Archive for June 3rd, 2010

Traffic warden confrontations are common in the UK, but spitting is an extreme and disgraceful assault

A traffic warden is quitting after a motorist spat in her face for giving him a ticket.

Mohammed Ahmed, 25, had parked up in a bay in Manchester’s Northern Quarter without bothering to pay.

On finding he was about to get booked, he started shouting and swearing at warden Lindsey Whittaker, who is 5ft 2inch tall.

And Ahmed, of Overbrook Drive, Prestwich, ended up spitting at the victim hitting her on her left cheek and jaw said prosecutor Lindsey Willis. Read the rest of this entry »

The more we scratch the surface, the more the true nature of the so-called ‘aid flotilla’ is revealed.:

The array of equipment found on board the ships that made up the Gaza aid flotilla was as divergent as the flotilla’s stated aims.

On the one hand there was medical equipment aimed to help ease the suffering of Gaza’s sick and handicapped, and on the other there were knives, slingshots and night vision goggles, which indicate hostile goals.

Israeli military officials have said that the amount of goods found on the ships are a drop in the sea compared to the amount of goods that regularly pass into Gaza, and extrapolated that it indicates that transfer of humanitarian assistance was not the top priority of the flotilla’s organisers. Read the rest of this entry »