Bizarre: Hubby solicits wife's rape on Craigslist

US: A man has been charged with soliciting men to rape his wife through a posting in the "casual encounters" section of Craigslist.

The 32-year-old Twin Falls, Idaho, man was arraigned on Monday on charges of solicitation of rape and burglary. His bail was set at $100,000. His name has been withheld from this report to protect the alleged victim's identity.

Prosecutors say that without his wife's knowledge or consent, the man posted a classified ad posing as a woman who fantasised about being raped, and then exchanged emails with the men who responded to arrange the assaults.

Twin Falls police were called to the woman's house shortly after midnight Thursday and again Saturday afternoon to reports that two different men had broken into the home.

The woman told police a man rang the woman's doorbell early Friday, asked her name and then said: "I'm here for you," before forcing his way into the house.

The woman said the man chased her through the house. She went into the bedroom to grab a 9 mm gun, but the man grabbed the weapon. The gun went off during the struggle. No one was injured, but she said the man fled.

The woman also fired a shot on Saturday and held the uninjured man at gunpoint until police arrived, court records said.

Investigators said the second man told police he was responding to a Craigslist ad.

"The person posting the ad told him she wanted to be forcibly raped as that was a fantasy of hers," the man told police.

The police report said several emails were exchanged between the man and the person who posted the ad. The man was then given the address.

"He was told to force his way inside and rape the woman there and not stop no matter how much she resisted," the report said.

Police said they discovered the emails originated from an email address belonging to the woman's husband. Officers also searched phones in the house and one belonging to the husband.

Court records say the husband acknowledged setting up the attacks using Craigslist and his email account.

The man's preliminary hearing is set for July 27. (AP)

Father murders daughter over love affair

EGYPT: Furious at his daughter’s affair, an Egyptian farmer killed his daughter and future son-in-law in a graveyard.

The father named Muani, 44 was returning from the graveyard at the crack of dawn when the police spotted him with blood stains on his clothes. He was arrested immediately on suspicious grounds.

He confessed to the crime stating that his 16-year-old daughter had demeaned him by running away with her 22-year-old lover.

He said that believing that his daughter had gone missing he had filed a complaint with the police. A week later he got to know about his whereabouts, he decided to pay her a visit.

Muani entered the apartment of the boy named Aid where he saw the pair in each other’s arms. He immediately made a plot and asked the couple to get dressed quickly so that he could get them married.

Hoping that the father would live up to his promise the lovers followed what he said.

On the way to the registrar’s office, Muani forced them to get off the cab at a cemetery where his stabbed Aid on the neck with a knife he had hidden under his clothes and slit his daughter’s throat.

Muani, was walking back to his village to inform his fellow villagers about his deeds when the police arrested him.

Nile monitor lizard loose in Colorado mountains

A 6-foot-long (1.83-meter), 25-pound (11-kg) Nile monitor lizard has escaped from his owner in a Colorado mountain community, prompting authorities to warn residents on Tuesday to keep children and small pets indoors until the carnivorous reptile is captured.

The black lizard, known as Dino, broke its nylon leash near Woodland Park, about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Denver on Monday and scampered away, said Teller County Sheriff Mike Ensminger.

"These lizards are pretty muscular and can be aggressive," Ensminger told Reuters.

As cold-blooded creatures, monitors need to sun themselves to maintain body heat, so animal-control officers are searching rock outcroppings during the daytime hours, Ensminger said.

Native to Africa, Nile monitors have long sharp claws, and powerful jaws that clamp down on prey, according to the Denver Zoo, which until recently housed a Nile monitor.

The Denver Zoo's female monitor died about a month ago where it had lived for 10 years, said zoo spokesman Sean Andersen-Vie.  Animal-control officers in Cheyenne, Wyoming, had found the female lizard, which had either escaped or had been set free by its owner, he said.

In the wild, monitors feed on carrion, crocodile eggs, fish and birds, but in captivity they will eat small rodents and fish, the zoo said.

The Nile monitor's forked tongue, which is used to test the air for the scent of quarry, and its thick, keeled tail add to the reptile's dragon-like appearance.

Escaped Nile monitors have posed problems as an invasive species in Florida where they have bred and thrived in the tropical climate, said Denver veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald, who specializes in reptile medicine.

The solitary monitor on the loose in Colorado may be able to find small mammals or birds to eat to survive for a while, Fitzgerald said, but also will have to elude predators such as foxes, coyotes, mountain lions and even large raptors.

Even if it finds prey, the monitor will freeze to death once temperatures plummet in the Colorado high country in late summer or early autumn, he said.

Fitzgerald said the broader debate should center on the "ethical and moral" issue of importing exotic animals for people to keep as pets.

"Why do we allow somebody to keep a subtropical, African species in a basement at 8,000 feet (2,400 meters)?" he said.

Ensminger said it is not illegal to own a monitor in Colorado, so unless Dino injures someone, it is unlikely authorities would lodge criminal charges against the owner. (Reuters)
 

Mouse tail in McDonald's burger, anyone?

CHILE: Health authorities in Chile on Tuesday confirmed what one man has claimed for weeks: that he found a mouse tail in his McDonald's hamburger.

Back in June, the man noticed something unusual when he bit into the hamburger he bought at a McDonald's restaurant in the southern town of Temuco, some 700 kilometers (435 miles) south of the Chilean capital Santiago.

He said it appeared to be a mouse tail, and filed a complaint with local health authorities.

On Tuesday Waldo Armstrong, head of the regional health department, confirmed what the customer had feared.

"There were traces of the tail stuck between the cheese and the bread, and the tail had undergone a cooking process," Armstrong told reporters.

The restaurant was closed, and a probe revealed mouse feces inside the restaurant - and that the tail was placed inside the hamburger on purpose.

The restaurant will remain closed until Temuco health officials determine the amount of the fine. (AFP)

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