MOH Forum: Daily Star of Scotland

Daily Star of Scotland

Posted By:
Boo
in The Land of the Haggii...
Apr 14, 2005

First of all, I want to clarify. The Daily Star is a crappy tabloid which I mostly buy because it's cheap and also funny.

Now, for a while I've noticed little articles that then turn up on the museum of hoaxes a few days or weeks later (the suicide dogs one springs to mind) or I notice things I've read on the Museum turning up in the paper a month or so later.
So I decided to note any strange or hoaxy type articles that I came across.

Phew.

Yesterday's articles.

Star Burst
Rich would-be Robinson Crusoes are lining up to splash £5 million for 45-acre Green Island in Dorset's Poole harbour.

Girls so Cocky
A gadget that measures the length and girth of a guy's manhood is being snapped up by women. Thousands have contacted makers Cockrule Ltd ( see <a href="http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/newsproducts.php?category=Packs+Solutions" title="here">here</a>) after seeing it on TV show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. A spokesman said: 'Women want to know the truth and find out how big their men are.'

Mum Killed By Own Car in Freak Crash
Fawlty antics turn tragic
A mum who launched a Basil Fawlty-style attack on her conked out car was run over and killed by it.
Alison Taylor was so angry when the rusting Peugeot 405 wouldn't start she got out, lifted the bonnet and laid into it with a hammer.
It mirrored a scene from the TV comedy Fawlty Towers when Basil - played by John Cleese - launched a frenzied assault on his stalled car with a broken branch.
But Alison's banging triggered the starter motor and sparked the ailing engine into life.
The car then lurched straight into her because the handbrake was broken.
Terrified Alison, 36, desperately reached out her hand to stop herself being dragged under - but accidentally grabbed the throttle cable.
That caused the car to accelerate and run her over, killing her in front of her mum. Alison had just dropped off her son Daryl, 12, at a school meeting and was trying to get the car to start at Seaton Burn Community College, North Tyneside.
Mum Marjorie said: "The car made a small jump forward followed by a much larger, more obvious one.
"There was smoke coming from the front and I saw Alison trapped underneath."
The family were planning to get rid of the car this week.
"It is one of the strangest cases I've come across." PC George Rutter told a North Tyneside inquest. The coroner gave a verdict of accidental death.

All articles copyrighted to the Daily Star of Scotland, of course.

Category: News-Story; Replies: 153

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Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:05 PM Star Burst White van man Gordon Chalmers has been banned from the road after being caught reading his newspaper as he drove along the busy A9 last year.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:06 PM Star Burst Argentinian judge Nestor Narizaon was sacked after taking a psychology course at university when he was meant to be in court.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:06 PM Star Burst Drug dealers and addicts are being offered the chance to go to church instead of jail by judge Michael Caperton, 50, a devout Christian, in Kentucky, USA.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:06 PM Star Burst Shopper Joyce Fossett, 49, got a shock when a 12 inch king snake slithered out of a bouquet of carnations and roses she bought from a Somerfield store in Cardiff.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:06 PM Star Burst Police stopped the same car three times in one night and arrested a different drink-driver each time in Katherine, North Australia.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:07 PM Star Burst A man tossed a grenade through the window of a house party, hurting three, because he was sick of the loud noise in Khabarovsk, Russia.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:07 PM Blankety Blank Tea towels are far better at putting out chip pan blazes than official fire blankets, consumer group Which? has revealed.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:07 PM The Molar Bear Yukon the polar bear is recovering after having a tooth out in a bid to cure his bad breath at Seneca Park zoo in New York.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:08 PM Not To Be Sniffed At Scientists have come up with a potion to make people more trusting. Swiss volunteers who sniffed the chemical became more willing to give cash to a stranger. It is also thought that the chemical, oxytocin, could be used to investigate social dysfunction such as shyness, but the findings in the journal, Nature, raise the possibility of abuse by a politician to win votes, or a marketeer to sell products.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:08 PM Doggone Reward A woman from Rainham, Kent, is offering a
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:20 PM I wonder why this doesn't go back to the top of the forum...
Razela in Chicago, IL Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:29 PM The one about the judge offering drug addicts a chance to go to church instead of jail seems very illegal to me, not to mention a security problem. If people are ADDICTS, isn't it not right to let them go back out onto the streets just as long as they spend their Sunday mornings in church. Isn't that forcing a choice between jail and religion. Then again, it doesn't seem that different to me then forcing people by court order to attend AA meetings. AA meetings are religious in nature as well.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:34 PM I agree with you entirely, Razela. These people have a drug problem and have committed crimes. I totally don't understand how this is supposed to work.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 03:54 PM And from other sources... The queen has 'appeared' in the white of a fried egg. And According to surveys, 7% of British children don't know how to eat an orange.
Mark-N-Isa in Midwest USA Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 04:53 PM That judge is actually from this area Boo... and just to answer Razela, "Yes, his actions are bordering on illegal which is why he's currently under review and about to be removed from the bench." You read about him in the Kentucky Journal from time to time and it's always about some outrageous thing he's done.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 04:54 PM Well, I suppose he'd at least be entertaining.
Razela in Chicago, IL Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 05:38 PM Heh, figures =) Glad to hear of him being "under review and bout to be removed from the bench." A person like him has no right to be passing judgement on others from the few sentences I've heard (although obviously, I only know little pieces of the story). Heh, anyways, thanks for the clarification M&J. By the way, is it just me, or does your avator change practicaly every day? I like the one you have now because miss avril is not scowling as in some of the other ones.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 05:47 PM I do love it when you get feedback from people who live in the area. And on Avril, it's better than most of them, I suppose. 😛
Razela in Chicago, IL Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 06:12 PM Heh, how funny! I posted not lnog ago at all, and now I see that you have changed your avator again! I like this one best because she's smiling.
Smerk in to mischief Member	Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 \| 08:33 PM Tchuh. North Australia??? There's a lot of North Australia. Katherine is found specifically in the Northern Territory! And it doesn't surprise me re the drink-driving. :lol:
Accipiter Member	Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 \| 03:18 PM I wonder what that survey of British children considers to be the proper way to eat an orange?
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 \| 09:33 AM Mum's Brat Run A woman was charged with neglect after ordering her naughty son, aged 4, out of their car on a busy road in Washington DC.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 \| 09:35 AM Junk nut is Killed Russian computer nerd, Vardan Kushnir, 35, who was notorious for sending millions of junk emails around the world every day, has been found battered to death in his Moscow home.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 \| 09:37 AM Patty the dog's talent for making the same sound as a fire engine siren saved his owner Michael Trembath's home in Brisbane from burning down after an arsonist set a banana tree alight. Michael said: "He just howled until we came and put the blaze out."
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 \| 09:41 AM Sleeping Partners A man is suing an escort agency after being sent eight women in one night - and insisting he does not remember a thing. Leonard Monfredo, 33, ordered a woman from Midnight Club Escorts in New York. He says he then had a 15-hour blackout that ended with a $40,000 (
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 \| 09:42 AM Quick off Merc A thief who stole a tin of salmon has had his Mercedes siezed by North Wales police as he had no visible means of support.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 \| 09:43 AM All copyright of the Daily Star of Scotland, as usual.
Winona in USA Member	Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 \| 03:58 PM Test post, sorry! 😊
Accipiter Member	Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 \| 01:14 PM That one about the Mercedes is a bit confusing. Are they saying that the man stole the tin of fish, was caught, and then the police did some checking and discovered that he couldn't have afforded the car? It sounds almost like they're saying that the Mercedes was in the tin of salmon, which would imply either a very large tin, or else a considerable feat of engineering.
Maegan in Tampa, FL - USA Member	Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 \| 02:05 PM Maybe they figured that since he can't afford a tin of salmon he can't afford the car either. (Sort of like a spite thing.)
Winona in USA Member	Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 \| 07:51 PM I'm assuming they seized it because they may have suspected him of illegal activities such as drug dealing, since he had no means of support otherwise.
Boo in The Land of the Haggii... Member	Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 \| 05:30 AM I think Noni's right. I have to admit that that one confused me too.
willim jon	Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 \| 07:28 AM Imagine this articles. I am very pleased for this post. Oh well. 2 shopping trips this year.Thanks;)
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