A telephone stalker obsessed with underwear made a big mistake when a gym opened across the street from the apartment that he shared with his mother.

Paul Kavanagh was caught on film by detectives as he leaned over his London apartment balcony while making calls to the gym’s female receptionists.

This month Kavanagh was sentenced to two and a half years jail. He admitted to making 15,000 or so harassing calls to women asking them questions about their underwear. He’d call posing as a clothing researcher and claim to be gathering marketing data for a retailer.

Kavanagh had been making these calls for 12 years before he was caught. He’d usually start off his conversations with questions about the womens socks and sweaters, but then he would move on to their underwear and make lewd suggestions to his victims.

Judge Peter Testar concluded that Kavanagh had been “making these calls for the purposes of sexual gratification and, I must say to my mind, for the purposes of cruelty.”

The calls were all placed using unregistered pay as you go phones. When Kavanagh was finally caught he was, as stated above, targeting the female staff at the gym by commenting on their clothes and the way they wore their hair.

It’s the time of year to start making resolutions and hopefully not end up breaking them.

We’ll see about that, but either way one of the resolutions that I’d like to make and keep for the new year is to get in better shape. I really didn’t do much exercise of any kind in the past year. Well my job involves a lot of walking so that might count to some degree. I hope it does because I walk for 8 hours a day when I’m at work. That’s a lot more walking than most people do all day I think.

We have a gym at work, and they let us use it for the unbelievably low price of just $3 a month. It’s taken out of our monthly pay when we sign up for gym privileges. I just remembered that I did use the gym a few times last year, but no where near as regularly as I wanted to, not by a long shot. It’s really to bad too that I haven’t used it, because I’ve watched a number of people at work begin to get in better shape, lose weight and become true fitness women. I say women because I work in a hospital and most of the employees are female.

In the new year I’m going to start going to our work gym at least three times a week. I plan to do some weight training there. Then when the weather starts to warm up, and theres no snow or ice on the ground I’ll get my bike out and ride at least three times a week too. I think between weight training at the gym, walking at work, and biking I’ll be able to get into pretty good shape by the spring if not earlier.

Did you make any New Years resolutions? What are they? And do you think you’ll be able to keep them?

Do you think this fitness club went too far?

Albert Argibay of Beacon New York, ended up being escorted by police from a gym earlier this week. Why? Because he was grunting, which is apparently against Planet Fitness’ rules. The club wants to maintain a non-intimidating atmosphere. Planet fitness markets itself as a judgement free Zone.

This is recent trend in gyms and fitness clubs - no hogging of machines, can’t wear flip flogs, and no grunting.

Argibay, who is a 40 year old corrections officer, stated “Perhaps I grunted, perhaps I didn’t. It’s open to interpretation”. He’d had his headset on when he was lifting 500 pounds on a squat machine.

Posted in the gym are rules that state that members cannot wear bandanas, grunt or bang weights on the ground. If an offender is spotted a lunk alarm sounds to warn the member. There is at least one expulsion every two weeks across the locations, said Mike Grondahl, CEO of Planet Fitness. He said grunting and dropping weights are the most common offenses.

The gyms general manager, Carol Palazzolo, said that the grunt that Argibay emitted Monday evening, a peak time for gyms, could be heard from across the room, even though “the place was a zoo.”

“He was looking directly at me and he did it four times,” she said. “I’m not a doctor, but as far as I know, a grunt is a noise that comes out of one’s body that is loud and is intimidating.”

When the manager confronted him an argument took place, and the police were called in, Argibay was escorted out of the gym, but no charges were filed.

“It’s an ebarrassing situation to be in, over a grunt,” Argibay said.

Now this one is really odd - A clergyman dubbed the “knicker-vicar” has come to the rescue of a small New Zealand town after the local clothing shop stopped selling women’s underwear. I’d really love to know why a clothing shop would stop selling womens underwear - particularly if they were the only ones in the area to sell them?

Reverend Gary Husband is starting a “knicker run” from his small North Island town of Inglewood to the nearby city of New Plymouth. “We get all the essentials here - apart from the ladies’ essentials,” Husband told Radio New Zealand.

Some how the problem was revealed in discussions after morning communion recently and Husband snapped into action, proving he could fulfill more than spiritual needs. I’d love to know how it was revealed perhaps a woman confessed “Reverend, I’m afraid I won’t be able to attend services anymore because I’m out of Knickers.”?

The first run is planned before Christmas, offering transport for women to travel to New Plymouth to stock up on delicates. That’s a long time to wait for new knickers isn’t it?

Oh, don’t worry, Husband said that the knicker run would not be restricted to followers of his Anglican denomination.