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June 13, 2005
It's sounds like the plot from the Shawshank Redemption, L. A. Police are searching for an inmate they believe escaped through a hole he dug in his cell wall. Reuters reports the robbery suspect managed to cut an opening in the wall of his cell and escape through a 15-by-9-inch hole in just an hour.
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June 13, 2005
Gays and lesbians marching in the northern city of Hamburg on Saturday reportedly set a new world record for a group hug, with 16,000 people embracing each other for 10 seconds. Drag queen Olivia Jones, one of organizers told local media that the "march should bring people together, regardless of whether people are homosexual or heterosexual. "
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June 11, 2005
The self proclaimed "Spiderman" climbs a 62-story building in Hong Kong using only his bare hands Saturday. It takes Alain Robert of France only one hour to scale the 928 feet up the Cheung Kong Center, before police intercept him at the top.
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June 9, 2005
Topics housing, cells, california, chess, boots, jeans, library, exercise, houses, blue, single, pop, books, bed, star, toilet, security, feet, food, law, charges, house, police and celebrity
The protective housing unit in Corcoran State Prison, about 50 miles south of Fresno, is considered the safest place for an inmate to reside within the California prison system. Designed to protect famous convicts from possible attacks, it houses mass murderers like Charles Manson, and high-profile criminals like Sirhan Sirhan, one of the first inmates placed in the unit, where he passed the time playing chess and working for 13 cents an hour as an administrative clerk.
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June 9, 2005
Topics phone, restaurant, police, boy, ford, celebrity, technology, pot, restaurants, names, smoking, bus, friends, beach, book, security, lost, wife and house
In late May, Jason Martin stumbled across a misplaced cell phone at the back of the restaurant he worked at. Upon scanning the phone book, he was surprised to see a list of names including, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, George Clooney, Harrison Ford, and Bill Gates. Martin was a bus boy at Brisa Atlantica, a Cuban jazz club/restaurant in Delray Beach. That night, singer Jimmy Buffett had visited the restaurant and lost his cell phone on the way out of the restaurant's back door.
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