Bra Check Spurs Nursing Home Worker to Sue
ELIZABETH, N.Y. - A former nursing home worker has filed a $9 million federal lawsuit against an upstate county, claiming she's suffered mental anguish and needs anti-anxiety medication after being forced to prove she was wearing a bra at work.
Karen Tenney claims in the lawsuit against Essex County that a supervisor at the Horace Nye Nursing Home where she worked placed her hand on the back of Tenney's sweater to feel for a bra clasp.
When a clasp wasn't found, Tenney, a dietary aide, pulled up her sweater to show she was wearing a black sports bra. The move triggered other workers inside the dietary unit to show off the bras they were wearing.
"I feel that the actions of those involved constitute sexual harassment under federal and state law," Tenney said in court papers. "I have been constructively terminated by the actions of ... my employer and (the) failure to stop this harassment."
The undergarment check happened in April after nursing home officials received a complaint that Tenney was not wearing a bra as required by county policy.
Besides Essex County, which is in the Adirondacks, Tenney also names in her lawsuit the nursing home, county Attorney Richard Meyer and the state Civil Service Employees Union.
"We contend the suit is without merit," Meyer said.
Porn shoot stuns tourists
BERLIN (Reuters) - Italian vacationers admiring the view from a fairground Ferris wheel at the Munich Oktoberfest got more than they bargained for when a porn shoot suddenly began inside their cabin, authorities said on Friday.
Having settled down to enjoy a leisurely spin on the wheel at the famous beer festival, the group of Italians were quite unprepared for the arrival of two men toting cameras and a woman who started to use a vibrator.
Unable to stop the shoot, the Italians informed local police, who promptly arrested the actress and her crew, a political scientist and a 25-year-old student.
"They said they weren't doing it for commercial reasons but that they wanted to see how visitors would react," police said. The three have been charged with public indecency.
Dutch TV to air sperm donor reality show
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Billionaire television producer John de Mol, behind the pioneer show Big Brother, will test the limits of reality TV with a programme in which a woman searches for a potential sperm donor to conceive a child.
His new TV station Talpa, launched earlier this month, confirmed it will air a programme called "I want your child ... and nothing else!" but gave no further details about the show due at 1830 GMT (19:30 British time) on Wednesday.
"The plan is that we visit potential donors and -- of course on camera -- decide which man is most suitable," the 30-year old woman who will feature in the programme said in an interview with De Telegraaf newspaper.
"Afterwards there will be artificial insemination," said the woman who was identified only as "Yessica" and who has bought a house with a room for a child.
The show is a one-off competing with four other reality TV programmes, one of which follows five former prostitutes starting a cafe. The programme receiving most votes from viewers on Saturday, after all the shows have aired, will be turned into a series.
Nun's wild dancing earns her a reprimand
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian nun's acrobatic and indecorous dancing with a missionary during the Catholic World Youth Day in Germany over the weekend earned her a reprimand from her mother superior, a Belgian paper said Tuesday.
Daily Het Laatste Nieuws showed pictures of a dancing Johanne Vertommen being held up in the air by the missionary, and then clinging to him with her legs wrapped around his body.
"I wouldn't do this at home but at such occasions I get carried away by the enthusiasm of the group," the 29-year-old told the paper later.
"My mother superior raised the issue today: she thinks I should watch out a bit and bear in mind that I represent our community," Vertommen said.
Two heterosexual men in Toronto cancel "gay" wedding
OTTAWA (AFP) - Two longtime friends, neither gay, who recently announced plans to get married to take advantage of Canada's tax rules that give couples preferrential treatment have called off their nuptials, they told AFP.
Bryan Pinn, 65, and Bill Dalrymple, 56, have been best friends for 22 years. Both are divorced. Pinn has two adult children.
When Prime Minister Paul Martin's government enacted a controversial same-sex marriage law last month, the duo decided to take advantage of a loophole in the legislation and get hitched. The bill did not specificy that the couple had to be gay.
"We were in a bar doing our best impersonations of (actors from The Odd Couple television series) Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon and somebody said: 'You two guys sound like an old married couple' and a light went on and we thought we could be," said Pinn.
"We thought we could get a house and live together," he said.
Martin's Liberals passed the same-sex marriage bill in July with the support of the leftist New Democratic Party and the separatist Bloc Quebecois, ending nearly four years of debate and political maneuvering that at times divided both the House and the country.
MPs voted 158 to 133 in favour of the legislation following a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that changes to the marriage laws from "a man and a woman" to "two people" would not contravene the country's constitution.
The Netherlands, Belgium and Spain also allow gay couples to wed.
"If you're going to do social engineering, you should expect some unanticipated ripples to wash up on all shores. They had an exclusionary law. In an effort to make it inclusionary, the government had to make it all-inclusive. I don't know if they anticipated this," Pinn said.
A letter Dalrymple and Pinn sent to the editor of the Toronto Sun immediately after Pinn proposed to his buddy, outlining the "significant tax implications" of two straight men getting married, resonated with journalists around the world.
Fox News in the United States and the BBC in the United Kingdom, among others, broadcast the news of their odd wedding plans.
Reactions were mixed. Several people praised their pluck. Others were hateful, accusing them of being "heretics and homophobes," Pinn said.
"We pissed off the entire lunatic fringe," he said.
On Wednesday night, they decided to put out the "brush fire" they had started and call the whole thing off.
"It was a moment of whimsy that spun out of all control," Pinn said.
"We don't want to be anyone's poster boys. This really was an act of political satire. If this is going to cause mayhem, we don't want to be the tethered goats. It's out there now, discuss amongst yourselves," Pinn said.
He also quipped that could not marry Dalrymple after discovering he "does his wash in the sink and hangs them in the shower."
"We'll probably be best friends for another 20 years, but we don't have to get married. Why would you ruin a good friendship and get married." Pinn said.
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