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Friday December 5th is His Majesty the King’s birthday and it is
likely that many of the places we normally deliver the paper to
will be closed in his honour, so we have taken the decision not
to publish next week.
We apologise for any inconvenience but we will return on
Friday 12th December. Thank you for going AWOL.
weird NEWS
Spain Cannabis cake puts eight unaware party-goers
in hospital
A birthday party had to be ended prematurely when
eight guests were taken to hospital – because the cake
was made with cannabis butter.
According to Spanish daily 20 Minutos, two brothers
had been celebrating their birthday at a bar in Oviedo
in northern Spain.
But guests began to feel a little strange after biting into a
birthday cake baked by the mother of one of the guests
which had a surprise ingredient: butter mixed with
marijuana.
Bemused medical staff at Asturias Central Hospital
immediately realised what was up when the stoned
party-goers arrived in the emergency ward and contacted
police.
The guest who had brought the cake was ‘in no fit state
to be interrogated’, said police, but they soon discovered
the culprit when they called his mother – and she
admitted to getting a bit creative with her cooking.
Health officials noted all the guests were over 18 and
none of them suffered any permanent damage.
usa Woman goes directly to jail (does not pass go,
does not collect £200) after slapping boyfriend over
Monopoly game
Board games have been known to cause arguments.
But one woman was arrested after taking things a step
further: slapping her boyfriend over a game of Monopoly.
Officers in Hooksett, New Hampshire, were called to the
home of 21-year-old Alyssa Ferraro after they received
a domestic disturbance call relating to the board game.
And Ferraro told arresting officers that she and her
boyfriend had a row while playing and she had responded
violently.
‘She got into an argument with her boyfriend over a
game of Monopoly and open-hand slapped him in the
face,’ according to a police statement obtained by CBS
Boston.
Ferraro was taken directly to jail (she did not pass go
nor collect £200), where she was charged with domestic
violence-related simple assault.
She was bailed for $2,000.
The alleged victim didn’t require medical attention.
usa Four female guards fell pregnant to same inmate
in one American prison
Four female prison guards fell pregnant to one inmate
in a prison in Baltimore – a gang leader so powerful he
said that in the jail, ‘I am the law.’
Tavo White showered the female guards with gifts
including cars and diamond rings.
White reportedly made $16,000 (£10,000) a month from
smuggling drugs and cellphones into prison with help
from his accomplices.
An FBI wire tap captured White saying, ‘This is my jail.
You understand that,’ and claiming to control everything
from contraband to mob hits within the prison.
Four guards – Jennifer Owens, Katera Stevenson, Chania
Brooks and Tiffany Linder – allegedly fell pregnant to
White while he was behind bars
Owens had ‘Tavon’ tattooed on her neck and Stevenson
had ‘Tavon’ tattooed on her wrist.
The details came to light after authorities busted a major
smuggling ring inside the prison – and 13 female prison
guards, seven inmates and five co-conspirators face
racketeering charges.
Guards allegedly smuggled hard drugs and mobile
phones into prison in their shoes for the ‘Black Guerrilla
Family’, a gang which also operates on the streets of
Baltimore City.
All 12 officers have been suspended without pay, and the
department are moving to fire them.
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