Ivan Segedin’s subterfuge killed him when he was in a head-on car crash while wearing a fake seatbelt, a coroner says.
“Ultimately Mr Segedin’s actions in driving without a seatbelt have cost him his life in an accident that he may well have survived had he worn one,” coroner Carla na Nagara said yesterday.

Mr Segedin, 39, refused to wear a seatbelt and had been fined for not wearing one 32 times since February 2003.

I posted just over a week ago about a thief in the US who was determined to steal the copper from a substation whilst it was still live. It appears some slightly moronic criminals in the UK have attempted a similar theft.

A ‘thief’ who tried to cut power lines on the border of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire was lucky to be alive, an electricity distributor said.
Central Networks said the person would at least have had severe hand burns.

Engineers found a hacksaw embedded in a live 11,000 voltage cable with a lit blowtorch nearby after being called to Creswell late on Saturday night.

Phil Wilson, Customer Operations Manager with Central Networks, said: “The sheer stupidity of cutting through power cables should be glaringly obvious to everyone.

“At the very least putting the hacksaw through the cable would have created an almighty bang and the line would have burned for quite a few seconds, showering them with molten copper.

“The thief left their tools behind so we can only assume they left in a great hurry or they were injured and were dragged away by an accomplice.

This evening I’d like to show you this quote.

“Obviously he was just being a bit of an idiot. It never felt at all like he was a terrorist or anything.”

Asides from being an idiot, how the heck can you “feel” if someone’s a terrorist? Is it the Kalashnikov digging in your side whilst waiting to board a plane? The crazy eyes that scream terrorist at you? Or maybe it’s the eau de terrorist that they’re wearing? People say the stupidest things sometimes.

A Walton firefighter has been warned he faces the sack if he uses his medical training to save injured people while carrying out fire calls.

Joe McMahon, a former paramedic who is now a firefighter based in Wimbledon, helped ambulance workers who were struggling to treat five casualties.

But instead of being praised, his employers told him he could be fired for misconduct if he used his medical training again.

After a disciplinary hearing he was told he might be sacked and sent a letter which warned: “When you are working as a London firefighter you are ordered not to give any medical treatment except first aid.”

“It seems to be my bosses’ opinion that it is better to let someone die than p*** off their insurance brokers.”

I would have thought the brigade would have been sued if someone with 14 years medical experience, didn’t help a dying person.

In a world of bad efits and photofits this could be the worst. The Royal Thai Police have released this sketch of a bank robber and are asking anyone who may have seen him to contact them.

He has no features, a silver reflective visor where a face should be and his black head is very bulbous…

Police rigourously gathered witness statements which were corroborated to paint a perfect picture of the bank robber.

They now say they suspect he was wearing a motorcycle helmet at the time of the robbery.