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Miami Developer skims funds to buy huge watermelon slice

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A prominent Miami developer was arrested last month for allegedly skimming official funds to buy himself a 150,000-dollar sculpture of a giant watermelon slice.

Raul Masvidal turned himself in to authorities after he was charged with organized fraud and grand theft.

Masvidal had obtained millions of dollars from the Miami-Dade county to build new offices for the Housing Agency, but used part of the money to buy the sculpture by artist Julio Larraz, according to an affidavit filed in court.

The sculpture, called “Mars”, portrays a huge watermelon slice that has been bitten.

To hide the purchase, he allegedly asked an art broker to write a fake invoice that listed only a sculpture of stacked cups that was to grace the new building, but charged for both artworks.

The Cuban-born Masvidal had gained prominence in Miami as a political adviser, philanthropist and businessman.

“What a great disappointment,” said State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. “He turned on his community. He turned on his friends.






Manila airport security frustrates German Tourist

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You think airport security checks and the delays that it causes are bad here in North America?

Well, apparently a 66 year old German tourist, visiting the Philippines, thought their stringent security was pretty bad.

The man was so annoyed and frustrated with security at the Manila airport that he dropped his pants before walking through an X-ray machine. The Philippine authorities were not amused.

Rather than boarding his intended flight to Frankfurt the man was detained. Police filed a complaint of lasciviousness against him.

Woman charged with Malicious castration

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This story might make the men reading it feel a little queasy … A woman in Lillington, N.C who was attending a Christmas Party grabbed a mans genitals and injured him badly enough that he needed to get more than 50 stitches to repair the damage to his privates.

The woman, Rebecca Arnold Dawson was charged with malicious castration. I haven’t heard that term before but it certainly fits. She had been attending the party hosted by the injured mans girlfriend when the incident occurred. The three of them were quite drunk at the time.

Police aren’t saying exactly how the damage occurred- only that no weapon was used. “I believe he needed more than 50 stitches to repair the damage, but he is back home at this point,” police Cpl. Brad Stevens said. “All we can tell you is that the injury was done with her hands.”

She’s either a vicious woman or the man said or did something that she thought deserved that kind of attack. Hopefully I’ll come across some more information on this story – It’s got to have been something interesting or outrageous to have prompted this kind of attack!

Bush hides in the closet

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This past October, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, was in Pittsburgh campaigning for U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. Apparently Jeb Bush antagonized anti-Santorum demonstrators by blowing them a kiss. In the chaos that ensued Bush was forced to take refuge in a train station supply closet.

In other news Kansas state Rep. Vaughn Flora was charged with a misdemeanor after an October political event when he allegedly roughed up an anti-abortion protester dressed as a cockroach. Why would a protester dress as a cockroach? I think that’s a story in itself.

Last August, in Tampa, Tony Katz – a public-access TV host – threw a chair at his guest, county commission candidate Joe Redner, hitting him in the head after he had called Redner a liar and Redner had called him fat.

I thought politicians and TV Hosts were supposed to be refined folk? I guess not if this kind of behaviour proves anything.

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