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Important rule for anybody planning on stealing a car with a caravan attached: always make sure the owners aren't still in the back.
It's a rule one Australian thief ignored, resulting in him driving off with an elderly couple.
Australian police said the couple, both in their 60s, were picking up a new caravan from a dealer in the Adelaide suburb of Blair Athol on Monday around noon.

A sales manager was showing the couple some of the caravan's features when a thief took advantage of the fact that the keys had been left in the ignition, jumped into their car and drove off.

'The sales manager managed to jump from the caravan as it was driven away. The suspect then crashed into another car...and drove away from the scene at speed, over kerbs, with the terrified couple still in the caravan,' police said in a statement.

The thief abandoned the car and caravan several streets away before running off, leaving the unharmed couple behind but taking their digital camera with him.
 
Radio ghost mystery at former RAF station
World War Two radio continues to pick up vintage broadcasts despite not having any power.

A 70-year-old radio at a Scottish heritage centre has been picking up vintage broadcasts featuring Winston Churchill and the music of Glen Miller.

The Pye valve wireless at Montrose Air Station, a heritage centre that tells the story of the men and women who served there, has no power and is not connected to any source of electricity.

The aerodrome has been a source of paranormal sightings and sounds for almost a century, with reports of ghostly figures, eerie footsteps and door handles turning, but the mysterious wireless broadcasts have had even the most sceptical staff at the station searching for a rational explanation.

The vintage radio set is kept in a recreation of a 940s room. Several people have heard Second World War era broadcasts including the big band sound of the Glenn Miller orchestra and speeches by Winston Churchill. The broadcasts come on at random and can last for up to half an hour.

Technicians who examined it removed the back, but found "nothing but cobwebs and spiders".
Bob Sutherland, a trustee of the air station heritage centre and its treasurer, said: "I have heard it playing Glenn Miller and recognised the song as At Last.

"The volume was very low but the music was quite identifiable.

"Graham Phillip, another volunteer, has heard what he was sure was Winston Churchill and others, including centre curator Dan Paton and his wife, have heard it.

"I was a wireless operator with the RAF and know a bit about them. We have also had our resident radio expert, Ewan Cameron, look at it.

"If we had a powerful transmitter in the area the radio might pick up something, but we don't.

"It is an old Pye radio which would probably explode if it was switched on."

Mr Phillip said: "We have all heard the footsteps and seen door handles turn but the wireless is something new and unexplainable.

"It's not just one of us who's heard it - most of us here have. We are talking about highly educated, reliable people.

"My wife Aileen was with me when we heard the Glenn Miller Orchestra last weekend. She's a physicist and not predisposed to believing in things like this but no-one has an explanation.

"If there was a transmitter nearby you'd think it might pick up Radio One or something, but I know what we heard. It went on for half an hour on and off. But the aerial is out anyway.

"We've had the back off and the technicians said there was nothing but cobwebs and spiders."


Volunteer Marie Paton, 67, whose father Jack Stoneman bought the wireless secondhand in 1962, said: "It's a bit scary. I thought someone was playing a prank on us but I heard it myself last Saturday.

"It plays Glenn Miller, and that's what everyone has heard. It is very faint and you have to put your ear to it, but that's what it's playing. All the experts say it should be impossible.

The wireless broadcasts join a long list of mysteries at the air station, where the heritage centre is in the original headquarters building. Visitors have reported strange "energies" around the airfield, phantom footsteps, doors opening and shutting, the sound of aircraft engines, shadowy figures walking in and out of rooms and even the sighting of a pilot in full flying kit.

The most notorious were the sightings of Lieutenant Desmond Arthur of the Royal Flying Corps who was killed when his biplane crashed.
He is said to have haunted the area until honour was satisfied in 1917, when a government inquiry concluded that he had not been killed by his own foolhardiness but because of poor repairs to his plane.

Peter Davis, 65, the heritage centre's secretary, added: "It is most odd and we cannot understand it. The station has a very abnormal presence. Several paranormal groups have been in to investigate various things, but the wireless has everyone including our radio technicians stumped."

The air station was established in 1913 by the Royal Flying Corps as Britain's first operational military airfield. There are more details about the heritage centre at its website.
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Original story here:
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/tayside/181127-radio-ghost-mystery-at-former-raf-station/
 
actually, i just found something similar:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2732-radio-emerges-from-the-electronic-soup.html
 
Interesting find Morgan! I grew up with HAM radio equipment, so I am a bit familiar with radios and radio waves and how they work. I have heard some strange things over the years. Electromagnetic funkyness might explain occasional humming of the speakers, or you could even see brief power to the receiver(highly unlikely though). That wouldn't explain the WWII era radio broadcasts. :shrug
 
well, one very dodgy explanation would be that they're reflected off something else in space and bounced back. of course, alien enthousiasts could go nuts with this one.
 
I think it would be easier to believe that ghosts did it! xD:
 
radio signals bounced back through a wormhole

Its all about a secret British experiment in time travel

Churchill needed an escape route in case of the dreaded German invasion.
 
Student arrested over Hell's Angels puppy attack and bulldozer getaway

A German student has been arrested after he made an insulting gesture at a group of Hell's Angels, then hurled a puppy at them before making his getaway on a stolen bulldozer. German police said on Monday that after making his getaway from the Hell's Angels club, the 26-year-old dumped the bulldozer, causing a 3 mile traffic jam near the southern town of Allershausen in Bavaria.

He then fled to his nearby home, where he was apprehended by the police.

'What motivated him to throw a puppy at the Hell's Angels is currently unclear,' said a local police spokesman, in a strong contender for Deadpan Statement from a Police Spokesman of the Year.

He did say that the student had lately been suffering from depression. The puppy was now in safe hands, he added.
 
Don't know what he had against them - we lived next to one of their clubhouses when I was little, and they never made noise after ten or before eight the next morning. Some of the best neighbours we ever had.
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That's sad in so many ways.
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The war against football!

As the World Cup starts, conservative media declare war on soccer

As the 2010 World Cup begins in South Africa, conservative media figures have seized the opportunity to attack the tournament and the sport of soccer. They have also used soccer as a proxy to attack President Obama and progressives.

Conservatives: "Obama's policies are the World Cup," soccer is "a poor man or poor woman's sport"

Glenn Beck: "Barack Obama's policies are the World Cup." In an extensive rant on the June 11 Glenn Beck Program, Beck purported to explain how President Obama's policies "are the World Cup" of "political thought." Beck stated, "It doesn't matter how you try to sell it to us, it doesn't matter how many celebrities you get, it doesn't matter how many bars open early, it doesn't matter how many beer commercials they run, we don't want the World Cup, we don't like the World Cup, we don't like soccer, we want nothing to do with it." Beck stated that likewise, "the rest of the world likes Barack Obama's policies, we do not."

Beck added "those who like the World Cup ... they're the most likely to riot," commenting that by contrast, "I haven't seen the baseball riots." He later said of soccer, "I hate it so much, probably because the rest of the world likes it so much, and they riot over it, and they continually try to jam it down our throat."

G. Gordon Liddy: "Whatever happened to American exceptionalism?" Discussing soccer's popularity in the U.S. on his June 10 program, G. Gordon Liddy asked, "Whatever happened to American exceptionalism?" Liddy noted that "this game ... originated with the South American Indians and instead of a ball, they used to use the head, the decapitated head, of an enemy warrior."

MRC's Dan Gainor: "Soccer is designed as a poor man or poor woman's sport," "the left is pushing [soccer] in schools across the country." Also on the June 10 G. Gordon Liddy Show, Media Research Center's Dan Gainor said, "the problem here is, soccer is designed as a poor man or poor woman's sport" and that "the left is pushing it in schools across the country." He added: "generally football games in this country don't devolve into riots or wars." He later added that the sport of soccer "is being sold" as necessary due to the "browning of America."

Mark Belling: "When you insult soccer you get the same reaction from soccer fans that you get when you insult an aging Democratic senator's hair." On the June 11 edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show, guest host Mark Belling said, "What I really want to do is make fun of the World Cup, but I'm not going to make fun of the World Cup because when you insult soccer you get the same reaction from soccer fans that you get when you insult an aging Democratic senator's hair, they go nuts and blow it up all out of proportion." Later in the program, Belling said "I haven't talked about the World Cup, I haven't talked about how they're force-feeding this down our throats."
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Goddammit the war against football? Genn Bleck isn't conservative, he's insane.
 
Russian state secrets on sale for $50 a disk

MOSCOW // For centuries Russia’s rulers have meticulously kept the details of state affairs concealed from outsiders. But at the Savyolovsky electronics market in northern Moscow, state secrets are freely sold for about US$50 (Dh185) a pop.

Here, amid kiosks peddling mobile phones, digital cameras and pirated versions of the latest Hollywood blockbusters, peppy salesmen rattle off a list of confidential databases leaked from government offices and conveniently packaged on CDs for public consumption.

Tax records, police wanted lists, even confidential records from the secretive Federal Security Service, the main successor agency to the notorious KGB: it is a treasure trove of sensitive information available to the curious and nefarious alike.

“Most of our clients are well off,” a twentysomething salesman at one of the shops selling these illegal databases said on a recent weekday afternoon.

He froze momentarily when told he was speaking to a reporter but, after being assured he was not being set up, agreed to talk while taking a smoke break outside amid the smells of processed meat wafting around from nearby hot dog and shawarma stands.

The shops are overseen by a krysha, or “roof”, the salesman said on condition of anonymity, using the slang term for a protection racket commonly run by law enforcement officers. He said he did not know exactly who the suppliers were but nodded when asked if state servants were the source of the illicit information.

Demand for the data contained on these illegal discs, which are sold in blank white covers marked with handwritten annotations to denote their contents, remains brisk. The information can be used to track down people who do not want to be found, help a hitman locate a target, or simply discover what cars or property an individual owns.

Kirill Kabanov, an anticorruption activist and a member of the Kremlin’s council on human rights and civil society. “It is the result of the total corruption of the government system.”

The databases, however, are rarely leaked with the average Russian in mind, experts say. Typically, deep-pocketed clients get first crack at the information for a premium, said Nikolai Fedotov, a senior analyst with InfoWatch, a subsidiary of Kaspersky Lab that specialises in data security. Kaspersky is an antivirus software developer.

“Such fresh data is expensive,” Mr Fedotov said. “After a few months, the same database is sold to a wider group of clients for less money. After that, it’s sold to anyone at bargain prices.”

The average price of a single disc at the Savyolovsky market is 1,500 roubles (Dh175).
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Rest of the story here :
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100618/FOREIGN/706179870/1013
 
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