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 (Leído en El Mundo del 21 de noviembre de 2012, proveniente de la agencia Reuters. La realidad sigue superando a la ficción más imaginativa.)

Una mujer en Suecia tendrá que verse con la Justicia por mantener relaciones sexuales con un esqueleto humano. Es más, podría acabar en prisión por perturbar la paz de los muertos, según ha informado la fiscal del caso.

La policía encontró un esqueleto humano, calaveras y una caja con huesos humanos en su hogar, tras recibir una llamada de teléfono que alertaba de un disparo en esa casa, en la ciudad de Gotemburgo.

Los agentes hallaron asimismo varios CD-ROMs titulados 'Mi necrofilia' y 'Mi primera experiencia', así como fotografías de la mujer en varios actos sexuales con el esqueleto.

La fiscal añadió que la acusada hacía un uso de los huesos "vergonzoso" y "nada ético".

"Le interesaba mucho la muerte", ha detallado la fiscal, Kristina Ehrenborg-Staffas, sobre la mujer, una desempleada de 37 años. "Tenía imágenes de morgues, iglesias y cementerios".

La mujer será también acusada de vender huesos humanos a un artista de Upsala (este de Suecia) el pasado verano.

Al parecer, y según la propia acusada, compraba los huesos (de personas de 50 años o más y de diferentes partes del mundo) en internet sólo para fines históricos. Además, insiste en que ella no es la mujer de las imágenes.

El juicio tendrá lugar la semana próxima y la pena puede ser de dos años de prisión si es considerada finalmente culpable.

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(An article by James Rothwell on Daily Telegraph, published on 13th July, 2015)

The leader of the tour group was fined 10,000 kroner for failing to take "safety precautions" against bear attacks.

They were lucky to be alive after a polar bear broke into their tent on a remote Norwegian island and
tried to maul them. But tourists who shot the animal three times with a revolver have now been fined nearly £800 by the local government - because they failed to put a member of their group on “polar bear watch.”

The group, from the Czech Republic, were travelling in the Svalbard archipelago when they were attacked by the bear during the night.

Jakub Moravec, 37, said he awoke to find it “standing over him” in his tent. “It went straight to my head. Luckily my colleague shot it,” he told local radio NRK shortly after the incident in March.

Zuzanna Hakova, who was part of the same tour group, said her mother then shot the bear three times with a revolver and it fled.

“We woke to shouts of "Bear! Bear!" coming from the second tent," she told NRK.

"We had a rifle on the outside of each tent and we also had a revolver in our tent. The ones being attacked had no chance of getting their weapon, so my mother took her revolver and shot the bear three times."

The bear survived the gunshots and was later put down by local hunters.

The tourists were relieved to escape with only minor injuries - but Svalbard’s local authorities took a dim view of the incident. They have fined the leader of their party 10,000 kroner as local environment laws insist travelers “take precautions” against the possibility of a bear attack.

“They had not put in place the necessary safeguards. There was only one tripwire that was set too high and the bear went under it. Nor did they have a polar bear watch at the time,” Svalbard's Assistant Governor Jens Olav Sæter told local newspaper Svalbardposten.

The deaths of many polar bears could be avoided if people took greater safety precautions, he added.

It is understood to be the first case of someone beoing fined for a polar bear attack in Norway.

The 10,000 kroner fine is the culmination of a four month investigation into whether the group were guilty of any wrongdoing. The attack happened as thousands of tourists descended on Svalbard and the Faeroe Islands ahead of a rare total solar eclipse last March.

The group leader, whose identity is unknown, has been informed of the ruling but it is unclear whether it will be enforced, according to Svalbardposten.

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(Maybe it's still not valid -I read this on bbc.co.uk in July, 2003- but it's still worth reading the levels of stupidity people is able to reach...)

Getting a quickie divorce has taken on a whole new meaning in Malaysia after it was decided that a man can divorce his wife with a text message. 

The government's adviser on religious affairs, the man who counsels Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, said as long as the message was clear and unambiguous it was valid under Islamic Sharia law.

"SMS is just another form of writing," Dr Abdul Hamid Othman was quoted by the New Straits Times daily newspaper as saying.

The decision follows a Malaysian court's ruling on Thursday in favour of a man who served divorce on his wife via a text message.

Sharia judge Mohamad Fauzi Ismail declared that the divorce declaration was valid and that as such the marriage between the plaintiff Azida Fazlina Abdul Latif and defendant Shamsudin Latif was annulled, the Utusan Malaysia newspaper reported.

Mr Shamsudin was said to have sent Ms Azida a text message saying: "If you do not leave your parents' house, you'll be divorced".

Although such a notification of divorce may seem astonishingly brief to some, under Islamic law men are allowed to divorce their wives simply be saying the word 'talaq' - I divorce you - three times.

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(Un texto leído no sé dónde a principios de enero de 2009)

La agencia de creativos croata Bruketa & Zinic han diseñado un informe anual para la compañía de alimentación Podravka que tiene que ser cocinado en un Horno antes de ser leido. Llamado "Well Done" (Bien Hecho), el informe presenta páginas en blanco impresas con tinta termoreactiva que, después de ser envuelto en papel de plata y cocinado en un horno a 100 grados celsius durante 25 minutos, revela el texto y las imágenes impresos en ellas. Ni un minuto más. “Si no eres preciso, el libro se puede quemar, como cualquier comida cocinada en exceso”.

Aquí estan los detalles expuestos por Bruketa & Zinić:

“Well done” created by Bruketa & Zinić is the new annual report for Podravka, the biggest food company in South-East Europe. It consists of two parts:
* a big book containing numbers and a report of an independent auditor
* a small booklet that is inserted inside the big one that contains the very heart of Podravka as a brand: great Podravka’s recipes.

To be able to cook like Podravka you need to be a precise cook. That is why the small Podravka booklet is printed in invisible, thermo-reactive ink. To be able to reveal Podravka’s secrets you need to cover the small booklet in aluminium foil and bake it at 100 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes.
If you are not precise, the booklet will burn, just as any overcooked meal. If you have successfully baked your sample of the annual report, the empty pages will become filled with text, and the illustrations with empty plates filled with food.

The annual report is printed on paper Conqueror Laid Brilliant White 120 g/m2, Munken Polar 130 g/m2 and Soporset 90 g/m2 and written with typography Thema by Nikola Djurek and Lexicon by Bram De Does.

The creative team of the project consists of Creative Directors Davor Bruketa & Nikola Zinić; Art directors Davor Bruketa, Nikola Zinić, Imelda Ramovi, Mirel Hadžijusufović; Copywriters Davor Bruketa, Nikola Zinić, Lana Cavar, Teo Tarabarić, Project manager Mirna Grzelj; Prepress: Danko Đurašin and editor Drenislav Zekić.

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