A Scottish man is facing deportation from Kyrgyzstan after causing offence to locals; that saying 'when in Rome, do as the Romans do' is not a bad adage when in a foreign land.

Scottish mine worker Michael McFeat, from Abernethy, Scotland, should have given it credence.

He has lost his job at the Kumtor open pit gold mine run by Canadian firm Centerra Gold and is persona non grata in Kyrgyzstan.

He was working in Kyrgyzstan when he decided to compare a local dish to a horse's penis; he did so on social media and it has cost him dearly.

The food in question is a national dish and much loved by the people of that country. He posted an image of 'Kyrgyz co-workers queuing for a "chuchuk" horsemeat sausage' and accompanied it with derision.

It could have been New Year high spirits but McFeat was arrested at Manas International Airport, close to the capital Bishkek, on Sunday, and will now be deported.

Op-Ed: It looks like a row over a washing machine New Year's Eve resulted in multiple deaths.

The shootings took place at a residential property in Rowland Heights, Los Angeles, California.

In what almost sounds like the plot of a comedy farce USA Today reports Saturday "A man shot and killed his wife and two others in his home on New Year's Eve before his son wrestled the gun away and fatally shot him."

The tragic events apparently followed a disagreement over a washing machine.

The original shooter is described as a heavy drinking 54-year-old with a large gun collection and this is not the first time police have been called to the property.

Police have questioned witnesses as they try to piece together just what happened.

In that case how come the man was still able to have a large gun collection on hand when he flipped out?

Dutchman  and father-of-four Leonardus Bijlsma, 55, was found guilty Friday of operating a drug trafficking organisation across the U.K. Bijlsma used a fleet of fake ambulances to ship drugs from the south of England to the north and from the east to the west.

The gang used ports from Essex to East Yorkshire.

In June four men were arrested in connection with this gang's drug smuggling. Bijlsma was described in the Birmingham court Friday as the operations' 'right-hand' man.

Two other men pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing; they are Olof Schoon, 38, described as the main-player, and 51-year-old Richard Engelsbel.

The Birmingham Crown Court jury found co-defendant Dennis Vogelaar, 28, not guilty.

The fake ambulances had hidden compartments where large quantities of drugs were stashed before being brought into the U.K.

The gang also used fake invoices and patient details claiming they had transported patients to the Royal London Hospital but that facility had no record of any such patient transfers. When police investigated further the addresses, ages and names of patients were all fake.

"In total an estimated £420m of high-purity drugs with a street value of £1.6bn are believed to have been smuggled into the UK" reports BBC News.

Leonardus Bijlsma will be sentenced at a later date.

The operation was cheeky to say the least; during its successful operations dangerous drugs made the gang money but at what price?

Police officers discovered the ambulances were carrying packages of cocaine, heroin and amphetamine as well as thousands of suspected ecstasy pills.

The value of the drugs is estimated at up to £1.6bn.

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