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Entertainment is something people need in their lives , as they get bored of their daily existence. People want to have fun at the end of the day. They want to see funny things and crack jokes. That is the reason why entertainment industry is a huge industry worth billions of dollars. Since the time immemorial , humans used to find things to entertain themselves. Archaeologists have found evidence of cavemen enjoying themselves with music , dance and some kinds of art forms.

Humor is a great way to entertain a large number of people. This is a reason why cracking jokes have been a universal thing found in all countries of the world in one form or the other. A joke is a short and funny story , which shows someone or something in bad light while making people laugh.  Jokes normally end with some surprising or funny , or strange twist that can evoke strong emotions in the listener. 

The industry that provides entertainment and other sources of amusement for people at a large scale is known as the entertainment industry. In modern times there are many forms of entertainment. Cinema , drama , music , dance , arts are some of the forms of entertainment. Various forms of entertainment cater to various tastes of people. For example , fine arts attract people with finer sensibilities. On the other hand , music attracts young people who want to have fun. Fiction writing is also a form of entertainment that caters to people's higher intellectual pursuits. Humor and romance are the most popular elements of entertainment , followed by fantasy , glamor and mystery.

In modern world , people have access to sophisticated means to entertain themselves. Now a days people have access to lots of entertainment means like games , circus , cinema , TV , music , dance , etc. After the advent of the Internet , this new medium has emerged as a big source of entertainment. Now a days lots of entertainment web portals offer items for entertainment , including jokes , funny pictures , music downloads , desktop wallpapers , screen savers , riddles , etc.

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A university student who was photographed urinating over a war memorial was warned on Wednesday that he could be jailed for the "disgusting act." Philip Laing , 19 , was charged by police after the picture , which showed him urinating on a poppy wreath following a drinking session in the center of Sheffield , appeared on a national newspaper's website. "The image of your urinating over the poppy wreath on the war memorial in this city will make most turn away in disgust , shock and sadness , " said District Judge Anthony Browne. "It has undoubtedly distressed and upset many. The war memorial is a sacred and a special place." Laing , who appeared in the dock wearing a poppy , pleaded guilty to outraging public decency when he appeared at Sheffield Magistrates' Court. Browne adjourned sentencing for reports , saying all options including custody , were open , the Press Association reported. The court heard that Laing , a Sports technology student at Sheffield Hallam University , had drunk a bottle of whisky before attending an organized student drinking session organized by a private company , Carnage UK.More

A man faces charges after Palmer police said he tried to steal 70 pounds of copper he had hidden in his lunchbox. Benjamin Joseph Belles , 29 , of 615 Scholl Ave. , Salisbury Township , was charged Tuesday with theft. He's in Northampton County Prison under $10 , 000 bail.

 

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Shortly after 4 p.m. , police were called to Belyea Co. , 2200 Northwood Ave. An operations manager , James Kinney , said Belles was being fired because they suspected him of stealing copper. As Belles was being led out , they asked if he had anything ''on him.'' Belles opened up his lunchbox , where he had hidden 70 pounds of scrap copper.

 

He admitted to police he planned to sell the copper as scrap metal. According to records noted by District Judge Gay Elwell , Belles said he uses heroin.

 

Police said the estimated value of the copper is $154.

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Dallas police are looking for a man who they say repeatedly sneaks into backyards , dances around naked and then runs away. Police believe the man has been exposing himself in the same neighborhood since 2005. The most recent incident was on Sept. 30.

 

Police say he usually climbs a fence or goes through a gate and either dances naked or jumps in a swimming pool naked. Police say he also has danced naked on top of a backyard air conditioning unit.

 

Police say they're looking for a pudgy man who is about 6 feet tall and covers his face while dancing. Dallas Police Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther says police want to catch him before it escalates into something worse.

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A New Mexico woman kicked off an airplane at the Burlington International Airport three years ago for breast feeding her baby is suing Delta Air Lines. Negotiations failed to reach a settlement between the Atlanta-based airline and Emily Gillette. On Wednesday Gillette filed suit in U.S. District Court in Burlington.

 

Gillette was ordered off a Delta Connections plane by a flight attendant after twice refusing an order to cover up while she breast fed her baby prior to takeoff. Gillette's lawsuit says she felt "shame and embarrassed" after being ordered off the plane.

 

Delta refused to comment on the suit , but a spokesman says the airline supports a mother's right to breast-feed.

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The Indiana Court of Appeals in the US says six inmates at the Greene County Jail didn't commit a crime when they sneaked into each other's cells to have sex.

 

The 2-1 ruling upheld Greene Superior Court Judge Dena Martin's decision dismissing escape charges against three men and three women. Martin ruled the inmates didn't commit a crime because they didn't intend to leave the jail.

 

Two appellate judges agreed , but Judge Ezra Friedlander issued a lengthy dissent Wednesday , reasoning that the inmates committed escape because they left the cells where they were ordered confined.

 

Court records say the men — ages 44 , 38 and 17 — and the women — ages 27 , 26 and 21 — crawled through the ceiling after midnight , having sex and drinking homemade alcohol.

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Teenagers are being bribed with free alcohol to take sexual health tests in the UK. The move is an attempt to cut the increasing levels of sexually transmitted infections , amid dwindling numbers who volunteer to be tested.

 

Under a countrywide scheme proposed by the National Union of Students , those who take part in the health tests are given tokens which can be exchanged for alcoholic drinks. But some of the events , held during university fresher weeks , have descended into drunken mayhem with students abusing the incentive.

 

It comes as chlamydia emerged as the most common sexually transmitted infection in the UK accounting for 121 , 000 cases last year , with two-thirds among 16 to 24-year-olds.

 

Last night medical experts , including the Department of Health , criticised the events for encouraging binge drinking. Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe said: ‘The organisers are naive to think that when alcohol’s involved , students wouldn’t work out a way to abuse the system.

 

‘Using alcohol to bribe youths into testing is also unsuitable as we’re trying to curb binge drinking not promote it.’

 

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Baltimore County police in the US said a school bus driver who didn't drop several children off at their homes after school Thursday had told them he had gotten lost.

 

School officials said the bus left Pleasant Plains Elementary School in Towson at about 4:45 p.m. Thursday once after-school activities were finished. Officials said the driver dropped off 22 children but then keep the remaining 18 on the bus.Police eventually stopped the bus on Taylor Avenue and Old Harford Road and questioned the driver and the students until about 7 p.m. Officials said the driver was not driving around aimlessly.

 

They said the 52-year-old was new on the job and wasn't sure where to go.

 

"This was his first day on that route. He got started and made a wrong turn and then apparently had difficulty getting himself back to where he should have been , " said Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey.Parents told 11 news that many of the children were in tears.

 

"I wanted to know what happened , said parent Denita Watts. "Why was this bus driver not dropping any of the Kids off at home?

 

"They're normally at home no later than 5:30. So yes , I was very upset and I was concerned and I wanted to know about the safety of my child , " she said.

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Police say a Wisconsin woman in the US stripped in front of her children in an attempt to avoid arrest for shoplifting , then scuffled with officers and exposed herself through a squad car window.

 

Julia E. Laack , 36 , of Sheboygan was charged Friday with felony battery of a peace officer , resisting an officer , shoplifting and two counts of disorderly conduct , the Sheboygan Press reported. The criminal complaint alleges Laack stole a bag of beef jerky and a lighter at a convenience store Thursday afternoon. Police went to her home. The complaint said she refused to come to the door and began screaming and swearing at three children in her house , telling one that the incident was all his fault.

 

Police entered and tried to calm her down. With her children present , the complaint said , she stripped to her underwear and told the officers they couldn't arrest her because she would be naked. Laack struggled with the officers as they tried to arrest her , the complaint alleged , kicking one in the groin and spitting in the mouth of another.

 

While in the squad car on the way to the police station , the complaint said , Laack exposed her buttocks against the rear window. The complaint said Laack had a preliminary blood-alcohol level of 0.112%. The legal blood-alcohol limit for driving is 0.08%.

 

Laack remained in jail Friday night. A man who answered the phone at her home declined comment.

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A Fort Myers man in the US accidentally shot himself in the rear end , news-press.com reports. Timothy Allen Davis , 22 , told investigators that when he pulled a shirt out of a drawer , his .380 semiautomatic handgun flipped in the air , landed and fired. He didn’t know he had been hit. When he went to his sister to tell her everything was okay , she noticed blood coming out of his pants.

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Fredericksburg police are looking for a urinal-damaging vandal who wreaked havoc in the city in Virginia , US on Friday. Police spokeswoman Natatia Bledsoe said the man damaged urinals in at least seven city restaurants in or near Central Park that afternoon.

 

The vandal then claimed to be a plumber and tried to get several restaurants to pay him to fix them. One restaurant , Carlos O'Kellys , actually paid for work that turned out to be faulty , Bledsoe said. Police have identified the suspect as 39-year-old Timothy Banks of Fort Washington , Md.

 

He is charged with seven counts of felony vandalism and three counts of attempting to obtain money by false pretenses. Bledsoe said police have since learned that Banks has been charged with similar offenses in other localities , including Prince William and Fairfax counties.

 

The investigation began about 3:20 p.m. Friday when an employee at the Cracker Barrel Restaurant reported that a man had damaged a urinal in the men's bathroom before leaving in a gold Chrysler with Maryland license plates.

 

He was seen going into nearby Cheeseburger in Paradise , where he allegedly damaged another urinal and fled just before police arrived.

 

Bledsoe said the subsequent investigation revealed that similar incidents had recently taken place at Bonefish Grill , Smokey Bones , Ryan's Steak House , Outback Steakhouse and Carlos O'Kellys.

 

Bledsoe said that at Carlos O'Kellys , a pipe from the urinal had been ripped from the wall , causing water to flow onto the floor. The manager paid the suspect , who claimed to be a professional plumber , to fix it. It was still leaking after the suspect was gone. Bledsoe said she could not release the exact amount of money the phony plumber got , but said it was between $250 and $300.

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A man’s been given a police warning after he was spotted jogging naked in the canton of Thurgau , Switzerland. The 26-year-old told police that running nude allowed his skin to absorb more oxygen.

 

He wasn’t entirely unattired though. He was wearing running shoes , a cap , sunglasses and a pouch around his waist. He said he ran in a similar outfit around three times a week.

 

Police registered an official complaint against him for indecent exposure , and the young man agreed to wear more clothing from now on.

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A man on a bicycle tried to escape police pursuing him in a patrol car during a chase at Kirkham , United Kingdom. Neil Shane peddled furiously along Freckleton Road and refused to stop , despite police putting on their car's blue lights and sirens.

 

Shane struggled violently when stopped and scratched a policewoman , inflicting three deep bleeding scratches on her arm. Shane , unemployed , 46 , of Shaftsbury Avenue , North Shore , Blackpool , admitted assaulting PC Sarah Neary and behaving in a threatening manner.

 

He was given a 12-month conditional discharge by Blackpool's magistrates. Pam Smith , prosecuting , said on August 22 at 3pm PC Neary and a colleague were on mobile patrol on Freckleton Road when Shane passed them on the opposite side of the road , riding a blue and white bicycle.

 

He swore repeatedly and stuck both middle fingers up at the officers.

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Workers at a pizza-making plant in the Republic of Ireland are set to step up a strike after being sacked for allegedly viewing porn. Staff at Green Isle Foods in Co Kildare have won cross-union support for their protest. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has granted their union , the Technical , Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU) , permission for an all-out picket at the factory in Naas.

 

The plant may face serious disruption today if other union members , including suppliers and An Post workers , refuse to pass the picket. The company said three workers lost their jobs after viewing "adult material" and breaching the company's internet policy. But their union claims they are being scapegoated.

 

"One of our members received an email from outside the plant and was essentially dismissed for receiving an email , " said TEEU general secretary designate , Eamon Devoy. Over 40 workers went on strike last month after the workers lost their jobs.

 

The TEEU said the sackings were linked to a separate incident when the company sent a confidential file about seven redundancies to a worker by mistake.

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A Green Bay man shot in the head while hunting Sunday was wounded by his hunting partner , according to a Depart-ment of Natural Resour- ces conservation warden.

 

Chou Vang , 70 , was struck below the right ear by a round from a .22 caliber rifle fired by his cousin , Ge Vang , 46 , also of Green Bay.

 

The pair were in the Navarino Wildlife Area Sept. 13. They were about a tenth of a mile north of Highway 156 , several hundred yards east of County Highway K when the accident occurred.

 

“The two entered the woods to go squirrel hunting , they separated and intended to hunt in different directions , ” said DNR warden Mark Schraufnagel. “The victim ended up in an area his partner didn’t expect him to be in at that time. The hunting partner observed a squirrel in the woods , and moments later observed movement he assumed the squirrel , and fired one shot at what turned out to be his hunting partner.”

 

The two men were 237 feet apart , the investigation determined. Schraufnagel said neither man was wearing blaze orange , but that’s not required when hunting small game , only during the deer gun season.

 

Despite the wound , Vang remained conscious and alert after the accident. He was taken by helicopter to St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay , and has been released.

 

Schraufnagel said that in every hunting accident he’s investigated , one of the four rules of hunting has been broken. In this case , the rule was “know your target” by positively identifying what you plan to shoot.

 

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