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Thief swallows a diamond of 12.000 Euros to avoid prisoner to go

A thief was detained in Spain after having swallowed a diamond of 12.000 Euros (approximately 16.400 dollars), in an attempt of concealing it after having stolen it from a Britisher in a restaurant, announced this Wednesday the Spanish police.

The theft took place when two British women were in a restaurant of (south) Marbella, a famous tourist Andalusian city, according to a communiqué of the police.

Two " dressed well " men entered the place, sitting down one in a table and other one in the bar.

They left the restaurant a few minutes later and then one of the women realized that his purse, which had stopped in the soil between his chair and the table, had disappeared.

According to the police, the purse was containing, between other effects, 2.000 Euros (2.700 dollars) and 400 pounds (630 dollars) in metal-worker and a necklace with a diamond valued for approximately 12.000 Euros.

The supposed thieves were arrested in a routine control of road, when the agents detained a vehicle with four persons.

Four occupants of the car were detained later that the policemen were discovering in the vehicle a chain of gold, earrings and money in metal-worker. That is to say, everything denounced for the Britishers with the exception of the diamond.

Nevertheless, the attitude of one of the passengers that one took the hand to the mouth in the moment of the intervention put on the track the agents.

So " brave they were moved to a medical center where X-ray photographies were realized, being located the diamond inside the abdomen of one of them, who recognized to have swallowed it ".

The clothes a new weapon in the fight against the pollution?

The clothes might turn in the near future into a weapon to fight against the pollution in the big cities, thanks to the innovative one of technology that absorbs the harmful particles and purifies the air.

Science can look like a fiction, but the impellers of the so called " catalytic clothes " have already a prototype, a sophisticated evening dress impregnated with a catalyst, fruit of an unusual collaboration between the mode and the chemistry, which was presented in these days in London.

The elegant model takes incorporated the same technology that the autowashable crystals, that is to say a cap formed by nanoparticles of dioxide of titanium, a chemical compound highly I reactivate that in presence of solar light and oxygen it generates a few so called radical free molecules.

" In an autowashable window, this turns the dirt into soap and when it rains it is cleaned, but in the garment radical free these react with the oxides of nitrogen (that liberate to the air the motorized vehicles) and turn them into nitrates " innocuous, one of the coartífices explained to the AFP of the project, Tony Ryan, teacher of chemistry of the University of (north) Sheffield.

If some pollutant adhered to the article stays, it is enough to put it in the washer in order that they go away with the water in the outlet, since already it happens with the normal clothes, his promoters assure.

In spite of that the dreads that the increasing use of nanoparticles provokes between some experts, the promoters hold that the reaction would be inoffensive for the person who was taking put the clothes and who the air around it would be purer.

" Every person would have a small cloud of clean air when it was moving ", added Ryan, which was employed at narrow collaboration with the artist and designer Helen Storey, teacher of the London College of Fashion.

Both think that if a million eight million Londoners was using all the time this type of clothes, it might reduce of " at least 5 %, even probably 10 % ", the quantity of oxides of nitrogen.

These invisible gases are generated by motor vehicles, especially for diesel, and municipal authorities estimate that each year contribute to the premature death of about 4,300 people in London.

"The traffic-related air pollution remains one of the most pressing problems in urban areas," said Frank Kelly, professor of Environmental Health at King's College London. "It's a problem that we have no technical solution," he said.

The catalytic clothes could be part of the remedy, but the difficulty for creators of the concept, which is nothing more than a new application of a technology already used in the concrete or painting, lies in convincing a sufficient number of people you use it.

So just launched a campaign on Facebook and Twitter, accompanied by a video starring model Erin O'Connor and music of Radiohead, so that Internet users contribute to shaping the experiment.

Because the catalyst, which is still under development, could be applied to clothing in many ways, in manufacturing, with an aerosol as the prototype or by using an additive with the softener in the washer.

Until the general public to adopt this technology, should know more about the possible harmful effects of nanoparticles, currently the subject of numerous studies.

"I guess there are a lot of potential risks. Still do not know much about the toxicology of nanoparticles," estimated Gesa Staats, a researcher at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, who studies the effects of these new materials in diseases neurodegenerative diseases.

"So we think it is too early to put on clothes," he said.


Source: globovision.