Burma's Brutal Crackdown Continues: 'They Come at Night and Murder the Monks' - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
Topic: Recreation
1:59 pm EDT, Oct 5, 2007
They surrounded a monastery on Weiza Yandar Street. All the roughly 200 monks living there were forced to stand in a row and the security forces beat their heads against a brick wall. When they were all covered in blood and lay moaning on the ground, they were thrown into a truck and taken away.
If you've been planning that vacation to burma, you might want to go to disney land instead. It's much more entertaining to watch people dressed as giant animals beat people.
Life in Margaritaville could get a lot tougher. And Jimmy Buffet could be searching for more than his lost shaker of salt. A tequila shortage looms now that farmers in Mexico are burning fields of the blue agave used to make tequila. Farmers are planting corn instead to meet the growing demand for ethanol in the U.S. This could spell trouble for fans of the famed frozen concoction.
Margarita's made with ethanol just ain't the same.
'Kasper the Clown' faces prison for punching schoolboy | News | This is London
Topic: Recreation
9:23 am EST, Feb 23, 2007
As a child going to the circus, you might expect the clown to throw a bucket of confetti at you, or squirt you with water from the flower on his lapel.
You certainly wouldn't be prepared for him to grab you by the scruff of the neck, punch and kick you and leave you needing hospital treatment for cuts and bruises.
As these astonishing pictures show, that's what happened when 12-year-old Amos Lutz met Kaspar the Clown at a circus in Leipzig, Germany.
