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German student attacks Hell's Angels with puppy


A German student created a major traffic jam in Bavaria after making a rude gesture at a group of Hell's Angels motorcycle gang members, hurling a puppy at them and then escaping on a stolen bulldozer. Skip related content

German police said on Monday that after making his getaway from the Hell's Angels club, the 26-year-old dumped the bulldozer, causing a 5 km (3 miles) traffic jam near the southern town of Allershausen, local police said. He then fled to his home nearby where he was apprehended by the police.

"What motivated him to throw a puppy at the Hell's Angels is currently unclear," said a spokesman for local police, adding that the student had lately been suffering from depression.

The puppy was now in safe hands, the spokesman added.
 
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Jam made from Princess Diana's hair goes on sale


London: The royal hair? Jam made from what its maker claims is one of Princess Diana's hairs is up for sale at an art exhibition in London.

The preserve, called "occult jam," is part of a surrealist art show at London's Barbican Art Gallery that includes exhibits by Salvador Dali and Rene Margritte. The 5-pound-a-jar ($7.60) jam is both art and food, Sam Bompas, who founded catering company Bompas and Parr, said Sunday.

He said the preserve is made by infusing a tiny speck of the late princess of Wales' hair with gin, which is then combined with milk and sugar to create a product with a taste resembling condensed milk.

The hair was bought on eBay for $10 from a U.S. dealer who collects what he says is celebrity hair and sells it in extremely tiny parts.

The art show's organizers asked his company to come up with a response in food to the exhibition's surrealist theme. Bompas said he decided to make the bizarre product to provoke people into thinking about food marketing and how language enhances the everyday eating experience, he said.

"We thought about it and the most mundane food of all is jam. So we made it a surreal object," he said.

Self-styled "food architects," past projects included a banquet consisting entirely of gelatine molds shaped like architectural landmarks.

In another, they gave audiences at a screening of Peter Greenaway's film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover scratch-and-sniff cards that evoked smells from key scenes in the movie.
 
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Ms Grieve was attacked in front of her teenage daughter​

A man stabbed his estranged wife to death because he wrongly believed she was pregnant with another man's child.

James McKenzie, 61, attacked 48-year-old Denise Grieve in front of their teenage daughter at her flat in Glenrothes, Fife, in March.

He pled guilty to the murder. Sentence was deferred.

The High Court in Glasgow heard how he told police that he laid his wife out on a bed so that he could stab her heart.

McKenzie also said he was happy he was the last person his wife saw.

The court was told that McKenzie and his wife split up in October last year after a turbulent relationship.

Even although they were living at separate addresses, McKenzie believed they remained "very much a couple".

He became jealous in February when he learned Ms Grieve was seeing Robert Graham, who she had previously dated.
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Soon after this, Mr Graham decided to end the relationship, and McKenzie moved back to the family home in Ednam Drive.

But he snapped on the morning of 15 March after Ms Grieve said she did not want to get back together with him.

Ms Grieve was sitting on the stairs after having a bath when her husband pinned her down with his hand over her chest and stabbed her with a knife.

Michael Stuart, prosecuting, told the court how McKenzie's 19-year-old daughter Jordan jumped on her father's back and tried to grab the blade.

She then fled and dialled 999 before McKenzie drove off in Ms Grieve's Honda car.

When police arrived, Ms Grieve was lying on a bed with the knife stuck in her chest.

The court heard how her husband was spotted driving erratically around Glenrothes narrowly avoiding traffic and pedestrians.

He was pursued by police who stopped him on a quiet farm track.

McKenzie instantly told the officers: "I stabbed her - I did not want to but I had to."

Mr Stuart told the court: "He was also of the belief that she had become pregnant to Robert Graham. The deceased was not pregnant at the time of her death."
Stab wounds

McKenzie also told officers how he stabbed Ms Grieve and had carried her upstairs onto a bed.

He went on: "I looked down at her chest and just pushed the knife back in, then did it again. I was trying to figure out where the heart was."

He described how Ms Grieve had been looking at him and was initially still breathing.

McKenzie added in an interview with police: "I know it sounds sick, but I am glad I was the last person she saw."

He also told how he had also considered killing both of his children and Mr Graham.

The court heard that Ms Grieve suffered a total of 10 stab wounds, two of which had penetrated her heart.

McKenzie made a failed attempt to take his own life in HMP Edinburgh last month.

Judge Lord Turnbull adjourned the case until next month when McKenzie will learn the punishment part of his life sentence.

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    Parasailing donkey stunt sparks police inquiry

    The move was intended as an advertising campaign
    Police in southern Russia are investigating allegations of animal cruelty after a donkey was made to parasail as part of an advertising stunt, Russian media report.

    The donkey was sent up into the sky last week by entrepreneurs hoping to attract people to their private beach.

    Witnesses near the beach on the Sea of Azov in the Krasnodar region said the animal had been screaming in fear.

    It landed in the water and was pulled onto the shore, said police.

    "The donkey screamed and children cried," regional police spokeswoman Larisa Tuchkova told the AFP news agency.

    "No-one had the brains to call police."

    Instead, bystanders took photos and phoned newspapers, she said.

    "It was put up so high into the sky that the children on the beach cried and asked their parents: 'Why did they tie a doggy to a parachute?'" Taman newspaper reported last week.

    "The donkey landed in an atrocious manner: it was dragged several metres along the water, after which the animal was pulled out half-alive onto the shore," the paper reported.

    Police began to investigate after the incident, which occurred at the coastal village of Golubitskaya, was aired on national news on Tuesday.

    The businessmen responsible may face criminal charges for animal cruelty, according to news agency RIA-Novosti.

    The stunt was condemned by the Brooke equine welfare charity, whose president is the Duchess of Cornwall.

    "The Brooke is appalled at the cruel and irresponsible behaviour of the people behind this 'advertising' campaign," said Kimberly Wells, an equine welfare advisor.

    "There was clearly no thought for this animal's welfare before they strapped it into a parachute, sending it catapulting into the sky.

    "This animal would have been extremely distressed, suffering immeasurable fear and pain. This should never have happened."


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    Pigeons force Kings of Leon to abandon concert
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    Rock band the Kings of Leon have been forced to end a concert early after pigeons defecated on them from the rafters of a US venue.

    The rockers abandoned the gig in St Louis after three songs when bass player Jared Followill was hit in the mouth and face by pigeon droppings.

    Drummer Nathan Followill later apologised to fans via Twitter, saying "it was too unsanitary to continue".

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    Petite woman bumped from plane for hefty passenger
    5-foot-4 woman lost her seat so that late-arriving passenger could have two

    Southwest Airlines is the same carrier that made headlines earlier this year for booting filmmaker Kevin Smith off a flight because he was deemed too large.

    by Michael Inbar
    TODAYshow.com contributor

    It’s irritating enough to get bumped from a flight. If you are already seated on that flight, having to walk off the plane adds a little indignity.

    But to be told to leave a plane because a too-large passenger needs two seats? It turned into a seeing-red, head-scratching moment for one frequent flyer.

    A female sales rep (who requested anonymity in interviews) revealed her strange tale to the Sacramento Bee, relating how she was asked to vacate her seat aboard a Southwest Airlines flight shortly before the plane was set to leave Las Vegas for Sacramento last week.

    The woman, a petite 5-foot-4, 110 pounds, said she was flying standby when agents sold her the last seat available on the plane. She had already stowed her bags and was settling into her seat when an attendant told her she had to leave immediately.

    When she was told her seat was needed because a late-arriving passenger’s girth was too wide for just one, she had some questions.

    “It didn’t seem right that I should leave to accommodate someone who had only paid for one seat,” the woman told the Sacramento Bee. But she was even more upset because, she said, airline staff acted rudely and inconsiderately when she asked for a further explanation.

    Southwest regrets how the situation was handled, according to airline spokeswoman Marilee McInnis. “We know that this was awkward and we should have handled it better,” she told the Sacramento Bee.

    While saying the airline plans to apologize to the bumped passenger, McInnis said Southwest staff may have acted more swiftly than usual in booting her because the overweight passenger in question was only 14 and they were trying to spare the teen embarrassment.

    Southwest Airlines has been kicking up controversy about weighty issues lately — earlier this year, renowned “Clerks" director/actor Kevin Smith was bumped from a Southwest flight because he was too big to fit into one seat.

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