A 31-year-old man, Wouter Pieters, appeared in the Kenhardt Magistrate’s Court in Northern Cape, South Africa on the charges of kidnapping and murder. Wouter Pieters, 31, is accused of kidnapping and murdering his two-month-old son whose body was found stuffed in a backpack abandoned in the veld in the …
Read More »8-year-old boy caught with gun in backpack at NYC school one day after pointing weapon at fellow student
An 8-year-old boy was caught with a gun inside his backpack on Thursday March 7, at a school in Brooklyn. This happened one a day after he threatened another student with the same firearm, cops and law enforcement sources said. The student at P.S. 158 — The …
Read More »‘Is your backpack full of dreams?’: readers’ Interrail memories
Winning tip: Planning went awry in Paris I still have our 1987 copy of Europe by Train. Simple pen and ink maps that had little basis in reality – a bit like the planning my friend and I did. Pre-internet, pre-glasnost, pre-midlife indecision, we naively arrived in Paris and filled …
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