Miracle

Headline: Snowboarder survives three nights in -21C
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 1.1.9
Caption: Miracle

A SNOWBOARDER has been found "frozen stiff" but alive after three days lost on a Canadian mountain.
James William Martin, 21, was discovered in the snow with frostbite on his hands and unable to walk.

"It's wonderful to live another day ... to live another year," he said today. "It's wonderful to make it out alive."

Mr Martin went missing near Mount Seymour, north of Vancouver, and was eventually found when a search party spotted and followed his tracks.

He had survived three days in bone-chilling conditions, with temperatures dropping as low as minus 21 Celsius, without any extreme weather equipment.

Headline: Man Shoots Friend's Car With Paintballs to Deter DUI
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 1.1.9
Caption: DUI Paintballed

A man who reportedly told police he was trying to deter a friend from driving drunk by blasting the friend's windshield with paintballs wound up in jail.

"This is a very creative way to prevent someone from drinking and driving, but not legal or safe," said Sgt. Ken Lattin.

Responding Tuesday night to a nearby resident's report of a man shooting paintballs at a car, police found the 41-year-old man, who explained his rationale.

The Tri-City Herald reported the man was arrested and booked into the Benton County jail for investigation of unlawfully discharging a weapon and an unrelated misdemeanor warrant.

Headline: Sneaking Teens Stranded for 3 Days: We Are Idiots
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 1.1.9
Caption: They are idiots

Two rescued Australian teenagers say they were idiots for getting lost for three days in rugged bushland after trying to sneak into a Victorian music festival without tickets.
Harry Wild and Ryan Hurley, both 19, had been trying to find a back way into the Falls Music Festival, near Lorne on the Great Ocean Road.
But their plans went awry when the pair lost cell phone reception and ended up getting lost....
"We know we are idiots, we think we are so silly. I just what to thank everyone who was involved in the process."

Headline: Woman Out for Walk Finds Mummified Head in Bag
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 1.1.9
Caption: No sense losing your head over it.

A human head was found in a bag by a British woman out for a morning walk Wednesday.

The gruesome discovery was made in the Newhaven area of Edinburgh.

Lothian and Borders Police have launched an investigation.

It is thought the head may be several years old and it is not known how long it had been there.

Police said the head "appeared to be mummified."

It was found on a public footpath at Hawthornvale. The woman who found it raised the alarm at 1030 a.m.

A Miracle

Headline: Woman Survives 3 Days Buried in Snow Drift
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 24.12.8
Caption: Miracle

Donna Molnar, 55, set off from home in Ancaster, Ontario, on Friday but her car got stuck in a field of snow drifts.
The vehicle was found a day later, abandoned by the side of a road, Sky News reported.
By this time, fears for her survival were mounting and it was not until Monday, when police officer Ray Lau was trudging through almost knee-high snow, that his dog Ace picked up the woman's scent.
Officer Lau was stunned to find Molnar still breathing. Molnar was wearing a simple winter jacket and she had been buried in snow just a few hundred yards from where her car had been found.

Headline: Cat 'fell 34 storeys and survived'
From: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 24.12.8
Caption: This cat landed on his paws

A CAT fell 34 floors from a Gold Coast penthouse and survived to see out the rest of his eight lives, its owner says.
Voodoo the seven-year-old manx has always had an affinity for heights and enjoys living life on the edge.
His owner Sheree Washington said he often teetered on the edge of the balcony, much to her horror, The Gold Coast Bulletin reports.
She and her husband Wayne first noticed Voodoo was missing about 9pm on Monday, after the couple had finished dinner.
"We searched high and low several times and he was nowhere to be found," said Mr Washington.
Yesterday morning, she made the journey downstairs, expecting to find her beloved cat's body at the base of the high rise.
Instead, she found Voodoo with nothing more than a few scratches.

Headline: Funeral crashers outed in fake wake sting
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 24.12.8
Caption: Not Dead

GROUP has been caught attending memorial services of people they didn't know, in scenes straight out of the hit movie Wedding Crashers.
The serial mourners gave themselves access to free booze, food and company until being exposed in an elaborate sting.

After the death of UK journalist Alan Coren, his daughter Victoria advertised his memorial service in newspapers.

But a mysterious email warned her to "beware a certain Terence Jolley", who often attended services for people he didn't know.

Jolley had applied to attend the service and claimed he had worked with Coren at the BBC.

An internet search revealed he was a former magistrate who had been convicted of transport fraud. Further investigation revealed a whole gang who had written to say they would attend the service had given fake identities and addresses. ...

Headline: Police: Beauty Queen Arrested in Gun-Filled Truck
From: Telegraph.co.uk
Date of clip: 23.12.8
Caption: beauty is just skin deep

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — A beauty queen from Mexico's drug-plagued Sinaloa state has been arrested after she was found riding with suspected gang members in a truck filled with weapons.

Jalisco state police director Francisco Alejandro Solorio says Laura Zuniga and seven alleged gunmen were detained at a military checkpoint in Zapopan, just outside the city of Guadalajara.

Headline: Council removes 'Urinate in public' signs
From: Telegraph.co.uk
Date of clip: 23.12.8
Caption: No Pissing

Nottingham City Council is now removing the signs as quickly as possible, and said last night people should ignore them.

The signs, which were put up by a prankster in and around the city, appear official.

They feature a male toilet sign and are accompanied by a letter which says it is legal to urinate in the street after 7.30pm.

The laminated note, headed with the logo of Nottingham City Council, adds the signs were part of a scheme to reduce the mess faced by residents outside their homes.

Nottingham City Council is now urging the public to ignore the notices as it sets about removing them.