Russell Crowe condemns US legal system

Actor Russell Crowe, who pleaded guilty to assault last year in the US, claims the incident would have been played down in his home country of Australia.

Crowe, 42, says he regrets throwing a telephone at a hotel clerk last June.

In an interview with CBS, the New Zealand-born Oscar winner claims the US legal system is "open to be misused".

"Where I come from, a confrontation as basic and simple as that would have been satisfied with a handshake and an apology," he said.

Apparently, the US legal system is now to blame for the phone-throwing incident.


Funny thing is, that where I come from, bouncing a telephone off a hotel worker's skull is known as assault. Doing it because the phone 'wouldn't work' is known as 'Throwing your toys out the pram', 'Being a big baby', 'Spitting out the dummy' or as I would say, being a huffy shite.

Best of all, is that a handshake is reported to have been exactly what Crowe refused to exchange with Estrada, the hapless victim of the 4am-phone-wouldn't-work-to-Australia incident.

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They came, they Saw III, they fainted!

An ambulance trust is warning people about a horror film which contains torture scenes so gruesome they have made cinema-goers pass out.

The East Anglian Ambulance Trust said it had received a number of emergency calls to treat people watching the new horror film Saw III.

Five required ambulance assistance and one had to be taken to hospital after fainting with fright, following screenings in Stevenage, Peterborough and Cambridge.

Trust spokesman Matthew Ware said: "We wouldn't want to discourage anyone from going to see this film. But if people want to see it they should be prepared, and if they start to feel sick then they should leave."

The film is the latest in the hit series following the murderous exploits of Jigsaw, played by Tobin Bell - a serial killer devoted to inventing grisly torture techniques.


Hahaha! Those films are great, if rather dodgy when it comes to plot. I've seen Saw and Saw II - had me in kinks laughing at some of the setups and groaning at the end due to the plot. Reminds me of the days when the movie, The Exorcist had people passing out and having heart attacks while watching the film.