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A Latvian man tried to save money on a seven-hour ferry ride by hiding his father and children in the trunk of his car.
The 37-year-old Latvian, who has not been named, crammed his two boys, aged eight and 10, and his 66-year-old dad into the vehicle.
They remained in high temperatures with poor ventilation for several hours before being found by police.
The man, who stood to save about £94 by hiding his family, was arrested aboard the ship sailing from Mallorca to Barcelona on Monday (27.08.07).
He has been charged with reckless endangerment.

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A US student claims to have broken the world record for the number of people hugged in an hour.
Jordan Pearce, 18, said she hugged 765 people in less than 60 minutes on Saturday (25.08.07) and plans to send the results to Guinness World Records.
She said: "I feel like I’m on cloud nine." The event was supervised by District Judge Lynn Davis and state Senator Curt Bramble, who counted the hugs.
Each hug required arms and hands wrapped around the person hugged.
The previous record for hugs in an hour was 618.
A new record will not be approved until Guinness World Records have received photographs, a video and written statements from witnesses.

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An Indian businessman tried to avoid extradition from Germany by swallowing a knife.
Amarendra Nath Ghosh, who is wanted in India for allegedly running bank scams, spent four years refusing surgery to remove the knife.
Medics insisted flying with the 10 centimetre-long metal object lodged in his stomach might prove fatal.
However, authorities were finally able to get him home on a private plane staffed with doctors.
Ghosh appeared in a Calcutta court earlier this week to face a host of criminal conspiracy charges - with the knife apparently still lodged in his stomach.
The 45-year-old is accused of cheating five Calcutta banks of US$6.75 million in 1994 and 1995.

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A German thief stole a briefcase and threw it away without noticing it contained 10,000 euros in cash.
The case was reported missing by a 57-year-old Iranian businessman as he prepared to board a flight in Dusseldorf airport.
A policewoman later found the briefcase, which had clearly been rifled through but still contained two envelopes full of money.
A spokesman for Dusseldorf police said: "I think they’ll be annoyed when they find out they didn’t spot the envelopes containing cash."

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A German court has awarded 3,000 euros to a man who lost part of his skull because it wasn’t kept cool enough during surgery.
Doctors removed the top of the man’s head and put it in a refrigerator while they operated on his brain.
However, the fridge was defective and the section of skull was not kept cool enough, meaning it couldn’t be reattached.
The man had sought 20,000 euros compensation, claiming the prosthesis used to replace his skull caused him headaches, affected his balance and made him unduly sensitive to the weather.
A court in the city of Koblenz ruled the operation had caused the man’s discomfort, not the loss of the top of his skull, and awarded him 3,000 euros.

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Villagers in eastern India are photographing their cattle to stop the animals being smuggled into Bangladesh.
Somesh Goyal, from the Indian Border Security Force, said: "It may sound a bit strange, but having photo identity cards of animals and their owners is helping us, as well as the local police, to keep a tab on illegal trade." The export of cattle is illegal in India where the cow is considered a sacred animal by Hindus.
But in Bangladesh, where the large Muslim population eat beef, Indian cattle are in great demand with smugglers paying Indian villagers up to £35 for an animal.
Goyal said: "Now, since we are armed with their photographs, the owners cannot give us any excuses."

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A Japanese prison has been struggling to eradicate marijuana plants growing on its exercise ground.
The marijuana plants started sprouting at Abashiri Prison on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido about a year ago.
Prison official Takeshi Okamura said officials plucked out as many as 300 marijuana plants and treated the ground last year, but several more sprouted again this year.
Officials only discovered the plants, believed to be wild, after prisoners pointed them out.
Okamura said: "Apparently, somebody knew how to tell marijuana from other plants." Local botanical experts concluded the marijuana seeds were inadvertently brought in with the soil used for the exercise ground.

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Two Canadian burglars were chased away by a 79-year-old cane-wielding woman.
Police say the woman was sleeping in her Ontario home at about 1am when the thieves broke in through a patio door and began to rummage through her belongings.
After they grabbed a duffel bag from the woman’s bedroom, she grabbed her cane and confronted the pair, who fled the house on foot.
Police dogs followed the trail through a golf course, a corn field and a housing complex, but lost the scent and the men escaped.
The unidentified woman, who was not injured, was delighted when police recovered her duffel bag and all of its contents.

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A US man has been arrested after attempting to distract attention from a robbery by doing a naked hula dance.
Vicky Gaines, a shop worker at Fish’s Quick Stop in De Soto, Missouri, says a nude masked man entered the shop and began to dance while another man stole a case of beer.
Gaines called police, who arrived just as the two men were being driven off by an accomplice.
An eagle-eyed customer took down their licence plate number and they were all arrested three days later.
The men, all from Missouri and aged 19 between 23, face charges of shoplifting and indecent exposure.

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A German hit and run driver who caused an accident while eating spaghetti was caught out by the stains on his shirt.
Police found bits of the takeaway meal in the car owned by Jens Martin, 28, which had ploughed into two parked cars in Goerwihl, south-east Germany.
Officers who turned up at Martin’s house just hours after the crash found he still had stains from the meal on his shirt and even had a piece of spaghetti in his hair.
A police spokesman said: "He tried to claim the car had been stolen but the food matched up. It appears he had been eating it in the car at the time of the accident."

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A troop of monkeys are harassing and mocking women in a Kenyan village.
The Vervet monkeys have also been accused of destroying crops and causing a food crisis in the village of Nachu.
Local MP Paul Muite urged the Kenyan Wildlife Service to help contain their aggressive behaviour.
The monkeys, who are afraid of men, throw stones at women and chase them from their farms.
Nachu’s female residents have even tried wearing their husbands’ clothes in an attempt to trick the monkeys into thinking they are men - but without success.
Resident Lucy Njeri said: "We tried dressing in trousers and hats but the monkeys can tell the difference and they don’t run away from us and point at our breasts. They ignore us and continue to steal the crops."

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A Japanese man has been arrested after he sent his severed little finger to the country’s prime minister.
Yoshihiro Tanjo, 54, a leader of a right-wing group, filmed himself as he cut off the top part of his digit and included the DVD and a protest letter in his package to Shinzo Abe.
He is unhappy Abe stayed away from the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in the Second World War.
Tanjo said: "I thought they would ignore me if I just sent the letter, so I put my little finger in as well." Police said unemployed Tanjo has been charged with intimidation tactics.

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Speaking at the memorial service held to commemorate the tenth anniversary of her passing, the congregation, including the Briish Royal Family, Earl Spencer and Sir Elton John, were all visibly moved by the young prince’s heartfelt speech today (31.08.07).
Harry, 22, remembered his mother as his “guardian, friend, protector and the best mother in the world.” He said his and William’s lives were divided into two parts, a time when they took their loving mother for granted, and the ten years since she died. Movingly, he said he and his older sibling missed her everyday.
Harry purposefully mentioned his “loving father” Prince Charles in his speech. He also offered his thoughts to “anyone else who lost someone that day” – a gesture to the Al Fayed family.
Diana was tragically killed aged just 36 in a car crash in Paris in the early hours of August 31 1997, along with her lover Dodi Al Fayed.
Harry said he and William spoke about Diana every day, and they remembered her as “fun loving, down to earth and genuine” and hoped the world would remember her for “making people happy”.
During the service at the Guards Chapel in London’s Westminster area, William, 25, sat with the royal family, including his father and grandmother Queen Elizabeth, on the left side of the church.
Harry sat on the right side with Diana’s Brother, Earl Spencer, and the rest of her family.
After Harry’s frank and moving speech, many of the congregation wiped tears from their eyes, while the crowd gathered outside the church watching on a big screen applauded and wept openly.
In his address, the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Dr. Richard Chartres, remembered Diana for her charitable work.
He made a point of chastising those who “use her memory to score points” - an apparent swipe at he behaviour of her former butler Paul Burrell, who was not invited to the service.
Reverend Chartres went on to say: “Let us make this service the point at which we let her memory rest in peace.” Prince William and Diana’s sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale also gave religious readings during the service, and special prayers written especially for the occasion by the Arch Bishop of Canterbury were also read out.
Among the guests were Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Sir David Frost, Sir Cliff Richard and Dodi Fayed’s sister Camilla.

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Britain’s Prince Harry told how his and his brother William’s lives had been torn in two by their mother Princess Diana’s death.
Speaking at the memorial service held to commemorate the tenth anniversary of her passing, the congregation, including the Briish Royal Family, Earl Spencer and Sir Elton John, were all visibly moved by the young prince’s heartfelt speech today (31.08.07).
Harry, 22, remembered his mother as his “guardian, friend, protector and the best mother in the world.” He said his and William’s lives were divided into two parts, a time when they took their loving mother for granted, and the ten years since she died. Movingly, he said he and his older sibling missed her everyday.
Harry purposefully mentioned his “loving father” Prince Charles in his speech. He also offered his thoughts to “anyone else who lost someone that day” – a gesture to the Al Fayed family.
Diana was tragically killed aged just 36 in a car crash in Paris in the early hours of August 31 1997, along with her lover Dodi Al Fayed.
Harry said he and William spoke about Diana every day, and they remembered her as “fun loving, down to earth and genuine” and hoped the world would remember her for “making people happy”.
During the service at the Guards Chapel in London’s Westminster area, William, 25, sat with the royal family, including his father and grandmother Queen Elizabeth, on the left side of the church.
Harry sat on the right side with Diana’s Brother, Earl Spencer, and the rest of her family.
After Harry’s frank and moving speech, many of the congregation wiped tears from their eyes, while the crowd gathered outside the church watching on a big screen applauded and wept openly.
In his address, the Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Dr. Richard Chartres, remembered Diana for her charitable work.
He made a point of chastising those who “use her memory to score points” - an apparent swipe at he behaviour of her former butler Paul Burrell, who was not invited to the service.
Reverend Chartres went on to say: “Let us make this service the point at which we let her memory rest in peace.” Prince William and Diana’s sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale also gave religious readings during the service, and special prayers written especially for the occasion by the Arch Bishop of Canterbury were also read out.
Among the guests were Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Sir David Frost, Sir Cliff Richard and Dodi Fayed’s sister Camilla.

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An ex-soldier has described how being a pallbearer at the funeral of Britain’s late Princess Diana was the “saddest job” he’s eer had to do.
Nigel Enwright, 32, carried out the solemn duty at Diana’s private burial at her Althorp family home, and has opened his heart about the experience on the tenth anniversary of her death.
The former private in the Princess of Wales’ Royal regiment said: “I couldn’t help seeing the faces of her sons, Princes William and Harry, who were only 15 and 12 at the time. That’s a memory that will never leave me. And Charles too – it was unbelievable. It was the greatest and saddest honour I have ever had.” Nigel revealed the team of eight pallbearers had trained for the duty by carrying a coffin filled with sandbags over a specially built bridge, and kept their duties secret by posing as a rugby team on tour at their hotel the night prior to the funeral.
He also revealed he wept for hours after the emotional service.
After the burial, Diana’s brother Earl Spencer sent Nigel’s Commanding Officer a thank you letter which read: “My sister would have been proud of her regiment.” Nigel had been lucky enough to meet the princess 12 before her death when he went to a parade of the Royal Hampshire regiment, in which his elder brother Paul was serving.
When Paul lost an eye just 24 hours later in an incident that ended his army career, he received a letter from Diana offering her sympathy as he recovered in hospital.
Nigel said: “It showed just what a marvellous, caring person she was. She didn’t know us from Adam.” A memorial service was held at the Guards Chapel in London’s Westminster area to mark Diana’s death today (31.08.07).

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Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, will jet off on holiday without Prince Charles today (31.08.07), amid rumours of a bust-up.
Camilla is set to embark on a week-long Mediterranean holiday next week without her husband because of her anger over having to pull out of attending the memorial service for Charles’ late ex-wife Princess Diana today.
She is said to be “furious” after she was invited to the service, marking the tenth anniversary of Diana’s death, by Charles and Diana’s sons, Princes William and Harry, but then advised not to attend by Queen Elizabeth after a public backlash.
After today’s service, Charles is set to return to the couple’s Gloucestershire mansion, on Charles’ Highgrove estate, and is not expected to see Camilla for more than a week.
Sources claim Camilla, who had been content to steer clear of the memorial, is angry at Charles’ aides for insisting she should attend in the first place.
Yesterday (30.08.07), the duchess spent the day picking mushrooms at the royal estate of Birkhall, in Aberdeenshire, before returning to England alone.
Clarence House refused to comment yesterday (30.08.07) on Camilla’s holiday plans.

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The Sultan of Brunei has topped a list of the World’s Richest Royals.
Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah – who is said to be worth $22 billion – came out on top in the list compiled by Forbes.com.
The sultan, who inherited the riches of an unbroken 600-year-old dynasty, recently celebrated his 40th anniversary as ruler of the oil-rich land.
Bolkiah is followed on the list by Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is worth an estimated $21 billion. Abu Dhabi is home to a tenth of the world’s oil reserves.
Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, the King of Saudi Arabia, took third place with a $19 billion fortune, while Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai grabbed fourth spot with $16 billion.
Rounding off the top five is Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 79, the world’s longest reigning living monarch, with a comparatively modest $5 billion.
The highest placed female monarch is Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, who is at number 11 with her £600 million fortune.
She is one of only two women t make the list along with The Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, who has $300 million.
The youngest royal on the list is 39-year-old King Mswati III of Swaziland at number 15.

Forbes.com’s World’s Richest Royals full list:
1) Hassanal Bolkiah, The Sultan of Brunei - $22 billion
2) King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, King of Saudi Arabia - $21 billion
3) King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, of Saudi Arabia - $19 billion
4) Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai - $16 billion
5) King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thaliand - $5 billion
6) Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu of Liechtenstein – $4.5 billion
7) King Mohammed IV of Morocco – $2 billion
8) Prince Albert II of Monaco - $1.2 billion
9) Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani of Quatar - $1 billion
10) Prince Karim Al Husseini of Agha - $ 1billion
11) Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain - $500 million
12) Sheikh Sabah Al Sabah of Kuwait - $500 million
13) Sultan Qaboos Bin Said of Oman - $500 million
14) Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of The Netherlands - $300 million
15) King Mswati II of Swaziland - $200 million

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The stunning 49-year-old actress, who is renowned for her sexy slender figure, insists there is no big secret to keeping in shape and admits she indulges her craving for calorific treats whenever she feels like it.
She said: "It’s simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age I think, what the hell, and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut!" Sugary snacks are not the only junk food Pfeiffer – who famously donned a skin-tight PVC catsuit to play super-villain Catwoman in ‘Batman Returns’ - likes to gorge on.
She added: "My other thing is crunchy, salty food. I love chips, salsa and guacamole." Pfeiffer also has some words of advice for any women who are stressing about their weight or considering going under the surgeon’s knife to change their appearance.
She said: "I don’t believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can’t stop you getting older."

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