Trafiona meteorytem

76-letnia Pauline Aguss jest najprawdopodobniej pierwszą Brytyjką, którą trafił meteoryt. Jej historię opisuje w środę dziennik "Sun".

Pani Aguss z Lowestoft we wschodniej Anglii zabierała się właśnie za rozwieszanie prania w ogródku, kiedy poczuła ostry ból w ramieniu. Została zraniona, ale nie miała pojęcia, co się stało. W końcu jej mąż Jack znalazł wyjaśnienie. W miejscu, w którym Pauline zaczynała rozwieszać bieliznę, na ziemi leżał zakrwawiony, ciężki "kamyk" wielkości orzecha włoskiego.

Astronom Neil Bone, który obejrzał to znalezisko, uznał, że najprawdopodobniej jest to meteoryt.

"Sun" pisze, że meteoryt pochodzi prawdopodobnie z pasa asteroid między Jowiszem a Marsem. Ziemia jest regularnie "bombardowana" przez meteoryty, ale Wielka Brytania nie zna przypadku trafienia człowieka przez taki kawałek pozaziemskiej materii.

Pauline Aguss uważa, że miała wiele szczęścia, ponieważ meteoryt trafił ją w ramię, a nie w głowę, co mogłoby się zakończyć fatalnie.

Fight Club

(CNN) -- Workers at a Texas state school for mentally handicapped
adults are believed to have been staging a "fight club" among residents, encouraging them to physically battle one another, police
told CNN Tuesday.

A cell phone containing videos of the alleged abuse at the Corpus Christi State School in Corpus Christi, Texas, was turned over to police last week, and authorities are expecting to file arrest warrants this week, Corpus Christi police Capt. Tim Wilson told CNN.
The incidents are believed to have taken place in a school dormitory,
Wilson said.

"This has been going on for some time," Wilson said. "That is what
makes this an exceptional case. It is not the workers abusing the clients, so to speak. The workers are not hitting them, but they are
allowing these clients to fight with each other, thereby endangering
their well-being."

Wilson said Corpus Christi police received the cell phone a week ago,
when a citizen found it and gave it to an officer working security at
a hospital. The officer looked at several of the videos, then gave the
phone to the police's forensic unit for analysis. More videos were found in the phone's memory.

"It appears it was some sort of a fight club," Wilson said. Twenty videos were found on the phone, with dates going back about a year.
All the videos featured the school's "clients," who are severely mentally handicapped, he said.

On the videos, "they (the clients) are not upset like they are being
forced," Wilson said. "They are being more goaded into it. There's a
lot of voices on there from workers ... saying, 'Look at that, ha ha'
... laughing, stuff like that." No clients are seen crying, upset or injured on the videos, he said, but no workers are seen stopping the fighting.

"The fighting entails pushing, wrestling and some shoving," Wilson
said. Police do not believe anyone was seriously injured, he said, but
the investigation is ongoing.
"Four or five clients have been identified and at least five workers,
possibly as many as 10," he said. "Some are more active in staging the fights, and some others passively stand around not doing anything."