Tased

Heradline: Police officer shoots himself with Taser
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 22.2.9
Caption: TASED

A POLICE officer has been treated for burns after shooting himself with a Taser stun gun.
Police were called to a nightclub brawl on Elizabeth Street, near Martin Place in Sydney, at about 3.40am last night.

They say a Taser stun gun was used in an attempt to subdue a 27-year-old man after he resisted arrest.

The officer Tasered himself in the struggle, injuring his arm.

Headline: Nude gardening, urinating upset neighbours
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 21.2.9
Caption: Doing it in the nude

A WOMAN who gardened in the nude and someone who stabled a horse in a townhouse are among hundreds of bizarre strata complaints in NSW.

Other disputes involve an owner breeding trout in an indoor pool and a man who was ordered to urinate on the side of a toilet bowl.

Residents living in the unit below claimed they were being kept awake by the man making frequent visits to the bathroom.

The NSW Fair Trading Department complaints file, obtained by The Sunday Telegraph, shows it received almost 1400 requests to mediate disputes - a 10 per cent rise over the previous year.

Headline: 86-Year-Old Woman Gets $1,000 Phone Sex Bill
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 21.2.9
Caption: Horny Gramma

The family of an 86-year-old woman who was billed for over $1,000 in phone sex calls suspects identify theft. Arlene Hald recently received a credit card bill addressed to her husband, Sylvester, who died nearly 20 years ago. Hald said they never had a credit card, yet an account in his name was charged.

Headline: Mice Fall From Ceiling of Infested Florida Courthouse
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 21.2.9
Caption: No Blind Mice Here

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — There are so many mice in one Florida county courthouse that they've been seen falling from ceiling tiles.

One judge at the Palm Beach County Courthouse calls it an infestation. Some staffers say they check their handbags for stowaways before leaving the building each day.

Court employees and lawyers say the rodents scuttle down corridors, munch legal papers and scratch behind the walls. Last week, one mouse ran around a courtroom floor for an hour during a burglary trial.

Headline: Woman Sues Santa, Claiming He Fell On Top Of Her
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 21.2.9
Caption: Santa Sued

Call it the case of the overserved Santa. Antoinette Basso filed a lawsuit Thursday against a man dressed in a Santa suit who she said stumbled and fell on top of her, knocking her face-first into the sidewalk outside a Chicago restaurant.

Basso claims in the Cook County Circuit Court lawsuit that she suffered "pain ... disability and disfigurement." She's asking for damages in excess of $50,000.

Headline:University Crowns Man as Homecoming Queen
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 20.2.9
Caption: This dude must be beautiful.

George Mason University students have elected a drag queen as homecoming queen. Student Ryan Allen beat out two women for the title at the small school in suburban Washington, D.C., famous for its run to the Final Four a few years back.

Allen competed under his drag queen persona of Reann Ballslee.

Allen, who is gay and performs in drag at nightclubs, said he entered as a joke. But he considers the victory one of his happiest moments and proof the school celebrates.

Headline: Pa. Girl, 15, Faces Child Porn Charges After 'Sexting'
Clip from: FOXNEWSews.com
Date of clip: 20.2.9
Caption: 'Sexting'

A 15-year-old girl from central Pennsylvania faces child pornography charges after police say she sent nude pictures of herself over the Internet.

Clearfield County District Attorney William Shaw says the girl has been charged as a juvenile with possessing, distributing and creating child pornography.

The girl is living with her mother. Authorities say the girl sent the pictures after communicating in June 2007 with a 27-year-old man over the MySpace networking Web site.

The practice has been called "sexting" for the prevalence of teens to transmit images via a cell phone.

Headline: Woman 'fakes dad's fire death'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 20.2.9
Caption: Sorry Pops You're Dead

A VICTORIAN woman has been charged with fraudulently claiming her father was killed in the state's deadly bushfires in order to receive compensation payments.

Victoria Police allege the 31-year-old Sunshine woman made a $10,000 compassion and bereavement application to the Victoria Bushfire Appeal Fund which was denied after its checks found there was no relationship between her and the deceased.

She is also accused of claiming $5000 from Centrelink's funeral fund which was approved.

Detectives from the Melbourne Criminal Investigation Unit charged her last night with attempting to obtain property by deception and obtaining property by deception.

Headline: Doc's mobile chat sends patient running
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 19.2.9
Caption: What's Not Up Doc

A PATIENT ran out of the operating theatre after the surgeon answered his mobile phone and started discussing what went wrong with a previous operation.

The patient, who was still conscious and awaiting eye surgery, did not like the sound of what he was hearing and told the surgeon he would rather go blind before he bolted out the building, The Northern Territory News reports.

Headline: Extremely Rare Bird Found, Photographed ... Eaten
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 19.2.9
Caption: Rare Bird Makes a Great Snack

A bird suspected to be extinct was reportedly photographed for the first time in the Philippines, and then sold to a poultry market as food.

Worcester's buttonquail was known only through illustrations based on decades-old museum specimens until a television crew documented the live bird in the market before it was sold in January, NationalGeographic.com reported.

Scientists had suspected the bird, found only on the island of Luzon, to be extinct, according to NationalGeographic.com.

Headline: Ex-media boss masturbated at tourists
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 19.2.9
Caption: High Profile Masturbator

A FORMER high-profile police and emergency services spokesman who received official honours for his work has admitted masturbating in front of two male backpackers.

Kevin John Loomes, 58, pleaded guilty the Brisbane Magistrates Court today to two counts of performing an indecent act.

Loomes entered a backpacker's hostel on Ann Street in Brisbane's CBD last December, carrying a towel, the court was told. The married man proceeded to a shower block on level one and began chatting to a 22-year-old backpacker before taking his towel off and masturbating in front of the traveller, police prosecutor Carrie Davidson said.

The backpacker quickly left the area and Loomes went to another shower block on a different floor where he started chatting to a second 22-year-old backpacker.

Standing in front of the traveller with one hand on his hip and the other on his penis, Loomes asked: "Has this ever happened to you before?"

Ticket To Ride

Headline: Allegedly Intoxicated Couple Seek Lift From Police
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 14.2.9
Caption: Ticket To Ride

An allegedly intoxicated couple stopped at a police station to try to catch a lift home. La Marque Police Chief Richard Price said the woman collapsed in the lobby. Her 22-year-old boyfriend was arrested after marijuana was found in his shoes.

Price told The Associated Press on Friday he believes the two were under the influence of narcotics and "thought they needed to get a ride home."

The Galveston County Daily News reports a police dispatcher monitoring security video Wednesday night noticed the pair.

Price said the woman, who received medical attention, recovered and will be cited for public intoxication. Her name was not released.

Michael Carl Bell of Texas City was jailed on a marijuana possession charge. A Galveston County jailer, who declined to allow her name to be used, said bond was $2,592.

Headline: Transgender Woman Exercised Husband to Death
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 14.2.9
Caption: A Grave Exercise Session

CHARDON, Ohio — An Ohio transgender woman has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in an apartment complex swimming pool.

Middlefield police say surveillance video shows 41-year-old Christine Newton-John pulling James Mason around the pool by his arms and legs and preventing him from leaving. Mason had a heart attack on June 2 just after the extended swim session.

Headline: Woman teacher jailed over sex texts to boy
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 13.2.9
Caption: Boy seducer seduced to jail

A primary school teacher who sent sexually explicit text messages to a 14-year-old boy whom she met through an interactive computer game was jailed for 12 months yesterday.

Lynn Walls, 42, first encountered the boy – who lived 240 miles away – while playing World of Warcraft, the world's most popular online game. In the role-playing game, which features humans and mythical creatures and has 11 million subscribers worldwide, Walls created a virtual self who was thin, attractive and blonde.

The overweight, divorced mother told police later that she had designed her virtual character to be “everything I am not”. The boy, from London, fell for the image. The pair had private discussions in an online chat room before Walls persuaded him to exchange mobile phone numbers.

Headline: Defibrillator champion is saved by one himself
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 13.2.9
Caption: Defibrillator saves man who sought to install it

..."I believe the Lord chose me to lead that group," said Terry, who lives in Hurst, Texas. But his "sign from the Lord" came, not in the form of a dream or a mysterious figure in his morning toast. Instead, it came in the form of a cardiac arrest by the security checkpoint at the Austin airport.

"I was trying to get back to the metroplex because I had a meeting the next morning. I reached down to pick up my briefcase, and I kept going."

Here's where the story takes an ironic twist: Gary Terry collapsed just 18 feet from an automated external defibrillator AED that he and his group -- the American Heart Association -- helped to install just eight months earlier...

Headline: 13-Year-Old, Barely 4 Feet Tall, Becomes Father
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 13.2.9
Caption: He Did Not Know What He Was Doing?

A 13-year-old British boy — with the physical appearance of a child much younger, standing at 4 feet tall — is the father of a new baby girl, The Sun reports.

Alfie Patten's girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, became pregnant after a one-time tryst between the two, according to Alfie's father, Dennis.

"He didn’t know what he was doing and of the complications that could come," said Dennis Patten.

Headline: World's longest fingernails lost in car crash
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 13.2.9
Caption: Broken Fingernail

THE woman who was credited with having world's longest fingernails has lost them in a car crash.

Lee Redmond, who was listed as having the longest nails in the Guinness Book of World Records, suffered serious but not life threatening injuires in an accident in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday, local paper the Desert News reported.

Ms Redmond was thrown out of a 4WD vehicle and was taken to hospital...

Headline: Teenage handbag thief outpaced by 72-year-old ex-sprinter
Clip from: telegraph.co.uk
Date of clip: 12.2.9
Caption: Super Woman

A teenage thief picked on the wrong victim when she tried to run off with a bag belonging to pensioner Jean Hirst - a former championship sprinter.
The schoolgirl was surprised to discover her victim, a former All England Schools championship sprinter, still had a turn of pace - at the age of 72.

As Mrs Hirst gave chase, she soon began to close on the culprit who was forced to throw down the bag in her desperation to escape.

The retired teacher had allowed three teenage girls into her car to help her with directions after getting lost on the way to a theatre.

She was straight out of the starting blocks again, however, when one of them took advantage and tried to make off with her bag.

Mrs Hirst said: "Suddenly I felt 18 again. The adrenaline just kicked in and I seemed to turn back the years...

I'm Your Dope Dealer

Headline: Cocaine Suspect Describes Himself To Texas Police
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 22.12.8
Caption: I'm Your Dope Dealer

Galveston police knew who to look for _ exactly _ when they arrested an alleged delivery man in a call-for-cocaine investigation. A 29-year-old Galveston man was jailed Friday on a charge of manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance. Sgt. T. Barr, at the Galveston County Jail, told The Associated Press that John Patrick Lacour Jr. was held on $250,000 bond. Barr had no information on an attorney for Lacour.Officers, acting on a tip, called the number and pretended to want to buy cocaine. They requested a delivery to a certain address, plus asked the person to describe himself so they would know who to expect.

Headline: Man Jailed For Allegedly Stealing Sister's Christmas Gifts
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 21.12.8
Caption: A theft is a theft

An 18-year-old central Florida man is in jail after his mother called the sheriff's office and accused him of stealing his sister's Christmas gifts.

A sheriff's report says Joseph Franklin Kendall's mother called authorities to report that gifts for her son and daughter had gone missing including a laptop computer and DVD player. Her son had just moved out of the house.

A deputy later found the gifts at Kendall's new home as well as prescription drugs. Kendall told a deputy he had taken the presents but hadn't meant to take his sister's gifts.

Headline: Fed-up nurses turning to prostitution
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 21.12.8
Caption: You Sick, We Got Cure

EXHAUSTED and demoralised nurses would rather work as prostitutes than in Queensland's crumbling hospitals, The Courier-Mail reports.

A former registered nurse of 10 years' experience has told how she and at least four of her colleagues have found new jobs working in brothels.

"We could no longer work in such an understaffed and stressful environment," said the mother of two, who wanted to be known only as Jenna.

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.