A German man has tried to jump into Benedict XVI's popemobile during his weekly general audience held in St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
The 27-year-old man was wrestled to the ground by security officers.
The Pope, himself German, was not injured and did not seem to notice the incident. He proceeded with the audience as normal.
In 1981, Benedict's predecessor John Paul II was shot by Turkish gunman Ali Agca as he drove around the square.
The man who tried to jump into the popemobile on Wednesday had been standing among some 35,000 people who were attending the audience.
He leaped over the metal barriers separating the crowd from the pontiff and landed behind the moving vehicle.
Several security guards grabbed the man, who was wearing a pink T-shirt, black shorts and a baseball cap.
He seemed to be trying to climb onto the Pope's vehicle, an open jeep, as the pontiff was driven around the square greeting pilgrims, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
The man was later questioned by Vatican police before being taken to hospital to be assessed in a psychiatric ward.
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi described the man as a "mentally unstable". "His aim was not an attempt on the Pope's life, but to attract attention to himself," Mr Lombardi said.
That was a pretty poor attempt by the fella Kiko. I was suprised with the Pope having a Jeep you'd have thought he would have had a Roller or some diplomat cr or even a proper pope mobile (with the glass papal box) Action Pope!
Nearly 10% of men download porn at work
Employees are increasingly using their work computers to download music and pornography and gossip with their colleagues, according to a study released today.
The Trust and Risk in the Workplace Study found that 31 per cent of men and 19 per cent of women download music at work, while nine per cent of men and four per cent of women download obscene videos and images.
But the biggest vice remains using email to indulge in office gossip. Men are almost as guilty as women, with 33 per cent doing so compared to 35 per cent of their female colleagues.
Dr Monica Whitty of Queen’s University, Belfast, who led the research project, said employees are putting their organisations’ computer networks at risk with their behaviour.
Americans are the biggest downloaders of pornography and music, she found, with Australians the least likely to download pornography at work.
I wouldnt dare downoad porn at work when i worked. I sued to laugh at a couple of guys who would be on it all day. I kept waiting for one of them to start wanking on the spot. It would be funny seeing them flicking their screens when a boss came about. I would be on PL instead.
A wheelchair user has been taken for a high-speed ride along a US highway after his handlebars became tangled up in the front grille of a lorry.
The back of the 21-year-old man's wheelchair was scooped up as he passed in front of a lorry leaving a petrol station, Michigan state police said.
The truck driver drove off, completely unaware that he had a new passenger.
Passing motorists told police, who found the man unhurt - but still attached to the front of the truck.
He had been kept in his wheelchair by a seatbelt.
Police in the town of Paw Paw, Michigan, said the unidentified man told them "it was quite a ride", but complained only that he had spilled his soda.
The truck reached speeds of 50mph (80km/h) as it drove down the Red Arrow Highway.
After several miles the driver pulled over at the depot of a trucking company where police then told him about the man on his front end.
He refused to believe there was a man in a wheelchair stuck to the front of his truck until he saw it for himself, police said.
I bet you he would have been shitting it. I know i would have. Fcuk you'd have no chance if the chair tipped. Maybe you would have as Lorries are pretty high. It's one of them events that afterwards you would laugh about and just be glad to be alive.
on his merry way. Maybe he did enjoy it slick i dunno. No offence to the fella but he probably doesnt get a lot of excitment in his life. I bet you his heart was pumping.
When i was in my 'student years' (some of my pals were but i had to work, yes im still bitter) we used to go over this rich fellas house at the weekend for parties whilst his mum and dad were away. It would be the usual thing of Cheech and Chong films and dope and even women come to think of it. Bloody hell Anyhow i was up in a bedroom with my pals sister and i had a wee rummage through his mum and dads wardrobe. In it i found a 20yr old bottle of scotch and loads of bondage gear. I wouldnt open the bottle but the girl thought she would even though i said to her i think its a bit out of order. I still drank it mind. well it was open wasnt it.
So i got dressed up in all this bondage gear to go back down stairs and suprise my pals. I had the gimp mask, nipple clamps the lot. Head to toe in bondage. Seeing as we were students we decided it would be fun for us to go for a drive around town (twickenham) with me on the top of it just as it was kicking out time for the pubs. I had added a flashing men at work yellow box to my head with masking tape and in my fishnets etc i was pretty sleazy all in.
So we're driving about town with me up top and suddenly the driver stops at traffic lights a bit too quick for me. I'm thrown from the roof over the bonnet and i landed slap bang in the middle of the zebra crossing in front of a big crowd of people who where just starting to cross. I just remeber lying there kinda dazed looking up at all these people who diont know wether to laugh or phone an ambulance. Someone broke the silence when they said 'here's your light mate' and handed me my flashing road works thing that had come detached from my head.
I suppose you had to be there really. The same night we took out the fellas dad's Ferrari 400 and totalled it along a wall. He really was a twat for having us round.
aye it's a truck with a fella in a wheelchair stuck to the front of it. If you see a truck with a wheelchair on the front then i'm pretty sure that that would be the one.
Ben Carpenter was kept secure by his wheelchair's seatbelt
Interview with Ben
A wheelchair user has been taken for a high-speed ride along a US highway after his handlebars became tangled up in the front grille of a lorry.
The back of Ben Carpenter's wheelchair was scooped up as he passed in front of a lorry leaving a petrol station.
The driver was completely unaware that he had a new passenger, kept in his wheelchair by a seatbelt.
Passing motorists told police, who found the man unhurt - but still attached to the front of the truck.
Police in the town of Paw Paw, Michigan, said Mr Carpenter had told them "it was quite a ride", but complained only that he had spilled his soda.
The lorry reached speeds of 50mph (80km/h) as it drove down the Red Arrow Highway.
After several miles the driver pulled over at the depot of a trucking company where police then told him about the man on his front end.
He refused to believe there was a man in a wheelchair stuck to the front of his truck until he saw it for himself, police said.
"It's fast, I know that," Ben Carpenter told local Wood TV.
"I was probably thinking that he [the driver] is going to keep going, not stop anywhere, go 50-60 miles somewhere".
"I mean I would have been dead way before that," he added."
Man Tries To Jump Into Popemobile LOL
Anyhow i was up in a bedroom with my pals sister and i had a wee rummage through his mum and dads wardrobe. In it i found a 20yr old bottle of scotch and loads of bondage gear. I wouldnt open the bottle but the girl thought she would even though i said to her i think its a bit out of order. I still drank it mind. well it was open wasnt it.
i still had a fat bely mind. Here's a vid of that guy being pushed in the chair
