Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 6.3.9
Caption: So Much for the Fat Duck
BRAY, England — It's a culinary mystery worthy of Agatha Christie.
Britain's Health Protection Agency said Friday about 400 people reported falling ill after eating at The Fat Duck, a world-renowned British establishment reputed for dishes such as snail porridge and bacon-and-egg ice cream. Health officials are baffled by the outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting while the celebrity chef, Heston Blumenthal, has said his restaurant will remain closed until the mystery is solved.
"It's so weird — we haven't found anything. But I can't take the risk of keeping open until we have exhausted every single avenue," Blumenthal told The Times of London last week, shortly after the first group of people reported falling ill.
Headline: Conn. Man Chewing On Charges Of Stealing Gum
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 6.3.9
Caption: I'm forever chewing bubble gum
Police in Connecticut have arrested a man with a several-pack-a-day habit _ of Orbit gum.
Twenty-one-year-old Kenneth McManus of Stratford has been charged with stealing hundreds of packs of the chewing gum.
Fairfield police say McManus turned himself in Thursday. He is accused of stealing 175 packs of gum worth more than $500 from a Shaw's supermarket in Fairfield in January.
Police say he also faces larceny charges of stealing $200 worth of gum from the Shaw's in Stratford and $75 worth of gum from a CVS store in Bridgeport.
Headline: Cops Find Bags Of Heroin In Pregnant Woman's Pants
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 5.3.9
Caption: A bun in the What?
Police arrested a 31-year-old pregnant woman who had 73 bags of heroin stashed in the waistband of her pants. Police said the woman was a passenger in a car stopped by officers on Wednesday because they believed it had illegal window tint.
Headline: Nurse buys sex aid for teenager
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 5.3.9
Caption: a strange position to be in
A COMMUNITY nurse bought an artificial vagina for a sexually frustrated disabled teenager.
Stephanie Courts made the revelation at a Royal College of Nursing conference in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
She obtained the vibrating sex aid after the 15-year-old patient, who was severely disabled, became distressed at not being able to satisfy his sexual urges.
Ms Courts said the case highlighted a serious issue, the lack of national guidelines for dealing with the sexual needs of physically disabled adolescents.
Her team in Worcestershire eventually drew up its own sexual health policy for the local Primary Care Trust.
The nurses addressed the problem after consulting the 15-year-old boy’s parents.
Ms Courts said the team dealt “professionally with a potentially embarrassing and legally difficult situation”, Nursing Standard magazine reported.
But national guidelines were still needed for nurses finding themselves in similar situations.
Headline: Excommunications After Raped 9-Year-Old's Abortion
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 5.3.9
Caption: Religious Irony
RIO DE JANEIRO — A Roman Catholic archbishop says the abortion of twins carried by a 9-year-old girl who allegedly was raped by her stepfather means excommunication for the girl's mother and her doctors.
Despite the nature of the case, the church had to hold its line against abortion, Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho said in an interview aired Thursday by Globo television.
"The law of God is higher than any human laws," he said. "When a human law — that is, a law enacted by human legislators — is against the law of God, that law has no value. The adults who approved, who carried out this abortion have incurred excommunication."
Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao rebuked the archbishop, saying, "I'm shocked by two facts: by what happened to the girl and by the position of the archbishop, who in saying he defends life puts another at risk."
Abortion is generally illegal in Brazil, which is home to more Catholics than any other nation. But the procedure is allowed when the mother's life is in danger, when the fetus has no chance of survival or in rape cases where the woman has not passed her 20th week of pregnancy.
Headline: Woman Bites Off Boyfriend's Tongue During Kiss
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 5.3.9
Caption: No Baby, No Tongue
British woman deliberately bit off her boyfriend's tongue during a kiss after complaining she wanted a baby and wasn't getting pregnant, the BBC reported.
Tracey Davis, 40, and her boyfriend were celebrating his 45th birthday when she got upset and he tried to comfort her.
While Mark Coghill was moving closer to her, she asked him to kiss her.
"He did so and within a few seconds, she bit down hard on his tongue." prosecutor Julian Smith said, according to the BBC . Obviously this caused him pain, he pulled back, and the tongue had come clean off in her mouth. She had the piece of tongue in her mouth, he saw her take it from her mouth, and it fell to the floor."
Coghill says the incident has left him struggling to speak, unable to distinguish between foods and no longer able to work.
Headline: Atlanta Woman Finds 'Mammal Bone' in Blue M&M
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 5.3.9
Caption: No bones about it
An Atlanta woman has a bone to pick with the candy company Mars after she took a bite into her peanut M&M and says she discovered what a local biologist says is a vertebra from a small mammal.
J. Paulette Potts, who works for an advertising and public relations firm in downtown Atlanta, told FOXNews.com that last Friday she discovered the object encased inside a blue peanut M&M.
When her "teeth wouldn't go through it," Potts said she washed the chocolate off of the approximately inch-long object in the office sink and saw it certainly wasn't a peanut, an act FOXNews.com confirmed with several of her colleagues.
Headline: Psychopaths threatening businesses
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 4.3.9
Caption: Corporate psychopaths are out there
AUSTRALIAN businesses under pressure have been warned to be on the lookout for corporate psychopaths within their ranks........
"Businesses should be vigilant at any time but particularly now when companies are so vulnerable," ........ Mr Blaik, of Brisbane-based human resources firm Onetest, said psychopaths were believed to have contributed to some high-profile company collapses in recent years.
Psychopaths' main failings were that they did not show honesty, modesty and trustworthiness; did not experience emotions such as love, empathy and guilt; exhibited impulsive behaviour; and led anti-social lifestyles.........psychopaths were believed to make up 1 per cent of the general population but about 3 per cent of the corporate world. They actually exhibit characteristics highly valued by the business world because their lack of empathy and conscience can be seen as an ability to make tough decisions, and they don't seem to experience stress."
