ODDS AND ENDS: Convict turned porn star fractures penis, and other offbeat offerings

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An Australian man has gone from the slammer to the porn business to who knows what, thanks to an on-the-job accident.

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Liam Ellis, who was in jail for more than four years for drug offences related to his time with a biker gang, fractured his penis during a shoot, according to the New York Post.

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Ellis reportedly is now making a bundle on OnlyFans, but his livelihood might be threatened by the accident.

“I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but a while later, it turned completely black,” Ellis told the West Australian. “Basically I was having sex at the time … and it slipped out and I was still in motion and I wasn’t lined up.”

He added, “I did some googling and it was pretty obvious I had something called a penile fracture.”

Ellis underwent surgery and has been prescribed medicine to prevent him from becoming “too excited,” according to The Post.

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Ellis said he’s worried the injury might happen again even after he recovers. Still, he hopes to continue with OnlyFans. Previously he worked in the offshore oil and gas industry, according to the report.

WHEN YOU GOTTA GO …

A Japanese man was arrested in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture earlier this month because he really had to use a washroom.

At least that was his story, according to reports.

The man allegedly beat up a 37-year-old man and stole his wallet outside a convenience store because he said the man was taking too long to get out of the toilet.

Kyodo News, citing police, said the suspect, Hayato Baba, a construction worker from Narashino, has admitted to punching the victim twice in the face and stealing his wallet containing 110,000 yen (about $1,100 Canadian).

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Police said the victim suffered minor injuries to his face. Baba allegedly said the wallet fell out after he attacked the man and he had not planned to also steal his money.

OOPS, THAT’S SOME POOR PLANNING

Spain’s secretary of state for transport and the head of the state rail company have resigned for an unusual reason: It turns out a bunch of trains ordered for two northern Spanish regions were too big to fit through some tunnels. That’s what you call a big problem.

The plans began three years ago, but this January it came to light that the trains, ordered for hundreds of millions of dollars, would be too wide.

Miguel Ángel Revilla, the regional president of Cantabria, described the project as a “bodge” and called for urgent action, while Adrián Barbón, the president of neighbouring Asturias, said he was “baffled, angry and disappointed”.

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Two senior officials were fired last month, but that wasn’t enough for Isabel Pardo de Vera, Spain’s secretary of state for transport, to stay on the job. The same went for Isaías Táboas, the president of Renfe.

NOT THE WAY TO USE CHATGPT

Vanderbilt University officials have been ripped for using ChatGPT to write a consoling emails to students following the recent mass shooting at Michigan State University.

The officials, administrators at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development, had to apologize after their email that noted, in small print at the bottom, that the message was a “paraphrase from OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI language model, personal communication.”

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The email stressed the importance of “a safe and inclusive environment for all” and encouraged members of the college to “come together as a community,” and was written in clear, understandable prose, according to reports.

But the message lacked the human touch of a statement issued a day earlier by Vanderbilt’s vice provost and also didn’t note campus resources students could access for support.

According to the Vanderbilt Hustler, Nicole Joseph, Peabody’s associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion, sent a follow-up email apologizing.

“While we believe in the message and inclusivity expressed in the email, using ChatGPT to generate communications on behalf of our community in a time of sorrow and in response to a tragedy contradicts the values that characterize Peabody College,” Joseph said in the statement