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.
Headline:University Crowns Man as Homecoming Queen
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 20.2.9
Caption: This dude must be beautiful.
George Mason University students have elected a drag queen as homecoming queen. Student Ryan Allen beat out two women for the title at the small school in suburban Washington, D.C., famous for its run to the Final Four a few years back.
Allen competed under his drag queen persona of Reann Ballslee.
Allen, who is gay and performs in drag at nightclubs, said he entered as a joke. But he considers the victory one of his happiest moments and proof the school celebrates.
Headline: Pa. Girl, 15, Faces Child Porn Charges After 'Sexting'
Clip from: FOXNEWSews.com
Date of clip: 20.2.9
Caption: 'Sexting'
A 15-year-old girl from central Pennsylvania faces child pornography charges after police say she sent nude pictures of herself over the Internet.
Clearfield County District Attorney William Shaw says the girl has been charged as a juvenile with possessing, distributing and creating child pornography.
The girl is living with her mother. Authorities say the girl sent the pictures after communicating in June 2007 with a 27-year-old man over the MySpace networking Web site.
The practice has been called "sexting" for the prevalence of teens to transmit images via a cell phone.
Headline: Woman 'fakes dad's fire death'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 20.2.9
Caption: Sorry Pops You're Dead
A VICTORIAN woman has been charged with fraudulently claiming her father was killed in the state's deadly bushfires in order to receive compensation payments.
Victoria Police allege the 31-year-old Sunshine woman made a $10,000 compassion and bereavement application to the Victoria Bushfire Appeal Fund which was denied after its checks found there was no relationship between her and the deceased.
She is also accused of claiming $5000 from Centrelink's funeral fund which was approved.
Detectives from the Melbourne Criminal Investigation Unit charged her last night with attempting to obtain property by deception and obtaining property by deception.
Headline: Doc's mobile chat sends patient running
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 19.2.9
Caption: What's Not Up Doc
A PATIENT ran out of the operating theatre after the surgeon answered his mobile phone and started discussing what went wrong with a previous operation.
The patient, who was still conscious and awaiting eye surgery, did not like the sound of what he was hearing and told the surgeon he would rather go blind before he bolted out the building, The Northern Territory News reports.
Headline: Extremely Rare Bird Found, Photographed ... Eaten
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 19.2.9
Caption: Rare Bird Makes a Great Snack
A bird suspected to be extinct was reportedly photographed for the first time in the Philippines, and then sold to a poultry market as food.
Worcester's buttonquail was known only through illustrations based on decades-old museum specimens until a television crew documented the live bird in the market before it was sold in January, NationalGeographic.com reported.
Scientists had suspected the bird, found only on the island of Luzon, to be extinct, according to NationalGeographic.com.
Headline: Ex-media boss masturbated at tourists
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 19.2.9
Caption: High Profile Masturbator
A FORMER high-profile police and emergency services spokesman who received official honours for his work has admitted masturbating in front of two male backpackers.
Kevin John Loomes, 58, pleaded guilty the Brisbane Magistrates Court today to two counts of performing an indecent act.
Loomes entered a backpacker's hostel on Ann Street in Brisbane's CBD last December, carrying a towel, the court was told. The married man proceeded to a shower block on level one and began chatting to a 22-year-old backpacker before taking his towel off and masturbating in front of the traveller, police prosecutor Carrie Davidson said.
The backpacker quickly left the area and Loomes went to another shower block on a different floor where he started chatting to a second 22-year-old backpacker.
Standing in front of the traveller with one hand on his hip and the other on his penis, Loomes asked: "Has this ever happened to you before?"
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