Naked man straddles Duke of Cambridge statue in London
From: news.com.au
November 24, 2012 9:51AM
A section of Whitehall in central London closed off
Man believed to have been clothed when climbed statue
A naked man managed to climb the statue of the Duke of Cambridge which caused a partial shut down central London.
An unidentified man sits naked on top of the statue of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge outside the Ministry of Defence building in Whitehall, London. AFP/JUSTIN TALLIS
A NAKED man shut down part of central London when he straddled a statue of the Duke of Cambridge.
It was not a likeness of Prince William that was being assaulted - but the statue of the Duke of Cambridge was the previous owner of that title, Prince George, The Sun reported.
Police closed 100 metres of road outside Whitehall - where a number of government departments are situated - to keep the public away from the potentially dangerous man on the Duke of Cambridge statue as several ambulances and police cars gathered for about three hours, Sky News reported.
"I was on a school trip, on my way to the National Portrait Gallery and I looked up and saw the naked man on the statue," school girl Savannah Severn, 16, told The Sun.
The unidentified man sat and stood naked on top of the statue of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, in Whitehall in central London for almost three hours. AFP/JUSTIN TALLIS
"There were police on horses pushing the crowd back and firemen were trying to get him down.
"I was really shocked but it was quite funny. It looked like he was posing and he had his arms stretched out wide."
The naked man sits on top of a statue of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, in the heart of Whitehall, London's government district. (AP Photo/ John Stillwell/PA)
The naked man was seen waving his arms and speaking to the emergency services on the ground as he sat astride the statue. Prince George, the Duke of Cambridge, died in 1904.
Scotland Yard police said it was believed that the man might have a knife. He was coaxed down and put into the back of a police van. He was believed to have been clothed when he climbed on to the statue.
A naked manstands on top of a statue of George, Duke of Cambridge in Whitehall, London, for about three hours. (AP Photo/ Stefan Rousseau/PA)
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Only in America.
Interview with the judge:
http://us.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/us/2012/11/20/judge-sentences-teen-to-attend-church.kiko
Any church ?
Like, Tom's church for example ... or any other representation of "moneyanity", etc ?
How long before the ACLU get involved in this and kick up some sort of "waa" about "cruel and unusual punishment" and "separation between church and state ... punishments"
regarDS
Russian grandmother comes back from the dead after spending three days in morgue
News Limited Network
December 31, 2012
4:32PM
Lyudmila Steblitskaya (right), daughter Nastya (left) and granddaughter Nelli (middle). Picture: The Siberian Times Source: Supplied
A RUSSIAN grandmother has been brought back from the dead twice - and was just minutes away from being cut open for her autopsy.
In a bizarre case that has left her family traumatised, Lyudmila Steblitskaya was left to lie in a freezing cold morgue for three days, while her relatives mourned her, the Daily Mail reports.
Amazingly, her recent near-death experience was not the first time the 61-year-old had been wrongly declared dead.
The Siberian Times said the initial problems began when Lyudmila spent several days in Tomsk Regional Clinical Hospital in October this year after feeling unwell.
When her daughter Anastasia called to ask about her mother's condition, doctors told her that her mother had died.
The devastated 29-year-old, who began planning her mother's funeral, went to the hospital to collect her body - only to be told to wait as doctors had not performed an autopsy.
Anastasia told The Siberian Times a shocked doctor told her that her mother was not dead, but was actually in her bed breathing and alive.
She screamed and ran to her mother's room, yelling her name.
"My head was so fuzzy that I didn't even think about getting back into the room, and hugging mum. Or asking her about what happened," she told The Siberian Times.
"Instead I started calling everyone, saying things like 'Er, sorry. Can you please stop digging the grave. Ah, is it done? OK... well, there won't be a funeral, my mother is alive'".
Her mother cannot remember what happened, only that she was in hospital on the Friday and then woke up in a morgue on Monday to discover that her skin was peeling off from the cold, the Daily Mail reported.
Bizarrely, the horrific incident was not Lyudmila's first near-death experience. In October this year she was declared dead during a hospital stay but this time doctors brought her back to life after several hours.
On the morgue incident, chief doctor of Tomsk Regional Clinical Hospital Maksim Zayukov, told The Siberian Times: "As of now I cannot explain why this mistake happened.
"This sad procedure has always worked in our hospital like clockwork: the moment of death is always registered by the intensive care doctor.
"Proper checks are always conducted. This all happens before the family are informed about the death'.
Source.
