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May
27
2005

Corby gets 20 years’ jail

SCHAPELLE Corby has been found guilty of importing drugs into Indonesia and sentenced to 20 years prison.

Scenes of pandemonium broke out in the courtroom after the sentence with Corby’s family shouting “Schapelle is innocent”.

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May
26
2005

Brewers strike for right to drink

Danish brewers have gone on strike for the right to drink at work.

The 200 workers at the Harboe-Brewery West of Copenhagen walked out after being told beer would no longer be served in the staff canteen or allowed on the shop floor.

The staff will still be allowed six bottles of Harboe-Pilsner per day, but will have to drink it outside of work hours.

But the workers say the restriction is an invasion of personal freedom, and walked out in protest.

those guys dont know who good they get it over there :( .

source Ananova

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May
26
2005

Woman jailed for repeatedly calling 911 because she wanted pizza

An 86-year-old woman has been sent to jail after police said she called 911 dispatchers 20 times in a little more than a half-hour to complain about a pizza parlor. Dorothy Densmore remained in jail Tuesday charged with misusing the 911 system, a jail spokeswoman said.

She told dispatchers Sunday that a local pizza shop refused to deliver a pie to her south Charlotte apartment, said Officer Mandy Giannini, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police spokeswoman. She also complained that someone at the shop called her a “crazy old coot,” Giannini said.

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May
20
2005

Cops accused of killing inmate’s birds

NEW DELHI (AP) - Prison authorities in India were accused of killing nearly 100 pigeons to force a murder suspect to confess, a news report said Thursday.

Chandraveer Chaudhary, awaiting trial on murder charges, has spent the last two years in a prison on the outskirts of New Delhi where he has fed nearly 400 pigeons a day, The Hindustan Times reported.

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May
20
2005

Man fired for drinking Coors

DENVER (AP) - Ross Hopkins still likes to drink Bud, even though he says a brief tryst with a Coors beer cost him his job at a Budweiser distributor.

Hopkins, 41, is suing American Eagle Distributing Co., saying the company wrongly fired him for drinking Coors in a bar two years ago. “They flat-out told me: ‘We’re putting food on your table so you could put it on theirs?”‘ he said Tuesday. “I thought I could drink it, no problem.”

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May
19
2005

Man blows flat up with insect spray

A German man used so much insect killer that he blew himself up when a spark from his computer ignited the aerosol spray.

Walter Mueller, 36, from Schleswig-Holstein, caused more than ?100,000 of damage and debris flew up to 100 metres away.

But, amazingly, he was not badly hurt and was released from hospital after treatment for minor injuries.

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May
18
2005

Doctor punched by ‘corpse’

Hospital officials in Romania are investigating after a doctor was punched by a ‘corpse’ in the morgue.

The doctor had to be treated for shock after he was punched by teenager Bogdan Georgescu.

It happened after the doctor thought he saw Mr Georgescu move and bent over to investigate.

The youngster, 16, had been taken to the morgue at Brasov County Hospital in Brasov, after collapsing and showing no signs of life.

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May
17
2005

Cafe painted over dead rat

A cafe owner who painted over a dead rat rather than pick it up has been fined ?12,300.

Acting on a tip off from staff, food safety inspectors in Brisbane, Australia, discovered the rodent stuck to the floor and covered in red paint under the main serving area of Jo’s Brasserie.

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