Swap Meet

Headline: Moms Swap Toddlers After Hospital Baby Mix-Up
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 31.3.9
Caption: Swap Meet

Two mothers in Russia have been forced to swap their two-year-old sons after DNA tests revealed the children had been mixed up as newborns by a careless nurse.
A court ordered the two heartbroken women to exchange the boys they had raised as their own, according to Russian media reports.
The error was uncovered when one of the mothers, Anna Androsova, discovered her son's maternity ward ID tag actually had the mother's name Zarema Taisumova on it.
Androsova tracked down the Chechen woman, saw the blue-eyed boy and declared, "This is my son."
But Taisumova refused to swap the children, dismissing the claims of physical resemblance.
The hospital in central Russia ordered DNA tests, which came back with definitive results — the boys had been mixed up.
Androsova initially pleaded with her family to keep Nikita, the boy she had raised for two years as her own.
But she later decided to pursue the exchange through the court.
Weeks after the switch, Taisumova was still deep in shock, interviewed on Russian television with her biological son playing on her lap.

Headline: Sneezing Fit Causes Driver To Crash Into Ore. Home
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 31.3.9
Caption: He Sneezed

Add sneezing while driving to the list of potential safety hazards. Authorities said a sneezing fit caused 25-year-old Ramon Stephen Ayala to lose control of his vehicle Saturday and hit a home. Marion County Sheriff's Office Cmdr. Kevin Schultz said Ayala sneezed as he headed toward an intersection around 1 a.m.

When he stopped sneezing, he had run a stop sign and tried to hit the brakes. But it was too late. Ayala's 2001 Volkswagen Jetta crashed into a corner of a house.

Headline:Moped thief busted at petrol station
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 31.3.9
Caption: Moped Thief

A MAN who stole a moped and rode it more than 340km on Sunday was only caught after he refused to pay $4.49 for petrol.

Police allege a 29-year-old man stole the moped from Townsville, North Queensland before setting off on his 348km trip, which was also subject to several calls from motorists complaining to police about a slow motorbike on the Bruce Highway.

Innisfail police Inspector David Tucker said the moped's would have struggled over the Cardwell Range.

"It would have been a slow journey up that hill," he said. "Motorists were complaining about a slow motorbike beforehand and shortly after that this call came in from the petrol station."

Headline: Burglars break into house, steal bear
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 31.3.9
Caption: Thieves nabbed stuffed bear of the real kind

POLICE are hunting a full-sized, stuffed brown bear stolen at the weekend.
Somebody smashed a window and forced open a door to steal the $5000, 1.5m tall stuffed bear from from the home in nothern Adelaide suburb of Wingfield.

The theft is believed to have occured between 8pm on Friday and 5pm Saturday.

Headline: Pimp Paid Teen Prostitute With Chicken Nuggets
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 30.3.9
Caption: Nothing Like Cheap Pimp

A 27-year-old Australian man who pimped a 16-year-old girl so he and his girlfriend could afford their apartment, would pay the schoolgirl with chicken nuggets, the Australian Associated Press reported.

Ronald Vikash Gander used the $4,500 the teen made for having sex with five middle-aged men in June of last year to pay the weekly $1,050 rent on his Brisbane apartment, the Brisbane District Court was told.

Gander and his 16-year-old girlfriend would pay the teen with an occasional box of chicken nuggets, the AAP reported.

"The girl was used as if she was a piece of meat ... and your conduct can properly be described as that of a sleaze merchant," Judge Marshall Irwin told Gander.

Headline: Cops Stop Neighbors Trying to Save Family From Fire
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 30.3.9
Caption: Sad Most Cops Would Risk Their Lives to Save Someone

A pregnant British woman, her husband and their 3-year-old son were killed in a house fire early Sunday as police who arrived before the fire brigade prevented neighbors from trying to save them.

“Please save my kids," the woman screamed from a bedroom window and neighbors tried to help but were beaten back by flames and were told by police not to attempt a rescue.

By the time firefighters got into the house in Doncaster, Michelle Colly, 25, her husband, Mark, 29, and son, Louis, 3, were dead. Their daughter, Sophie, 5, was taken to hospital and believed to be critically ill.

Life's a Joke

Headline: Brains a poor second to kids who laugh
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 4.12.8
Caption: Ha, Ha, Ha.

IT's no joke: parents would rather their children grow up to be comedians than brain surgeons. A survey of more than 300 mums and dads found more than 39 per cent wanted their child to have a good sense of humour - nearly 21 per cent wanted them to be extremely intelligent. Good looks came third, with nearly 16 per cent of people wanting their kids to be attractive.

Headline: Pizzeria Mistakenly Butchers Deer Near Customer
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 4.12.8
Caption: Not deer dear.

An Allentown pizzeria said venison is not on the menu despite the impression a customer may have gotten when she saw one of the cooks butchering a deer in the shop's kitchen. John Okumus, the manager of Stromboli Pizza, called Tuesday's incident a huge misunderstanding.

Okumus said he shot a doe and planned to give it to his friend. He wrapped the animal in plastic and dropped it off in a back area of the kitchen, hoping the friend would pick it up. Okumus then went home.

He said a cook mistakenly started butchering the deer, and a customer saw what was happening.

Headline:Cash-strapped teacher sells ads on tests
Clip from: CNNews.com
Date of clip: 3.12.8
Caption: There are adverts everywhere anyways.

In tests for teacher Tom Farber's high school class, students can demonstrate their mastery of calculus and find out where to get braces or even a haircut.
Calculus teacher Tom Farber is selling ad space on tests to defray printing costs.
Squeezed by classroom budget cuts, the Rancho Bernardo High School teacher is selling ads on his exams to cover the costs of printing them.

"My intention is, [selling ads] is a stopgap measure," said Farber. "I don't want to be doing this year after year."

Headline: Man Uses Candy Cane To Subdue Attacker With Knife
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 3.12.8
Caption: take that

A man using a candy cane lawn ornament fended off a knife-wielding neighbor who had been attacking holiday guests at a Sacramento home. Police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong saID the man used the two-foot-tall plastic ornament to subdue the attacker until officers arrived.

He said the 49-year-old suspect became intoxicated, went over to a neighbor's home on Thanksgiving and began waving a kitchen knife at people gathered on the lawn.

He cut several peoples' clothing before one of them decided to fight back.