Bye Bye Doggie

Headline: Gone With the Wind: Pet Chihuahua Blows Away
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 28.4.9
Caption: Bye Bye Doggie

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight.

Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly a mile from where 8-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen. The brown long-haired dog was dirty and hungry but otherwise OK.

The Utleys, of Rochester, had set up an outdoor display Saturday at a flea market in Waterford Township, 25 miles northwest of Detroit.

Tinker Bell was standing on their platform trailer when she was swept away.

Headline: Finger cut off and eaten in wage protest
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 28.4.9
Caption: Finger Food

A SERBIAN union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said today he did it to show how desperate he and other workers were.
"We, the workers have nothing to eat, we had to seek some sort of alternative food and I gave them an example," Zoran Bulatovic said.

"It hurt like hell."

Mr Bulatovic, a union leader at the Raska Holding textile factory in Novi Pazar in southwest Serbia, used a hacksaw to cut off most of his left-hand little finger on Friday.

Mr Bulatovic said he decided to act after his deputy, "a single mother of three, was the first to say she would cut off her finger. I could not allow her to do that," he said.

State-owned Raska Holding was a major textile producer in the late 1980s with a workforce of 4000.

It suffered during the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and a loss of markets and mismanagement during a decade of wars and sanctions led to massive job cuts, leaving the company with just 100 workers.

Headline:Controversy Erupts Over "Swine Flu" Name
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 27.4.9
Caption: WHO CARES WHAT NAME IT HAS! IT'S KILLING PEOPLE.

Don't blame the pig! Call it the Mexican or North American flu. Those are two alternate names that may be popping up to replace the "swine flu," the virus that started in Mexico.
While many countries are sorting out how to properly deal with the outbreak of the virus, some are arguing over the name given to the illness.
Officials in some nations are taking offence to the reference "swine."
Israel doesn't like the association mainly because the dominant religions in the area, Judaism and Islam, both consider pigs a 'tainted' animal that neither will eat.
The Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health also backs up the name change because "the virus has not been isolated in animals to date."
Nor does it have anything to do with eating pork. The World Health Organization has already announced that the flu isn't transmissible by handling or eating the meat product.
The Mexican flu is a more appropriate name, says Israel's Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman. But that name doesn't work either. There's nothing linking the virus to make it strictly 'Mexican,' besides the fact the majority of cases first surfaced there.

Headline: Girl, 8, Takes Wheel When Grandma Faints
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 27.4.9
Caption: kid driver

CBS11 in Dallas / Forth Worth has the story about an 8-year-old girl who helped steer a car when her grandmother passed out.

Emma Hicks, 8, of Cleburne, a town south of Forth Worth, is being given a national award for doing a good deed. While she crashed her grandmothers SUV through a fence and into a shed, it was a crash that may have saved lives.

There's still damage visible at the site where Emma Hicks ride home from school ended. "On the way home my grandma, she blacked out," the little girl explained.

Emma's grandmother, Jeannie Mendoza, has to depend on her granddaughter's memory. "I turned on the corner and I told her [Emma] I felt funny and I was going to pull over," Jeannie recalled. "I pulled over a little bit and I don't remember anything after that."

Jeannie had a seizure while driving with her granddaughter. Emma said, "And her foot was on the gas pedal and then we were going." The two were racing down the road and heading toward danger.

Something had to be done, so little Emma took action. "I had to undo my seatbelt and I had to get in the front seat and I had to steer the truck. And then we came to a turn and I couldn't make it."

Until the incident, Emma's only driving experience was on her grandfather's lawnmower and tractor.

Headline: Wis. Teen Allegedly Steals From Cars To Pay Lawyer
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 27.4.9
Caption: Game Plan: Steal to pay debts caused by stealing

A teen allegedly broke into cars to raise money to pay a lawyer to defend him on other charges. A criminal complaint said a resident caught the teen inside his Chevrolet Camaro in his garage about 4:30 a.m. April 16 and tackled him and held him for police.

Officers found a GPS system, nine CDs and seven video games in his backpack. The criminal complaint said he took the items to help pay for a lawyer. He was charged with felony burglary, possession of burglar tools and bail jumping.

Headline: Voters in Switzerland Ban Nude Hiking
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 27.4.9
Caption: No more nude hiking! What is this world coming to?

APPENZELL, Switzerland — Voters in the heart of the Swiss Alps on Sunday passed legislation banning nude hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region.

By a show of hands citizens of the tiny state of Appenzell Inner Rhodes voted overwhelmingly at their traditional open-air annual assembly to impose a $176 fine on violators.

Only a scattering of people on Sunday opposed the ban on the back-to-nature activity that took off last autumn when naked hikers — primarily Germans — started showing up in eastern Switzerland.

The cantonal government recommended the ban after citizens objected to encountering walkers wearing nothing but hiking boots and socks.

"The reactions of the population have shown that such appearances over a large area are perceived as thoroughly disturbing and irritating," the government said in a statement.

Headline: N.Y. Man Brings Live Grenade to Gun Buyback Event
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 26.4.9
Caption: No questions asked unless you bring in a live grenade

New York City police were holding a suspect Saturday who they say tried to turn in a live hand grenade to police at a gun-buyback program in the Bronx.

Authorities say the NYPD's bomb squad responded to a church where guns were being collected at around 4:30 p.m. and left 15 minutes later with the grenade, carrying it out in a special carrier. The program offers $200 for guns, no questions asked.

Dog Biter

Headline: Man bites dog, gets animal ban
Clip from: Telegraph.co.uk
Date of clip: 13.3.9
Caption: The dog biting man

Philip Carter, from Loughborough, attacked Splodge, a cross terrier, when the dog bit him on the hand.

Carter, 29, appeared at Loughborough magistrates' court to be sentenced for causing Splodge unnecessary suffering and failing to get the dog cared for by a vet after it was injured.

John Sutcliffe, prosecuting for the RSPCA, told the court police officers were called to Carter's home on March 2 last year and found a trail of blood.

He said they discovered the dog with a wound to its nose that was bleeding severely.

Mr Sutcliffe said the dog was breathing heavily and struggling for breath...

Headline: Woman Finds Cat Living Inside Her $27 Used Couch
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 13.3.9
Caption: It's not a couch potato

SPOKANE, Wash. — The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall's home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27.

After days of searching for the source of the noise, she found a very hungry calico cat living in her sofa.

Her boyfriend, Chris Lund, was watching TV on Tuesday night and felt something move inside the couch. He pulled it away from the wall, lifted it up and there was the cat, which apparently crawled through a small hole on the underside.

Headline: Man guilty of stealing blow-up dolls for sex
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 13.3.9
Caption: Just a normal person

A MAN who broke into an adult shop and had sex with blow-up dolls said he had a "pretty healthy" sex life yesterday.

After receiving 15 months' probation for his bizarre sex crimes, Adam Troy Rosberg, 24, told The Cairns Post he had not been in need of sex.

"I have a girlfriend and our sex life is pretty good, pretty healthy," he said.

Asked if it ever involved blow-up dolls, Rosberg answered "no".

But he did say his girlfriend thought what he did with the dolls that night was "pretty funny really".

"She knows me and knows I'm a just a normal person and that this is something I wouldn't normally do," Rosberg said.

"But I had quite a few drugs that day: hallucinogens, amphetamines.

Headline: Public sector crippled by 'lovesick' hacker
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 13.3.9
Caption: Ah, Poor Puppy

MAN who crashed the Territory Government's computer system - costing taxpayers $1.2 million - was drunk and upset his fiancee had broken off their engagement, a court has heard.

David Anthony McIntosh pleaded guilty to 12 counts of unlawfully accessing and modifying data in the NT Supreme Court in January, the Northern Territory News reports.

In submissions from his lawyer Tom Berkley and prosecutor Paul Usher yesterday, the court heard that McIntosh hacked into the system on his workmate's computer, using her password.

He was living with her in May, 2008, when he logged into government servers and deleted 10,475 user accounts from the Health Department, hospital, prison and Supreme Court servers....

Headline: Atheists' Group, Church Battling With Bus Signs
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 12.3.9
Caption: Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs

An atheists' group and a church are taking their rivalry on the road, using ad space on Madison Transit buses to display their competing messages. The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation is spending $2,100 on six signs appearing for up to two months inside 50 buses. Each sign has a quotation questioning religion or giving reasons for not believing.

Headline: Many Phones — Just One Number
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 12.3.9
Caption: Things, They are changing

Google Inc is seeking to blur the line between the telephone and the computer even further with the introduction of Google Voice on Thursday.

The new service weaves traditional phone features with Google's Gmail email product, allowing a person to store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in their email inbox and to find a specific nugget of information within a phone message as if trawling through a sea of emails.

Headline: For sale: One nagging wife, some rust
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 12.3.9
Caption: Nag For Sale - Wife That Is

A BRITISH man fed up with his wife's complaints advertised her for sale - and got a number of offers.
"Nagging Wife. No Tax, No MOT (roadworthy certificate). Very high maintenance - some rust," wrote Gary Bates, 38, in a small ad in Trade-It, more usually used to buy and sell cars or household goods.

Mr Bates, a self-employed builder from Gloucestershire, southwest England, snapped after his wife Donna on got on his nerves while she was watching television and he decided to place the ad as a joke.

"She was nagging me for doing something small, while she was watching some rubbish on TV. So I just thought I'd put an ad in to get rid of her.

"I didn't think anyone would ring up but I've had at least nine or 10 people calling about her. It's gone mad. There was no one I knew - just people asking, 'Is she still available?'"..

Headline: Horse bites off man's testicle
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 12.3.9
Caption: Horse Eats Man's Testicle - OUCH

AN Indonesian villager had to be rushed to hospital after a horse bit off one of his testicles.
The 35-year-old man was unloading sand from a horse-drawn cart at a construction site in Sulawesi earlier this week when the attack occurred, Indonesia's state-run news agency Antara reported.

A witness said the animal suddenly lunged at the man, sinking its teeth into his crotch.

Shocked bystanders loaded the man into a car to take him to hospital, before one noticed a piece of flesh on the pavement.

"Luckily the horse did not chew up or swallow his testicle, but spit it onto the pavement," the bystander was quoted as saying.

"So I picked it up and brought it to the doctor at the hospital where the victim was being treated

Headline: Power tool sex toy lands woman in hospital
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 11.3.9
Caption: Power Sex

SOME sexual experimentation landed an American woman in a hospital with injuries tough to imagine and even more difficult to forget.

The Maryland woman was flown to hospital on Monday after she was injured in the incident involving a sex toy attached to a sabre saw blade, according to NBCWashington.com.

The man who called 911 about the incident admitted attaching the sex toy to the saw and then using the high-powered, homemade device on his partner, the St Mary's County Sheriff's Office said.

NBCWashington.com reported the saw cut through the plastic toy and wounded the woman.
The injuries were severe enough for her to be flown to hospital but she was released on Tuesday.

Sperm Dog

Headline: Woman wins rights to superdog's sperm
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 20.1.9
Caption: Sperm Dog

A QUEENSLAND dog breeder has won a legal settlement over the ownership of a stud police dog and its frozen sperm. Leigh Robertson of Narangba, in Brisbane, took action against Queensland Police Dog Squad kennel manager Reg Worth after he sold Ike to the police service without her permission. "Ike was not his to sell," Ms Robertson said.

Headline: Woman Creates Artwork From 395 Days Of Junk Mail
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 20.1.9
Caption: Art of Junk

One person's junk mail is an Austin woman's art. Artist Annette Lawrence saved every scrap of junk mail she received, at her home, for about 13 months and made it into an exhibit called "Free Paper."

Lawrence told KXAN-TV that she was "a bit bothered" by the amount of paper that arrived at her residence, 265 pounds worth, during the 395-day period. Instead of recycling the junk mail, Lawrence saved it so observers can take away a sense of "Wow, that is a lot of paper."

Headline: Woman Arrested After Child Gives Away Hiding Spot
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 19.1.9
Caption: Honesty of a Child

A Fort Pierce woman ended up in jail because of a little girl with a big mouth. Police went to the home of 22-year-old woman on Friday to serve warrants for assault, harassing phone calls and violation probation carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.

Officers said two men and a woman at the house told officers that the woman had left, but then a 4-year old child approached one of the officers and revealed that the woman was under a bed.

Headline: Woman Missing 12 Years Found Alive in Swiss Woods
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 19.1.9
Caption: Incredible

BERN, Switzerland — A German woman missing for 12 years has been found living in the woods on the outskirts of the Swiss capital with nothing more than an umbrella and tarpaulin for shelter, police said Monday.

The 52-year-old woman, whose name was undisclosed, appeared to be healthy after living in the simple shelter near the community of Bolligen for the past year.

Even the ranger who makes regular checks of the woods had failed to notice her before a hiker told police this month that he had seen a woman living there, said Juerg Mosimann, spokesman for the Bern police.

Bolligen's Mayor Rudolf Burger said he was told about the woman on Thursday and found her the next day in the makeshift tent she had constructed.

Headline: Men Rescued After Drifting for 25 Days in Icebox
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 19.1.9
Caption: Whan the boat is not afloat

Two Burmese men who were lost at sea for 25 days after a fishing boat they were in sank off the southeast coast of Indonesia were found alive, floating in an oversized icebox.

The men, who said they were forced to join the boat’s crew, were found Saturday — 25 days after the vessel went down about 60 miles off Horn Island, the Courier-Mail reported.

Safe Sex Dog

Star's dog sick after eating condoms
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 6.1.9
Caption: Safe Sex Dog

IF being dressed up as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz wasn't bad enough, little Dinky Oldfield brought new meaning to the idea of a sick puppy last week, requiring an emergency trip to the vet after eating a "six-fingered latex glove". The jack russell, owned by 2GB midnight-to-dawn radio recruit and former One Nation mastermind David Oldfield, was rushed to Sydney's Manly Vet Clinic on New Years Eve by his wife Lisa.

Fearing for the dogs life, the one-time TV panellist pushed through the line to saying her "little scallywag'' needed help.

But after Dr Chris Watkins immediately pumped the six-month-old pups stomach, he didn't discover a glove, but six coloured condoms.

"David was cleaning out his office and left out a box of condoms given to him by a safe sex group in Canberra or something and the dog got into them when I was in the shower,'' Lisa said.

Headline:78-year-old man '70km/h over speed limit'
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 5.1.9
Caption: Oldster Speedster

A 78-year-old Melbourne man allegedly speeding at 170km/h on a winding road has become the oldest person to have his car impounded under Victoria's hoon laws.

Police say the man was caught driving a Nissan Pulsar at 170km/h in a 100km/h zone in Brandy Creek Road, Warragul, east of Melbourne on January 1.

He was following a Nissan Skyline driven by a 36-year-old man.

Acting Sergeant Carlo Visser said the road was six metres wide and winding.

The following clip may be disturbing to some readers.

Headline: Dismembered body found in fridge
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 5.1.9
Caption: Very Sick

A four-year-old girl's dismembered body has been found in a fridge in southern China, leading to the arrest of a man who allegedly once said human flesh was "delicious", state media reported.

The migrant worker was detained after blood was discovered outside his apartment in Guangzhou city, which police traced to him, the Guangzhou Daily reported.

Headline: His penis belongs to me - jealous wife
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 5.1.9
Caption: Penis mine to burn

A SELF-CONFESSED "jealous wife" who allegedly murdered her husband by torching his genitals told neighbours "his penis should belong to me", a court has heard.

Prosecutors today told the Adelaide Magistrates Court that Rajini Narayan should not be released on bail without an extensive psychological assessment, Adelaide Now reported.

Lucy Boord, for the Crown, said the 44-year-old had confessed to neighbours that she had set her engineer husband, Satish, alight upon learning he was having an affair.

"She told neighbours 'my husband loves another woman, he hugs her'," Ms Boord said.

Mrs Narayan said: "I'm a jealous wife, his penis should belong to me, I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else.

"It's just his penis I wanted to burn, I didn't mean this to happen."

Headline: Cop 'caught drink-driving on duty'
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 4.1.9
Caption: We're All Human

A 32-year-old police officer has been charged with drink driving while on duty in Margaret River in Western Australia.
Western Australian police allege the officer had been driving on Willmott Avenue, Margaret River, on November 29 when she tested positive for a blood alcohol limit in excess of 0.08.

Rich Dog

Headline: Widow leaves £7m to dog rescuers
From: Scotsman.com
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Candy Man Lawyer Arrested

SO MUCH for a dog's life. Animal welfare groups are in the money after a rich widow left them a staggering £7 million in her will.

Grace Smith's two pampered former rescue dogs, Winnie the lurcher and Harry the collie, enjoyed the finest cuts of steak and are now set for life after Mrs Smith also left them a fortune.

Headline: Lawyer Arrested For Giving Client A Piece Of Candy
From: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Candy Man Lawyer Arrested

A lawyer has been arrested after he reportedly ignored orders not to give his shackled client a piece of candy in court, a Yavapai County sheriff's official said. Damon Rossi, 38, was arrested at his home on Thursday, a day after he asked two detention officers if he could feed his client a piece of candy, sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said on Friday. Rossi went ahead and gave the inmate the food despite being warned against it, reportedly asking the officers "what are you going to do, arrest me?"

Headline: Aussie repays $11 loan - 40 years later
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Better Late Than Never

A BRITON who lent $11 to a cash-strapped Australian while travelling through Europe has had his loan repaid - nearly 40 years later, a report said.

Jim Webb, 72, was in the Belgian coastal town of Ostend in April 1969 with a friend when he met Gary Fenton who asked for a loan to pay for a ferry journey back to Britain.

Mr Fenton promised to repay Mr Webb and noted down his address when the trio landed in England.

Last Sunday Mr Webb returned to his home in Sheffield to find a hand-delivered package with $439 - $11 for each year the loan had not been paid - and a note that read: "To Jim Webb, a good man. From Gary Fenton, a tardy payer of debts."

"I was quite emotional when I read it," Mr Webb told the BBC. "In this day and age promises are made and promises are broken and you lose your faith in human nature.

Headline: Teacher 'flashed breasts at students'
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Naughty Teacher

A FEMALE teacher has been removed from a high school amid allegations she drank alcohol with students and exposed her breasts.
Yesterday, the NSW Department of Education and Training said it had taken action against the woman from the Northern Beaches Secondary College Balgowlah Boys Campus because of the teacher's alleged "behaviour towards students".

Education officials launched an investigation after the woman was ordered not to return to the school in August. Police and the Department of Community Services were informed.

Headline: Trio Fired For Sink Stunt
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 19.12.8
Caption: SPLISH SPLASH, I'M TAKING A BATH

The girls, from Anderson, California, had stripped to their bare essentials to enjoy the make-shift jacuzzi.
Bosses at KFC did not stumble upon the stunt until one of the trio posted a "KFC moments" gallery on her public MySpace profile.
Three fast food workers at a KFC outlet have been fired after posting pictures of themselves bathing in the restaurant's sinks... The girls, from Anderson, California, had stripped to their bare essentials to enjoy the make-shift jacuzzi.

Headline: Woman gives birth to 18th child
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 19.12.8
Caption: No Birth Control Here

A WOMAN who has already had 17 kids with names beginning with the letter J has given birth to her 18th child - a girl named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar. The latest addition to Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar's brood was delivered by Caesarean section at Mercy Medical Centre in Rogers, Arkansas overnight.

Headline: Mum killer requests longer sentence
From: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 19.12.8
Caption: You don't hear this everyday.

A MAN who had sought the maximum jail term for murdering his mother has said his sentence of at least 17 years is "manifestly inadequate".
Adam Patrick Owens, 36, had pleaded guilty to the stabbing murder of his mother, 69-year-old environmentalist Doris Owens, in her home at Swanhaven, on the New South Wales south coast, in September 2006.
Earlier this month, he told the NSW Supreme Court his only regret was that he hadn't murdered her 20 years earlier, and that he would do it again if he had his time over..

Here doggy, doggy, doggy

Headline: Woman Goes To The Pound And Brings Home 27 Dogs
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 16.12.8
Caption: Here doggy, doggy, doggy

A Spanish Springs woman who went to a California dog pound looking for pet to replace her own dog that was hit by a car admits she went overboard when she brought home 27 dogs that were facing euthanasia. But she didn't expect to run afoul of the law.

Headline: Boy Freed From Airtight Bank Safe
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 16.12.8
Caption: Kids Are Not Getting Smarter

An 8-year-old boy was freed Sunday after being trapped in an airtight bank safe in Istanbul, Turkey.
Scores of onlookers watched as firefighters used a sledgehammer and electric saw to free Cihan Sevinc.
The youngster had found the discarded vault while playing in a footpath in Istanbul with friends. It had been left outside a safe shop, whose owner was away on holiday.Unaware of the danger it posed, Cihan climbed into the safe and his companions shut the door behind him as a joke..

Headline: Anti-kidnap expert kidnapped
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 16.12.8
Caption: Sleepwalking is one thing, but..

A TOP US anti-kidnapping expert was kidnapped in northeast Mexico last week, reports said today, in an audacious move amid a wave of drug-related violence and kidnappings.
Security adviser Felix Batista, 55, was abducted on December 10 in Saltillo in Coahuila state after taking part in two conferences on business security, Reforma Daily said, quoting local government officials.

Headline: Sleeping woman 'zzz-mails' friends
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 15.12.8
Caption: Sleepwalking is one thing, but..

A WOMAN in deep sleep sent emails to friends in what doctors believe is the first reported case of using the internet while asleep.

Headline: Giants Fan in Skimpy Santa Outfit Kicked Out of Stadium
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 15.12.8
Caption: Naughty, Naughty

The New York Giants need another sack — to cover a flamboyant fan who wears skimpy outfits.
Sondra Fortunato went to Giants Stadium last week wearing a Santa Claus outfit, a tiara, fishnet stockings, a bathing suit bottom and high-heeled boots.
She also had a suitcase and two 11-by-17 signs reading "Go Giants" and "Have a No Guns Christmas," referring to the team's wide receiver shooting himself in the leg.
She insists nothing naughty was showing even though she's "well-endowed." As the middle-aged woman puts it, "You couldn't even see my underwear."

Headline: Luxury fashion hotel to refrigerate beach
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 15.12.8
Caption: Tender Tooties

A LUXURY hotel in Dubai is to create the first refrigerated beach so hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days. The Palazzo Versace fashion house will have a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolant that will absorb heat from the surface, reports The Australian.

HEADLINE: Man was killed for watering his lawn
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 15.12.8
Caption: H2O Murder

A MAN has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a homeowner he wrongly accused of ignoring water restrictions.

Todd Munter, 37, of Carringbah in Sydney's south, punched 66-year-old Ken Proctor in the face as he was watering his lawn at Sylvania last October, at a time when he was legally entitled to do so.

Mr Proctor allegedly turned the hose on Munter, after he called him a "stupid old goat" for disregarding water restrictions, prompting a physical altercation.

Munter was accused of punching him, pushing him to the ground and kicking him.

Headline: Santas freak out screaming toddlers
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 14.12.8
Caption: Claus's Ho! Ho! Ho! Freaks Kids

He's a huge, strangely dressed man who sneaks into people's homes at night, then yells, "Ho! Ho! Ho!" at the top of his lungs. Who wouldn't be afraid of Santa Claus?

"A 2-year-old knows what a regular person looks like, and Santa ain't it," author Nancy Watkins says.

Authors Denise Joyce and Nancy Watkins know at least 250 toddlers who are. The two recently published a book called "Scared of Santa: Scenes of Terror in Toyland" that shows photos of children on St. Nick's lap -- most of whom are desperate to leave.

The project started at the Chicago Tribune, where both Joyce and Watkins work. They asked readers to send in their photos and got an overwhelming response that's still going strong. Last week, the Tribune's "Scared of Santa" Web site had 2 million hits.

Dog Gone

Headline: Oregon Man Shot by Dog During Hunting Trip
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 24.11.8
Caption: Strange condition.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Henry Marcum has nothing but kind words for the dog that shot his 23-year-old son this weekend.

Marcum says his son, Matthew, was standing in Tillamook Bay at the start of duck-hunting trip when his dog jumped into the boat, setting off a 12-gauge shotgun.

The blast blew a hole in the aluminum boat before hitting Marcum, who is recovering from injuries to his legs and buttocks at Portland's Legacy Emanuel Hospital...

Headline: Docs Remove 12-Inch Hairball From Girl, 11
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 24.11.8
Caption: Strange condition.

An 11-year-old Indian girl suffering from a psychosomatic condition in which she ate her own hair had a foot-long hairball removed from her stomach, the Times of India reported.

The condition, known as trichotillomania, is an impulse control disorder that is characterized by a repeated urge to pull one’s hair out. Some of these people then go on to eat the hair.

“In 99 percent of the cases, it is generally seen among females from 10 to 20 years of age...

Headline: Hit-and-run Suspect Also Accused Of Shoe Theft
Clip from: news.com.au

Date of clip: 24.11.8
Caption: One has to have a good pairs of shoes if one must flee quickly.

Police arrested a hit-and-run suspect who also allegedly stole a pair of shoes from a nearby home as part of his attempt to flee the crime on Sunday. Authorities said the 22-year-old faces charges ranging from drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident and burglary.

Witnesses told police that a vehicle hit a parked car and that the driver fled the scene on foot. Several minutes later, police said they received a call that a man matching the driver's description had entered a nearby residence, was bleeding and stole a pair of shoes before leaving the home.

Headline: Mum flushed newborn son down toilet
Clip from: news.com.au

Date of clip: 24.11.8
Caption: Sick people out there.

A WOMAN who became pregnant to her secret lover told an inquest she didn't know she had given birth to their child until she saw his foot in the toilet bowl.
Claire Jones, 32, gave evidence at the inquest into the death of the newborn boy in Cardiff, Wales, yesterday.

Headline: Mystery Piano: Cops Flummoxed by Find in the Forest

Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 24.11.8

Caption: Music in the forest.

HARWICH, Mass. — Harwich police have a musical mystery on their hands: Who left a piano in the middle of the woods? And why?

The Baldwin piano discovered in the Bells Neck woods appears to be in perfect working condition and had a matching bench as if it had recently been played.

The piano was discovered Saturday by a woman walking along a path inside a conservation area at the woods.

Headline: Nightclubs Burned in War Between Nudists, Swingers

Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 24.11.8
Caption: An interesting set of events.

One of Europe’s most famous nudist colonies has become the subject of an unusual investigation by French detectives after the destruction of three nightclubs in fires blamed on naturist "hardliners."

The normally peaceful Cap d’Agde, a magnet for nudists in the south of France, has been plunged into anxiety as investigators suspect "fundamentalist" nudists of harboring a grudge against the échangistes, or swingers, who are drawn to the town by the promise of sex.