Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Man dumped over embedded text messages WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Suggestive text messages embedded in a new cellphone cost a Winnipeg, Manitoba, man his relationship when his girlfriend discovered them, officials said. Advertisement The 49-year-old man, who didn't want to be identified, told the Winnipeg Free Press his girlfriend of more than two years found the messages on the phone and a break-up fight ensued. He said he didn't even know the Samsung Virgin Mobile phone was text-equipped, but the three messages that came with the phone cost him the relationship. They included "Booty call," "Where u at," and "Be there soon," the newspaper said. He said Virgin Mobile advised him to file a written complaint. He also showed the messages to staff at the Future Shop store where he bought the cellphone. "At first, we didn't believe him," said sales associate Mike Ford. "But when we looked at a couple of the same phones he bought, and found they all had the same messages ... we all felt horrible." Advertisement Girl, 12, arrested over desk doodle NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A New York woman said her 12-year-old daughter was led out of her school in handcuffs and detained for several hours for writing on a desk in erasable marker. Moraima Tamacho, 49, said her daughter, Alexa Gonzalez, 12, was escorted out of Junior High School 190 Monday in handcuffs, walked across the street to the police precinct and was detained for several hours, the New York Daily News reported Friday. "She's been throwing up," Tamacho said of her daughter since the incident. "The whole situation has been a nightmare." A family court judge assigned Gonzalez Tuesday to eight hours of community service, a book report and an essay about what she has learned. Some police and city officials agreed with Tamacho that the arrest was a mistake. "Even when we're asked to make an arrest, common sense should prevail, and discretion used in deciding whether an arrest or handcuffs are really necessary," police spokesman Paul Browne said. Gonzalez said she drew a smiley face on the desk in erasable marker and wrote two messages: "I love my friends Abby and Faith," and "Lex was here. 2/1/10." Man barred from charging for sex parties Advertisement BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Officials in Maryland's Montgomery County said a man would be allowed to continue holding sexual fetish parties at his home if he stops charging a cover. Montgomery County zoning inspectors sent Paul Pickthorne of Bethesda a written warning Monday informing him that his BDSM parties, sexual events focused on "bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism," violated land-use regulations because he was charging $20 for admission and $50 for "VIP" tickets, The Washington Post reported Friday. However, County Council member Roger Berliner, who brought the events to the attention of inspectors after complaints from his neighbors, said Pickthorne would be allowed to continue the parties if he stops charging for admission. "Certainly one has to respect everyone's constitutional rights," Berliner said. Pickthorne said he is exploring ways of continuing his parties without violating the law, including making admission free. Century-old spirits found in Antarctic AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A New Zealand restoration team said they discovered five crates of whisky and brandy buried in the Antarctic for more than a century. The New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust team working to restore Sir Ernest Shackleton's 100-year-old hut at Cape Royds said they discovered three crates of whisky and two crates of brandy left behind by the explorer and his team when they left the Antarctic in 1909, The Times of London reported Friday. Advertisement "The unexpected find of the brandy crates, one labeled Charles Mackinlay & Co and the other labeled The Hunter Valley Distillery Limited Allandale are a real bonus," trust official Al Fastier said. "I personally think they must have been left there by mistake because it's hard to believe two crates would have been left under the hut without drinking them." Richard Paterson, master blender at Scottish distillers Whyte and Mackay, said the Mackinlay's whisky found among the spirits is "a gift from the heavens." "If the contents can be confirmed, safely extracted and analyzed, the original blend may be able to be replicated," he said. "Given the original recipe no longer exists this may open a door into history."
