SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 26.8.9
CAPTION: BOTH FEET IN THE GRAVE
AN adrenalin craze where people jump from cliffs or high objects into the sea has been condemned by UK emergency services.
"Tombstoning" has claimed the lives of at least 12 people in the UK in the past few years, while in 2005 Sydney bodyboarder Harry Dixon broke his legs while tombstoning in west Cornwall.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) is urging people to boycott the legal sport and is promoting a summer campaign warning of the dangers of tombstoning.
"It's called tombstoning for a reason – get it wrong and you end up with a tombstone," Ray Barton, from the RNLI, told the BBC.
HEADLINE: Mayor charged after knicker haul
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 26.8.9
CAPTION: THE MAYOR OF KNICKERS
A MAYOR has stepped down after being accused of breaking into women's homes and parading around in their bra and knickers.
Ian Stafford, 58, was charged with three counts of burglary after women told police their bras and knickers had vanished.
One worried woman is said to have installed a secret camera in her bedroom and when police saw the footage they saw a semi-naked man going through her drawers.
The video showed the man putting on her knickers and performing a sex act. Sources said that police had recovered a haul of underwear.
Stafford resigned as a councillor immediately after his arrest. He was elected Mayor of Preesall and Knott End, in Lancashire, England, four years ago.
HEADLINE: Second opinion for 'glowing' dead body
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 26.8.9
CAPTION: DEAD MAN GLOWING
RELATIVES of a dead man in Spain asked a doctor to confirm his death a second time because his body showed no signs of going pale hours after he passed away. The 70-year-old died of a heart attack and his body was on display at a funeral home in Lorca, a city of some 90,000 people in southern Spain, when his family noticed that it still had a healthy pink glow, a spokesman for the funeral home said. They then called in the doctor to confirm that their loved one was in fact dead. The doctor concluded that the man still had a healthy glow, despite having passed away, because the pacemaker he was wearing was still running.
HEADLINE: Thief ID'd While Applying for Job in Store He'd Robbed
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 26.8.9
CAPTION: ANOTHER STUPID THIEF
A British man interviewing for a job at a grocery store was charged with theft after the store's manager recognized him as the same shoplifter from a previous incident at the store, The Telegraph reported.
Simon Holden, 22, applied to be a shelf stacker at a grocery store in Lancashire, Great Britain. While Holden was interviewing, the store's manager recognized his face.
The store's manager reportedly then checked CCTV footage from earlier in the week and recognized Holden — who was stealing four boxes of lager beer from the same store.
When confronted during the interview, Holden fled — but not before stealing two more boxes of beer as he ran through the front door, The Telegraph reported..
HEADLINE: Cyclist guilty of running over teammate
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 26.8.9
CAPTION: This is the new 'good sportsmanship'.
CHAMPION cyclist Chris Jongewaard has been found guilty of criminal offences for driving a car which struck a professional cyclist, causing serious injuries.
The four-time national cross country mountain bike champion had pleaded not guilty in the South Australian District Court to aggravated causing serious harm by dangerous driving and leaving the scene of an accident after causing harm.
Jongewaard, 30, of Para Hills, lost his place on Australia's team for last year's Beijing Olympics after he was charged over the February 2007 accident.
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