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A New Zealand rugby player burst into tears when his captain hit him with a woman’s handbag in an early morning incident in a Christchurch bar, news reports said today.

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New Zealand’s national rugby team, the All Blacks, are the country’s most macho heroes and the story of Sunday morning’s clash between Chris Masoe and captain Tana Umaga stunned fans.

 

Both were still drowning their sorrows at The Jolly Poacher tavern in the early morning hours after their Wellington Hurricanes team lost the Super 14 rugby final to the Christchurch Crusaders the previous evening.

 

Reports said Masoe punched another drinker after tripping over his leg.

 

Umaga then picked up a woman’s handbag and hit Masoe on the head with enough force to smash a mobile phone inside the bag.

 

“When that happened, Masoe burst into tears and created a bit of a scene at the bar,” a witness said.

The pair were then thrown out by a female bouncer.

Alcohol from mini bars and the nude photos in the fitness area have been removed and porn TV channels turned off in a hotel in northern Germany, which plays host to the Saudi soccer team vying in the World Cup due to kick off on June 9.

 

The three-time Asian champions went Saturday night, May 27, from Frankfurt airport to the Hotel Dolce, in the town of Bad Nauheim, which has been especially prepared for their arrival, Reuters reported.

 

The luxurious hotel is trying its best to shield the Saudis from all those western ways as they took up 59 of its 159 rooms for the finals.

 

“They will be able to watch 35 Arabic language TV channels in their rooms so they can see all the (World Cup) games in their own language,” Michel Prokop, the hotel’s general manager, told Reuters.

 

“We will leave the Pay-TV on in their rooms but the porn movie channels will of course be turned off,” he added.

“JNF and I have mutual ambitions in supporting Israel and her people..It’s my homeland.”

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has given birth to a daughter, the father of whom is the also-not-too-shabby-looking Brad Pitt. And it seems like they may have followed in the footsteps of fellow Hollywood celebrities Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in giving her a Hebrew name!

“The night of May 27, 2006, in Namibia, Africa, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt welcomed their daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. No further information is being given,” Pitt’s publicist Cindy Guagenti said in a statement.

That’s right - the word “Shiloh” is Hebrew. Shiloh is the name of a biblical city, at which the ark of the covenant resided, and the name of a village adjacent to where the biblical city once stood (you can ask this blogger all about it). It commonly connotes “place of peace.” While I have never heard of anyone with this name, it is apparently also used as a Hebrew name (and a male one at that). Not only that, but Christians generally understand it as referring to their Messiah.

Is this another example of the Kabbalah craze gone wild? Or could it be that Angelina and Brad believe that their progeny is destined to contribute much more to humanity than her parents?

A US judge has handed a lenient sentence to a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child, because he’s short.

A US judge has sentenced a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child to probation instead of jail, fearing he is too short to survive in prison.

Nebraska’s attorney-general will appeal the sentence as being “far too lenient.”

The judge’s sentence outraged advocates for child sexual abuse victims. But supporters of short people said it is about time someone recognised the challenges they face.

Richard Thompson, only 1.55 metres tall, had faced up to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of two charges sexually assaulting a minor - the 12-year-old daughter of his fiancee - in Sidney, Nebraska.

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Marla Sohl, of the Nebraska Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition, said the judge was more concerned for the criminal and his safety in prison than for his victim.

But Joe Mangano, secretary of the New York-based National Organisation of Short Statured Adults, said he agreed that Thompson would face more dangers in prison because of his height.

Give me a break. He sexually assaulted a child. If he becomes some other prisoner’s little “wife”, then so be it.

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