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.
