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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Not a tasty morsel for shark

Headline: Monster Great White 'spat me out'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 18.1.9
Caption: Not a tasty morsel for shark
...Hannah and her cousin Syb Mundy, 33, from Coolangatta on the Gold Coast, were surfing at Binalong Bay last Sunday when the monster struck. Hannah said she saw the shark only a split second before it lunged at her.

"In my head, I was just like, 'Oh my God, it's a shark'.

"It was massive. Its head was like 2m wide. It just seemed so big," she said.

"I remember it grabbing my leg and I just started screaming for Syb . . . and then all of a sudden I turned around and he was right behind me."

As the 5m great white shook Hannah "like a rag doll", Mr Mundy paddled into the boiling red surf and punched the shark repeatedly until it released the teenager from its jaws.

"I'm just glad the shark didn't like me and spat me back out," Hannah said.

Headline: Couple found dead days after blaze
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 17.1.9
Caption: Very Strange
A FORMER Brisbane dog racing identity and his wife have died in a house fire south of Brisbane.

Terry Vogler, believed to be in his 60s, and Kathy Vogler, believed to be in her 50s, died some time late last week on their Park Ridge property in Logan City, police said.

Mr Vogler was a public relations officer and secretary of the Greyhound Breeders, Owners and Trainers Association until the early 1990s, The Sunday Mail reports.

Police and firefighters were alerted by the Voglers' son, who went to the property on Friday after he could not contact his father for Mr Vogler's birthday.

The bodies are yet to be formally identified but relatives yesterday told The Sunday Mail they were saddened by the news of the couple's death.

Neighbours said they had no idea there was a fire at the low-set house where the couple had lived for 16 years..

Headline: Shoplifter Gets Run Over Twice By Her Getaway Car
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 16.1.9
Caption: Clumsy Thief

Authorities are looking for a shoplifter who was run over twice by her getaway car after stealing $1,200 worth of designer purses from a Cape Coral store. A T.J. Maxx security guard told police she saw a woman stuff six designer Dooney & Bourke purses into her pants Tuesday morning and walk out of the store. The guard said she was confronting the woman when a car pulled up.

A report said the shoplifter tried to get into the vehicle but fell out and was run over by the car. She then got up and jumped onto the hood of the car. As the car was driving away, the report said the woman fell off and was run over again. On her third attempt, she finally made it into the vehicle.

Headline: Teacher Fired for Duct Taping Kid's Mouth Shut
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 16.1.9
Caption: Dumb Ass Teacher
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A school board in Indiana has fired a middle school teacher who placed duct tape over a special-needs student's mouth to keep him from talking in class.

The board of Tippecanoe School Corp. voted Wednesday to cancel Pamela Dahnke's contract. She was an eighth-grade health and nutrition teacher at Battle Ground Middle School in West Lafayette.

Superintendent Scott Hanback says the September taping incident "cannot be tolerated." ...

Headline: Speeding pregnant woman was 'busting'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 16.1.9
Caption:When You're Pregnant You Got To Go When You Got To Go
A PREGNANT woman caught driving 147km/h on the F3 had her licence suspension reduced yesterday because she was desperate to go to the toilet at the time of the offence.

Bettina Catherine May, from Chipping Norton, was three months pregnant when she was clocked driving 37km/h over the speed limit on October 12.

And when police pulled her over as she raced north out of Sydney towards Ourimbah she was not wearing a seatbelt...

Headline: Lithuanian Firm Hires Witch To Hunt Debt Dodgers
Clip from: CBS.com
Date of clip: 16.1.9
Caption: Witch Hunt

In these difficult times for creditors, a Lithuanian debt collector is offering an unconventional service to retrieve arrears: witchcraft.

The Vilnius-based firm has hired Vilija Lobaciuviene, the Baltic nation's most famous self-styled witch, to hunt down companies and individuals who are failing to pay their debts amid the credit crunch.

"There are certain people, who are using this crisis situation and refuse to pay back banks or other companies," said Amantas Celkonas, director of the Skolu Isieskojimo Biuras, or debt collecting bureau.

"Our new employee will help them to understand the situation, reconsider what is right and wrong and act accordingly," he said. "We will also help those who are in real trouble, suffering from psychological impact of bankruptcy and depression."

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