Love hurts – and costs.
An Illinois jury has ordered a man named German Blinov to pay $4,802 to a husband whom he had cuckolded.
“This guy ruined my life – he back-stabbed me,” said Arthur Friedman, the wronged hubby, who sued under a little-known state law that lets spouses sue for alienation of affection.
But his wife, Nancy, claims Arthur asked her to have sex with Blinov – and other men and women – to heat up their marriage.
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Talk about a bathroom break.
Seven men – two of them accused killers – escaped from a Manila jail by using a small saw to gradually cut through their cell bars every time a guard left to use the toilet.
The guard, who has been suspended, didn’t even notice the inmates were missing until hours after they had fled.
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The price of machetes in some areas of Nigeria has been slashed as much as 50 percent after a steep drop in demand by thugs hired by politicians.
The price cut comes on the heels of the end of the African nation’s general election, which saw at least 200 politically motivated deaths in the months leading up to it.
“Before the conduct of the general elections, I was selling a minimum of seven machetes daily, but can hardly sell one a day now,” moaned Usman Masi, a trader.
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At least 30 assistant government ministers in Kenya have written their president, griping that they have no work to do.
“I just go to the office and read newspapers,” said Abu Ciaba, an assistant fisheries minister.
He and his fellow ministers wrote that “we owe it to the taxpayer that what we are paid is commensurate with what we do.”
Kenya spends more than $9 million annually on the salaries and expenses of assistant ministers.
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Irked that he hadn’t been paid in three months, a Bulgarian professor told his students he would give them A’s – if they wrote a paper about Angelina Jolie’s breasts and bought a copy of his book.
Eighty of 120 students in Stefan Karastoyanov’s classes at Sofia University have complied.