Crazy World: Residents forbidden from dying

ITALY: In a small Italian town of Falciano del Massico, the mayor has ordered his residents not to pass away. He issued the order earlier this month stating: "It is forbidden for residents ... to go beyond the boundaries of earthly life, to go into to the afterlife."

Unfortunately, two elderly residents refused to listen to his order, the La Stampa reported.

The weird order was issued after the town was embroiled in a dispute with its neighbour over the expansion of a cemetry which is owned by the latter. The two towns failed to agree on the expansion plans and the mayor of the town withdrew from the proposed project, leaving its residents with no burial space.

Till the town builds its own cemetry, the town residents have to keep living.

Woman, 29, ready to marry for fifth time

BRITAIN: Unlucky-at-love for four times, the 29-year-old braveheart is all set to prove the pessimists wrong as she plans to tie the knot for the fifth time.
She has obviously not heard the proverb 'once bitten, twice shy'. The Scottish serial bride, as The Sun dubs her, sure needs all the luck.

After all, her first husband ran off with her mother just after 10 days of mariage. Her second husband offered to marry her at the last moment after her fiance ditched her at the alter. The third was allegedy a bigamist.
And the fourth husband caught her red-handed with her current partner whom she is planning to maker her fifth life partner.
The forever-bride has two children by her fourth husband and her first husband is now her 'dad' after he married her mother.
 

Rising wave Of 'Tide' detergent theft baffles police

US: POlice officials in the US are puzzled over a crime wave that targets - guess what - Tide detergent.

Some cities have been forced to set up special task forces to combat the 'Tide' menace, reports Fox News.

Retailers are taking special precautions to ensure their share of the laundry detergent does not go missing. Last year, a Tide thief in Minnesota had stolen detergent worth $25,000 before he was put behind bars.

A police chief told the channel that the soap has become a form of currency on the streets. It's a staple in households and given that the detergent boxes do not have serial number, they are impossible to track and easy for the thieves to resell.

Man rapes, murders 75-year-old

INDIA: A 22-year-old man raped a 75-year-old woman and strangled her to death in the Indian state of Haryana. The rapist and murderer has been sentences to death for committing the brutal crime almost a year back, reports NDTV.

The incident took place in February 2011 when the old woman had gone for a walk in the afternoon near the agricultural fields. The man followed her to the fields, grabbed her, gagged her and raped her. Finally, he strangled the woman using her stole (dupatta).

The family went looking for her when she did not return in the evening. Some villagers later reported that they had seen the accused around the same area at the time of the incident.

While reading out the death sentence, the judge pronounced that the accused was a person whose "existence on earth is a grave danger to the society".

Man gets 6,060 years prison for 1982 massacre

GUATEMALA CITY: A Guatemalan court here sentenced a former elite special forces member to 6,060 years in prison for his role in the slaughter of 201 farmers in 1982, one of the worst atrocities in Guatemala's civil war.

Guatemala's First Court B of High Risk late on Monday sentenced ex-military instructor Pedro Pimentel to 30 years prison for each person killed during the raid on the Dos Erres village between December 6 and December 8, 1982.

He was given an additional 30 years prison for committing crimes against humanity.

Mr Pimentel, 54, was extradited in July from the United States, where he had been working in a sweater factory in Santa Ana, California.

The extraordinarily long sentence is largely symbolic because the maximum time in prison allowed under Guatemalan law is 50 years.

Mr Pimentel is the fifth former soldier to be convicted in the massacre. The other four were sentenced in August to more than 6,000 years in prison each.

Mr Pimentel is a former instructor for the elite "Kaibiles" military unit, which was sent to Dos Erres searching for 40 rifles stolen by guerrillas. The massacre occurred during the 1982-1983 dictatorship of General Efrain Rios Montt.

In his final statement to the judges, Mr Pimentel denied his role in the killing. The evidence against Mr Pimentel however included testimony from two fellow soldiers who participated in the raid.

Twelve other members of the army patrol linked to the massacre are hiding.

Guatemala's bitter 1960-1996 civil war claimed about 200,000 lives, according to United Nations figures.

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