64 year old New Zealander David Browne has been nicknamed the “Picton Belcher” due to his antisocial habit of belching in women’s faces in the street.

Browne would approach women in the street, attack them verbally and then belch squarely in their faces. The same treatment was given to car drivers, Browne would wander into the road and confront drivers with the same behaviour he used on pedestrians.

This week a judge fined Browne $300 after he admitted to the charges. In his defence Browne said he behaved this way because people “looked at him funny”.

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The home of a 49 year old woman in Nebraska US has been raided by town officials after reports of excessive amounts of cats living at the premises.

The Nebraska Humane Society entered the house wearing face masks and protective overalls, they discovered the building to be littered with animal faeces and plagued with mites. In total there were 114 cats roaming the house, along with two dogs and a rabbit, residents in the area are only permitted up to three dogs and five cats.

The animals were suffering from mite infestations and respiratory problems. Mark Lanagan from the Humane society told us that he would be destroying some of the animals.

But the story doesn’t end there, this is far from the first house found to be overrun with felines and stinking of cat shit, on top of all the live animals that were discovered in the house the unnamed woman who shared the house with her two grown children also kept 17 dead cats in her freezer. At time of going to press there was no explanation as to why the corpses were kept in the freezer.

A neighbour who had never spoken to the people who lived there had this to say:

“It is a terrible thing, a terrible thing for the animals — and a terrible thing for the lady”.

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Klara MauerovaCannibal Cultist Klara Mauerova has been handed a nine year prison sentence by a Czech court this week for the sustained torture and abuse of her own children.

Klara Mauerova, her sister Katerina, and three other weirdos were arrested for imprisoning Klara’s two sons Jakob and Ondrej in her cellar and systematically abusing them both sexually and physically. The boys were forced to cut themselves with knives, and on one occasion Ondrej was partially skinned and the group of sadists ate his flesh.

The sisters, who are both members of a sinister religious cult called the Grail Movement, refused to explain why they carried out these terrible acts.

Katerina Mauerova was handed a ten year sentence for her part in the torture, and a third woman Barbora Skrlova was sentenced to five years. Skrlova was originally thought to be one of the victims, although she is 34 years old when the crime scene was discovered she was posing as a 13 year old girl who Klara Mauerova was trying to legally adopt.

Two men, Hana Basova and Jan Skrla were both given seven year jail terms for their part in the crimes.

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These remarkable shots show an Australian golden orb spider as it devours a full sized bird which has become trapped in it’s astonishingly strong web.

Spider Eats Bird

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Ian McDiarmidStar Wars actor Ian McDiarmid, who played evil Emperor Palpatine in four of the classic hit movies, has suffered a suspected heart attack whilst performing in front of a theatre audience in London’s West End.

Despite falling ill half way through his performance, suffering from dizziness and feeling unwell, the highly distinguished Scottish stage actor stuck to the old saying “the show must go on” and concealed his condition from everyone so he could finish the play. He was so convincing that audience members were totally unaware he was suffering some sort of attack, and he even received glowing reviews from critics watching his performance.

McDiarmid not only finished his performance in Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author on Wednesday night, but he even took the curtain call at the Gielgud Theatre before calling an ambulance to take him to hospital.

Today his agent is insisting that Mr McDiarmid is perfectly well and will be continuing the role until the run at the Gielgud Theatre ends in November.

You will be able to catch this brilliant actor on television soon, he is playing the part of Dennis Thatcher in a forthcoming television dramatisation of the final days of Margaret Thatchers political career.

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BreastsSwedish boffins have discovered that drinking coffee can have a serious effect on a woman’s breast measurements.

The scientists from Lund University in Sweden studied 300 women, recording details of their breast dimensions and coffee intake. The alarming results showed that drinking as little as three cups of coffee a day could shrink boobs, and the risks increased the more coffee consumed.

“Drinking coffee can have a major effect on breast size,” said Helena Jernstroem, top boffin at Lund University in Sweden.

“Coffee-drinking women do not have to worry their breasts will shrink to nothing overnight. They will get smaller, but the breasts aren’t just going to disappear. However, anyone who thinks they can tell which women are coffee drinkers just from their bra measurements will be disappointed. The problem is that there are two measures for a bra, the cup size and the girth, so you wouldn’t be able to tell.”

Although this all sounds like bad news for breast lovers, the good news is drinking coffee helps reduce the risk of breast cancer. They may be smaller, but at least they’re longer lasting.

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Daniel JamesThe trial of a former British Army interpreter, accused of spying for Iran, has taken another bizarre twist.

Daniel James, interpreter for top British general David Richards in Afghanistan, has already told the court that he is a salsa instructor and was once approached by television personality Jonathan Ross to dance on a Channel 4 show.

James told the court “Jonathan Ross came and approached me and said, ‘I want you to dance on a programme called Solid Soul’.”

He then traveled to London from his home in Brighton every Friday to appear on the Channel 4 programme.

The self proclaimed “King of Salsa” even offered to take his boss, General Richards, salsa dancing to teach him a few moves.

Today he told the Old Bailey hearing that he became a black magic priest after visiting Cuba and had performed a voodoo ceremony whilst serving in Afghanistan, designed to protect General Richards from the Taliban.

Iranian-born James is accused of passing top secret coded messages to the Iranian military attache in Kabul. He denies two Official Secrets Act charges, and misconduct in public office.

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Reticulated PythonAmanda Ruth Black was discovered dead on Tuesday night, beside an empty snake tank.

Black, from Virginia US, was the owner of a 13 foot long reticulated python which she was attempting to administer medication to. Her body was discovered by her husband, lying in front of the empty snake vivarium, the snake was loose in the same room and was reported to be severely agitated. It took two animal control specialists to capture the reptile and secure it.

A preliminary medical examiners report says that 25 year old Amanda Ruth Black died from suffocation due to neck compression.

The snake is being held at an animal welfare institution while police continue their investigation.

The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, and can grow up to 32 feet long.

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Thrill The WorldCharity fund raisers in Bolton, Lancashire, are appealing for more volunteers to help them in a world record breaking stunt this weekend.

Steve Clegg is organising a “Thrillerthon” at Bolton’s Hayward Leisure Centre. The event will be part of a global attempt to get the biggest ever synchronised performance of Michael Jackson’s iconic Thriller dance routine.

Thrill The World 2008 hopes to achieve the largest worldwide simultaneous dance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” ever recorded. The annual event began in 2006 when Canadian dance instructor Ines Markeljevic got the first world record of 62 zombies performing the “Largest Thriller Dance” in one location. In 2007 Thrill The World then set the record for “Largest Simultaneous Thriller Dance” when 1,722 people in 52 cities on 5 continents danced Thriller at exactly the same time. And this year the organisers hope to smash that record.

This year’s event will be held on Saturday 25th October, and people in the North of England are being asked to help by registering at Thrill The World ~ Bolton and volunteering their services for the night.

Steve Clegg told us: “It’s not too late to join in — we are looking to get as many people as possible involved.

“They don’t have to be able to dance and you can learn the routine in a couple of hours using the internet.

“I’d urge people to just go for it and get involved, it’s something so different and will be fantastic fun.”

The Bolton event hope to raise money for Cancer Research UK.



Len HyndsDetective chief superintendent Len Hynds, from the UK’s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has publicly called for websites with content concerning subjects such as necrophilia and cannibalism to be shut down because they incite crime.

Hynds says the reason for this thought policing is to protect vulnerable members of society from “corrupting influences”.

“For the internet to take the final step to adulthood it must first deal with those fringe elements that choose to promote abhorrent activities like cannibalism and necrophilia,” Hynds said.

Hynds says he intends to make the internet a more law abiding place by censoring it and criminalising people. His words have angered many people, including The Morningstarr* team, who believe the internet’s greatest strength is it’s wide range of subjects free from censorship.

This call for censorship is yet another knee jerk reaction to real life crime being blamed on media influences. Last month a teacher was murdered by a man who allegedly frequented sites about necrophilia, the victim’s family have called for such sites to be outlawed.

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