Clip from: citynews.ca
Date of clip: 11.3.9
Caption: Plunge over Niagara Falls without a barrel.
A man has survived a plunge over Niagara Falls, clinging to a log long enough for a private helicopter to create a current that pushed him to safety, according to reports.
Investigators tell a Buffalo television station, WGRZ, that the victim was semiconscious when he was rescued and was taken to a hospital in Niagara Falls, Canada. His condition was not immediately known.
While investigators were not yet calling the leap a suicide attempt, they say the man did enter the water on his own. Authorities got a call from a witness telling them a man had jumped into the Horseshoe Falls, as the Canadian Falls are known. A short time later, he was seen near the base of the falls, clinging to a log.
A private helicopter from Niagara Falls Helicopter was called in and got within three metres of the victim. Wind from the chopper's blades forced enough of a current to push him closer to shore where rescuers could get to him.
Headline: 'Great Sex' Sermons Cause Stir in Rural Town
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 11.3.9
Caption: Great Sex Church
GOOD HOPE, Ala. — It's one thing for a church in a big city like Dallas or Atlanta to tackle the ticklish topic of sex. It blends in with the urban scene.
It's another thing when a small-town congregation puts up billboards with the phrase "Great sex: God's way" on rural highways to promote a sermon series. You can't even legally buy beer in Cullman County, and a preacher is talking about S-E-X on Sunday morning?
Daystar Church, whose congregation has grown dramatically under pastor Jerry Lawson, has run up against the sensibilities of a conservative north Alabama community with a monthlong focus on sex.
Headline: 'Funeral home worker robbed the dead'
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 11.3.9
Caption: Stiff Stiffed
A VICTORIAN funeral home worker accused of stealing cash from the houses of dead people told an assistant they "wouldn't need it any more", a court heard.
It was alleged David Rawlins, 37, looked through bedside drawers, under mattresses and in wardrobes.
Former colleague Rhiannon Leo told the Melbourne Magistrates' Court she saw Mr Rawlins steal money from a tin on a refrigerator as an elderly man lay dead on the kitchen floor.
Mr Rawlins then allegedly looked through the dead man's wallet.
Ms Leo said Mr Rawlins later told her that he should have stuffed something in the tin to stop it rattling and taken it from the house inside the body bag.
As he searched another man's shoes on the pretext of looking for house keys, Mr Rawlins allegedly said: "It's amazing where people hide things."
He also allegedly told Ms Leo that police who first arrived at the homes of the dead would have taken their share, and that "whatever was left was for us".
Headline: Man hid gun in pants to 'impress women'
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 11.3.9
Caption: What is that bulge?
A FORMER soldier suffering trauma from his time in the army took a loaded gun into a Brisbane nightclub because he wanted to impress women, a court has been told.
Samuel John Radoll, 21, approached two women in The Met nightclub on October 25 last year and asked them to feel the "awesome" thing he had down his pants, the Brisbane Magistrates Court was told today.
The first woman happily chatted to Radoll, sat on his lap and had her photo taken with him after she discovered he had a gun secreted down the front of his jeans.
But the second woman reported him to security personnel, the court was told.
When security guards approached Radoll and tried to take the gun he struggled with them and warned them it was loaded.
Headline: Pet Store Expects Fish Shipment, But Gets Corpse
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 10.3.9
Caption: Something Not Fishy Here
Employees of a Philadelphia pet store expecting to get a shipment of tropical fish and salt water by air cargo ended up getting a human body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in Northeast Philadelphia where the mix-up was discovered Tuesday.
He said he eventually learned that the body he got was that of a 65-year-old San Diego-area man who died of early onset Alzheimer's Disease. The body was supposed to go to a laboratory in Allentown so samples could be taken for medical research.
Headline: Cops nab woman with 'spray on' cocaine
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 10.3.9
Caption: Spray On High
SPANISH police have arrested an Ecuadorian woman who tried to smuggle into Barcelona liquid cocaine hidden in spray cans of products to starch clothes or clean glass.
The 35-year-old was carrying more than 1.5kg of the drug hidden in false bottoms in three spay cans found in the baggage she checked in on her flight from Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, police said in a statement.
Two of the spray cans were for products used to starch clothes while the third was for a glass cleaning product, the statement said.
Barcelona's El Prat airport has been the scene in recent days of creative attempts to smuggle cocaine into Spain, the main entry point for the drug into Europe.
Headline: Pub Sacks Blokes 'For Being Unsexy'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 10.3.9
Caption: Not Sexy
A TRIO of Sydney men say they have been fired from bartending jobs because they are male and customers don't like them as much as women. The three were dismissed from serving drinks at the Wallacia Hotel in western Sydney after the owner allegedly declared: "I don't want men behind the bar anymore."
The men say they were replaced by female bar workers, who were more attractive to the pub's male clientele.
Headline: Principal backs lollipop man's high-five
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 10.3.9
Caption: High Five Fight
A PRINCIPAL has criticised a council’s decision to ban his primary school’s crossing supervisor from high-fiving students and parents.
Lollipop man Charlie Cremona has been a happy face welcoming the children of Deer Park North Primary School in Melbourne's west for the past 18 years.
After standing in the sun, rain and wind twice daily for all those years, he was stunned when told recently he must stop “high-fiving” students and parents on his Hovell St crossing, the Brimbank Leader reports.
Headline: Police: Man Offers $69 For Klondike Bar Down Pants
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 9.3.9
Caption: What's in his pants?
What would you do for a Klondike bar? Authorities said a man shoved an ice cream bar down his pants and then offered a Texaco station store owner $69 not to turn him in for shoplifting. The owner told police that a 65-year-old man tried to sneak the Klondike bar, along with packages of Ramen noodles and Famous Amos cookies, out of the store without paying Tuesday night.
When the store owner confronted the man as he tried the leave the store, the owner reported that the man pulled the flattened ice cream snack out of his back pocket and offered the owner $69 for it.
Headline: Windows 7 Has Secret Internet Explorer 'Off' Switch
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 9.3.9
Caption: Widows Off, Windows On
SEATTLE — A single check box deep in the guts of the next version of Windows is giving Microsoft Corp. watchers a peek at how the software maker plans to keep European antitrust regulators from marring a crucial software launch.
Windows 7, the successor to the much-maligned Vista, isn't expected to reach consumers until next year, but more than a million people are already testing early versions.
A pair of bloggers tinkering with settings stumbled upon one they hadn't seen before: The ability to "turn off" Microsoft's own Internet Explorer browser...
Headline: Passengers to pay to poo with credit card
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 9.3.9
Caption: Pay as You Poo
RYANAIR are a step closer to charging passengers to poo after asking Boeing to design credit card-operated toilets. Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said he has approached the US aircraft maker after conceding his earlier idea of a coin-operated door wouldn't work because passengers would be using both the euro and the pound.
"We have looked into this before, and the problem is Boeing can't come up with a mechanism on the toilet door to take coins," Mr O'Leary told the Associated Press.
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