A serial shoe thief in Taipei County has been busted. Police discovered cabinets stuffed full of high heel shoes stolen over the course of a 6-month spree. Victims are welcome to look through his stash for their stolen heels, but be warned: police believe the suspect used the shoes to pleasure himself. One victim said her shoes smelled of ‘dried fish’.
If they were your shoes, would you want them back? Leave a comment!
A Taiwan woman was saved from a sex attack by her body-sculpting underwear. The insurance agent had gone to a man’s home to make a sale when the pervert pounced. However, he gave up after he could find no way to disrobe her.
Have you ever had any problems with your underwear? Leave a comment and let us know.
Apple Inc. has denied a widely circulated story that CEO Steve Jobs was stopped at an airport in Japan after throwing stars were found in his carry-on luggage. But if it had have happened, it might have looked something like this. First light sabers, now ninja stars. What’s next?
Download the animation here. You can also watch the Apple TV report (in Chinese) here. The clip starts at the 2 minute mark.
Osama bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader and mastermind of the September 11 attacks had been expecting twin grandchildren, but British surrogate mother Louise Pollard suffered a miscarriage after she was attacked in Syria. Louise Pollard had been carrying the children of Omar and his British wife, Zaina. Omar is Osama bin Laden’s fourth son. He has said he would like to be the ambassador of peace between Islam and the West.
Do you think Omar, Zaina and Pollard should try again for another baby?
Last week, an Air Force commander was sued for cheating on his dying wife then coning her parents out of their savings. This week, we give you the depressed Air Force officer who tried to set the base on fire.
An officer at Taiwan’s Air Force tried to set his superior’s office on fire last month. The officer is said to have difficulty adjusting to life in the military. He felt ostracized by his peers, and he did not know how to cope with the pressure from his superior. He has been sent to the military court for the crime of public endangerment.
Leave a comment and let us know about the counseling resources available at your country’s military branches.
In addition to looking attractive, a Kaohsiung-area woman’s slim figure got her out of a tight spot when she was carjacked at gunpoint. The woman managed to roll down the window partially and exit the moving vehicle. She remains hospitalized from abrasion wounds. The police has tracked down her car and identified the suspect.
Let us know in the comments if you think you can squeeze through a half-open car window if you were carjacked…
Stock speculator “Antique Chang” was wanted by the police, who suspect that he has fraudulently driven up the prices of some stocks. Chang designed his house with secret passageways and hidden rooms so that he could evade arrest, but sharp-eyed investigators caught him with the help of his own CCTV cameras.
We’re not sure whether Chang should have built a secret pocket within his secret tunnel that’s his way out of the secret chamber of his not-so-secret house. Meanwhile, see what UK was planning on doing with CCTV surveillance videos back in July.
English love cheat Andy Thomson was caught out after his pet parrot Harvey repeated amorous phrases he had used while cheating on his partner with a colleague in front of his girlfriend Rachel Harrison.
Harrison kicked out Thomson and eventually had to get rid of Harvey too as he would not stop calling out the name of her love rival.
Besides “I love you, Claire”, what other things do you think the parrot might have repeated?
Wymering manor, which some consider to be England’s ‘most haunted’ house, will be going up for auction. In addition to the property, the house’s 30 resident ghosts will be included in the sale. The spooky property is more than a thousand years old and used to be a monastery. Fortunately, it seems the ghosts are of the friendly variety:
The building has gained a reputation among ghost hunters for high levels of paranormal activity, including sudden drops in temperature and strange apparitions. A former resident, David Scanlan, found the living and the dead got along fine.
He said the spirits ‘seem to be quite nice and quite friendly and it’s almost like we get on with them and they tolerate us’.
Will you ever consider staying in Wymering Manor if it gets turned into a hotel? Let us know in the comments!
A Taiwanese doctor and two friends were indicted for violating reproduction laws after police found they had arranged fake marriages with Uzbek women in order to satisfy their fascination with mixed-race babies.
Prosecutors requested a two year sentence for the ringleader, while lighter sentences were sought for his two accomplices.
Interesting Fact: Many people in Taiwan are fascinated by mixed-race kids because they are different. Why? Think about it. Every kid born here has black hair and brown eyes, so when you come across a kid with blond hair, or different colored eyes they immediately stand out from the crowd. It’s understandable, but these guys took the phenomenon to its extreme.
A Taipei-area woman thought she saw a ghost in her storage room. The “ghost” turned out to be a lingerie enthusiast trying on her bra and panties. When the woman found out that the intruder was a pantie thief rather than a malevolent spirit, she was furious. “I just bought those,” she said, “now I don’t want to wear them.” In his haste to flee the scene, the lingerie enthusiast left behind all his clothes and a bag with his ID inside.
Did you know that the seventh month of the lunar calendar is traditionally the Ghost Month here in Taiwan? For one month out of the year, the gates of the underworld are open ghosts are free to roam among the living. Although not all ghosts are bad, it’s just as well to appease them to be on the safe side. Every year before the doors to the underworld close again, we throw the ghosts a huge party to send them off.
Are you afraid of ghosts? Let us know in the comments!
After more than a century of peaceful co-existence, the Wall Street Journal has decided to take on the New York Times head on with its Greater New York section. New owner Rupert Murdoch declared “let the battle begin.” Is this going to be a newspaper war for the ages? Or have the readers already moved on….online?
‘Thumbs-up’ on YouTube if you have read the WSJ or the NYT in the last seven days.
A judge in Taipei said a woman who put strict rules on her husband went too far. Mrs. Yang took control of her husband’s salary and only gave him a paltry allowance. She also demanded to know his whereabouts at all times. Her controlling behavior finally got too much for Mr. Yang, who sued for divorce.
‘Thumbs up’ on youtube if you think the judge made the right call.
Taiwanese Air Force Major General Wu Bing-chiu has been accused of defrauding his former in-laws out of NT$ 17.76 million. Wu cheated on his wife as she was dying from leukemia. His girlfriend gave birth to a baby just a month after his wife died.
‘Thumbs Up’ on YouTube if you think Wu is a scoundrel
Passengers on an EVA airlines flight from Shanghai to Taipei were given a scare when their airliner veered off the runway upon landing, bursting three tires.
The Labor Party swept to victory in 2007, with Kevin Rudd coming into power as Prime Minister. For a while, Rudd was enormously popular, but his plans to institute a new tax on mining companies and his failure to implement the government’s emission trading scheme caused his popularity to plummet. The Labor party rose up against their wounded leader. In the end, he was replaced by his deputy, Julia Gillard. In this weekend’s election, Gillard’s toughest rival is Tony Abbott, leader of the Liberal Party. Abbott promised to be tough on immigration if he becomes Prime Minister. Although polls show Abbott way ahead of Gillard, the Labor/Green party coalition still has more support when counted together. ‘Crocodile Harry’ has predicted a Labor victory. This is the closest election in Australia in 50 years.
Workers at a Taiwanese haunted house attraction have had enough after being repeatedly beaten up by scared visitors.
Has Google gone evil? Sergey Brin and Larry Page co-founded Google Inc., one of world’s most successful and loved corporations. Or is it? One of its most criticized services, Google Street View, has been scanning pictures of streets and alleys across the globe. It admitted to accidentally collecting 600GB of fragmented personal data from Wi-Fi networks in 33 countries, raising worldwide concerns over personal privacy. The latest upheaval involved a partnership with Verizon, where the two proposed a two-tiered internet system. Critics call it “Schminternet.”
China’s GDP surpassed Japan’s in the 2nd quarter of 2010, making China the 2nd largest economy in the world. Some expert believe that China could overtake the US as the largest economy in the world by 2027. However, because the Chinese population is so huge, GDP per capita remains low despite the large overall size of the Chinese economy.
“Smart Pills” embedded with computer chips can help patients stick to their medication regimes in the future. The “Raisin” system, already approved in the EU, has a sensor patch on the patient’s skin that communicates with the computer chip swallowed with the pill. The patch will send an SMS message to the patient’s phone of they neglect to take their meds.
