Do you REALLY want to hurt....

News of the weird, from Sydney Morning Herald:

Boy George 'cuffed me to a hook'

Cleaning the streets ... Boy George in New York last year during his five days' community service for filing a false police report.
Photo: REUTERS

Jano Gibson
April 30, 2007 - 4:34PM

British pop star Boy George has been arrested over allegations that he held captive and assaulted a man reported to be a Norwegian male escort.

Scotland Yard would not name the 45-year-old former Culture Club singer directly, but told smh.com.au that police were investigating allegations of the false imprisonment and common assault of a 28-year-old man in London's East End in the early hours of April 28.

British tabloid The Sun named the alleged victim as 28-year-old Norwegian escort Auden Carlsen.

"It's ironic that his biggest hit was Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? - because I'm sure he did want to hurt me," Mr Carlsen was quoted as saying.

"I was convinced I was going to die."

He told the paper he had met George through a gay website and agreed to go to his flat as a £400 [$960] photographic model, not as an escort.

But after having his photo taken by George, Mr Carlsen claimed he was set upon by the pop star and another man.

"George handcuffed me to a hook by the bed as they held me down."

The Sun said Mr Carlsen claimed George then pulled out a box of whips and sex toys.

"Now you'll get what you deserve," George is alleged to have said.

Mr Carlsen said he was able to escape after pulling the hook from the wall and raising the alarm from a nearby newsagency.

A Scotland Yard spokeswoman told smh.com.au: "Hackney CID are investigating and a man in his forties has been arrested in connection with the allegation," the spokeswoman said.

"He was originally taken to an east London police station but has subsequently been bailed to return on a date in July pending further inquires."

She said George, whose real name is George O'Dowd, has not been charged.

George was sentenced last year to five days' community service cleaning New York streets after pleading guilty to filing a false police report.

and my neighbors thought air guitar was weird,

but I'm not Japanese...

Love-Starved Dance With Themselves in Air Sex Competition

Tuesday , April 24, 2007

It's like air guitar, only dirtier.

Love-starved Japanese men are gathering in Tokyo's theater district to mime their best bedroom moves in a performance they're calling "Air Sex," the Mainichi Daily News reported recently.

"Air sex was originally invented by guys who couldn't get girlfriends but desperately want to have sex," said the creator of the genre, J-Taro Sugisaku.

The men compete in much the same manner as air guitar, crowning the champions who best mimic those actions that usually appear under cover of darkness.

And it's dangerous, said last year's champ, a guy named Cobra.

"You can't care about what women watching your performance are thinking about you," he said. "When you get down to air sex, you've got to immerse yourself in the air sex world.

"Air sex can't be performed in half-measures," he continued. "If it is, you're only asking for trouble."

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Improving the worlds average IQ

The last two posts had a pig and a horse, so how about this from the Times of London showing evolution in action:


Jane Macartney in Beijing

A schoolboy who climbed over a fence into a crocodile enclosure and taunted the animals with sticks and a catapult was dragged into the water and eaten.

The nine-year-old, whose family name was given as Liu, and three friends sneaked into the crocodile park at the Silver Beach holiday resort at Beihai in the southwestern Guangxi region on Friday.

The children shot at the animals with catapults and beat them with sticks.

The official Xinhua news agency said: “One of the irritated crocodiles bit Liu’s clothes and dragged him into the water where he was eaten by a swarm of crocodiles.” His companions then raised the alarm.

Investigators searched for the missing boy and decided to check inside the crocodiles. Snipers used pork to lure them out of their pool and shot dead the first animal to lumber on to the bank.

Inside it they found human remains that were confirmed to be those of the boy.

The crocodiles were still being bred, even though their performances at the park were stopped several years ago and the pool had been sealed off for auction.

The park’s owner had hired a keeper to take care of the crocodiles, but it was unclear why the man was not at the enclosure when the boys broke in. The manager and the keeper were being questioned by police.

Animal welfare has long been a low priority in China, where many zoos have for years provided bare and often squalid pens for animals that spend their entire existence in the public eye. Even at the Beijing Zoo, the prized pandas must now be cordoned off well out of reach of visitors. People have in the past tossed food wrapped in plastic bags into their pens which destroyed the digestive system of at least one of the endangered animals.

The latest scandal to attract public attention came last year in Shanghai when a city zoo cancelled its “Animal Olympics” after shows featuring boxing matches between kangaroos and their keepers, bears fighting and riding bicycles and an elephant tug-of-war drew unwelcome publicity. The event was cancelled after animal rights groups posted reports and pictures on the internet.

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