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Plot to smuggle mobiles into prison by kite foiled

Sao Paulo, BRAZIL - Two Brazilian teenagers were arrested on the weekend for allegedly plotting to smuggle cellphones into a prison using a kite, reports said Sunday. Skip related content

According to police, the two unidentified adolescents were arrested late Saturday with two kites and mobile phones inside a building in Tremembe, a town outside Sao Paulo, the G1 news website reported.

Police said the two confessed to planning the operation, and said they were to have received 175 dollars through an ex-girlfriend of a prisoner in the town's Tarcizo Leonce Pinheiro Cintra penitentiary.

Incarcerated criminals in Brazil often go to great lengths to acquire and use mobile telephones to keep illicit businesses running from behind bars.

On Friday, G1 reported, a prisoner being transferred from a temporary detention center in Tremembe to a Sao Paulo prison set off a metal detector. Wardens found a mobile phone, battery and charger inserted in his anus.

Kung fu master jabs way into records book

Malacca, MALAYSIA - A kung fu master has jabbed his way into the Malaysian records book after piercing four coconuts with his index finger in a little over 30 seconds, according to a newspaper report.

Ho Eng Hui, 55, made it into the Malaysia Book of Records for coconut opening with his 30.81 second feat, the New Straits Times reported Monday.

"Now, I will start preparing myself to get into the Guinness Book of World Records," Master Ho told the newspaper.

"This is not an illusion or black magic. I am able to do this after mastering the Chinese martial art technique of using the strength of my finger, from a martial arts master in Singapore."

Hundreds of people, many of them tourists, witnessed the record breaking coconut piercing in Malacca on Saturday.

Master Ho smashed his previous record of breaking three coconuts in 70 seconds.

Thief abandons bid to forklift ATM

Malaysia - Closed-circuit television footage caught the helmet-wearing, white jumpsuit-clad thief in the act as he used the forklift to ram the cash machine booth for 10 minutes, district police chief Zainal Rashid Abu Bakar told the Star daily.

The cash machine was located at a petrol station which was closed during the early morning robbery attempt, he said.

"However, as soon as the alarm went off, the man panicked and left the forklift which was stuck in the panel" of the cash dispenser, Zainal told the daily.

He said police were investigating the incident which follows a similar attempt last year when a man rammed an excavator into a petrol station making off with the entire cash machine, the paper reported.

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