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Yahoo! News - Rat Olympics Return to NebraskaStrange News - AP

Rat Olympics Return to Nebraska
Tue Nov 26, 8:10 AM ET
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - 2002 is an Olympic year, if you're a rat. Next week, the Rat Olympics return to the Lincoln campus of Nebraska Wesleyan.
The rodents will be competing in all sorts of Olympic events like track, weight lifting and long jump. Trainers and their rats will be vying for gold, silver and bronze medals.
Psychology Professor Spencer Morrison says training rats is a great way for students to study animal behavior. Morrison adds the spectators will be amazed by the rats' ability and agility.
Competition for the big cheese begins a week from Thursday.

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Yahoo! News - Mich. Family Seeks to Secede From TownStrange News - AP

Mich. Family Seeks to Secede From Town
Wed Nov 27, 8:11 AM ET
OMER, Mich. (AP) - A tiny Michigan city may soon get tinier.
Cheryl and Kevin Perry and her parents want to secede from Omer, population 337, and attach to neighboring Arenac Township.
The issue goes to voters in Omer and the township on Dec. 17.
The families say they're tired of paying taxes for water service they don't get. To split from the city, Michigan law requires that voters give their approval.
"We pay city taxes but have absolutely zero benefits from the city," Cheryl Perry said.
"We have no street lights, no sidewalks, no water. Even the city limits sign is posted before you come to our property. Why keep paying for things we don't get?" said Perry, whose lot adjoins her father's.
Omer officials aren't thrilled by the proposed split. But they aren't protesting it.
"What can they say?" said Susan Hegenauer, Omer's clerk. "I think the biggest concern for the city is the election cost."

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Yahoo! News - Stuffed owl sparks rescue effortOddly Enough - UK Reuters

Stuffed owl sparks rescue effort
Fri Nov 29, 5:29 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - An eagle-eyed local resident called animal rescuers after spotting an owl trapped at the top of a church steeple in Bath.
But when the rescuers knocked on the door of St Michael's Church they were told their mission was in vain for the bird was stuffed and had been placed there by a local optical equipment store for customers to test their equipment.
"When they got to the church saying there were coming to rescue a trapped bird they were told it was far beyond mortal help," Robin Gower of Ace Cameras and Optics told Reuters.
"It is an Eagle Owl nicknamed Ollie which we put there about two years ago, but we have had a bird up there for at least five years and have never had any problems before now," he said. "Whoever spotted it must have good eyesight."
Gower said that despite the mistake the shop would continue to put stuffed birds on the church tower to amuse the customers and let them put their telescopes through their paces.
"Ollie is getting a bit weather-worn after two years, so I expect we'll be putting in a call to the taxidermist at some point," he said.

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Yahoo! News - Broken Wing Pelican Tried Walking South U.S. National - AP

Broken Wing Pelican Tried Walking South
Thu Nov 28, 8:37 PM ET
OTTAWA, Wis. (AP) - A white pelican rescued from the cold North this week had a broken wing, but its sense of direction appeared to be fine.
Phil Thieme found the bird trudging south, first along his driveway and then down the road near southeastern Wisconsin's Horicon Marsh. Fearing for the pelican's life, he and his neighbors corralled it Monday using a net and a blanket.
"It was bound and determined to go south. It kept walking down the middle of the road," said Jean Seinke, one of the rescuers.
The pelican was taken to Ottawa's Wildlife in Need Center, which will try to repair the wing surgically, said Judy Budnick, the center's executive director. She said it was not known how the protected bird was injured.
Tom Erdman, curator of the Richter Museum of Natural History at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, said the pelican would have an urge to go south this time of year, but probably had more immediate motivations.
"It could theoretically be walking south. It's a delightful thought," Erdman said. But he added that "survival was probably the first thing on its mind — looking for open water and fish."

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Yahoo! News - Partying Daughter Grounded, Foot Nailed to FloorOddly Enough - Reuters

Partying Daughter Grounded, Foot Nailed to Floor
Wed Nov 27, 8:52 AM ET
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian mother took drastic measures to stop her party-loving 13-year-old daughter from going at out night -- she nailed her foot to the floor, officials said on Wednesday.
Mao Savoeun, 36, from Kompong Thom province in central Cambodia, told police she was angry with her daughter for going to a party at a local pagoda during last week's Water Festival, the annual knees-up in the war-ravaged southeast Asian nation.
On the girl's return, and after she went to sleep, her mother drove a two-inch nail through the top of her right foot, pinning it to the floorboards.
"We educated her about human rights and she was shedding tears, but this is a crime and we are going to send her to the prosecutor who will decide whether to charge her," local district chief Srey Puthy told Reuters.

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Yahoo! News - Handcuffs the New Must-Have for Women?Handcuffs the New Must-Have for Women?
Wed Nov 27,12:31 PM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - Handcuffs are the fastest selling item at five new shops tailored for women by Germany's biggest retailer of sex merchandise, the store chain said on Wednesday.
Beate Uhse AG said handcuffs have been flying off the shelves of stores it opened this year to focus on sex toys for women, rather than the traditional male clientele.
"Women's sexual appetites are steeped more in the realm of fantasy -- they like to use their imagination more than men," said Assia Tschernookoff, a spokeswoman for Beate Uhse at corporate headquarters in Flensburg.
Beate Uhse, founded in 1946 and recently floated on the Frankfurt stock exchange, has more than 200 shops throughout Europe offering a myriad of sexual aids from lubricants to a taste of the lash. Attempting to capture new markets, it opened the shops aimed at women earlier this year.
"The shop had just opened and the handcuffs were all gone the first day," said Tschernookoff.
The five new shops report some 90 percent of customers have been women.
"This just goes to show that these days women know what they want and they're not shy about getting it," Tschernookoff said.

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Anchorage Daily News | Kansas man convicted of attempted rape of nonexistent girl

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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (November 28, 6:05 p.m. AST) - A man was convicted of attempted rape for planning to assault a nonexistent 10-year-old girl who was imagined in an effort to break up a child pornography ring.
Prosecutors said Steven Peterman, 44, believed the child was real and that he intended to commit the crime.
Peterman was convicted Wednesday of attempted rape, solicitation to commit rape and sexual exploitation of a child. He faces 11 years in prison at his sentencing Dec. 27.
Authorities said a woman Peterman met in a bar made up the girl to help break up a child pornography ring.
Although prosecutor Keith Schroeder admitted to performing "a little bit of legal gymnastics" in filing the attempted rape charge, he said Peterman wasn't prosecuted for simply thinking about raping a child.
He was arrested with several photos characterized by police as child pornography, along with a variety of sex toys.
"When he went to the residence where he believed the child was waiting, he had purchased several items that he intended to use in committing a crime," Schroeder said.
Tim Frieden, Peterman's defense lawyer, had an unlisted number and could not be reached for comment Thursday.

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'Girls Gone Wild' Producers Win Lawsuit (washingtonpost.com)'Girls Gone Wild' Producers Win Lawsuit

The Associated Press
Wednesday, November 27, 2002; 9:56 PM

ORLANDO, Fla. –– A federal judge ruled that the makers of a sexually explicit video series did not violate the privacy rights of a 17-year-old girl who flashed her breasts to a cameraman.

U.S. District Judge Anne Conway ruled Tuesday against the plaintiff, saying Veronica Lane consented to the filming and distribution of her image and likeness even though she was just 17 years old.

Lane was seeking unspecified damages, arguing the film, its creators, producers and distributors had violated her right to privacy and had cast her in a false light by including her in the "Sexy Sorority Sisters" video.

Conway ruled that the defendant, Mantra Films, which produces the "Girls Gone Wild" videos, did not have to compensate Lane for using her likeness in the videos.

In September 1999, Lane and a friend flashed their breasts to a cameraman. Lane later contended that she did not know that her image would be used in a commercial video.

© 2002 The Associated Press

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Ancient dildos on showAncient dildos on show


Hong Kong - A 2 000-year-old sex aid for women has gone on show in a Hong Kong display of relics from China's Han Dynasty, a news report said on Friday.

The ancient phallus - made of bronze - is part of an exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History which also includes a number of Xian's famous terracotta warriors.

The phallus is believed to have been used by frustrated courtesans living in the imperial palace during the Han and Qin dynasties which span 221 BC to 220 AD, according to the South China Morning Post.

Curator Naomi Szeto told the newspaper: "Most people know about emperor Qin and his fierce regime that brought China together as a single nation by conquering six other states.

"But we want to go one step further and present a picture of what China was like after it achieved stability by including relics from when the Han Dynasty ushered in an era of stability and a flourishing society."

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NCBuy: Weird and Offbeat News StoriesNovember 25, 2002 - Wireless Flash
42 Percent Of Office Drones Have Sex At Work

CHICAGO (Wireless Flash) -- It's amazing any work gets done at the office because 42 percent of Americans say they've had sex on the job.
According to a new sex survey in the upcoming "Playboy" magazine, 38 percent of men and 48 percent of women have been working their bodies on company time.

However, when it comes to workplace whoopee, the ladies have the men beat.

-- 46 percent of women have bedded their boss compared to only 18 percent of men.

-- 45 percent of women have had sex on their desk, compared to only 33 percent of guys.

-- Finally, 20 percent of ladies will gladly sleep with interns compared to only 12 percent of men.

The complete survey hits newstands December 2.

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IOL : Union strippers win battle of the greasy pole Union strippers win battle of the greasy pole

November 21 2002 at 04:43PM


London - Strippers at a nightclub in the western English city of Bristol have gained their first victory over management after joining the large GMB union.

The 17 "exotic dancers" have secured new polish to grease the poles around which they dance, as the old kind of grease used to give them a painful rash.

Club manager Lisa Maggs told Thursday's Times said: "We completely support the dancers' decision to join the GMB. We are hoping we can empower the girls and the club owners to make important changes." - Sapa-DPA

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Nude boy's photo pops up in man's presentation Nude boy's photo pops up in man's presentation
Associated Press
Nov. 22, 2002 12:15 PM
FORT WORTH, Texas - A businessman and former pastor was charged with possessing child pornography after a photo of a nude boy appeared during a computer slide presentation he gave at work, officials said.
Employees at Exel Inc. told police that James Andrew Smith had finished a PowerPoint slide show Sept. 4 when he tried to open another document on his laptop computer. The image of the young, nude boy appeared on screen, according to the co-workers.
Smith blamed the image on a computer virus.
Authorities later found child pornography on computer disks seized from him, according to a police report. The company also turned over 65 pages of printed child pornography allegedly found in Smith's desk.
He was held on $300,000 bond on two counts of possessing child pornography and one charge of promoting child pornography.
Smith was fired from Exel, a Fort Worth-based computer logistics company. He also resigned Wednesday as pastor of Landmark Baptist Church, where he had served for 3 1/2 years.
His wife of 13 years, Julie Smith, said the allegations stunned her.
"He's never hurt our children. As far as I know he's never hurt anyone's children," she said.

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Yahoo! News - Scientist Burns Penis with Hot LaptopOddly Enough - Reuters

Scientist Burns Penis with Hot Laptop
Fri Nov 22, 9:53 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Laptops have always been a hot item but a 50-year-old scientist didn't realize to what extent until he burned his penis.
The previously healthy father of two remembered feeling a burning sensation after he had been writing a report at home for about an hour with the computer on his lap.
He noticed a redness and irritation the following day but it wasn't until he was examined by a doctor that he realized how much damage had been done.
"The ventral part of his scrotal skin had turned red, and there was a blister with a diameter of about two centimeters (0.8 inches)," Claes-Gorn Ostenson, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, wrote in a letter published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday.
Two days later, the blisters broke and the wounds became infected and then crusted but after about a week the unidentified scientist was "healing quite rapidly."
Ostenson noted that the computer manual did warn against operating it directly on exposed skin but said the patient had lap burns even though he had been wearing trousers and underpants.
"This...story should be taken as a serious warning against use of a laptop in a literal sense," he added.

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Just another reason not to go into the water!!!
Yahoo! News - Lightning Strikes SurfersOddly Enough - Reuters

Lightning Strikes Surfers
Mon Nov 25, 8:41 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A lightning strike has injured two surfers off the Cornish coast in southwest England, police said on Sunday.
The bolt of lightning hit a woman surfer on Saturday, causing her to stop breathing, and leaving a male surfer unconscious.
A helicopter flew them to hospital where they were in stable condition. The woman was still in intensive care.

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Yahoo! News - Man Arrested for Making Phone Booth MobileOddly Enough - Reuters

Man Arrested for Making Phone Booth Mobile
Mon Nov 25, 8:39 AM ET
WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - He might have had an unusual concept of the mobile phone, but otherwise police admit they are confused as to why a British Columbia man attempted to steal a telephone booth.
The man was arrested on Friday in a Vancouver suburb after he was discovered on the Trans Canada Highway sleeping in a stolen pick-up truck. The stolen phone booth was in the back.
"You know, that's a very good question," West Vancouver Police spokesman Sgt. Bob Fontaine said when asked about the 28-year-old man's motive for taking the booth.
Investigators theorize the man, whose name was not released, may have wanted the phone's coin box, or was trying to hide the fact that he had run into the booth while stealing the truck in Vancouver.
"Who knows, he might not have even known it was there," Fontaine added with a chuckle.
Phone company Telus Corp. said people often vandalize its phone booths, but they weigh about 200 pounds (90 kg) each and are bolted down so it is rare for them to disappear.
"We can't recall when, if ever, something like this has happened," spokesman Nick Culo said.
The Squamish, British Columbia, man was awoken from his nap by police and taken into custody. He has been charged with possession of stolen property.

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Yahoo! News - Cannon Shell Turned Table Leg Hurts EightOddly Enough - Reuters

Cannon Shell Turned Table Leg Hurts Eight
Mon Nov 25, 8:35 AM ET
BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Montenegrin family thought a World War II artillery shell was the ideal replacement for a broken table leg -- until it exploded, injuring eight people as they were about to eat a meal.
The Miskovic family in the town of Danilovgrad was preparing the local specialty of grilled pork fat on the table when the old shell went off at the weekend, the Yugoslav daily Vecernje Novosti reported on Monday.
"It was our own idea to replace the missing leg with this cannon grenade," house owner Milovan Miskovic said. "We thought it was harmless...it was here in our courtyard for some 50 years."
But "all of a sudden, we heard a loud bang and then everything went black."
The newspaper reported the victims suffered only light injuries.

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Yahoo! News - Lavish Christmas Gifts Are Out Once Couples MarryOddly Enough - Reuters

Lavish Christmas Gifts Are Out Once Couples Marry
Mon Nov 25, 8:42 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Marriage may be the perfect recipe for happiness -- but not for lavish Christmas gifts, a survey published on Monday showed.
The poll by RBS Advanta found that the longer people are in a relationship, the less likely they are to spend large sums of money on each other.
While 53 percent of those unmarried, but living together, will spend over 100 pounds on presents for their partner this Christmas, only 31 percent of married couples are prepared to spend that much.
And it gets worse once you have children -- romantic presents are replaced by practical ones, the poll of 1,000 people across Britain found.
For couples together for one or two years, the average amount spent is 101 to 200 pounds, while for those who have stuck it out for longer, it drops to 51 to 100 pounds.
The biggest spender on romantic gifts this year will be a male between 16 and 34 years old who has been in a relationship for one to two years, but does not live with his partner.
The least romantic spender will be a woman married for over 20 years without children, according to the survey.

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Italian Men Legally Allowed to Slap Women’s Bums2002-11-14 21:02:00

Italian Men Legally Allowed to Slap Women’s Bums
The Italian government has legally allowed male office workers to slap their female colleagues’ butts. There was one condition stipulated in the law, though: this slapping is not supposed to become a habit.

This decision was made by the Italian court of appeal. The court ruled that slapping underneath the back is not a display of sexual abuse, if the fact of slapping happened once.

This was the end of the trial that lasted for eight years. The trial was started by a female office worker from Venice. She was made to file a lawsuit against her male colleague, who slapped her bottom every day.

This man, a manager named Enzo Miceli, was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison in 1994. However, when the case reached the court of the highest instance, he was acquitted. The court ruled that there was no display on libido in that behavior.

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AP Wire | 11/15/2002 | What's a hairy butt between friends?
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Posted on Fri, Nov. 15, 2002

What's a hairy butt between friends?
Associated Press

MANSFIELD TOWNSHIP, N.J. - An argument between two friends over which one had the hairiest buttocks escalated into a brawl that ended when one man slashed the other.

Emmanuel Nieves, 23, of Liberty Township, and Erik Saporito, 21, of Independence Township, were talking with some other friends at a Mansfield Township apartment complex when the fight began.

Nieves soon pulled out a knife and slashed Saporito's face and ear, authorities said. Saporito was taken to Hackettstown Community Hospital, where he was treated and released.

Nieves was arrested later that morning at his home and charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats, weapons offenses and criminal mischief. He was being held Friday on $25,000 bail at the Warren County Jail.

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JS Online: Sex 101: The nitty gritty Sex 101: The nitty gritty
UW-Madison columnist and her colleagues have little shame exploring what used to be pillow talk
By NAHAL TOOSI
ntoosi@journalsentinel.com
Last Updated: Nov. 19, 2002
Madison - Here's the bare naked truth: Lots of college students have sex.

They like having sex.
And sometimes they're drunk when they're having sex.

Click the link above. It's too long to put on the site
To Read More

Caley Meals' sex column is posted on Wednesdays at www.badgerherald.com. The Daily Cardinal's human sexuality column appears Tuesdays at www.dailycardinal.com.

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Mainichi Interactive - Top News Teacher busted for installing secret toilet camera

CHIBA -- A public elementary school teacher, who secretly installed a video camera in dressing rooms and lavatories at the school where he worked to secretly film girls, was sacked Wednesday, education officials said.
The Chiba Prefectural Board of Education dismissed Masakatsu Sugaya, 28, a teacher at the Hikata Municipal Nishi Elementary School in Chiba Prefecture, on a disciplinary ground.
"We deeply apologize to prefectural residents for the incident. We'll do our best to regain the public's trust in education," an education board official said Wednesday.
Sugaya is accused of installing a video camera in dressing rooms and girls' lavatories at the school on numerous occasions and filming girls between June last year and October this year, board officials said.
However, the education board suspects that he started secretly filming girls in October 1998 when he was working at another municipal school.
The scandal recently came to light after one of the girls lodged a complaint with a female teacher.
Sugaya was hired as a teacher in 1997, and was assigned to Hikata Municipal Nishi Elementary School last April. (Mainichi Shimbun, Nov. 20, 2002)

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NBC 4 - News - Parents Complain Prostitutes Operate Out Of High School BathroomParents Complain Prostitutes Operate Out Of High School Bathroom
Principal Says Problems Are 'Typical'

POSTED: 10:20 a.m. PST November 20, 2002

LOS ANGELES -- Is Washington Prep High School out of control? Some teachers say yes.
Teachers wrote a letter claiming major problems are plaguing the South Central Los Angeles campus including students who are gambling, drinking, cutting classes, using profanity, smoking marijuana, threatening teachers and committing sexual acts.
Several teachers told NBC4 they agree with the letter but only one would talk on camera if we didn't show her face.
"You can walk around campus and you're not sure when class is in and when it isn't because there's so many students roaming around. There's not a respect for authority," she said.
"That is not the average student at Washington Prep, but is it happening at all? Yes, on an isolated basis," school principal James Noble said.
Noble said the problems are typical of large urban schools. Parents say that's no excuse.
"There's been a lot of fighting and a lot of good teachers have left because there's no control up here," parent Pam Jones said.
The letter also claims that "students are robbed and beaten daily, black and brown conflicts are on the rise."
"Most of the time, the fights at the school are people around here who come up here and hop the fences," said student Jason Finn.
Noble held meetings with parents Tuesday night to address the concerns. He denied the charge that prostitutes operate out of the boys' restrooms.
Some students say a gang influence in their neighborhood is spilling over into their campus with threats and intimidation even against teachers.

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Yahoo! News - Robbery Suspect Stops for a BeerStrange News - AP

Robbery Suspect Stops for a Beer
Mon Nov 18, 7:48 AM ET
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - Perhaps if he wasn't so thirsty he would have gotten away with it.
Taunton police arrested a bank robbery suspect shortly after he popped into an American Legion two blocks from the scene of the crime for a drink.
"He stopped to have a beer after robbing the bank and that's what did him in," Detective Dennis M. Smith told The Enterprise of Brockton.
Joaquim Grace, 28, entered the Bristol County Savings Bank on Wednesday morning, barged to the front of the line and threatened to shoot a teller and a customer, police said. No gun was shown.
He escaped with an undetermined amount of cash.
Police searched the American Legion after witnesses reported a man running there. The bar manager told police that Grace, a regular customer, had stopped in for a beer and that he appeared to be sweating. He called a cab and left, the manager said.
Police then went to Grace's last known address, where they found the suspect and some of the stolen money. Grace denied robbing the bank but three bank employees identified him as the robber.
He was charged with armed robbery.

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Yahoo! News - Rock-Paper-Scissors Champ CrownedStrange News - AP

Rock-Paper-Scissors Champ Crowned
Mon Nov 18, 7:52 AM ET
Give Pete Lovering a hand — for being the world's best Rock, Paper, Scissors player.
The job-hunting Web site operator has won the World Rock Paper Scissors Society's first open international championship. He was among more than 250 grownups who took part in the competiton over the weekend in Toronto.
While Rock, Paper, Scissors is usually a kids' game, not this time. He won more than the last slice of pizza. First prize was $1,200, a video game system and a gold medal. Lovering says the secret to winning is maintaining a clear mind and judging each opponent individually.

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Yahoo! News - Child Reports Drunken Baby SitterStrange News - AP

Child Reports Drunken Baby Sitter
Mon Nov 18, 3:54 PM ET
COVINGTON, La. (AP) - A baby sitter with five children in her car was arrested for drunken driving after she passed out at a rest stop and one of her charges, a 7-year-old girl, used a cell phone to call 911.
Linda Hebert, 40, of Picayune, Miss., was found slumped over the steering wheel Sunday and the car was still running, the St. Tammany Parish sheriff's office said. The children were unhurt.
Hebert's blood-alcohol level registered 0.27 on a breath test, well over the 0.10 limit, the report said. Deputies said they had to use pepper spray when Hebert became "combative," and she remained jailed Monday.
Two of the children, ages 5 and 9, were Hebert's. The others, 4, 6 and 7, were left in her care by a woman who expected Hebert to keep them in Picayune, more than 20 miles from the Interstate 12 rest stop near Covington where the car was found.
A passer-by at the rest stop let the 7-year-old call for help, authorities said.

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Yahoo! News - Man Finds Cocaine in New CarStrange News - AP

Man Finds Cocaine in New Car
Wed Nov 20,10:10 AM ET
A man who was trying to fix a car he bought at a police auction discovered more than he paid for — bundles of cocaine.
The man notified the Pecos Valley Drug Task Force on Nov. 12 that he found packages of drugs under the vehicle's console when he started to repair the emergency brake.
The packages contained about 9.7 pounds of cocaine, authorities said.
The man, whose name was not released, bought the 1992 car in Las Cruces earlier this month. He knew from auction information that the vehicle had been seized by the Las Cruces-Dona Ana County Metro Narcotics Agency in June 2001 and had been forfeited.

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Yahoo! News - One in Four Men Fakes OrgasmsOddly Enough - Reuters

One in Four Men Fakes Orgasms
Tue Nov 19, 9:48 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Women are not the only ones to turn on the acting abilities in the bedroom, said a survey released ahead of the world's largest adult festival in London.
The survey of 2,500 Britons, by organizers of the Erotica 2002 festival, said 23 percent of men claimed to have faked an orgasm, compared to 56 percent of women.
Almost half of the participants confessed to enjoying threesomes, the survey added.
Erotica said in a publicity statement sent over the weekend its survey had destroyed the myth the British are a nation of prudes. "Orgies, lust, cheating and faking it -- you name it, the British are doing it," the statement said.
Organizers of the festival, which begins on Friday, expect more than 60,000 people to attend the three-day event, where tantric sex tutors will be schooling willing pupils in the arts of sexual awareness and non-tactile arousal.
"The mass love-in will be closely monitored by security guards to stop things getting out of hand," Erotica's publicity statement added.

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Yahoo! News - Girls Team in Mich. Wins 115-2Girls Team in Mich. Wins 115-2
Wed Nov 20,10:52 PM ET

By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press Writer
DETROIT (AP) - A Michigan high school girls' team is seething after it was beaten 115-2, while the winning team claims it tried hard not to run up the score.
Everyone expected Walkerville High School to beat Hart Lakeshore Public Academy, a school with only 50 students whose team hadn't won a game this season. But the final score from Tuesday night's playoff game incensed Lakeshore academic director Steve Hamilton.
"To me, if you run up the score like that, you have to answer for yourself," he said. "I have my doubts about a school that would go and run up a school by 100 points."
Walkerville contends that it played girls brought up from junior varsity and freshmen teams. The team also says it didn't press on defense, which it normally does, and backed off from going for the state record for points in a game (151).
"What do you tell our girls? Not to play?" Walkerville athletic director Ron Stoneman said. "It had the potential to be really, really bad."
Walkerville coach Steve Kirwin said his school doesn't schedule teams like Lakeshore in the regular season. But during the playoffs, "you play who they tell you to play."
By halftime, Kirwin said, three girls hadn't scored. So he said only they could shoot.
"I'm not going to tell my kids to not continue to play," Kirwin said. "It's not that we wanted to score a ton of points."
Before the season, the Michigan High School Athletic Association did away with a rule designed to keep margins from getting out of hand. Once a team led by 40 or more points in the second half, the clock ran continuously — unless the losing team cut the deficit to 30. MHSAA assistant director Nate Hampton said the association had to cut the rule to follow guidelines of the National Federation of State High School Associations.
Hampton said the rule helped to spare teams from embarrassment or humiliation, but he added that "coaching tactics or strategies" can be used instead.
A 115-2 score "is what we've been guarding against the last several years," he said.

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Yahoo! News - Sale of 'Dead Doll' Toys BannedOddly Enough - Reuters

Sale of 'Dead Doll' Toys Banned
Wed Nov 20, 9:54 AM ET
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has banned the sale of "dead dolls," kids' toys featuring fiery eyes, scarred faces and bloodied mouths which come in their own little coffins.
The dolls also have their own death certificates.
"There is no way we will allow these dolls on the market," Deputy Development Minister Christos Theodorou said on Wednesday.
Only a handful of the gruesome dolls, produced by U.S. Mezco Toyz, have been imported. They were on sale for only a few days before authorities swooped to confiscate them.
The 10-inch high toys, called "Living Dead Dolls," cost around 50 euros and include Sybill, strapped in a strait jacket with a collar and chain, and Inferno, who has auburn hair, fiery eyes and bat-like wings.
"These toys constitute a serious threat to the smooth formation and development of the child's personality and mental health," the Development Ministry said in a statement.
The company also produces toys based on the rappers RUN-DMC and characters from the film "Reservoir Dogs."

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Yahoo! News - Crooks Slip Up Selling Loot Back to OwnerOddly Enough - Reuters

Crooks Slip Up Selling Loot Back to Owner
Wed Nov 20,10:09 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - Two postal workers were arrested in Germany after they unwittingly tried to sell high-tech telephone equipment stolen from the post back to the original owner, police said on Wednesday.
A police spokesman said the pair, aged 20 and 28, tried to sell the goods to a second-hand dealer in the Bavarian town of Nuremberg. But he spotted the package as the same one he had taken to the post office that morning and called the police.
"The funny thing was -- the suspects didn't realize they'd taken the stuff back to the place it was from," Nuremberg police spokesman Peter Schnellinger said.
Police arrested the thieves and searched their apartment, discovering a cache of missing post that included stolen laptops, video cameras and fax equipment worth $10,000.

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Yahoo! News - Charity Workers Chat with Dead Woman, Then LeaveOddly Enough - Reuters

Charity Workers Chat with Dead Woman, Then Leave
Thu Nov 14, 8:22 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Two British mental health workers visited a woman patient, chatted with her, and then left without realizing she was dead, newspapers said on Thursday.
An inquest heard the workers from the mental health charity Mind let themselves into the home of paranoid schizophrenic Patricia Harris and found her sitting in the kitchen with the curtains drawn and her back to them.
After saying hello, they tried talking to Harris, 43, but when she failed to respond they left, the Daily Mail reported. "She didn't seem to want us there," health worker Helen Redmond was quoted as saying.
The next day, two other health workers on a follow-up visit discovered she was dead.

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Woman says she thought Ecstasy was gold Woman says she thought Ecstasy was gold
Associated Press
Nov. 13, 2002 01:00 PM
ORLANDO - Customs agents said they found 13 pounds of Ecstasy pills in the luggage of a Dutch woman who expressed surprised at the discovery - she told investigators she thought she was smuggling gold.
Patricia Maria Brujnius, 39, arrived at Orlando International Airport on Saturday on a flight from London, according to records released Tuesday in federal court. She was scheduled to appear in court next week.
Brujnius told investigators she was to be paid $5,000 for delivering the suitcase with hidden compartments, as she had done twice before, the court papers said.
The street value of the pills was at least $731,250, based on estimates of 2,250 pills per pound and a price of $25 per pill.
Ecstasy, also known as MDMA, is a hallucinogen-stimulant.
Several Europeans have been charged with attempting to smuggle large quantities of the drug into Orlando in recent years, including a Dutch woman caught in 1999 with 27 pounds of the pills hidden in her luggage.

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More Teens Lose Virginity in June, December By Keith Mulvihill
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teens are much more likely to lose their virginity during the months of June and December than at any other time of the year, a new study has found.
The findings suggest that parents and sex education professionals should involve teens in discussions about sex just prior to the onset of summer and again before the winter holiday season, according to lead author Dr. Martin L. Levin of Mississippi State University.
Upwards of 19,000 adolescents in grades 7 through 12 participated in a survey that identified the month that they had sexual intercourse for the first time and whether or not the act was with a romantic partner or a casual fling. The findings are published in the November issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.
In general, most teens reported that if they had lost their virginity, they had done so in June. The next most popular month was December.
The analysis confirms the "summer vacation" theory for adolescent females and is now extended to adolescent males, according to the report. The seasonal effect associated with losing one's virginity was stronger in white adolescents than non-whites.
Levin notes that in June, school is out and teens have more time on their hands. They are also more likely to be attending sexually charged events like the high school prom or a summertime party.
Levin and colleagues dubbed the December peak in coital activity "the holiday season effect,"

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Mom charged with smoking pot in dorm room Mom charged with smoking pot in dorm room
Associated Press
Nov. 14, 2002 11:00 AM
BLOOMSBURG, Penn. - Police say they caught a woman smoking marijuana in her daughter's dorm room during parents' weekend at a Pennsylvania college.
Police investigating a noise complaint at Bloomsburg University say they found a 51-year-old suburban Philadelphia woman smoking pot with her 18-year-old daughter.
Police say the mother and her 37-year-old sister also brought beer to drink with the girl in the dorm room. The two face charges of supplying alcohol to minors, while the student has been charged with underage drinking. All three face drug charges.

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Yahoo! News - Man Pays $1,853.87 in PenniesStrange News - AP

Man Pays $1,853.87 in Pennies
Thu Nov 14, 1:10 PM ET
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Matthew Mokanyk decided to have a little fun when he ended up on the wrong side of a lawsuit.
To settle a court-ordered tab of $1,853.87, the president of Landtech, a surveying company, dug into his pocket for an extra $1,000 to finance an elaborate prank on his former landlord, Powerhouse Gym.
Mokanyk hired a delivery crew with a truck and forklift to deliver 74 14-pound boxes of pennies — 185,387 pennies — to Powerhouse Gym.
"It took us two weeks to get the pennies," Mokanyk told the Traverse City Record-Eagle. "The bank called us when they were ready and we had to have four guys go over and pick them up."
When Powerhouse owner Norm Schaub was asked to sign for the half-ton delivery, the delivery crew claimed they weren't sure of the contents. Schaub assumed it was gym equipment, said Paul Schaub, Norm Schaub's brother.
"We have stuff coming all the time so Norm just signed for the delivery," Paul Schaub said.
The Schaubs were left wondering how to spend $1,853.87 in pennies.
"But one good thing is my dad's been a coin collector all his life, so when he got back he just laughed and said, `Oh, it's no big deal,'" said Adam Schaub, the owner's son and gym manager.
The Schaubs say Mokanyk, who leased an office at the gym for 18 months, frayed carpets when his employees moved heavy printing equipment. Mokanyk denies it. A judge ruled for the Schaubs.
Mokanyk arrived at the gym to snap a picture of the penny payload. He said he also dropped off a restaurant gift certificate for the Schaubs to prove he had no hard feelings.

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Yahoo! News - Man Wedged in Chimney Blames Mary PoppinsOddly Enough - Reuters

Man Wedged in Chimney Blames Mary Poppins
Wed Nov 13,11:05 AM ET
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - It may work for Santa Claus and the singing chimney sweep in "Mary Poppins," but one Texas man found out that going down the chimney was no way to enter a home after he became wedged in the smoke stack.
Mark Vaughn was trying to help his family get back into their home in Fort Worth after they locked themselves out.
When his mother-in-law told him to get a locksmith, Vaughn said he got the idea of going down the chimney. His inspiration was the character of the chimney sweep played by actor Dick Van Dyke in the movie "Mary Poppins," which he had recently seen.
"What prompted me? I was watching the Dick Van Dyke movie a few weeks ago, you know the chimney sweeper movie," Vaughn told reporters Tuesday.
Vaughn said he thought he was going to make it all the way down the chimney, but he got stuck near the bottom. After about 30 minutes in the chimney, Vaughn realized he could go no further and yelled out for help.
His family called for the fire department, and as he waited in the shaft, Vaughn said his arms and legs went numb.
Rescue workers carefully dismantled the chimney brick by brick and after about an hour, they opened a hole large enough to free Vaughn.
"In trying to get the person out, you have to do a lot of manipulation of the brick and mortar, which can transmit a lot of injury to the person inside," said James Johns, a fire battalion chief.
A grateful Vaughn, his face black with soot, shook hands with the firefighters who rescued him and said the episode left him shaken.

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Christina Aguilera's Nipple Tweaker Goes on Strike
[Los Angeles, CA] - Protesting unfair working conditions, the man responsible for keeping Christina Aguilera's nipples in a permanent state of arousal has walked out.
Tyron Pecho, employed by Aguilera for the last two years, says his primary duties are being obfuscated by the singer's insistence that he perform superfluous tasks. He is often asked to work overtime without pay, run personal errands, and frequently placed in situations which could jeopardize his manicure.
"It's demeaning to wash her car, pick up dry cleaning, or run to the store for more jelly beans," Pecho complained. "I'm not just some bum off the street who doesn't clip his fingernails. I'm a licensed professional, dammit."
Pecho has the backing of the United Federation of Epidermal Technicians, which released a statement in support of a general work stoppage of long-standing complaints are not addressed. Representative of Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez were unavailable for comment, but insiders say a full scale tweaker strike is a real possibility.
"We can't be easily replaced," Pecho insisted.
The chilling effect this has had in the music business could spill over into the fashion industry, since both depend largely on looks rather than talent. The U.F.E.T. has also called for stronger regulation, warning that without sweeping reforms, music videos could soon be virtually indistinguishable from porn movies.

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Dumb AssesYahoo! News - Teen Burns Himself Copying MTV 'Jackass' StuntEntertainment - Reuters

Teen Burns Himself Copying MTV 'Jackass' Stunt
Mon Nov 11, 8:09 PM ET
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Washington state boy suffered serious burns when he set himself on fire trying to re-enact a stunt from MTV's controversial show "Jackass," police said on Monday.
The boy from the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, Washington, soaked his shirt in rubbing alcohol late on Friday and ignited it while his friends stood by with a video camera shooting footage they planned to sell, police and local media reported.
After suffering first-degree burns over his face and upper body, the teen-ager initially told police that someone had set his clothes on fire while he walked on a trail after attending a high school football game in Issaquah, Washington, police said.
But police later recovered a backpack containing an alcohol-soaked T-shirt, lighter fluid and a video camera.
"The stunt obviously went very wrong," Issaquah police said in a statement, adding that the boy could face obstruction of justice charges for lying about the incident, requiring extra police work.
The "Jackass" show depicting outrageous and dangerous stunts by paid actors aired on Viacom Inc.'s youth-oriented MTV in 2000 and 2001 and then was canceled. But a movie version opened in theaters three weeks ago and has raked in $53.3 million at the box office.
The movie includes the following disclaimer: "The stunts in this movie were performed by professionals, so, neither you nor your dumb buddies should attempt anything from this movie."
"We're sorry when anybody gets hurt; however, nothing like this incident described ever aired on the show or in the movie," said an MTV spokeswoman.
In 2001, "Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville donned a fireproof suit covered in steaks and was set on fire to become a human barbecue. A teen-ager who tried to duplicate the stunt was hospitalized with severe burns.
Injuries allegedly tied to "Jackass" or young imitators have sparked several lawsuits against MTV and Viacom.
Last month, a California woman sued claiming she suffered spine and knee injuries when a "Jackass" cast member knocked her over after slamming himself into a lectern on a stage in a stunt filmed for a similar pilot program that never aired.

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Yahoo! News - Robber Told to Get Money From FloorStrange News - AP

Robber Told to Get Money From Floor
Tue Nov 5, 9:08 AM ET

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - When a robber demanded cash from 7-Eleven cashier Cathy Harris, she made him work for it.
Harris dropped the cash drawer on the floor and told the thief to get the money himself.
"She told him, 'If you want the money, you pick it up,'" store owner Katie Nelson said.
The man, who was wearing a bandanna over his face and said he was armed, helped himself to $36 and left, but not before Harris tossed a stapler at him and hit him in the shoulder, Nelson said.
Nelson said she reprimanded Harris for her daring response.
"You're supposed to be scared, not angry," Nelson said. "I was concerned about her safety. She's a very brave person."

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Yahoo! News - Gun-Toting Grandad Gets His Terrorist SquirrelOddly Enough - Reuters

Gun-Toting Grandad Gets His Terrorist Squirrel
Fri Nov 8,10:01 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - A squirrel which terrorized a British town by attacking people has been shot and killed by the grandfather of its latest victim.
Geoff Horth, enraged by the squirrel biting his two-year-old grand-daughter Kelsi Morley on the face, took up his airgun and hunted down the rogue rodent, the Sun newspaper said on Friday.
"When I tracked him down I was surprised how big he was. He came down a tree and headed for me, but I shot him before he jumped," the 61-year-old school caretaker told the newspaper.
The bad-tempered squirrel's reign of terror in the town of Knutsford in central England had made parents frightened to let their children out to play.
Animal experts say it is very unusual for squirrels to behave in such an aggressive way toward humans.
Horth was philosophical about his role as gun-totting local hero. "Its a shame he went nuts, but I couldn't let this little beggar hold the town to ransom," he told the newspaper.

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Yahoo! News - Firefighters Cut Up Wrong CarAP - Feature Stories

Firefighters Cut Up Wrong Car
Sun Nov 10,11:34 AM ET

Firefighters who were practicing with the Jaws of Life ended up making a big mistake — by cutting up the wrong car.
Antonio Rocha parked his car Friday behind the fire department's headquarters, next to two other cars that firefighters planned to use for their drill.
Firefighters never gave it a second thought.
When Rocha returned, he found his 1998 Honda Accord minus a roof and doors.
Firefighters learned of the mistake when the employee of a nearby body shop called the fire chief to tell them a man had come by complaining his car had been cut up.

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Yahoo! News - City Turns Old Diapers to New UsesOddly Enough - Reuters

City Turns Old Diapers to New Uses
Mon Nov 11,12:13 PM ET
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (Reuters) - Tossing dirty diapers in a garbage dump may soon be nearly as unthinkable as throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Soiled disposable diapers have a future that few ever dreamed of -- an afterlife as oil filters, roof shingles and vinyl siding, according to officials in Santa Clarita, California.
The Los Angeles suburb on Friday became the first U.S. city to institute a diaper recycling program.
The alternative is to continue shipping disposable diapers -- which take nearly 500 years to decompose -- to landfills, officials said.
"It's to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfill," said Cameron Smyth, Santa Clarita's mayor pro tem. "We have a limited amount of space."
Already 20 billion soiled diapers are buried in U.S. landfills every year, representing about 7 billion pounds (3.175 billion kg) of garbage, according to Santa Clarita officials.
"We're having untreated human waste going into landfills," said Nazareth Chobanian, vice president with recycling technology company Knowaste LLC, manager of Santa Clarita's $500,000 program.
With a population of just over 151,000, Santa Clarita is Los Angeles County's fourth-largest city, and about 100 babies are born there each month.
Other cities may follow Santa Clarita's example. California cities were required by a state law to reduce the amount of garbage sent to landfills by 50 percent by 2000 even though many cities have not met that target.
Conventional recycling programs for glass, metals and paper have helped Santa Clarita reduce the garbage it sends to landfills by 40 percent and city hopes the diaper program will help it exceed the state's target.
"This will definitely help us get there," said city spokeswoman Gail Ortiz.

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Yahoo! News - Police Catch Robbers with Pants DownOddly Enough - Reuters

Police Catch Robbers with Pants Down
Mon Nov 11,12:26 PM ET

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police detained two suspected robbers after catching them with their pants down, a newspaper said on Saturday.
The two men had robbed a home just outside the capital Kuala Lumpur and slipped into a forest to change out of their break-in clothes when police nabbed them, The New Straits Times said.
"Pausing to change clothes following a break-in proved a bad move for two robbers who were literally caught with their pants down," the paper said.

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