What-Boy, 17, sells kidney to buy iPad 2

A TEENAGER in China sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPad 2, Chinese newspaper the 'Global Times' reports.

The 17-year-old boy, identified only by the surname Zheng, searched the internet and found a buyer who was willing to pay 22,000 yuan ($3400) for the organ. Without telling his family of his plans, he travelled north from his home in the eastern Anhui province to a hospital in the city of Chenzhou in Hunan province, where he was operated on under the supervision of a kidney-selling agent.

His mother's suspicions were aroused when her son returned home with an iPad 2 and an iPhone, and Zheng, who was left with a deep red scar from the surgery, was forced to admit what he did. She took him back to Chenzhou to report the crime, but the contact numbers the kidney agents gave Zheng were not working.

Lesson-Topless Bandit who stripped as She fled robbery Scene Jailed

A PROSTITUTE who robbed a takeaway shop and then stripped while fleeing the scene has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment for the brazen holdup. The Darwin Supreme Court heard Angela Elizabeth Honeysett, 25, pulled off her purple top as she ran from the Subway restaurant, which was full of stunned staff and customers, The NT News reports.

The topless bandit then jumped into a getaway car and escaped just minutes before police arrived.Honeysett pleaded guilty recently to holding up the Subway at Berrimah with a 30cm knife on September 26 2010 and stealing $500.

The court heard Honeysett brandished the knife at staff and threw a pink drawstring carry bag on to the counter telling the shop assistant to fill it with cash.Honeysett then ordered the six customers in the shop to turn to their left.

What-Naked Jogger Leaps into Busy Public Pool

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A naked man ran through a Kansas City suburb before scaling a fence and leaping into a swimming pool filled with children. Witness Amy Shapiro told NBC station KSHB-TV that traffic came to a halt at around noon on Wednesday as the nude man climbed out of the passenger side of a car in Overland Park, the second-largest city in Kansas.

Shapiro captured video of him jogging through the neighborhood on her cell phone. "I was just like, 'Oh my God, this guy's naked,'" she told KSHB.Shapiro said the man climbed a fence and dived into a nearby public pool.

"Everybody scattered," she recalled. "They all jumped out of the pool. They were just shocked. He was just standing there like it was no big deal."The man stood alone in the pool for several minutes before being coaxed out of the water by police. He was later escorted off the property.

Good-Man Ordered to apologize 100 times on Twitter

It's tit for tat on Twitter.  A Malaysia man has been ordered by a court to tweet an apology 100 times over three days after slandering a publishing company on the social media service. Fahmi Fadzil (@fahmi_fadzil), who describes himself as a performer and writer on his Twitter bio, is doling out the contrite tweets at about one an hour. As of Thursday morning, he was at 25.

The apology, which Fadzil said "must be as agreed - in English," reads: "I've DEFAMED Blu Inc Media & Female Magazine. My tweets on their HR Policies are untrue. I retract those words & hereby apologize."

Strange-Patio umbrella knocks out town's Power

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. - You can blame it on the weather, or you can blame it on the umbrella.

In windy weather, a patio umbrella blew up into high voltage lines in this northern Ontario city and tripped a breaker, turning off the lights for about 1,700 homes and businesses for a while Tuesday afternoon.

Local utility operations head Dominic Parrella said a blackout due to umbrella is a first for him.

And he said the owner of the umbrella won't likely be very pleased either.

"It would no longer be usable," said Parrella. "It basically gets burned up."

Wow-Fire crew free woman with hand stuck in ATM

MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. — A Pennsylvania cash machine apparently took all those cracks about service fees costing an arm and a leg a little too seriously. Firefighters had to free a woman who got her hand stuck in the ATM at a suburban Pittsburgh bank on Monday.

Moon Run Fire Chief Paul Kashmer tells WPXI-TV his crew used special equipment to free the woman after she got her hand stuck in the automated teller machine at the First Commonwealth bank in Robinson, Allegheny County. The bank says it's grateful the woman wasn't badly hurt.

Good-Saggy pants Busted on Ft. Worth transit (Video)

Smart-How the laptop was able to Track the thief

Joshua Kaufman was able to track down his stolen MacBook thanks to a security application called Hidden.Hidden is a theft tracking application for the Mac operating system.After installing the Hidden software, it lies dormant on the computer until the user goes to the Hidden website to report it stolen, activating the tracking software.It can not only take pictures of the thief using the built-in webcam, but also send screenshots of the computer in use, internet history and the machine's location plotted on Google maps.

Hidden's makers boast that their software works worldwide, so whether the computer is stolen in London, New York or Buenos Aires, its owner can track it down and get it back. To get the most out of hidden, the developers recommend setting up and enabling a separate password-free guest account.This runs contrary to the usual computer security advice, but it makes sense with Hidden. The thief must actually be able to use the computer so the software can gather the information it needs to track it.With all the information captured, all that remains to be done is to call in the police.

Wow- Artist Ju Duoqi makes seductive sculptures entirely from cabbage 

Her sculptures, some of which are modelled on icons including Marilyn Monroe and Lady Gaga, are held together with toothpicks.

Every piece of every sculpture is made completely from cabbage, including any hats, bags or jewellery.

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