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First capsule hotel with fifty windowless pods opens in Moscow I
t's not exactly a room with a view - but this hotel in Russia could be many travellers' answer to a good night's sleep. Located in the centre of Moscow, the Sleepbox Hotel is the first capsule hotel to open in the city.
Manallegedly commits robbery to pay for girlfriend's probation
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hat a catch.Marquis Baldwin, 22, of Pensacola, Fla., allegedly robbed four businesses between Nov. 20 and Jan. 9 in an attempt to get enough money to pay off his girlfriend's probation fees, according to the Press-Register. Three of those robberies involved Waffle House restaurants, according to WKRG. Baldwin also allegedly robbed a Kangaroo gas station. Police say surveillance footage ultimately led them to Baldwin, and that after his arrest, he told them he committed the crimes so he could pay for costs related to his girlfriend's probation. According to PNJ.com, all of the woman's probation fees were paid off by the time of the final robbery. He has been charged with four counts of armed robbery and six counts of aggravated assault, and is being held on $80,0000 in the Escambia County Jail.
It features fifty cramped, windowless pods, some of which which can sleep up to three people, and which can be booked for the night, or for a matter of hours. A night's accommodation is reported to cost around ÂŁ32 ($50). Each modular capsule is kitted out with a bed, shelf, lamp, small wardrobe and table, while shared bathrooms are fitted with a shower. Already a hit in Japan, the capsule hotel features a number of identikit rooms measuring around 10 square metres intended to provide cheap and basic overnight
and female sleeping quarters. In the UK, YO! Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe came up with the idea for the YO! hotel chain after seeing the capsule concept in Japan. The first Yotel opened at Gatwick South Terminal in 2007, offering travellers a pay-as-you-go base. Staffing is kept to a minimum: guests check themselves in, while the purple-coloured pod rooms cover essential needs. Mr Woodroffe boasted of the high quality of the rooms describing them as 'luxury liner meets The
Fifth Element'. He added that they included flat screen TVs, rotating beds and broadband internet access. Yotel managing director Gerard Greene said: 'The rooms are very comfortable, highly fitted, with things like the leather you would get in an Aston Martin 'It is the look of a four or five-star hotel.' Further Yotels have since opened at Heathrow Terminal 4 and Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, and near Times Square in New York.
'Tampon Girl' marries guy for eatinghuman poop
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accommodation for guests not requiring the services offered by more conventional hotels. Space-saving hotels in Japan are often located near railway stations and cater for business people or commuters who have missed the last train home. The absence of windows ensures the hotels can be erected in such unlikely sites as underground stations. One capsule hotel in central Tokyo boasts more than 600 pods. Many are used primarily by men and some have separate male
at your heart out, Will and Kate.A woman who apparently put a used, bloody tampon in her mouth and a man who posted a video of himself eating ice cream laced with human feces have wed in holy Facebook matrimony. The Daily Dot reports that 'Tampon Girl,' as the Internet has dubbed 15-year-old Buffalo resident Giovanna Plowman,
recently changed her Facebook relationship status to married to Dino Bruscia, another New York teen who gained online infamy for poop eating. The news comes shortly after Plowman's tampon video went viral, earning her instant Internet fame and a slew of hate-filled tweets. The graphic tampon video is below. Plowman's sudden stardom seemed to initially irk Bruscia,
who sent out the tweet: "Still trying to overcome the fact a b---h who sends all her nude parts eats a tampon with blood out famed me in 1 day." But it looks like the two have decided to join forces in an effort to siphon off each other's Twitter and Facebook followers. Both have sent out tweets asking their fans to follow them both. For whatever it's worth,
Plowman has much more social cache, boasting 229,000 Facebook followers and 27,000 Twitter followers to Bruscia's 23,000 and 2,000, respectively. Gawker reports that the two, who are probably not actually married, may have set their sights on the girl who released a video of herself apparently having sex with a dog.
Two men stole $65,000 In Chicken Wings Amid Shortage- Cops
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Dewayne Patterson with Renaldo Jackson
he War of the Wings has begun.Two storage workers in Georgia are accused of stealing $65,000 worth of frozen chicken wings amid a high nationwide demand for the delicious Super Bowl snack. Dewayne Patterson, 35 and Renaldo Jackson, 26, allegedly used a rental truck on Jan. 12 to steal 10 warehouse pallets of frozen wings from Nordic Cold Storage in Lawrenceville, WSB-TV reported today. The two allegedly pulled the heist in the middle of the day.
Jackson reportedly used a forklift to load the wings while Patterson acted as a lookout. They were arrested on Wednesday and charged with one count of felony theft, AJC reports. They were later released on $2,950 bond. The wings, however, were never found. It's a theft most fowl because wings are expected to reach record prices during the Super Bowl this year. Chicken farmers argue that feed prices are growing following a higher demand for wings in restaurants, leaving football fans bracing for a shortage.