UK government pays over £300,000 (over $450,000) for a set of illuminated rings for the Olympic games:

The claim

“Look at those five rings. Baron Pierre de Coubertin said that they symbolised the five great Olympic virtues of athleticism, sportsmanship, exertion, poverty, chastity…or whatever. Well, roughly those ones.”
Boris Johnson, 27 June 2012

Cathy Newman checks it out

It looked like magic: five giant Olympic rings hovering apparently in mid-air above the Thames. It was also one helluva media circus, and – perhaps not surprisingly given the £300,000 cost of making [...]

Congressman turns down ‘date’ with Colombian prostitute Dania Suarez after she offers to have face-to-face chat over Secret Service scandal

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee today said he has declined a meeting with the Colombian woman at the centre of the Secret Service prostitution scandal he is investigating.

Congressman Pete King said in a written statement a lawyer for Dania Londono Suarez asked his staff for a meeting with him in his Washington, DC office.

The Republican Representative from New York said he declined the proposal to avoid the [...]

Hoarder Evicted For 6th Time After Leaving Tons Of Trash, Human Waste In Apartment

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A man labeled as a hoarder by authorities is out of his apartment in Friendship.

Ken Goldsmith grabbed three bags and walked out Friday. He had refused to leave for 10 months.

“You’re gonna make a media circus out of this,” Goldsmith said to the sheriff’s deputy.

“The last thing I want is to see you hurt,” the deputy said.

The apartment has approximately six tons of trash inside, including possible [...]

TSA Sex Toy Victim Says Apology Is Not Enough

Frustrated at “media circus” response overshadowing issue of government intrusion

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
October 27, 2011

The woman who was subjected to a humiliating experience at the hands of the TSA when a screener left a note commenting on a sex toy in her luggage, says she is disappointed with the response the incident has received.

As we reported earlier this week, not satisfied with fumbling through Americans’ private possessions, one TSA screener saw fit [...]

District attorney ‘furious’ after Mel Gibson deal leaked

 

WENN

In wake of Mel Gibson‘s camp announcing Wednesday morning that a plea deal has been reached in the domestic violence case against him, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office is “furious, because the victim (Oksana Grigorieva) in the case was supposed to be notified today about the disposition and outcome of the case. For Oksana to have to find out through the media what was [...]