Martin Lake, 50, sparked a major land and air search after spending a further four nights in the same area of the Australian wilderness a week later.
Mr Lake was just north of Alice Springs when he phoned for help on his mobile.
A police spokesman said it was believed he had lost something during his first trip and had returned to look for it. More:
Yeah! lost his bloody mind most likely. You have to be really daft don't you .............
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People are becoming addicted to mobile phones, causing them to become stressed and irritable, psychologists say.
Dr David Sheffield, of the University of Staffordshire, found problem behaviour linked to using a mobile in 16% of 106 users who were studied.
In a separate study, to be presented at a conference in Essex later, he found blood pressure was lower in those who had given up using mobile phones.
Researchers quizzed student mobile phone owners about how they used their phone.
Some 16% were found to have problem behaviour linked to using their phone - either lying about how much they used them, becoming irritable after using them or being overly pre-occupied with them.
The result of this was to cause the user stress, Dr Sheffield will tell the British Psychological Society.
The theory was reinforced by tests carried out on 20 mobile phone users before and while giving up their mobile phones.
The results showed once people had started cutting down their mobile phone use, their blood pressure was lower when talking about them than before. More:
I think the researchers are looking at this the wrong way. I don't think it's the mobile phone that is the problem but the person has a behavioural problem which is exacerbated by their use of the phone.
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Outrage as council moves to ban tenants' homely doormats
The Guardian
A council has threatened to confiscate doormats from the homes of council tenants because they pose a "tripping hazard" for anyone trying to escape a fire.
Bristol city council has said the door mats pose a health and safety risk to people living in communal dwellings, such as flats, and has asked residents to remove them voluntarily.
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Jersey police yesterday dropped their investigation into claims that a mother doped rival ponies to help her child win a young show jumper of the year award.
They carried out blood tests on several ponies after a complaint that they were unusually lethargic at Saturday's British Show Jumping Association junior championships. The under-16s event in St Lawrence, Jersey, was immediately cancelled.
A police spokesman said the investigation was discontinued because "the allegations as outlined to the police were not in contravention of any Jersey laws".Air passengers could have their conversations and movements monitored as work intensifies to design the terrorist-proof aeroplane.
Researchers in Britain and Europe are looking at technology that would see a comprehensive network of microphones and cameras installed throughout the aircraft, including the lavatory, which would be linked to a computer.
This computer would be "trained" to pick up suspicious behaviour, said Catherine Neary, of Bae Systems, one of the British participants in a £24 million European Union project Safety of Aircraft in Future European Environment.
"It would pick passengers who are behaving oddly or in an unruly manner," she said. "They may appear nervous, or could be getting up while the plane is taxiing. If someone looks as if they are praying, the microphones would be able to tell if they were by picking up key words."
"Passengers are not being snooped on by humans, but by machines which will process the data, which would not be stored after the flight unless there is an incident," she said.
"There are likely to be cameras and microphones in the toilet, because that is where terrorists go to assemble bombs."... and we all know what will happen if this system ever gets installed.
