Monthly Archives: July 2008

Underwear chicken man!

Superidiot rather than superhero. ‘There’s always one!’ as they say.

Passport check between Ireland & UK

What do you make of the plans to have passport controls between Ireland and the UK? The planned passport inspections would be for those travelling by air & sea but could also involve checks on people driving to Northern Ireland. While there are no plans for fixed checkpoints on the border it could mean Southern [...]

Dutch woman watches family die on mountain

Sorry, I don’t mean to depress you but these sad stories always get me. A 50 year old Dutch woman saw her husband (56), son (20) and two daughters (17 & 23) fall to their deaths while climbing on Mont Dolent – part of the Mont Blanc massif; she later had to identify their bodies [...]

French man loses plot and beats child into coma

Crazy act of the day … Some French guy decided to bring his 4 year old daughter to Italy and for some reason proceeded to beat her head into a monument until he put her into a coma. Should a man who was apparently “undergoing psychiatric treatment” be allowed to care for a small child? [...]

We apologise for the break in transmission…

… service will return to normal shortly. By normal I mean a post a month or so. I can’t believe it’s been a month and a half since I last posted! Doesn’t time just fly when you’re up to your hairy eyeballs?? We just took our first step onto the property ladder. Probably not the [...]