WEIRD IS THE WORLD: No Private Dancer Here

Headline: Pole dancer blamed for kid's pole bump
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 18.3.9
Caption: No Private Dancer Here

RAUNCHY strip club signage is posing a moral and physical danger to Hobart schoolchildren, critics say, after one youngster walked into a pole while ogling a picture of a "rude lady".
Hobart Hooters Bar owner Peter Johnson was today refusing to replace two signs causing some offence, saying the controversy was "a storm in a D-cup''.

The club is close to a cinema and a private girls' school and its 2m-high exterior signs are visible from 100m away.

They show a woman's naked torso and a bikini-clad pole dancer.

The Advertising Standards Bureau has received complaints about the signs and the girls' school principal says they are inappropriately placed.

Headline: 'Witches' kidnapped, forced to drink potions
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 17.3.9
Caption: WITCHES' BREW

HUNDREDS of people have been kidnapped in Gambian witch hunts and taken to detention centres where they were forced to drink hallucinogenic concotions, Amnesty International said.
Eye-witneses and victims told the rights group that those involved in rounding up victims were "accompanied by police army and national intelligence agents''.

"They are also accompanied by 'green boys' - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's personal protection guard.''

The group said up to 1000 people had been kidnapped and that the hallucinogenic drinks had caused many to suffer serious kidney problems.

Headline: Man, 71, Fends Off Young Robber With Ice Scraper
Origin of Clip: timesonline.co.uk 17.3.9
Caption: SCRAPER SCAPPER

Police said a 71-year-old man, armed only with an ice scraper, frustrated a 20-year-old would-be robber who approached him with a knife. Police said the man was scraping ice off his car Friday when the 20-year-old pulled out a knife and demanded money.

Police Sgt. Pete Ragnone said the man used his ice scraper to fend off the attacker who then ran to his girlfriend's home nearby.

That's when a fight broke out between the 20-year-old and his girlfriend.

Headline: Mom Helping Son With Down Syndrome Lose Virginity
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 17.3.9
Caption: Mom Says My Son Needs Sex

A mother is appealing for women to have sex with her adopted Down syndrome son.

Lucy Baxter, of Abingdon, Oxfordshire in southern England, says she will even pay for a prostitute so he can lose his virginity.

The mother has now set up a Web page for her son, Otto, appealing for potential dates to come forward.

Baxter has three other adopted sons with Down syndrome and works with Mencap, the U.K.'s leading charity for people with disabilities.

"I'd like all my boys to find love and enjoy sex," she said. "I always look at what other people are doing and why shouldn't they do the same things?

Headline: Clusters of Homeless Settle in Airport Terminals
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 17.3.9
Caption: Sign of the Times

Life has taken Roger Gleen up and down the East Coast, and on this night the weary traveler settles into a chair in the corner of the world's busiest airport.

His bags propped neatly beside him, Gleen is among a dozen or so ticketless passengers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, folks with no destination in mind.

They're Hartsfield's homeless, and like their counterparts in other major terminals, they've successfully resisted most efforts to clear them out.

"We have to go sooner or later," Gleen admits. "But you have people (who have) been coming to the airport for years."

Clusters of homeless have long settled in terminals from Philadelphia to Chicago, ideal round-the-clock shelters for men and women displaced by cities trying to clean up their downtowns.

Headline: Jail Becomes Inmates' Party-Filled 'Animal House'
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 16.3.9
Caption: Who would want to escape from this jail?

MONTAGUE, Texas — For months, perhaps longer, the Montague County Jail was "Animal House" meets Mayberry.

Inside the small brick building across from the courthouse, inmates had the run of the place, having sex with their jailer girlfriends, bringing in recliners, taking drugs and chatting on cell phones supplied by friends or guards, according to authorities. They also disabled some of the surveillance cameras and made weapons out of nails.

The doors to two groups of cells didn't lock, but apparently no one tried to escape — perhaps because they had everything they needed inside.

Headline: Malaysian Mistakes Woman For A Monkey, Shoots Her
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 16.3.9
Caption: Yea Right, Tell Me Another One

Police said a man in Malaysia shot his neighbor as she picked sapodilla fruit in his tree thinking she was a monkey. Police chief in eastern Pahang state Yahaya Othman said the woman was gathering fruit Thursday when her neighbor shot her. Yahaya said the man came home and saw rustling in the tree and fired into it. "Then there was screaming ... and only then did he know it was his neighbor."

He said the woman was hospitalized with a wound to the abdomen but her condition was stable Friday.

Headline: Nudists give newlyweds cheeky reception
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 16.3.9
Caption: Naked Cyclists Converge of Newlyweds with no hitch except for the two who just got hitched.

A NEWLY married couple got a wedding picture with a difference when naked cyclists converged on their photo session at Victoria's State Parliament yesterday.

World Naked Bike Ride organiser Heidi Hill said the newlyweds grabbed the chance to get a photo when the cyclists reached the mid-way point of their annual ride yesterday, the Melbourne Leader reports.

“They were having photos taken on the steps of Parliament House and all of a sudden we showed up and they had to have a photos with us,” Ms Hill said.

Ms Hill said the naked bike ride through Melbourne’s streets went off without a hitch.

Headline: Man Arrested After Trying to Sell Paris Hilton's Phone
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 15.3.9
Caption: For sale: One Hilton Phone

A hotel manager was arrested after he tried to sell Paris Hilton's cell phone on Craigslist, the New York Post reported.

Marc Marrouche's was arrested March 5, after the buyer who offered $5,000 for the phone ended up being an undercover cop, the Post reported.

Headline: Inmate Jailed With Killer He Testified Against Killed
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 15.3.9
Caption: DDDDAAAAHHHH

McALESTER, Okla. — A 23-year-old inmate beaten to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary had been put in a cell with convicted killer he had testified against.
Prison spokesman Jerry Massie says Paul Duran Jr. fought with one cellmate and then was put in a cell with Jessie James Dalton.
Duran was found beaten to death about 15 minutes later.
Massie says the two were not supposed to be put in the same cell and prison officials are trying to determine how it happened.

Headline: Want greens with that? Prank on the nose
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 15.3.9
Caption: Stuff and Sack

A SUBWAY sandwich bar worker was sacked after a video was posted on YouTube of him stuffing lettuce leaves up his nose, before putting them back in the serving tray.

Briton Richard Shannon, who also put salad leaves in his mouth and spat them out, was arrested after a "disgusted" customer recognised the 22-year-old on the internet.

The woman went to the global chain's outlet in Brownhills, West Midlands, and hurled a chair at him. Shannon admitted contaminating or interfering with goods with intent to cause economic loss, alarm or injury but claimed the incident, filmed by a friend on a mobile phone, was a prank and the lettuce had been discarded.

Headline: Long Lost Postcard Found in Mailbox After 47 Years
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 14.3.9
Caption: Slow in coming

HUDSON, Ohio — A woman's postcard bearing greetings from Montana has finally arrived in northeastern Ohio — 47 years later.

Insurance agent Dave Conn opened his post office box in the community of Hudson last week and found the mailing sent from Helena, Mont., in 1962.

It was sent to Marion White, the previous renter of the box, who had died in 1988. The writer signed the postcard "Fran" and mentioned having "had a marvelous time in Montana."

After asking around, Conn says he determined the card must have come from White's well-traveled friend Frances Murphey, a longtime reporter at the Akron Beacon Journal. She died in 1998 at age 75.

Headline: Filmmaker to implant camera in eye
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 14.3.9
Caption: The camera of the Eye

A ONE-eyed filmmaker is going to implant a camera in his eye to make a film from his point of view.

Rob Spence, a documentary filmmaker from Canada, has been unable to use his right eye since it was damaged in a firearms accident as a child.

After wearing an eyepatch for many years, he recently got a prosthetic eye implanted – and decided he wanted to become what he calls an "Eyeborg" – a part-human, part-camera cyborg.

"I was looking at the small camera on my cellphone, and I got to thinking about the Bionic Man," he said in a recent video on his website.

"I want to turn my prosthetic eye into a wireless camera,"

Headline: No sex while nude - that's the rules
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 14.3.9
Caption: Just because you're nude