Sad but nice

Headline: Child on bike finds abandoned baby
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 19.4.9
Caption: Sad but nice

BABY Sunday April, the girl dumped at a stranger's house just hours after being born, was doing well after taking her first two feeds.

A child on a bicycle found the tiny bundle at the home of a neighbour who believes she may have been chosen as she looked like she "would take good care of her".

The little girl still had her umbilical cord attached when she was discovered on a verandah about 11am.

The healthy baby has been named Sunday April by police and hospital staff who have been caring for her but doctors hold serious concerns for her mother who had not been found last night.

Sunday April was wrapped in a green blanket and crying when she was discovered in 20C weather at the house in Sturt Circle, Dubbo.

Headline: Colo. Woman Finds World War II Grenade in Yard
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 19.4.9
Caption: There's nothing like outdoor gardening.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A woman digging a sprinkler system discovered a grenade that police say may date back to World War II.

Grand Junction Police Bomb Squad Sgt. Stan Ancell said the grenade discovered Saturday was harmless because a detonating mechanism had been disabled.

Joann Martinez said her shovel pulled up the grenade and she briefly picked it up, then set it back down and covered it with a wheelbarrow before calling police.

Headline: Homeowner locks thief in shed
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 19.4.9
Caption: Thief caught in trap like a rat

A QUICK-THINKING homeowner caught a would-be thief by locking him in the garden shed.
The homeowner, from Alberton in Adelaide's western suburbs, went to investigate noises in his backyard just before midnight (CST) when he discovered a man inside his shed.

"The quick-thinking resident shut the shed door, locking the man inside and then called for help," a police spokeswoman said on Sunday.

"Neighbours responded and together they were able to detain the would-be thief until police arrived."

Police arrested and charged a 45-year-old male from Bedford Park with breaking into the shed and theft.

Headline: Children told 'cannabis is safer than alcohol'
Origin of Clip: Telegraph.co.uk 18.4.9
Caption: UK GOVERNMENT HELPLINE TELLS KIDS CANABIS, ECSTASY SAFE TO USE

Children calling the Government's drugs helpline are being told that cannabis is safer than alcohol and that ecstasy will not damage their health, an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found.

Advisers manning the “Frank” helpline are informing callers they believed to be children as young as 13 that alcohol is a “much more powerful drug than cannabis” and that using the illegal drug recreationally is not harmful because it “doesn’t get you that high”.

Callers are also being told that taking ecstasy will not lead to long-term damage and that if they are in doubt, to “just take half a pill and if you are handling that OK, you can take the other half.”

They are even being told that they would be able to smoke a cannabis joint, on top of ecstasy, with no ill-effects.

Headline: Couple Married 67 Years Die Hours Apart
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 18.4.9
Caption: Sad, but somewhat comforting

TROY, Kan. — Residents of a northeast Kansas town are mourning the deaths just hours apart of an elderly couple who were married 67 years. Arnita Yingling died in her sleep early Saturday at the family's home in Troy. She was 93. Six hours later her 95-year-old husband, Lyle, died at a nursing home in the nearby town of Wathena.

Headline: Miss. Woman Gets Shot In Head, But Makes Tea
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 17.4.9
Caption: Always Time For a Cuppa

A Mississippi woman not only survived being shot in the head but made herself some tea afterward. Officials said the 47-year-old woman was still hospitalized on Friday after being wounded by her husband. He fatally shot himself. But the woman was expected to recover fully.

The sheriff of Jackson County, Miss., Mike Byrd, said the woman's husband shot her early Tuesday in a home. A witness called sheriff's deputies, who arrived to find the woman talking and coherent.

The sheriff said she made herself some tea and offered a deputy something to drink before being rushed to the hospital..

Headline: School: Ohio Teacher Took Students To Strip Club
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 17.4.9
Caption: Class Trip to Strip Club

A school spokesman said a southwest Ohio teacher has resigned after acknowledging she accompanied four female students to a male strip club. Butler Tech school district spokesman Bill Solazzo said the 47-year-old teacher resigned Thursday.

He said the teacher told Edgewood High School administrators that the students, all cheerleaders, asked her to take them to the bar in February.

The teacher told school officials in an e-mail that she got permission from the parents of the 17- and 18-year-olds to bring them to the club.

Cradle Robs Cradle

Headline: Who's Poppa? Pubescents Duke It Out
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: Cradle Robs Cradle

At least three teens are claiming to be the father of a baby girl born to a 15-year-old, after one of them was reported to be the youngest father in Britain.

Alfie Patten, 13, was first reported to be the father of Chantelle Steadman's week-old daughter Maisie, and didn't doubt he was until now, the U.K.'s Telegraph newspaper reported.

"Now that is in his mind and I'm not happy," his mother Nicola Patten, 43, told the newspaper. "I don't know where they get this from. I mean, that's my son, that's his baby."

Headline: Mother killed by six-year-old son
Clip from: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25060122-23109,00.html
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: Why Do Children have Access To Guns?

A SIX -YEAR-OLD boy has accidentally shot his mother dead with his father's gun at their home in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby.
The unnamed mother "from a prominent Port Moresby family" died on the way to hospital on Sunday afternoon, PNG's Post Courier newspaper reports.

The boy and his young brother were playing in the living room with their father's loaded gun when it went off and shot their mother in the chest.

Headline: Four-year-old 'broke into school, stole pens'
Clip from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5739401.ece
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: Where were the f..ing parents????

POLICE say a four-year-old was among a group of children who broke into an Alice Springs school, smashing windows and stealing pens.
A teacher at Living Waters School contacted police after he visited the school about 6pm (CST) on Sunday and found five juveniles on the premises.

The offenders broke into the school by smashing a window before stealing various items, such as paints and pens, police said. The children fled when they saw the teacher but police apprehended the group a short time later.

Two of the children are eight years old, one is six and another is four.

Police said the age of the fifth child, who was the oldest in the group, was yet to be determined.

Officers took the children home and reports were made to the office of NT Families and Children.

Headline: Woman's airport fury an online hit
Clip from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5739401.ece
Date of clip: 15.2.9
Caption: Why Don't You Cry

A VIDEO of a hysterical passenger screaming at airline staff and writhing on the floor after missing a flight at Hong Kong airport has become a YouTube hit.
The three-minute clip of the furious woman had racked up close to 40,000 hits in three days on the video-sharing site.

The video starts with the screaming woman running towards the departure gate and bouncing off ...

Headline: New:Aliens 'may be living among us'
Clip from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5739401.ece
Date of clip: 15.2.9
Caption: Are you a space creature?

Aliens may be living among us, but we do not know it because they are microbes that do not have the standard biochemistry of Earth-dwelling organisms.
As well as the many forms of life based on DNA that are known to science, the Earth may have been home to a second creation of organisms that make up an unremarked realm of “life as we don’t know it”, according to Paul Davies, of Arizona State University, a cosmologist and theorist of extraterrestrial life...

Headline: Man Hoping To Get Fired Allegedly Trashes Eatery
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 15.2.9
Caption: Brownies and Cookies Thrower

A restaurant worker was accused of trashing the place in an attempt to get fired and collect unemployment compensation. A criminal complaint filed Thursday said a 35-year-old man showed up at a Qdoba restaurant and started throwing brownies and cookies on the floor...

Headline: Burglary Victim Drives Off in Thieves' Getaway Van
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 15.2.9
Caption: Ironic twist

BELLEVUE, Washington — A man in Washington state made sure a pair of burglars did not get away with his three flat-screen televisions — he moved their getaway car.

Patrick Rosario was in the basement of his Bellevue home on Tuesday when he heard the burglars upstairs.

The Seattle Times reported the 32-year-old Rosario, who had been laid off from his job as a Washington Mutual bank manager, called police while he sneaked out of the house.

He saw a white van sitting in front of his house with the motor running and the keys in the ignition, and he got in and drove it to a friend's house.

NO STONE YES BABY

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.

Headline: Hoarder Dies After Becoming Lost in Maze of Own Trash
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.1.9
Caption: Man Dies After Getting Lost In His Own Crap

An eccentric loner in Britain hoarded so much trash he had to burrow through it to get around his home — then got lost in the maze of tunnels Friday and died of thirst.

Human mole Gordon Stewart, 74, had filled his rooms up to the ceiling with 10 years’ worth of garbage and clutter, making it impossible to walk around.

The compulsive hoarder is believed to have become disorientated inside the walls of rotting trash and unable to find a way out — then collapsed with dehydration.

Neighbors raised the alarm after failing to see him leave his house in Broughton, Bucks, for several days.

Headline: Sheriff Held in Own Jail For Failing to Feed Inmates
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.1.9
Caption: I Shot The Sheriff

DECATUR, Ala. — A northern Alabama sheriff was in federal custody Thursday after a judge ruled he purposely fed inmates skimpy meals so he could make money from an unusual system that lets sheriffs turn a profit on their jail kitchens.

Morgan County Sheriff Greg Bartlett testified at a Wednesday court hearing that he made $212,000 over three years by cheaply feeding prisoners — every cent of it legal under a Depression-era state law and reported on his tax forms as income.

But U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon ordered federal marshals to arrest Bartlett after hearing a string of skinny prisoners testify they were served paper-thin bologna, bloody chicken and cold grits in the north Alabama county's jail.

"He makes money by failing to spend the allocated funds for food for the inmates," Clemon ruled after a daylong hearing in a lawsuit filed by prisoners over jail conditions.

Headline: Stiff sentence for masturbator
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.1.9
Caption: Masturbating Driver

A MAN who filmed himself masturbating while driving at 150km/h on the Northern Territory's Stuart Highway has been fined more than $2000 and copped two months jail.

Brenton Alan Erhardt, 39, appeared in custody before magistrate Sue Oliver yesterday to answer traffic, firearms and drug offences.

Erhardt pleaded guilty to the six charges, which happened in circumstances Ms Oliver described as "bizarre to say the least".

The court heard Erhardt had been travelling south along the Stuart Highway, had been smoking cannabis while driving and was filming himself masturbating with a video camera last July.

Headline: Man, 82, Woman, 86, Trapped in Bathtubs for Days

SALT LAKE CITY — An 82-year-old man who slipped and fell in the bathtub of his Salt Lake City home says he was trapped there for five days.

Lou Beddow was found Tuesday by a neighbor who noticed Beddow hadn't been walking his dog for a while.

The retired postal carrier says he survived on tap water after he slipped and fell in the tub Friday.
Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman Scott Freitag says Beddow was hospitalized in serious condition and may have suffered compression injuries.
Police in a Milwaukee suburb say they also found an elderly woman who fell in her bathtub. The 86-year-old woman from Cudahy was discovered Tuesday and says she was trapped for four days. She was hospitalized, but her condition is not known.

Headline: US needs sex - porn moguls' bailout plea
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 7.1.9
Caption: Porn Business: Bail us Out

TWO porn moguls are seeking a $US5 billion ($7 billion) bailout from Washington, arguing that the limp US economy has thrown cold water on the adult entertainment industry.
Hustler magazine founder Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild video series creator Joe Francis have asked Congress "to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America" in a bailout move similar to the one set aside for US car makers.

"Congress seems willing to help shore up our nation's most important businesses, (and) we feel we deserve the same consideration," Francis said.

"In difficult economic times, Americans turn to entertainment for relief. More and more, the kind of entertainment they turn to is adult entertainment."

Headline: N.Y. Man Demands $1.5M From Wife for Kidney
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 7.1.9
Caption: Stupid People

A New York doctor has demanded that his estranged wife pay him $1.5 million to compensate him for the kidney he gave her while they were still on good terms.
Dr. Richard Batista spoke Wednesday to reporters at his lawyer's office in Garden City, Long Island.
He said he gave his kidney to Dawnell Batista in June 2001. She filed for divorce in July 2005.

VIDEO: Boy, 6, drives car 10 miles toward school
From: CNN.com
Date of clip: 7.1.9

Headline: Skier caught with his pants down
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 7.1.9
Caption: THIS DUDE WILL KEEP HIS PANTS ON FROM NOW ON.

What's worse than dreaming about going to work naked? Losing your pants on a ski lift and having the photos appear on news websites.
The unlucky man was left hanging in the cold on January 1 when he fell through the chairlift seat at Blue Sky Basin at Vail Ski Resort.

The Smoking Gun, which carries photos of the embarrassing incident, reports the man became suspended over the snow when his right ski jammed in the chairlift. Somehow his trousers got caught too.

Apparently the 48-year-old man was stuck without his pants for around 15 minutes as fellow skiers took photos.

Baby Heels

Headline:High Heels For UK Babies
Clip from: news.sky.com.
Date of clip: 28.11.8
Caption: Fashion Nutty

Lulu Sinclair, Sky News Online
The latest accessory for the baby who has everything has just arrived in the UK - a pair of high heels.
A chance for trendy mums to get baby into the party spirit.
The shoes originate in America but have been introduced to British shores by Julia Taylor, herself mother to a young daughter...

Headline: Cranky kid crashes teacher's car
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 27.11.8
Caption: Bad kid

AN eight-year-old German schoolboy who wanted to complain to his mother about being sent out of class took his teacher's car and crashed it.
The boy, banished from class for disrupting a lesson, pinched the 40-year-old teacher's car key when she was not looking and managed to start up her compact car, accelerating and putting the vehicle into first gear.
"The little fellow drove for about 25m before crashing into a Volvo, also parked in the car park outside the school," a police spokesman in the eastern German city of Zwickau said...

Headline: Judge Allows Civil Suit Over Co-worker's Perfume
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 27.11.8
Caption: Smelly

A federal judge says a Detroit city employee can proceed with a civil suit claiming she couldn't work because of a co-worker's strong perfume.

The Detroit News says U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff determined Susan McBride has a potential claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The city is asking to have the suit dismissed.

Headline: Girl Injured When Dad Drops Electric Saw on Her
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 27.11.8
Caption: A weird but very sad story.

A 9-year-old eastern Missouri girl is seriously injured after she was struck by an electric saw her father was using to trim trees.
Rock Community Fire Protection District officials say the Arnold girl was standing below a ladder Wednesday afternoon when her father accidentally dropped the saw. It struck her in the neck and caused extensive bleeding.

Headline: Bat girl 1, intruder 0
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 27.11.8
Caption: Take That!

NEVER mess with a young woman who has three brothers who love baseball. Sarah Carr, 20, owes her life to her brothers' sport after she swung a baseball bat, fighting off a screwdriver-wielding attacker who barged into her house.

With just two swings, the fearless young woman managed to disarm the bandit and knock him to the ground.

She then watched as he hobbled off down the street. But had it not been for her sports-mad brothers, Ms Carr said the outcome could have been very different.

HEALINE: Thief Uses Lubricant To Swipe Ring On Woman's Hand
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 26.11.8
Caption: KY Jelly would do the job too.

Police said a thief used a Vaseline-like lubricant to swipe an expensive ring off an elderly woman's hand in broad daylight. Authorities said two men bumped 80-year-old Helen Artim's car, then asked her to open her trunk to check for damage.

Police said the suspect ran his hand over hers, covering it with "some type of lubricant," then used a towel to wipe it off. It's then that police believe he slipped the ring off Artim's finger. The piece of jewelry was valued between $20,000 to $30,000.

Headline: Accused Drunk Driver Ends Up Running Over Himself
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 26.11.8
Caption: Smart move

... A tip to the state's DrunkBuster hot line Sunday afternoon alerted authorities to a possibly drunken driver.

State Police Officer Grace Romero spotted the man's pickup truck swerving across both lanes of a highway, driving slowly and then fast. He refused to stop.

After narrowly missing other vehicles, police said the suspect drove through a ditch and a barbed-wire fence before stopping. He tried to put the truck into park, but it ended up in reverse.

Police said the man fell from his open door and both of his legs were run over by the front driver's side tire.

Headline: Superg-Looed: Man Stuck To Toilet
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 26.11.8
Caption: Stuck to the loo my darling.

A 35-year-old man has been taken to hospital stuck to a public toilet after a prankster covered the seat with glue.

Gross!

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: Just very gross!!

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.