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Window cleaner killed himself with giant pencil

A window cleaner died after repeatedly stabbing himself in the leg with a giant pencil.

Jeffrey Burton's body was found in a blood soaked room at his home in St Leonards with a gash to his upper right thigh and an oversized souvenir pencil covered in blood next to his ankle.

The 57-year-old, who ran his own window-cleaning business, died from loss of blood.

But last night it remained a mystery how Mr Burton had died - with a coroner admitting he was baffled as to what had happened.

An inquest at Hastings was told Mr Burton, of De Cham Road, had no history of suicide attempts and was looking forward to going on holiday.

His calendar for the next month was filled with routine appointments and arrangements to meet friends.

Mr Burton's sister, Patricia Goodsell, told the inquest the jumbo pencil had belonged to their mother, who died in 2008, and that her brother had used it in yoga-like exercises.

The victim’s only history of mental illness was a psychotic episode in 2006, when Mr Burton heard voices after returning from a holiday in Spain, and was admitted to the now-closed Woodlands mental health unit.

With no suicide note, his death on September 27 remains a mystery to family and friends.

Mr Craze recorded an open verdict saying there was no evidence he was trying to commit suicide.
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http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/5048949.Window_cleaner_killed_himself_with_giant_pencil/

What a way to kill yourself. :\
 
Hahaha. Dundee's finest
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Did you see the nick of the two sisters? Fucking hell. :\

Even if the bloke never murdered her he's probably too scared to admit he took her home.

Weird story, the sisters are saying the guy was pestering them for sex and they kept telling him to jog on then they had a big fight with him outside infront of the police who arrested one of the sisters. Then the other sister is seen on CCTV going away with the bloke. Do you usually go away with a creep, who's been annoying you and had a scrap with your sister?

The answer is: AYE in Dundee you do.

She's only been gone for a week, probably somewhere in the Hilltown still on it. Pretty standard for Dundee's jakies.
 
Pah

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felix said:
you people make me sick. :D
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Mission accomplished then. ;)

Anyway, aren't exams much harder these days? I mean, it took me 2 years to get an O level - now they expect you to do it in ten days!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/mar/11/mcdonalds-work-experience-gcse

The fast food chain McDonald's is to become the first UK employer to provide a GCSE-style qualification for work experience, in a move which it hopes will boost youngsters' employability in an increasingly competitive jobs market.

McDonald's has teamed up with the largest exam-awarding body Edexcel to produce the qualification – equivalent to one GCSE (B or C grade) after the successful completion of a ten-day placement with the restaurant chain.
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Poor kids. :(
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8562798.stm

Council sorry over Holocaust game
A council and school have apologised to parents after some primary seven pupils were left in tears during a role-playing lesson about the Holocaust.

The children at St Hilary's Primary in East Kilbride were told some of them might be taken away from their families because they had lower IQs.

The exercise aimed to help the pupils understand the experience of Jewish children during the Holocaust.

South Lanarkshire Council apologised after a complaint from a parent.

The school has also sent a letter of apology to all the parents of pupils in the class, apologising unreservedly for the unintentional distress caused by the lesson.

Victim empathy

Parents were advised that this lesson activity would not be repeated in the school.

A council spokesman said: "Schools commonly engage in drama-based exercises which encourage children to use their imagination and act out a character.

"These role play situations are designed to help children understand diversity and develop empathy for the victims of prejudice and are usually very well received by pupils.

"The activity was designed to develop the children's understanding of unfairness and inequality.

"We are sorry that the lesson had this effect on some pupils."

The council also said many other parents had intimated their appreciation of the fact that the school did apologise and have expressed their support for what they believe is in general a very good school.
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French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment

A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.

In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

The mystery of Le Pain Maudit (Cursed Bread) still haunts the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France.

On August 16, 1951, the inhabitants were suddenly racked with frightful hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire.

One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: "I am a plane", before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets.

Time magazine wrote at the time: "Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead."

Eventually, it was determined that the best-known local baker had unwittingly contaminated his flour with ergot, a hallucinogenic mould that infects rye grain. Another theory was the bread had been poisoned with organic mercury.

However, H P Albarelli Jr., an investigative journalist, claims the outbreak resulted from a covert experiment directed by the CIA and the US Army's top-secret Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

The scientists who produced both alternative explanations, he writes, worked for the Swiss-based Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company, which was then secretly supplying both the Army and CIA with LSD.

Mr Albarelli came across CIA documents while investigating the suspicious suicide of Frank Olson, a biochemist working for the SOD who fell from a 13th floor window two years after the Cursed Bread incident. One note transcribes a conversation between a CIA agent and a Sandoz official who mentions the "secret of Pont-Saint-Esprit" and explains that it was not "at all" caused by mould but by diethylamide, the D in LSD.

While compiling his book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, Mr Albarelli spoke to former colleagues of Mr Olson, two of whom told him that the Pont-Saint-Esprit incident was part of a mind control experiment run by the CIA and US army.

After the Korean War the Americans launched a vast research programme into the mental manipulation of prisoners and enemy troops.

Scientists at Fort Detrick told him that agents had sprayed LSD into the air and also contaminated "local foot products".

Mr Albarelli said the real "smoking gun" was a White House document sent to members of the Rockefeller Commission formed in 1975 to investigate CIA abuses. It contained the names of a number of French nationals who had been secretly employed by the CIA and made direct reference to the "Pont St. Esprit incident." In its quest to research LSD as an offensive weapon, Mr Albarelli claims, the US army also drugged over 5,700 unwitting American servicemen between 1953 and 1965.

None of his sources would indicate whether the French secret services were aware of the alleged operation. According to US news reports, French intelligence chiefs have demanded the CIA explain itself following the book's revelations. French intelligence officially denies this.

Locals in Pont-Saint-Esprit still want to know why they were hit by such apocalyptic scenes. "At the time people brought up the theory of an experiment aimed at controlling a popular revolt," said Charles Granjoh, 71.

"I almost kicked the bucket," he told the weekly French magazine Les Inrockuptibles. "I'd like to know why."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-bread-spiked-with-LSD-in-CIA-experiment.html

I've read about MK-ULTRA, didn't think they'd go for a village in france though :|
 
Another man shouted: "I am a plane", before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards.
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Why do all these people think they can fly on acid? I can't honestly say that I've mistaken myself for a form of avian transport, when high.
 
Jessica Ennis and Dwain Chambers win gold for Britain at world indoors

Jessica Ennis and Dwain Chambers win gold for Britain at world indoors


Two gold medals for Britain from two athletes who could not be more different – Jessica Ennis, the nation's golden girl; and Dwain Chambers, the gold-toothed former public enemy number one – beat the rest of the world in Doha at the World Indoor Championships.

For Chambers it was an emotional moment. As the realisation of his achievement sank in – his first ever senior world title – the former drugs cheat who has turned his life around blew out his cheeks, relieved and irrepressibly happy.

Over 60m it had not been an easy victory, the American Mike Rodgers pushing him all the way. "I'm just glad it's over," said Chambers, "that was the hardest six seconds of my life. We were all giving each other the eyeball in the call-up room so I knew it was going to be very tense out there. I thought, 'this is not going to be easy'. All I could do was just relax, let them panic and try not to panic myself."

Flashing a grin that refused to go away the 31-year-old, recipient of $40,000 in prize money – though 25% of that will go toward paying back prize money earned while on drugs – won in 6.48 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year. He has run faster, of course, 6.42 to take gold at the European indoors last year, but during the race the thought of going for Maurice Greene's world record of 6.39 interfered with his rhythm.

"It was in my mind," said Chambers, "midway through the race Michael Rodgers came up on my side and I thought, 'argh, what do I do here?' and I just thought, 'just win'. That's the worst thing you can do – think. You slow down, because you're thinking about what to do next and that takes time. Rather than be instinctive and just doing what you trained to do all winter."

In his new incarnation as team player, Chambers praised Ennis' victory for inspiring his own, having watched her medal ceremony from the warm-up area. There, on the podium, Ennis had risen to her tiptoes for the winners' photograph, her tiny 5ft 4in frame dwarfed by the two giants alongside her, silver and bronze medallists Nataliya Dobrynska and Tatyana Chernova. Ennis's second pentathlon world title in seven months showed why she has become known as an athlete who rises to the occasion.

The first British woman to win both indoor and outdoor world titles dominated the competition from start to finish, her final score of 4,937 points just 54 points off Irina Belova's world record that has stood since 1992.

Such a victory was all the more impressive after a troubled build up to the championships – a strained ligament in her right foot caused her to miss 10 days of training. In her two favourite events – 60m hurdles and the high jump – she sailed into the lead, but there was some magic missing, a hurdles run of 8.04 and a wobbly clearance of 1.90m in the high jump both some way off her personal bests.

Still, a day without magic for Ennis does not mean a day without medals – a good-to-average performance by Ennis' standards equates to a defeat for everybody else. Acknowledging the fact she could not help but smile.

"It's given me a lot of confidence," said Ennis, "I missed a lot of training and felt quite anxious coming into this not preparing the way I wanted to. Having to deal with that and the worry that my foot might not hold up was always a bit of a stress at the back of my mind, so to do that and secure the gold medal was something really good."

All the sweeter, then, that she twice recovered from falling behind in the shot put and the long jump. On each occasion she gathered her thoughts and returned with a new personal best – throwing 14.01m, and launching the biggest jump of her career, 6.44m.

With just the 800m to go, the world record was within her reach. Ennis ran her heart out but ultimately ran out of steam. As she crossed the finish line in 2:12.55, she was as composed in the victory as in the execution. "I can't believe it. It's so nice. It's hard because having a good year last year and everyone expecting you to win this year – I'm just glad that I've delivered and brought home a gold again."

Her win will encourage enormous expectations for 2012, but Jessica Ennis is unlikely to be overwhelmed.
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Dwain Chambers is the man<3

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/mar/13/jessica-ennis-dwain-chambers-world-indoors
 
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