Headline: Mum 'hid dead son in fridge for two years'
Clip: news.com.au 30.4.9
Caption: Very sick

A JAPANESE woman has been arrested on suspicion of hiding the body of her four-year-old son in a refrigerator for nearly two years, police say.
Miyuki Otsuka, 33, turned herself in to police in western Hyogo prefecture on Wednesday, and police later found a decomposed body in a plastic bag in her fridge...

Headline: Okla. Bomber Sues Prison For Constipation
Clip: FOXNews.com 30.4.9
Caption: Why not tell him to stick it up his &*^

The Smoking Gun Web site reports on a lawsuit against his jailers filed by Terry Nichols, the domestic terrorist who teamed up with Timothy McVeigh to murder 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

According to the court documents on the Smoking Gun Web site, Terry Nichols, 54, says the low-fiber prison diet has given him "chronic constipation, bleeding, hemorrhoids."

Headline: California Woman: My Father Was the Zodiac Killer
Clip: FOXNews.com 30.4.9
Caption: AND SHE'S PROUD?

A Southern California woman said Wednesday that her late father was the infamous Zodiac killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay area four decades ago.San Francisco homicide investigators said they will check into the information from Deborah Perez...

Headline: Deputy Quits After Wife, Mom-in-law Take Squad Car
Clip: CBSnews.com 29.4.9
Caption: Granny Joyrides in Cop Car

A Polk County deputy has turned in his badge after his wife and mother-in-law took his patrol car out for a joyride....

Headline: Judge Rules Inmate Can't Change Name to 'Sinner'
Clip: FOXNews.com 29.4.9
Caption: I'm Just a Sinner In a Rock and Roll Band

LINCOLN, Neb. — No, the judge said to a 23-year-old Nebraska prison inmate.
You can't call yourself "Sinner Lawrence Bilskirnir."
Court documents say Jonathan L. Thomas cited his Norse religion in seeking the name change, saying he "is a heathen and Thor is his 'High God."'
But Lancaster County District Judge Steve Burns says government agencies need to closely track Thomas because of his criminal record and because there are three child-support cases against him.
Burns says Thomas' reasons do not satisfy the legal requirements.

Headline: Radio Shack Employee Punches Customer Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 29.4.9
Caption: No Returns Just a Punch

A Radio Shack employee in Eau Claire is facing disorderly conduct and battery charges for punching a customer.

Police say the customer was trying to return an item Sunday, but the employee wouldn't let him. The customer then asked to talk to a manager.

That's when the 52-year-old male employee began punching the man. A bystander called 911.

Healine: Woman has legs broken for her career
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 29.4.9
Caption: Break a Leg

ONE of Queensland's youngest pollies has told how she spent nine months in Russia for bone-breaking growth surgery because of insecurities about her size.

Logan councillor Hajnal Ban, 31, had each of her legs broken in four places for the leg-lengthening procedure, remaining in hospital as she grew about 1mm a day to increase her 154cm frame to 162cm.

She previously detailed her experience in a book, God Made Me Small, Surgery Made Me Tall, but used a false name and wore a wig and glasses to hide her identity.

Now she has spoken exclusively to The Courier-Mail about the $40,000 procedure and why she used the pseudonym Sara Vornamen to tell her tale.

Headline: Glow in dark pups 'not just a novelty'
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 28.4.9
Caption: Gives a whole new meaning to flashlights

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Headline: N.D. Mom Accused of Breast-Feeding While Drunk
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 28.4.9
Caption: CASE: BFWD

A North Dakota mother has pleaded not guilty to child neglect after prosecutors alleged she was drunk while breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby.

Prosecutor Carmell Mattison says alcohol was not the only factor in the felony charge against 27-year-old Stacey Anvarinia, who appeared in court Monday. She is free on bond.

Mattison says the mother "wasn't in a position to care for the child properly."

Anvarinia was arrested Feb. 13 after police answered a domestic disturbance call at her Grand Forks home. The prosecutor said officers witnessed Anvarinia breast-feeding the baby and asked her to stop because she was intoxicated.

Headline: Thieves steal car with leopard in boot
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 28.4.9
Caption: STOLE SUV AND LEAPARD TO BOOT

THIEVES who stole a man's car in Saint Petersburg are in for a surprise. There is a baby leopard in the boot.
"My driver and I were in the process of settling the leopard in the trunk of my Mercedes... when three masked assailants attacked us. They managed to get away with the car," the car's owner Mikhail Barakin said.

Mr Barakin is offering a reward of €70,000 ($128,664.64) for the return of his exotic pet, an Asian Leopard Cat, worth more to him than the Mercedes SUV.

Headline: Gone With the Wind: Pet Chihuahua Blows Away
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 28.4.9
Caption: Bye Bye Doggie

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight.

Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly a mile from where 8-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen. The brown long-haired dog was dirty and hungry but otherwise OK.

The Utleys, of Rochester, had set up an outdoor display Saturday at a flea market in Waterford Township, 25 miles northwest of Detroit.

Tinker Bell was standing on their platform trailer when she was swept away.

Headline: Finger cut off and eaten in wage protest
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 28.4.9
Caption: Finger Food

A SERBIAN union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said today he did it to show how desperate he and other workers were.
"We, the workers have nothing to eat, we had to seek some sort of alternative food and I gave them an example," Zoran Bulatovic said.

"It hurt like hell."

Mr Bulatovic, a union leader at the Raska Holding textile factory in Novi Pazar in southwest Serbia, used a hacksaw to cut off most of his left-hand little finger on Friday.

Mr Bulatovic said he decided to act after his deputy, "a single mother of three, was the first to say she would cut off her finger. I could not allow her to do that," he said.

State-owned Raska Holding was a major textile producer in the late 1980s with a workforce of 4000.

It suffered during the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and a loss of markets and mismanagement during a decade of wars and sanctions led to massive job cuts, leaving the company with just 100 workers.

Is this not incest after the fact?

Headline: Mother Wins Right to Harvest Dead Son's Sperm
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 8.4.9
Caption: Is this not incest after the fact?

AUSTIN, Texas — A judge has granted a mother's request to have someone harvest sperm from her dead son's body, so she can have the option of carrying out his wish to have children.

Nikolas Colton Evans, 21, died Sunday at a hospital after being punched and falling outside an Austin bar March 27.

His mother, Marissa Evans, told the Austin American-Statesman newspaper that he wanted to have three sons someday and had even picked out their names: Hunter, Tod and Van.

"I want him to live on. I want to keep a piece of him," she told the newspaper.

Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman ruled Monday in an emergency hearing requested by the mother, because of the urgency of collecting the sperm intact.
Court documents said the sperm had to be collected within 24 hours of Nikolas Evans being removed from life support unless the body was cooled to no more than 39.2 degrees Fahrenheit (4 Celsius).
Herman ordered the county medical examiner's office to continue storing the body at the proper temperature until the sperm could be collected.

Headline: Irate Diner Dials 911 After Shrimp Order Falls Short
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 7.4.9
Caption: Shrimp emergency

A woman called 911 recently from Dallas-area restaurant merely to complain that she did not receive the extra shrimp she had ordered -- and she may get away with the "emergency" call without facing punishment, MyFOXDFW.com reports.

“I always get the shrimp fried rice, so I said I’m going to get extra meat this time,” the woman told a 911 operator on Monday. “But he didn’t even put extra shrimp in there and I asked him, ‘Can you give me extra shrimp or can you give me my money back?’”

She added that the employee at A&D Buffalo’s in Haltom, Texas, “sort of hollered so I said I would call the police.”

Restaurant employees described the woman to MyFOXDFW.com as a regular customer. She asked for a refund, but since she had left the building and come back, they refused.

"She started yelling and screaming, brought her boyfriend in and they started making a scene in here,” Alex Kim, the restaurant’s attorney told the Dallas/Forth Worth FOX affiliate.

Headline: Man Decides To Clean With Gasoline While Smoking
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 7.4.9
Caption: Tell us another one dude

A man faces an arson charge after telling authorities he wasn't thinking when he decided to use gasoline for cleaning up his apartment, and then tossed a lit cigarette into a pile of gas-soaked cushions and clothes. A criminal complaint filed Monday quoted a 47-year-old man as saying he knew gasoline is flammable and never should have used it.

The complaint said that when the fire began Friday, he didn't pull the fire alarm but instead shouted "fire" a couple times and walked to the Menasha police department for an ambulance to take him to the hospital where he was treated for burns.

Headline: Officer Tickets Parked Car as Woman Lies Dead Inside
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 7.4.9
Caption: Stiff Gets Ticket

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A parking enforcement officer issued a ticket for a pickup truck outside an Alabama emergency room while a woman lay dead inside the vehicle, authorities said.

Rebecca Kate Haley, 25, had been dead for at least seven hours when an illegal parking ticket was put on the windshield, authorities said.

Police spokesman Sgt. Johnny Williams Jr. said the officer didn't see Haley because she was slumped over in the truck's cab. Drug paraphernalia was found in the truck.

Williams said Tuesday that Haley's cause of death had not been determined.

About an hour after the ticket was issued at 10:15 a.m. Monday outside the UAB hospital, a passer-by spotted Haley.

Headline: Missing: $1,200 Worth Of Lip Gloss
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 7.4.9
Caption: Look for the woman with the glossy lips

Here's some lip gloss that's really hot. Police want to know who made off with 74 tubes of "Beauty Rush" _ worth about $1,200 _ from a suburban New York Victoria's Secret store. Clarkstown police believe the cosmetics went missing from a bin sometime Saturday. The store, in the Nanuet Mall, reported the theft on Sunday.

Police are reviewing surveillance footage for clues.

Headline: Man admits grabbing breasts
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 7.4.9
Caption: Man at tracks grabs racks

A MAN who grabbed the breasts of two women at the Wellard and Rockingham train stations has pleaded guilty to indecent assault.

The 20-year-old Rockingham man pleaded guilty to the attacks and will reappear in Rockingham Magistrate's Court for a pre-sentence report on May 8.

Demons are in the father

Headline: Texas Man Allegedly Trying to Beat Demon Out of Son
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 6.4.9
Caption: The Demons are in the father

HOUSTON — A Houston man who allegedly thought demons invaded his home and family was jailed Monday on charges he beat his 3-year-old son.

Jacky Tran was held on $100,000 bond on felony injury to a child charges after he allegedly tried to rid the boy of evil spirits.

A jail official, who declined to give his name to The Associated Press, had no information early Monday on an attorney for the 35-year-old Tran.

A relative, Thuba To, told the Houston Chronicle that Tran believes he is an "angel" sent by God.

Tran was arrested after officers Saturday night responded to a security alarm. A police report indicates officers saw Tran swinging something, possibly the boy.

The child, whose name was not released, was transported to a Houston hospital for treatment of skull fractures and was expected to survive.

Headline: 'Cheating partner' sparks mid-air rage
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 6.4.9
Caption: Mile High Club It's Not

ARMED police boarded a flight at London's Heathrow Airport and arrested a trio involved in mid-air argument over a sex act.

The incident involved a model who allegedly flew into a drunken rage on a plane after catching her boyfriend engaging in a sex act with a woman sitting next to him.

Magazine covergirl Sarah Hannon, 35, is said to have woken from a nine-hour flight onboard Kingfisher Airlines to London from the Indian city of Bangalor to find partner Daniel Melia enjoying a sexual act, The Sun reports.

A police source said Ms Hannon fell asleep after drinking with Mr Melia before and during the flight.

Mr Melia then “got on well” with Ms Irby underneath a blanket but was stopped by hostesses – at which point Sarah awoke and started screaming...

Headline: 'Drunk mum breastfed son while driving'
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 5.4.9
Caption: Driving While Boob Sucked

A WOMAN pulled over after almost crashing into a police car while breastfeeding her infant son was too drunk to submit to a breath test, police say.

The Alice Springs woman, 19, was arrested in the central Australian town about 7pm (CST) on Saturday when she allegedly drove her Holden wagon from the car park of the Gap View Hotel and into the path of a patrol car, police said.

They pulled her over a short distance along Gap Road and allegedly found her breastfeeding the boy at the wheel.

Headline: DD cup runneth over for Aussie women
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 5.4.9
Caption: Boobs Are Bigger

THE bra market is expanding, literally. Up to 40 per cent of Australian women now buy bras with a cup size of DD or higher, new figures from lingerie suppliers show.

In the 1950s, the most common bra-cup size was a B - three sizes less than a DD.

Modern breasts are getting so large that some bra companies have introduced cup sizes as high as K, The Sunday Telegraph reports.

Experts blame the cleavage boost on obesity, contraceptive pills and artificial hormones.

Myer lingerie buyer Kerryn Sawyer said sales of DD-plus bras have grown from about 20 per cent of sales to 28 per cent in just five years.

Headline: Kids Told to Shout Obscenities in 'Swearing Lesson'
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 5.4.9
Caption: They Swear

A British school was blasted Friday after kids as young as 11 were told to shout obscenities during a lesson in swearing.

Expletives like the f-word and c-word were written on a blackboard before a teacher explained their meaning to 30 seventh graders.

S.t Laurence School in Bradford on Avon, Wilts, claims it was part of a sex and relationship education program to "dispel" the myths of swear words.

But parents say they were not consulted by head James Colquhoun about the class and say kids were left "deeply upset."

One parent said: "This is a total disgrace. Our children go to school to gain an education, not qualifications in swear words. Most kids had no idea what the words meant and were forced to grow up faster than their parents want. Heads should roll for this."

Headline: Villagers chase away Google car
Origin of Clip: CNN.com 5.4.9
Caption: Villagers surfs Google out of town

Google's ambitious plan to offer a 3-D street level view of communities across three continents hit a snag when angry residents of a UK village blocked the search engine's camera car from photographing their homes.
Fearing the appearance of their well appointed properties on the Web site would attract criminals scouting for burglary targets, villagers in Broughton, north of London, summoned the police after spotting the car.

"I was upstairs when I spotted the camera car driving down the lane," resident Paul Jacobs told The Times of London.

"My immediate reaction was anger: How dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent? I ran outside to flag the car down and told the driver he was not only invading our privacy but also facilitating crime.

Headline: Man clings to car bonnet for 4kms
Origin of Clip: canada.com 5.4.9
Caption: My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean or we should say The Man Lies Over The Bonnet

A MAN had to cling to the bonnet of a car for four kilometres as its driver allegedly attempted to throw him off during a road rage incident in Sydney.
NSW Police said the 30-year-old man and his wife were travelling along Parramatta Road at Concord in Sydney's inner west at 8.20pm (AEDT) last night when they were involved in a minor collision with a Peugeot hatchback.

After the Peugeot failed to stop, the couple caught up with it further along Parramatta Road, where they stopped and approached the vehicle while it was stuck in heavy traffic.

The driver of the Peugeot then allegedly began to drive at the couple, forcing the man onto the bonnet.

You're Sacked Dad

Headline: Man lays off dad -- twice
Origin of Clip: CNN.com 21.3.9
Caption: You're Sacked Dad

ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- The economy has been hard on many families across the country, but for one Orange Park man and his father it has been especially difficult. Greg Holloway says tough economic times have forced him to fire his father. Greg Holloway, owner of Orange Park Drywall, said he knows firsthand about how the bad economy has affected businesses. He has had to lay off his father, twice.
"When the market really started getting bad, I had to let him go," Holloway said.
The first time was when Holloway was a supervisor at a company for which both he and his dad worked. Holloway later left that drywall company and formed his own. In 2007, he hired his father, 70-year-old Mitch Holloway as an adviser

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Headline: Tour Bus Boarding ... to Baghdad?
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 21.3.9
Caption: Iraq Now Open

Iraq receives first group of Western tourists since 2003, in the latest indication of improved security..

Headline: Robot Fish to Monitor Pollution in Spanish Port
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 21.3.9
Caption: Wonder How They Taste Fried in Oil

LONDON — A school of mechanical, battery-powered robots in the shape of fish will be released into a Spanish port to help monitor pollution there, scientists said Friday.

The 5-foot-long (1.5-meter-long) robots work by mimicking the swishing movements of a fish's tail, according to University of Essex robotics expert Huosheng Hu, whose team is manufacturing the machines.

He said the robo-fish would be equipped with sensors to monitor oxygen levels in the water, detect oil slicks spilled from ships or contaminants pumped into the water from underground pipes.

Headline: Hairy Problem Solved: N.J. Scraps Plan to Ban Waxing
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 20.3.9
Caption: You Can Wax Those Pubes

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey is smoothing out differences over a plan to ban bare-it-all bikini waxing.

The state on Friday decided to reverse course on the proposal after angry salon owners complained about losing business ahead of swimsuit season.

"It was an unnecessary issue," said spa owner Linda Orsuto. "In New Jersey especially, where the government has been picking our pockets for so long, it was like, 'Just stay out of our pants, will you?"'

The state Cosmetology and Hairstyling Board proposed banning so-called "Brazilian" bikini waxing after two women were hospitalized for infections following the procedure.

On Friday, Consumer Affairs Director David Szuchman effectively killed the plan. In a letter to the board, Szuchman says he won't support the ban, and since his office oversees the board, the ban would never be approved.

Headline: Clorox Offers $5K To Wipe Out SF 'toilet Torcher'
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 20.3.9
Caption: Potty Burner

The Clorox Company is offering a $5,000 reward and a year's supply of toilet cleaning products for tips leading to the arrest of San Francisco's notorious portable potty pyromaniac.

The Oakland-based chemical company deployed a "potty patrol" team in the city Friday to make residents aware of its offer marrying marketing and community service.

Since November, more than two dozen construction site toilets have been set on fire in the city, causing an estimated $50,000 in property damage

Headline: 'Deadliest' Spider Found in Grocer Aisle
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 20.3.9
Caption: Itsy Bitsy Spider

One of the most deadly spiders in the world was found in the produce section of an upscale Oklahoma grocery store.
Or was it?
An employee of Whole Foods Market in Tulsa discovered what an expert said was a Brazilian wandering spider in a bunch of bananas from Honduras on Sunday and managed to catch it in a container.
The spider was given to University of Tulsa animal facilities director Terry Childs, who identified the arachnid and said that type of spider is one of the most lethal in the world.
Childs said a bite will kill a person in about 25 minutes, and while there is an antidote, he doesn't know of any in the Tulsa area.
But a Tulsa Zoo official disputed the findings, saying his analysis through video and photos he'd seen led him to believe that it was a Huntsman spider — which is harmless to humans.

Headline: Monty Python prop causes bomb scare
Origin of Clip: telegraph.co.uk 20.3.9
Caption: A Bang of a Laugh

Bomb disposal teams were called in and buildings evacuated after workmen mistook a Monty Python film prop for a hand grenade.
Water company engineers spotted the object when they lifted up a fire hydrant cover during work on a street in Shoreditch, east London. ....But after nearly an hour of analysis bomb experts realised that the cause of the scare was in fact a copy of the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" used by Eric Idle to slaughter a killer rabbit in the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

Mom Says My Son Needs Sex

Headline: Mom Helping Son With Down Syndrome Lose Virginity
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 17.3.9
Caption: Mom Says My Son Needs Sex

A mother is appealing for women to have sex with her adopted Down syndrome son.

Lucy Baxter, of Abingdon, Oxfordshire in southern England, says she will even pay for a prostitute so he can lose his virginity.

The mother has now set up a Web page for her son, Otto, appealing for potential dates to come forward.

Baxter has three other adopted sons with Down syndrome and works with Mencap, the U.K.'s leading charity for people with disabilities.

"I'd like all my boys to find love and enjoy sex," she said. "I always look at what other people are doing and why shouldn't they do the same things?

Headline: Clusters of Homeless Settle in Airport Terminals
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 17.3.9
Caption: Sign of the Times

Life has taken Roger Gleen up and down the East Coast, and on this night the weary traveler settles into a chair in the corner of the world's busiest airport.

His bags propped neatly beside him, Gleen is among a dozen or so ticketless passengers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, folks with no destination in mind.

They're Hartsfield's homeless, and like their counterparts in other major terminals, they've successfully resisted most efforts to clear them out.

"We have to go sooner or later," Gleen admits. "But you have people (who have) been coming to the airport for years."

Clusters of homeless have long settled in terminals from Philadelphia to Chicago, ideal round-the-clock shelters for men and women displaced by cities trying to clean up their downtowns.

Headline: Jail Becomes Inmates' Party-Filled 'Animal House'
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 16.3.9
Caption: Who would want to escape from this jail?

MONTAGUE, Texas — For months, perhaps longer, the Montague County Jail was "Animal House" meets Mayberry.

Inside the small brick building across from the courthouse, inmates had the run of the place, having sex with their jailer girlfriends, bringing in recliners, taking drugs and chatting on cell phones supplied by friends or guards, according to authorities. They also disabled some of the surveillance cameras and made weapons out of nails.

The doors to two groups of cells didn't lock, but apparently no one tried to escape — perhaps because they had everything they needed inside.

Headline: Malaysian Mistakes Woman For A Monkey, Shoots Her
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 16.3.9
Caption: Yea Right, Tell Me Another One

Police said a man in Malaysia shot his neighbor as she picked sapodilla fruit in his tree thinking she was a monkey. Police chief in eastern Pahang state Yahaya Othman said the woman was gathering fruit Thursday when her neighbor shot her. Yahaya said the man came home and saw rustling in the tree and fired into it. "Then there was screaming ... and only then did he know it was his neighbor."

He said the woman was hospitalized with a wound to the abdomen but her condition was stable Friday.

Headline: Nudists give newlyweds cheeky reception
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 16.3.9
Caption: Naked Cyclists Converge of Newlyweds with no hitch except for the two who just got hitched.

A NEWLY married couple got a wedding picture with a difference when naked cyclists converged on their photo session at Victoria's State Parliament yesterday.

World Naked Bike Ride organiser Heidi Hill said the newlyweds grabbed the chance to get a photo when the cyclists reached the mid-way point of their annual ride yesterday, the Melbourne Leader reports.

“They were having photos taken on the steps of Parliament House and all of a sudden we showed up and they had to have a photos with us,” Ms Hill said.

Ms Hill said the naked bike ride through Melbourne’s streets went off without a hitch.

Headline: Man Arrested After Trying to Sell Paris Hilton's Phone
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 15.3.9
Caption: For sale: One Hilton Phone

A hotel manager was arrested after he tried to sell Paris Hilton's cell phone on Craigslist, the New York Post reported.

Marc Marrouche's was arrested March 5, after the buyer who offered $5,000 for the phone ended up being an undercover cop, the Post reported.

Headline: Inmate Jailed With Killer He Testified Against Killed
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 15.3.9
Caption: DDDDAAAAHHHH

McALESTER, Okla. — A 23-year-old inmate beaten to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary had been put in a cell with convicted killer he had testified against.
Prison spokesman Jerry Massie says Paul Duran Jr. fought with one cellmate and then was put in a cell with Jessie James Dalton.
Duran was found beaten to death about 15 minutes later.
Massie says the two were not supposed to be put in the same cell and prison officials are trying to determine how it happened.

Headline: Want greens with that? Prank on the nose
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 15.3.9
Caption: Stuff and Sack

A SUBWAY sandwich bar worker was sacked after a video was posted on YouTube of him stuffing lettuce leaves up his nose, before putting them back in the serving tray.

Briton Richard Shannon, who also put salad leaves in his mouth and spat them out, was arrested after a "disgusted" customer recognised the 22-year-old on the internet.

The woman went to the global chain's outlet in Brownhills, West Midlands, and hurled a chair at him. Shannon admitted contaminating or interfering with goods with intent to cause economic loss, alarm or injury but claimed the incident, filmed by a friend on a mobile phone, was a prank and the lettuce had been discarded.

Headline: Long Lost Postcard Found in Mailbox After 47 Years
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 14.3.9
Caption: Slow in coming

HUDSON, Ohio — A woman's postcard bearing greetings from Montana has finally arrived in northeastern Ohio — 47 years later.

Insurance agent Dave Conn opened his post office box in the community of Hudson last week and found the mailing sent from Helena, Mont., in 1962.

It was sent to Marion White, the previous renter of the box, who had died in 1988. The writer signed the postcard "Fran" and mentioned having "had a marvelous time in Montana."

After asking around, Conn says he determined the card must have come from White's well-traveled friend Frances Murphey, a longtime reporter at the Akron Beacon Journal. She died in 1998 at age 75.

Headline: Filmmaker to implant camera in eye
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 14.3.9
Caption: The camera of the Eye

A ONE-eyed filmmaker is going to implant a camera in his eye to make a film from his point of view.

Rob Spence, a documentary filmmaker from Canada, has been unable to use his right eye since it was damaged in a firearms accident as a child.

After wearing an eyepatch for many years, he recently got a prosthetic eye implanted – and decided he wanted to become what he calls an "Eyeborg" – a part-human, part-camera cyborg.

"I was looking at the small camera on my cellphone, and I got to thinking about the Bionic Man," he said in a recent video on his website.

"I want to turn my prosthetic eye into a wireless camera,"

Headline: No sex while nude - that's the rules
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 14.3.9
Caption: Just because you're nude

NUDISTS have issued a "no overt sex" edict for unofficial nude beaches in response to a rising backlash over swingers parties.

Headline: Texas School District Ditches Homework

Ass For A Father

Headline: Wis. Boy's Essay Leads To Charge Against His Dad
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 17.2.9
Caption: Ass For A Father

A father allegedly shot his 9-year-old son in the buttocks with a BB gun, a revelation that came to light after the boy wrote a school essay about the incident. The boy had written an essay about the "painful afternoon my Dad shot me with a BB gun." The elementary-school teacher turned the essay over to authorities.

Prosecutors charged the 36-year-old father on Friday with one felony count of child abuse. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 6 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The criminal complaint said the father told an investigator he shot the boy after the child didn't move fast enough from blocking the TV. He said he aimed at his son's rear pocket because he thought it would be more padded.

Headline: Man kidnaps and handcuffs woman, reads her the Bible
Clip from: timseonline.co.uk
Date of clip: 17.2.9
Caption: Spiritual Rape

TOLEDO, Ohio - A man held a woman captive in handcuffs and an adult diaper for three days while he read Bible passages to her, police said.
Troy Brisport, 34, was charged with kidnapping and felonious assault. Bail was set Tuesday at $400,000.
He picked up the woman Wednesday night in Detroit after she told him she had nowhere to stay, and brought her to his home in Toledo, about 90 kilometres away, police said..

Headline: Jerry Springer to star in Chicago
Clip from: timesonline.co.uk
Date of clip: 17.2.9
Caption: Very strange, but strange follows this man

In an unlikely career move, Jerry Springer is to swap American TV for the London stage after accepting the part of lawyer Billy Flynn in the West End musical Chicago.

The onetime Mayor of Cincinnati turned lowbrow chat show host will begin a six-week run at the Cambridge Theatre in June, but today acknowledged he was a strange choice for the role.

Headline: Man 'tried to fly with 14kg of heroin'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 17.2.9
Caption: An extra baggage charge may have applied here.

AUTHORITIES say they have disrupted a global drug ring after arresting a 21-year-old Malaysian man at Sydney airport over a 14kg heroin haul.
The man was arrested by officers from the Joint Asian Crime Group (JACG) yesterday as he was about to board an international flight.

Officers charged the man with the possession and supply of a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, which was tested and found to be high-quality heroin.

The investigation began last month following the arrest of two Singaporeans for the same offences.

Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Tim Morris said the arrest showed the value of cooperation between crime fighting agencies.

Headline: Virgin forbids train station kissing
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: No Smooching

A RAILWAY station is trying to stop kisses on the curb when people get dropped off.
The train station in northern England has put up a "No Kissing" sign because local businesses said the smooching was slowing up the crowed the drop-off point, news agency AP reports.

Virgin Rail put up the sign when it refurbished the station.

Passengers who want to share a bit of physical affection should park their cars nearby to indulge in goodbye embraces, Virgin Rail says

Headline: Who's Poppa? Pubescents Duke It Out
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: Cradle Robs Cradle

At least three teens are claiming to be the father of a baby girl born to a 15-year-old, after one of them was reported to be the youngest father in Britain.

Alfie Patten, 13, was first reported to be the father of Chantelle Steadman's week-old daughter Maisie, and didn't doubt he was until now, the U.K.'s Telegraph newspaper reported.

"Now that is in his mind and I'm not happy," his mother Nicola Patten, 43, told the newspaper. "I don't know where they get this from. I mean, that's my son, that's his baby."

Headline: Mother killed by six-year-old son
Clip from: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25060122-23109,00.html
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: Why Do Children have Access To Guns?

A SIX -YEAR-OLD boy has accidentally shot his mother dead with his father's gun at their home in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby.
The unnamed mother "from a prominent Port Moresby family" died on the way to hospital on Sunday afternoon, PNG's Post Courier newspaper reports.

The boy and his young brother were playing in the living room with their father's loaded gun when it went off and shot their mother in the chest.

Headline: Four-year-old 'broke into school, stole pens'
Clip from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5739401.ece
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: Where were the f..ing parents????

POLICE say a four-year-old was among a group of children who broke into an Alice Springs school, smashing windows and stealing pens.
A teacher at Living Waters School contacted police after he visited the school about 6pm (CST) on Sunday and found five juveniles on the premises.

The offenders broke into the school by smashing a window before stealing various items, such as paints and pens, police said. The children fled when they saw the teacher but police apprehended the group a short time later.

Two of the children are eight years old, one is six and another is four.

Police said the age of the fifth child, who was the oldest in the group, was yet to be determined.

Officers took the children home and reports were made to the office of NT Families and Children.

SICK, SICK AND SICK!

Headline: 'World's worst mum' raped own son
Clip from: news.com
Date of clip: 23.1.9
Caption: SICK, SICK AND SICK!

A MOTHER has been jailed for years of abuse against her six children that included her raping her 13-year-old son.
The Irish woman admitted she was the “worst mother in the world” after pleading guilty to a string of sex abuse and neglect charges, The Sun reports.
She became the first woman in the history of the Irish state to be jailed for incest when she was sentenced to seven years in jail.
The alcoholic 40-year-old admitted to two counts of incest, two of sexual abuse, six of neglect and wilful ill-treatment and neglect of the children between 1998 and 2004. She cannot be named to protect the identity of her children.

Headline: Man, 83, Misses Bus After Dancing With Young Women
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 22.1.9
Caption: Dancing the night away

An 83-year-old South Bend man said he missed his bus home from the presidential inauguration because he was dancing. Mussa Muhammad said his "spirit jumped sky-high" when President Barack Obama took the oath of office Tuesday. He became separated from his group and, he said, "just danced and danced" with a couple of young women he met along the way...

Headline: Mum let three-year-old smoke at home
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 22.1.9
Caption: Dumbass Mother

A MUM who allowed her three-year-old son to smoke has walked free from court because the judge thought it best for her to be at home with her kids.

Kelly Marie Pocock, a 24-year-old mother of three, was accused of allowing the toddler to smoke around the house in Merthyr Vale, Wales...

Headline: Stupid burglar caught in a hot tin roof
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 22.1.9
Caption: Dumbass Thief

FOR two hours he hid inside the roof, the sun beating down on the tin above sending the temperature in his hiding place soaring.
Finally the burglar, who was forced to crouch in the tiny cavity after the family he intended to rob came home unexpectedly, could take no more and fainted.
The half-baked crook came crashing through the ceiling and landed at the feet of a horrified couple and their five young children almost 4m below.
Food distributor Darren Young described yesterday how he and wife Deslie and five of their six children were at their Newcastle home on the New South Wales Central Coast on Wednesday when the would-be thief made a sudden and unlikely entrance.

Headline: Clinically Depressed Poodle Mauls Ex-French President
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 22.1.9
Caption: A dog off his meds

Former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to a hospital after being mauled by his pet dog who is being treated for depression, in a dramatic incident that rattled the ex-president's wife.

The couple's white Maltese poodle, called Sumo, has a history of frenzied fits and became increasingly prone to making "vicious, unprovoked attacks" despite receiving treatment with anti-depressants, Chirac's wife Bernadette said..

Oh Christmas Tree

Headline: Cops: Florida Man Attacked Father With Christmas Tree
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 2.12.8
Caption: Not the true meaning of Christmas.

Authorities say a west Florida man who lives with his parents has been arrested on a felony assault charge after he used a Christmas tree as a weapon to attack his father.

According to the Manatee County sheriff's report, 37-year-old Thomas Edward Lackie was arrested last week after he threw a 3-foot Christmas tree at his father. The tree missed, but Lackie then tried to use the steel base from the tree to strike his father.

His father and mother were able to grab Lackie's arms to prevent the attack. Deputies say the tree could have caused serious injuries because the metal base weighs about five pounds.

Headline: Man Says God Ordered Him to Ram Vehicle at 100 MPH
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 2.12.8
Caption: Confused, the devil made him do it.

SAN ANTONIO — A man who rammed his truck into a woman's vehicle on a highway early Friday told authorities he crashed into her while going more than 100 mph because God told him "she needed to be taken off the road."

The truck rear-ended the car on U.S. Highway 281 and both vehicles spun across a median before coming to a stop along a barrier in the opposite lanes.

Headline: Bill shock puts woman in hospital
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 2.12.8
Caption: It would be a shocking experience.

AN elderly South Australian Housing Trust resident was so upset to receive a quarterly electricity bill for almost $4500 she ended up in hospital.

Greenwith widowed pensioner Wilma Verneulem, 72, yesterday told The Advertiser she was stunned to open an account from energy provider AGL demanding $4489.71 for just three months of electricity use.

Headline: Deer Gets Revenge After Hunter Shoots Him
Clip from: CBS.com
Date of clip: 1.12.8
Caption: Didn't this happen in a cartoon?

A hunter bagged a big buck on the second day of firearms season, but the kill caused him a lot of pain. Randy Goodman, 49, said he thought two well-placed shots with his .270-caliber rifle had killed the buck on Nov. 19. Goodman said the deer looked dead to him, but seconds later the nine-point, 240-pound animal came to life.

The buck rose up, knocked Goodman down and attacked him with his antlers in what the veteran hunter called "15 seconds of hell." The deer ran a short distance and went down, and died after Goodman fired two more shots.

Headline: Thief Steals Thanksgiving Dinner Off Woman's Porch
Clip from: CBS.com
Date of clip: 1.12.8
Caption: Didn't this happen in a cartoon?

A Wisconsin family found it hard to be thankful after a thief made off with their turkey dinner.

Lillian Moore says she sent a cooler stuffed with Thanksgiving food to her daughter Cindy, only to have it stolen from her porch.

Moore packed the cooler with half a turkey, potatoes and salad. She left it on her daughter's porch Wednesday evening because her daughter's refrigerator was too small to hold the food.

When Cindy Moore went to get the turkey Thanksgiving morning, the cooler was gone.

Cindy Moore says she had to buy turkey using money she sets aside for bills. The disabled single mother didn't bother reporting the theft to police.

Headline: Cheap sex - the credit crunch is biting under the sheets
Clip from: BBC.co.uk
Date of clip: 1.12.8
Caption: Somethings in life are free--until the baby comes along

As the credit crunch bites, Britons may be turning to sex as a cheap way to pass the time, a charity says.

A YouGov survey of 2,000 adults found sex was the most popular free activity, ahead of window shopping and gossiping.

The Scots were most amorous with 43% choosing sex over other pastimes, compared with 35% in South England.

Aids charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, which published the survey, also welcomed recent figures showing an increase in condom sales.

Around one in 10 respondents to the survey, carried in November, said their favourite free activity was window shopping and 6% chose going to a museum as the cheapest way to pass the time.

Headline: Sweet Jesus that's distasteful
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 1.12.8
Caption: Much like when the real Jesus was put to death because leaders hated him.

GERMANY'S churches have criticised a businessman for selling thousands of Jesus chocolates.
Frank Oynhausen set up his “Sweet Lord” chocolate Jesus-making business saying he wanted to restore some traditional religious values to Christmas in Germany.

“I started thinking about how I could reintroduce traditional religious values into this commercial world,” Mr Oynhausen said .

Together with a friend, a local chocolatier, Mr Oynhausen, 54, developed the concept of “Sweet Lord.” Mr Oynhausen said thousands of people have put in orders for the figures wrapped in gold foil.