Thursday, May 29, 2008

Small Bits of News

Deadly snake bites man's penis
A roadside toilet stop ended in pain, embarrassment and almost death for a tourist in Australia when a highly venomous snake bit the end of his penis.
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Nude maid accused of really cleaning up
A nude maid is accused of really cleaning up at a Florida man's home. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said a 50-year-old man hired the maid from the Internet on Friday to clean his Tampa home.
Authorities said the woman arrived at the home in a one-piece, light colored dress. She took off the dress and cleaned the house for $100-per-hour. Sheriff's office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said the man told deputies he left the maid alone in the bedroom to clean.
When the man's wife came home from vacation, she discovered $40,000 in jewelry missing from their bedroom.
Police are investigating.
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Man accused of stealing bracelet and swallowing it
A 25-year-old man bit off more than he could chew when he allegedly stole a gold bracelet from an 8-year-old girl and then swallowed the evidence, police in northern Mexico said Tuesday.
Jose Rigoberto Cruz Salas was being administered laxatives to recover the evidence at a jail in a suburb of the northern city of Monterrey.
Police ordered an x-ray of his stomach, which revealed the stolen jewelry.
He faces robbery charges, punishable by a fine or a jail term of six months to 15 years - depending on the bracelet's value. Its worth could not be immediately determined.
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Yearbook Arrives With Altered Photos
School officials say they are appalled by altered photos — including heads on different bodies — in hundreds of McKinney High School yearbooks delivered this week.
The McKinney High School yearbook staff in Texas spent the school year working on its yearbook, only to receive dozens of complaints from students that their photos had been altered by Lifetouch National School Studios Inc., a photography company. Some heads were even on the wrong bodies.
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Cops and Robbers
Being a burglar is at best a risky job but two Melbourne men arrested last week were shocked to find police inside a house they had just broken into.
The detectives were in the middle of a drug raid and were just as surprised when they greeted the thieves, during the attempted midnight burglary at the house in Melton, 45km west of Melbourne.
Armed with search warrants, the officers had swooped on the property that was allegedly being used for illegally growing hydroponic cannabis, and arrested a man in his 20s living there.
After the burglars broke in through a window and saw the police, they ran off but were caught and arrested two days later.
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Taking a heavy toll
Tollway aggressively chases accused scofflaws, regardless of cracks in enforcement system
Hunkered in her idling SUV outside the tollway's headquarters, Leslie Boudreau frantically sifts through papers that say she owes $4,619 for blowing $179.50 in tolls over the last year.
Pay up in two weeks, the papers say, or owe the tollway $15,739 and eventually lose your driver's license. Boudreau says she didn't know her I-PASS ran out of money last year because she thought her credit card automatically refilled it.

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