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Headline: 'Used condoms, tampons' in hotel rooms
Clip from: news.com .au
Date of clip: 31.1.9
Caption: Hotel Hourly Rates

TRAVELLERS disgusted at Australian hotel standards have found used condoms, pubic hairs and a dirty tampon in their rooms.

And in many cases, their complaints have fallen on deaf ears.

Disgruntled guests have been forced to either put up with the mess or book into more expensive hotels, according to News.com.au readers.

Headline: Cops: Man Drove Lift at 3 A.M., Said Was Dared
Clip from: news.com .au
Date of clip: 31.1.9
Caption: Up Up and Away

Police knew something wasn't quite right after they spotted a man driving a piece of construction lift equipment down a street at 3 a.m. on Thursday.

The man, who appparently had been drinking, was in the lift bucket of the Genie Boom with an unopened six-pack of beer and a bag of beef jerky when police pulled the vehicle over. He was clocked at 2 mph.

At first the 29-year old man told police he was just going to the store. But when they asked him why he was in the bucket on the lift, he said he was delievering the $20,000 piece of construction equipment on a dare from a stranger he met on Craigslist, according to a police report.

Headline: Uninvited Sister Attacks Bride at Wedding Reception
Clip from: news.com .au
Date of clip: 30.1.9
Caption: Sisterly Love

HEBRON, Ind. — Police say a northern Indiana woman who wasn't invited to her sister's wedding reception showed up anyway and attacked the bride, pulling out clumps of her hair.

Twenty-three-year-old Annmarie Bricker of Valparaiso faces a misdemeanor battery charge for last Friday's attack outside a Porter County home.

The Porter County Sheriff's Department says a friend was hosting a reception for Nicholas Landry and Lori Kappes — Bricker's sister — when Bricker attacked Kappes on the front porch.

Police say that after the attack, Kappes had smeared makeup and clumps of hair missing from her head but sought no medical treatment.

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.