AFP | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:15:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico AFP | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 Man calls phone company 24,000 times to complain https://www.insideojodu.com/man-calls-phone-company-24000-times-to-complain/ https://www.insideojodu.com/man-calls-phone-company-24000-times-to-complain/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:15:28 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=9164 A Japanese man was arrested for allegedly calling a phone company — a whopping…

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A Japanese man was arrested for allegedly calling a phone company — a whopping 24,000 times — to complain to them about his contract, police said.

Akitoshi Okamoto, 71, was taken into custody last week for apparently inundating KDDI Corporation’s customer service department with toll-free phone calls over an eight-day period.

“He demanded that KDDI staff come to him to apologize for violating his contract,” a police spokesperson said of the situation, according to AFP. “He also repeatedly hung up his calls immediately after placing them.”

Okamoto also allegedly called the customer service line from public payphones.

He was arrested on suspicion of “fraudulent obstruction of business,” according to investigators.

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Waiter in France allegedly shot dead for being ‘too slow with sandwich https://www.insideojodu.com/waiter-in-france-allegedly-shot-dead-for-being-too-slow-with-sandwich/ https://www.insideojodu.com/waiter-in-france-allegedly-shot-dead-for-being-too-slow-with-sandwich/#respond Sun, 18 Aug 2019 20:05:31 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=6803 A waiter in France was reportedly shot to death Friday night after a customer…

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A waiter in France was reportedly shot to death Friday night after a customer was allegedly vexed by having to wait too long for his sandwich.

The incident occurred at a small restaurant in Noisy-le-Grand, a suburb located in eastern Paris.

A witness told Agence France-Presse the gunman became irate “as his sandwich wasn’t prepared quickly enough,” shot the waiter, and then fled the scene.

The waiter’s colleagues then called police after he was shot in the shoulder. The 28-year-old later died at the scene.

Police told AFP that a murder investigation has been opened and the gunman is still on the loose.

Area residents told Le Parisien newspaper the restaurant had opened three or four months before the deadly shooting. Some noted, however, the neighborhood has a high crime history, including drug-dealing and public drunkenness.

Others were shocked at the possibility of someone being killed over a slow order.

“It is sad,” a 29-year-old woman told AFP. “It’s a quiet restaurant, without any problems.”

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Brazilian president suggests less pooping to help environment https://www.insideojodu.com/brazilian-president-suggests-less-pooping-to-help-environment/ https://www.insideojodu.com/brazilian-president-suggests-less-pooping-to-help-environment/#respond Sun, 11 Aug 2019 18:31:53 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=6580 The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro on Friday suggested that eating less food, and…

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The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro on Friday suggested that eating less food, and therefore, defecating less, as an answer to some of the world’s problems.

Bolsonaro — who has had a lot of shots thrown at him in recent weeks after data showed increased deforestation of the Amazon rainforest— offered the response to a reporter who questioned if it was possible to boost the economy, feed those who are hungry and save the environment at the same time.

“It’s enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It’s enough to poop every other day,” Bolsonaro said, according to AFP. “That will be better for the whole world.”

Critics say that Bolsonaro’s policies will help accelerate further deforestation of the Amazon — 60 percent of which is part of Brazil. A key regulator of the Earth’s living systems, the rainforest’s trees take in as much as 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year and release 20 percent of the planet’s oxygen.

New data published last week by the National Institute for Space Research, a federal Brazilian agency, showed that more rainforest was lost between May and July this year than during the same period in 2018, 2017 and 2016.

In July alone, 870 square miles of vegetation was cut down — the biggest surge in deforestation rates since the institute adopted its current methodology in 2014.

Bolsonaro alleged the agency might have manipulated the deforestation data to make his far-right administration look bad. He fired physicist Ricardo Galvão, who served as director of the National Institute for Space Research, after deeming the information “doubtful.”

Brazil was once heralded as a global environmental success story. But as data indicates an influx in Amazon deforestation under Bolsonaro — a climate change skeptic with a strongly pro-agrobusiness agenda — some fear what could happen to the rainforest.

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