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Road with 100 cameras plagued by crime

A crime-ridden high street in north London has been branded the most spied-upon road in Britain.

It is watched over by more than 100 closed circuit television cameras, reports the Daily Telegraph.

In one 650-yard section of Holloway Road, that runs from Archway to Highbury Corner, there are 29 cameras mounted on shops and lampposts, a church and a courtroom.

There are 102 CCTV cameras monitoring crime on the two-mile road, as well as a further seven checking for speeding cars and vehicles straying into bus lanes.

Civil liberties groups are alarmed by the number of opportunities for the state to watch people in Holloway Road.

Mark Dziecielewski, of Watching Them Watching Us, said: "Politicians like cameras because they are seen to be doing something but, just like you see birds perched on scarecrows, the hoodies and dealers come back once the novelty has worn off.

"Having so many cameras in one place actually makes police investigations harder because they have to divert so much manpower into checking footage from every single camera."

Police recently disclosed there had been 430 offences committed over six months on Holloway Road, including 29 serious assaults, 15 robberies and 32 burglaries.

Britain has 4.2 million CCTV cameras, one for every 14 people, more than in the rest of Europe put together.

Harry and his wife are having hard financial times, so they decide that she'll become a hooker.

She's not quite sure what to do, so Harry says, "Stand in front of that bar and pick up a guy. Tell him that you charge a hundred bucks. If you've got a question, I'll be parked around the corner."

She's standing there for five minutes when a guy pulls up and asks, "How much?" She says, "A hundred Dollars."

He says, "All I got is thirty". She says, "Hold on," and runs back to Harry and asks, "What can he get for thirty?"

"A hand job", Harry replies.

She runs back and tells the guy all he gets for thirty dollar is a hand job. He agrees. She gets in the car. He unzips his pants, and out pops this HUGE ......

She stares at it for a minute, and then says, "I'll be right back." She runs back to Harry, and asks, "Can you loan this guy seventy bucks?"

A keen Texas lad applied for a salesman's job at a city department store.
The store was the biggest in the world and sold everything under the sun.

"Have you ever been a salesman before?" the boss asked during his
interview.

"Yes, I was a salesman in Texas," the lad answered.

The boss took an immediate liking to him and told him he could start the
next day. "I'll come and see how you made out after we close up," the
boss said.

The day was long and hard for the young man, but finally it was 5 o'clock.
The boss closed up the store and found the lad sitting, slumped and
exhausted, in a chair. "How many sales did you make today?" the boss
asked.

"One," said the lad.

"One?" said the boss, obviously displeased. "Most of the sales people on
my staff make 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale worth?

"Exactly $101,334.53," said the young man.

"How did you manage that?" asked the boss, flabbergasted.

"Well," said the lad, "this man came in and I sold him a small fish hook,
then a medium fish hook, and finally a really large hook. Then I sold him
a small fishing line, a medium one, and huge one. I asked him where he was
going fishing, and he said he was going down the coast. I said he'd
probably need a boat, so I took him down to the boat department and sold
him that fancy 22-foot Chris Craft with twin engines. Then he said his
Honda Civic probably wouldn't be able to handle the load, so I took him to
the vehicle department and sold him a new GMC 1-ton pickup truck.

"You sold all that to guy who came in for a fish hook?" the boss asked in
astonishment.

"He didn't come in to buy a fish hook," the Texas boy explained. "He came
in to buy a box of tampons for his wife, and I said to him, 'Your
weekend's shot. You might as well go fishing.'

I suffer with inverted nipples. Most of the time this isn't a problem, but when they decide that they want to pop out, they are very sensitive and tender and soon become very sore; so I need to rub vaseline over them to prevent any friction occuring with the material of my shirt.

NEW YORK -- You've had your breasts enhanced and now you have that Jayne Mansfield look. But something's still missing. Your nipples just don't have that perk.

Enter one of the fastest growing cosmetic surgeries in the United States... nipple enlargement. New York-based nipple surgeon Bruce Nadler performs the procedure on half a dozen people a year and says most do it because they want the "teasing look " of an erect nipple all the time.

Still others - mostly men - are nipple fetishists who want their nipples to be the biggest, most desirable nipples possible. The "super-sizing" is done with injections of collagen or cartilage taken from the patient's ear. Dr. Nadler says another popular procedure is nipple reduction surgery, which is done mostly by women who are self conscious about looking nipply in cold weather.

Last night I was undecided about going out to the pub, so I had a look at the TV guide to see if there was anything on to watch - there usually isn't on a Friday night. However, I noticed that they were showing the recent re-make of 'The Stepford Wives', so I stayed in and watched it.

What a strange film! It's not at all as I expected it to be. It seemed to be some sort of camp comedy, and not a serious science fiction treatise at all; nothing at all like the original film.

I've just been and checked on the Internet Movie Database, and it is classed as a comedy on the site.

The film was okay; but ultimately disappointing I would say.