Alcohol Aids Erection

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 OilCaper

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.

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:

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.

Gardening men have stronger erections

Headline: Gardening boosts men's sex livesClip from: telegraph.co.uk
Date of clip: 15.1.9
Caption: Gardening men have stronger erections

...Digging, weeding or mowing the lawn for half an hour reduced men's risk of failing to live up to expectations in bed by more than a third, the survey found.
The same study showed other forms of moderate exercise, such as dancing and cycling, could have similar benefits.
Men who spend even more time in the vegetable patch can more than halve their risk of impotence, researchers at the Medical University of Vienna found in their study.
"Erectile function can be maintained even by low, regular physical activity," concludes the report. "Energy expenditure of as little as 1,000 calories a week reduces the risk. Doctors should use these findings to encourage their patients to do more physical training and adopt a healthier lifestyle."
Impotence is thought to affect one in ten men in Britain at some stage in their life.
Around 30 per cent of cases are due to psychological factors, such as depression or pressure at work.
But the remaining 70 per cent have some underlying physical cause, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.
Some doctors believe it is an early sign of heart disease as reduced blood flow to the genitals is a sign of clogged arteries.
Two-thirds of sufferers become depressed.
Although a healthy lifestyle is known to help combat impotence, until now there has no clear indication just how much is needed.
The latest study, published in the journal European Urology, shows men do not have to be keep-fit fanatics to reap the benefits and need to burn just 1,000 calories a week. ...

Headline:Teen 'turned high-rise stairwell into waterfall'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 15.1.9
Caption: Water Logger

A TEENAGER has been asked to pay $40,000 in damages after allegedly switching on 80 water mains in a Gold Coast high-rise, turning stairwells into waterfalls.
Swan Charles Campbell, 19, faced Southport Magistrate's Court charged with wilful damage over the December 10 incident at the 40-storey Circle on Cavill high-rise in the heart of Surfers Paradise.

According to the police report, CCTV footage shows Campbell walking into the building bone dry before later emerging soaking wet, The Courier-Mail reports.

After 80 water mains across both of the building's two towers had been turned on, water started gushing through light fittings and the elevator shafts, while the emergency stairwells "were like waterfalls".

Water even started running down the outside of the building.

Facing a charge of wilful damage, Campbell has been asked to pay a bill for damages totalling more than $40,000.

Headline: Robber Mistakes Building For A Bank, Demands Cash
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 15.1.9
Caption: Bank Robber With No Bank To Rob

Police said a man showed a gun and tried to rob a bank, but he wasn't in one. The Jessamine South Elkhorn Water District has offices in what was formerly a branch of Farmers Bank. City police spokesman Scott Harvey told the Lexington Herald-Leader a man came into the building Tuesday, showed a pistol and demanded money.

When an employee told the man the office really didn't have any money, the confused would-be robber replied, "I know you have money. It's a bank."

He was told it was no longer a bank and he left with nothing.

Headline: Stripping burglar stuck on roof
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 15.1.9
Caption: Stuck in the nude for you

A SUSPECTED burglar who got stuck on a house roof in an exclusive Melbourne suburb stripped naked to show police he wasn't carrying any weapons.
The man became stuck on top of the property in Middle Park, in Bayside Melbourne, about 11.30am (AEDT) today, a police spokeswoman said.

"Initially he didn't want to come down but now it's a matter of getting him down safely,'' she said.

After first stripping naked, he then put his clothes back on, the spokeswoman said.

Local police, helicopters, police dogs, the police force response unit and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) were all at the scene at lunchtime working out how to rescue the man.

Headline: Fast food in the nude
Clip from: FOXnews.com
Date of clip: 14.1.9
Caption: BUFF ORDER TO GO

A MAN was served hot chips at a late night eatery wearing nothing but his birthday suit, and asked a passerby to take photos.
The Northern Territory News reports the late night reveller stripped bare before putting in his order at the Darwin City 24-Hour Eatery on Smith St early on Monday.A witness said the naked man walked into the shop to order two buckets of chips with gravy. And the female attendant was reportedly only too happy to serve the nude customer.

Headline: Man Shoots Toilet After Gun in Pants Goes Off
Clip from: FOXnews.com
Date of clip: 14.1.9
Caption: I shot the toilet, but I did not shoot the sink.

CENTERVILLE, Utah — The man escaped with a few cuts to his arm, but the toilet made out much worse.

Police say a man's gun fell out of its holster while he pulled up his pants after using the bathroom at a Carl's Jr. restaurant Tuesday. The gun fired when it hit the floor and shattered the commode.

A few shards of porcelain cut the man's arm, and a woman in an adjacent restroom who was frightened by the noise reported she was having chest pain. Both people were checked at the scene and released. ...

Headline: Goat Blamed for Iowa House Fire
Clip from: FOXnews.com
Date of clip: 14.1.9
Caption: Goats are Arsonists

NORWALK, Iowa — A group of goats may have started a fire that destroyed a home in central Iowa, firefighters said.

The fire broke out early Tuesday near Norwalk. Three people in the house escaped unharmed.
John Hadley said his cat woke up him up, and he saw smoke coming from a ceiling. Hadley then woke up his ailing mother and her companion and got them out of the house.
The fire may have been started by some goats kept in a shed attached to the rear of the house, Assistant Northern Warren County Fire Chief Kevin Dingman said.
He said a space heater was kept in the shed to keep the goats warm, and the goats may have knocked it over, starting the fire.

Headline Lots ... and Lots of Coffee Linked to Hallucinations
Clip from: FOXnews.com
Date of clip: 14.1.9
Caption: Great Coffee Trip Man

Research suggests people who drink more than seven cups of instant coffee a day have an increased tendency to hallucinate.

High caffeine users may even think they sense non-existent people, according to researchers from the University of Durham.

They studied 200 students who were asked about their typical intake of caffeine products.

Those who had a high caffeine intake were three times more likely to have the heard voice of someone non-existent than "low" users who consumed less than one cup of instant coffee or its equivalent.

Seeing things that were not there, hearing voices and sensing the presence of dead people were among the experiences reported. Researchers also found that people drinking as few as three cups of brewed coffee each day may experience mild hallucinations, such as hearing voices that aren't there.

Headline: Mum posed as daughter to be cheerleader
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 14.1.9
Caption: Mommy Dearest Cheerleader

A 34-year-old mother was so desperate to be part of a US high school's cheerleading squad that she posed as her 15-year-old daughter.

Wendy Brown was committed today to a mental health facility for three years by a court in the midwest US state of Wisconsin after being found not guilty of identity theft because of mental impairment, news agency AP reports.

According to court documents Brown "stated she that wanted to get her high school degree and be a cheerleader because she had no childhood and was trying to regain a part of her life she missed."

Brown enrolled at Ashwaubenon High School using her daughter's ID and attended cheerleading practices before school started, received a cheerleader's locker and went to a pool party at the cheerleading coach's house.

Chip For Sex

Headline: Super 'sex chip' will have us wired
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 21.12.8
Caption:Chip For Sex

...scientists are working on an electronic "sex chip" that will be able to stimulate pleasure centres in the brain, The Australian reports.
The prospect of the chip is emerging from progress in deep brain stimulation, in which tiny shocks from implanted electrodes are given to the brain.
It has already been used to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
In recent months, scientists have been focusing on an area of the brain just behind the eyes known as the orbitofrontal cortex.
This is associated with feelings of pleasure derived from eating and sex...

Headline: Bus Driver Threatens to Cut Kids Over Seat Crumbs
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 21.12.8
Caption:The only crumbs here is the ones coming from this man's brain

A school bus driver in Texas has been accused of brandishing a knife and threatening to cut three sixth-graders who left Oreo crumbs on a seat.

Officials say police confiscated a pocket knife from 66-year-old William Allen on Friday in Mansfield. He was taken into custody on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Two students told their parents Allen removed them from the bus Wednesday at Mary Orr Intermediate School. They say he threatened to cut their wrists if they didn't admit to spilling crumbs.

Headline: Are Santa's Reindeer Boys or Girls?
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 21.12.8
Caption: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer is female.

There may be a perfectly good reason why Santa doesn't get lost on his annual Christmas globetrot: His flying reindeer just might be female and don't mind stopping for directions.

The gender of Rudolph and his or her sleigh-hauling friends — the subject of goofy Internet chatter every year around this time — is now being pondered by renowned wildlife experts at Texas A&M University.

Headline: Widow leaves £7m to dog rescuers
From: Scotsman.com
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Candy Man Lawyer Arrested

SO MUCH for a dog's life. Animal welfare groups are in the money after a rich widow left them a staggering £7 million in her will.

Grace Smith's two pampered former rescue dogs, Winnie the lurcher and Harry the collie, enjoyed the finest cuts of steak and are now set for life after Mrs Smith also left them a fortune.

Headline: Lawyer Arrested For Giving Client A Piece Of Candy
From: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Candy Man Lawyer Arrested

A lawyer has been arrested after he reportedly ignored orders not to give his shackled client a piece of candy in court, a Yavapai County sheriff's official said. Damon Rossi, 38, was arrested at his home on Thursday, a day after he asked two detention officers if he could feed his client a piece of candy, sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said on Friday. Rossi went ahead and gave the inmate the food despite being warned against it, reportedly asking the officers "what are you going to do, arrest me?"

Headline: Aussie repays $11 loan - 40 years later
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Better Late Than Never

A BRITON who lent $11 to a cash-strapped Australian while travelling through Europe has had his loan repaid - nearly 40 years later, a report said.

Jim Webb, 72, was in the Belgian coastal town of Ostend in April 1969 with a friend when he met Gary Fenton who asked for a loan to pay for a ferry journey back to Britain.

Mr Fenton promised to repay Mr Webb and noted down his address when the trio landed in England.

Last Sunday Mr Webb returned to his home in Sheffield to find a hand-delivered package with $439 - $11 for each year the loan had not been paid - and a note that read: "To Jim Webb, a good man. From Gary Fenton, a tardy payer of debts."

"I was quite emotional when I read it," Mr Webb told the BBC. "In this day and age promises are made and promises are broken and you lose your faith in human nature.