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A day after pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati's stint at the Olympics Games 2024 was marred by an unexpected disqualification after his crotch knocked the height bar— the French athlete has been approached by an adult entertainment firm.

A letter was obtained by TMZ Sports from porn website CamSoda which claimed to offer a whopping $250,000 dollar to Ammirati for displaying his "manhood" on camera.

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While the French pole vaulter finished 12th and could not reach the finals at Paris, CamSoda VP Daryn Parker who finds an opportunity for Ammirati in this loss said, "If it was up to me, I’d award you for what everyone else saw, your talent below the...

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A similar misfortune had happened in 2016 Rio Games when a Japanese pole-vaulter Hiroki Ogita too lost his pole-vaulting competition. It was said that he committed a foul after his genitals shoved off the height bar, as it came down entirely.

An Australian man is set to appear in court after being arrested for the alleged theft of more than A$600,000 (€359,880) worth of commemorative coins linked to the popular children's television show "Bluey", police said.

The 47-year-old is accused of stealing 63,000 unreleased, limited-edition A$1 coins from a secure warehouse in the Sydney suburb of Wetherill Park in June, according to "Strike Force Bandit", a special unit police set up to investigate the theft.

"Strike Force Bandit" is honestly an incredible name. For those not familiar with the show the father is called Bandit.

A gigantic statue of Marilyn Monroe in downtown Palm Springs is set to be moved following years of controversy and debate.

The Forever Marilyn statue stands 26 feet tall and depicts the famous billowing skirt scene from 1955’s The Seven Year Itch.

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Created by artist Seward Johnson and first erected in 2011, the statue has had a troubled history. It left Palm Springs in 2014 and was displayed in Chicago, New Jersey, Australia and Connecticut before returning to Palm Springs in 2021.

At the time, the statue’s return to the city caused uproar. Activist groups protested during the unveiling, and critics described it as “exploitative.”

The placement of the sculpture had been voted for unanimously by the city council, but the last four directors of the art museum publicly opposed and condemned its presence in the area, branding it “blatantly sexist.”

Former Palm Springs Art Museum director Louis Gracho told The Art Newspaper: “You come out of the museum and the first thing you’re going to see is a 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe with her entire backside and underwear exposed.

Airport Manager Noah Karberg was robbed in broad daylight on Sunday — and the culprit has a beak and two wings. While Karberg was loading groceries into his car, a seagull swooped down, landed in his shopping cart, and made off with his wallet.

“It mugged me,” Karberg said. “It just grabbed my wallet and went.”

Karberg’s misfortune has gone viral on social media, especially since a video of the offending gull prancing about with the stolen goods emerged. The Nantucket Current caught up with a still somewhat baffled Karberg Monday to get his account of the crime.

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“I don't usually do the shopping. I was just coming back from fishing,” Karberg said. “So I didn't have anywhere to put my keys and my wallet.”

So Karberg put them in the top tray of the Stop & Shop cart, thinking nothing could go wrong. He then walked around the car to open the door and begin transferring the groceries. That was when the gull struck. It wasted no time, snagging Karberg’s wallet and taking off before he could attempt to grab it back.

“My first thought was I'm going to have get that guy because I want my wallet back,” Karberg said. “My second thought was I probably look like an idiot chasing a flying bird through the parking lot.”

That’s right: Karberg chased the seagull across the Stop & Shop parking lot, over the fence, and onto the roof of the neighboring car wash before finally giving up.

The thief remains at large, despite the best efforts of the Nantucket Police Department, and Karberg has not recovered his wallet. But he appreciates the comedy nonetheless.

A man in Iowa found something very unusual stuck in a vending machine.

Soso Mesa said he took a photo after several people tried to use a second-floor vending machine located at the Frances Building in Downtown Sioux City.

Mesa, who works for Pepsi, sent the photo to KTIV.

On Thursday, several people who wanted to get some snacks from the machine found something else snapping at them instead.

Mesa said people originally believed there was a mouse in the machine.

Maintenance for the Frances Building called Pepsi about what was happening, so Mesa was sent out to check the machine. When he got there, he found out it was a crab snapping at people.

By the time Mesa got to the machine Friday morning, the crab was dead. Mesa said he took the crab’s body out of the machine and disposed of it.

Strangely enough, another crab was found in the Sioux City Public Library earlier this week. The library and Frances Building are right next to each other downtown and are connected by a skywalk.

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A woman from Hull has been jailed and handed a Criminal Behaviour Order which bans her from 'defecating in a public place' amongst other things.

49-year-old Brace Hull has been jailed for 46 weeks, as well as handed a three-year long order.

Named Hull, from Hull. What are the odds?

Most definitely! But maybe not in the way people would want.

Earlier today, 21-year-old French Olympian Anthony Ammirati experienced that rarest of things: A moment, and a specific set of circumstances, that we’re reasonably sure that no human being on the planet has ever lived through. Unfortunately for Ammirati, that truly unique, one-in-a-trillion experience could best be summed up as “Losing at the Olympics while millions of people watch your genitals visibly catch on the pole vault bar,” which isn’t necessarily the sort of field most people want to be pioneers in.

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First up: A very good day for anyone owning stock in the word “bulge,” with a number of outlets opting, like Variety, to simply declare “French pole vaulter’s bulge costs him an Olympic medal.” (By the way, lots of these headlines are going to assert Ammirati lost because he hit his dick on the bar; to our eyes, the jump was already in trouble before the eye-catching moment.) The “Manhood” Council is also dining out today, with titles like The New York Post‘s “French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati misses Olympic final after manhood catches on crossbar.” The Daily Beast got a little more poetic, meanwhile, declaring (at least, in the Google-safe version of their much more explicit main headline) “Olympic pole vaulter loses thanks to battle with his bulge,” while Out Magazine just went for it, writing “This Olympic pole vaulter’s own huge pole got in his way—and cost him a medal.” Oh, and LADBible fulfilled what we have to assume were some very specific SEO goals with “Olympic pole vaulter failed to clear target height after surprising body part unfortunately caught bar.” (“Oh,” we’re sure Ammirati said to himself as the incident occurred. “How surprising!”)

But no one, we would assert—absolutely no one—even came close to matching the headline attached to a Metro.co.uk piece penned by James Goldman this morning. If we were the people who’d written and then hit publish on the headline “Pole vaulter’s Olympic dream shattered by his own penis,” no one in our life would ever stop hearing about it; it would appear on our tombstones, hopefully with some kind of hyperlink so people would understand the context. It just shows: Beauty really can grow out of heartbreak, provided your definitions of “beauty” are loose, and stupid, enough.

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A woman was left "devastated" after her daughter's passport application was rejected because she was named after a Game of Thrones character.

Lucy, 39, from Swindon in Wiltshire, said the Passport Office initially refused the application for Khaleesi, six.

Officials said they were unable to issue a passport unless Warner Brothers gave permission because it owned the name's trademark. But the authority has since apologised for the error.

A Catholic priest in Austria has confessed to producing crystal meth in his parish rectory. The case came to light after authorities arrested the 38-year-old cleric along with a 30-year-old Iraqi citizen from Vienna last week, reported CNA Deutsch, CNA’s German-language news partner.

A police spokesman told media that investigators from the State Criminal Police Office searched the rectory following an order by the public prosecutor’s office. During the raid, they seized chemicals for producing illegal drugs as well as laboratory equipment. Authorities say they suspect the drugs were intended for sale.

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The case has drawn significant attention in Austria, with some media outlets comparing it to the fictional plot of the U.S. TV series “Breaking Bad.”

The Whippersnapper (1806 McMillan Ave.) in Knox-Henderson is known for unique and irreverent one-off events, such as Barbieland and Willy Wonka pop-ups and ‘90s-themed parties. With the bar's weekly dildo races, however, it might have an unlikely longstanding tradition on its hands.

Yes, you read that correctly. Every Thursday, The Whip invites customers to race dildos — vibrators, to be more specific. Contestants choose from the bar’s in-house selection of dildos, which come in a wide variety of vibrant prints ranging from roses to aliens, and they pick the intensity setting they think will be most effective. They then place the device at the top of a sloping track and let it buzz and jerk all the way down.

The first dildo to cross the finish line wins, and its operator makes it to the next round. The champion of the evening takes home a cash prize, which was $100 when we went on Thursday.

Aside from Leon Marchand, who clinched his fourth swimming gold medal yesterday, another French athlete, 21-year-old pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati, has become an instant viral phenomenon after an incident involving his crotch.

Ammirati missed his target height and knocked down the pole with his bulge on Saturday, which caused him to fail his qualifying track for the final. The scene left commentators scrambling to find words but it quickly sparked memes and jokes all over social media.

“When you’re about to win an Olympic medal but your massive d*ck gets in the way while the whole world watches in slow motion,” one user on X (formerly Twitter) wrote.

Devon Davis has bonded out of the Douglas County Jail on conditions that he does not return to Arbor Place Mall or approach his alleged victim.

The 35-year-old has been charged with simple battery after allegedly licking and sucking the hair of an 18-year-old woman he did not know.

"That's weird," said shopper Dan Shower." I don't know anybody that licks hair."

A woman in Adelaide, Australia, got a bizarre kidnapping scare when a shirtless man allegedly tried to snatch her baby out of the pram and breastfeed it. The incident occurred Friday morning on a bus headed down Bridge Road in Gulfview Heights suburb of the South Australian capital city.

Around 8:40 am, the mother raised the alarm with the 502 bus driver, who South Australia Police said alerted the bus depot over radio, informing that the 49-year-old suspect had attempted to grab the infant.

“A fare evader got on the bus and he went to grab the lady’s baby out of her pram,” he said.

“She’s come up to me and said: ‘You’ve got to get this guy off the bus, he’s not good. He’s tried to grab my baby out of the pram and breastfeed (my) baby.’”

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Meanwhile, the passenger whom he reported was still on the bus, for which he had not validated or bought a ticket, shirtless and wearing blue-coloured rubber gloves.

The suspect, instead of fleeing, decided to take a seat at the back of the bus, where the driver said he was “sitting quietly”.

The bus pulled over at the next stop, with police inbound, but the man managed to get away before the cops arrived.

However, police confirmed that an investigation was underway into the incident reported on Friday. In fact, they charged a Salisbury East man, 49, with aggravated assault and disorderly behaviour in connection with it.

In addition to the charges, he also faces a three-month ban from using all public transport.

A shoplifter who stole 798 Cadbury's Creme Eggs has been jailed for eight months.

Portsmouth Magistrates' Court heard on Friday that Layton Richards, 29, from Brownlow Close in Portsmouth, had been charged with 24 shoplifting offences.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said he had stolen the chocolate between 6 January and 18 April.

Richards targeted 19 shops across Hampshire, Dorset and West Sussex, and took £3,463.96 worth of produce and products.

Previous Creme Egg theft: Man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs jailed for 18 months

A High Court judge has ruled that there is “some evidence” that at least one child was born in an exceptional family dispute between a separated couple.

The ex-husband told the court that he believed his wife had been pregnant when they split up and that she had given birth to twin boys, who would now be three years old.

He told the hearing he wanted to have contact with them.

The wife told the court this was not true, she had never even been pregnant, and the claims amounted to “coercive and controlling behaviour”.

No births had been registered, and there was no supporting evidence in medical records.

But the court heard and saw other evidence that a child or children do exist.

Lady Emma Arbuthnot described it as a "perplexing" case and acknowledged the family court lacked the tools to investigate thoroughly.

The two men did not know each other before meeting at a drinking spot, AKP La Ode Arsangka, Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of Muna Police, told Kumparan.

As they drank, they began joking and exchanging riddles, including the classic debate over whether the chicken or the egg came first.

However, the perpetrator got emotional and left the gathering to get a sharp weapon at home.

When he returned, DR then brutally stabbed Kadir Markus 15 times, Kompas reported.

A rise in the number of students studying medicine in Scotland has resulted in a shortage of cadavers, according to a report.

Prof Gordon Findlater, who is HM Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland, found that surgical colleges were having to cancel university training courses because the demand for bodies was so high.

In his 2023-24 report, external to government ministers, he noted that the University of Edinburgh in particular had a "serious problem" in meeting this demand.

According to the Scotland Deanery, which is responsible for training doctors, there were 5,930 medical students in the 2023-24 academic year.

This was up from 5,645 the year before, external and up from 3,928 in 2015-16.

Members of an "anti-establishment cult" who stormed into a court with handcuffs have been found guilty of trying to kidnap a coroner.

Mark Christopher, 59, Matthew Martin, 47, Shiza Harper, 45, and Sean Harper, 38, wanted to "shut down" Essex Coroner's Court and abduct senior coroner Lincoln Brookes in April 2023.

They were part of a "conspiracy theory" group who believed they could overrule the judicial system in England and Wales, a trial heard.

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Det Ch Insp Nathan Hutchinson said it had been an "intimidating and traumatising ordeal" for all involved.

"The ideologies of this group were concerning and they genuinely believed that they had the power to construct their own legal system, threaten others and were above English law," he said.

The defendants were part of an online subscription-based movement called the Federal Postal Court, which had self-conferred legal powers, the trial heard.

Christopher, from Forest Gate, east London, was the chief judge, with Martin and Sean Harper his sheriffs and Shiza Harper a "postal inspector".

Mr Walker said they had a "significant following" online and described the group as an "anti-establishment protest, cult or conspiracy theory".

The defendants told the trial that Christopher, who sold online courses for thousands of pounds, was their "teacher" and they were his students – and that the allegations had been "blown way out of proportion".

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The incident followed Mr Brookes being sent a series of letters between March 2022 and April 2023, accusing him of being a "detrimental necromancer" who must face corporal punishment.

"I thought this was odd, to say the least," Mr Brookes said.

A Taranaki woman called police after discovering what she thought was a headless body on a beach, which turned out to be a "very realistic" sex doll.

Alice Cowdrey was walking her dog Sadie at Tapuae Beach, south of New Plymouth, on Tuesday. She was already feeling on edge that morning after coming across two dead goats on the beach just a few days prior.

"I'd sort of been thinking about how odd that was, and how it made me feel a little bit uneasy. I had... when I first got out of the car, been thinking about bodies, which is totally bizarre."

Cowdrey noticed Sadie sniffing around a form on the beach, and walked closer to see what it was.

"I just sort of froze, and felt sick," she said.

"I could see it was definitely the shape of a torso, face down, and I could tell it was a woman's figure. I could see it had fingernails and the toes were really realistic, so it really looked like a human figure."

Sadie did not seem overly concerned - but Cowdrey was "freaking out" after realising it had no head, so she ran down the beach to get reception and dialled 111.

As she waited for police to arrive, she began worrying there could be "a murderer on the loose".

The three officers who responded were also convinced it was real when they first saw it, she said.

"And then I sort of saw one of the cops nudge it with his foot, and I thought, he's not going to nudge it if it's a body.

"And then he sort of flipped it over, and it was even more realistic when it was on its back, it had everything... it was very realistic... but obviously you could tell it was a sex doll."

Cowdrey said she was relieved, but felt bad she had called police about a sex doll, although they reassured her she had done the right thing.

It took all three officers to drag it back down the beach to their car, such was its weight, she said.

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The police declined to comment, saying they were prioritising "urgent incidents".

A man who ate a teenager's cigarette to allow the teen to avoid enforcement action by the National Environment Agency (NEA) was fined S$1,000 (US$744) by a court on Tuesday (Jul 30).

In mitigation, 53-year-old Ramamoorthy Reddiar Jayaraman said he did not know it was an offence to eat a cigarette in Singapore.

The judge told him it was not an offence, and that he could eat as many cigarettes as he wished, but obstructing an NEA officer was the offence he was facing.

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Court documents did not state if the cigarette was lit or not.

A man going by the name of 'Bob The Cap Catcher' has become a viral sensation after he performed heroics wearing a pair of multi-coloured Speedos at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Ahead of the women’s 100m breaststroke prelims on Sunday afternoon, American swimmer Emma Weber lost her swim cap in the pool at the La Defense Arena, Paris.

It was an incident that could have delayed proceedings but as cameras showed the cap floating helplessly in the water, a middle-aged man in brightly coloured Speedos arrived on the scene.

To the delight of thousands in attendance, a confident 'Bob' made his way over to the pool area and showed no signs of slowing down.

He proceeded to enter the water with a near-perfect dive before retrieving the cap as those in attendance applauded his efforts.

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Here's how fans on social media reacted to the scenes.

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A third commented: "Olympics have peaked. Middle aged French Dad bod in brightly patterned budgie smugglers fetching a rogue swimming cap out of the pool. Biggest cheer of the games so far, well played that man.”

In a shocking incident, an accident occurred after a speeding car collided with a divider in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur. When the locals ran towards the car to check and help the accident victims, they were stunned to find that there were two boys naked and a woman in a semi-naked state with four children onboard the vehicle. The accident occurred while they were performing threesome sex inside the speeding car. There are also reports that the boys who were found naked were under the influence of alcohol.

The incident occurred on Saturday (July 27) night near near JK Chauraha which falls under the Jajmau Police Station area. The girl was reportedly having sex with both the boys simultaneously inside the speeding car in front of the children. The locals also found bottles of alcohol and also other objectionable materials from inside the car. The woman and the children suffered injuries in the accident and were sent to the hospital for treatment.

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The police said that the boys and the girl were drunk. They were drinking and were engaging in physical relation while the car was moving and the accident occurred. The height of shamelessness in that there were four kids onboard the car and they were having sex in front of them.