Man Arrested for Snake Walking

You can't even take your snake for a walk nowadays!

clipped from news.sky.com An afternoon stroll in Long Island has landed a man in the slammer, because he decided to take his 14-foot python with him. Curtis Dewberry was spotted by an officer for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals walking down a main road with the reptile wrapped round his body. Dewberry has been charged with animal cruelty and failure to protect the public against dangerous wildlife. The fate of the snake is not yet known.

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Corpse tries to Cash Check

It's what he would have wanted...

clipped from www.ananova.com Two men have been arrested in New York for wheeling a dead friend through the streets in an office chair and trying to cash his cheque. David Dalaia and James O'Hare, were seen pushing Virgilio Cintron's body from their Manhattan apartment to a cheque-cashing store a block away. The men left Cintron's body outside the store, went inside and tried to cash his cheque, worth about £180. Cintron's body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner's office told police it appeared Cintron, 66, had died from natural causes.

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BBC Puts the Faggot Back

Yes, it was silly to alter it in the first place, but at least they admitted their mistake.

clipped from news.yahoo.com LONDON (Reuters) - A boss at BBC Radio reversed on Tuesdaya decision to cut the word "faggot" from a Christmas hit after the mother of the singer branded the move "ridiculous". In "Fairytale of New York", released 20 years ago by the Irish band the Pogues and the late Kirsty MacColl, she sings "You scumbag, you maggot/You cheap lousy faggot". BBC bosses decided to edit the word "faggot" each time the song was played because it was offensive to some of their audience. But they backed down after MacColl's mother and hundreds of fans complained. Andy Parfitt, controller of the public broadcaster's Radio 1, said the decision to edit the song was wrong. The song is a perennial favourite around Christmas and is battling for the lucrative number one spot in the charts this year. It has also topped several Best Christmas Song polls.

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