Jail for ‘Fat Lesbian’ Remark Customs A
writer and commentator was jailed for 60 days by a Swiss court for call-
ing a journalist a “fat lesbian.” Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, was convicted of defamation, discrimina- tion, and incitement to hatred and ordered to pay legal fees and fines totaling thou- sands of Swiss francs, in addition to time behind bars.
Soral lashed out at Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures, in a Facebook video two years ago calling her a “fat lesbian” and said Macherel’s work as a “queer activist”
A
Georgia man received a $1.4 million speeding ticket, but city of icials
claimed the figure was just a placeholder, not the actual fine. Connor Cato told WSAV-TV in Savannah
that he received the citation after getting pulled over in September for driving 90 mph in a 55 mph zone. He called the court thinking
the figure was a typo, but says he was told he either had to pay it or appear in court in December. The figure Cato received
reflected a “placeholder” that
was automatically generated by e-citation software used by the local Recorder’s Court, said Joshua Peacock, a spokesman for Savannah city government. The actual fine cannot exceed $1,000, in addition to state- mandated costs.
T
wo bears on an Alaska military base raided a Krispy Kreme doughnut van that was stopped outside a convenience store during its delivery route.
Bear-FacedROBBERY
The driver usually left his doors open when he stopped at the store, but this time a sow and one of her cubs sauntered inside, where they stayed for 20 minutes, said Shelly Deano, the store manager at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson JMM Express.
The bears chomped on doughnut holes and other pastries, ignoring the banging on the side of the van that was aimed at shooing them away, Deano said. The bears eventually came out and
wandered in front of the convenience store before heading into the woods.
It’s not unusual to see bears on
base or around the store, but nothing like this has happened before, Deano said, adding that the delivery driver now closes his doors when he stops at the shop.
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meant she was “unhinged.” Murial Waeger, co-director of the lesbi-
an activist group LOS, said: “The conviction is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society.” Soral plans to appeal all the way to
the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer said.
In 2020, a Swiss referendum made it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation. Soral has been convicted re-
peatedly in France and sentenced to jail time for denying the
Holocaust, which is a crime in France.
SORAL SOURCE: New York Post
Offi cers Seize Giraff e Poop
A
box of giraff e poop was seized by customs agents after a woman tried to
bring the feces into the U.S. to make a necklace. The woman had declared the small box
when she was selected to have her belongings inspected upon arriving at the Minneapolis- Saint Paul Airport in
Minnesota in September, according to Customs and Border Protection.
The woman, from Iowa, told of icials she picked up
the poop on a trip to Kenya. She had previously made a necklace with moose feces. Giraff e feces can be imported with the proper
permits and inspections, according to Minnesota Public Radio. LaFonda Sutton-Burke, a field director at
Customs and Border Protection, said: “If this person had entered the U.S. and had not declared these items, there is high possibility a person could have contracted a disease from this jewelry and developed serious health issues.”
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‘NAZI’ CALL GETS COACH FIRED
SOURCE: New York Post A
n Ohio high school football coach says he was forced
to resign by his school district and intended no harm to opposing players after he and his team repeatedly used “Nazi” as a game call in a Sept. 22 match. In an interview with the Associated Press, former Brooklyn High School coach Tim McFarland, 70, said he never meant any off ense by using the term and that it “didn’t even occur” to him that it could be
MCFARLAND taken as antisemitic. But the team’s use of Nazi has been largely
criticized as such, especially given that the plays were called during a game against Beachwood High — a school based in a largely Jewish Cleveland suburb. Peter Pattakos, McFarland’s lawyer, balked at the idea of the word Nazi being deemed antisemitic and said it is a historical term, often used in football to warn teammates of what is known as a “blitz.”
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