Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 26.1.9
Caption: Nude Begets Dream Job
SOUTH Australia Tourism has launched a viral marketing campaign, giving tourists the chance to star in their own commercials to promote the state. Dubbed Stars of South Australia, the South Australia Tourism Commission promotion – in conjunction with STA Travel – involves UK residents filming a one minute video about travelling to SA.
The prize is a trip to South Australia which is filmed by a professional crew and beamed back to the UK via an online blog.
SATC UK-based marketing manager Neil Saunders said the promotion was devised to attract the sector which was still inclined to travel despite the economic downturn.
"It primarily was aimed at the backpackers and adventure market; in the current economic climate, they are a strong market because people will be looking to take a gap year or get away from it," Mr Saunders said.
Headline: 'Villages' Retirement Home Is Widower's Sex Paradise
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.1.9
Caption: Paradise By The False Teeth
It's 11 p.m. at the Bourbon Street Bar, and Roselyn's gyrating her hips to the blues band, Sue's sipping a cocktail and flirting with her new boyfriend, and Alan is scanning the crowd for cute girls.
"See those two?" a buxom blonde asks, pointing to an elegant couple at the bar. "They were caught having sex in their golf cart a few weeks ago. It happens a lot!"
Welcome to ground zero for geriatrics who are seriously getting it on.
It's a Thursday night at one of a half-dozen hot spots at the 20,000-acre Central Florida complex called The Villages, the largest gated retirement community in America — and one of the most popular destinations for New Yorkers in their golden years — where the female-to-male ratio runs 10 to 1.
It's a widower's paradise, and the word on the street is that there's a big black market for Viagra....
Headline: A Big Fat Ah-Choo! Obesity Bug 'You Can Catch'
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.1.9
Caption: Fat Catch
Obesity can be "caught" as easily as a common cold from other people's coughs, sneezes and dirty hands, scientists said Monday.
The condition has been linked to a highly-infectious virus which causes sniffles and sore throats.
Nikhil Dhurandhar, an associate professor at The Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in Baton Rouge, La., said the virus, known as AD-36, infects the lungs then whisks around the body, forcing fat cells to multiply and also causing sore throats.
"When this virus goes to fat tissue it replicates, making more copies of itself and in the process increases the number of new fat cells, which may explain why the fat tissue expands and why people get fat when they are infected with this virus," Dhurandhar said.
In one test, a third of obese people had the rare and highly contagious virus compared to just 11 percent of thinner people. Weight gain can last three months until the body has built up resistance to the bug.
Headline: Teenager poses as cop, goes on patrol
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 26.1.9
Caption: Top Cop Not
A TEENAGE boy dressed as a police officer went on patrol in a squad car with a qualified cop for five hours before he was busted.
The 14-year-old walked into a Chicago police station and managed to secure an assignment. He did not have a gun, issue any tickets or drive the patrol car, Associated Press reported.
Assistant Superintendent James Jackson said the boy's deception was only discovered after the patrol ended.
Officers noticed his uniform didn't have an official star.
Police said they were investigating how the "serious security breach" went undetected for so long.
Deputy Superintendent Daniel Dugan said the boy looked older than 14, and was motivated by a desire to be an officer rather than malice or "ill intent", Associated Press reported.
He also took part in a program for youth interested in policing, and would have been familiar with some procedures, police said.
Headline: 'Spitting' passenger forces down plane
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 26.1.9
Caption: A Spitfire
POLICE have charged a man after a disturbance on a plane which was forced to make an unscheduled landing at Sydney Airport. Virgin Blue flight 707, en route from Hobart to Brisbane, was diverted to Sydney at 9pm on Saturday after cabin staff reported continued intimidation and abuse from a passenger.
Police entered the plane and arrested the 28-year-old man from Taree.
Officers say the man resisted arrest and struggled violently, making threats and spitting at them.
He's also accused of kicking out at police and punching a cell door at the nearby Mascot Police Station.
The man was charged with destroying or damaging property, offensive behaviour, threatening the safety of an aircraft and intimidating police.
Headline: Cops: Woman Shot Boyfriend for Not Letting Her Sleep
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 25.1.9
Caption: BANG BANG LET ME SLEEP
Louisiana woman allegedly shot her boyfriend because he would not let her sleep, according to The News Star.
Police found Roshonda Anding's boyfriend in his car with a single shot to his hip, the newspaper reports. He was taken to LSU Medical Center.
The 21-year-old was charged with aggravated battery.
Anding told police that she shot her boyfriend, "because he was bothering her and wouldn't let her sleep," according to a police report.
Headline: Inauguration 'Do-Over' for Locked Out Ticketholders
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 25.1.9
Caption: Inauguration 'Done-0vers' May Get a 'Do-Over'
Purple ticketholders are vindicated....somewhat.
Thousands of people who had tickets to the purple and blue sections of the National Mall for last Tuesday's swearing in of Barack Obama as president never made it. There was a mob scene, and hoards of them were herded into the 3rd Street Tunnel, which has since been dubbed "the Purple Tunnel of Doom."
Gabe Cohen, an Obama campaign worker from Denver, organized a swearing in do-over. Not for President Obama, but for any of those locked out of the process on Tuesday.
The message went out on Facebook, and the Survivors of the Purple Tunnel of Doom were invited to bring their iPods and laptops to the front of the Capitol.
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