Lesson-Mom pleads guilty in virginity sale case

Why-Sexy, religious images spotted on new money

Wow-87-year-old's truck found loaded with cocaine

Wrong-Hayride operator faces drunk-driving charges

What-Pepper-sprayed patient closes ER

Rare-Snake stores sperm 5 years, gives birth

Daredevil- Lovers share picnic on the edge of 800ft cliff

Lesson-Mom pleads guilty in virginity sale case

How low mother can go…..?

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah woman accused of trying to sell her 13-year-old daughter's virginity has pleaded guilty to forcing the girl to model for men in her underwear.

The 33-year-old woman made the plea Monday in Salt Lake City to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.She also faced two counts of aggravated sex abuse of a child, but prosecutors dropped those charges in exchange for her plea. She faces up to 30 years in prison at sentencing Dec. 5.Authorities say she had her daughter model in underwear for a man to whom she was offering to sell the girl's virginity for $10,000. She also took cellphone pictures of the girl and sent them to another man.The Associated Press isn't naming her to avoid identifying her daughter. (ABC)

Daredevil- Lovers share picnic on the edge of 800ft cliff

Anyone wants to try…

The pair had carefully crawled right to the end of Australian landmark Hanging Rock, where the sandstone is only a few centimetres wide. Photographer Michael Matthews was amazed to see the duo so far out on the narrow rock formation, overlooking the Grose River Gorge in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. He said: ‘They even had a hug and a kiss out there but were being extremely careful.’ Matthews, 54, had driven from his home in Sydney, having seen an image of the Hanging Rock on a postage stamp. ‘I decided that I had to see it for myself,’ he said.

Matthews reached a viewpoint known as Baltzers Lookout but still couldn’t see the landmark – which shares its name with another Australian feature made famous by the book Picnic At Hanging Rock: ‘I felt quite vulnerable up there. There were no fences and a wind was blowing. I felt it would be easy to get blown off the cliff if you got too close to the edge.’ (ww.metro.co.uk)

Wrong-Hayride Operator faces drunk-driving charges

Where he was operating….

An American hayride operator faced drunk-driving charges after the farm tractor he was driving veered off the road and flipped one of the wagons it was towing, injuring 28 passengers, two of them seriously.The Ohio State Police said Michael Hermes, 47, was pulling between 60 and 80 people in two straw-filled wagons late Saturday night when he drove off the right side of a road causing the rear wagon to overturn.Most of the injured were transported to local hospitals. But two were evacuated by helicopter to a medical center in Toledo, 60 miles away.

Hermes, who was not injured in the crash, refused to take a field sobriety test, the state police said. He was arrested and bookedinto the county jail. (Reuters)

What-Pepper-sprayed patient closes ER

How this happen….?

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — the hospital emergency room in this southern Ontario city was shut down late Sunday when a man arrived covered in pepper spray.The substance was so noxious, eight staff members and six patients reported burning eyes and throat irritation.

One nurse, who treated the man and had no time to don protective gear, was given first aid, said Anne Atkinson, the Niagara Health System's vice-president patient services.

"It was a significant amount (of pepper spray) and staff and other patients had burning of the eyes," she said.Ambulances were diverted to other hospitals for about an hour to allow staff to "safely manage that patient and decontamination," Atkinson said.Atkinson said she could not identify the patient nor disclose the circumstances that brought him to the emergency room citing patient confidentiality rules.Police could not confirm if they were investigating the man.

"Our staff responded immediately and rendered care even though there was an acknowledgment there was a hazardous substance," she said. (QMI)

Rare-Snake stores sperm 5 years, gives birth

Very nice achievement…

A rare case of a snake giving birth after being in captivity for five years has led geneticists to confirm for the first time that reptiles can store sperm for several years.According to New Scientist magazine; the female rattlesnake was in a private collection in Florida and had no contact with other snakes during that time. But late last year, it gave birth to 19 snakelets.

To study the phenomenon, Warren Booth of North Carolina State University in Raleigh took DNA samples from the mother and her young. Booth studies "virgin birth," in which a female produces young without any contribution from a male.But in this case the snakelets carried genes that their mother didn't, so she must have mated before being captured and stored the sperm, he concluded.Booth told New Scientist he suspects other reptiles can store sperm even longer."How long is anyone's guess," he said.(QMI)

Wow-87-year-old's truck found loaded with cocaine

DETROIT — Michigan State Police say they have found more than 100 bricks of cocaine in a pickup truck driven by an 87-year-old man, ClickOnDetroit.com reported on Monday. The man, Leo Sharp, was pulled over on Friday for following too close and improper lane use on Insterstate 94, police said, according to a story on ClickOnDetroit. A K-9 unit then detected the drugs, which were in black bags in the bed of Sharp's pickup truck.In total, 104 brick-shaped packages of cocaine, weighing about 228 pounds, were confiscated, police said, according to The Associated Press. Sharp was charged with possession with intent to deliver.  (MSNBC)

Why-Sexy, religious images spotted on new money

 

Canada's new plastic money may give you a little more bang for your buck.

New documents show a focus group mistook a strand of DNA on the $100 bill for a sex toy.

Most people also thought the see-through window on the new polymer notes was shaped like the contours of a woman's body.Others looked into the port holes of a famed Canadian icebreaker and saw a skull and crossbones staring back at them.These are just some of the offbeat images focus groups thought they saw on the plastic bank notes that go into circulation next month.

Internal documents show the Bank of Canada fretted that Canadians would find all kinds of unintended images on the new bills. So the bank used focus groups to spot "potential controversies."Security features stir imagination"The overall purpose of the research was to disaster check the $50 and $100 notes among the general public and cash handlers," says a January report to the central bank. Clockface or religious symbol.Every focus group thought they saw religious iconography on the face of the Peace Tower clock."It was often described as 'The Star of David.' Others referred to it as a 'pagan' or 'religious' symbol," the document says.

"This evoked a response that suggested that the depiction of religious icons on Canadian bank notes was strongly resisted."The research also raised red flags about the new $50 bill.

 (CBC)