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BBC News: Life for gay bar killer

Ronald Gay, who was angered by constant joking about his last name, has beensentenced to four life termsfor a shooting rampage in a gay bar.

Posted on 24th July 2001 Details

IHT - Euro Notes: Bonanza for the Underworld?

As the Euro changeover nears, police as well as criminals, are preparing themselves forone of the biggest counterfeiting opportunities ever. The logistics of the passage to a unique European currency are mindboggling to say the least.

Posted on 14th August 2001 Details

The Times: American anti-gun activist shot dead at home

An American gun-control activist getsshot dead in his home. Do the supporters of the right to bear arms think this will help their cause?

Posted on 15th October 2001 Details

Chicago Tribune: Belgian authorities reluctant to help with probe of bomb plot

Belgian police arereluctant to share info with the FBI. Yes, well that’s not a surprise, they’re usually reluctant to even share it among themselves, which has resulted in some pretty awful situations in the past.

Posted on 15th October 2001 Details

Chicago Tribune: Girl died after parents hit her 160 times, court told.

This is an unbelievably nasty case of child cruelty, I’ve never heard of anything like it: A Chicago coupleflogged their 12-year-old daughter to deathwith a 5-foot stretch of electrical cable after having her tied down by her own brothers. Some people should not be parents.

Posted on 16th November 2001 Details

The Observer: 'Scream' movies are blamed by teenage girl's copycat killer.

A 24 year old in the small Belgian town of Gerpinnes killed a 15 year old girl who refused his advances, by slipping into hisscreamcostume andviciously stabbing herwith kitchen knives. He says he was ‘inspired by the trilogy’.

Posted on 18th November 2001 Details

Tahoo News: Larry Flynt Sues Defense Department

Larry Flint is championning the cause of freedom once again, bysueing the defense departmentover the right to send reporters to the front lines in Afghanistan. All this from the hypocrit whomolested his own daughter. Can you tell I don’t like him?

Posted on 20th November 2001 Details

Salon: Suicide pilot prescribed controversial medication

This is becoming ridiculous. Get pimples, go on a suicide mission. The 15 year old who flew a plane into a skyscraper in Florida wasusing Accutane(called Roaccutane in Europe), a medication prescribed for acne which some claim causes heavy depression as a side effect.

Posted on 9th January 2002 Details

Times of India: Belgian murder suspect alleges pedophile ring

Dutroux opens his mouth, and the revelationscome pouring out.

Posted on 21st January 2002 Details

BBC News: Dutroux interview sparks political row

After all these years, Dutroux is still managing totalk without saying anything, while pissing off lots of people.

Posted on 23rd January 2002 Details

The Telegraph: Teacher 'had sex with pupil, 15, in alley after school'

Nope, you can’t even trust teachers anymore. They might behaving sexwith your kids while they wait for you to collect them after school.

Posted on 24th January 2002 Details

BBC News: 'Patients left to die' in Poland

Straight out of fiction: In the Polish city of Lodz, ambulance crewsdeliberately let patients diein return for bribes from funeral service providers.(thanks John)

Posted on 26th January 2002 Details

Yahoo: Scandal Returns to Belgium Village

Anotherpedophilia scandal, this time in a small Belgian village. If this is only the tip of the iceberg, as they claim in the article, there must be a hell of a lot of perverts out there.

Posted on 31st January 2002 Details

AZ Central: Teen accused of running child porn site

A 15 year-old boy has been accused ofrunning a child porn site.

Posted on 3rd February 2002 Details

BBC News: Life for 'weakest link' killer

You are the weakest link,goodbye!

Posted on 4th February 2002 Details

Ananova: Pizza joint 'hid cocaine in crusts'

Hi, is that the pizza delivery service? I’ll have thecocaine specialplease.

Posted on 7th February 2002 Details

NY Times: How to Fake a Passport

Belgium,European crime capital. But where did they get the notion that the Boulevard Lemonnier in Brussels is known to locals as Kandahar Lane? That’s new to me.

Posted on 9th February 2002 Details

Ananova: Street cleaner accused of being Brussels' 'most wanted' graffiti artist

Ever notice those ‘wouf’ tags on the walls of Brussels? You can’t really miss them, they’re everywhere. However, you won’t be seeing any new ones in the future as the Police have apprehended the tagger who, believe it or not, was astreet cleaner!

Posted on 15th February 2002 Details

LA Times: Al Qaeda Linked to Russian Arms Broker

A man in Belgian custody has told U.S. authorities about business ties between the Al Qaeda terrorist network and a Russian arms broker, delivering a breakthrough in long-frustrated efforts to dismantle one of the world’s largest weapons-trafficking operations

Posted on 17th February 2002 Details

Home the most unsafe place for women in the west

A study carried out by the University of Madrid on violence in the European Union has shown that one European woman in five experiences violence in the hands of her male partner at some point in her life,making home the most unsafe place for a woman!

Posted on 20th February 2002 Details

myCFnow: 81-Year-Old Woman Charged With Smuggling Ecstasy

Old people, these days! An 81-year-old woman has been charged withsmuggling ecstasybetween the UK and the US.

Posted on 24th February 2002 Details

L'investigateur

A visit tol’investigateuris quite revealing. Luxemburg-based journalist Jean Nicolas is now considered a criminal by Belgian authorities and has had an international search warrant issued for his arrest. The official reason? He published the complete content of the Dutroux files on his site (downloadable for 30 EUR though), enough of an excuse to go after him even though many other journalists have been in possession of this ‘stolen’ document for ages. The real reason? His revelations are disturbing, especially in the pedophilia scandals that have rocked Belgium, implicating public figures, politicians, and the royal family.

Posted on 28th February 2002 Details

The Guardian: Husband arrested for Lolo Ferrari's murder

The death two years ago of Lolo Ferrari, the woman with the claim to the largest breasts in the world (designed by an aircraft engineer!), was initially thought to be due to an overdose of antidepressants. French police have nowarrested her husband and managersuspected of suffocating her.(thanks Olivier)

Posted on 2nd March 2002 Details

BBC News: Skyscraper gunman commits suicide

Die youwidescreen-tv-pushingcapitalist pigs!

Posted on 11th March 2002 Details

Omaha World-Herald: Sheriff in Brandon case again seeks a badge

The former sheriff who was extremely offensive to Brandon Teena (see the film ’Boys don’t cry‘) during the post-rape interview isrunning for the position once again. If anyone votes for him, they need their head examined.

Posted on 27th March 2002 Details

The Times: Lecturer takes hammer to corpse exhibit

The koerperwelten exhibition is definitelynot having a great startin the UK. It was present for several months in Brussels and was never subject to such violence and protest. I always imagined the UK as more open-minded than Belgium, maybe I was wrong.

Posted on 28th March 2002 Details

Village Voice: How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

How did the trains to Auschwitz run on time?IBM technology.

Posted on 31st March 2002 Details

The News Times: Bright girl hid her dark side

This storyis eerily similar to that of Twin Peak’s Laura Palmer.(thanks John)

Posted on 22nd May 2002 Details

Observer: Russian boy, 12, hired hitmen to kill his parents

Kids aren’t what they used to be. A 12 year old Russian boy arranged thecontract killing of his adoptive parentsbecause he didn’t like having to tidy his room and brush his teeth.(via the null device)

Posted on 28th May 2002 Details

Japan Today: Man killed by umbrella for not using honorifics

Travel tip of the day: when in Japan, please make sure you use an honorific title when addressing your peers. Failure to do so could result in finding yourselfon the wrong end of an umbrella.(thanks Olivier)

Posted on 9th June 2002 Details

ABC News: Amy Fisher to Pen Column for Paper

Everyone’s a star: Amy Fisher will bewriting a biweekly columnfor a Long Island newspaper.

Posted on 19th June 2002 Details

The Combat 18 Blood and Honour England Guestbook

Watch the TV this sunday, I will be the star… Death to zog, 88!.

Posted on 17th July 2002 Details

BBC News: FBI guns and laptops go missing

Do you feel safe yet? Over the past 3 years, more than 700 weapons and over 400 laptop computershave gone missingfrom the US Justice Department, many of those belonging to the FBI.

Posted on 7th August 2002 Details

Local 6: Controversial Police Database Lists 'Future Criminals'

Minority Reportfor real.(thanks Jeroen)

Posted on 27th August 2002 Details

Newsweek: Dear policeman, I am God.

Dear policeman,I am God.

Posted on 14th October 2002 Details

All Africa: Boy Charged with Raping Classmates

This is insane: A 13-year-old boy in a South-African primary schoolraped a different 9-year-old classmate every day for a weekwhile forcing 5 other boys to hold these girls down for him.

Posted on 28th October 2002 Details

Reuters: Rapper Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC Killed in N.Y.

Jam Master Jay from Run DMC, wasshot and killedin his recording studio in New York on Wednesday.

Posted on 31st October 2002 Details

IHT: 9 arrested in plot to kidnap ex-Spice girl

Scotland Yard have foiled an attempt tokidnap ex-spice girl, Victoria Beckham. Sadly, it was just a money-making plot and not a plan to rid the world of cheap pop music.

Posted on 4th November 2002 Details

Atlanta Journal Constitution: Attack at Morehouse raises troubling questions about blaming victim, h

It’s incredible what homophobia canpush people to do. It’s depressing.

Posted on 14th November 2002 Details

Scoop: Washington Sniper - Terrorist Or Informer?

The Washington sniper,terrorist or informer?

Posted on 20th November 2002 Details

Chicago Triune: Drive-up drug deals outlined

I’ll have a double whopper with cheese and a pack of Cocaine please. A Burger Kingwith a difference.

Posted on 11th December 2002 Details

News 24: Man eats boyfriend

Acannibalism murderin Germany. That’s a strange one.

Posted on 12th December 2002 Details

Silicon Valley: Violence Breaks out in Los Angeles Cyber Cafes

Counter Strike players take their violence outinto the real world.

Posted on 6th January 2003 Details

Guardian: $1m bail for Phil Spector after killing at his house

Legendary pop producer Phil Spector hasbeen arrestedfor the murder of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson.

Posted on 5th February 2003 Details

ABC News: Snowball Fight, Then Philadelphia Girl Shot

Kids throw snowball at little girl - parents get pissed andretaliate with drive-by-shooting.

Posted on 26th February 2003 Details

Detroit Free Press: Sentencing to cap twisted murder case

Thismurder trialis way out there.

Posted on 14th November 2003 Details

The Telegraph: Milkman killed by teenage ninja

Stoner teenage mutant ninja turtlekills milkmanin the UK.

Posted on 10th December 2003 Details

La Libre: Un wattman enerve degaine son arme

Insecurity in public transport isn’t necessarily due to your fellow commuters. A Brussels tram driverpulled a loaded gunon a passenger yesterday.

Posted on 14th February 2004 Details

Pas op! Nep betaalautomaten

If you notice a leaflet folder stuck to the side of the cash machine next time you’re withdrawing money from your account,give it a closer look. High-tech thieves may be at work in the area.

Posted on 19th February 2004 Details

Fainting in Coyles

Brussels-based magazineThe Sprout, which I heard of for the first time today, has caused an uproar in the local press due to the publication of autopsy photos from the Dutroux case in its pages. The editordefends his positionin his personal weblog. I think we’re only seeing the tip of the “Dutroux iceberg” here.

Posted on 16th April 2004 Details

BBC News: Colombian baby 'stolen from womb'

What an astonishing yet nauseating story: a Colombian woman has been arrested forstealing an unborn babyfrom its mother’s womb.

Posted on 5th June 2004 Details

Rocky Mountain News: Rampage in Granby

This takes “going postal” to a new level: a man armour-plates a bulldozer, thenrips half the town to shredswith it. Make sure you watchthe video.

Posted on 6th June 2004 Details

Watch out for the tyre-slashing vigilante if you p...

Watch out for the tyre-slashing vigilante if you phone while you drive in the UK.

Linked on 14th August 2006 Details

Inside the Courthouse Break-Ins that Landed 2 White Hat Hackers in Jail.

I just got round to reading this account of the legal shambles a couple of white hat hackers were dropped into when their clients, the state of Iowa, decided to abandon and ignore them. It's a gripping read.

Linked on 31st August 2020 Details

An automated policing program got a man shot twice.

The world is slowly catching up to dystopian sci-fi stories. A predictive policing program used by Chicago's police predicted a man would be involved in a shooting. The ramifications within the police and local community ended up getting him shot – twice!

Linked on 1st June 2021 Details

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