I'll have soup without water

Headline: It's Diet Coke for mum allergic to water
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 23.4.9
Caption: I'll have soup without water.

AN English woman who developed an allergy to water almost four years ago remains unable to shower, swim or even cuddle her toddler.

Michaela Dutton developed the incurable allergy after giving birth to son Mitchell in 2005. Since then, contact with water of any kind triggers a burning rash on her skin. She cannot drink water, and coffee makes her throat blister and swell, but she is able to tolerate Diet Coke.

Getting caught in the rain causes a painful outbreak.

The agonising condition is so rare it affects only one in 230 million people.

Ms Dutton told the Daily Mail the allergy - known as aquagenic urticaria - had made her a prisoner in her own body and had placed a “terrible strain on what I can do”.

“I can’t really hold Mitchell because if he sweats or dribbles or spills a drink on me I get covered in sore itchy lumps,” she told the the Daily Mail.

Headline: Apollo 14 Astronaut: Space Aliens Are Real
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.4.9
Caption: We are the NEW Frontier

An Apollo 14 astronaut told a group of UFOlogists Monday that aliens are not a myth and called on the government to disclose its findings, The Washington Times reported.

"It is now time to put away this embargo of truth about the alien presence," Edgar D. Mitchell, who made the longest moonwalk in history, told those attending a conference in Gaithersburg, Md., set up by the Paradigm Research Group.

"I call upon our government to open up ... and become a part of this planetary community that is now trying to take our proper role as a spacefaring civilization," the 79-year-old added. "We are being visited."

Paradigm Research Group founder Stephen Bassett backed Mitchell's theory and demanded that President Obama's administration release all information concerning extraterrestrial beings.

"If it does not disclose, by the end of May — this is not a threat or anything, you don't threaten the United States government, they're heavily armed ...

Headline: 'Hitler's Cows' Roam English Countryside
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.4.9
Caption: Real Old Cows

Through the misty early morning sunlight dappling a Devon field, a vision from the primeval past lumbers into view.

The beast with its shaggy, russet-tinged coat, powerful shoulders and lyre-shaped horns could have stepped straight from a prehistoric cave painting.

The vision is a creature of which even Julius Caesar was in awe: Bos primigenius, the aurochs, fearsome wild ancestor of all today’s domestic cattle, immortalized tens of thousands of years ago in ochre and charcoal in the Great Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux in southwest France.

But this herd of 13 bulls, cows and calves known as Heck cattle is the product of Nazi genetic engineering, an attempt to reintroduce the extinct aurochs, the last of which died of old age in a Polish forest nearly four centuries ago.

Headline: Florida Man: I Tasered My Wife in Self Defense
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.4.9
Caption: Man Zaps Wife

A Florida man says he Tasered his estranged wife during a fight in what he claims was an act of self defense, MyFOXOrlando.com reported.

John Palmore, 49, told FOX Orlando affiliate WOFL that he was forced to shoot his wife, 48-year-old Khadeja Palmore, with a stun gun after she became violent and punched him in the nose during an argument about their pending divorce.

He said he realized his soon-to-be ex was upset about the split and bought the gun to protect himself against her, according to MyFOXOrlando.com.

Headline: It's Spelled 'Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaub...'
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.4.9
Caption: Can you spell that again?

Officials have agreed to correct spelling errors in road signs pointing to a central Massachusetts lake with a 45-letter name.

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster has one of the world's longest place names. It's been spelled many different ways over the years. Some locals have given up and simply call it Lake Webster.

Headline: Judge Orders Defendant's Mouth Taped Shut
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 22.4.9
Caption: Tape it shut

state judge who said he lost patience with an unruly defendant ordered court officials to cover the man's mouth with duct tape. The unusual move was ordered Monday by 6th District Judge Peter D. McDermott during a probation violation hearing for Nicklas Frasure. The 23-year-old Frasure was convicted of felony theft in 2008 and recently released from prison.

Headline: 2 Men Send 217,000 Text Messages, Get $26K Bill
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 21.4.9
Caption: Texting it up

Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000. "It came in a box that cost $27.55 to send to me," he said Tuesday.

Headline: Singing star Boyle bigger than Obama
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 21.4.9
Caption: Susan Boyle Instant Stardom

BRITAIN'S Got Talent star Susan Boyle has proved five times more popular on YouTube than US President Barack Obama. The Scots singer’s sensational audition - singing I Dreamed A Dream from the musical Les Miserables - has been watched by 100 million fans worldwide on the video-sharing website, The Sun reported.

It dwarfs the 18.5 million who logged on to view clips of Mr Obama’s January inauguration ceremony, and it's only been been online for a week.

It is now 18 million views short of becoming YouTube’s most-watched video - overtaking Judson Laipply’s Evolution of Dance.

The self-confessed virgin from Blackburn is the site’s fastest chart-mover ever.

More than 850 users have uploaded videos of her.

Nothing is real in cyberspace except reality

Headline: Teen Fired for Calling Job 'Boring' on Facebook
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.2.9
Caption: Nothing is real in cyberspace except reality

A teenager was fired from her job after calling it boring on Facebook.

Kimberley Swann made the comment about Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited in Clacton, Essex, England where she had begun working as an administrator.

She claims she did not name the company online and was happy in the job.

The 16-year-old was fired with "immediate effect" after posting the negative comment on the social networking site.

"They were just being nosey, going through everything. I think it is really sad, it makes them look stupid that they are going to be so petty," she said.

Boss Steve Ivell told Sky News Online Swann posted comments about her job and invited other staff members to read them.

Headline: Man Dies After 'Guzzling' Viagra During 12-Hour Romp
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.2.9
Caption: At least he went with a smile on his face

A Russian man died after guzzling a bottle of Viagra to keep him going for a 12-hour orgy with two female pals.

The women had bet mechanic Sergey Tuganov $4,300 that he wouldn’t be able to follow through with the half-day sex marathon.

But minutes after winning the bet, the 28-year-old died of a heart attack, Moscow police said.

Headline: 24 Drinking Arrests at Home of MADD Volunteer
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.2.9
Caption: This is the best ironic story ever

24 Drinking Arrests at Home of Miss Connecticut Outstanding Teen, MADD Volunteer
The reigning Miss Connecticut Outstanding Teen, a volunteer for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, held a party that resulted in two dozen people being charged with underage drinking, police said Wednesday.

Rachael Ramonas, 17, once organized a benefit for the families of friends killed in a car crash in which the teen behind the wheel had a history of drunken driving, according to the Web site of Miss America's Outstanding Teen.

It's not clear whether Ramonas, who competed in the Miss America Outstanding Teen pageant in August in Florida, was among those charged. Police are not releasing the teens' names because they are juveniles, and no teens are charged with drunken driving.

Ramonas, a high school senior, is an honor and AP student, according to the Web site of Miss America's Outstanding Teen.

Headline: Funeral Director Allegedly Leaves Corpse In Hearse
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 25.2.9
Caption: Corpse in Old Hearse

A funeral director faces a felony charge after police found a woman's decomposing body in the back of a hearse. Police said the 76-year-old funeral home owner was charged Tuesday with abusing a corpse. Police said the woman died of natural causes in November 2007 at the age of 52. Relatives said they wanted her remains cremated.

But police said the family never signed papers for a cremation or paid the funeral home. So the owner allegedly put the body in the back of a hearse and parked it on a lot with other old vehicles.

Headlines: Angry Passenger Douses Bus Driver With Coffee
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 25.2.9
Caption: Morning Coffee?

Police said a bus passenger angry about a possible strike that would disrupt his commute threw a cup of hot coffee on the driver, then ran away with the driver in pursuit. The Sun of Lowell reported that Debra Kemp, a driver for the Lowell Regional Transit Authority, told police the passenger was upset by a newspaper story about a possible drivers' strike.

Police Deputy Superintendent Deborah Friedl said the man then doused the driver with his coffee at about 8 a.m. on Tuesday and took off.

Headline: Fitness Trainer Won't Stop Until He Weighs 340 Lbs.
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 25.2.9
Caption: Most Ironic

Fitness trainer Paul James wanted to understand his overweight clients better, so he decided to pack on a few pounds himself.

Well, not just a few pounds. The once svelte 32-year-old has ballooned from 212 pounds to 263 pounds and says he won’t stop until he weighs 340 pounds.

BANG BANG LET ME SLEEP

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.

Not a tasty morsel for shark

Headline: Monster Great White 'spat me out'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 18.1.9
Caption: Not a tasty morsel for shark

...Hannah and her cousin Syb Mundy, 33, from Coolangatta on the Gold Coast, were surfing at Binalong Bay last Sunday when the monster struck. Hannah said she saw the shark only a split second before it lunged at her.

"In my head, I was just like, 'Oh my God, it's a shark'.

"It was massive. Its head was like 2m wide. It just seemed so big," she said.

"I remember it grabbing my leg and I just started screaming for Syb . . . and then all of a sudden I turned around and he was right behind me."

As the 5m great white shook Hannah "like a rag doll", Mr Mundy paddled into the boiling red surf and punched the shark repeatedly until it released the teenager from its jaws.

"I'm just glad the shark didn't like me and spat me back out," Hannah said.

Headline: Couple found dead days after blaze
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 17.1.9
Caption: Very Strange

A FORMER Brisbane dog racing identity and his wife have died in a house fire south of Brisbane.

Terry Vogler, believed to be in his 60s, and Kathy Vogler, believed to be in her 50s, died some time late last week on their Park Ridge property in Logan City, police said.

Mr Vogler was a public relations officer and secretary of the Greyhound Breeders, Owners and Trainers Association until the early 1990s, The Sunday Mail reports.

Police and firefighters were alerted by the Voglers' son, who went to the property on Friday after he could not contact his father for Mr Vogler's birthday.

The bodies are yet to be formally identified but relatives yesterday told The Sunday Mail they were saddened by the news of the couple's death.

Neighbours said they had no idea there was a fire at the low-set house where the couple had lived for 16 years..

Headline: Shoplifter Gets Run Over Twice By Her Getaway Car
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 16.1.9
Caption: Clumsy Thief

Authorities are looking for a shoplifter who was run over twice by her getaway car after stealing $1,200 worth of designer purses from a Cape Coral store. A T.J. Maxx security guard told police she saw a woman stuff six designer Dooney & Bourke purses into her pants Tuesday morning and walk out of the store. The guard said she was confronting the woman when a car pulled up.

A report said the shoplifter tried to get into the vehicle but fell out and was run over by the car. She then got up and jumped onto the hood of the car. As the car was driving away, the report said the woman fell off and was run over again. On her third attempt, she finally made it into the vehicle.

Headline: Teacher Fired for Duct Taping Kid's Mouth Shut
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 16.1.9
Caption: Dumb Ass Teacher

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A school board in Indiana has fired a middle school teacher who placed duct tape over a special-needs student's mouth to keep him from talking in class.

The board of Tippecanoe School Corp. voted Wednesday to cancel Pamela Dahnke's contract. She was an eighth-grade health and nutrition teacher at Battle Ground Middle School in West Lafayette.

Superintendent Scott Hanback says the September taping incident "cannot be tolerated." ...

Headline: Speeding pregnant woman was 'busting'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 16.1.9
Caption:When You're Pregnant You Got To Go When You Got To Go

A PREGNANT woman caught driving 147km/h on the F3 had her licence suspension reduced yesterday because she was desperate to go to the toilet at the time of the offence.

Bettina Catherine May, from Chipping Norton, was three months pregnant when she was clocked driving 37km/h over the speed limit on October 12.

And when police pulled her over as she raced north out of Sydney towards Ourimbah she was not wearing a seatbelt...

Headline: Lithuanian Firm Hires Witch To Hunt Debt Dodgers
Clip from: CBS.com
Date of clip: 16.1.9
Caption: Witch Hunt

In these difficult times for creditors, a Lithuanian debt collector is offering an unconventional service to retrieve arrears: witchcraft.

The Vilnius-based firm has hired Vilija Lobaciuviene, the Baltic nation's most famous self-styled witch, to hunt down companies and individuals who are failing to pay their debts amid the credit crunch.

"There are certain people, who are using this crisis situation and refuse to pay back banks or other companies," said Amantas Celkonas, director of the Skolu Isieskojimo Biuras, or debt collecting bureau.

"Our new employee will help them to understand the situation, reconsider what is right and wrong and act accordingly," he said. "We will also help those who are in real trouble, suffering from psychological impact of bankruptcy and depression."

Millions offered to pop girl's cherry

Headline: Student 'auctioning virginity for millions'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 13.1.9
Caption: Girl auctions virginity

MORE than 10,000 men have reportedly pledged more than $5 million online to claim the virginity of a 22-year-old San Diego student.

Natalie Dylan is being chased by besotted men across the world keen to spend a massive sum for one night of passion.

The chastity sale was first reported in September by US radio shock jock Howard Stern, but since then interest in her has rocketed with record hits to her MySpace page.

''I am shocked by how far this has gone,'' the 22-year-old told The Daily Mail.

''It's shocking that men will pay so much for someone's virginity, which isn't even prized so highly anymore."

Headline: Police: Minn. Woman Tried to Set Boyfriend on Fire
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 13.1.9
Caption: Woman Tries to BBQ Boyfriend

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A St. Cloud woman is in jail after police say she tried to set her boyfriend on fire using a lighter and air freshener.

Investigators say the 49-year-old woman is accused of pouring fingernail polish remover on the victim and the blanket covering him, then trying to light him on fire.

The victim was able to take the air freshener from the woman. Police say she then hit him on the back of the head and bit him several times. As the man tried to call police, the woman allegedly ripped the phone cord out of the wall.

The woman is in the Stearns County Jail on suspicion of domestic assault and interfering with a 911 call.

Headline: Wanted: hubby for 107-year-old bride
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 12.1.9
Caption: Wang Wants Wang

A 107-year-old Chinese woman who was afraid to marry when she was young has decided to look for her first husband and hopes to find a fellow centenarian so they will have something to talk about, a Chinese paper reported.
Wang Guiying is worried she is becoming a burden to her aging nieces and nephews since breaking her leg when she was 102 and had to stop doing chores like washing her clothes.
"I'm already 107 and I still haven't got married," the Chongqing Commercial Times quoted her saying.
"What will happen if I don't hurry up and find a husband?"
Born in southern Guizhou province the child of a salt merchant, Ms Wang grew up watching her uncles and other men scold and beat their wives and often found her aunt crying in the woodshed after an attack, the paper said.

Headline: Couple Denied Adoption Because Hubby Is 'Too Fat'
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 12.1.9
Caption: A slam against fat people.

A married couple has spoken of its shock after being turned down to adopt on the grounds that one of them is too fat.
Damien and Charlotte Hall approached Leeds City Council in West Yorkshire, England, about adoption after discovering that they were unable to have children of their own.

They were told that Hall’s size, at 6-foot-1, 343 pounds, made him morbidly obese, with a body mass index (BMI) of more than 42.
In a letter, the council told the couple his BMI must be below 40 before the couple could be considered as potential parents because of a risk he could become ill or even die.
“I am writing to confirm that we are unable to progress an application from you at this time. This is due to the concerns that the medical advisers have expressed regarding Mr. Hall’s weight,” the council wrote.
The couple, who have been married for 11 years, said they felt the ruling was harsh..

Headline: Teacher 'had sex with schoolboy 300 times'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 12.1.9
Caption: Teacher Student Sex Lesson 300

A MARRIED teacher has been charged with seven counts of statutory rape after allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old schoolboy more than 300 times - including right under her husband's nose.

Police say Christine McCallum, 29, lived a disturbed double life for almost two years.

The Boston teacher is accused of having serial liaisons with the boy in Rockland and Abington from February 2006, when she allegedly took his virginity, to November 2007.

The boy told police they had sex for the first time on a couch at McCallum's home while her husband slept upstairs.

They also had unprotected sex in the shower, on the kitchen floor and on the living room floor, court documents say.

ATTACKER BATTED

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.

Headline: Fake penis drug cheat duo guilty
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 26.11.8
Caption: Is larger really better?

TWO men who sold fake penises enabling drug cheats to give clean urine samples have pleaded guilty to conspiracy.
Gerald Wills and Robert Catalano, the president and vice president of Puck Technology, entered guilty pleas on Monday at a federal court in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They were charged last month with selling the Whizzinator penis - a lifelike device used to emit clean, realistically warm urine instead of the user's true urine.

Headline: Bus Driver Allegedly Asked Cheerleaders to Flash Him
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 25.11.8
Caption: Bus Driving Pervert.

A longtime school bus driver could be fired after several members of a cheerleading squad in Lynnfield, Mass., said he offered them $40 to lift up their shirts.

Driver Bill Diamond, 56, was suspended without pay after the allegations surfaced, MyFOXBoston.com reported. Diamond has been at the job for 23 years.

Headline: Mad killer granted cabbie's licence
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 25.11.8
Caption: Sounds like a movie plot.

AN insane killer who stabbed his wife to death has won the right to drive a cab - but passengers are not allowed to know his identity.

A tribunal granted the man taxi accreditation despite pleas from Victoria's Director of Public Transport to ban him from the roads. A Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal order prevents the Herald Sun revealing the name of the driver, known only as 'XFJ'.

VCAT deputy president Michael Macnamara said in his decision that XFJ's violent history raised a significant safety issue for taxi passengers.

Girl Has Hairball

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

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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.

It's a Weird World

Headline: Mom Allegedly Burns 'Wimp' Into Daughter's Neck

Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 22.11.8
Caption: Disgusting!

A West Virginia mother faces charges after being accused of burning the word "wimp" into her 6-year-old daughter's neck.
Tammy Smith is charged with five counts of child abuse and of malicious assault, all felonies.
Moundsville Police Chief Jim Kudlak said Saturday that the child told police that her mother used a cigarette to burn her. Smith's daughter told authorities that her mother burned her because she was angered that the girl tripped and fell.

Headline: Venerable Texas Cowboy Boot Maker Hit By $3M Theft

Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 22.11.8
Caption: Booty On The Monty

A truck-driving thief made off with more than $3 million worth of merchandise from a venerable maker of cowboy boots and other footwear, authorities said.

The thefts occurred Labor Day weekend and Nov. 9 at a Justin Boots distribution center, said Fort Worth police Lt. Paul Henderson.

Headline: Resort Sues Competitors for Swiping Beach Sand

Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 21.11.8
Caption: Do they have to count the grains?

A developer is suing two Spanish-owned hotel groups for allegedly stealing nearly 100 truckloads of sand from a beachfront property in Jamaica.

Felicitas Limited has filed an $8 million lawsuit against RIU Hotels & Resorts and the Fiesta Hotel Group. Attorney Michael Hylton says forensic tests suggest sand at two Spanish-owned hotels is similar to that stolen in July. He says the theft paralyzed construction of a $105 million resort.