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South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that only the visually impaired can be licensed masseurs in the country, upholding a law set up a century ago despite arguments it infringed on free employment rights.
The law was made back in 1912 when Korea used to be under Japanese rule.  Now the Korean Association of Masseurs [...]

I had written about this guy about two months ago, Death row inmate to fat to die, and I have an update for you!
A federal appeals court and the Ohio Supreme Court have rejected arguments that Richard Cooey is too obese to die by lethal injection. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of [...]

Here’s one that’ll make you vomit. If your under age or don’t enjoy graphic language, please don’t read the readers comments, they could get offensive.
A 15 year old girl in Brazil was arrested for petty theft charges and was left in a cell for several weeks with 21 male cell-mates. The child was [...]

A man was accused of attempting to steel a bunch of beer and a box of fried chicken from Publix on Tuesday. The man just loaded up a cart with a case of Coors Light, a case and an 18 pack of Busch, a 12 of Bud and a 12 of Becks. Oh and [...]

FRESNO, Calif.—Fresno County authorities have arrested a man they say broke into the home of two farmworkers, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.
Fresno County sheriff’s Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez of Fresno was found hiding in a nearby field wearing only a T-shirt, boxer shorts and [...]

The F.B.I. later today is to announce a birthday present in honor of James “Whitey” Bulger the infamous gangster of the 70’s and 80’s in Boston, MA.
The former head of Boston’s notorious Winter Hill Gang fled in January 1995 after being tipped by a former FBI agent that he was about to be indicted on [...]

Before Julia Child became known to the world as a leading chef, she admitted at least one failing when applying for a job as a spy: impulsiveness.
…She was hired in the summer of 1942 for clerical work with the intelligence agency…
Details about Child’s background and nearly 24,000 other OSS employees are revealed in the newly [...]

I know obesity is becoming a huge problem (no pun intended). For one death row inmate he is using his weight to fight the lethal injection death penalty. He is claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.
Lawyers [...]

New Jersey yesterday a shelter had found a lost cat that has tipped the scale at 44 pounds. They actually had to use a dog scale to weight the cat.
“She’s built like a quarterback,” said Deborah Wright, a Camden County Animal Shelter volunteer and current foster owner of the kitty. “I mean, how do [...]

Stanley Kobierowski, 34, of North Providence was arrested last Tuesday after driving into a highway message board. State Troopers came to the scene to see Kobierowski not able to walk, and holding on to his car and wouldn’t let go.
Police had to lift him up to the far part of the breakdown lane before [...]