Origin of Clip: news.com.au 23.4.9
Caption: Gives a Hoot
A Home Depot in northern Arkansas has someone new looking out for mice at the warehouse store. A great horned owl now lives in the Harrison store's garden center, looking down on surprised customers shopping for flowers and paving stones. Employees say the bird's mother flew inside of the enclosed garden center during a January ice storm and laid eggs atop a pallet of merchandise.
Over time, the mother disappeared and two baby owls poked their heads out of the nest. One fell to its death, but the other survived, its four-foot wing span blocking out the sun as he flies around the garden center.
Since the garden center is open to the sky, the owl will leave, but always comes back, employees said.
"He's kind of our pet now," garden center supervisor John Gallagher told the Harrison Daily Times.
And the owl likely will remain there. Randy Zellers, managing editor of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's Arkansas Wildlife magazine, said owls are classified as raptors, which are protected under strict federal regulations.
To remove the owl, the store would have to get special licenses. Zellers said there's really no reason for anyone to try and move the owl for now.
"If he isn't bothering anything, it's perfectly fine," Zellers said.
Headline: Wife wanted for millionaire, apply within
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 23.4.9
Caption: Get Rich Quick Scheme For The Right Woman
HOPING to prove money can buy love, a self-made millionaire has employed a matchmaker to find him a wife.
The bachelor, who is 44 and drives an American-made car, wants a family and is keeping his name secret until love comes knocking, the Detroit Free Press reports.
He has hired Janis Spindel, a New York matchmaker with 867 marriages to her credit.
Ms Spindel, whose fee starts at about $50,000, is heading to Detroit next week, "tearing the town apart until I find a wife for a really, really handsome, awesome man".
"He ... has obviously been working like a madman and looking for love in all the wrong places," Ms Spindel says. "He's had a billion horrific blind dates."
And so just what is this man of money looking for in a potential partner?
Headline: Minn. Surgeon Needs Two Tries To Remove Appendix
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 23.4.9
Caption: Doc: If you don't succeed...
A state investigative report said a surgeon performed an appendectomy on the same patient twice after he mistakenly removed a piece of fatty tissue instead the first time. The Star Tribune reported that the surgeon realized his mistake two days after the first operation after a hospital pathologist reported what was removed was "not an appendix."
Headline: It's Diet Coke for mum allergic to water
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 23.4.9
Caption: I'll have soup without water.
AN English woman who developed an allergy to water almost four years ago remains unable to shower, swim or even cuddle her toddler.
Michaela Dutton developed the incurable allergy after giving birth to son Mitchell in 2005. Since then, contact with water of any kind triggers a burning rash on her skin. She cannot drink water, and coffee makes her throat blister and swell, but she is able to tolerate Diet Coke.
Getting caught in the rain causes a painful outbreak.
The agonising condition is so rare it affects only one in 230 million people.
Ms Dutton told the Daily Mail the allergy - known as aquagenic urticaria - had made her a prisoner in her own body and had placed a “terrible strain on what I can do”.
“I can’t really hold Mitchell because if he sweats or dribbles or spills a drink on me I get covered in sore itchy lumps,” she told the the Daily Mail.
Headline: Apollo 14 Astronaut: Space Aliens Are Real
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.4.9
Caption: We are the NEW Frontier
An Apollo 14 astronaut told a group of UFOlogists Monday that aliens are not a myth and called on the government to disclose its findings, The Washington Times reported.
"It is now time to put away this embargo of truth about the alien presence," Edgar D. Mitchell, who made the longest moonwalk in history, told those attending a conference in Gaithersburg, Md., set up by the Paradigm Research Group.
"I call upon our government to open up ... and become a part of this planetary community that is now trying to take our proper role as a spacefaring civilization," the 79-year-old added. "We are being visited."
Paradigm Research Group founder Stephen Bassett backed Mitchell's theory and demanded that President Obama's administration release all information concerning extraterrestrial beings.
"If it does not disclose, by the end of May — this is not a threat or anything, you don't threaten the United States government, they're heavily armed ...
Headline: 'Hitler's Cows' Roam English Countryside
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.4.9
Caption: Real Old Cows
Through the misty early morning sunlight dappling a Devon field, a vision from the primeval past lumbers into view.
The beast with its shaggy, russet-tinged coat, powerful shoulders and lyre-shaped horns could have stepped straight from a prehistoric cave painting.
The vision is a creature of which even Julius Caesar was in awe: Bos primigenius, the aurochs, fearsome wild ancestor of all today’s domestic cattle, immortalized tens of thousands of years ago in ochre and charcoal in the Great Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux in southwest France.
But this herd of 13 bulls, cows and calves known as Heck cattle is the product of Nazi genetic engineering, an attempt to reintroduce the extinct aurochs, the last of which died of old age in a Polish forest nearly four centuries ago.
Headline: Florida Man: I Tasered My Wife in Self Defense
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.4.9
Caption: Man Zaps Wife
A Florida man says he Tasered his estranged wife during a fight in what he claims was an act of self defense, MyFOXOrlando.com reported.
John Palmore, 49, told FOX Orlando affiliate WOFL that he was forced to shoot his wife, 48-year-old Khadeja Palmore, with a stun gun after she became violent and punched him in the nose during an argument about their pending divorce.
He said he realized his soon-to-be ex was upset about the split and bought the gun to protect himself against her, according to MyFOXOrlando.com.
Headline: It's Spelled 'Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaub...'
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.4.9
Caption: Can you spell that again?
Officials have agreed to correct spelling errors in road signs pointing to a central Massachusetts lake with a 45-letter name.
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster has one of the world's longest place names. It's been spelled many different ways over the years. Some locals have given up and simply call it Lake Webster.
Headline: Judge Orders Defendant's Mouth Taped Shut
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 22.4.9
Caption: Tape it shut
state judge who said he lost patience with an unruly defendant ordered court officials to cover the man's mouth with duct tape. The unusual move was ordered Monday by 6th District Judge Peter D. McDermott during a probation violation hearing for Nicklas Frasure. The 23-year-old Frasure was convicted of felony theft in 2008 and recently released from prison.
Headline: 2 Men Send 217,000 Text Messages, Get $26K Bill
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 21.4.9
Caption: Texting it up
Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000. "It came in a box that cost $27.55 to send to me," he said Tuesday.
Headline: Singing star Boyle bigger than Obama
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 21.4.9
Caption: Susan Boyle Instant Stardom
BRITAIN'S Got Talent star Susan Boyle has proved five times more popular on YouTube than US President Barack Obama. The Scots singer’s sensational audition - singing I Dreamed A Dream from the musical Les Miserables - has been watched by 100 million fans worldwide on the video-sharing website, The Sun reported.
It dwarfs the 18.5 million who logged on to view clips of Mr Obama’s January inauguration ceremony, and it's only been been online for a week.
It is now 18 million views short of becoming YouTube’s most-watched video - overtaking Judson Laipply’s Evolution of Dance.
The self-confessed virgin from Blackburn is the site’s fastest chart-mover ever.
More than 850 users have uploaded videos of her.
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