Blows after swing plea
AFTER Zacharie Nelson’s girlfriend said she was interested in going to a swingers’ club, the 32-year-old swung for her.
Angered by her desire to try to spice up their love life, the 19-stone Florida man smacked her in the face three or four times.
Nelson told Pinellas Park police that it stemmed from a row “in relation to the victim expressing interest in going to a ‘swingers club.’”
He has been charged with domestic battery.
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TROUBLE north of the border. Alberta’s energy minister says a controversial pipeline should be built now because public health restrictions limit numbers of protesters. Sonya Savage told Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors’ podcast: “You can’t have protests of more than 15 people. Let’s get it built.” Not only Savage by name.
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THE record for the Cannonball Run – a race from New York to Los Angeles – has been beaten seven times in five weeks. Wonder why?
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MURDERER Christopher Havens’ love for mathematics while in solitary confinement has seen him become a genius in the field.
On his first offering to the prestigious journal Research In Number Theory, he devised a formula that has number crunchers in a tailspin.
Havens’ working “shows regularities in the approximation of a vast class of numbers for the first time”. Apparently it’s a big deal but I’m clueless to what it means.
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THE Cleveland Indians baseball team hid Nicolas Cage in 39 line-up graphics of players last year, but no-one picked up on it.
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NEW Yorker Nathalie Solorzano is suing over claims a free T-shirt she got at a Knicks basketball game was so flammable it contributed to the burns she got in a cooker accident.
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Six-year-old Knox Brewer showed he was a magnet for mystery after unlocking a decade-old robbery case.
The South Carolina boy reeled in a safe from the bottom of a local lake using a powerful magnet. The box contained jewellery, credit cards, as well as a chequebook stolen from a woman eight years ago.
AND FINALLY...
My barman Richard paid his dentist a visit, during which he couldn’t help but give her one of his infamous observations. He said: “Every time you tell me to bite down, you’re really asking me to bite up.” Fair point.