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Cemetery Guns and Grave Torpedoes Newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane once said, “The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in." However, this has not always been the case. For centuries graveyards had to content with the scourge of grave robbers who preyed on the valuables of corpses, and even the corpses themselves. This threat led to an industry solution—grave guns. Cemetery Guns Set-guns, defined as a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that encounters the wire that sets it off, have been around since at...

An Australian Olympic swimmer has been criticised for posing in a bikini deemed 'too revealing' - but has started a copycat craze of people wearing the outfit. Triple gold medalist Stephanie Rice posted the picture of her in a two-piece designer swimsuit on Twitter earlier this week. The bikini - known as the 'tomb raider' - had been given to her as a birthday present from the designer Ellie Gonsalves. But critics blasted for the sports star for showing off in the costume which some claimed was 'too sexy'. One fan tweeted: 'Stephanie Rice posting a photo of herself in...

Tombstone mystery in drug case San Bernardino County Sheriff's investigators are left with a mystery following the discovery of 24 cemetery headstones in the backyard of a Loma Linda home they were searching for evidence in a drug case Tuesday. One of the headstones was tentatively traced to Montecito Memorial Park in Colton, sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Bachman said. But a spokeswoman for the cemetery's parent company said workmen found a headstone in place on the grave in question. Lisa Marshall, spokeswoman for Service Corporation International, said no markers were reported missing and that the company is cooperating with investigators. Deputies...

'I've got my Tomb Raider guns - and I'm not afraid to use them,' says Angelina    Angelina Jolie has revealed she own real versions of the guns she toted in the movie Tomb Raider - and she and partner Brad Pitt wouldn't be afraid to use them. The actress, who is rumoured to have given birth to twin girls Isla and Amelie, says she and Pitt keep a firearm in their house to protect themselves and their expanding brood...    By Martyn Palmer Last updated at 9:48 PM on 31st May 2008A solid gold pendant nestles in the...

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has received a Cambodian passport after being made a citizen of the impoverished Southeast Asian country, an associate said Tuesday. The Hollywood star can use it when she visits the native land of her adopted son, Maddox, said Stephan Bognar, executive director of the Maddox Jolie project in Cambodia. The project, managed by San Francisco-based WildAid, promotes wildlife conservation and community development in a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla stronghold in northwestern Cambodia. Bognar said the actress was "ecstatic and thrilled" last month when he handed her the passport and an official copy of a royal decree...

Okay, FReepers, here's the deal. The Xena thing has been done, and quite well if I do say so myself. It's time to find something new, and I think I've found it . . . Lara Croft. I'm putting out a call to all FReepers who might a) know where to get what I'm looking for or b) be interested in a thread that will very likely be SBR fodder within 30 seconds of posting.

HONG KONG (AFP) - Chinese authorities have banned the second Tomb Raider blockbuster starring Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie after complaining that it portrays the country negatively, it was reported here. Andrew Cripps, president of United International Pictures, the movie's Asian distributor, told the South China Morning Post Friday that 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider -- The Cradle of Life' had failed to win approval from China's censors. "We are very disappointed but I cannot say we are surprised," Cripps was quoted as saying. "We have to abide by decisions of national censorship bodies." Cripps said China was the only country to ban...