Fisherman admits to stabbing sea lion
A Los Angeles man pled guilty to violating the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act by stabbing a sea lion that stole his bait, according to the Associated Press. Hai Nguyen, 24, faces up to one year in prison and a fine of $20,000 for the misdemeanor charge.
“I was fishing and I tried to scare it away,” he said. Nguyen told the judge that he was not trying to kill the animal.
He stabbed the sea lion with a steak knife after it stole his bait, piercing the mammal’s heart. It was later euthanized.
Prostitute auctions sex to help poor, disabled children
A prostitute in Chile has auctioned 27 hours of sex to help raise money for a telethon aimed at benefiting disadvantaged and disabled children. Reuters reports that the woman, Maria Carolina, became famous overnight in the conservative Roman Catholic country, where prostitution is legal, and has been appearing on talk shows.
“I’ve already auctioned off the 27 hours of love,” she said on Wednesday, saying that she had raised about $4,000. “One of my clients already paid. It seemed like a good deed to him.”
Mario Kreutzberger, who hosts the Univision program “Sabado Gigante” as “Don Francisco” and who is the organizer of the fundraising campaign, said that while he would not encourage “immoral” activity, he would accept her pledge.
Man fails to convince court that he’s “too small” to be a flasher
A man in Britain was convicted of being a serial flasher despite his pleas that he could not be guilty because his genitals were too small. According to BBC News, Michael Carney, 41, showed the court photographs as proof that he was poorly endowed and therefore too embarrassed about his size to expose himself to women.
“My genitalia are underdeveloped and it is so much smaller than average,” he said. “I wouldn’t want myself to be seen in public like that.”
The jury was not convinced by Carney and found him guilty of seven counts of outraging public decency for revealing himself to passers-by while standing naked in the front window of his house or in his driveway. The judge said jail time is likely.