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19 March 2024

Crazy World: Teacher admits to affair with girl

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AUSTRALIA: The 45-year old teacher's affair with a female student cost him his girlfriend, wife and career. The man has been jailed for 18 months after polie officials found a teenager hiding in his wardrobe in pyjamas, the Mercury reported.

The duo became Facebook friends first and then the clandestine relationship developed. They liked each other and started sending each other text messages.

The couple decided to keep the liasion a secret since the girl was a minor at 16 years and they were both in the same school.

The game was almost up when the teacher's colleague once saw them kissing in his car in the campus.

The teacher was suspended from school and police officials barred him from keeping in touch with the girl. The man's marriage was over.

However, the former teacher and the student could not stay away from each other and they created fake IDs on Facebook and stayed in touch.

The father-of-three broke all rules and consummated their relationship. He was arrested for maintaining a sexual relationship with a minor girl.


 
'McDonald's turned me into a prostitute'


CALIFORNIA: A woman claims that a fast food chain that pays low wages and gives scant support to its employees who suffer abuse at home, has forced her to take up a job in a brothel.

The woman is now suing McDonald's for not protecting her against her ex-husband and former boss.

She says that her boss hired her to work over the counter in the fast food outlet about 30 years ago. The duo soon started dating. The boss then forced her to quit her job to make her more amenable.

Now, she is blaming the company for leaving her at the mercy of her scheming boss and for not doing due diligence of her boss' character before awarding him a francisee.

The man forced the woman to get a job as a prostitute in a legal brothel in Las Vegas, she claims.

 

Man buys lottery tickets, is struck by lightning


KANSAS CITY: A Kansas man was struck by lightning hours after buying three Mega Millions lottery tickets, proving in real life the old saying that a gambler is more likely to be struck down from the sky than win the jackpot.

..Bill Isles, 48, bought three tickets in the record $656 million lottery Thursday at a Wichita, Kan., grocery store.

On the way to his car, Isles said he commented to a friend: "I've got a better chance of getting struck by lightning" than winning the lottery.

Later at about 9:30 p.m., Isles was standing in the back yard of his Wichita duplex, when he saw a flash and heard a boom -- lightning.

"It threw me to the ground quivering," Isles said in a telephone interview on Saturday. "It kind of scrambled my brain and gave me an irregular heartbeat."

Winners in Kan., Ill., Md. share record Mega Millions pot
Isles, a volunteer weather spotter for the National Weather Service, had his portable ham radio with him because he was checking the skies for storm activity. He crawled on the ground to get the radio, which had been thrown from his hand.

Isles had been talking to other spotters on the radio and called in about the lightning strike. One of the spotters, a local television station intern, called 911. Isles was taken by ambulance to a hospital and kept overnight for observation.

Isles said doctors wanted to make sure his heartbeat was back to normal. He suffered no burns or other physical effects from the strike, which he said could have been worse because his yard has a power line pole and wires overhead.

"But for the grace of God, I would have been dead," Isles said. "It was not a direct strike."

Isles said he had someone buy him 10 more tickets to the Mega Millions lottery on Friday night. While one of the three winning tickets was sold in Kansas, Isles was not a winner.

Officials of the Mega Millions lottery, which had the largest prize in U.S. history, said that the odds of winning lottery were about 176 million to one. Americans have a much higher chance of being struck by lightning, at 775,000 to one over the course of a year, depending on the part of the country and the season, according to the National Weather Service.

Isles, who is out of work after being laid off last June by a furniture store, said he did once win $2,000 in the lottery and will keep playing.

"The next time I will use the radio while sitting in the car," he said.

 

Girl, 11, finds mother and brother knifed to death

WALES: A heated argument between a husband and wife ended in a tragedy. The depressed man knifed his wife and three-year-old son to death.

The couple's 11-year-old school girl was horrified to discover her mother and her three-year-old brother covered in blood in the kitchen at home in North Wales.

The girl had been out of home with friends and she came across the nightmarish sight when she returned home around 9pm, reports The Sun.

The police believe that the girl possibly saw a man with a knife before she fled the scene.

The children's father was suffering from depression and was unemployed.

The neighbours and relatives are outraged at the killing.

 


$640 million lottery prize has three winners

NEW YORK: A record $640 million lottery prize that sent the United States into a gambling frenzy has gone to as many as three winners, lottery officials and media said on Saturday.

None of the players were identified but officials confirmed that winning tickets were sold near Baltimore, Maryland and Redbud, Illinois, and CNN reported a third winner in the state of Kansas.

"Redbud has a winner," Illinois lottery superintendent Michael Jones told the broadcaster.

"It's very important now for whoever has that winning ticket to sign the back of the ticket, put it in a safe place, reach out to us so we can begin the process of awarding the person the prize," he said.

The winning numbers -- 2, 4, 23, 38, 46 with Mega Ball 23 -- were announced here at 11:00 pm (0300 GMT Saturday).

There has been no official statement from Mega Millions lottery on the identity of the winners, but MSNBC television cited an unnamed Maryland lottery official in reporting the news.

The Washington Post, using similar sources, said the winning ticket had been sold in Baltimore County.

Experts warned it could be days or even weeks before somebody showed up to claim the prize as winners usually tend to hash out all the legal issues with their lawyers before taking that step.

The chance to get suddenly very, very rich -- even if it was only a one-in-176-million chance -- had sparked feverish ticket sales at convenience stores and news kiosks across the United States.

There was plenty of fantasizing too on the airwaves and in newspapers about life after winning the monstrous jackpot -- a dream all the more powerful in a country with a weak jobs' market and still spooked about recession.

The tickets made it unequivocally clear: this was nothing less than "the world's largest jackpot."

The jackpot hit a record level because no one had matched the magic five numbers and Mega Ball since January 24 -- a full 18 draws with no winner.

Given the pace of ticket buying, the prize climbed inexorably higher and late Friday tickets for the mega jackpot were reportedly selling at the unprecedented rate of $4 million per hour.

In New York, customers cramming into Midtown News, a hole-in-the-wall newspaper shop that sells the $1 tickets, shared their dreams.

"If I won, I'd retire in New Zealand, because there are more sheep than humans there. Here in New York, there are too many people," said Romanian immigrant Cosmin Barbos, 37.

Mr Barbos, who does maintenance at a Manhattan law office, said he'd give most of his fortune to charity. Roger Sierra, a 32-year-old chef, said he'd give half.

"That's a promise I made, and I'd help my family. I'd buy a restaurant and we'd have food from all over the world -- French cuisine, American, steaks."

Although tickets cost only $1, the odds were so long that snapping them up in bulk made little difference.

Organizers also cautioned people about going too far.

"Although most people can play Mega Millions and other lottery games without ill effects, there are some people for whom gambling of any sort can be addictive and very damaging," the lottery's website advised.

"Like other addictions, gambling addiction is a treatable disease."

Mega Millions is played in 42 US states plus the national capital Washington and the US Virgin Islands. Foreigners can also play, too, but they must be in the United States.

The lucky winner gets to choose between an immediate cash option or the full amount disbursed over 26 annual payments. The prize will then take a severe knock in federal and state taxes.

The previous US record draw, in 2007, was $390 million.

US media were quick to offer advice.

CBS gave the sober suggestion of hiring an investment adviser, while The New York Post devoted an entire page to demonstrate that the premise of money making you happy does not always stand up.

"Winners beware!" the Post headline said over profiles of four seemingly lucky Americans who went "from jackpot to jack squat."

These included the cautionary tale of Jack Whittaker, who won $315 million in 2002 and lost the lot to thieves and hard living, while his daughter and granddaughter both died from drug overdoses.