Bus crash injures more than 30 in Nebraska (USA Today)
(Nebraska State Patrol spokesman Craig Schoneberg said the semitrailer overturned about 2 a.m. and was blocking westbound lanes when the bus ran into it. He said the accident occurred about two miles east of the Gibbon exit. Another semitrailer clipped the overturned trailer and ended up in a ditch, and the bus ran into the interstate median.)
School bus driver who killed boy, 6, after hitting accelerator instead of brake is jailed for 28 months (Daily Mail)
(A school bus driver who crushed a six-year-old boy to death when his vehicle sped out of control was jailed for 28 months today. Adrian Shearing pressed the accelerator instead of the brakes on the 67-seat DAF coach as Nicola Connor dropped off her son, Finlay, at school.)
On an Oregon bus, a mother and child rebellion (Bellingham Herald)
(Can. Someone. Please. Make. That. Baby. Stop. Crying. No, actually. Babies are notorious for crying as long as they feel like it; adults are known by psychologists to hate the sound of crying babies more than just about any other sound; and well, there you are. It's an age-old dilemma, and its very familiarity may account for the way in which an incident last week on an Oregon bus has become an international cause celebre. It is the story of two dozen passengers, more or less, a baby in a bad mood, and a bus that motored through its own terrible little Twilight Zone on the 16 miles from Beaverton to Forest Grove in the Portland suburbs.)
Wandering B.C. toddler found by bus driver (CBC)
(The Vancouver Park Board has suspended one of its preschool programs indefinitely after a toddler was allowed to leave on his own. The three-year-old was spotted wandering near East 37th Ave. and Knight Street by a bus driver, who saw that the child was in danger of crossing into heavy traffic.)
Superman Fan Undergoes Plastic Surgery to Look Like His Favorite Superhero (Oddity Central)
(Herbert Chavez, a Superman fan from the Philippines, is so obsessed with the Man of Steel that he underwent several plastic surgery procedures just to look like his favorite superhero. According to a video report by Bandila News’ Marie Lozano, 35-year-old Herbert Chavez has dramatically altered his appearance to look more like Superman. Unfortunately, the report is in Filipino and I’m not very good at that, but the guys at Real Self Blog translated some of it and managed to uncover that Chavez first went under the knife in 1995 and he’s had several other procedures since then. He had a chin augmentation to get Superman’s cleft, rhinoplasty to get Christopher Reeves nose, silicone injections for more plump lips and even thigh implants for a more muscular look. Examining the before and after photos, they speculate he may also have had eye surgery, cheek augmentation and jaw augmentation.)
Penis not a prerequisite to being considered a man, Australian court rules (Global Post)
(Two female-to-male transsexuals have won a landmark High Court battle to be legally recognized as men under WA's gender reassignment laws. Australian men do not need a penis, the country's High Court has ruled.)
Man pleads guilty to offering semen-tainted yogurt (AP)
(A grocery store worker accused of handing out a semen-tainted yogurt sample at an Albuquerque market pleaded guilty Thursday. Under terms of his plea agreement, Anthony Garcia admitted he tainted a sample of the yogurt he was handing out at Sunflower Market in January. He also admitted putting some of his semen on a plastic spoon that he placed with the yogurt. Garcia then approached a female customer and offered her a sample.)
Beat It -- Or Not: Vegas To Unveil MJ Slot Machine (Denver Channel)
(As the trial surrounding Michael Jackson's death continues, Las Vegas is about to make a revelation of its own: A Michael Jackson slot machine. It's just a coincidence that the release of the Michael Jackson King of Pop slot game on Tuesday is occurring along with the trial of the performer's physician, Conrad Murray, who's charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, said a spokesman for Bally Technologies.)
Robber paused to pray with wheelchair-bound victim (MSNBC)
(A man stopped to pray while robbing a woman in a wheelchair and apologized to her before he left her home with her money, police in western Pennsylvania said. Thirty-two-year-old Christopher Perretti II, of New Castle, is in the Lawrence County Jail awaiting a hearing on charges including burglary and robbery. Police were called to the home of the disabled New Castle resident, whose name was not made public, around 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 30. The resident who called them said she had opened the door after hearing a knock.)
NY man kills deer with shovel after jumped inside (Las Vegas Sun)
(A central New York man says he had to use a shovel to beat a deer to death after the startled animal jumped through a window into his workshop and attacked him when he tried to steer it toward a door. Tom Hartshorne tells the Ithaca Journal ( http://bit.ly/pQaypk) that he was taking his dog for a walk Wednesday morning when a buck just outside his front door took off and jumped through the window at his property in the town of Ithaca.)
Why men are in trouble (CNN)
(For the first time in history, women are better educated, more ambitious and arguably more successful than men. Now, society has rightly celebrated the ascension of one sex. We said, "You go girl," and they went. We celebrate the ascension of women but what will we do about what appears to be the very real decline of the other sex?)
Gun rights group argues for right to bring guns to worship (AJC)
(Should you be allowed to carry a gun to church? What about the person sitting next to you? The question before a three-judge panel for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Thursday is whether Georgia’s prohibition on firearms in places of worship conflicts with the promise of religious freedom in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.)
Tear gas? Woof! It's Sausage the Athens riot dog (Reuters)
(There he is, yelping with delight as the youths start hurling chunks of paving stones, barking his admonition at a cordon of cops fending off petrol bombs, sneezing as he scampers through the tear gas. Meet Sausage the riot dog, an amiable ginger mongrel resident of Syntagma Square in central Athens, who doesn't mind if you show up for a day of mayhem as long as he can join in.)
Pizza vending machine set to launch in New York (Reuters)
(A vending machine which prepares and cooks pizzas in under two minutes could soon be launched on the streets of New York. The automated Pizzametry pizzeria not only delivers freshly baked pizza (not microwaved) in a matter of minutes, but diners can also watch it being cooked. Once a user has selected the type of pizza they want, they will see the dough flattened into a base and then the tomato sauce, cheese and toppings added before it's sent to the oven.)
Pensioner led police on 27 mile chase at 10mph (Telegraph)
(Caroline Turner, 76, ignored blue flashing lights, but eventually stopped when an officer ran alongside her on a dual carriageway and tapped on her window. He asked her to stop and she said: "Why, what have I done?" a court heard. The officer explained that her driving was unacceptable. She replied: "There is nothing to discuss, I'm going home.")
Michelle Obama, First Lady, Targets Guinness World Record For Jumping Jacks (AOL)
(Michelle Obama wants to jump into the Guinness World Records book next week by helping break the title for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period. The first lady will lead hundreds of local children in doing one minute of jumping jacks on the South Lawn on Tuesday.)
Jay and Silent Bob Are Old. Go See Them Before It's Too Late. (Red Bank Patch)
(Getting old is not something that coincides with life in Hollywood. Great pains are usually taken to cover it up, Botox it out or ignore it all together with the hope that if ignored, the process will cease to exist. It is certainly not something that is put on display or worse, celebrated. That is, of course, unless your names happen to be Kevin Smith or Jason Mewes, and you happen to have a certain swagger that can only be described as being ‘from Jersey,’ and a certain attitude that comes with being ‘from Jersey,’ which is, of course, marching to the beat of your own drum.)
'Jay and Silent Bob' return — to the Hub (Eagle Tribune)
(Jason Mewes is best known for playing the former half of the stoner duo Jay & Silent Bob, seen in the films "Clerks" (1994), "Mallrats" (1995), "Dogma" (1999), "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back" (2001), and last appearing as the character in 2006's "Clerks II." Kevin Smith, the writer and director of these films, has costarred alongside Mewes as the hushed half of the pair, Silent Bob. The two men have been friends since before "Clerks," and for years have been collaborating on a podcast where they discuss their experiences together.)
''Batman' director Joel Schumacher: 'I wanted to make 'The Dark Knight'' (NME)
(Despite sending the Batman franchise into retirement, Joel Schumacher has revealed he wanted to make a fifth film similar to The Dark Knight. The director, who helmed Batman Forever and the widely rubbished Batman & Robin, had been lined up for a third film, Batman Triumphant. Schumacher wanted to base the film on Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns series of graphic novels and says he even had an actor in mind to play the villain. )
Embryo from skin cells: Cloning era closer after men's DNA put into egg (Daily Mail)
(Scientists have created human embryos from slivers of skin – bringing closer the day when babies are cloned in the lab. In experiments that mirror the cloning technique used to make Dolly the sheep, they took cells from men’s arms and legs and placed them into women’s eggs.)
What can men remember? Not mom's birthday! (News Lite)
(A study into mens' memory has discovered 12% of blokes don't know their mother's birthday… and that 6% don’t know their partner’s. 1,231 men were recently quizzed about the important dates they could recall off the top of their head, and the results weren't great. 7% claimed they could only remember their own birthday with many not able to name the date their friends, family and partners were born.)
Cry it out, man: Boo-hooing benefits tough football players (MSNBC)
(Everyone needs a good cry now and then — even football players. College football players who think it's OK to cry, say, after losing a big game, have higher self-esteem than those tough-guy players who say tears are a no-no, a new study shows. The researchers also found that players who show physical affection toward their teammates are happier. The researchers studied how gender stereotypes about crying affect football players, and how their beliefs regarding emotion on the field influence other aspects of their lives.)
Missed connections fuel illustrator's imagination (Reuters)
("Billowy Red Scarf Girl," "Hipster Chick Who Passed Gas," "Looking for the Hot Girl in the Pink Dress," and "Seeking Girl Who Bit Me TWICE". These are some of the headlines taken from websites for people who've been smitten by chance encounters but who failed to pluck up the nerve to ask for a second meeting at the time.)
Facebook Status Feud Results in Texas Man's Arrest (Fox News)
(A Texas man is facing battery charges after police say he hit his estranged New Mexico wife and pulled her hair over her lack of a response to his Facebook status update. The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports (http://bit.ly/qrlsyW ) that 36-year-old Benito Apolinar of Pecos, Texas, was arrested Monday following a fight at the Carlsbad, N.M., home of Dolores Apolinar.)
Cell phone thief posts photo of himself on victim's Facebook page (AJC)
(Henry County investigators looking for a man suspected of breaking into a car got some unexpected help when the alleged thief inadvertently posted a photo of himself on his victim's Facebook page. The victim's vehicle was broken into on Sept. 26 at East Lake Academy daycare in McDonough and her purse was taken, according to Henry police Major Jason Bolton.)
Kindergarten horror: Female teacher hangs herself in her classroom... on the same day town mourns death of ANOTHER teacher (Daily Mail)
(An Illinois kindergarten teacher died after she hanged herself in her own classroom. The small community where 45-year-old Linda Elaine Walker killed herself is now trying to cope with the horror. A fellow teacher found the veteran educator hanging inside her classroom at Tri-C Elementary School in Carterville, Ill., Monday.)
Steve Jobs Funeral To Be Picketed By Westboro Church (Web Pro News)
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