Bus driver caught on camera 'giving the finger to passenger after row over 20p' (Daily Mail)
(When Jeeby Burns boarded the 218 bus to got go home with her 15-month-old daughter, she expected a bit of sympathy when she didn’t have the 20p the driver asked for. Instead, the 26-year-old was met with a confrontation and after getting off the bus in Tonbridge, Kent, the driver ‘flipped the bird’ at her. Fortunately for Waitrose worker Mrs Burns, she had her camera ready and managed to get a picture of the driver and his offensive gesture.)
$36-million settlement in Wildcats bus crash lawsuit (Windsor Star)
(A US$36-million settlement has been reached for 18 victims of the horrific bus crash involving members of the Windsor Wildcats hockey team six years ago. The deal was reached Monday in Rochester, New York between the victims' lawyers, the bus company and the trucking company whose tractor-trailer was a part of the January 2005 incident.)
Bus driver charged with DUI, child endangering (Daily Record)
(The substitute bus driver who allegedly was drunk as he drove a bus of students home from school faces criminal charges. Kenyon L. Conner, 53, of 11444 Township Road 254, Killbuck, is charged in Holmes County Municipal Court with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and child endangering. Both are first-degree misdemeanors and Conner faces up to six months in jail on each charge. He also faces fines totaling $2,075 and a driving suspension of six months to three years.)
NY cops to discuss school bus hit by bullet (WSJ)
( New York State Police and environmental conservation officers plan to hold a news conference to discuss their investigation into the accidental shooting of a school bus by a hunter. Authorities say none of the 35 students on board the Randolph Central School bus or the driver were hurt when the bullet struck the vehicle while it traveled on a southwestern New York road in rural Cattaraugus County on Monday morning.)
Peruvian mayor says contaminated water is making his town gay (Wisconsin Gazette)
(The mayor of a coastal Peruvian town says he’s discovered the reason there are a growing number of gays in his area: the presence of the metal strontium in the local water supply. “Unfortunately Strontium reduces male hormones and suddenly we’ll be as Tabalosos, as other towns, where the percentages are increasing of homosexuality,” Mayor José Benítez warned the citizens of Huarmey during an opening ceremony for a local water project.)
Victim of shark attack orders prosthetic limbs for snowboarding (Pravda RU)
(Denis Udovenko, a resident of Vladivostok, a city in Russia's Far East, ordered a second pair of prosthetic limbs to be able to do snowboarding. The man lost both of his forearms in a shark attack in the middle of August in Russia's Primorye region. At the end of October, the young man flew to Germany, where he received neural prosthetic limbs.)
Leaves ring for bride – then jumps into river (NY Post)
(A Bronx groom hurled himself into the Harlem River over the weekend — just hours after exchanging marriage vows with his longtime love. Fernando Brazier, 28, took the fatal leap after leaving a suicide note for his bride, Trudian Hay, at the front desk of the Radisson Hotel in New Rochelle, where the couple and family members spent the night after celebrating their wedding.)
Ore. 6th grader says he was forced to mow school lawn (Komo News)
(A local sixth-grader with special needs was pulled out of class and reportedly forced to mow the school lawn as a punishment. Alice Ott Middle School student, 11-year-old Kyron Sloan, has ADD, Asperger's and maybe a medical condition, which doctors are still trying to figure out, causing him to sleep. Sloan's mother, Kristi Sloan-Ceron, said her son's counselor decided his punishment for falling asleep in class should be to mow the lawn. But the counselor never asked her first.)
JUSTIN BIEBER DNA Test Is In the Bag (TMZ)
(Justin Bieber took a DNA test on Friday night in New Jersey, and now it's baby mama's move ... TMZ has learned. We've learned ... Justin took the test at a lab under "very controlled circumstances." We're told there is a solid chain of custody, so it's going to be hard for Mariah Yeater or her lawyer to challenge it.)
Man breaks into Kenny Williams’ downtown home, defrosts lobster (Sun Times)
(On Monday night, White Sox General Manager Kenny Williams returned home to his luxurious downtown Chicago townhouse to find the place a mess. Williams quickly sent text messages to his children, asking if they had made a surprise visit. “No.” “No.” “No,” each of them replied. Williams, who was with his father, took a closer look around and discovered: Someone had been lying in his bed.)
Boy, 7, is ordered not to laugh or get excited as rare condition which makes his heart race up to 200bpm could kill him (Daily Mail)
(A boy with a rare cardiac condition has been banned from laughing in case his chuckles trigger a fatal heart attack. Bradley Burhouse has a dangerously high heart rate and is on doctors' orders to keep calm to ensure his ticker doesn't beat any faster. The brave seven-year-old has stopped exercising and his mother has been told to make sure he doesn't laugh too hard in case his heart develops a severely abnormal heart rhythm, which can cause sudden death.)
Meet 2ft girl who dreams of winning 2012 Paralympics (The Sun UK)
(Jessica Rogers is determined to swim in the Paralympics - despite being approximately 2ft tall. The determined 14-year-old was born with a rare condition that left her with no lower spine and meant her legs had to be amputated. Now Jessica dreams of gaining a place on the US team so she can compete in London next year.)
Man with UK's biggest feet sleeps with 30 women (The Sun UK)
(CARL Griffiths has Britain's biggest feet — and is a massive hit with the ladies. At just 19 years old, Carl's feet are a whopping size 21 — more than double the UK men's average size nine. And that means Carl, from Trimsaram, South Wales, is constantly faced with the same chat-up line: "Is it true what they say about men with big feet?")
Brain fritters, chocolate blood ice cream and crispy testicles: The chef who loves cooking 'other bits' (Daily Mail)
(Jennifer McLagan doesn't necessarily want to shock readers with her new cookbook Odd Bits: How To Cook The Rest Of The Animal but she's really good at doing just that. In the first recipe called Headcheese for the Unconvinced she explains how to shave or singe the little hairs off a pig's head before submerging it in brine with its cut-off ear and foot. Toronto-based McLagan is an Australian-born chef, food stylist, journalist and award-winning author of Bones and Fat.)
Class Teaches People to Make Their Own Caskets (Oddity Central)
(The mother of all DIY projects has arrived. And this one involves making something you, and only you will ever use. Your coffin. A class that teaches people to build their own caskets is indeed available in Grand Marais, northern Minnesota. It is run by a forty-five year-old professional wood worker, Randy Schnobrich. The three-day course costs around $750, $470 of which is spent on materials alone. Participants are taught and supervised while they construct a coffin from cabinet grade pine, an inch in thickness.)
Calif. students no longer required to give university professor snacks to be taught psychology (Washington Post)
(A California university professor can no longer demand snacks from students taking his psychology classes. Sacramento State professor George Parrott has demanded snacks from his students for 39 years. Students were told of the snack demand on the first day of class. But two weeks ago he walked out of his Psychology 101 lab class because there were no snacks.)
B.C. man dies after marijuana hunger strike (Vancouver Sun)
(As Juliana Bazso mourns her brother's death, she takes comfort from knowing he died for his beliefs. "In his soul, he believed he was doing a heroic act and when the police clamped down on him, it was so bad he knew he couldn't do it any more," she said. Istvan "Steve" Marton, 69, the local marijuana dealer in Sointula, off the north-east coast of Vancouver Island, died in Port MacNeill Hospital Sunday after more than a month on a hunger strike to protest Canada's marijuana laws.)
'Coke is dominating my life (Diet Coke that is)': Father admits he has a problem after downing 18 cans A DAY (Daily Mail)
(A man has told how a lifelong addiction to Diet Coke has come to dominate his life. Darren Jones, 38, can't go a day without downing 18 cans of the soft drink - the equivalent of 42 litres a week, costing him around £3,000 a year. Over the past decade his habit has gradually worsened and now he can't leave the house without a bottle of Coca Cola.)
The Dark Knight Rises: Gary Oldman describes Batman film as pretty epic (Metro UK)
(The actor, who stars as Commissioner Jim Gordon, promised fans that they were in for a treat when it's finally released. He told Collider: 'It’s the last one, the third one in the trilogy. It’s a great story. It’s gonna be pretty epic.' Oldman explained that more scenes were shot in IMAX than in the previous Batman film, The Dark Knight.)
Christopher Nolan spills 'Dark Knight Rises' details (Marquee)
(Empire magazine has some new details on the upcoming "The Dark Knight Rises" in its latest issue, which also features two covers: one of Batman, and the other of Bane. Director Christopher Nolan reveals to the magazine that a lot of time has passed in between the conclusion of 2008's "The Dark Knight" and the starting point for 2012's "Rises." "It's really all about finishing Batman and Bruce Wayne's story. We left him in a very precarious place," Nolan tells Empire. "Perhaps surprisingly for some people, our story picks up quite a bit later, eight years after 'The Dark Knight.' So he's an older Bruce Wayne; he's not in a great state.")
Batman: Arkham City Shatters Single-day Record for Demos Played in Both US & UK (Gamasutra)
(OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of cloud gaming, announced today that the company’s just-launched FREE, EXCLUSIVE instant demo of Batman: Arkham City has broken both US and UK records for most OnLive demos played in a single day. The OnLive instant demo, which coincided with the North American PC release of the game and precedes the UK’s PC launch by three days, gave Batman fans the only opportunity to test drive the red-hot action-adventure game with a fully playable trial of the game’s first 30 minutes. As with all OnLive games, Batman: Arkham City can be played instantly on almost any PC or Mac® via any browser, with no discs, no large downloads, no waiting in lines and no high-performance hardware required, or on HDTV via the OnLive MicroConsole.)
Women Fake Orgasm to Hang Onto Their Men (Live Science)
(Women who are unsure of their partner's fidelity are the most likely to fake orgasms, as well as engage in other behaviors designed to hang on to their man, a new study finds. The research is the first to quantitatively link suspicions of infidelity to the likelihood of faking orgasm, said study researcher Farnaz Kaighobadi, a postdoctoral researcher at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at Columbia University.)
Daily stress is leading to a rise in the potential nightmare of 'sleep texting', expert claims (Daily Mail)
(The stress of daily life has sparked a new phenomenon - sleep texting. People with the rare condition send incoherent text messages while asleep to their friends and family - completely unaware that they are doing it. Sleep specialist Dr David Cunnington, of Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre in Australia, said patients had reported incidents of sleep texting - and he has advised people to leave their mobile phones outside the bedroom.)
Bionic contact lens ‘to project emails before eyes’ (Xenophilius)
(A new generation of contact lenses that project images in front of the eyes is a step closer after successful animal trials, say scientists. The technology could allow wearers to read floating texts and emails or augment their sight with computer-generated images, Terminator-syle. Researchers at Washington University who are working on the device say early tests show it is safe and feasible.)
Homeowner Busts Burglar From 5,000 Miles Away (My Fox NY)
(A vigilant Aussie homeowner has spoken of his shock after busting two alleged thieves in the act when he logged on to web cameras while 4,970 miles (8,000km) away on holiday in Mauritius. The unnamed Melbourne man, who lives in a suburb in the city's southeast, discovered his house being ransacked when he logged on to an iPad.)
Qantas Twitter contest draws thousands of angry replies (BBC)
(A Twitter competition has drawn thousands of angry responses after Australian airline Qantas launched it amid a major labour dispute. The airline asked people to describe a "dream luxury in-flight experience", offering Qantas gift packs as prizes. But users of the micro-blogging service instead used the competition to vent their frustration with Qantas.)
Sugarland Named in Ind. State Fair Lawsuit (Time)
(Country duo Sugarland was named in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by 44 survivors of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse and family members of four people who died, by far the largest claim yet stemming from the tragedy. Attorneys representing at least 20 law firms across Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky filed the complaint alleging breach of reasonable care to the victims in Marion Superior Court in Indianapolis.)
Russia May Target Missile Defense Sites (Time)
(President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will aim its missiles at the U.S. missile defense sites in Europe if Washington fails to address Russian concerns on its missile defense plans. Medvedev said that Russia will deploy missiles in its westernmost Kaliningrad region and other areas if Russia and NATO fail to reach a deal on the U.S.-led missile defense plans.)
Naturally, Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’ Reappears – in Kohl’s Black Friday Advertisment (Time)
(Sure, the song may be an anthem for any generic Friday, but it’s only natural that it makes a reprisal to promote the most (in)famous Friday of the year: the day after Thanksgiving that marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Kohl’s was the lucky retail outlet that nabbed Rebecca Black’s awesomely bad smash hit “Friday” to advertise its Black Friday sales. Naturally, the term “Rebecca Black Friday” is an undeniably potent combo. And their parody is just as earworm-worthy as the original — though it’s not clear if this will actually convince viewers to run to Kohl’s when their doors open at midnight on Black Friday.)
Probe widens in buttocks-enlargement case (Reuters)
(More alleged victims are coming forward in the case of a Florida resident accused of injecting "super glue" and flat-tire repair materials into the buttocks of a woman in a botched illegal cosmetic surgery procedure, the Florida Department of Health said on Tuesday. Oneal Ron Morris, 30, was arrested by Miami Gardens police on Friday in Fort Lauderdale and charged with causing bodily injury and practicing healthcare without a license.)
Did D.B. Cooper publish his own memoir? Rare 1983 book unearthed which claims author is famous hijacker (Daily Mail)
(Federal investigators have checked hundreds of leads since the man dubbed D.B. Cooper parachuted from a flight with $200,000 dollars in ransom in 1971. But if the author of a newly-unearthed memoir is to be believed, Cooper has come forward to reveal himself as the man who has gone down in American folklore for pulling off the nation's only unsolved hijacking.The book, tauntingly entitled 'HA-HA-HA', features a drawing of a man in a suit holding a briefcase while parachuting from a commercial jet on its cover. Its author, it is claimed, is D.B. Cooper.)
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