Stupid-Mother Arrested at Strip Club While Her Newborn is Missing

Micah Ashley Alford, 26, from League City, Texas was apprehended at Ritz Cabaret, where she was applying for a job, investigators said. She had a felony warrant for her arrest on charges of child endangerment and abandonment. Galveston County Precinct 8 Deputy Constables said they received information that Alford delivered a baby five days ago, which she eventually confirmed. Deputies said Alford's probation was revoked when she failed a drug test when she was 5 months pregnant. When deputies asked Alford where her baby was, she had no idea, officials said. Shortly after police put out an alert for the baby, two women called saying they had him. They told investigators another woman gave them the baby and he had no milk or diapers at that time, but they went and bought those items.Officers had been searching for the newborn for four days. Records show that this is Alford's fourth child and that the other three were taken away by child protective services. Her bond has been set at $100,000.

Costly-The $1m car crash (it involves a blonde)

YOU probably couldn't find a worse place in the world to crash your car than outside Monaco's Place du Casino in the middle of the summer." Tourists should take note of this warning from the editor of motoring website Autogespot before attempting to navigate the packed playground of the world's richest people.Particularly if they're driving a $370,000 Bentley. And, dare we say it, particularly if they're blonde.Not that blonde women can't drive. We'd never say that. It's just that, unfair as it may seem, blondes just happen to attract a disproportionate slab of negative attention when it comes to well, blonde moments, and really, extra care is needed if, um.... Okay, we'll stop digging now.Start of sidebar. Let's just say a non-gender specific person of unconfirmed natural hair colour turned a parade of some of the world's most expensive cars into a demolition derby when they scraped their Bentley against a $111,000 Mercedes S class.And that was just the start. Before we go on, here's the result:

 

How-Dangling Fake testicles get woman in trouble

CHARLESTON, South Carolina — The police chief of a small South Carolina town will ask a jury to decide if a woman broke the state's obscenity laws by driving a pickup truck with plastic testicles hanging from the back. Bonneau Police Chief Franco Fuda ticketed Virginia Tice, 65, in early July at a local convenience store after spying the adornment dangling from her truck.

South Carolina law considers a bumper sticker, decal or device indecent when it describes, in an offensive way as determined by contemporary community standards, "sexual acts, excretory functions, or parts of the human body."

The offense carries a maximum fine of $445 but no jail time, Fuda said."This is certainly not a staple of my ticket writing in Bonneau," the police chief told Reuters on Wednesday.The Charleston law firm Savage & Savage will represent Tice for free, attorney Scott Bischoff said. The trial had been scheduled for next week but was delayed because the defendant will be out of town."She's such a sweet lady and she just says 'I don't want to pay the fine.' We'll let a jury decide whether this is really criminal behavior. I don't want to take away from the importance of free speech, but it's really comical," he said.

Resembles-Kitten who looks like Hitler a U.K. hit

An animal shelter in England has been inundated with phone calls from cat-lovers interested in adopting a kitten that many claim resembles Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin. According to the Wood Green shelter, the six-week-old kitten, who sports a tiny patch of black hair around her nose like a moustache, has garnered the nicknames "Kitler" and "Charlie Cat-lin" since arriving at the shelter on July 22. Six-week-old Luminums, "as she prefers to be known," according to shelter staff, "loves nothing more than getting up to mischief like any other kitten and is completely oblivious of her new found fame."

The cat will be available for adoption soon, they say. But Luminous is just one cat of many who's been compared.

Edge-walking-Daredevils walk around top of skyscraper

LEANING over a 1,200ft drop, a thrill-seeker tries the latest craze – edge-walking.Daredevils are queuing up to test their nerve on the dizzying heights of Canada’s CN Tower.They are kitted out in special suits and harnesses as they ease themselves out on to a 1.5metre ledge for a stunning, white-knuckle view of Toronto and Lake Ontario.The experience costs £120 for around 20 to 30 minutes – with customers being frisked and breathalysed as they go through.

Why-Angry birds attacking Ottawa runners

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OTTAWA -- Ottawa runners: Beware angry birds. No, not the iPhone app -- the real life version.

Runners taking their daily trip down the Rideau Canal are having terrifying run-ins with protective red wing blackbirds.

"I was taking my walk through this park and unwittingly got bumped in the head -- turned around and it was this bird trying to dig its claws into my head," said Oscar Pinto on his routine walk along the west side of the canal. Hot spots are the west side pathways just south of the Canal Ritz as well as along the Rideau River in Strathcona Park.

Wow-Britannia fighters recreate Roman gladiator combats (video)

Change-Now Guys take up pole dancing (video)

With swords and shields, the pair are recreating the Roman gladiator games. ‘We want to create as much as we can the spectacle of the games that took place 1,900 years ago – though obviously we’re not allowed to kill each other,’ said Mrs Shadrake. Our swords and shield won’t be sharp but there will still be a fair amount of violence on display.

‘With women gladiators, it’s all about skill and bravery rather than sheer brute strength. And it’s all about keeping the crowd entertained, of course.’

Surprise-Hackers replace TV ads in busy German shopping centre with porn film

Shoppers were shocked when hackers broke into a mall’s TV system and replaced ads with porn in Dresden, Germany.

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Weird-Workers' compensation Claim after being injured while having sex on a business trip

A PUBLIC servant injured while having sex with an acquaintance at a motel while on a work trip was entitled to compensation, a judge has been told. The woman's barrister, Leo Grey, said sex was ``an ordinary incident of life'' commonly undertaken in a motel room at night, just like sleeping or showering.The woman, who cannot be named, is challenging the rejection of her workers' compensation claim for facial and psychological injuries suffered when a glass light fitting came away from the wall above the bed as she was having sex in November 2007.In the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday, Mr Grey said the woman's employer had sent her to spend the night at a NSW rural motel ahead of a departmental meeting. Andrew Berger, for ComCare, said sex was not``an ordinary incident of an overnight stay like showering, sleeping or eating''.Justice John Nicholas described the case as ``by no means easy'' and is yet to deliver his finding.

Idea-Free Pot for registering to vote

A medical marijuana shop's offer of free pot in exchange for registering to vote appears to have gone up in smoke.  Healthy Choice Clinic of Lansing, Mich., had been offering a half gram on its website ahead of a vote for city council seats and after the council approved capping the number of medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits and setting a $1,000 application fee.Clinic owner Shekina Pena earlier said she wasn't trying to buy votes. "We really got to fight to get the voters out there because the polls are showing there's 4-5,000 people in Lansing that are patients or caregivers," she told NBC affiliate WILX TV. "So we need those 4-5,000 people to come forth to the polls and vote for whomever they feel is in support of what they want for access." "We let them know how we feel, we don't tell them who to vote for," she added. "We definitely want to support the ones (city council members) who are supporting us."On Wednesday, the state's attorney general, at the prodding of a state senator, said he was looking into whether the clinic crossed a legal line.

Lesson-Facebook taunt leads police to wanted man

A U.S. fugitive who taunted police on Facebook, writing, "Catch me if you can, I'm in Brooklyn," has been arrested. r Burgos, 29, was sitting at his computer with his Facebook page open when U.S. marshals tracked him down in his apartment, the New York Daily News reported Thursday. He was wanted on multiple arrest warrants for domestic violence and harassment. "He told us via Facebook to come and get him and we did," Utica police Sgt. Steve Hauck told the newspaper.

How-Suspect shuts down power to two towns: Police

Police are investigating after someone broke into a power sub-station and turned off the power to two communities. Newfoundland RCMP say someone broke into the station in Bishops Falls, located 400 km northwest of St. John's, early Thursday.Police said the suspect cut the fence and entered the secured building and turned off the breakers, resulting in power outages in Bishop's Falls, Botwood and surrounding areas.Police didn't say why someone might have wanted to cut power to the towns. Officers continue to investigate.

Dumber-Jail guard guilty of smuggling saw in taco

SAN ANTONIO - In old movies, the inmate usually got a hacksaw blade secreted into his cell baked in a cake.

But in Texas, it came in a soft taco. Jail guard Alfred Casas, 31, was convicted on Tuesday of smuggling a saw blade to a double murder suspect in the Bexar County Jail by hiding it in a folded soft taco shell. Casas admitted to sneaking a taco into the jail in December 2009, but denied that a hacksaw blade was inside its shell.

Wow-World's longest motorbike can accommodate 25 riders

Measuring an incredible 22 metres (72ft) long, the converted 125cc scooter took a month build and can carry up to 25 people on board. Colin Furze, 31, assembled it in his mum's backyard in attempt to gain another Guinness World Record. The Linconshire plumber already holds the record for the fastest mobility scooter, which he built and designed to hit a remarkable 71mph.

To set the record he took the behemoth to the Saltby Airfield in Granthan and rode it for a mile along the runway hitting a top speed of 35mph. 'When I first got on it I thought it would never work and at a slow speed it's almost impossible to keep upright,' explained Collin after the stunt.'But once you get going it becomes a bit easier, although it is a real strain on your arms as it has such heavy steering.'It wobbled a huge amount as I drove along and apparently the back of the bike was weaving around all over the place.

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Sad-Man dumped by fiancee after selling kidney for £12k to buy engagement ring

A man sold his kidney for £ 12,300 and spent the cash on an engagement ring for his lover only for her to dump him in the Ukraine.Street Journal has discovered that organ sales have become lucrative business in certain parts of the world since the global economic recession. For instance, in Britain it is no longer surprising to find kidneys being advertised for sale on the internet. Some even specify that would be buyers should be ready to pay at least £1,000 for hotel bills abroad, plus plane ticket and £1,200 to cover lost wages since most British surgeons are unwilling to perform such operations for legal reasons and the risk involved. Investigations revealed that kidneys are at times sold for as much as £25,000. Though most sellers agree that greed and the zeal to pay off their debts are the main motivating factors, they also claim the move could help save lives of those in need of the organs.

Why-Man operates on himself with butter knife

LOS ANGELES - A 63-year-old American man with a hernia plunged a butter knife into his abdomen to try to fix the problem, and later put a lit cigarette in the wound, according to police. Police found the man lying naked on the porch of his apartment in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale in California on Sunday night after his wife called to report his attempt at surgery, Glendale police spokesman Sergeant Tom Lorenz said. “He actually impaled himself with the butter knife,” Lorenz said. “He told his wife he was frustrated with this hernia, and he didn’t want to wait any longer for the medical procedure.”

Strange-Serial butt slasher sought in Virginia (video)

Lucky-Huge sword pulled from teen's skull

Teenage Zhang Bin had invited school friends around his house, but one guest brought the dangerous weapon.Measuring 50cm, it's not known exactly how the sword penetrated 5cm deep into Zhang's forehead. However, he was lucky to be alive after doctors at a local hospital refused to operate - citing inexperience.'Three classmates came to visit me at home and one of them brought a sword. He stood 3-4 meters away from me,' explained Zhang as he recovered in bed. 'I don't know how the sword could fly to me and stab into my head.'I felt sharp pains and a large amount of blood streamed down.'

Charged-Man guilty of assault for spilling drink

JOHANNESBURG - A South African man was found guilty of assault on Wednesday for spilling a whisky and water drink near President Jacob Zuma at the country’s premier horse race last year, local media reported. Charges were laid against Daryl Peense, a betting agent, after an incident at the Durban July horse race a year ago in which he allegedly spilled his drink over Zuma from a balcony. Peense was found guilty of assault on Wednesday and sentencing has been postponed to Sept. 7, SAPA news agency reported, citing a National Prosecution Authority spokeswoman

New-South Korean scientists create glowing dog

SEOUL - South Korean scientists said on Wednesday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, Yonhap news agency reported.A research team from Seoul National University (SNU) said the genetically modified female beagle, named Tegon and born in 2009, has been found to glow fluorescent green under ultraviolet light if given a doxycycline antibiotic, the report said.The researchers, who completed a two-year test, said the ability to glow can be turned on or off by adding a drug to the dog’s food.“The creation of Tegon opens new horizons since the gene injected to make the dog glow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases,” the news agency quoted lead researcher Lee Byeong-chun as saying.

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Wow-Bus driver unaware his vehicle had no back wheels

Thinking that it was just a pot hole that had damaged the buses suspension, 48-year-old driver Shi Shao continued puttering along until worried passengers rang the bell and notified him that the entire back end was scraping along the ground. With sparks flying from the undercarriage Mr Shi immediately stopped in the middle of a busy road to wait for a tow truck. However, as a result the bus brought rush hour traffic in the city of Shaoyang to a standstill. When police arrived at the scene naturally they couldn't believe their eyes and found the two detached wheels a considerable distance behind the brightly coloured bus.Luckily no one was hurt in the accident, but there may have been some pride lost by the driver and the mechanics located back at the depot.

Bad-Australian police pepper spray angry kangaroo

SYDNEY - Australia police used pepper spray to overpower an aggressive kangaroo after it attacked a 94-year-old woman as she tended to the laundry in her backyard.Kangaroos rarely stray into urbanized areas, and Police Sergeant Stephen Perkins said on Tuesday two officers were sent to assist the woman, who was attacked by a “Big Red” in the town of Charleville in southwest Queensland earlier this week.“Upon alighting from the car the kangaroo approached one of the officers, the kangaroo was aggressive and the officer had to deploy his capsicum spray to subdue the animal,” Perkins told Reuters.The kangaroo initially retreated but spotted the second police officer and bounded towards him, and was sprayed a second time.Perkins said it was common to use pepper spray to subdue aggressive dogs but unusual to be used on an angry kangaroo.

LOL-Topless men banned from Brighton buses

The no-sweat rule, introduced by the Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company, aims to keep hygiene at a high standard.Roger French, managing director of the transport company, told The Argus : 'We started this during a very hot summer because it was unhygienic having people getting on buses a bit sweaty, and the sweat gets on the seats.'We thought it was common courtesy to the other passengers.'With the potential for there to be upset passengers, alternative bus company The Big Lemon Bus has opened its seats to all men who enjoy going topless. 'People don’t have to be lemon fresh to get on our buses,' explained finance manager, Richard Marsh. 'Toplessness is welcome as long as it doesn’t contravene the law about public decency – fancy dress and breast feeding is also fine.'

Why-Professor wins bad writing award

A University of Wisconsin Oshkosh associate professor has won top prize for her cringe-inducing prose.

Sue Fondrie won the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest -- an annual award that challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. The contest takes its name from the Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, who began his Paul Clifford with, "It was a dark and stormy night."

At just 26 words, Fondrie's submission is the shortest grand prize winner in the contest's history, "proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy," officials said.

"Cheryl's mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories," Fondrie's offending sentence reads.

Fondrie is the 29th person to win the price since it was started at San Jose State University in 1982. There are also winners named in separate categories including fantasy, romance, adventure and sci-fi.Most entrants are Americans, but two Canadians were given "dishonourable mentions" this year. Vancouver writer Basil McDonnell was recognized in the crime category.

What-Bride's kin spark booze-fuelled bedlam

SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT. - Thanks to her father and brothers, a Blind River, Ont., woman's wedding day was marked by a boozy brouhaha and street mayhem that police needed pepper spray and a Taser gun to quash.The problems began at the Sept. 26, 2009, nuptials when James Burke and his boys arrived at the wedding “somewhat intoxicated.”They were “hooting and howling,” prosecutor Michael Varpio told Ontario Court Justice Andrew Buttazzoni.Chevy Burke was tossing over chairs and yelling, “You look f---ing beautiful” to his sister, the assistant Crown attorney said.Things went from bad to worse during the wedding reception at the former Shark Tank pool hall.The Burkes were drinking and “for no apparent reason,” Chevy jumped the man who was preparing the meal.His father and brothers joined in, but then the situation simmered down.

How-Tourists find loaded gun in rental car

 

 

A tourist from Texas called Victoria, B.C., and police after discovering a gun and ammunition in his rental car. Police said the man had rented the Chrysler 300 in Seattle and drove across the border. The man had to change a flat tire in a hotel parking lot Sunday morning and that's when he found the Glock 27 .40 calibre pistol and three loaded magazines in the wheel well of the car. The man and his wife, a Dallas couple in their 50s, called police. The gun didn't register in the Canadian database and police alerted their Seattle counterparts. Victoria police said the Glock 27 is a subcompact pistol commonly used by law enforcement, but it is also favoured by criminals because it's smaller and easily concealed. The handgun is a prohibited firearm in Canada due to its shortened barrel length.

Strange-'Dead' man wakes inside morgue refrigerator (video)

A South African man declared dead woke up and screamed for help from inside a morgue drawer.

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Wow-Girls strip to support Putin as president

About 20 young women stripped to their bras in central Moscow on Friday to show their support for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to return as Russia’s president. Putin has not said whether he will run in next year’s presidential election but the women, who had pink flowers in their hair, jumped around in a central Moscow square before removing white T-shirts showing a rose-coloured portrait of him.

“We want to see him as our president in the future. We want to support him by using all possible means and this is one of them,” said Inna, a member of “Putin’s Army,” a movement that urges women to show support for Putin by removing their clothes. “Putin! Putin! Putin!” the women screamed to a small crowd of men who stopped to watch them. A day earlier, bikini-clad students washed cars for free at Moscow State University, advertising the service by using a play on words involving Putin’s initials.

Nice-Britain's tallest girl measures 6ft 9 in - without high heels!

She might have to duck her head when she walks through a door . But Britain’s tallest teenage girl likes towering over her friends.Jessica Pardoe, 18, who is 6ft 9in in bare feet, said: “I’m really proud to be this tall. I don’t mind being a bit different. And it has so many advantages.“I love going to music festivals and it’s great to be able to see over everyone’s heads.”Since going to a festival this summer, art student Jessica is becoming a celebrity herself.“Lots of people wanted me to pose for photos with them,” she says. Now a Facebook tribute page set up in her honour has more than 3,500 fans.

Dog impersonates Marilyn Monroe with

The saluki breed pet was out with owner Andrew Griffiths on a shopping trip in Bakewell, Derbyshire, when she apparently saw a picture of the famous Hollywood star outside a local store. After taking in the blonde bombshell's famous visage she appeared to strike a canine equivalent of the pose. 'The picture was outside an antiques shop,' said owner Mr Griffiths. Suddenly she went into this pose, it was as though she knew I had my camera with me.'Asked if the Monroe's four-legged equivalent enjoys the attention, like all good Hollywood starlets he added: 'I think she does. To be honest, she can be a bit of a blonde.'

Salukis are also known as the Royal Dog of Egypt, which could explain six-year-old Kizzie's high aspirations.

Unlucky-Man Drops Wallet In Manhole, Gets Stuck (video)

A Ceres man dropped his wallet inside a manhole and got stuck trying to fetch it, police said.

Jared Medeiros, 21, was in head first when Ceres police discovered two legs flailing in the air Friday. When police tried to pull him out, his waist wouldn’t budge from the tunnel. The fire department had to assist to pull him out. When they did, about 40 minutes had passed. They assessed his medical condition and found some minor scrapes and contusions. Police said he was slightly intoxicated but not impaired

How-Airman injured in toilet explosion

A member of the Royal Australian Air Force is in serious condition after the portable toilet he was using exploded.The Australian department of defence reported the man went into the toilet during a military exercise around 9:30 a.m. Monday. It exploded moments later.The man was rushed to hospital with severe burns."The cause of the explosion is unknown and is being investigated," Brig. Bob Brown said in a statement.

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