Lost The Key -Yea Right

Headlines: Man Handcuffs His Wife To The Bed, But Loses Key
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 12.12.8
Caption: Lost The Key -Yea Right

If you love something, set it free. And if you can't, call the police. The Detroit Free Press reported police responded to a call Thursday morning by a Dearborn man who handcuffed his wife to their bed but misplaced the key.
Police used a universal key to free the woman.

Headline: Firefighter arrested for fire hoaxes
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 11.12.8
Caption: Fire Crier

A NEW York fireman has been arrested for crying fire - when there was no fire.
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta told NY1 television overnight that the rogue firefighter had been secretly calling comrades out to non-existent emergencies. Commissioner Scoppetta did not describe the motives of what he called "simply outrageous" actions...

Headline: Ga. School Staff Accused of Inflatable Mattress Sex
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 11.12.8
Caption: THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT GO TOGETHER: TEACHERS, SCHOOL, SEX, AIR MATTRESS

Several Richmond County educators are being reprimanded after officials uncovered a sex scandal involving teachers, coaches and the principal of an Augusta middle school.
Superintendent Dana Bedden says seven Spirit Creek Middle School faculty members have been implicated in a series of incidents that included daytime sexual encounters on an inflatable mattress in the school's public safety office.
No students were involved in any of the encounters, which came to light after a former teacher sent an e-mail about the allegations to school system leaders.

Headline: Punish parents for smacking - academic
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 11.12.8
Caption: This old man, he played two. He played patty wack on me shoe...

PARENTS should be banned from smacking their kids - and be prosecuted if the child is harmed, a leading academic said.

Smacking of children by parents is currently legal under the common law, as long as reasonable force is used and the sole intention is to correct behaviour.

But Sydney University Associate Professor Judy Cashmore wants the defence struck out, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Parents would thus be liable to prosecution for smacking but she said it was unlikely any would be charged unless real harm was done.

Smacking involving force or leaving lasting physical effects is already an abuse under child protection laws.

Professor Cashmore will tell an Australian Institute of Family Studies seminar in Melbourne today that Australia should follow the lead of New Zealand and remove the common law defence.