Police run over dog, bill owner for damage

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HEADLINE: Police run over dog, bill owner for damage
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/german-police-fatally-run-over-dog-bill-owner-for-the-trouble/story-e6frfkui-1225825740608
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A GERMAN woman has hired a lawyer after being shocked to discover that not only did police deliberately run over her beloved dog, they have now sent her a hefty bill.
Robby, a nine-year-old Australian Shepherd, ran away on December 31 after being terrified by fireworks, and made it onto a nearby motorway, her owner Heidi Schwank, 65, told the Bild daily newspaper.
"A day after New Year's, the police phoned me and said that my Robby had been run over on the motorway ... The police claimed that a motorist had hit and killed Robby," Ms Schwank said, photographed clutching his picture.

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HEADLINE: Giant condom balloon to tour the world
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/giant-condom-balloon-condomfiere-to-tour-the-world/story-e6frfkui-1225825735465
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France is about to send a giant 36-meter-tall condom balloon – big enough for a pilot and three passengers – on a five-continent tour to promote World AIDS Day, MyFox National reported overnight.
At that size, the colossal condom would be far too big to participate in the Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, which limits its balloons to 21 meters in length, 12 meters in width and 24 meters in length.
Condomfiere (Condompride), as the balloon is nicknamed, will help AIDS awareness by passing out health information, AOL News reported. The campaign was started by CondomFly, which is a safe-sex organisation in France.

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HEADLINE: Bag Balm Becomes Popular "Problem Salver"
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/01/health/main6162364.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColLowerPromoArea;morenews
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Winter is most definitely here. It must be. The phones are ringing at Bag Balm headquarters.
Everyone wants a new tub of the gooey, yellow-green ointment. And all have a story about its problem-salving - they use it on squeaky bed springs, psoriasis, dry facial skin, cracked fingers, burns, zits, diaper rash, saddle sores, sunburn, pruned trees, rifles, shell casings, bed sores and radiation burns.
Everything, it seems, except for cows.
"Some, you don't really even want to hear, but they're gonna tell you anyway," said accounts manager Krystina McMorrow, who is half the office staff.

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HEADLINE: Surgeons report the irresistible rise of the 'moob job'
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8487526.stm
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Breast reduction for men is the fastest-growing part of the cosmetic surgery industry for the second year running, plastic surgeons have said.
The number of such operations rose from 323 in 2008 to 581 last year - an 80% increase - the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons said.
Pressure created by men's magazines was partly to blame, one surgeon said.
Cosmetic surgery appears to be defying the recession, with an overall increase in the number of procedures

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HEADLINE: Man invents $7,000 talking sex robot
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/index.html?hpt=T2
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Las Vegas, Nevada To some men, she might seem like the perfect woman: She's a willowy 5 feet 7 and 120 pounds. She'll chat with you endlessly about your interests. And she'll have sex whenever you please -- as long as her battery doesn't run out.
Meet Roxxxy, who may be the world's most sophisticated talking female sex robot. For $7,000, she's all yours.
"She doesn't vacuum or cook, but she does almost everything else," said her inventor, Douglas Hines, who unveiled Roxxxy last month at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Lifelike dolls, artificial sex organs and sex-chat phone lines have been keeping the lonely company for decades. But Roxxxy takes virtual companionship to a new level.

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HEADLINE: Kids to lick a battery, make a fire and bomb
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/parents-outraged-by-kids-bomb-book/story-e6frfkvr-1225825712135
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PARENTING experts are outraged by a book encouraging children to make a bomb in a bag and cook CDs in a microwave.
Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) , which details ways to expose youngsters to danger as part of their development, has become surprisingly popular among parents.
Child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg said the book was a massive over-reaction to "cotton wool" parenting.
"Young people should be encouraged to take healthy risks and it is in their psychological interests to do so," Dr Carr-Gregg said. "However, there is a huge difference between healthy risk-taking and actively encouraging young people to engage in activities that could scar, maim and kill."

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HEADLINE: Fattest man loses 127kg, still fattest
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/fattest-man-loses-127kg-still-fattest/story-e6frfku0-1225825505900
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THE fattest man in the world has had a life-saving operation in the UK and lost more than 127kg.
The Sun reports Paul Mason now weighs 311kg - but is believed to still be the heaviest man on the planet.
The ex-postman, 48, spent the weekend in intensive care after undergoing complicated gastric bypass surgery.
Sources said he was recovering well and looking forward to losing more weight.
The operation involved making a small "pouch" by stapling off part of Mr Mason's stomach.

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HEADLINE: Aussies choose booze over bonking
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/sex-cars-and-mates-play-second-fiddle-to-australians-love-of-booze/story-e6frfku0-1225825330793
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AUSTRALIANS' love affair with grog is so great they'd rather give up sex, their car and their friends than lay off the bottle for a month.
When quizzed by charity FebFast, one in five drinkers said they would prefer to go without sex than booze, while twelve per cent admitted they would ditch their friends over alcohol.
The same number said they'd opt to give up driving for four weeks if they had to choose between their wheels and liquor and 30 per cent said they would rather toss their mobile phones.
FebFast, which works to highlight the dangers of drugs and alcohol, questioned 1006 people in the lead-up to a campaign that encourages Australians to give up drinking during February.
And most believed they had the willpower to meet the challenge.

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HEADLINE: Help, there's a body in the home I'm robbing
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/help-theres-a-body-in-the-home-im-robbing/story-e6frflri-1111115346732
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A BERLIN burglar's break-in took an unexpected turn when he stumbled upon a corpse and felt compelled to call the police.
"He called to say he'd just broken into a flat and found a dead body," said a spokeswoman for Berlin police Thursday. "He gave the address of the place and then hung up."
Officers discovered the 64-year-old resident of the flat dead in his bedroom. The man had passed away about two weeks ago, and authorities are not treating the death as suspicious

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