NZ policewoman allows naked cycling - with helmet

Two young men caught cycling with no clothes on have escaped charges of offensive behaviour, but received a warning to wear protective headgear. Local policewoman Cathy Duder was unfazed when she came across the two nude men, both in their early 20s. "They were more shocked than I was, trying to cover up their bits and pieces with their hands," she said. The men were riding around the Coromandel seaside resort of Whangamata on the north-east coast of New Zealand. When asked for an explanation, the pair replied that "they wanted to experience total freedom".

Strangely sober

" And I said to them 'the way you're heading, you're going to experience total confinement'," the officer said, laughing. She said the men appeared decidedly sober. "They didn't seem drunk at all. That's what worried me," she joked. Ms Duder issued them with a stern warning for not wearing helmets and then sent them directly home. She told the Associated Press news agency that she did not see them again during her shift, and it was not known if they donned helmets and resumed their ride. Public nudity can attract a charge of offensive behaviour in New Zealand, but Ms Duder said she let the two men go free. "It was dark and there was no-one else around. They were jovial young men who had not intended to cause offence," she said. (my view)- "They didn't seem drunk at all,That's what worried me,"she joked" i do not get it...the police WANT them to be drunk?so they worry you because they are not drunk?....what a fucking moron!"Two young men caught cycling with no clothes on have escaped charges of offensive behaviour" being free and naturistic is"offensive behaviour"? what are the fucking police on!it's got to be drugs they seize from people! being FREE is NOT a crime you morons

US balloon boy parents are given jail sentences-follow up story!

A US man who triggered a major alert by falsely claiming his son was adrift in a helium balloon has been sentenced to 90 days in jail - and his wife to 20. Richard Heene, 48, and his 45-year-old wife Mayumi said in October their son had been carried off by the balloon. Six-year-old Falcon Heene was finally found hiding at home. In court in Colorado, Heene appeared to fight back tears as he apologised to rescue workers and the community, saying he was "very, very sorry". The judge also ordered four years of supervised probation for the couple and banned them from receiving any form of financial benefit from the case. Heene and his wife Mayumi had pleaded guilty to charges that they carried out the balloon stunt to promote a reality TV show.

'Wasted money'

The prosecutor had argued the couple should face time in jail to act as a deterrent to others who may be considering mounting similar stunts for financial gain and publicity. He said Heene had "wasted a lot of man power and a lot of money in wanting to get himself some publicity". He argued that the couple had acted not on the behest of any TV companies, but that "they came up with it all on their own, not necessarily just to get a TV show but at least to put their name out there again and maybe in hopes that somebody would pick them up". "For that," he said, "they do need to be punished". Richard Heene will be allowed to serve 60 days of his 90-day sentence on release, allowing him to work as a construction contractor during the day, while spending the night in jail. He will start his sentence on 11 January 2010. Mayumi Heene will begin her sentence after her husband's to ensure their children are still cared for. She will be allowed to report to jail on two days a week, return home at night, and serve the sentence through jail-supervised community service. The judge also ruled that her husband must serve 100 hours of community service and write a letter of apology to the community and public service agencies which helped search for his son. The couple have already been ordered to pay $42,000 (£26,000) in restitution for the emergency services' rescue efforts.

Policeman Rapes Girl In Cell

The Volta Regional Police Command has mounted a massive manhunt for one Constable Peter Owusu who is alleged to have defiled a 14 year old School girl held at the Police Station at Penyi near Dzodze. The Girl had been locked up for a misdemeanor and family sources say Constable Owusu took advantage of the girl and raped her and threatened to kill her if she told anybody. Madam Esther Osei, a Teacher at the Penyi LA Primary School who led the girl’s parents to the Hospital told Citi News in an interview that the girl was locked up because of a misunderstanding between her and a young boy which led to the girl cutting the boy with a cutlass. She said that the later revealed to her that the policeman forced to have sex with her. “After we went for her the previous day she later complained that the policeman forced and had sex with her twice and then threatened her with a handcuff and a gun not to reveal it to anyone” She said. Hospital reports from the Dzodze confirmed that the girl had been raped. Madam Esther Osei said that the policeman accepted the offence when they went to the police station with the girl and her parents for a medical form. Madam Esther Osei’s concern is that the case has not been revisited since and it seems the case is now a “foolish case”. “He initially denied the allegation but upon interrogation he admitted the offence. he confirmed that he did the thing. They invited the parents and the child to Ho, they interviewed them, and took their statements but up till now we have not heard anything from them. We don’t know whether the case is becoming a foolish case or what.” She said. Police Constable Owusu has since gone into hiding.

What became of Romania's neglected orphans?

A BBC investigation has uncovered appalling conditions and abuse in adult institutions in Romania, 20 years after the fall of Nicolai Ceausescu exposed conditions in the country's orphanages. As the care worker unlocked the door and pushed it open, a musty stench of body odour and urine filled the air. There were 10 people crammed into the room, bed-bound on rotting mattresses and lying in their own faeces, some two to a bed. Among the dirty, scarred faces peering above the duvets were the orphans whose plight roused the international community when Romanian orphanages opened their doors to Western journalists in 1990. Staff at the Recovery and Rehabilitation Centre in Carpenis had no idea how old the latest arrivals from a children's orphanage were - they guessed 18 but they looked much younger. The three boys cowered under their dirty duvets, escaping from the wrinkled faces of the disturbed men and women they shared a bed with. One of the boys was desperately thin. A worker explained that they didn't know anything about him. He couldn't talk and they suspected he has hepatitis, but they had no means of finding out for sure. Another new arrival had deep cuts to her head. Like others who have been institutionalised since birth, she exhibits self-harming behaviour, including violent rocking backwards and forwards. She repeatedly banged her head against the wall, and wore a makeshift helmet to cushion the impact.

Notorious institutions

There were dozens of rooms, packed with 160 adults aged up to 80. It was difficult to tell the men and women apart, but they all shared a confined existence. They are all unwanted human beings, abandoned by their impoverished parents at birth and neglected into adulthood by the state. -We came across several institutions where there were cases of human rights abuses-Georgiana Pascu, Romanian human rights campaigner... The Romanian government had promised it had dealt with its notorious institutions as part of its conditions for joining the European Union. The only way we could witness the reality of conditions in adult institutions was to pose as charity workers, and secretly film our findings. The Carpenis institution is just 32km (20 miles) from the capital Bucharest, the heartbeat of the country's growing economy. In the main squares, neon lights advertise the biggest Western brands; shopping centres are bursting with families spending new money on Christmas gifts. It is a measure of how far Romania has come since the fall of its dictator Nicolai Ceausescu who bankrupted the country. But not everyone has seen change in the last 20 years. In Bolintin, another village close to the capital, a lone nurse and six helpers take care of more than 100 patients - they are not sure exactly how many. They were wrapped in blankets and thermal jackets to escape the freezing cold. -Signs of gangrene were evident at one institution in Bolintin... In a wooden cabin, separate from the main building, we found 15 severely disabled people slumped on uncomfortable chairs. The nurse insisted they were at least 20 years old, but their tiny faces and bodies suggested they were much younger. Unlike the able-bodied in the main building, they had nothing to escape the cold. Their clothes were thin and tatty and their bare feet produced an odour of rotting flesh. A closer look revealed signs of gangrene.

Low standards

Georgiana Pascu of the Romanian human rights group the Centre for Legal Resources has visited nearly every one of Romania's 150 adult institutions. She says adults in state care face a long list of problems. -Nicolai Ceausescu was executed with his wife Elena on Christmas Day 1989.. "There is overcrowding, lack of access to adequate medical treatment, lack of access to psychologists and social workers. We came across several institutions where there were cases of human rights abuses during our visits this year. With a little help, most of them could live in a community environment." But that help has never come. Again, posing as charity workers, we witnessed some pitiful scenes at the Ganesti Social Medical Unit in eastern Romania. Staff there told us that there was one carer to 40 residents, and that there were 160 people sharing 140 beds. Most staff at the institutions we visited were caring and compassionate, but with ratios like this it is little wonder that standards are so low. It was mid-afternoon, and we found most patients still in bed, many showing signs of heavy sedation. One girl was restrained in her bed by her jumper which acted as a straitjacket. We showed the findings of our investigation to Eric Rosenthal, who campaigns to protect the human rights of institutionalised people and is an adviser to the US government. "I cannot say I'm surprised given Romania's record, but I am horrified," he said. "My organisation Mental Disability Rights International documented this abuse in great detail. We talked to government officials, and we brought it to the European Union. They promised they would end these abuses and they have failed on that promise. "These conditions are exactly what we saw five years ago, 10 years ago. They did what they needed to do to get into the EU, but the abuses are still going on."

Well-cared for

Some institutions, however, have been turned around. The orphanage in Cighid, north-west Romania, was one of the institutions that achieved notoriety in 1990. -A young man from the orphanage in Cighid, an institution that has been turned around.. At least 137 children died in the space of two years, most of them no older than three. Foreign aid and the efforts of a new director, Dr Pavel Oarcea, who has now retired, led to many improvements. Cighid - now an adult institution - was the only facility we got permission to visit as journalists. Around 60 of the children have remained there into adulthood, and they appeared well-cared for.

They had musical instruments, crayons and colouring books.

But many have only ever known life in an institution. The disabilities they were either born with or developed as a result of previous neglect in the orphanage meant they were always unlikely to be adopted. Dr Oarcea defied orders by the local authority not to speak to us. He told us the 15 years he spent in Cighid were the most rewarding of his life, but that he still has regrets.(my view)-This makes me sick"i'm shocked" "A disabled child who's lived with a family his whole life doesn't rock backwards and forwards. What the Cighid children have missed out on is family life, the love that only a family can give," he said. "Twenty years ago I believed the Romanian government would have made much greater progress in protecting their unwanted children and adults." Since 1990, Romania has received 100m euros (£89m, $144m) from the EU to improve its institutions. In response to our investigation, the Romanian government said the conditions we found were not representative of care in the country. "The Romanian authorities continue the reform and the protection of the disabled with social risk by implementing proactive policies and good practices," it said in a statement. It added that two of the institutions we visited were scheduled for closure in the next three years.

New Species Of"Human"Discovered

Hello once again,this is terry. i have a follow up to my story you printed in your paper a months ago. i hope you print this follow up as there's bound to be people out there who want one. my story is about a group of wild people i discovered while walking my dog. i have an exciting update

New Species Discovered

I am retired from work,i use to work in a lab cataloging beetles and other insects. i told you that because it'll explain why i did what i did, It'll be 3 weeks since a followed these people and took notes of what i saw. in my work(before i retired)i use to test blood from these beetles and write papers on each one(blood types ect).anyway. the few weeks observing them went without a hitch until 3 days ago. one of them(a women) cut her leg on a branch as she was climbing down from a tree. she get to the ground and her mate carried her to a rock while the others watched. as her mate was licking her wound,i guess he was cleaning it,he was handed a few green leaves by the others.

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then he tied some roots around the leaves and carried her back to where ever their home was.but that is not all to the story. i cut the story about them short because. after what i discovered,i know what would happen to them if i gave away there location. after they were gone,my curiosity was peaking,after watching them mate,play and communicate. i helped myself to some of the blood on the rock left by this woman, it was like i was back in the lab again,i always took a tube and gloves with me just in case. i took my tube out,put on the groves and took some of her blood. i have two friends back at the lab.i sent them the sample and were waiting for the results. to take my mind off the waiting time until i get the results back,i was blogging everything i saw and what they did. a few days later i got the test results back and what i found was both exciting and and curious at the same time,so i phoned my friend to run the test again. 2 more days pasted and i got the same results.with out revealing all of what was written i will reveal the percentages though (i am telling the public this as i believe this should be told-we're not alone) the results: 10% Human 27% Animal-close to that of a cat(Feline) 41% Unknown DNA 22 Unknown DNA-Different strand to the one above Remember this is from the female only, the men may be different.