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Saturday 8th July 2017
Good Morning Gentle Reader…. Clear sky and a myriad of stars to contemplate, but let’s look at the planets first, because we can see quite a lot, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter are all visible, some of course only with a telescope, which I always carry around with me at 3:30am…Venus is the brightest, sparkling away like a diamond on a football players girlfriends hand… next is Venus, doesn’t sparkle so much, but you definitely know it’s there… Saturn is easy to see, small but beautiful.. Mars, close to the sun when it rises so not so good, Mercury is the same, but if you know where to look you can see them with the naked eye.. the final two Neptune and Uranus need a telescope or binoculars, and the stars… well lets talk about those tomorrow, I need coffee …
BEAR GETS ELECTRIC SHOCK ATOP UTILITY POLE AT COLORADO STARBUCKS…. A man grabbing a morning coffee at a Colorado Starbucks captured video of a bear that climbed a utility pole outside the cafe and shocked itself. Colin Burhart posted a video to YouTube showing the bear he noticed atop a utility pole while he was buying coffee Sunday morning at a Starbucks drive-through in Durango. Burhart says in the video that the bear appears to have given itself an electric shock and utility workers were on the scene talking to Starbucks employees. Unconfirmed reports suggested the cafe lost power for a time as a result of the bear touching the power line. The video shows oblivious pedestrians walking their small dog directly under the bear without apparently noticing the potential danger from above. A second video posted by Burhart shows the bear climb down on its own and wander away from the area with a slight limp… I have a similar reaction when it comes to paying for a black coffee at Starbucks..
JOHN "SONNY" FRANZESE, A REPUTED UNDERBOSS OF THE COLOMBO CRIME FAMILY…. Was released from a Massachusetts prison hospital on Friday at age 100, ending his tenure as the oldest inmate in a U.S. federal prison, his son and media reports said. Franzese has been in and out of prison for much of his adult life, having been granted parole by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons at least six times, Newsday reported. He was most recently incarcerated, at the age of 93 in 2010, for a racketeering conspiracy involving the shakedown of New York strip clubs. Federal prison officials could not be reached immediately to confirm his release or details of his criminal record.
MAN WHO FELL ASLEEP DURING GAS MASK SEX GAME IS JAILED OVER TIED-UP PARTNER'S DEATH…. A man has been jailed for two years after he fell asleep during a drug-fuelled bondage sex game and left his tied-up partner to die with a gas mask around his face.
Kevin Adams, 54, was found guilty last week of the gross negligence manslaughter of his friend Dohoon Kim, 36, who died when the pair met for casual sex. Mr Kim wore a gas mask and was tied up by his neck, wrists and ankles during the "extreme" sex session, Bristol Crown Court heard. Adams, who had denied manslaughter, was jailed for two years by Judge Neil Ford QC on Monday afternoon.
The judge told him: "I have been urged to pass a sentence that falls within the sentences that could be suspended. "I regret to say I cannot agree with this submission. Even though this death can be regarded as a tragic accident it nonetheless was caused by your gross negligence and I cannot lose sight of the fact a life was lost." The pair had taken mephedrone, known as M-Cat, and GHB, before engaging in the consensual session at Adams' home in Swindon, Wiltshire, in June 2015. Mr Kim died from a combination of the restriction of his airways and the effect of drugs both he and Adams had taken. Prosecutors said Adams had failed to ensure Mr Kim's safety during and after sex and then fell asleep without removing the gas mask or restraints. Judge Ford described the case as "very unusual" and told Adams: "You and the deceased had met on a website for those who are interested in what can be properly described as 'extreme homosexual practices'. You were the dominant partner and Mr Kim the submissive." "It is a phrase that is often overused in a crown court but this is a case that can be described as a tragedy," he said. "Nobody intended any harm to come to anyone that night. It is a tragedy for Dohoon Kim, his family, his partner and friends.
MOTHER OPENED NAPPY TO FIND THREE-MONTH-OLD SON HAD BEEN CIRCUMCISED… A mother has told how she opened her three-month-old baby's nappy to find he had been circumcised without her consent. The woman, from Nottingham, said she was so distraught she had to leave the room. Three suspects, including a family GP, have now been arrested over the incident.
"I opened the nappy and I ended up having to leave the room because I felt hysterical," the mother, who did not want to be identified, told the BBC. "It was just awful really, it wasn't very nice, there was all blood there and stuff." The boy was said to have been operated on while on a visit to his paternal grandparents, who are Muslim. The boy's parents are separated, with the doctor alleged to have carried out the circumcision for religious reasons before the infant was returned to his mother later the same day.
She complained to the police about the clinician, claiming her son was in obvious distress when he was handed back to her.
Campaigners say it is believed to be the first time a police force has treated "non-theraputic" circumcision as GBH.
The 26-year-old mother says the child, now aged four, has suffered repeated physical problems, including inflammation and water infections, in the years since the operation as a direct result. "It's even illegal to dock dogs' tails. I've come home crying my eyes out thinking a dog has got more rights than my child," she said. "There's something seriously not right with it all. You can protect a dog, you can protect a girl, but not a boy."
MOTHER OF BELGIAN BACKPACKER FOUND 'EATEN BY LIZARDS' ON THAI 'DEATH ISLAND' QUESTIONS SUICIDE VERDICT…. The mother of a young Belgian backpacker found dead and reportedly half-eaten by lizards at a notorious Thai resort dubbed “death island” has questioned a police account that her daughter hanged herself. Elise Dallemange, 30, was found dead in the jungle of Koh Tao island eight days after she said she was leaving to return to Belgium. The death on Koh Tao, which occurred in April but was only made public on Thursday, is the latest in a string of seven cases of tourists found dead on the island in the last three years. The young backpacker told Ms van Egten on April 17 that she was coming home, and booked a ticket to Bangkok. Her distraught mother now claims she does not believe police reports that Dallemange hanged herself from a tree. Reports suggest that no suicide note was found. “We fear somebody else was involved,” she said. “I cannot accept why my daughter should have killed herself.”
She added that her daughter had been “normal” during their last conversation and that “no signs of depression were visible.”
Koh Tao police chief, Lieutenant Colonel Chokchai Suthimek, was angry when contacted by The Telegraph….
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A Sincere Thank You for your company and Thank You for your likes and comments I love them and always try to reply, so please keep them coming, it's always good fun, As is my custom, I will go and get myself another mug of "Colombian" Coffee and wish you a safe Saturday 8th July 2017 from my home on the southern coast of Spain, where the blue waters of the Alboran Sea washes the coast of Africa and Europe and the smell of the night blooming Jasmine and Honeysuckle fills the air…and a crazy old guy and his dog Bella go out for a walk at 4:00 am…on the streets of Estepona…
All good stuff....But remember it’s a dangerous world we live in
Be safe out there…
Robert McAngus