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Video:Royal Air Force Advertises On Condoms

Royal Air Force Advertises On Condoms

LONDON, May 14 (UPI) -- The Royal Air Force is using instructions on the many uses of condoms as a tactic to lure young British men to sign up for the RAF Regiment.

A total of 20,000 prophylactics are being mailed in a recruitment drive, The Sun reports. They're mounted on cards with the instruction "Apply to weapon when on maneuvers."

The cards -- invitations to an RAF Regiment presentation -- describe the many uses for condoms besides their generally understood purpose. They can be used -- without lubrication -- as a water container, as a tourniquet to stop bleeding and to protect weapons from sand.

"We felt the condom would appeal to the target audience and hopefully encourage them to think about the RAF Regiment in a different way rather than just at face value," said Emily White of the government's Central Office of Information, which designed the campaign.

The RAF Regiment, ground troops attached to the RAF, began in World War I as a security force for airfields. Recently, the regiment has served in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait.

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Video:Man Says JetBlue Made Him Sit On Toilet

Man Says JetBlue Made Him Sit On Toilet


NEW YORK - A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.

Gokhan Mutlu, of Manhattan's Inwood section, says in court papers the pilot told him to "go 'hang out' in the bathroom" about 90 minutes into the San Diego to New York flight because the flight attendant complained that the "jump seat" she was assigned was uncomfortable, the lawsuit said.

Mutlu was traveling on a a "buddy pass," a standby travel voucher that JetBlue employees give to friends, from New York to San Diego on Feb. 16, and returned to New York on Feb. 23, the lawsuit said.

Initially, Mutlu was told a flight attendant had taken the last seat on the plane, but then he was advised she would sit in the employee "jump seat," meaning he could have the last seat, the lawsuit said.

The pilot told him 1 1/2 hours into the five-hour flight that he would have to relinquish the seat to the flight attendant, court papers say. But the pilot said that Mutlu could not sit in the jump seat because only JetBlue employees were permitted to sit there, the lawsuit said.

When Mutlu expressed reluctance to go sit in the bathroom, the pilot, who was not named in the lawsuit, told him that "he was the pilot, that this was his plane, under his command that (Mutlu) should be grateful for being on board," the lawsuit said.

When the aircraft hit turbulence and passengers were directed to return to their seats, but "the plaintiff had no seat to return to, sitting on a toilet stool with no seat belts," court papers say.

Some time later, a male flight attendant knocked on the restroom door and told Mutlu he could return to his original seat, court papers say.

Mutlu's lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, says JetBlue negligently endangered him by not providing him with a seat with a safety belt or harness, in violation of federal law.

A JetBlue spokesman declined comment on the lawsuit Monday.

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Video:Man Jailed For Stupid Daughter

Man Jailed For Stupid Daughter


CINCINNATI (AP) - A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.

Brian Gegner, of Fairfield, was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor.

He was ordered months ago to make sure his 18-year-old daughter Brittany Gegner, who has a history of truancy, received her GED - something that hasn't happened yet.

Brittany Gegner, who said Monday that she plans to take a required GED test this month, said her father shouldn't be blamed for her failure because she has been living with her mother.

"It was my wrongdoing, not his," said Brittany Gegner, whose fiance and 18-month-old daughter also live at her mother's home in nearby Hamilton. "He shouldn't have to go to jail for something I did."

Her mother agrees.

"Brittany is almost 19 years old now and I think it's unfair to put her father in jail," said Shana Roach. "She's an adult now, and it's not right to rip an innocent man from his home."

Butler County Juvenile Court administrator Rob Clevenger Jr. said Monday that the court still has jurisdiction in the case because Brittany Gegner was a juvenile when the truancy problems began and when the charge against Brian Gegner was filed in 2007.

A hearing on a motion filed by Brian Gegner's attorney to reconsider the sentence is scheduled for Friday. Messages seeking comment were not returned Monday at the offices of defense attorney Tamara Sack and the Butler County prosecutor.

Brian Gegner's wife, Stephanie Gegner, said she and her husband are afraid he will lose his job if he remains in jail. She said they tried to keep his daughter in school.

"You'd take her to school and she'd go out the other door," Stephanie Gegner said.

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Video:Ark. Woman Pregnant With 18th Child

Ark. Woman Pregnant With 18th Child

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ? It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman - she's pregnant with her 18th child.

Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.

"We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing.

The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.

The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children - whose names start with the letter J - are home-schooled.

Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.

The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores - or "jurisdictions" - are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a "jurisdiction swap," where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.

"The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass," she said. "The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms," among other chores.

Duggar said she's six weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they'll keep having children as long as God wills it.

"The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated," Jim Bob Duggar said. "Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen."

The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.

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Video:Teens Dig Up Body; Use Skull As Bong

Teens Dig Up Body; Use Skull As Bong

HOUSTON (AP) Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a marijuana bong.

Police found a grave in the city of Humble that had been disturbed, but were still investigating the rest of the teens' story, Houston police Sgt. John Chomiak said.

Kevin Wade Jones, 17, and Matthew Richard Gonzalez, 17, both of Kingwood, were arrested Wednesday night and were being held on misdemeanor charges of abuse of a corpse, Chomiak said. The juvenile was referred to the Harris County juvenile justice system.

A woman who answered the phone at Gonzalez's home declined comment. A telephone number for Jones could not immediately be found, and it wasn't clear from court records if either had an attorney.

Police were interviewing Jones about the use of a stolen debit card when he told them about the grave theft, which purportedly occurred around March 15, according to court documents. Asked why Jones would volunteer such a story, Chomiak said, "We can only speculate and guess to what goes on in the criminal mind."

Gonzalez confirmed the story to investigators in a follow-up interview. Police were led to a heavily wooded site in Humble where they found a knocked-over headstone and water-filled hole more than 4 feet deep. At the time, the muddy water did not allow police to see if the coffin had been disturbed.

"They dug into this gravesite and that was enough to warrant the abuse of corpse charge," Chomiak said. "There has to be further investigation into the actual gravesite."

Police believe the grave is that of an 11-year-old boy who died in 1921. Preliminary reports indicate it was part of a 19th-century veterans cemetery, Chomiak said. While residents in the area knew of the cemetery's existence, it did not appear to be maintained.

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Video:Three Babies Found In Freezer

Three Babies Found In Freezer


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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing three of her own babies after their bodies were found in the family freezer by her grown-up children.

The 44-year-old handed herself in to police in Germany on Sunday.

Her children found the bodies as they looked for a frozen pizza while their parents were away for the weekend.

The three infants are believed to have been born alive at some time in the 1980s but police do not yet know how they died.

The woman, her 47-year-old husband and three children - two sons aged 18 and 22, and a 24-year-old daughter - have lived in Wenden in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1984.

Herbert Fingerhut, who is heading the police investigation, said: "It sounds unbelievable, but there are examples showing such things are possible."

Autopsies were expected to be carried out to determine exactly how the children died. Police said it was believed they had been born alive, ruling out the possibility that they were still-births.

Neighbours were said to have been stunned by news of the find and the subsequent arrest.

Mayor of the town, Peter Brueser, said: "I've been mayor for 14 years, and this is definitely the worst day I've seen.

"We will need a long time here to work through this."

The grim discovery is the latest in a string of similar cases in Germany.

In the worst case, a woman was convicted of manslaughter in 2006 and sentenced to the maximum 15 years in prison for killing eight of her newborn babies and burying them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents' home near the German-Polish border.

More recently, police in February were called to a home in northern Germany where a dead baby was discovered in the cellar.

In January, a 28-year-old German woman was charged with manslaughter after the remains of three babies were discovered in her house and the home of a relative. That woman has denied killing the three babies.

In January 2007, a 21-year-old admitted giving birth to three children and then hiding their bodies in her garage in the town of Thoerey in the eastern state of Thuringia.

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Image above:The house in Wenden, Germany, where three baby corpses were found.

 

Video:Site Auctions Off 'Serial Killer Artifacts'

Site Auctions Off 'Serial Killer Artifacts'

BOSTON (CBS) ? Hadden Clark is a cross-dressing child killer who claimed to have buried victims on Cape Cod. It's hard to believe anyone would want to buy his used sweat socks, or his prison pillow case, but there it is -- online for $20.

Keep browsing and you'll find artwork by John Wayne Gacy for $350.

For $850, you can get a lock of Charles Manson's hair. It even comes with it a letter of authenticity from Mansion himself, CBS station WBZ-TV in New York reports.

It's called murderabilia, and it's sold on several sites like MurderAuction.com.

Prosecutor Abby Rivkind is not exactly a collector. "My first reaction was 'ewwww.' My second reaction was 'who would buy this?' My third reaction was, 'what kind of a person would sell this?'"

Well, meet Todd Bohannon -- founder of MurderAuction.com. He's one of the country's largest collectors of serial killer artifacts.

His fascination began at age 13. He saw the movie "Helter Skelter" and started writing letters to Charles Manson.

Manson wrote back.

Since then, he's written to 300 other killers and has made friends with many of them. He doesn't believe hawking items from people like Ted Bundy is a problem.

How do you put a stop to this? Congress is getting involved by introducing a measure that would make it a felony for prisoners to mail items for interstate commerce. However, stopping those items from getting out won't be simple. And the penalties only affect the inmates, not the person buying the murderabilia and not the person selling it.

Some states have taken their own action against murderabilia.

Massachusetts hasn't yet. There is a bill sitting up on Beacon Hill to stop criminals from cashing in, but it's been around for a few years.

Lawmakers have debated it, and it's gone nowhere.

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Video:TorrentSpy Hit with $110M Judgement - The MPAA Has Won

TorrentSpy Hit with $110M Judgement - The MPAA Has Won

TorrentSpy already shut its doors earlier this year, and even though the company’s founder Justin Bunnell insisted that it’s trying legal loss was not behind the decision to close down the site, it appeared to be the only feasible reason for TorrentSpy moving towards oblivion. After a defeating battle against the MPAA, TorrentSpy was out of tricks for continuing to fight against the American Hollywood structure.

And if its own decision to shut things down wasn’t enough to do that, then the $110 million judgment against its parent company, Valence Media, may just do the trick, reports Slyck. Being hit with such a hefty sum, even after closing down the site, is a sure fire way to send a message to TorrentSpy–and beyond.

This isn’t the first time the MPAA has beaten a dead horse. A legal suite against DVDr-core seemed to drag on for years longer than it needed to, even though the MPAA has likely dropped this particular lawsuit earlier this month. The MPAA wants to really make sure that there won’t be any ongoing issues with services like TorrentSpy, as an injunction was also ordered against the company.

While Valence Media can retain possession of the site, the company is prohibited from indexing any copyrighted content. To top things off, the MPAA has been awarded statutory damages of $30,000 “per infringement pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 504(c), for each of the 3,699 infringements shown, for a total judgment in the amount of $110,970,000…” It just doesn’t pay to be a torrent company in the US. Do you think this will encourage others in the industry to give it up?

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Video:In Cuba It's Close, But No Giant Cigar

In Cuba It's Close, But No Giant Cigar

HAVANA - Looks like it will be close, but no giant cigar, for Cuba's stogie-rolling king Jose Castelar. The 64-year-old former world-record holder has teamed up with five assistants, using nearly 93 pounds (42 kilograms) of top-quality tobacco to assemble a 98-foot (30-meter) cigar.

Castelar set Guinness Records for the world's longest cigars in 2001, 2003 and April 2005, when he completed a stogie measuring 20.41 meters, just shy of 67 feet. On Tuesday, he said he is shooting for a fourth title.

But Castelar, who learned the art of cigar-making from an uncle at age 5, is likely to fall short this time: Guinness says Puerto Rican cigar-maker Patricio Pena crafted a whopping 41.2-meter (135-foot) stogie last year.

Competition from cigar rollers in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico is stiff but friendly, driving Castelar to keep rolling.

"I'm working to take it to the maximum," he said. "We'll be back in two years with a longer one."

Still, in a colonial fortress across the bay from Havana's main drag, his team is now crafting a cigar so long and so thick — more than 2 inches (5 centimeters) across — it can never actually be smoked.

Rolled for display at government-run cigar shops, it will be stored under glass, like others Castelar has made in previous years. It will take five, eight-hour days of work before this stogie is ready for unveiling on Friday at an international tourism fair, Castelar said.

Hand-rolled cigars are one of communist Cuba's signature products. The island sold US$402 million- (euro260 million-) worth of them last year, with top markets in Spain, France, Germany and Switzerland. The United States is excluded because of its trade embargo against the island.

Castelar actually prefers to smoke cigarettes, but his first assistant, Antonio Gonzalez, worked Tuesday with a thick Cuban stogie between his teeth.

Made with three, progressively darker shades of bright brown tobacco and wrapped in newspaper for its own protection, their cigar stretched across 14 long tables lined up end-to-end. Markers indicated that in 2001, six such tables were needed to accommodate Castelar's super cigar, while his 2003 edition took up eight. By 2005, the cigar needed 11.

The stogie is so long that, as Castelar calls out orders, Gonzalez must repeat them to four other men stationed at different points along the cigar, relaying commands down the chain as if the men were aboard a submarine.

"Move forward!" Gonzalez barked, when it was time to roll one way, and then, "Let's go back!"

But if rolling the giant cigar sounds hard, imagine smoking it.

"The tobacco is smokable," Castelar joked, "but we're missing someone with the lungs for it."

And maybe a blow torch to light it, too.

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Video:Accidental Phone Call During Firefight

Accidental Phone Call During Firefight


Parents Receive Frightening Three-Minute Message From Son in Afghanistan

When the parents of soldier Stephen Phillips listened to the message from their son's cell phone replete with gunfire and shouting they feared the worst.

"It made the hair stand up on the back of my head," said Phillip's step-father Jeff Petee.

Phillips had accidentally called home during a firefight in Afghanistan. Having tried to reach his family in Otis, Ore., earlier that day, the phone's "redial" feature was activated as Phillips pressed against the cell phone mid-battle. Mother Sandie Petee found the three-minute message which ended with the words "incoming R-P-G!"

In addition to the chaos and gunfire, what appears to be the soldiers identifying where enemy fire is coming from is also heard. "Back in the corner," someone shouts. Moments later, "We need more ammo."

"The tape cuts off with 'incoming R-P-G!' so we started calling him and finally got a hold of him and found out that he was ok and that they survived," Petee said.

Petee's daughter's fiancée is also a soldier though he is posted in Iraq. "I definitely think all the soldiers over there are heroes," he said.

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