They're wet and just wild about breaking the world record for the largest number of people ever to shower together.
Temperatures soared as 152 people - many girls in bikinis - washed their way into the record books on Bournemouth beach. They lathered up under a giant six-metre shower structure.
The bid organised by Lynx beat the previous record set in America two years ago when 145 people showered together in Illinois.
This picture shows the shocking depths the thugs were prepared to plumb – stealing the clothes from a man’s back. The taller, broader man already holds a pair of white and green trainers and a white T-shirt in his hands. Now, it seems, he wants the trousers too.
The shorter man dutifully removes his jeans, leaving only his dark blue underpants and his white socks.
The image appeared on Twitter as internet rumours claimed that, on top of widespread violence and looting across London, thugs were even removing clothing from their victims.
Several people on Twitter claimed there have been incidents of victims being stripped naked in Deptford, South London and Birmingham but, because of the very nature of the alleged incidents, the reports remain unsubstantiated.
In the photograph the ‘victim’ – his face pixellated – stands on the kerbside in a quiet side road and appears cowed before the other man after handing over his clothing.
I wouldn’t put is passed this son-of-a-bitch to do something like this. With his puppet in the White House destroying the country, why not make some fast cash?
• Unknown investor or hedge fund 'made $850million bet'
• Bet in futures market reportedly done at odds of 10/1
• George Soros made similar bet on currency in 1992
• But source says he wasn't involved in rumoured trade
A mystery investor or hedge fund reportedly made a bet of almost $1billion at odds of 10/1 last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA credit rating.
Now questions are being asked of whether the trader had inside information before placing the $850million bet in the futures market, or if the bet happened at all.
There were mounting rumours that investor George Soros, 80, famously known as ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’, could be involved.
He made more than $1billion on currency speculation when the British pound left the Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday in 1992.
But a source with knowledge of the firm said Soros was not involved in the rumoured trade and questioned whether in fact there had been such a trade
The latest bet was made on July 21 on trades of 5,370 ten-year Treasury futures and 3,100 Treasury bond futures, reported ETF Daily News.
Now the investor's gamble seems to have paid off after Standard and Poor’s issued a credit rating downgrade from AAA to AA+ last Friday.
Whoever it is stands to earn a 1,000 per cent return on their money, with the expectation that interest rates will be going up after the downgrade.
As ways of getting out of attending school go, this could well be unique.
A student was arrested after telling police she made a false bomb threat so her class would be cancelled and she could study for a test.
Alexxis C. Anthony, 19, of Lakeland, Florida, said she was involved in a bomb threat to Polk State College with her friend, Theron K. Brown Jr.
Anthony told police she made the threat because she felt under pressure to keep her grades up because of a college scholarship. The incident on July 28 evacuated the college’s Lakeland campus and was one of three bomb threats made against it in July, reported The Ledger.
But no explosive devices were found despite a threat that one would go off at 9:15am. Anthony was arrested on Tuesday. Police say they expect more arrests and charges to be made, with the other two threats coming from the same mobile phone.
But no explosive devices were found despite a threat that one would go off at 9:15am. Anthony was arrested on Tuesday.
Police say they expect more arrests and charges to be made, with the other two threats coming from the same mobile phone. Brown's girlfriend Judeane Curry told investigators that he had called her on the morning of July 28 and said he wanted to make a bomb threat.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A helicopter crash in Afghanistan's eastern Wardak province has killed 31 U.S. special operation troops and seven Afghan soldiers, the country's president said on Saturday. It was the highest number of casualties recorded in a single incident in the decade-long war.
President Hamid Karzai sent his condolences to President Barack Obama, according to a statement issued by his office.
"A NATO helicopter crashed last night in Wardak province," Karzai said in the statement, adding that 31 American special operations troops were killed. "President Karzai expressed his deep condolences because of this incident and expressed his sympathy to Barack Obama."
NATO confirmed the overnight crash and said the alliance was conducting a recovery operation at the site and investigating the cause of the crash, but did not release details or a casualty figure. The coalition said there "was enemy activity in the area."
Daily Mail If you find your apartment a bit claustrophobic at times, spare a thought for this young New Yorker.
Architect Luke Clark Tyler designs grand houses for clients from his tiny 78 square foot shoebox apartment.
There is no space for a kitchen, or bathroom, and he had to build a bed from scratch because it is too narrow to fit full-sized ones inside.
The bed doubles as a sofa - and as a storage unit for clothes and odds and ends.
With no kitchen, a microwave is hidden away with his shoes and a fridge is built into the desk at which he spends most of the day working. His rent is $800 a month, which is cheap for the area but extortionate considering the cost per square footage ratio.
The average rental price per square foot in a studio is $72 but Mr Tyler is paying almost twice as much at $123.07. Mr Tyler, who downsized from a 96 square foot apartment, remains upbeat, seeing the apartment as conveniently snug, rather than constricting.
And this is exactly how wealth re-distribution works. Money is taken right out your packet in cell phone fees that you pay for, so that other people can have free cell phones.
So cell phones are now another entitlement program.
But, here is an extra kick in the ass for those of us who are the productive people in society. In know several people that have gotten the free phones, and in all these cases they also have 2 or 3 phones that they pay for.
So this has nothing to do with the poor having access to cell phones. This is about Progressives/Liberals buying votes with other people’s hard earn money!
Critics have rounded on a government plan that provides millions of poor Americans with free cell phones - calling the scheme a 'waste' in tough economic times.The $4 billion a year Universal Service Fund - which provides the poor, schools and library's with free phones - is paid for by telecommunications companies.
The cost is then recouped form the average American bill payer, who has a 'universal service' charge added to their cell contract every month. Speaking to the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review, Robert Rector from conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation said free cell phone programs 'particularly wasteful and unnecessary,' given the current dire economic situation.
He said: 'Our society cannot afford to give free everything to everybody. 'Most poor people already had adequate telephone service and will continue to do so.'
This is pretty wild though. Maybe PETA will get invloved for cruelty to the snake?
Daily Mail It's a miracle the driver managed not to crash - let alone keep in a straight line.
A snake terrified a young mother when it suddenly appeared on her SUV's windscreen after slithering out of the engine as she drove along an expressway into Memphis, Tennessee.
Rachel Fisher said she's not usually scared by snakes but she 'was clenching everything' as she drove at 65mph with the unusual hitchhiker on board - and her three young children in the back.
Daily Mail This monster from the deep has netted a British angler a place in the record books. The whopper, caught by plucky Chris Grimmer, is the biggest albino catfish ever caught by an angler.
The 8ft beast tipped the scales at 194lbs - 2lbs heavier than the previous best by blind woman angler Shelia Penfold last year.
I stopped playing games (Sega game system) when I was twenty four years old. That was twenty four years ago and I thought I’d stopped at a late age. But, the game systems changed and I thought it was an opportunity for me to put away childish things.
I don’t get grown men playing video games.
The Sun A LAD of 20 has been killed by a blood clot caused by playing his Xbox for up to 12 hours at a time.
A post mortem revealed that Chris Staniforth - addicted to games such as Halo - had suffered a deep vein thrombosis. It can be triggered by sitting in one position for long spells.
Stunned dad David, of Sheffield, said: "He lived for his Xbox. I never dreamed he was in any danger.
"As a parent you think playing computer games can't do them any harm because you know what they are doing
"Kids all over the country are playing these games for long periods - they don't realise it could kill them."
Chris collapsed seconds after telling a friend how he had been experiencing a strange sensation in his chest.
The pair were chatting outside a JobCentre where Chris had an interview.
David said: "He told his friend how he was woken in the night by a strange feeling in his chest.
“Then he dropped a packet of chewing gum and as he picked it up, he jolted back and began to spasm."
Chris's friend called an ambulance - but paramedics could not save him. A coroner yesterday confirmed DVT had caused Chris's death and it was cited on his death certificate.
This reason this con artist/maid/hooker is going on a media offensive is she and her lawyer are trying to put pressure on DSK to settle for some cash to go away.
Nafissatou Diallo was ushered into Brooklyn's Christian Cultural Center yesterday aboard patent-leather pumps that made the 5-foot-10 former hotel maid and current sex accuser tower over the two dozen supporters who stood guard, including church pastors and a prominent member of the New Black Panther Party.
She was unrecognizable.
Gone were the baggy, gray slacks and lime-green, shapeless blouse she wore in that ill-advised interview on ABC. Gone was the lifeless hair. Who cares if the Manhattan district attorney no longer believes in her? In the 24 hours before staging a press conference/rally/image makeover, Diallo, who accuses powerful French guy Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her, underwent a glam, head-to-toe makeover -- even as her lawyer attempted to remake the case of rape into a case of race.
Let’s face it; Knox was railroaded because of Anti-American sentiment in Europe. These latest revelations don’t say much for the Italian justice system.
The Sun AMANDA Knox moved a step closer to freedom yesterday - after a court heard how bungling cops investigating the case made 54 mistakes.
Knox, serving 26 years for the brutal slaying of British student Meredith Kercher, laughed along with others in court as the catalogue of blunders was read out.
DNA evidence found on a kitchen knife and a bra clasp were key to convicting Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 26, of Meredith's murder.
But two independent professors gave the appeal hearing in Perugia, Italy, a damning 144-page report on the forensic teams.
There were gasps of disbelief as the court was shown video footage of two cops picking up the clasp, passing it from hand to hand, dropping it, picking it up again and placing it on the floor.
One cop wore grubby gloves and officers put the clasp into a paper bag rather than a plastic one, which the experts said added a "significant" contamination risk. The clasp had been kept in such poor condition it had gone rusty, making further testing impossible.
There’ll gonna be plenty of saps that will believe this fiction that will come over broadcast television on ABC and in print in Newsweek. But, there’s a reason this case is falling apart.
Nafissatou Diallo is a high class hooker working at the Sofitel to score big money turning tricks. DSK stiffed her money for services rendered--oral sex. And the rest is a bunch of lies coming from this hooker’s mouth.
So, why not go on TV and play the victim card and work out a new kind of hustle for the suckers born every minute?
Both are the first mainstream news outlets to publicly name DSK's accuser -- Sofitel maid Nafissatou "Nafi" Diallo, 32, of Guinea.
In a three-hour long interview, Diallo recounted to Newsweek what took place on the day of her alleged attack. She said Strauss-Kahn was standing naked in his room when she knocked on his door.
From the magazine: "Hello? Housekeeping." Diallo looked around the living room. She was standing facing the bedroom in the small entrance hall when the naked man with white hair appeared.
"Oh, my God," said Diallo. "I'm so sorry." And she turned to leave. "You don't have to be sorry," he said. But he was like "a crazy man to me." He clutched at her breasts. He slammed the door of the suite.
5-foot-10 Diallo worried about hurting Strauss-Kahn and told him, "Sir, stop this. I don't want to lose my job," ultimately running from the room "spitting" after supposedly refusing the French politician's advances.
In her first public appearance, the DSK maid today told a gathering at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn that she and her daughter cry every day. "I'm here today to tell everybody how much I'm going through," Nafissatou Diallo said.
She added that her daughter pleads with her to stop crying, saying she needs Diallo to be strong for her.
"What happened to me I don't want to happen to any other woman," she said. AFTER 8 HOURS, DSK MAID CAN'T CONVINCE DA SHE'S NOT AFTER CASH "I said, 'God, why me? But I just want to thank everybody" for their support, Diallo said.
After her brief remarks, she was led out of the building while community leaders spoke.
Diallo, who is accusing former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault at the Sofitel hotel, and her lawyers spent nearly eight hours yesterday huddled with Manhattan prosecutors -- but failed to convince them she was not out to get money from the ex-IMF boss, sources told The Post.
The evidence her lawyers had counted on were audio recordings of calls between accuser Nafissatou Diallo and a jailed friend.
In a statement, the London Metropolitan Police said, "Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05hrs today, Saturday 23 July, following reports of a woman found deceased. On arrival officers found the body of a 27-year-old female who was pronounced dead at the scene. Enquiries continue into the circumstances of the death. At this early stage it is being treated as unexplained." A suspected drug overdose took the life of the singer, Nick Buckley of the Sunday Mirror tweeted.
Earlier in the day, Gatt tweeted a statement from her manager saying that she was withdrawing from all of her upcoming performances, writing, "Amy Winehouse is withdrawing from all scheduled performances. Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen."
Half-naked political activists have been brutally dispersed by an embassy employee while protesting in Kiev in support of Georgian photo journalists accused of espionage.
A local journalist is reported to have been injured during the dispersal.
A group of girls from the Ukrainian FEMEN movement gathered in front of the Georgian embassy in Kiev on Monday, holding huge fake cameras and posters saying “No pictures — no democracy!”
During the protest, which was meant as part of an international campaign backing the Georgian photo journalists recently arrested on espionage charges, a man emerged from the embassy and attacked first the topless activists, and then one of the journalists who was taking photos of the event.
I don’t think the MSM will give this much airplay. But, I’m sure Chris Matthews will use it in his “side show” segment.
UK Telegraph A Spanish lawyer has formally accused Barack Obama of crimes against humanity for ordering the assassination of Osama bin Laden
Daniel Fiol lodged a written complaint at the International Criminal Court accusing the US president of breaching the Geneva Convention.
Navy Seals acting on Mr Obama's orders shot the al-Qaeda leader dead on May 2 after storming his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
In his written complaint, the Majorca-based lawyer said bin Laden should have been "pursued, arrested, tried and convicted" on behalf of "the victims of some terrible and appalling atrocities". The killing of bin Laden was even worse as it took place in foreign territory, Pakistan, without the permission of that government, he said.
A 61-year-old woman has been arrested for groping a female TSA agent's breast.
Yukari Mihamae was flying home to Colorado when she allegedly put her hands on the TSA agent at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona.
Police said she is accused of grabbing the agent's 'left breast through her clothing and squeezing and twisting it with both hands without the victim's permission'.
Oh no, we mustn’t offend Muslims. They’re still emotionally immature even after 1,500 years.
Daily Mail A mother was ordered not to breastfeed her baby in public because she was in a ‘multicultural building’.
Emma Mitchell, 32, was about to feed 19-week-old son Aaron when a receptionist at a town hall warned her to stop.
Last night Mrs Mitchell condemned council staff, saying it was time people recognised the law which allows nursing mothers to breastfeed in public.
‘It was just awful. I felt humiliated, intimidated and guilty through the whole thing,’ she said.
‘What I was doing was one of the most natural things a mother can do. You hear everywhere that breast is best for your baby, so why wouldn’t I be allowed to do that?’
The incident occurred when Mrs Mitchell, from Oldham, was in the Citizens’ Advice Bureau in Oldham Civic Centre.
Casey Anthony's defence team have been branded insensitive and loutish after they were spotted celebrating their court victory with a lavish champagne party.
In an unapologetic display many have slammed as inappropriate considering the serious nature of their case, Jose Baez and his team were seen downing drinks as they watched reaction to their client being found not guilty of brutally murdering her two-year-old child Caylee.
Stunned onlookers gasped and shouted abuse to protest the scenes, while high-profile commentators were clearly outraged, with one comparing the scenes to the work of the devil.
The sensational acquittal of Casey Anthony after a dramatic six-week trial has stunned America, with angry spectators comparing the trial’s outcome to the infamous verdict in the OJ Simpson case. Anthony, 25, is poised to walk free tomorrow morning and sell her story for millions, after the jury failed to find her guilty of the murder of her daughter Caylee. But inside trendy restaurant Terrace 390 in Orlando, where waiters carry iPads and beer sells for as little as $3, the party-loving young mother's defence team celebrated and drank with complete disregard for the strength of feeling surrounding them.
This is one place where you don’t mind dropping the soap!
