Origin of Clip: news.com.au 25.4.9
Caption: She Was Defaced Over Facebook
AN insurance worker lost her job after surfing popular social network site Facebook while off sick, her employer said.
The Swiss woman said she could not work in front of a computer as she needed to lie in the dark, but was then seen to be active on Facebook.
Her employer, insurer Nationale Suisse, said in a statement the action had destroyed its trust in the employee.
"This abuse of trust, rather than the activity on Facebook, led to the ending of the work contract," it said.
The unnamed woman told the 20 Minuten daily she had been surfing Facebook in bed on her iPhone and accused her employer of spying on her and other employees by sending a mysterious friend request which allows access to personal online activity...
Headline: Top Jock School Full of Nerds, but Sports Cuts Loom
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 24.4.9
Caption: Nerd School
Name the college that sponsored 41 varsity sports this year, tying with Harvard for most in the country.
The answer is about the last school you'd think of: math and science powerhouse MIT, the university with perhaps the brainiest—and nerdiest—reputation in America.
The Engineers—yes, that's their nickname—shared the honor with their bigger, wealthier neighbor in Cambridge, Mass., and have long competed in everything from football to fencing, softball to squash.
That's going to change, though.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Thursday it is eliminating eight teams because of the sputtering economy. Gone are men's and women's hockey, men's and women's gymnastics, skiing, golf, pistol shooting and wrestling.
MIT joins the list of colleges dropping sports to counteract budget deficits. Northern Iowa is nixing baseball. So is Vermont, which is also canceling softball. Women's volleyball and men's soccer are done at Maine; men's track and women's swimming will be out at Pepperdine.
Headline: B.C. couple caught having sex in dumpster
Origin of Clip: Canada.com 24.4.9
Caption: Dumspter Sex Club Not The Mile High Club
VICTORIA — Don’t bother knocking if the dumpster is rocking.
That’s what Saanich police found out early Friday, while following up on a call of “suspicious persons.”
A Saanich police officer arrived at a parking lot where he heard noises coming from a large garbage dumpster.
The officer called out to the people in the dumpster, but no one responded. When he looked inside, he was surprised to see two naked adults intertwined and oblivious to his presence.
The two adults, a 30-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man, were ordered to put their clothes on and get out of the dumpster, police said in a news release...
Headline: Man, 84, Fights Off Carjackers With Groin Kick
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 24.4.9
Caption: Take That
An 84-year-old man has a black eye, but he still has his car, after fighting off two would-be carjackers. Ted Mazetier said he stopped Wednesday night to help two men with a disabled car when one punched him in the face and demanded his keys. Mazetier said he kicked the man in the groin and the other in the belly. The two men fled as a passer-by stopped to help.
Police later arrested two suspects for investigation of assault.
Mazetier said he'll think twice before stopping again to help someone on the street. He'll be 85 in June.
Headline: Vodka girls' risky twist on spin-the-bottle
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 24.4.9
Caption: Thrill Kills
TEENAGE girls as young as 15 are skolling vodka in a new twist of the spin-the-bottle game.
Girls are being hospitalised for acute alcohol poisoning as they participate in risky drinking by skolling straight spirits to try to compete with men.
Almost 1700 children were treated for alcohol poisoning in NSW hospitals last year, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Leading drug and alcohol experts warned against the game, which is being played in other states including Queensland and Victoria.
Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia director Paul Dillon said in the past month he had visited schools in NSW, Queensland and Victoria where girls spoke of the game.
"There is a phenomenal (abuse) of vodka. Girls are drinking it, wrongly believing it contains no calories, that because it is clear it is better than other spirits and because it's odourless," he said.
Instead of spinning the bottle and having to kiss the person it points to, girls are taking large swigs of alcohol.
"Girls are not using mixers because of the calories and so they are drinking the spirits straight," he said.
"They are getting the taste for spirits through alcopops and then leaping into the straight spirits."
Headline: Man Pretending to Fall Off Bridge Actually Falls
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 24.4.9
Caption: Not Just a Pretence
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Police said a 23-year-old man is in stable condition after he pretended that he was falling off a bridge over the Minnesota River, then actually fell off the bridge.
Police got a call just before 5 a.m. Sunday from a 21-year-old man who said his friend fell off the Highway 77 bridge and into a marshy area about 30 feet below.
The caller said he was driving north when his friend, who he said had been drinking, told him to pull into the bridge's emergency lane so he could urinate.
The 23-year-old stood eventually climbed to the ledge of the bridge, then looked at his friend and pretended to fall. "He then in fact fell," reads a press release from the Bloomingtin Police Department.
