Jury awards $14 million in Pennsbury bus accident (Philly Burbs)
(A Bucks County jury has awarded a Falls woman $14 million for severe injuries that she sustained after an out-of-control Pennsbury school bus ran over her in January 2007. The jury deliberated for nearly four hours before reaching its verdict Monday afternoon for Ashley Zauflik, now 21, who lost her left leg above the knee, and suffered a crushed pelvis and other lower body fractures.)
School Bus Driver Fired Over DUI Arrest (The Indy Channel)
(A school bus driver was fired Monday after she was accused of driving drunk with students on board over the weekend. Kokomo-Center Township Consolidated Corp. officials fired Theresa Mast, 56, during a closed-door meeting Monday evening. Mast was arrested Saturday morning after witnesses noticed erratic driving on U.S. 31.)
Police seizing grossly overloaded school buses (East Day)
(CITY police said they caught two illegal school buses overloading kindergarten students in the suburban Minhang District yesterday. One vehicle, with seven seats, was packed with 19 people while the other, a bus with 17 seats, carried 30 people, said the district police. The two vehicles were confiscated by the police and the two kindergartens, not identified, were asked to stop the illegal school bus operation.)
Man Survives on Frozen Beer after Getting Truck Stuck in Alaska Snowdrift for Three Days (My Fox NY)
(A man was recovering Sunday after surviving nearly three days stuck in his pickup truck in an Alaskan snowdrift by eating frozen cans of light beer. Clifton Vial was unable to dig out his Toyota Tacoma after it plunged into the snowdrift some 40 miles north of the town of Nome, in western Alaska, on Monday night, the ADN reported. He had no food and no water -- and was out of cell phone coverage.)
Boy Suspended For Saying Teacher 'Cute' (My Fox NY)
(A North Carolina mother says her nine-year-old son was suspended from school for calling a teacher "cute," WSOCTV.com reported. The boy's mother, Chiquita Lockett, said the principal of Brookside Elementary in Gastonia, N.C., called her after the incident to say the comment was a form of "sexual harassment." "It's not like he went up to the woman and tried to grab her or touch her in a sexual way," Lockett said. "So why would he be suspended for two days?")
'Scrooge' Teacher Reined In Over Santa Gaffe (Sky News)
(A New York teacher has apologised after telling her class of seven and eight-year-olds there was no such thing as Santa Claus. Leatrice Ann Eng, 58, called each of the students' parents with a yuletide mea culpa for her gaffe. Ms Eng was in the middle of a lesson about the North Pole on Tuesday when one of her students pointed out that was where Santa Claus lives. The teacher replied that not only was there no Santa but it was their mums and dads who left their presents under the tree.)
LONDON DUNGEON DUMMY SKELETON FOUND TO BE REAL (Short List)
(Ever wonder how they make those creepy fake skeletons look so damn real? Well, if you've ever thought this while walking around the London Dungeon, chances are the answer was pretty simple: they used a real one. For those who don't know, it's a Madame Tussauds-esque tourist spot. The 'creepy crypt' exhibit at the popular attraction boasts a 'dummy' skeleton which an expert recently uncovered as genuine. The bones have been on display since 1975.)
Ex-wife 'pours boiling water over sleeping husband' after learning that he was dating a new woman (Daily Mail)
(A wife is accused of pouring boiling water over her ex-husband for seeing another woman. Jesua Tatad is said to have scalded her former spouse as he slept and then beat him with a baseball bat. Even though they were divorced, the 39-year-old shared the same home with the victi, who suffered 60 per cent burns. Prosecutors said Tatad waited until her ex was asleep before pouring a full pan of boiling water over his body.)
Frisky couple on water slide caught having sex in CCTV footage (Metro)
(Staff at the attraction in Opoczno, Poland, must have thought the phrase 'get a room' never seemed more appropriate than for when the frisky couple stripped off and started their amorous display. The women was filmed straddling her boyfriend and starting to make love before the pair shot down the bright blue tunnel, in what must have been a breach of the water park rules.)
NY boy's message in bottle retrieved in the Azores (AP)
(A 10-year-old upstate New York boy's message in a bottle dropped in the Atlantic as part of a school project has been retrieved across the ocean in the Azores. Curtis Kipple of Adams Basin, west of Rochester, wrote a letter in March along with his fellow fourth graders at the Fred W. Hill School in Brockport. The bottles were dropped into the Gulf Stream, 30 miles off shore, by a fisherman from North Carolina's Outer Banks.)
http://www.wtsp.com/news/watercooler/article/224017/58/Fake-breast-exam-doc-gets-year-in-jailPhillip Winikoff gets year in jail for pretending to be doc offering breast exams (WTSP)
(A Broward man accused in a phony breast exam scheme will serve a little more than one year in jail as part of a plea deal reached with prosecutors. Phillip Winikoff, 81, of Coconut Creek, was also sentenced to two years of community control and has to register as a sex offender. Prosecutors said he posed as a doctor and offered door-to-door breast exams at a Lauderdale Lakes apartment complex in 2006.)
FOX NEWS CALLS THE MUPPETS COMMIES (Short List)
(The list of people/groups/emotions that Fox News hates is so long that we're surprised there's still room for any new entrants. But, Follow The Money host Eric Bolling has launched a new attack on a dangerous group of radicals: The Muppets. Their new movie is currently making a mint over in the US and with a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it's making a lot of critics very happy too. But Bolling and his Fox cohorts are convinced that the kids movie has an evil agenda.)
Woman accused of daring man to slap her buttocks before Vero Beach screwdriver attack (TC Palm)
(Mary Ingram said she was joking around with a man and "bent over to antagonize him to slap her on the rear end." The man removed his belt and slapped Ingram's caboose in a "joking manner." But what apparently began Nov. 28 in Vero Beach as a whimsical display of the derriere ended with the arrest of Ingram, 43, and her husband, 50-year-old Floyd Mosley, according to recently released affidavits.)
Mugger chooses wrong victim: ultimate fighting champ (WLSAM)
(A convicted felon chose the wrong victim when he tried to rob an ultimate fighting champion Friday night on the Southwest Side and ended up with two black eyes and a gunshot wound to the ankle. Police say 24-year-old Anthony Miranda walked up to a car which was parked near 55th and Kenneth about 11:30 p.m. and asked the driver for a lighter. When the driver said he didn’t have one, Miranda allegedly pulled a handgun, pointed it at the driver and demanded money. And even after getting some money, he ordered the driver out of the car, police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli said.)
8 Ferraris involved most expensive car crash (News Lite)
(Mercedes, a Lamborghini and a Nissan Skyline has been described as the world's most expensive car crash. The bizarre accident happened as the convoy of sports car connoisseurs were heading to a motorshow in Japan and the driver of one of the Ferraris lost control. This caused the following cars to crash one-by-one leaving a trail of destruction which would have car-lovers crying into their copy of Jeremy Clarkson's latest book)
From Jay and Silent Bob to Facebook (Montreal Gazette)
(Facebook couldn't have invented a better story. For those who think social networking is resulting in a culture of isolation and false intimacy, check out this remarkable anecdote from actor and comedian Jason Mewes. The New Jersey native, best known for playing the foul-mouthed, outspoken half of Jay and Silent Bob in films opposite one-time indie auteur Kevin Smith, was in the midst of praising Facebook and Twitter in a recent interview when he suddenly revealed a personal and stranger-than-fiction tale about reuniting with a long-lost family member.)
Mewes gets old, stays clean (Vancouver Sun)
(Jason Mewes has been clean for more than 600 days and he can thank longtime friend and filmmaker Kevin Smith for helping keep him on the straight and narrow. In mid-2010, Smith invited Mewes - both are best known as foul-mouthed, stoner iconoclasts Jay and Silent Bob from Smith's movies Clerks (1994), Mallrats (1995), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), and Clerks II (2006) - to begin recording a podcast telling the story of their friendship and Mewes' long battle with drug addiction.)
Jay has something to say (Calgary Herald)
(Jay and Silent Bob Get Old plays the McDougall United Church in Edmonton on Thursday. Tickets purchased for the Dec. 9 Calgary appearance at the Century Casino will be honoured in Edmonton. Facebook couldn't have invented a better story. For those who think social networking is resulting in a culture of isolation and false intimacy, check out this remarkable anecdote from actor and comedian Jason Mewes.)
Childhood disorder prompts study of infection link to mental illness (LA Times)
(Cases of children suddenly exhibiting obsessive-compulsive disorder after strep has led to studies that reinforce the belief that some mental illnesses can be triggered by an immune response. Brody Kennedy was a typical sixth-grader who loved to hang out with friends in Castaic and play video games. A strep-throat infection in October caused him to miss a couple of days of school, but he was eager to rejoin his classmates, recalls his mother, Tracy.)
Smoking can make your nipples fall off (The Chart)
(I cringe every time I see a patient for a breast lift who is a smoker. I’m deathly afraid that despite my warnings, she will smoke before or after surgery and cause her nipples to turn black and fall off. Yes. Smokers who undergo breast lifts are at great risk of losing their nipples. I’ve seen it before. The nicotine in cigarettes and the carbon monoxide contained in cigarette smoke can diminish blood flow to various parts of the body. These toxins act as a virtual tourniquet. If the blood flow to a particular body part becomes greatly reduced or halted, that body part dies.)
A clue found to seizures that cause helpless giggles (MSNBC)
(“Laughing seizures” have long been one of the mysteries surrounding epilepsy. During an event, an epileptic suffering a laughing seizure can guffaw, sometimes hysterically, but certainly not because he or she finds anything funny. Now a new study published in the journal Brain, from a team led by Josef Parvizi of Stanford University, has helped clear up some of the mystery.)
We Can Determine Personality by Smell (Newser)
(You are what you reek? It turns out that we can tell a lot about someone's personality just by their smell, according to the New York Daily News. Sixty people in Poland wore the same T-shirt for three nights, and did not use soap, smoke, drink, or "eat odorous foods" during the study. Those shirts were then sniffed by 200 lucky volunteers, who were asked to judge the smells based on five personality traits, such as extroversion, neuroticism, and dominance.)
Scientists find monster black holes, biggest yet (Yahoo)
(Scientists have found the biggest black holes known to exist — each one 10 billion times the size of our sun. A team led by astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered the two gigantic black holes in clusters of elliptical galaxies more than 300 million light years away. That's relatively close on the galactic scale.)
Xbox LIVE voice commands recognises Australian accents (Herald Sun)
(BOX has unveiled the latest update to its XBox LIVE service with a voice control tailored to understand the Aussie accent. From today users will be able to test out their broadest “Strine” in everything from killing aliens to selecting and zipping through their favourite TV shows and music.)
The Beginning of the End for Facebook? (Time)
(My friends at comScore shared with me that, in September 2011 in the U.S., the average number of minutes that each Facebook user spent on the site was 410. Last year, that month’s average was 287, signaling a 42% increase. Also during September 2011, Facebook commanded 14.7% of total U.S. consumer Internet-usage minutes, the most of any website. Given that the site is still on a growth trend, how could I be crazy enough to ask if it’s the beginning of the end for Facebook? Let’s explore.)
Holocaust Victims to Get German Pensions (Time)
(After a year of tough negotiations, Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims worldwide — mostly survivors who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos, or were forced to live in hiding for fear of death. The agreement announced Monday between the New York-based Claims Conference and the German government is "not about money — it's about Germany's acknowledgment of these people's suffering," said Greg Schneider, the conference's executive vice president.)
Elderly Woman Claims TSA Agents Strip-Searched Her (Time)
(A grandmother is planning legal action, claiming that agents from the Transportation Security Administration subjected the 85-year-old to a humiliating strip search at New York’s JFK airport, the New York Daily News reports. Lenore Zimmerman, of Long Island, was en route to Florida on Nov. 29 when she said she was moved to a private room and forced to remove her clothes by TSA officials. She alleged she wanted to be patted down rather than go through a body scanner because she feared it would interfere with her defibrillator.)
Angry Birds...now in candy form(Aggrogate)
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