WhiteBoard News for Friday, August 1, 2003
Tamworth, England (Ananova):
Dannii Minogue accidentally started a new dance trend at an outdoor concert when she tried to alert the crowd to a capsized boat behind them.
Dannii's attempts at raising the alarm by frantically pointing at the boat in a lake behind the audience backfired when fans thought she was performing a new dance.
They all started pointing back at her, during the concert at Kingsbury Water Park near Tamworth, thinking it was a new craze, reports the Evening Mail.
Fortunately the sailor was an experienced member of a sailing club and managed to clamber back safely into his boat.
After the show, Dannii said she had wanted to stop singing and shout for help, but was then relieved to see the man was safe.
A 13-year-old girl in the audience told how fans were at first puzzled when the singer started pointing her arms.
"I thought it might be some new sort of dance craze and started copying - every time she pointed out at us, we pointed back at her," she said.
A spokesman for the water park said the sailor, who was in his 20s, was fine.
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Chesterfield, England (Ananova):
A suspected thief found himself in a hole when he fled a crime scene and ran straight into a police golf tournament.
The 30-year-old sped across the 13th fairway to hide, but was instead confronted by 20 off-duty policemen.
They spotted the suspect dashing towards undergrowth and gave chase after a police helicopter circled overhead, at the course near Chesterfield.
A police spokeswoman said: "The officers were taking part in a golf tournament when they saw the man dashing across the course.
"He seemed to be acting suspiciously and once the force helicopter was seen overhead, four of them gave chase and detained him."
The officers detained the suspect at Tapton Golf Course in the incident last week until a police car arrived to take the man to a local police station.
Police confirmed that a man has since been charged with burglary and theft and has been remanded in custody by magistrates in Chesterfield.
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Zagreb, Croatia (Reuters):
A drunken Croat flasher got more excitement than he bargained for when he pushed his penis through a woman's fence and her dog bit it, local newspapers said on Friday.
The visibly drunk man was walking down the street and started swearing and shouting at the woman for no reason. He then shoved his penis through her fence, unaware her dog was on the other side, police said.
The bitten man himself reported the incident to the police.
The 36-year-old was taken to hospital with light injuries but later sent home. He will be charged with "insulting the moral feelings of citizens" and "violation of public order."
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