WEIRD BUT TRUE
Looks like some soccer fans at one Welsh pub were really thirsty for an England loss.
A pub in Wales has been deemed racist after its owner decided to offer customers a free drink every time a goal is scored against England in the World Cup.
Julie Jones, who owns The Strand in the city of Swansea, said there is nothing malicious about the promise – which started out as a joke between herself and some of her English regulars.
But Ray Singh, the former Racial Equality Commissioner for Wales, criticized the free-drink offer, saying it created divisions between the English and the Welsh. England has only given up one goal since the tournament kicked off last month.
A 13-year-old California boy who faced a possible eight years in juvenile prison for a spitball attack will spend some time behind bars. Jeffrey Figueroa, who was convicted of two felonies for injuring a 14-year-old boy with the speedy spitball, was ordered to spend a week in juvenile detention in a case that his lawyer said showed prosecutors intent on “criminalizing childhood behavior.”
American World War II veterans and Normandy villagers have joined forces as they did on June 6, 1944 – only this time the enemy is not the Nazis, but a clam business. Two area fishermen in Omaha Beach want to create a commercial mussel bed on the hallowed D-Day landing site and even plan to use “Omaha Beach” as a brand name to sell their seafood products.
A Romanian paramedic gave a dead man mouth-to-mouth after his wife thought she saw him move in his coffin. The 52-year-old woman frantically called paramedics, who tried to resuscitate the 56-year-old man – but he was still dead.


