mythical myrrh...

A 16-year-old girl who visited her boyfriend in prison in Austria ended up in jail overnight after guards forgot about her.

The teenager, from Graz, only expected to be allowed an hour visit with her 20-year-old boyfriend, who is serving a two year sentence for drugs offences at the Judenburg prison.

But she ended up spending the night with him inside the visitor's room.

She said: "I noticed after about an hour-and-a-half that nobody had knocked to say our time was up, and thought we had just got lucky.

"After two hours I realised I needed to get home and rang the bell for them to let me out, but nobody came. I couldn't even call my mum to tell her where I was because they made me hand my mobile in."

The pair were found at 7.30am the next morning by cleaning staff.

A spokesman for the Justice Ministry in Vienna said they would investigate the incident.

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Ryan sezz..
What a way to 'spend the night in jail' hehehe

Wow I haven't read bout her for a while
and when i read, she's divorced
all my simpathy for her of course

here's the news. the date is 22 august

Married less than two years, Christian music superstar says "the painful truth is that our marriage didn't work out."
By Mark Moring | posted 08/22/05

Less than two years after her 2003 wedding made the news, Christian/Latin music superstar Jaci Velasquez's marriage has ended in divorce.

Velasquez and Indiana native Darren Potuck were married on August 16, 2003, in Franklin, Tennessee. But their marriage later "took a turn," Velasquez told Christian Music Today in an exclusive statement.

"When my husband and I started out as newlyweds, we were like all newlyweds, wanting that dream marriage," Velasquez said. "Somehow, things took a turn and we have ended up in divorce."

Velasquez did not elaborate on the reasons for the divorce.

A Word Records spokesman said Velasquez and Potuck had worked to save their marriage, and Velasquez alluded to that in her statement.

"I sought counseling," said the 25-year-old singer, "but the painful truth is that our marriage didn't work out. I've had such a difficult time with this. My heart hurt so badly that I felt like I wanted to crawl under a rock and just die. I can't say that I have ever felt such pain before. My heart literally felt like it was breaking in half."

Velasquez referenced "Lay It Down," the second radio single from her new album, Beauty Has Grace, to describe what she's now experiencing. The lyrics to that song include these lines: "All of my hopes and my dreams and my best laid plans / Are slowly slipping through my folded hands."

"I am learning how to live out the words of 'Lay It Down' daily and experiencing God's love, grace and mercy like never before," she said. "My God is so awesome, I can feel him lift me up every time I feel like it's all too much for me."

Velasquez further said she has not discussed the divorce "because it is clearly too painful. I am still in the healing process and ask for your prayers and consideration for my privacy."

In a 2004 interview with Christian Music Today, Velasquez had described her husband as "the greatest, the funniest, and the coolest guy you'll ever meet. … Any girl wants a guy that will be hers forever, and that's how I feel with him."

Velasquez, a Grammy nominee and multi-platinum selling artist in both the Christian and Latin markets, recently moved to London, but is still making appearances in the U.S. She will appear at the Soul2Soul Honors 2005 event August 26 in Louisville, and she will appear at a Nashville Hecht's department store August 27 in support of the M·A·C AIDS Fund.

She is currently working on her next CD, an all-Spanish for the Latin market. Velasquez is also the founder of her own Christian music label, Apostrophe Records.

Her divorce is the highest-profile divorce in Christian music since Amy Grant's 1999 divorce from Gary Chapman. Grant—like Velasquez a Word Records artist—later married country music superstar Vince Gill.

After Grant's divorce became public, many radio stations stopped playing her songs and many Christian retailers refused to stock her albums. But Grant has made a comeback in Christian music circles in recent years, especially with her two hymns albums, Legacy (2002) and Rock of Ages (2005).

Regarding Velasquez, a Word Records representative said the label is "not concentrating on radio or retail sales. We love Jaci, and we're concentrating on Jaci and helping her work through this."

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Ferguson: Rooney Will Be Vital At Anfield

Sir Alex Ferguson is confident Wayne Rooney will return to making headlines for his football ability after a week where the 19-year-old's temperament had been called into question.

Rooney was sent off against Villarreal on Wednesday in the Champions League Group D opener. But, on Friday, his manager was keen to go against the tide of media attention that has been afforded to the striker's fiery nature.

"He will put in a good performance on Sunday because that is what he's capable of," Ferguson said confidently. "He's been doing that all the time for us. He's always been a fantastic performer for us."

The United boss knows the prodigious talent he has under his wing will have to learn to deal with the media spotlight similar to the likes of Roy Keane, David Beckham, Eric Cantona and George Best before him.

"It's quite simple, he's such a high profile player. We're not surprised by the media focus on him. That's the way of the world and the nature of the press. They did it with Gascoigne, Beckham, Cantona and Best."

The positive aspect is that Ferguson is no stranger to dealing with combustible characters.

"We'll handle the situation because we have the experience to do it," Sir Alex said, though clearly not wanting to over-play the issue. "We're not going to get into that [analysing Rooney's temperament in public]. It could just go on and on."

Rather than the heated Anfield atmosphere having an adverse effect on Rooney, Ferguson believes he will thrive on it.

"It's the kind of atmosphere that good players respond to. It's a derby game against Liverpool and it is always an exciting event.

"I love this fixture," Sir Alex added. "Manchester United-Liverpool games always offer an incredible stage for the players to perform on. The atmosphere will be electric at Anfield. It puts players on a real edge for the game."

Report by Ben Hibbs, at Carrington.

Thief hid phone up her bum

Romanian police caught a female mobile phone thief by dialling the stolen phone - and hearing it ringing from her bum.

Police in Iasi stopped Petronela Brandus, 24, as she tried to get off a bus after other passengers said they saw her steal a mobile phone.

But after a search failed to find the phone, police decided to call the number to see where it was and heard a muffled ringing coming from under the woman's dress.

She was taken to a local police station where a strip search by female police officers revealed she had hidden it up her bottom, local daily 7 Plus reported.

Officer Madalin Taranu said: "We've had people hiding things in their bras and knickers before, but this was a new one.

"The station doctor extracted the phone and we sprayed it with disinfectant before handing it back to its owner."