginning,” proud dignitaries put their hands on their hearts. Then out of a speaker blasted Ricky Martin’s 1999 No1 Livin’ la Vida Loca rather than the earnest anthem to ‘make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan’.

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The woman, known to be 52 year old Bola Adebisi at Dulles from Nigeria on Wednesday, after a secondary investigation officials became suspicious of her reason to be in the US. She told them she was going to stay with her brother however she was unable to provide her brother’s address, phone number or physical description.

A female CBP officer gave Adebisi a routine pat-down which is when she noticed something unusual about Adebisi’s stomach, it was abnormally rigid. She was then sent for an x-ray which revealed the hidden drugs. Adebisi was kept in hospital, while an affidavit was submitted for criminal charges, during which time she had passed a number of pellets that had a combined weight exceeding 100 grams, authorities said. She was kept in hospital until last Saturday night, until an X-ray confirmed she had passed all the pellets.

Christopher Hess, CBP Port Director for the Port of Washington, D.C. said: “The amount of pellets and heroin this woman ingested is incredible, a serious health risk, and very troubling if these numbers become the new normal.”

It’s not the first time officials have had to deal with Nigerians with a penchant for smuggling drugs in their tummy’s, the previous largest “internal pellet seizure” was March 30, 2011, according to CBP. A 46-year-old Nigerian man was arrested after expelling 100 pellets of heroin with a combined weight of a little more than four pounds.

In both instances the smugglers were lucky none of the pellets were damaged inside of them, because digesting large amounts of heroin will kill.

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Apparently they are concerned that some people may eat the bright yellow flowers for their lunch instead of putting them in a vase. Eating daffodils can give you a nasty dose of sickness and diarrhoea and turn you bright yellow (ok so they won’t turn you yellow but they will make you ill).

Trading standards officer Steve Fox, of East Renfrewshire Council, admitted: “This may be a strange request. But we want to flag this up, especially to parents of young children who may be attracted to the daffodil’s vivid yellow colour.”

For us south of the border, we may find this advice quite daft in fact probably will pass for the daftest health advice ever given, however they don’t tend to give out this sort of advice without due cause. In England, ten Chinese people recently took a trip to hospital after eating daffodils they mistook for Chinese chives in a supermarket. So it is possible for some to mistake the flower for fruit.

Dr Mark Evans, of the South West Health Protection Unit in England, said: “We want to ensure, in particular, that the Chinese community know how easily the daffodil stalk and unopened bud can be confused with Chinese chives and to be careful what they buy, especially at this time of the year.”

He also stated that daffodil poisoning was “very unpleasant” but most victims recover without treatment.

Chinese chives or ‘garlic chives’ as they are also known, are closely related to ordinary chives and can be grown by the same cultivation methods. They are used a lot in Chinese cooking normally to make dumplings.

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New Zealand’s only Marmite factory in Christchurch closed in November due to earthquake damage and production of the thick, black savoury concoction will not resume until July, which means they are now suffering from shortages in what has been dubbed by some in the media as “Marmageddon”.

Prime Minister John Key spoke to TV3 on Tuesday and said: “I’m going to have to go thin I’m afraid. I have a very small amount in my office and once that runs out I’m obviously aware that supplies are very short.”

But in a move that may shock some New Zealand purists he did say that he is also a fan of Marmite’s Australian rival Vegemite. He said: “I’ve got to be honest I can eat Vegemite as well. I’m a consumer that can move between brands, I’m ashamed to say it.”

Consumers have been urged by food company Sanitarium to make the most of existing Marmite supplies by spreading it thinly on their breakfast toast or rationing to once a day. It was revealed by general manager Pierre van Heerden that Marmite had already sold out in some parts of the country and warnings were issued to shoppers not to clear remaining stocks for their own hoards.

Pierre van Heerden said: “With toast it’s a little bit warmer so it spreads easier and it goes a little bit further. People need to be considerate of their fellow Kiwis. There’s no need to panic or freak out that Marmite isn’t going to be available in the longer term, this is a short-term hiccup because of the earthquakes.”

According to online prediction website ipredict.co.nz there will be an 83 per cent chance Marmite would be rationed in New Zealand supermarkets Tuesday. As with any shortage, there is always someone looking to make a quick buck, with one seller on auction website trademe.co.nz was offering jars at up to NZ$60 ($50).

For those looking to send Marmite supplies from the UK, you will be surprised that the New Zealand spread tastes slightly different to our own which comes with the strapline line “you either love it or hate it”. It also varies in taste to the Australian Vegemite too and although for fans of each variation insist that theirs is the best not everyone can understand the liking of the salty spread. In 2010 on a state visit to Australia, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton almost caused a diplomatic incident when she said: “I’ve never understood why you would ruin a perfectly good slice of bread with Vegemite.”

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To help capture Koga, the police sent in a SWAT team to secure the area whilst a handheld blow pipe through a porthole was used by a vet to sedate the gorilla. Once sedated, Koga was dragged back to his cage by zoo staff. During this time visitors to the zoo were moved indoors, the whole ordeal only lasted around forty-five minutes.

Koga has been cared for by a female keeper since he arrived at the Buffalo zoo in 2007 and it was this keeper who he bit on the hand and the calf before he escaped.

SWAT team captain Mark Maraschiello, said: “That was the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my career. It’s a 400-pound animal that’s capable of who knows what. He could rip your arm out of its socket.”

Zoo officials stated that the keeper’s injuries were not serious and the bite was an act of excitement rather than aggression. Zoo president Donna Fernandes said: “He was probably just as surprised coming face to face with her as she was with him.”

Koga originally came from New York’s Bronx Zoo, where he was born, and then in 1994 he was transferred to the Memphis Zoo before arriving at the zoo in Buffalo. Koga is a West Lowland gorilla which comes from West Africa and the Congo River Basin. According to Donna Fernandes Koga has no history of unusual aggression.

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Initially Harter got out of the car without being asked and started to wave his arms in the air, according to police he was swaying about and smelt of alcohol plus he was also wearing a green St. Patrick’s Day necklace. When he was asked for his vehicle registration by one of the police officers, he got back into his car and exited again, holding a pile of paper scraps and a stack of CDs, still swaying like a tree in the wind.

It was at that point one of the police officers asked Harter to take a field sobriety test, to which he agreed, however he suddenly bolted and leaped into the water 20 feet below. Another police officer managed to grab him, but couldn’t hold on to Harter so he fell into the lake and disappeared into the water.

At that time the water was, with winds between 15 and 20 mph, and cold, about 60 degrees, according to Causeway General Manager Carlton Dufrechou. Police closed the southbound lanes whilst rescuers looked for Mr Hartley. Dufrechou told the Times-Picayune: “We were concerned that the current would just take him away.”

Hartley was soon spotted clinging onto a utility building at the base of the bridge, he was uninjured and arrested straight was for his eighth drunk-driving charge, he was also charged with resisting arrest and careless driving, and booked as a fugitive on outstanding warrants for a hit and run.

Currently Mr Harter is being held on a $15,000 bond on the alleged driving violations, according to Fox News, but Dufrechou thinks that’s better than the alternative. “He’s a lot better off than being crabmeat,” he told reporters.

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According to Police, Timothy Lee Forbes, 34, of Springfield who is the assistant coach of the losing team, assaulted the coach of the winning team after a championship tournament game and bit off part of his ear. The police received a report of a disturbance at the Holy Name School in Springfield which was hosting a sixth-grade boys’ basketball game.

Police said that some spectators at the game pulled Forbes off the coach however Forbes ran out of the gym before police arrived. The victim of this savage assault, a 34-year-old Springfield man, was rushed to the Baystate Medical Centre in an ambulance to have his ear reattached and he has now been released from hospital.

Timothy Lee Forbes has been charged with mayhem, assault and battery and other charges and he was arraigned on Monday afternoon in Springfield District Court. According to Police neither of the teams taking part in the basketball championship tournament was affiliated with the Holy Name School.

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In Indonesia, after food cigarettes account for the second-largest household expenditure where some 240 million people live, despite many of those living on less than two dollars a day. The smoking in Indonesia is down to the lack of governance on cigarettes and the fact that there is no minimum age for buying or smoking cigarettes.

The child highlighted by the Child Protection Commission, called Ilham who lives in a village in West Java provincial district of Sukabumi. According to his motorcycle taxi driver dad, Umar: “Ilham started smoking when he was four years old… his smoking habit grew day by day and now he can finish smoking two packs of cigarettes a day,”

He also said that his son would flare up in a rage and “smash glass windows or anything” if he was not given cigarettes and: “He doesn’t want to go to school anymore. He spends his whole day smoking and playing.”

To tackle their smoking problem the government are following the UK’s practice of increasing prices, however in Indonesia prices remain extremely low by international standards, with a pack of 20 costing little more than a dollar.

Indonesia’s Child Protection Commission chairman Arist Merdeka Sirait said the latest case further highlighted the government’s failure to regulate the industry. “This is yet more evidence showing the government has been defeated by the tobacco industry. The growing number of smokers is a result of the industry’s aggressive marketing targeting young people.”
The smoking industry employs thousands of people on the island of Java and the government makes about $7 billion (£4.5 billion) a year in excise taxes from it. In the last 40 years smoking rates have risen six-fold in Indonesia according to the World Health Organisation. Even with the price increases smoking there kills at least 400,000 every year and another 25,000 die from passive smoking and cases of children aged eight or younger smoking up to two packets a day highlights the problem there.

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