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Baths hold a special place in the heart of most Japanese ...

It was almost sacrilegious, then, when a man in his 40s was recently arrested after having loosened his bowels in over 500 public bathing areas across the country.

The arrested man claims to be a poet who spent his time traveling across Japan to visit public bathhouses.

"Liberating my bottom inspires me."

A middle-aged woman has been flattened in a holiday shopping rush as customers trampled her in a race to the bargains.

The woman was knocked over at a Wal-Mart store in Florida as the post-Thanksgiving sales began.

She hit her head on the floor and suffered a seizure but shoppers ignored her sister's calls for help.

Instead, people carried on shopping around injured 41-year-old Patricia van Lester at the shop in Orange City.

"I screamed, 'Stop, don't step on her, my sister is on the ground', and nobody would listen," Ms van Lester's sister Linda Ellzey told the Local 6 news channel.

Ms van Lester and her sister had waited since 3am for the shop to open in the hope of buying a bargain DVD player for their mother.

The pair were among the first shoppers to get into the store when it opened at 6am.

Ms van Lester was airlifted to hospital in Daytona Beach, where she is expected to remain for several days.

Wal-Mart could not be reached for comment.

Celebrate STEAL SOMETHING DAY

While the Adbusters enjoys Buy Nothing Day, a few self-described anarcho-situationists from Montreal's East End are inaugurating Steal Something Day.

Unlike Buy Nothing Day, Steal Something Day promotes empowerment by urging us to collectively identify the greedy bastards who are actually responsible for promoting misery and boredom in this world. Instead of ignoring them, Steal Something Day encourages us to make their lives as uncomfortable as possible.

We're talking about stealing, not theft. Stealing is just.Theft is exploitative. Stealing is when you take a yuppie's BMW for a joyride, and crash into a parked Mercedes just for the hell of it. Theft is when you take candy from a baby's mouth. Stealing is the re-distribution of wealth from rich to poor Theft is making profits at the expense of the
disadvantaged and the natural environment. Stealing is an unwritten a tax on the rich. Theft is taxing the poor to subsidize the rich. Stealing is
nothing more than a tax on the rich. There is solidarity in stealing, but
property is nothing but theft.

See you next Steal Something Day which, unlike Buy Nothing Day, happens every day of the year.

From Tej

Canada prepares to enforce Islamic law
Judges will give legal sanction to disputes between Muslims

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Canadian judges soon will be enforcing Islamic law, or Sharia, in disputes between Muslims.

Canada is preparing for its Muslim minority to be under the authority of a Sharia system enforced by the Canadian court system.

Cases will be decided by a Muslim arbitrator, but the local secular Canadian court will be the enforcer. 

One of the obstacles to establishing the system has been the Muslim communities' lack of unity and organizational strength.

Weird (and true) fact of the day: The average human being will eat 8 spiders in their sleep during their entire lifetime.

From musicis4fools

Suspect Arrested In Modesto Dynamite Case

Man Suspected Of Selling Explosives To Children

MODESTO, Calif. -- The man suspected of selling old sticks of dynamite to children in a Modesto neighborhood has turned himself in to authorities.

Investigators said they do not have all the dynamite in question."At this point, we believe that we still have six sticks of dynamite outstanding."

"This dynamite is very old, and it's extremely volatile. And so we are very concerned that if someone tries to move it, it could be detonated."

Arnold's girlfriend, Sarah Mason, said she didn't think he was doing anything wrong.