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Couple's romance seen by soccer fans

SINT-TRUIDEN, Belgium, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A woman spotted having sex in a hotel room overlooking a Belgian stadium during a soccer match said she and her beau had thought the windows were tinted.

The woman, who identified herself by her stage name, Alicia Tenderness, 26, said she and her boyfriend did not realize soccer fans could see into their stadium hotel room during Saturday's Lokeren game in Sint-Truiden, the Dutch-language Sportwereld reported Monday.

Tenderness, a model and escort, said she and her boyfriend were shocked to see their picture in newspapers and on the Internet the following day.

"When checking out on Sunday morning the lady at the desk responded very cold, but we did not understand why. The realization came when we read the newspaper Monday," Tenderness said.

She expressed outrage that the hotel manager had filed an indecency complaint against her. She said the manager should have installed tinted windows in the rooms.

Will and Kate's palace offers ghost tours

LONDON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Officials with the purportedly haunted London residence of Prince William and his wife Kate say the palace will be open for Halloween ghost tours.

Kensington Palace officials said members of the public will be offered tours Oct. 28-31 to see the relevant sights and hear the tales of Queen Mary, Peter the Wild Boy and an unknown figure sometimes spotted standing by a window, the Daily Mirror reported Monday.

"For years now there have been rumors about Kensington Palace being haunted. In the evenings, the place has an atmosphere all of its own," a palace source told the Mirror. "There are lots of strange and unusual stories which the warders have logged over the years. There are bumps in the night and that kind of thing. It's fascinating stuff and not for the faint-hearted."

Australian man throws away $50,000 in gold

CALOUNDRA, Australia, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- An Australian man says he accidentally threw out $50,000 worth of his wife's gold jewelry recently in an attempt to fool any would-be robbers.

The Queensland man -- who gave only his first name, Geoffrey -- hid the family's gold collection in garbage bags after his GPS navigation system and keys were recently stolen, The Courier-Mail in Brisbane reported in its Tuesday edition.

"I had this great idea to split the gold into three rubbish bags so if the thieves did come in they're not going to find it," Geoffrey said.

The valuable trash bags, however, ended up in the local landfill last week when the man's children cleaned house in anticipation of an upcoming move.

The Sunshine Coast Regional Council said that while it sympathizes with the family's loss, searching the landfill, which takes in about 1,400 tons of waste each week, would be next to impossible.

"To locate the lost items, this decaying compacted waste would need to be systemically excavated and sorted mechanically by the contractor," a council spokesman said.

Prosthetic leg used to trick tracking tag

ROCHDALE, England, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A British security firm said it fired two employees who attached a tracking tag to a suspect's prosthetic leg, allowing him to violate his curfew.

The firm, G4S, said the staff members were dismissed after they attached the tag to the false leg of Christopher Lowcock, 29, of Rochdale, England, who disguised the prosthetic leg by covering it in a bandage, The Guardian reported Monday.

G4S said the blunder allowed Lowcock to remove the leg and violate the curfew imposed while he faces drugs, driving and weapon charges.

The British Justice Ministry said protocols "were clearly not followed in this case and G4S have taken action against the staff involved."

"Two thousand offenders are tagged every week and incidents like this are very rare," a department spokesman said.

A G4S spokesman said the employees were fired.

The spokesman said the company tags 70,000 people a year for the Justice Ministry.

"Given the critical nature of this service we have very strict procedures in place which all of our staff must follow," he said. "In this individual's case, two employees failed to adhere to the correct procedures when installing the tag. Had they done so, they would have identified his prosthetic leg."