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    A TV presenter in Brazil is being investigated for allegedly running a ruthless death squad to boost his show's ratings.
    Wallace Souza, 58, is accused of ordering murders before alerting TV crews to get to the scene before detectives.
    The ex-policeman turned state senator also ran a drug smuggling ring and used his killers to eliminate his rivals, police say.

    Last night his 25-year-old son Rafael was under arrest charged with homicide, drug trafficking and illegal gun possession.
    Under Brazilian law Souza cannot be arrested because he is a politician, but state judicial authorities are to meet to decide whether the case goes ahead.
    Souza's show, Canal Livre, has been running on a channel in Sao Paulo for 20 years.
    He said the allegations were absurd and that he and his son were being set up by political enemies and drug dealers under threat from his relentless crime coverage and crusading legislative probes.

    He added that his news crews got to murder scenes first by using police informants and radio scanners monitoring police channels, and by following the coroner's van from the city mortuary.

    'I was the one who organised legislative inquiries into organised crime, the prison system, corruption, drug trafficking by police, and paedophilia,' Souza said.
    In one murder after another, the Canal Livre crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim.
    Too uncanny, say police, who are investigating the show's host, state legislator Wallace Souza, on suspicion of commissioning at least five of the murders to boost his ratings and prove his claim that Brazil's Amazon region is awash with violent crime.

    'The order to execute always came from the legislator and his son, who then alerted the TV crews to get to the scene before the police,' state police intelligence chief Thomaz Vasconcelos charged.
    The killings of competing drug traffickers, he said, 'appear to have been committed to get rid of his rivals and increase the audience of the TV show.'
    Souza's lawyer, Francisco Balieiro, said that the only witness is a disgraced police officer hoping for leniency in nine murders he is charged with.
    'There is not one piece of material proof in these accusations,' Balieiro said.
    Vasconcelos said the accusations, which have made headlines in Brazil, stem from the testimony of several former employees and security guards who worked with the Souzas, allegedly as part of a gang of former police officers involved in drug trafficking.
    Souza became a media personality after a career as a police officer that ended in disgrace, according to Vasconcelos.
    He said the lawmaker was fired for involvement in scams involving fuel theft and pension fraud.


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    Quite good, yet worrying at the same time.

    Enjoy... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7673591.stm

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    how odd
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    I liked the reason why it was thrown out. It was a very clever way of sideswiping an issue

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    you could file it through designated representatives in some territories. E.g. Holy See and represented by the Catholic Church and it's Earthly hierarchy.
    The problem there is specifying exactly whom the offences are attributed to, the catholic God, anglican etc (all the same but not in law) then would have to be specific. However having a legal injunction against such churches should not be as difficult. Whenever some bishop says HIV/ AIDS is God's punishment then this can be deemed a confession and the church in question held responsible. Perhaps this would teach them to shut their traps once in a while and the next time they thought of saying that the HIV epidemic is God's punishment to Africa and the world for permitting certain activities they would count to ten, walk over to the railway and jump in front of the next train.
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    The Pope is indeed Jesus's representative on Earth and he is the same as god on the trilogy etc. Sorry if this offends.

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    I also like the idea of freezing the assets of churches like the catholic, anglican and so on. The have literally trillions of pounds of assets between them, maybe not being able to rake in so much from those assets for a while will help them focus.
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    Perhaps this would teach them to shut their traps once in a while and the next time they thought of saying that the HIV epidemic is God's punishment to Africa and the world for permitting certain activities they would count to ten, walk over to the railway and jump in front of the next train.
    Don't think many train drivers would agree with you!

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    ok then go to the nearest cliff and jump off or go sky diving without a parachute
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    Quite good, yet worrying at the same time.

    Enjoy... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7673591.stm
    Love the image. It is so naive.
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    Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty!

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    ^I don't understand what makes her UFO story so hard to believe. Many people have reported triangular shaped UFOs; don't fall for the Hollywood stereotype that they are all saucer shaped.

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    or that all abductees smell of home-made rum, have yokel accents and only one tooth left.
    However, venus?
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    'armless getaway driver crashes

    http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article...6&in_page_id=2

    You have to hand it to him, he didn't leave any fingerprints.
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    "The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

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    Most likely a deformed sloth, but bizarre nonetheless

    http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article...8&in_page_id=2


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    Not sure why, but for some reason the pictures make me feel really sad.

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    me too
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    "There's something we don't understand. We'd better kill it."
    Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer "extortion". The "X" makes it sound cool.

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    ^I'm confident this news story is a fabrication or at least the childrens' story of "we defended ourselves with sticks and rocks" is a hoax. What we see here is the remains of a land animal that after naturally dieing fell into the water or was washed from shore into the water and after a period of days/weeks the hair naturally falls off as the carcass decomposes. Humans never saw this creature alive and it is probably some very common animal that none of us recognize because we never get to see normally furry animals in a state of complete baldness. Notice they also were careful to photograph it with no common objects near by, so a sense of scale is impossible. A sloth? For all we know this thing could be the size of a squirrel or a rodent.

    We had a similar urban legend a year ago here about the mysterious "Long Island Monster" that was found and photographed also under unusual circumstances:



    Turns out it was a raccoon, they are exceedingly common here, yet nobody but dental experts could figure it out because we never see bald raccoons.

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    http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21042834/detail.html
    made me laugh. a relief from all the flood related articles i've been reading.
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    Ah yes Mahk, the Montauk Monster. It was always difficult to judge the size of the MM because of what you say, no scale cues on the photo. I've no idea how big a raccoon is meant to be but the facial features do correspond quite well. Nice to see fellow cryptozoologists on this thread!

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    On a separate note - THIS


    The world's biggest burger. So, so unnecessary

    http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article...5&in_page_id=2

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    If only it was made by fry's and vegan
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    what the hell can they do with that thing after it's made???
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    If each of the three sections were sliced separately , like a wedding cake, they could then rotate each sliver section 90 degrees and reorient the configuration into a sandwich, I guess.

    Or maybe they just make it for show and through it all away?

    Yes, bradders, a veganized version would be cool. Maybe Heather Mills should make one at her restaurant and get it in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest vegan burger.

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    Mills would probably get criticized for being wasteful by the media if she did a vegan version.

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    Enough cholesterol in that to kill how many people?

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    Enough cholesterol in that to kill how many people?

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    On a separate note - THIS

    The world's biggest burger. So, so unnecessary
    Thats disgusting........ eughh....

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    if she made a vegan version i'd have a crack at eating it
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    This is really for all those not in the Uk who have probably seen this today.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8282368.stm

    Have a quick read then go to

    http://www.google.co.uk/maps
    then paste the following grid number in to see the spot in question.

    50.91431,0.967746

    I am sure there is an easier way to do this but I don't know how, so won't

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    That place would make a great lair for sinister experiments and the whole world domination thing.
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    It WOULD! There is an air strip, an abandoned light house and accommodation for henchmen to live on site (cuts down on travel to work costs and improves henchman-work attendance). The main problem is the lack of any Waitrose or Apple store nearby.

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    There might even be some left over radioactive material which is bound to be useful for accelerating the mutant zombie ninja breeding program.
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    Stupid, stupid people. Darwin's out to get these ones:

    Alabama woman lets daughter ride in box on top of van (on HIGHWAY!)

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_child_in_box

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    Stupid, stupid people. Darwin's out to get these ones:
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    Stupid, stupid people. Darwin's out to get these ones:
    Have you checked out the annual Darwin Awards?
    http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/

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    they are so massively funny
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    Have you checked out the annual Darwin Awards?
    http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/
    Haha, no - I didn't know there was a site dedicated to these idiots!

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    Haha, no - I didn't know there was a site dedicated to these idiots!
    There are awards given out each year to the people who "do a service to humanity by removing themselves from the gene pool", either by death or rendering themselves sterile and hence unable to pass on their faulty genes

    If you survive to tell the tale, you can only receive an honorary award at best

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    Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer "extortion". The "X" makes it sound cool.

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    Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer "extortion". The "X" makes it sound cool.

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    Job opening for marijuana reviewer. Hobnobs provided.
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    Job opening for marijuana reviewer. Hobnobs provided.


    Beanstew, you always provide the best stories.

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    Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer "extortion". The "X" makes it sound cool.

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    was the police officer the old marijuana reviewer?
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    was the police officer the old marijuana reviewer?
    Nah, he was the pilot that overshot the runway by 150 miles
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    FFS some people!
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    My pet theory is the pilots were having sex or did some sort of short term but totally mind altering drug (or both). "Poppers" I believe they call them.

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