For sale: One Hilton Phone

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

NUDISTS have issued a "no overt sex" edict for unofficial nude beaches in response to a rising backlash over swingers parties.

Headline: Texas School District Ditches Homework

Ticket To Ride

Headline: Allegedly Intoxicated Couple Seek Lift From Police
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 14.2.9
Caption: Ticket To Ride

An allegedly intoxicated couple stopped at a police station to try to catch a lift home. La Marque Police Chief Richard Price said the woman collapsed in the lobby. Her 22-year-old boyfriend was arrested after marijuana was found in his shoes.

Price told The Associated Press on Friday he believes the two were under the influence of narcotics and "thought they needed to get a ride home."

The Galveston County Daily News reports a police dispatcher monitoring security video Wednesday night noticed the pair.

Price said the woman, who received medical attention, recovered and will be cited for public intoxication. Her name was not released.

Michael Carl Bell of Texas City was jailed on a marijuana possession charge. A Galveston County jailer, who declined to allow her name to be used, said bond was $2,592.

Headline: Transgender Woman Exercised Husband to Death
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 14.2.9
Caption: A Grave Exercise Session

CHARDON, Ohio — An Ohio transgender woman has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in an apartment complex swimming pool.

Middlefield police say surveillance video shows 41-year-old Christine Newton-John pulling James Mason around the pool by his arms and legs and preventing him from leaving. Mason had a heart attack on June 2 just after the extended swim session.

Headline: Woman teacher jailed over sex texts to boy
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 13.2.9
Caption: Boy seducer seduced to jail

A primary school teacher who sent sexually explicit text messages to a 14-year-old boy whom she met through an interactive computer game was jailed for 12 months yesterday.

Lynn Walls, 42, first encountered the boy – who lived 240 miles away – while playing World of Warcraft, the world's most popular online game. In the role-playing game, which features humans and mythical creatures and has 11 million subscribers worldwide, Walls created a virtual self who was thin, attractive and blonde.

The overweight, divorced mother told police later that she had designed her virtual character to be “everything I am not”. The boy, from London, fell for the image. The pair had private discussions in an online chat room before Walls persuaded him to exchange mobile phone numbers.

Headline: Defibrillator champion is saved by one himself
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 13.2.9
Caption: Defibrillator saves man who sought to install it

..."I believe the Lord chose me to lead that group," said Terry, who lives in Hurst, Texas. But his "sign from the Lord" came, not in the form of a dream or a mysterious figure in his morning toast. Instead, it came in the form of a cardiac arrest by the security checkpoint at the Austin airport.

"I was trying to get back to the metroplex because I had a meeting the next morning. I reached down to pick up my briefcase, and I kept going."

Here's where the story takes an ironic twist: Gary Terry collapsed just 18 feet from an automated external defibrillator AED that he and his group -- the American Heart Association -- helped to install just eight months earlier...

Headline: 13-Year-Old, Barely 4 Feet Tall, Becomes Father
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 13.2.9
Caption: He Did Not Know What He Was Doing?

A 13-year-old British boy — with the physical appearance of a child much younger, standing at 4 feet tall — is the father of a new baby girl, The Sun reports.

Alfie Patten's girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, became pregnant after a one-time tryst between the two, according to Alfie's father, Dennis.

"He didn’t know what he was doing and of the complications that could come," said Dennis Patten.

Headline: World's longest fingernails lost in car crash
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 13.2.9
Caption: Broken Fingernail

THE woman who was credited with having world's longest fingernails has lost them in a car crash.

Lee Redmond, who was listed as having the longest nails in the Guinness Book of World Records, suffered serious but not life threatening injuires in an accident in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday, local paper the Desert News reported.

Ms Redmond was thrown out of a 4WD vehicle and was taken to hospital...

Headline: Teenage handbag thief outpaced by 72-year-old ex-sprinter
Clip from: telegraph.co.uk
Date of clip: 12.2.9
Caption: Super Woman

A teenage thief picked on the wrong victim when she tried to run off with a bag belonging to pensioner Jean Hirst - a former championship sprinter.
The schoolgirl was surprised to discover her victim, a former All England Schools championship sprinter, still had a turn of pace - at the age of 72.

As Mrs Hirst gave chase, she soon began to close on the culprit who was forced to throw down the bag in her desperation to escape.

The retired teacher had allowed three teenage girls into her car to help her with directions after getting lost on the way to a theatre.

She was straight out of the starting blocks again, however, when one of them took advantage and tried to make off with her bag.

Mrs Hirst said: "Suddenly I felt 18 again. The adrenaline just kicked in and I seemed to turn back the years...

Another 911 Call

Headline: Man Calls 911 After Clerk Refuses To Sell Beer
Clip from: cbsnews.com
Date of clip: 10.2.9
Caption: Dumb 911 call

Authorities said a 40-year-old man was arrested for calling 911 to complain about a convenience store clerk. The man was charged with disorderly conduct and released on bond according to jail records.

Officials said a convenience store clerk called 911 early Saturday morning and told the dispatcher that a customer was threatening her because she would not sell him any more beer.

Headline: Man Calls 911 After Eatery Runs Out Of Lemonade
Clip from: cbsnews.com
Date of clip: 9.2.9
Caption: Dumb 911 call

Authorities said a man, 66, was arrested after calling 911 on Saturday to complain that a fast food restaurant ran out of lemonade. After a drive-through employee failed to respond to the man's threat of contacting the police, the irate diner called 911, a police report alleges.

He spent about 5 minutes talking to the 911 operator about his complaint.

Headline: Scientists create 'living' doll made of human cancer cells
Clip from: telegraph.co.uk
Date of clip: 9.2.9
Caption: Sick Doll

A "living" doll made of human cancer cells has been created by scientists to illustrate a new method of testing potentially life-saving treatments.

The cancer cell figure created by Japanese scientists Photo: Shoji Takeuchi
The 5mm high figure – which bears a passing resemblance to a jelly baby – was created from liver cancer cells held in place with the help of 100,000 capsules of collagen.

Each capsule was also coated with special cells that secreted a protein which helped bind the 3D structure.

The entity's humorous shape was created with a specially-made mould, but scientists at the University of Tokyo say that the technique has serious medical applications.

Shoji Takeuchi, who led the team at the Institute of Industrial Science, says that it will enable researchers to create a range of structures containing multiple cell types, allowing them to test cancer drugs in environments more closely resembling the human body.

Headline: 56-Year-Old Becomes First Woman to Swim Atlantic
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 8.2.9
Caption: Astonishing Feat

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month.

Reaching a beach in Trinidad, she became the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Ocean — a dream she'd had since the early 1960s, when a stormy trans-Atlantic flight got her thinking she could don a life vest and swim the rest of the way if needed.

The 56-year-old left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast on Jan. 12, battling waves of up to 30 feet and strong winds.

Headline: Police: Robber Offers Crash Victim Hush Money
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 8.2.9
Caption: Robber offers stolen loot to crash victim as hush money

A suspected bank robber is behind bars after a woman whose car he hit during the getaway declined a share of the booty to keep quiet. According to investigators, a 46-year-old man walked into a branch of Bank of the West at noon Thursday and handed an employee a note demanding money.

Investigators said the man fled with the cash, but a few minutes later collided with another car. The driver told police that the man explained he had just robbed a bank and offered her a share of the take to keep quiet.

Headline: N.C. Racers Run 2 Miles, Eat 12 Doughnuts, Return
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.2.9
Caption: ALL FOR DOUGHNUTS

In a charity race Saturday, more than 5,000 runners ran two miles to a downtown Raleigh Krispy Kreme shop, ate a dozen glazed doughnuts each and returned to North Carolina State University in less than an hour.

That's 2,400 calories and 144 grams of fat consumed while burning about 400 calories during the run.

The student-run Krispy Kreme Challenge raised about $35,000 for the North Carolina Children's...

Bad Driver Fifty Citations in a Day

Headline: Man Gets More Than 50 Traffic Citations in One Day
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 6.2.9
Caption:Bad Driver Fifty Citations in a Day

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — A Martin County man has been arrested on more than 50 traffic citations — all in one day.

Boynton Beach police said 46-year-old Elvis Alonzo Barrett fled from police trying to stop him for a traffic violation Thursday morning. Police said he ran through red lights, crashed into another car and a fence.

Police said they found crack cocaine and a crack pipe in his car.

Barrett faces several charges, including fleeing and eluding and reckless driving.

He was also issued more than 50 traffic citations on charges including speeding, running red lights, and not wearing a seat belt.

Headline: Girl: Mom Allowed Dad to Rape, Impregnate Sister
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 6.2.9
Caption: Very Sick

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — The older sister of a girl allegedly molested and impregnated four times by their father said Thursday their mother allowed the abuse and should face more than a child-endangerment charge.

"I want her to get more charges," the 20-year-old said outside a western Missouri courthouse. "I want her to pay as much as my father. I don't want either of them to get away with a slap on the wrist."

The mother is charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child. Cass County prosecutors said additional charges were possible but declined to elaborate. The woman is free on $10,000 bond.

Headline: Woman told to 'check-in dead husband'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 5.2.9
Caption: Sad Situation

"Must be transported respectfully"
A BRISBANE family is in shock after an airline told the mother she could only take her husband's ashes to India as checked luggage, contrary to Sikh tradition.

Nashater Hayer and her daughter Debbie are scheduled to fly to the Indian state of Punjab on Sunday to throw Kewal Singh Hayer's ashes into the Kiratpur River, but the airline will not let Mrs Hayer carry the urn with her.

Headline: Woman, 60, Reportedly Gives Birth to Twins
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 5.2.9
Caption: Granny Pops Twins

CALGARY, Alberta — A 60-year-old woman in the Western Canadian city of Calgary has given birth to twins after going to India for fertility treatments, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported on its website on Thursday.

The report said the twins, both boys, were seven weeks prematurely delivered by Caesarean section. Though one is breathing with the help of special equipment, doctors said the twins are doing well but will be kept in hospital until they gain weight and both can breathe on their own.

Headline: Careful! These Statues Could Get You Pregnant
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 5.2.9
Caption: BIRTH CONTROL FOR STATUES

Starting a family might be a little easier with a trip to Ripley's Believe It or Not museum in Myrtle Beach. The museum on Thursday opens a monthlong display of its fertility statues.

The 5-foot tall wooden statues were acquired on the Ivory Coast of West Africa in 1993. The company says they were then placed in its corporate headquarters in Orlando, Fla., and within months, 13 women became pregnant.

A Spitfire

Headline: 'Spitting' passenger forces down plane
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 26.1.9
Caption: A Spitfire

POLICE have charged a man after a disturbance on a plane which was forced to make an unscheduled landing at Sydney Airport. Virgin Blue flight 707, en route from Hobart to Brisbane, was diverted to Sydney at 9pm on Saturday after cabin staff reported continued intimidation and abuse from a passenger.

Police entered the plane and arrested the 28-year-old man from Taree.
Officers say the man resisted arrest and struggled violently, making threats and spitting at them.

He's also accused of kicking out at police and punching a cell door at the nearby Mascot Police Station.

The man was charged with destroying or damaging property, offensive behaviour, threatening the safety of an aircraft and intimidating police.

Headline: Cops: Woman Shot Boyfriend for Not Letting Her Sleep
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 25.1.9
Caption: BANG BANG LET ME SLEEP

Louisiana woman allegedly shot her boyfriend because he would not let her sleep, according to The News Star.

Police found Roshonda Anding's boyfriend in his car with a single shot to his hip, the newspaper reports. He was taken to LSU Medical Center.

The 21-year-old was charged with aggravated battery.

Anding told police that she shot her boyfriend, "because he was bothering her and wouldn't let her sleep," according to a police report.

Headline: Inauguration 'Do-Over' for Locked Out Ticketholders
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 25.1.9
Caption: Inauguration 'Done-0vers' May Get a 'Do-Over'

Purple ticketholders are vindicated....somewhat.
Thousands of people who had tickets to the purple and blue sections of the National Mall for last Tuesday's swearing in of Barack Obama as president never made it. There was a mob scene, and hoards of them were herded into the 3rd Street Tunnel, which has since been dubbed "the Purple Tunnel of Doom."

Gabe Cohen, an Obama campaign worker from Denver, organized a swearing in do-over. Not for President Obama, but for any of those locked out of the process on Tuesday.

The message went out on Facebook, and the Survivors of the Purple Tunnel of Doom were invited to bring their iPods and laptops to the front of the Capitol.

Headline: Plumber Recovers Flushed $70,000 Wedding Ring
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 25.1.9
Caption: Opps

PHOENIX — Just a case of plumb luck.

It took a plumber to retrieve a woman's 7-carat diamond ring after city workers failed in efforts to flush the gem out of the pipes of a restaurant toilet.

The $70,000 wedding ring fell from Allison Berry's hand when she flushed the toilet in the restroom of the Black Bear Diner on Jan. 14, the plumber said. The ring plopped in and the water whisked it away, said Elena Castelar, the restaurant's shift manager.

Headline: Fish poop fights climate change
Clip from: Canada.com
Date of clip: 24.1.9
Caption: The Goodness of Fish Poop

Scientists have discovered that fish play a major role in the marine carbon cycle, making them unexpected allies against climate change.

Previously, UN scientists have warned that when the ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere, it also becomes more acidic, threatening coral reefs and other sea life.

This new study, to be published today in the journal Science, shows fish excretions of calcium carbonate can offset this acidity.

Headline: Broken penis episode in Grey`s Anatomy sparks frantic internet search among men
Clip from: Telegraph.co.uk
Date of clip: 24.1.9
Caption: Busted Penis

Eric Dane as Dr McSteamy: Consultant Mark Sloan - otherwise known as McSteamy - suffered a fractured member after indulging in illicit sex in the on-call room According to the search engine Google, two of the three most searched terms at present are "penile fracture" and "broken penis". It follows an episode of Grey's Anatomy, Stairway to Heaven, screened in the US on Thursday, in which consultant Mark Sloan - otherwise known as McSteamy - suffered a fractured penis after indulging in sex in the on-call room with Lexie Grey. According to the episode synopsis on broadcaster ABC's website, the resulting injury sparks intense speculation among colleagues as to who is responsible for his agonising injury. Sloan, played by Eric Dane, who also stars in Marley & Me and X-Men, is generally considered to be one of the programme's principal heart throbs, who has had romantic trysts with a large number of the main female characters. His injury is rare but can occur, although it mainly affects young men during sexual intercourse. Netdoctor.co.uk reports that a fracture can occur when abnormal force is applied to the erect penis, and results in a cracking noise combined with intense pain. It is caused by a "tear in the tunica albuginea, the thick fibrous coat surrounding the corpora cavernosum tissue that produces an erection".

Headline: Bird vomit helped them survive
Clip from: FOXews.com
Date of clip: 24.1.9
Caption: Bird Puke

Two men who spent 25 days lost at sea in a giant icebox survived their extraordinary ordeal thanks to rainwater from tropical storms and fish spat out by passing birds, a report said Wednesday.

The men, who were rescued on Saturday, are being interviewed by Australian immigration officials hoping to clarify how they came to be drifting in shark-infested waters off the country's northern coast.

The pair told the Sydney Morning Herald they drank only rainwater and ate small fish regurgitated by seabirds after their Thai fishing boat broke up in huge waves on Dec. 23.
"For 10 days, nothing to eat," one of the men told the paper through an interpreter. "Then two big seabirds came and vomited some small fish-- about six or seven little fish."

Headline: Pair Seeking Leniency Allegedly Go Before Judge Drunk
Clip from: FOXews.com
Date of clip: 24.1.9
Caption: Real Brainy Move

A southeastern Pennsylvania man and woman seeking leniency on public drunkenness fines he hasn't paid have now been cited for public drunkenness in the judge's office.

The pair visited District Judge Rodney Hartman's office in New Holland on Wednesday. They were responding to a warrant notice over fines the man owes for an October public drunkenness conviction. He said he didn't have money to pay.

Someone noticed that the two appeared drunk at the judge's office. Police gave Breathalyzer tests and say the two had blood-alcohol levels far above the legal limits for driving.

Headline: Brewer's droop an old wives' tale
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 24.1.9
Caption: Alcohol Aids Erection

IT gives the phrase "a stiff drink" a whole new meaning: Australian researchers have made the surprise discovery that alcohol improves, rather than damages, men's performance in the bedroom. They hope the finding, which flies in the face of conventional belief, will reassure men who worry about the affects of drinking on their sex lives.

Until now, it has been widely believed alcohol consumption could cause erectile dysfunction, commonly called "brewer's droop''.

But a study of 1580 Australian men has shown the reverse may be true, with drinkers reporting as many as 30 per cent fewer problems than teetotallers.

Even binge drinkers had lower rates of erectile dysfunction than those who never drank, although this type of drinking can cause other health problems...

Headline: Man charged in nutty attack
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 24.1.9
Caption: Peanut Oil Caper

A MAN has been charged with assault using peanut oil he allegedly smeared on a car door handle to make his allergic former fiancee ill, police said.
Police in Burlington,Ontario, Canada, said the 49-year-old woman became sick after touching her car door handle and was treated for an allergic reaction to nuts at a nearby medical clinic.

She suffered no serious lasting effects.

"It is an unusual case, but it's also very serious because the victim could have had an allergy attack while driving and gotten into an accident," Sergeant Brian Carr said.

Library Book Caper

Headline: Woman Arrested for Unreturned Library Book
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 23.1.9
Caption: Library Book Caper

An Iowa woman was arrested because she failed to return a library book.

Shelly Koontz, 39, was arrested Thursday night on a fifth-degree theft charge. She is accused of keeping "The Freedom Writers Diary," which she checked out from the public library in nearby Jesup in April.

Police say the book — which is about a high school teacher's effort to inspire students to write — is valued at $13.95.

Court records show library employees tried repeatedly to contact Koontz by phone and mail. A police officer even visited her home last September.

Headline: Hostess told to dress more 'sexy'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 23.1.9
Caption: Not Sexy Enough To Be a Airline Hostess

Dress debate ... Karin Keegan says a male JetBlue employee told her to change into a lower-cut shirt and tighter pants before letting her on a plane / AFP
A FEMALE flight attendant is suing a US airline after allegedly being denied a flight because she wasn't dressed provocatively enough. Thirty-seven-year-old Karin Keegan says a male JetBlue employee told her to change into a lower-cut shirt and tighter pants before letting her on a plane, reports the Associated Press.

"Ms Keegan changed into more provocative clothes, but (the employee) told her she was too late to board the plane and should have dressed like that before," said the lawsuit, which has been filed...

Headline: Man Kills Wife for Changing Facebook Status to 'Single'
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 23.1.9
Caption: A very sad story - Not the Joys of being online

A man murdered his estranged wife after he became “enraged” that she had changed her marital status to single on the social networking site Facebook.

Edward Richardson, 41, was found guilty of stabbing to death Sarah Richardson, 26, a hairdresser, in her parents’ house in Staffordshire on May 12 last year.

Fiona Cortese of the Crown Prosecution Service said: “Richarsdon became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his messages.”

Stafford Crown Court heard that Richardson, a carpenter from Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent, had sought out Mrs Richardson in her parents house and entered by breaking the front door window.

Headline: Virgin golfer fined for mid-air fondle
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 23.1.9
Caption:Pervert or Immature - You Decide

AN up-and-coming golfer who fondled a woman's breast on an international flight has escaped conviction after being labelled "massively immature" by a magistrate.

Leighton Lyle, the 2007 Victorian amateur champion who earned his Australasian professional tour card last month, was seated next to the woman on a Los Angeles to Melbourne flight in April of that year.

She awoke to feel her nipple being tugged and the top half of her breast exposed, the Melbourne Magistrates Court was told today.

The court was told the victim was significantly affected by the incident, which occurred while Lyle was returning home from caddying for his brother, professional golfer Jarrod Lyle, on the US PGA tour.

Headline: North Carolina Student Arrested During Snowball Fight
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 23.1.9
Caption: Snowball to jail

Campus police at East Carolina University said they made one arrest and used pepper spray on some students as officers tried to control a huge snowball fight on campus.

Police were called to a dormitory three times as more than 200 students pelted each other with snowballs as a rare snowstorm dropped several inches of snow in eastern North Carolina on Tuesday, The Daily Reflector of Greenville reported Thursday.

Some witnesses said they were hit hard by indiscriminately hurled snowballs.

Pervert or Immature - You Decide

Headline: Virgin golfer fined for mid-air fondle
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 23.1.9
Caption:Pervert or Immature - You Decide

AN up-and-coming golfer who fondled a woman's breast on an international flight has escaped conviction after being labelled "massively immature" by a magistrate.

Leighton Lyle, the 2007 Victorian amateur champion who earned his Australasian professional tour card last month, was seated next to the woman on a Los Angeles to Melbourne flight in April of that year.

She awoke to feel her nipple being tugged and the top half of her breast exposed, the Melbourne Magistrates Court was told today.

The court was told the victim was significantly affected by the incident, which occurred while Lyle was returning home from caddying for his brother, professional golfer Jarrod Lyle, on the US PGA tour.

Headline: North Carolina Student Arrested During Snowball Fight
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 23.1.9
Caption: Snowball to jail

Campus police at East Carolina University said they made one arrest and used pepper spray on some students as officers tried to control a huge snowball fight on campus.

Police were called to a dormitory three times as more than 200 students pelted each other with snowballs as a rare snowstorm dropped several inches of snow in eastern North Carolina on Tuesday, The Daily Reflector of Greenville reported Thursday.

Some witnesses said they were hit hard by indiscriminately hurled snowballs.

Honesty of a Child

Headline: Woman Arrested After Child Gives Away Hiding Spot
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 19.1.9
Caption: Honesty of a Child

A Fort Pierce woman ended up in jail because of a little girl with a big mouth. Police went to the home of 22-year-old woman on Friday to serve warrants for assault, harassing phone calls and violation probation carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.

Officers said two men and a woman at the house told officers that the woman had left, but then a 4-year old child approached one of the officers and revealed that the woman was under a bed.

Headline: Woman Missing 12 Years Found Alive in Swiss Woods
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 19.1.9
Caption: Incredible

BERN, Switzerland — A German woman missing for 12 years has been found living in the woods on the outskirts of the Swiss capital with nothing more than an umbrella and tarpaulin for shelter, police said Monday.

The 52-year-old woman, whose name was undisclosed, appeared to be healthy after living in the simple shelter near the community of Bolligen for the past year.

Even the ranger who makes regular checks of the woods had failed to notice her before a hiker told police this month that he had seen a woman living there, said Juerg Mosimann, spokesman for the Bern police.

Bolligen's Mayor Rudolf Burger said he was told about the woman on Thursday and found her the next day in the makeshift tent she had constructed.

Headline: Men Rescued After Drifting for 25 Days in Icebox
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 19.1.9
Caption: Whan the boat is not afloat

Two Burmese men who were lost at sea for 25 days after a fishing boat they were in sank off the southeast coast of Indonesia were found alive, floating in an oversized icebox.

The men, who said they were forced to join the boat’s crew, were found Saturday — 25 days after the vessel went down about 60 miles off Horn Island, the Courier-Mail reported.

Kinda Dumb Robber

Headline: Masked Man Waits in Line to Rob Ohio Bank
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 9.1.9
Caption: Kinda Dumb Robber

STOW, Ohio — A man may have tipped his intentions when he stood in line at an Ohio bank wearing a ski mask before staging a holdup.

Police in Stow near Akron say 24-year-old Feliks Goldshtein of Highland Heights was arrested minutes later on Thursday following a brief car chase.

Police say the teller asked the man to take off the mask before being served. At that point the man displayed what turned out to be a toy gun and told the teller to give him all the money.

Police Captain Rick Myers says it's unusual for a masked robber to wait in line at a bank.

Headline: Cops: R.I. Boys Stole Car to Get to School on Time
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 9.1.9
Caption: BEING PUNCTUAL

WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Two Woonsocket High School boys did the right thing by trying to get to school on time.

It was the way they got there that police had a problem with.

Police tell The Call of Woonsocket the boys ages 15 and 16 stole a car Tuesday morning in order to make it to school on time.

Police received a call about a stolen vehicle at about 7:44 a.m.

John Raymond, an officer assigned to the school, found the vehicle in the parking lot.

After questioning some students, he identified two boys he thinks arrived in the car. One was located in class, and the other was in the in-house suspension room with the stolen car's keys in his pocket.

Headline: Kidney stone? No, it's a baby
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 9.1.9
Caption: Will she name the bay Stone or Kidney?

A CANADIAN woman rushed to hospital for what she believed was a kidney stone gave birth to a baby boy instead.
"This is some kidney stone, isn't it," the new mum told Canwest New Service as she cradled her son in her arms.

"We're still in shock. We just can't believe it."

Juanita Stead, 36, said she did not suffer morning sickness or put on extra weight during her pregnancy and she continued to menstruate so she had no idea that she was pregnant.

An X-ray after she went to hospital on on New Year's Eve suffering back pains revealed the truth.

"The technician looked at me and said, 'My dear, you're pregnant with a full-term baby'. And I said: 'No sir, you got the wrong woman and you're looking at the wrong screen. There is no way I'm pregnant," she said.

Has he not heard of bread crumbs?

Headline: Popcorn trail leads police to suspect
From: CNN.com
Date of clip: 3.1.9
Caption: Has he not heard of bread crumbs?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A trail of popcorn on New Year's Day led Sacramento police to a man wanted on a warrant, authorities said.

Tyree Brown, 21, was taken into custody at a Natomas apartment on Thursday for a theft warrant and on suspicion of possession of stolen property, Sgt. Norm Leong said....

Headline: Porcupine Plague Causes $100K In Damage In Colo.
From: CBsnews.com
Date of clip: 2.1.9
Caption: Porcupine capers

Porcupines are becoming a prickly pest for Telluride-area residents. Residents said the rodents are chomping on the bark of spruce trees, yard trees, and have killed 50-foot-high native trees. The damage is estimated at more than $100,000 in the Mountain Village above Telluride.

Porcupines also favor salty and sweaty items, so plywood treated with a sodium-based substance has become attractive to them. They've also munched on shoes, vehicle tires, and tool handles.

Headline: Stressed pets becoming pill-poppers
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 2.1.9
Caption: Pooch pops pills

VETERINARIANS are being pressured by pet owners to prescribe pills to counter a range of physical and mental conditions in cats and dogs.

Brisbane veterinarian and former Australian Veterinary Association president Diane Sheehan said yesterday that some pet owners trawled the internet looking for solutions for pet misbehaviour.

Owners were seeking to address problems in their pets including obesity, amnesia, separation anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder, The Courier-Mail reports.

Prescribing pills to alter pet behaviour in the US has ballooned into a $US33 billion a year industry and has taken off in Australia and Britain.

Dr Sheehan said the amount of pet drugs available had at least doubled in the past two decades.

Headline: 'Hello, 911? I'm Drunk Driving Right Now'
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 2.1.9 (original date: 2.12.8)
Caption: Drunk and stupid

A 17-year-old girl in Bismarck called 911 on New Year's Eve "to report herself driving under the influence," police Lt. Randy Ziegler said. "I've never heard of such a thing happening, and neither has anyone here."

The girl told authorities her location shortly before midnight Wednesday and officers found her in a parked car near downtown, Ziegler said. She failed a sobriety test and was arrested for failing to have control of her vehicle while intoxicated.

Headline: Thousands of Shoes Block Miami Traffic
From: news.scotsman.com
Date of clip: 2.1.9
Caption: Shoemaker Woes

Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway causing significant traffic delays.
The Florida Highway Patrol received the report during rush hour Friday morning, Lt. Pat Santangelo said. A private contractor brought a front-end loader and a dump truck to the half-mile stretch of highway. Workers were able to clear at least one lane after a short time by sweeping all the shoes to shoulder, but delays were expected to last until all the shoes could be removed.

OUCH

Headline: Kitchen dentist used wine to numb pain
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 26.12.8
Caption: OUCH!!

MAN operated an illegal dental surgery in the kitchen of his New York home and gave patients wine to help them cope with the pain.
Police arrested Carlos Flores after raiding his home at Peekskill, in northern New York.
Investigators say he had all the tools and treated patients in the kitchen of his home.
They said he had a chair next to a radiator and antiquated instruments caked in blood.
Police say there were two birds loose in the house, and on the kitchen table was a jug of wine Flores allegedly gave patients to help deal with the pain.
They said a man who went there for a toothache ended up in hospital after Flores broke the tooth while trying to pull it out.

Headline: Woman Awarded $198,000 for 'Horse Teeth'
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.12.8
Caption: Mr. Ed

A Bridgeport jury has awarded more than $198,000 to a woman who claims her dentist promised her a celebrity smile, but gave her what her attorney called "horse teeth."
Attorney Richard Meehan Jr. says his client, Marvalyn Foster sued Stamford dentist Darren Martinez because he promised her a "big, beautiful Hollywood celebrity smile." Foster wanted Martinez to give her a permanent bridge to replace a false tooth.
Meehan says that Foster woke up from the procedure to discover that Martinez extracted three teeth and made a large bridge that resembled horse teeth.

Headline: Give 'em Viagra
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.12.8
Caption: Up, Up, and Away

In an effort to win over fickle warlords and chieftains in Afghanistan and get information from them, CIA officials are handing out Viagra pills in exchange for their cooperation, the Washington Post reports.
"Whatever it takes to make friends and influence people - whether it's building a school or handing out Viagra," an agency operative, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the Post.

Headline: Christmas charity workers attacked
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 26.12.8
Caption: Merry Christmas??

A CHARITY worker and his wife were attacked by a gang of youths as they investigated a disturbance outside their Melbourne home on Christmas Eve.
The couple, who gave their names only as Paul and Ilse, said they heard a loud bang outside their home in Noble Park, in the city's southeast, around 11.30pm on Wednesday.
Paul said he went outside to see four men who had kicked over a bin and after confronting them he was attacked in front of his wife.
The attackers kicked and punched the 56-year-old man about the face and head before one of the attackers turned on his wife, 68.
The gang laughed and mocked the couple throughout the attack...

Headline: Police Use Tobacco Spit To Nab Burglary Suspect
From: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 25.12.8
Caption: Gross

A trail of tobacco spit has led investigators to a suspect in at least five burglaries across eastern Oklahoma, police said.
Randy Lee Shoopman Jr., 33, was charged with 11 counts of second-degree burglary after a sample of his DNA matched that taken from expectorant left behind at the scene of several burglaries in Oklahoma, said officer Brad Robertson, a spokesman for the Tahlequah police department.
Shoopman was taken into custody Friday in Merced, Calif., on an unrelated stolen property charge, Robertson said.
Investigators also said Shoopman may be involved in break-ins at businesses across eastern Oklahoma and in Missouri.

Headline: Christmas rings in with massive pub brawl
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 25.12.8
Caption: So much for Merry Christmas

CHRISTMAS has kicked off with a massive brawl outside a hotel in Sydney.

Police say at least 60 drunken people were involved in the fight at the Greystanes Inn at Greystanes in Sydney's west at about 11.30pm (AEST) yesterday.

Twelve police cars were on the scene at Merrylands Road, along with Polair and the police dog squad.

It is believed no one was injured during the brawl and staff voluntarily shut the pub.

Inquiries are continuing into how the fight started but police said no arrests were made.

Fart Arrest

Headline: Boy 'arrested for passing gas'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 25.11.8
Caption: Strange condition.

A 12-YEAR-old American schoolboy has been arrested for farting in the classroom.

Police were called when the boy became disruptive, shutting off the computers of classmates and "deliberately passing gas" at his school in Florida, The Smoking Gun reports.

The 150cm offender was also accused of shutting off the computers of classmates at Florida's Stuart's Spectrum High School.

Busted by school authorities for disruption of a school function, the boy was taken to the County Sheriff's Office...

Headline: Oregon Man Shot by Dog During Hunting Trip
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 24.11.8
Caption: Strange condition.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Henry Marcum has nothing but kind words for the dog that shot his 23-year-old son this weekend.

Marcum says his son, Matthew, was standing in Tillamook Bay at the start of duck-hunting trip when his dog jumped into the boat, setting off a 12-gauge shotgun.

The blast blew a hole in the aluminum boat before hitting Marcum, who is recovering from injuries to his legs and buttocks at Portland's Legacy Emanuel Hospital...

Headline: Docs Remove 12-Inch Hairball From Girl, 11
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 24.11.8
Caption: Strange condition.

An 11-year-old Indian girl suffering from a psychosomatic condition in which she ate her own hair had a foot-long hairball removed from her stomach, the Times of India reported.

The condition, known as trichotillomania, is an impulse control disorder that is characterized by a repeated urge to pull one’s hair out. Some of these people then go on to eat the hair.

“In 99 percent of the cases, it is generally seen among females from 10 to 20 years of age...

Headline: Hit-and-run Suspect Also Accused Of Shoe Theft
Clip from: news.com.au

Date of clip: 24.11.8
Caption: One has to have a good pairs of shoes if one must flee quickly.

Police arrested a hit-and-run suspect who also allegedly stole a pair of shoes from a nearby home as part of his attempt to flee the crime on Sunday. Authorities said the 22-year-old faces charges ranging from drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident and burglary.

Witnesses told police that a vehicle hit a parked car and that the driver fled the scene on foot. Several minutes later, police said they received a call that a man matching the driver's description had entered a nearby residence, was bleeding and stole a pair of shoes before leaving the home.

Headline: Mum flushed newborn son down toilet
Clip from: news.com.au

Date of clip: 24.11.8
Caption: Sick people out there.

A WOMAN who became pregnant to her secret lover told an inquest she didn't know she had given birth to their child until she saw his foot in the toilet bowl.
Claire Jones, 32, gave evidence at the inquest into the death of the newborn boy in Cardiff, Wales, yesterday.

Headline: Mystery Piano: Cops Flummoxed by Find in the Forest

Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 24.11.8

Caption: Music in the forest.

HARWICH, Mass. — Harwich police have a musical mystery on their hands: Who left a piano in the middle of the woods? And why?

The Baldwin piano discovered in the Bells Neck woods appears to be in perfect working condition and had a matching bench as if it had recently been played.

The piano was discovered Saturday by a woman walking along a path inside a conservation area at the woods.

Headline: Nightclubs Burned in War Between Nudists, Swingers

Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 24.11.8
Caption: An interesting set of events.

One of Europe’s most famous nudist colonies has become the subject of an unusual investigation by French detectives after the destruction of three nightclubs in fires blamed on naturist "hardliners."

The normally peaceful Cap d’Agde, a magnet for nudists in the south of France, has been plunged into anxiety as investigators suspect "fundamentalist" nudists of harboring a grudge against the échangistes, or swingers, who are drawn to the town by the promise of sex.