Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 23.2.9
Caption: An Odd Theme Park
MICHAEL Jackson's brother has been criticised for reportedly planning to build a slavery theme park in Nigeria.
Marlon Jackson is said to be prepared to invest in a $5.3 billion theme park where tourists can visit a replica slave ship and walk the route of shackled slaves, before playing a round of golf or relaxing by a pool, reports The Guardian
The former Jackson Five band member and the Badagry Historical Resort Development Project hope the park will attract African-American tourists keen to trace their roots back to Nigeria.
Headline: Woman Pleads Guilty in 'Unnecessary Surgeries' Case
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 22.2.9
Caption: Nip And Take
COSTA MESA, Calif. — A woman who helped recruit patients to undergo unnecessary surgeries as part of a $154 million medical insurance fraud has pleaded guilty to 22 charges.
Sue Nanda, 40, of Costa Mesa, entered her plea Friday in Orange County Superior Court. She is scheduled to be sentenced April 24 where she faces up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Nanda worked for the now-shuttered Unity Outpatient Surgery Center in Buena Park, targeting employees from businesses in 39 states who were covered by PPO insurance plans. She recruited more than 170 people from 16 states to undergo unnecessary surgical procedures in exchange for money or cheap cosmetic surgeries.
Headline: Artificially-induced snow closes roads
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 22.2.9
Caption:
CHINA has closed 12 highways around the capital Beijing today because of heavy snow brought on after seeding clouds with chemicals.
All outbound highways were closed in Hebei, the drought-hit northern province surrounding Beijing, after heavy snow fell last night, Xinhua news agency said.
In all, 12 highways, including one linking Beijing and Shenyang, capital of northeastern Liaoning province, were closed.
Hebei got its first heavy snow of this year yesterday. The provincial weather bureau said that snow too was "enhanced" by artificial seeding.
Heradline: Police officer shoots himself with Taser
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 22.2.9
Caption: TASED
A POLICE officer has been treated for burns after shooting himself with a Taser stun gun.
Police were called to a nightclub brawl on Elizabeth Street, near Martin Place in Sydney, at about 3.40am last night.
They say a Taser stun gun was used in an attempt to subdue a 27-year-old man after he resisted arrest.
The officer Tasered himself in the struggle, injuring his arm.
Headline: Nude gardening, urinating upset neighbours
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 21.2.9
Caption: Doing it in the nude
A WOMAN who gardened in the nude and someone who stabled a horse in a townhouse are among hundreds of bizarre strata complaints in NSW.
Other disputes involve an owner breeding trout in an indoor pool and a man who was ordered to urinate on the side of a toilet bowl.
Residents living in the unit below claimed they were being kept awake by the man making frequent visits to the bathroom.
The NSW Fair Trading Department complaints file, obtained by The Sunday Telegraph, shows it received almost 1400 requests to mediate disputes - a 10 per cent rise over the previous year.
Headline: 86-Year-Old Woman Gets $1,000 Phone Sex Bill
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 21.2.9
Caption: Horny Gramma
The family of an 86-year-old woman who was billed for over $1,000 in phone sex calls suspects identify theft. Arlene Hald recently received a credit card bill addressed to her husband, Sylvester, who died nearly 20 years ago. Hald said they never had a credit card, yet an account in his name was charged.
Headline: Mice Fall From Ceiling of Infested Florida Courthouse
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 21.2.9
Caption: No Blind Mice Here
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — There are so many mice in one Florida county courthouse that they've been seen falling from ceiling tiles.
One judge at the Palm Beach County Courthouse calls it an infestation. Some staffers say they check their handbags for stowaways before leaving the building each day.
Court employees and lawyers say the rodents scuttle down corridors, munch legal papers and scratch behind the walls. Last week, one mouse ran around a courtroom floor for an hour during a burglary trial.
Headline: Woman Sues Santa, Claiming He Fell On Top Of Her
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 21.2.9
Caption: Santa Sued
Call it the case of the overserved Santa. Antoinette Basso filed a lawsuit Thursday against a man dressed in a Santa suit who she said stumbled and fell on top of her, knocking her face-first into the sidewalk outside a Chicago restaurant.
Basso claims in the Cook County Circuit Court lawsuit that she suffered "pain ... disability and disfigurement." She's asking for damages in excess of $50,000.
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