Two guys were supposedly caught stealing in China (anyone have any other opinions?) and dealt with accordingly. To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure it’d be suitable for my website. But anyhow, here it is.

Warning: This is a very graphic video. I think the MPAA would rate it viewable to those over 18 only. So if don’t like particularly nasty videos, or you’re a little on the young side, DO NOT WATCH. You have been warned.

And before anyone goes “oh what idiots, I could have smashed them” , think about how many people are surrounding you, and how many of them are more than happy to drop a brick on your balls.

A Special Olympics coach is scheduled to be in court today after authorities accused him of sexually assaulting a mentally challenged woman.

Houston police arrested Johnny G.Villalobos, 65, after they found him parked in the driveway of an abandoned home in the 2400 block of Green Valley.

Villalobos allegedly was having sex with the victim, 29, who is a member of the Special Olympics team that he coached. He admitted having “numerous sexual encounters” with the victim during questioning by investigators with Houston Police Department’s sex crimes unit.

Villalobos, employed as a teacher’s aide, was fired Tuesday by the Aldine Independent School District.

Officials with Special Olympics of Texas said they were “deeply disturbed” by the allegations against Villalobos, who has been removed from the program.

“Special Olympics of Texas places the highest priority on the safety and well-being of our athletes,” they said in a statement. “This organization has a zero-tolerance policy in regards to any criminal action against an athlete.”

Special Olympics officials said they uncovered no past criminal history during a background check of Villalobos.

“When Special Olympics Texas was notified of the investigation, (Villalobos) was suspended indefinitely, and he was barred from involvement in the program and from contact with the athletes.”

Villalobos was charged Wednesday with three counts of sexual assault. He was later released after posting a $10,000 bond for each charge.

Reminds of of Sub-Zero from Mortal Combat.

More news hits us from Mainland China…

A crocodile shot to death in south China during a search for a missing 9-year-old student was found to contain the child’s remains, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The crocodile was shot Saturday in a park in Beihai, a city in the Guangxi region, by investigators looking for the missing child. Investigators confirmed that human remains found in the reptile were that of the student, the report said.

The child, surnamed Liu, disappeared Friday after Liu and three other children climbed over the fence around a pool in the park that had been used to stage crocodile shows, Xinhua said.

“The children shot the animals with catapults and beat them with wooden sticks,” the agency said. “One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu’s clothes and dragged him into water, where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles.”

Snipers used pork to lure the reptiles from the pool on Saturday and shot the first one that crawled ashore, the report said.

No other details were given, and it wasn’t immediately clear what would happen to the other crocodiles.

Local residents said the park’s owner had hired a keeper for the crocodiles, but it was not clear why the man was not at the site when the students broke in, the report said.

The manager and the keeper were being held by police.

When I first heard about the Crocodile in China having killed a child, I was slightly disturbed by it. And then I found that the kids had actually climbed over the safety fence and INTO the pit. What do I mean by a pit? From the TV footage I saw, there was a fence a drop of several feet - to watch any crocodile show, the audience would have been standing several feet above the crocodiles; plenty of safety and deterrent there. Regardless of what was in the pit, if I was a parent I wouldn’t like my child climbing out simply out of fear they’d break their legs.

Yet still, these kids managed to climb in and piss the crocodiles off. Why am I not surprised that it was kids from China? Why am I not surprised that the parents / a responsible adult (e.g. a teacher) were not there telling them not to climb in? It’s because they were from China. It’s constantly in the news how Chinese tourists (note: Chinese tourists from Mainland China, not Hong Kong) come out and pretty much wreck everything. These fools are embarrassing everyone. I believe the kids are to blame, and they deserve what they got. How much lack of common sense do you need to think that you can climb in next to a crocodile and start chucking rocks at it?

The parents must be incredibly ignorant, to permit their child to “torment” the reptiles. Kind of like allowing your kid to play in traffic.

And to kill the crocodile, they

borrowed two snipers from the local armed police troop.

Why does a zoo that keeps several crocodiles not have the means to control / put them down themselves?

It’s time the Chinese government spent some cash into providing compulsory social-skills and manners courses. Until then, stop visiting other countries or places within your home country; stay at home. Everyone’s fed up with your spitting, touching and breaking those that clearly say “do not touch”, taking a crap / urinating on public footpaths, shouting in quiet places, and everything else we don’t need your tourist money for. Oh yes, and stop immigrating to Hong Kong, you’re not really wanted here.

Check out the new MSN.com website here

I think this is a fantastic advertising idea, and finally demonstrates that Microsoft does have some creative minds at work. When I first saw the website, and I’m sure some of you experienced the same, I actually froze for a second and thought “what is going on?”. I’m an Office 2007 user myself, and for that second, I actually thought I had Microsoft Word 2007, and the Ribbon Interface I really love open. And then it took me another second to realise that I could actually still click the search box and type something in, and wasn’t really stuck in Word or some other dream world.

There will certainly be 100’s of copycats around; it would be interesting to see how long this advertising technique will last, not only on MSN.com, but on the Internet as a whole. How willing will Webmasters be to allow entire homepage(s) to turn into an advertisment for a product? Or should I be saying - how much will companies be willing to pay to advertise products in such a way on high-traffic websites, compared to simple banners? On the other hand, will this technique simply remain used within company websites?

Before turning this blog entry into a mini-review (actually, maybe I should write one!), I highly recommend users upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007. It a fantastic new product with loads of (added) functionality - e.g. I can now save directly to PDF files - and the advertising team definitely deserves some credit for their work.

The Official Microsoft Office 2007 Website
Download a 60-day trial of Microsoft Office 2007

Whilst reading some stuff about boxing today, I came across the Sugar Shane Mosley vs. Fernando Vargas match analysis (old news… I know, I know). Somehow, seeing a picture of Vargas after the match reminded me of something…

A 2-year-old boy was severely burned Saturday after he went down the slide at an elementary school playground. Someone had broken into the school, stolen several bottles of industrial-strength drain cleaner and splashed it all over the playground equipment, authorities said.

Peyton Duschl was scheduled for surgery Sunday morning and likely will be hospitalized for several weeks, said Carol Duschl, the boy’s mother.

“I just don’t understand what would draw somebody to do something like that,” Duschl told WMAR-TV. “What kind of sick joke is that?”

Peyton suffered second- and third-degree burns, mostly on his legs, from the cleaner, which contains a strong concentration of sulfuric acid, said Division Chief Michael Robinson of the Baltimore County Fire Department. No one else was injured.

Duschl said her son’s grandmother was with him at the playground, and he began screaming in pain as soon as he went down his favorite slide.

After Peyton’s parents took him to Franklin Square Hospital Center, he was taken to the pediatric burn unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The first hospital’s emergency room had to be evacuated because they tracked some of the drain cleaner in with them, Robinson said.

Whoever is responsible probably also suffered burns, and could face charges of first-degree assault, burglary and destruction of property, said Sgt. Vickie Warehime, a county police spokeswoman.

Someone kicked in the door to a storage room at Victory Villa Elementary School sometime overnight, Warehime said. Investigators found that six bottles of drain cleaner had been opened.

A hazardous materials team cleaned up the playground, using tens of thousands of gallons of water, Robinson said.

A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message.

David Brown, 24, says he woke up one morning after a night out with friends with a telephone number constantly running through his head. He decided to contact it, sending a message saying “Did I meet you last night?.”

Random recipient Michelle Kitson was confused and wary at first but decided to reply and the two began exchanging messages. Eventually they met and fell in love.

“It was really weird but I was absolutely hooked,” Kitson told the Daily Mail newspaper. “My mum and dad kept saying ‘But he could be an axe murderer’, but I knew there was something special about it.”

After a long courtship, the oddly matched couple — he’s six foot seven inches tall and she’s five foot four — have just returned from their honeymoon in the Indian resort of Goa.

A love-struck Brown said: “I’ve no idea how I ended up with her number in my head — it’s only a few digits different from mine.”

Stupid story really. I bet it’s a completely made up story used to cover his desperation-for-love and sweet talk an innocent (and possibly as desperate) girl into marrying him.

Staffing was so inadequate at a California senior center that a rat crawled into an Alzheimer’s patient’s mouth and died there before staff noticed, a lawsuit claims.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday on behalf of 90-year-old Sigmund Bock, alleges that administrators at the Paragon Gardens Assisted Living and Memory Care Community in Mission Viejo overbooked their facility to receive corporate bonuses, but cut back on staff to increase profits.

“The facility so literally ignored the needs of their residents … as to allow vermin in the form of a rat to become lodged in the mouth of Sigmund Bock and die therein,” the lawsuit alleges.

Bock’s attorney, Stephen Garcia, challenged that account. He said two traps were placed in Bock’s room and both were laced with poison, not glue.

He said Paragon records show a staff person noticed Bock “playing with a rat in his room and eating candy … with the rat” on the morning of March 18. A short time later, Garcia said, paramedics called to the scene noted “possible ingestion of rat poison” in their report and an emergency room file says that Bock was “found in room in care facility with dead rat in mouth.”

Bock is now being treated at another facility, Garcia said. The lawsuit seeks unspecified punitive damages and attorney and court fees.

And I thought Hummer’s were virtually indestructible? This one is completely trashed!