Thief breaks into toilet (he didn't have change)

Has anyone considered the fact that he wasn't actually trying to rob the safe but, in fact, desperate to use the bathroom? So many people who wear black clothing, carry drills, explosives and other tools that can be mistaken for burglary paraphernalia (and a bag that says "swag" of course) are arrested when all they want to do is tinkle.

It would be an interesting defence in court!

Lost thief holes up in bank lavatory - Yahoo! News:"A hapless thief drilled his way into a French bank at the weekend, but missed the safe and instead found himself in a lavatory where he was promptly arrested, a French newspaper reported Sunday."

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Amazon Fined for Viciously Offering Free Shipping

If I walked to a bookstore then I wouldn't be paying for shipping. Should I pay more for the book when I got there? A strange law.

clipped from technologyexpert.blogspot.com Amazon.com has run afoul of a French law that basically makes free shipping a crime. On Monday it said it will continue to ship books for free in France and take a €1000 (or nearly $1500 at the time of this writing) a day fine. The Lang Law (81-766 August 10, 1981) says that the selling price of books must be indicated by the editor on the cover, and that any retailer is required to sell the work at a price ranging between 95% and 100% of that price. This system is designed to prevent independent booksellers from being forced out of business by large discounters (just look at how many independent booksellers have gone out of business in the United States). Last month a union of French bookstores sued - and won - over the free shipping on orders over €20. The argument was the free shipping effectively lowered the price of books outside of the Lang Law limits. The union was awarded €100,000 and Amazon.com was ordered to start charging for shipping.

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Women-only Garage

I wonder what pictures they have on the calendars in the workshop.

A women-only garage has opened in France with the only male employee being the boss. This must have huge opportunity for sexist comments, so I shall take the high ground.

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Boared French Shoppers

Half the shoppers probably wanted to cook it.

clipped from news.yahoo.com POITIERS, France (AFP) - It was no bull in a china shop, but a wild boar rampaged through a clothes shop in western France on Saturday before being felled by bullets, police said. Christmas shoppers and employees were evacuated from the store and the 90-kilo (198-pound) boar began charging at police, before falling in a hail of bullets early in the afternoon. Just how the animal entered the shop, located in a commercial area near the city of Poitiers, remains a mystery. But three boars were spotted during the day in the region bordering the countryside, a police statement said. The other two apparently returned to their usual habitat.

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Man Tasered 50 Times

I wonder if he lights lamps as he walks past them.

Di Zarro, is the biggest Taser representatives outside the US, and has made it part of his sales strategy to use it on politicians. Seems fair....

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Frenchman Good at Math!!

Some people get really excited about this sort of thing - and the one's who don't care probably have no chance of ever doing it!

French "mathlete" Alexis Lemaire showed off claimed a new World record on Thursday after working out in his head the 13th root of a random 200-digit number in just 72.4 seconds.

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