WhiteBoard News for Friday, February 28, 2003

Manila, Philippine (Reuters):

A Filipino man cut off his penis and tossed it through a window to his estranged wife in a bid to prove his fidelity, a Philippine newspaper reported on Thursday. 

The man wrapped the severed member in a newspaper and threw it through the window of his wife's parents' house in the northwestern town of Malasiqui, the Philippine Star said. 

"So you will not suspect I am courting another girl," the Star said the man shouted before he hobbled off into the night. 

His shocked wife gave the severed penis to police, who sought the help of an embalmer to preserve it until her husband could be found, the paper said.
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Milan, Italy (Ananova):

Armed robbers escaped with $396,000 worth of sweets in a raid on a Milan warehouse.

The gang of six wore masks and carried handguns during the raid.

And they tied up staff using tape at the Perfetti depot on the outskirts of the city.

A police spokesman says the gang drove away three trucks which were loaded with sweets, chewing gum and chocolate for distribution to shops.

He added: "The haul will probably be offered for sale at markets in the city. I can't see them eating through all those sweets themselves otherwise local dentists will have a field day."
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Botosani, Italy (Libertatea):

A suicidal man who failed to hang himself because the rope snapped is planning to sue the manufacturers.

According to local daily Libertatea, 45-year-old Victor Dodoi from Botosani in northern Romania, tried to hang himself from the light fitting in his living room.

But the rope broke under his weight and brought the light and part of the ceiling crashing down with him.

Dodoi told the newspaper that he now plans to sue the local company that produces the rope.

He said: "I want to sue them. They have caused me more misery than I felt before."
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Moscow, Russia (Reuters):

A prisoner who escaped by digging the longest tunnel in Russian jailbreak history has been returned to his Siberian penal colony to serve a longer sentence, a news agency reported. 

In a feat redolent of Hollywood's "The Great Escape," Yevgeny Pechenkin and two cellmates dug a 370-foot tunnel two years ago, adding beams, electricity and a ventilation system. 

Earth from the four-month operation was packed into small plastic bags and spread around the colony's courtyards. 

The RIA news agency said prison authorities had sealed the tunnel with cement after Pechenkin escaped -- without his mates -- in December 2000. Police tracked him down last October. 

Pechenkin, sentenced in 1998 to nine and a half years for fraud, was handed a two-and-a-half year sentence for his escape. 
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