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This is from the Guardian's footy blog The Fiver: Lincoln-based Greenbank FC Under-10s have signed a sponsorship deal of their own - with Motorhead. "I sent an email off to them and they came back and said it was a great idea," chuckled team manager Gary Weight, a former roadie with the Stranglers, whose youngsters now run out to the Ace of Spades and wear an all-black strip featuring the band's skull logo.
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A Cornish village cafe is displaying the leftover sandwiches of rocker Pete Doherty and photographer David Bailey. The owner, Francesca Bennett, told the BBC: "We were so chuffed they had come in we kept part of his sandwich as a joke. It just grew from that." The food scraps are displayed under matching glass domes on a specially erected shelf in the cafe. No special steps have been taken to preserve the exhibits but none of them is so far showing any signs of mould. Said Francesca: "They just seem to be drying out, really. I suppose if one did start to go green and disgusting we would hopefully have something else to replace it with by then." (Source: Ananova.com)
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In a Crocodile Dundee-like moment, a Florida convenience store clerk repelled a machete-wielding robber by pulling out her own machete from behind the counter, a faceoff captured by a store surveillance camera. The man wearing a blue sweatshirt and baggy jeans approached the counter of the Lil Saints store in Stuart and pulled the weapon from his pants. After he moved away from the counter for a moment, clerk Guillermina Sanchez, 46, grabbed her machete from under the cash register. After a 20-second standoff (during which the robber frantically pressed keys on the register in a bid to open it), he left the premises. (Source: The Smoking Gun)
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All up, Washington County sheriff's deputies did $13,000 damage to Botswanna Imani's home. All three doors were knocked in, and broken glass covered the downstairs part of the house. When Imani came home to discover the devastation, she also found a brief note from the sheriff's office: "We got a call from your neighbour who was concerned about you. We had to break your doors to get inside." She wants the sheriff to apologise and pay the US$1000 deductible on her home insurance. So far, Sheriff Fred Newman isn't apologising, and he's turned requests for payment over to a state agency that insures government agencies. That agency is refusing to pay. (Source: Reason.com)
