Kerri Dobson has had 21 conquests and has the mementos to prove it.
Ranging from hair gel to a nude photo, clothes to song lyrics, she has something to remind her of each man she has had a sexual encounter with.
One of her prized ‘trophies’ is a condom wrapper which Kerri had kept after losing her virginity aged 15.
Kerri, now 22, said: “Ever since then each time I spend the night with a guy I walk away with something I hope he won’t miss.
“Often it’s clothes like a used pair of boxer shorts, an old T-shirt, a hat or a jumper — something that smells of him.”
Kerri, of Brighton, said: “I’ve always been a collector and compiled scrapbooks from holidays. This is just a more adult version.
“I’m not ashamed of my big collection as each sexual experience has shaped me and the items remind me of that.”
Due to house building boom across Harare, Zimbabwe has a new crime wave: rampant sand poaching.
Truck loads of sand are transported daily from illegal extraction locations dotted across the city to construction sites; but as the sand poachers smile all the way to the bank they leave behind yawning craters on the earth’s surface.
Harare Residents Trust Director Precious Shumba blamed the absence of law enforcement agencies in the community as a major driver of the uncontrolled sand poaching.
Shumba added that there was need for concerted efforts from the City of Harare, civic organizations and the government to combat sand poaching.
Whilst the Harare Residents Trust, Environmental Management Agency (EMA) and other likeminded organizations look for ways to deal with the rampant sand poaching in Harare the poachers continue with their activities.
Comas Nyoni, a poacher based at Malvern Mahachi Heights near Irvine’s says sand- poaching is the only source of income for the more than seventy youth involved in the practices.
“There is high unemployment and sand poaching is helping us sustain our livelihoods, I think it’s better for us to fend for ourselves rather than to end up as robbers,” he said.
However residents in the suburbs where poachers operates are unhappy and are desperate for government intervention, Builders in the areas feel that as long as there are price discrepancies between the sand provided by the poachers and that from the formal market poaching will be difficult to eradicate.
Joshua Nyamande, a builder said, “Sand poaching is providing cheap sand for most people and as long as the prices on formal markets are high I don’t see the practice ending.”
Sand poachers sell their sand at prices ranging from $40-$50 per five cubic metres whilst the same amount of sand can be bought from $100-$120 on the formal market.
The (EMA) says it cannot eradicate sand poaching on its own. The organization’s Communications and Publicity officer Steady Kangata said everyone had a responsibility to ensure that sand poaching is eradicated.
“The police, city council and the communities where these crimes are committed must play a role, we do carry out patrols in the areas but there is need for stricter measures to deal with the problem.”
Until a lasting solution is found sand poaching will continue to cause land degradation around Harare.
A man in England related how he was shocked when a fox ran off with his garlic bread as he walked home with groceries.
Seb Baker, 29, said he was walking home from the Tesco store in Orpington on Monday evening. He was then approached by a fox.
“I turned down an alley, but when I looked round I saw it running towards me. I stopped, thinking it would run off. But the fox started circling me and then jumped up, trying to grab my shopping bag,” Baker said.
“I had expected it to run away. I thought a fox would be scared of a 15-stone (210-pound) man.”
The fox would not stop trying to take his shopping bags.
“Eventually I opened the bag and gave it the garlic loaf. He grabbed it and ran off,” Baker said.
Wildlife expert John Bryant said fox muggings are uncommon.
“Foxes are getting bolder but they are not interested in humans, they are concentrated on food,” he said.
“If a fox is jumping at your shopping bag you need to shout at it and chase it off, not just give it the food. The best thing to use is a water pistol.”
California police had to break up a break-in at a crematorium in Santa Cruz this week.
A member of the public called police after seeing two men trespassing at the Santa Cruz Memorial Park late on Monday night.
When the police arrived, they said that they found the men attempting to get into the crematorium.
Apparently wanted to take their friend’s remains off the cemetery grounds.
Police identified the two as David Sada of Scotts Valley, Calif., and Nicholas Canavarro of Redding, Calif.
The police said Sada was visibly drunk and Canavarro tried to kick in a locked door.
Police declined to name the deceased other than to say he lived in the area and had recently passed away.
Canavarro was booked on attempted burglary charges. Sada was booked on suspicion of public drunkenness.
It is unclear what they wanted to do with their deceased friend.
A Chinese farmer is claiming that a goat-riding monkey keeps sneaking onto his land to steal his vegetables.
Ye Shu, of Donguan, Guangdong Province, says the animals are owned by a neighbouring circus.
He claims the pair sneak into his field nearly every day, eat a lot of vegetables and damage many others.
“This has been going on for two weeks since the acrobatic troupe was first stationed here,” he complained.
Ye says the clever monkey first stands on the goat’s back to make sure the coast is clear before launching his raids.
“If the monkey sees that nobody is working in the field, he rides in on the goat and they start eating and causing trouble.”
A circus spokesman admitted there was nobody to keep an eye on the animals after they had finished their part of the performance.
“We have compensated Ye Shu, and we are sorry for our neglect,” said Wu Jun, the troupe leader.
Wu said he was now recruiting more animal keepers to prevent the pair from getting out of hand again.
A salt-water Australian crocodile reacted badly when a noisy lawnmower invaded his space. He stole it, forcing keepers to make a daring rescue.
Elvis, who lives at the Australian Reptile Park, lunged at the mower, grabbing it from operations manager Tim Faulkner and keeper Billy Collett. Pulling it under water, the five-metre saltwater crocodile “drowned” the machine at the park near Sydney.
He then sat and watched his catch for more than an hour in his enclosure.
“Once he got it, he just sat there and guarded it,” said Mr Faulkner. “It was his prize, his trophy. If it moved, then he would attack it again.”
That, he said, was fairly typical crocodile behaviour. But Elvis, who is one of the largest crocodiles in New South Wales, is also “a big territorial male” who likes his meat.
While the keeper lured Elvis to the other end of the enclosure with an offering of kangaroo meat, Mr Faulkner was able to jump in, retrieve the badly chewed up mower and two teeth that Elvis had lost in the process.
“He has extraordinarily large teeth – much bigger than most crocodiles,” added Mr Faulkner. “He punched his teeth through the top casing of the mower.”
Elvis, who was captured in the wild and is thought to be around 50 years old, has always been a cranky croc. He was attacking fishing boats in Darwin harbour when he was caught, his keeper said.
At the crocodile farm he was first brought to after being caught, he ate two of his girlfriends.
“He is so full of testosterone that he views everything as a threat,” explained Mr Faulkner. “Even potential mates.”
