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Man delays flight by calling in bomb scare, gets arrested, still misses flight
An Italian man has been arrested after he delayed his flight by calling in a bomb scare because he was running late.
The unidentified 46-year-old man still managed to miss the Alitalia flight from Turin to Rome on Thursday evening despite keeping the plane on the tarmac for two and a half hours.
The flight was only minutes from take-off when the warning came through and was promptly grounded, Italian newspaper La Stampa reported.
"I heard two Arabs say that they had put a bomb on board," the businessman is reported to have told the emergency services.
After the passengers had been evacuated, the luggage search, and the threat established as a fake, it eventually left Turin and arrived in Rome two and half hour behind schedule.
Despite his best efforts, the man – who was reportedly in Palermo on business – still missed his plane as police officers immediately arrested him when he arrived at the airport.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-delays-flight-by-calling-in-bomb-scare-gets-arrested-still-misses-flight-a6678346.html
Paladin:
"I poured drain cleaner in my eyes to blind myself"
"For most people, going blind is their worst nightmare, but for this North Carolina woman it was a dream come true.
"Jewel Shuping, 30, was so desperate to be blind that she poured draining cleaner in her baby blues to wipe out her eyesight — and she couldn’t be happier.
She suffers from an illness called body integrity identity disorder (BIID) — a disease that causes able-bodied people to strongly desire a disability.
“I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth,” Shuping told Barcroft Media.
The afflicted woman knew from a young age she wanted to be blind, and would attempt to harm her eyesight by staring at the sun while “blind-simming,” or pretending to be blind.
By the time Shuping turned 21, the idea of being blind was “a non-stop alarm that was going off” and she sought the help of a sympathetic psychologist to help her carry out her ultimate desire in 2006.
The psychologist gave her eye-numbing drops before sprinkling a few droplets of drain cleaner into each pupil.
“It hurt, let me tell you. My eyes were screaming and I had some drain cleaner going down my cheek burning my skin,” she said.
“But all I could think was, ‘I am going blind, it is going to be okay.”
Dr. Michael First, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, says that people who suffer from BIID can’t control their need to be disabled.
“These people are aware that this feeling of theirs is unusual — they know it is coming from within them. They can’t explain it,” he said."
http://nypost.com/2015/10/01/i-blinded-myself-on-purpose-and-have-never-been-happier/
EC:
India police charge toddler with 'theft and trespassing'
Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have been left red-faced after charging a toddler with theft.
Two-year-old Ravi had been named in a police complaint along with three men, one of whom was his relative.
Police attempted to arrest the toddler on Tuesday - causing his alarmed father to take Ravi to the district court, where he explained the situation to senior police officers, reports said.
Ravi's name was taken off the complaint after the senior officers intervened.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34412306
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Turkish man sends bomb to ex-girlfriend as ‘wedding gift’
A man has been arrested in Turkey’s Aegean town of Aydın for placing a bomb at his ex-girlfriend’s front door as a “wedding gift.”
Reports stated that the woman in the Çine district of Aydın married the man, identified only as Mustafa K., shortly after breaking up with her former boyfriend, identified as Baki A.
Upon receiving news of the woman’s marriage, the suspect enlisted one of his friends, identified as Ersun B., to help him build a home-made bomb to be detonated in front of the woman’s home.
The two men charged 10 short tubes with explosives and attached the tubes to a bottled gas, before placing the explosive at the front door of the house where the woman lives with her husband.
The explosive was noticed by her husband, who informed the district police department. Police teams then removed the bomb, in the process finding a note that read: “My wedding gift to my love.”
The bomb squad disposed the bomb at vacant land in the nearby Kavşit neighborhood.
Read more: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-man-sends-bomb-to-ex-girlfriend-as-wedding-gift.aspx
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Man is stranded for 2 days after wheelchair stalls in tunnel
MARKLETON, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a Pennsylvania man has been rescued after spending two days inside an old railroad tunnel when his motorized wheelchair broke down.
WJAC-TV (http://bit.ly/1iZjqm2) reports that the Somerset County man was inside the Pinkerton Tunnel along the Great Allegheny Passage when his wheelchair stalled.
It's not clear who first located the man. But officials say it took an all-terrain vehicle to free him Sunday because an ambulance couldn't fit inside the tunnel.
The man was taken to Somerset hospital with chills and dehydration but is expected to recover.
http://report24uk.info/article/326054/man-is-stranded-for-2-days-after-wheelchair-stalls-in-tunnel
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