Topic: STRANGE - on August 26, 2013 at 2:48:00 PM CEST
Man steals 200 bicycle seats: “I wanted to smell them.”
We love documenting the intriguing fetishes that exist out there — and be sure, we don’t do out of any sense of judging! Quite the opposite, we are kind of celebrating difference.
Anyway, another example has just come to light.
A man was arrested in Kanagawa prefecture over the weekend for stealing. Nothing new in that, except that he stole bicycle seats. A lot of them. 200 of them.
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Topic: SEX - on August 26, 2013 at 2:47:00 PM CEST
Zurich opens drive-in garages for prostitutes
Switzerland has launched a novel experiment to make prostitution safer: publicly funded drive-in "sex boxes".
The teak-colored open wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers, in the country where prostitution has been legal since 1942. The several dozen sex workers who are expected to use them will stand along a short road in a small, circular park where they can negotiate with clients. The park was built in a former industrial area nestled between a rail yard and the fence along a major highway.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 26, 2013 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
NSA leaks: David Cameron's response is intimidation, says world press body
David Cameron has been told that the government's attempt to destroy sensitive leaked documents about mass surveillance was "an act of intimidation" that risks a chilling effect on press freedom.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has written to the prime minister over the government's "deeply regrettable" response to files leaked by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The body, which represents 18,000 publications from 3,000 companies, condemned officials for their "symbolic" attempt to restrict reporting by destroying computer hard drives held by the Guardian
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