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Naomi Campbell is wickedly beautiful, extremely sexy, moves like a gazelle, has had a marvelous career as a model, but what a temper the lady has! One of the top babes of all times, and one of the wildest ones as well.

As the picture shows, she is quite a looker. But she has had several unfortunate tantrums over the years, some of which have brought her into contact with the legal system. The last one, on Heathrow, is said to involve some spitting. On a police officer. Previously there’s been throwing of a cell phone, some beating, some pretty verbal stuff, and such.

The last episode I can sympathize with. Many of us, and I count myself as one, have been angry, outraged, and harassed at airports around the world. By arrogant, not so service minded airport or airline employees and security guards. At least a dozen times I have been at my wits end and so angry I have wanted to hit somebody or something. But doing it is different, though.

The part I do not understand about this, is when she later has claimed that she was arrested because she is black. That part I do not believe. Spitting on a policeman would get anybody arrested, is my thinking. But I may be wrong.

Naomi Campbell has previously been taking anger management classes. They didn’t to all that much good, it would seem. Maybe it’s back to school for Naomi now?

Swedish and Danish women are still fighting for equal rights. Scandinavian women have in many ways been in the forefront in women’s struggle for equality between the sexes. And much has been achieved. A number of studies indicate that wage discrimination has more or less disappeared in Scandinavia. And the women have won a number of other important victories as well.

Now a group of women are fighting for the right to bath and swim topless in public swimming facilities. The city of Sundsvall in Northern Sweden granted women this right after a bare-breasted protest a while ago. And now Copenhagen has permitted topless swimming as well.

Another victory for Scandinavian women.

Actually, for the men as well, I guess?

The Sun (UK) wrote about this today (03/29):

Campaign leader Astrid Vang, 20, who took her top off with others to protest at a leisure centre at Christmas, said: “We women would like to decide by ourselves when our breasts should be sexual and when not.”In swimming pools they should not and that is why the breasts should not be covered – We will bathe topless just like men.”

The Danish campaign was inspired by a Swedish group called Just Breasts, which was formed after two women were asked to cover up their breasts by a lifeguard at a public pool near Stockholm.

Swedish protesters carried out several full-frontal marches in their country but their tireless topless fight will not stop at swimming pools — the perky sufferagettes want to show tops the red card at football matches next.