Mujeres no me faltan, ni el dinero, ni el amor. Pourvu que ça dure !
Source : Los Lobos & Antonio Banderas (Cancion del mariachi, Desperado de Robert Rodriguez).
mercredi 31 octobre 2007
Le retour des pieds nickelés
Deux voleurs armés seulement de ketchup ont tenté de dérober la recette d'un supermarché en tendant une embuscade à un employé sur le chemin de la banque, a rapporté la police grecque.
"Les malfaiteurs ont surgi des fourrés et jeté deux gros sacs remplis de ketchup sur le pare-brise pour arrêter la voiture", a déclaré un responsable des autorités sous couvert d'anonymat.
L'employé s'est débattu avant que ses agresseurs ne prennent la fuite à moto, avec à peine 400 euros sur les 140.000 euros qu'il transportait.
"Les malfaiteurs ont surgi des fourrés et jeté deux gros sacs remplis de ketchup sur le pare-brise pour arrêter la voiture", a déclaré un responsable des autorités sous couvert d'anonymat.
L'employé s'est débattu avant que ses agresseurs ne prennent la fuite à moto, avec à peine 400 euros sur les 140.000 euros qu'il transportait.
Source : Reuters (30 octobre 2007).
dimanche 28 octobre 2007
Wonderland murders.
John Holmes and the Wonderland Murders.
A casual passerby wouldn't notice the house at 8763 Wonderland Avenue in Los Angeles' rustic Laurel Canyon. The white stucco, two-story structure blended generically into the neighborhood around it, a favorite of television producers, character actors, and other minor Hollywood cogs.
But a closer look at the house would have revealed several peculiarities. The stairway leading to the front door was encased in a metal cage and patrolled by a pair of snarling pit bulls. Visitors were required to use an intercom at the bottom of the cage to announce themselves, and, if welcome, the dogs were retired and they were buzzed through an electronic deadbolt. Then there were the denizens of the house, a tough crowd that slept all day and partied all night.
To the cops, 8763 Wonderland was a renowned drug den.
To the public, the address would become synonymous with a crime that horrified even the most jaded Angeleno: In July 1981, four people were bludgeoned to death as they slept in the house.
LAPD announced their primary suspect in the grisly killings: legendary porn star John C. Holmes.
(...)
A little after 4 a.m. on July 1, 1981, three or more intruders one of whom may or may not have been John Holmes crept into 8763 Wonderland carrying lead pipes.
They went from one room to the next, bashing in the brains of the sleeping occupants until four were dead and one was critically wounded. The bloodbath was so profuse that the walls, floors and ceilings were dripping red and the victim's faces were caved in.
A next-door neighbor told police he heard "thumping and groaning," but assumed it was just another wild night at the notorious party house and went back to bed.
Another neighbor later testified in court that she heard screams and looked out the window to see lights on in the house. Annoyed by having her sleep disrupted yet again by the crowd at 8763, she turned on her television to drown out their death throes.
Two female guests had the misfortune of visiting the Wonderland residence on that fatal night--a friend of Lind's, Barbara Richardson, 22, and Launius' estranged wife Susan, 25, who'd arrived from Northern California the day before.
It wasn't until that afternoon -- nearly 12 hours after the attack that a professional mover who was working next door heard moans coming from 8763 and noticed the unrelenting barking of the pit bulls. He found the door ajar, and walked into the living room, where he stumbled across Richardson's body on the sofa.
In an upstairs bedroom, investigators found the body of Miller sprawled on a bed and Deverell lying in a corner of the same room.
In the rear bedroom of the first floor, they found Ronald Launius dead on a bed, and beside him, horribly mutilated but still breathing, his wife Susan.
The police were so overwhelmed by the amount of blood -- which literally trailed from room to room -- that they videotaped it. The grainy tape was used at the trial, marking the first time in American history that a video record of a murder scene was admitted as evidence in criminal trial.
All four victims had drug records, detectives told the media.
David Lind, the thug from Sacramento, narrowly missed being killed. He'd spent the night with a prostitute at a motel in the San Fernando Valley, where he'd transacted several drug deals earlier that evening, he told the cops. During the same interview, he told them about the Nash break-in.
The detectives investigating the case had one pressing question: Where was John Holmes during the killings?
Source : Julia Scheeres.
La Ligue vous conseille de déguster cet article passionnant dans son intégralité, sur le site Crime Library : ici.
Ils attaquent.
Monkeys kill Delhi dy mayor.
A monkey attack reportedly claimed the life of Delhi’s deputy mayor SS Bajwa on Sunday morning. Bajwa had been admitted to Apollo Hospital on Saturday morning after he fell from the terrace of his house in Sarita Vihar and sustained severe head injuries.
Though Bajwa was alone on the terrace when the incident happened and there was no eyewitness, family members claimed a monkey attack caused his fall.
The first-time corporator from Anand Vihar was admitted to the ICU of Apollo Hospital at about 9 am on Saturday. Bajwa’s personal secretary Pawan Bhaskar said, “The deputy mayor’s condition had been critical after the fall and he was diagnosed with multiple organ failure. He was put on a ventilator hours after admission to the hospital. He expired at about 10 am on Sunday.”
Bajwa, 52, is survived by his wife and two sons. He was a businessman and also Delhi BJP’s vice-president. His last rites were performed at Nigambodh Ghat on Sunday evening.
“Bajwaji’s sudden and shocking demise is an irreparable loss to the party and to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). He was a very close associate and we would always look to him for guidance on all vital issues. He had a very good understanding of the city’s needs and problems, though he was relatively new to the MCD,” mayor Arti Mehra said.
The ever-increasing simian population in the national capital has been a concern for the MCD for a long time now. Even the Delhi high court has on several occasions pulled up the civic body and the Delhi government for failing to curb the monkey menace. The simian crisis has been brewing in Delhi with no other state ready to give shelter to the capital’s monkeys.
Even high-security areas such as the parliament building and almost the whole of Lutyen’s are facing the wrath of the simians. Mehra admitted that the monkey menace in the capital has indeed assumed serious proportions but said the MCD was almost helpless.
“We have only two monkey-catchers and there are thousands of monkeys out there. We have also asked the Centre and State governments to transfer monkeys to sanctuaries in other states, but no state is forthcoming,” said Mehra.
Source : DNA India (21 octobre 2007).
La nouvelle sur Times of India et CNN.
A monkey attack reportedly claimed the life of Delhi’s deputy mayor SS Bajwa on Sunday morning. Bajwa had been admitted to Apollo Hospital on Saturday morning after he fell from the terrace of his house in Sarita Vihar and sustained severe head injuries.
Though Bajwa was alone on the terrace when the incident happened and there was no eyewitness, family members claimed a monkey attack caused his fall.
The first-time corporator from Anand Vihar was admitted to the ICU of Apollo Hospital at about 9 am on Saturday. Bajwa’s personal secretary Pawan Bhaskar said, “The deputy mayor’s condition had been critical after the fall and he was diagnosed with multiple organ failure. He was put on a ventilator hours after admission to the hospital. He expired at about 10 am on Sunday.”
Bajwa, 52, is survived by his wife and two sons. He was a businessman and also Delhi BJP’s vice-president. His last rites were performed at Nigambodh Ghat on Sunday evening.
“Bajwaji’s sudden and shocking demise is an irreparable loss to the party and to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). He was a very close associate and we would always look to him for guidance on all vital issues. He had a very good understanding of the city’s needs and problems, though he was relatively new to the MCD,” mayor Arti Mehra said.
The ever-increasing simian population in the national capital has been a concern for the MCD for a long time now. Even the Delhi high court has on several occasions pulled up the civic body and the Delhi government for failing to curb the monkey menace. The simian crisis has been brewing in Delhi with no other state ready to give shelter to the capital’s monkeys.
Even high-security areas such as the parliament building and almost the whole of Lutyen’s are facing the wrath of the simians. Mehra admitted that the monkey menace in the capital has indeed assumed serious proportions but said the MCD was almost helpless.
“We have only two monkey-catchers and there are thousands of monkeys out there. We have also asked the Centre and State governments to transfer monkeys to sanctuaries in other states, but no state is forthcoming,” said Mehra.
Source : DNA India (21 octobre 2007).
La nouvelle sur Times of India et CNN.
samedi 27 octobre 2007
On ne bouge plus...
Le Pérou a organisé un recensement de sa population, pour lequel le président Alan Garcia avait demandé aux habitants de rester chez eux pendant dix heures tandis qu'un demi-million d'étudiants bénévoles procédaient au comptage.
Ils recueillaient notamment des données sur les salaires, le niveau d'éducation, l'emploi, la religion et la situation matrimoniale des 27 millions de Péruviens.
Ils recueillaient notamment des données sur les salaires, le niveau d'éducation, l'emploi, la religion et la situation matrimoniale des 27 millions de Péruviens.
Le recensement a été critiqué, une partie de la presse accusant le président de vouloir invalider le précédent recensement de 2005 pour dissimuler son échec dans la lutte contre la pauvreté.
Le précédent recensement indiquait que la moitié des Péruviens étaient en situation de pauvreté, voire d'extrême pauvreté.
Dans les rues, la police "invitait" ceux qui s'aventuraient dehors à rentrer chez eux.
Le principal syndicat patronal de Lima a estimé que l'arrêt des activités du pays pour le recensement ferait perdre environ 83 millions de dollars à l'économie.
Source : Reuters (21 octobre 2007).
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