Shocked Australian families have told of their disgust after children were handed explicit novelty chocolates at a school Mother’s Day function.
The chocolates were shaped like penises, breasts and buttocks – as well as others depicting couples having sex. They were passed out in see-through bags at a P&C function held at Woodberry Public School in the Hunter Valley last Friday.
Cassandra Lacey, who has two sons at the school, said she was horrified to be handed a bag of the treats as she walked through the door.
“As soon as I opened mine, my son said, ‘Ah, Mum’ and I had to do a double-take,” Ms Lacey said. “Every single chocolate was to do with sex. This was in the school hall, on the school grounds and in school time.”
Another woman who attended Friday’s function said she watched on, “absolutely disgusted”, as children were given the chocolates.
“My nine-year-old grandson gave this zip-lock bag to me, put it in my lap and said to me, ‘You’ve got a willy in there Nanny’,” she said.
“Then I had a three-year-old sit down next to me and she said, ‘Hey, what’s this?’ She had this brown chocolate shaped like a penis and was about to eat the top off it. I told her she had better go and talk to her mother.”
It is believed the chocolates were left over from last year’s P&C Mother’s Day fundraiser, held as an adults-only girls’ night at a local venue.
P&C spokeswoman and school council president Jenny Gray said she was not at Friday’s function but intended to meet principal Josie Bailey to discuss the issue.
“All I can tell you is that it has come to my attention and yes, I have spoken to the principal and we’ll be having a meeting on Monday,” Ms Gray said.
She insisted the issue would not be “swept under the carpet”.
He’s not exactly green-fingered, but this bizarre plant from southern China seems to be more than a handful for any gardener.
The root – from the He Shou Wu plant – is used in traditional medicine to rejuvenate virility and strength and is even said to turn grey hair back to black.
Farmer Lu Chen, 47 – from Nanning – has been offered up to £100 for the plant but refused to sell.
“I think it is a sign that my farm will have new fertility and that I’m going to have a bumper crop this year,” he explained.
Kylie Steger’s appetite for fast food has been ruined by a rude surprise at the bottom of a burger box.
Mrs Steger of Toowoomba, Australia, was irate after lifting up her Hungry Jack’s hamburger to find a crude picture of a penis drawn on the inside of the box.
She said grabbing a takeaway dinner for her husband and two children from the outlet had been a regular habit.
“Every week we get takeaway because we are always late with football and netball for the kids,” Mrs Steger said.
“It is like a little treat.” Mrs Steger said the weekly dinner stop would now come to an end.
“It literally made me sick,” she said. “If they have drawn that in there, what else have they done to my burger?”
She said she was grateful the burger did not go to her children.
“I’ll never buy another burger from there again.”
She said the store had been notified of her complaint.
A Hungry Jack’s spokesman said the company was treating the complaint “very seriously” and had launched an internal investigation to determine the facts.
A 26-year-old man cut his penis at a fruit stand in Tsinghua University on Valentine’s Day. He then committed suicide by jumping off a hotel.
The incident began at the dental clinic of the Tsinghua University.
According to Dr. Li, a stranger came in before noon with his hands holding his private part. He was asking for anesthetics, but the only anesthetic they had was for teeth.
Then the man left, with his jeans soaked in blood. Dr. Li said he then ran towards the fruit shop.
“That man used the fruit knife, just cut the thing off!” said Miss Hua, the owner of the fruit stand.
The man came into the shop, saying he wanted to buy some fruits, but he walked back and forth, seemed like he had no intension to buy anything.
Suddenly he took a knife on the table and took off his jeans.
Miss Hua was scared and ran out for help.
About one minute later, she saw the man stepping out of her shop and running to the dental clinic. He also threw a bloody thing in the street.
Miss Hua went back into her shop, only to find blood and the knife on the ground. “I was nearly throwing up! And I called police immediately!” she said.
Dr. Li saw the man was back again after 10 minutes. “I was totally shocked and told him that we could not fix that wound.”
The man then ran to the university hospital.
According to the surgery physician, he was badly wounded by cutting off his penis. They bandaged him and prepared to send him to another bigger hospital.
However, the man suddenly fled while doctors were away.
Doctors were searching for him and they heard someone jumped off the nearby hotel building, and later found out it was the same person.
The hotel reception staff recalled that the man came in and directly walked to the 3rd floor, then jumped off the balcony. No one had ever talked to him.
First-aider came and sent him to a nearby hospital.
Police picked up his penis and sent it to the hospital as well.
According to one of the witnesses, the man ate a meal at the university cafeteria and hid in a dormitory.
He came out with blood on his jeans and a knife in his hand. “He probably cut himself in the dormitory,” said the witness.
Others guessed that he was trying to change his gender because of his tiny body and girlish dress. But all of them are not confirmed by the police.
The man is named Zhu. The doctors said that they failed to rescue him because his head and lungs were severely damaged and he’s losing too much blood. No evidence showed he had metal illness.
Some patients saw the police was talking to a man familiar with Zhu, who said he had just graduated and had no illness before.
Tsinghua University said the deceased man was not a student from Tsinghua and this incident had nothing to do with the university.
Source: China Hush
A former Navy man was awarded $7.5 million by an El Cajon, California, jury in a lawsuit stemming from a motorcycle crash with an auto dealer’s courtesy shuttle that left him with a penis permanently shortened by more than an inch.
The Superior Court verdict against Group 1 Automotive and Rancho Auto Group of San Diego centered on events that occurred on Aug. 30, 2007, in San Diego’s Midway District. That is when the motorcycle Matthew Wall was riding collided with a shuttle van from Rancho Auto Group.
At the time, Wall was 23 and an active duty noncommissioned officer assigned to a nuclear submarine in San Diego at the time. A spokesman for Group 1 Automotive, the main defendant, said Friday the company is appealing the verdict and declined to comment further.
Lawyers for Wall alleged the van made a left turn from Saint Charles Street onto Lytton Street without looking for oncoming traffic.
The van turned in front of Wall, who was riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle to work. Wall struck the van and was thrown forward on to the motorcycle’s handlebars, suffering a fracture of his pubic ramus bone.
He also suffered a crushing injury to his penis, as well as nerve and artery damage, said his trial lawyer Nicholas Rowley. Reconstructive surgery was successful but it resulted in a loss of 1.5 inches in the length of his penis.
Rowley said that the van’s driver, Pedro Flores Miramontes, was a non-U.S. citizen who had an expired driver’s licence and had never been trained as a shuttle driver.
Wall is no longer in the Navy and lives in South Carolina, said Rowley. He had recently married at the time of the crash. The couple has since divorced.
Rowley said it was uncertain if Wall would be able to have children because of the injury.
“It’s going to affect his relationships and his self-esteem in the future,” Rowley said.
A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is suing a South Jersey-based maker of frozen treats and other snack foods, claiming that she was wrongfully fired because she wore a prosthetic penis to work.
Pauline Davis, 45, wore the device to the J&J Snack Foods plant in Moosic, Lackawanna County, while she contemplated a gender change, according to a federal civil-rights complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Scranton. She confided in several co-workers about the device, and someone told management, according to the complaint.
She subsequently was fired from her job as a packer/line inspector. Her termination, she claims, was discriminatory because a male co-worker who wore female clothing and prostheses and took hormone treatments was not fired nor disciplined. Further, argued her Bucks County-based attorney, Lalena J. Turchi, her fake penis was concealed and “in no way interfered with her ability to do her job.”
Davis filed a complaint in March 2010 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office in Philadelphia, claiming gender and gender-identity discrimination. She is seeking back pay, damages for suffering and humiliation, and punitive damages, according to this week’s lawsuit.
