`US actor David Hasselhoff has been treated in hospital after being hurt in a chandelier accident.
Hasselhoff, 53, hit his head on a chandelier in the men’s room after using the gym at the Sanderson Hotel in London’s West End on Thursday.
His right arm was cut by shards of glass, severing a tendon.’
`Dier, 67, said depression, loneliness, denial and a recent bout of flu and bronchitis kept him from maintaining control of the fast-breeding population.
“I did not set out to do this,” he told The Press Democrat. “I do acknowledge irresponsibility and there’s a case for laziness, denial, incompetence and just plain foolishness.”
But “it was not all my fault,” he added. “It was this force of nature that overwhelmed me.”‘
followup to Animal control workers discover house stuffed with rats.
`A man who committed suicide at a party also killed a 16-year-old girl when the bullet traveled through his head and struck her in the chest, authorities said.
Jacob R. Lee, 19, and Lorena Mocko, 16, were found shot to death at around 1 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln County authorities said.’
‘Maury Povich helps a guest overcome her greatest fear by confronting her with pickles.’
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`If like everyone else you’ve been wondering what happened to Suri Cruise and why we’ve never seen a picture of her, here is part of the answer: No one wanted to pay for her. [..]
The Cruise auction is said to have produced not more than a $3 million bid. At that point, the offer was rescinded. The mission was termed “impossible.” No further word was heard from the Cruise camp. [..]
And now that Suri is almost 3 months old, has her price gone up or down? The answer, says one of the mag’s experts, is down.’
`A sheriff’s deputy who was trying to get a man down from a tree shot and wounded him after mistakenly pulling a gun instead of a Taser, authorities say. [..]
The man had been climbed a fig tree and stayed there for hours, talking to himself. Deputies were unsure whether he was intoxicated or psychotic, and they wanted to get him down before he hurt himself or others, Wilson said. [..]
Blakeslee said the man climbed down on his own after getting shot.
“He said, `Ow, that hurt. I’m coming down, I’m coming down,'” Blakeslee said.’
`Worried that a drought could be looming, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue said Tuesday the state will sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for draining excessive amounts of water from the state’s reservoirs. [..]
The Corps acknowledged over the weekend that a faulty gauge at Lake Lanier had allowed 22 billion gallons of water to be released by mistake. Carol Couch, director of Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division, said the amount of water mistakenly drained would have been enough to support the city of Atlanta for 118 days.’
`Tokyo’s futuristic image as the world’s most technologically advanced broadband internet-enabled city is under attack from a vicious but decidedly low-tech foe: urban-dwelling jungle crows.
Their destructive and unpredictable behaviour during the annual May to June mating season is always highly problematic for the Japanese capital. But this year the aggressive ink-black birds have created a new headache by developing a seemingly insatiable taste for fibre-optic internet cable.
[..] An initial burst of activity involving a network of traps around the city and a squadron of experienced crow-catchers met with success, with about 11,000 crows captured.
Unfortunately, crows from the countryside around Tokyo flew in to replace their ensnared comrades, and the population remained constant. ‘
`Maybe we’re in a bear market after all.
Several floors of a downtown Toronto office building in the heart of the city’s financial district were evacuated Tuesday after somebody accidentally discharged a can of bear repellent. “It was supposed to be some kind of a prize in a raffle,” said Toronto police Const. Kristine Bacharach.
“Somebody opened it and accidentally set it off.”‘
‘A couple of friends go cruisin around in atruck. They try to jump a small hill and end up tossing one of the buddies out of the back of the truck.’
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`Staff at a restaurant were treated for burns after the owner was mistakenly sold a sunbed bulb for an insect repellant light.
Five workers, the owner and his wife were left with streaming eyes, flaking skin and headaches because of the UV rays from the kitchen light.
It took experts over two weeks to find the cause.
Mauro Mingotti, 63, who owns La Pergola in Carlisle, Cumbria, said: “Every time we went in front of it we were frying.”‘
‘If you dont watch The Colbert Report you are missing out on one of the funniest shows on TV. My favorite part of the show is Better Know A District where he interviews a congressman from a random US district. Watch as Colbert makes this Georgia representative look like a total fool.’
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‘A police pursuit ended when the suspect’s dog, not happy about being bounced around in the car, bit its owner on the face. [..]
“Deputies could see the dog in the passenger seat getting slammed into the window,” he said.
The dog, which is partly pit bull, “became so agitated that he bit his owner in the face,” Edwards said. “And this is what ended the chase.”
The bite removed part of Galanis’ nose, and he stopped.’
`Since 9/11, 283 World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers have been diagnosed with cancer, and 33 of them have died of cancer, says a lawyer for the ailing responders. [..]
Doctors say the cancers can strike three to five years after exposure to toxins such as benzene, a cancer-causing chemical that permeated the WTC site from burning jet fuel.
“One in 150,000 white males under 40 would normally get the type of acute white blood-cell cancer that strikes a healthy detective,” said Worby, whose first client was NYPD narcotics cop John Walcott, now 41. Walcott spent months at Ground Zero and the Fresh Kills landfill. The father of three is fighting leukemia.
“We have nearly 35 of these cancers in the family of 50,000 Ground Zero workers. The odds of that occurring are one in hundreds of millions,” Worby said.’
‘A redheaded hacidic jewish break dancer face plants while trying to do a front flip. Somehow I dont think he’s going to Hollywood.’
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`A 6-year-old Florida boy who was accidentally left behind by his family after they celebrated his birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant will temporarily remain in state custody. [..]
Emanuel’s family said they accidentally left him Saturday night and didn’t notice he was missing until the next day. Each relative thought the child was with another family member. [..]
An attorney for the boy’s mother told the judge there were 12 youngsters at the party and as they all piled into cars to leave, the boy was simply overlooked.’
`A man accused of not paying for his Pop-Tarts had a troubled getaway.
First, the clerk at the convenience store ripped the man’s shirt off as they struggled when she confronted him for pocketing the toaster pastries Friday, police said.
Then after the man punched the clerk in the stomach and made it out the door, he was hit by a pickup truck in the parking lot. Police said he got up and kept running – into the path of a minivan while he was crossing the street. He got up again, but didn’t make it far.’
`Microsoft executives love telling stories against each other. Here’s one that platforms vice-president Jim Allchin told at a recent Windows Vista reviewers conference about chief executive Steve Ballmer.
It seems Steve was at a friend’s wedding reception when the bride’s father complained that his PC had slowed to a crawl and would Steve mind taking a look.
Allchin says Ballmer, the world’s 13th wealthiest man with a fortune of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success.
He lumped the thing back to Microsoft’s headquarters and turned it over to a team of top engineers, who spent several days on the machine, finding it infected with more than 100 pieces of malware, some of which were nearly impossible to eradicate.’
`This couple didn’t even make it to the altar before police made them part.
Ali Aghili, 37, and Marney Hurst, 33, both of Boulder, were to be married Saturday night at the posh Little Nell Hotel.
Instead, they got into a fight the night before and police arrested them because both allegedly threw punches, said police Sgt. Steve Smith.
The wedding had to be called off because their $250 bond conditions required them to stay away from each other, Smith said. He said it took police three hours to sort out the incident.’
`A St. Paul man is thankful to be alive tonight, after his washing machine exploded this morning in his basement.
Glenn Johnson of St. Paul put gasoline in his machine to clean some greasy clothing. Johnson says he’s done this for 25 years to break up grease stains.
He puts detergent, water and a little gasoline together and after what happened this morning, he says he’ll never do it again.
“I’ve done it a hundred times before,” Johnson tells 5 Eyewitness News. “This is the first time it ever exploded on me.”‘
`The tradition of students driving farm tractors to school on the last day of class is coming to an end in one Beaver County community.
Freedom Area High School students from farming areas have been driving tractors on the last day of classes for more than a decade, perhaps several decades, students said.
But this year, New Sewickley police said they will issue citations to anyone who tries it. Using tractors as transportation is illegal, according to police Chief John Daley, and he said police want to ensure the safety of students and motorists.’
`Worried about the safety of her family during a stormy Memorial Day trip to the beach, Clara Jean Brown stood in her kitchen and prayed for their safe return as a strong thunderstorm rumbled through Baldwin County, Alabama.
But while she prayed, lightning suddenly exploded, blowing through the linoleum and leaving a blackened area on the concrete. Brown wound up on the floor, dazed and disoriented by the blast but otherwise uninjured.
She said ‘Amen’ and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire. The 65-year-old Brown said she is blessed to be alive.’
`Baltimore City police arrested a Virginia couple over the weekend after they asked an officer for directions.
WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team reporter David Collins said Joshua Kelly and Llara Brook, of Chantilly, Va., got lost leaving an Orioles game on Saturday. Collins reported a city officer arrested them for trespassing on a public street while they were asking for directions .
“In jail for eight hours — sleeping on a concrete floor next to a toilet,” Kelly said.
“It was a nightmare,” Brook said. “I was in there thinking I was just dreaming and waiting to wake up.”‘
`A man’s legs were severed early today as he tried to escape from inside an elevator packed with revelers leaving a party in The Bronx, police and witnesses said.
The bizarre accident occurred at 12:15 a.m. when an apartment building elevator at 2395 Tiebout Ave. in the Fordham section got stuck between the first floor and basement, police said.
That’s when the man – who was not identified, but only described by cops as being in his 20s – was following two other men who had safely climbed out of the elevator to the lobby.
As he shimmied through the open doors, the elevator began to move, severing the man’s legs, witnesses said.’
`Volunteers will test Vista Beta 2, a near-final version of the much-hyped upgrade of Windows. The testing is the last step leading up to Vista’s broad consumer release, scheduled for January.
Beta 2 testers can expect to encounter an obtrusive security feature, called User Account Control (UAC). Designed to prevent intruders from performing harmful tasks, the feature grays out the computer screen, then prods you to confirm that you really want to do certain functions.
In early test versions, the queries crop up so often that they interrupt routine tasks, such as changing the time clock or deleting shortcuts. And UAC sometimes triggers an endless loop of dialogue boxes that can be curtailed only by rebooting, says Paul Thurrott, news editor of Windows IT Pro magazine.
“Microsoft completely botched UAC,” Thurrott says. “It’s almost criminal in its insidiousness.”‘
‘I still dont know what happened in this clip. A plane does a full flip and while it is flying level suddenly loses both of its wings obviously causing it to crash.’
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`A supermodel fell out of a coach travelling at 50mph after mistaking an exit door for a toilet door.
It happened as Tatyana Simanava was returning to her seat from the WC.
Instead of opening the door to the passenger area she pulled open the emergency exit.
The 21-year-old blonde was pitched out onto a busy road in the middle of New York.
The driver reportedly spotted her falling out and pulled over.’
‘A Philippine judge who claimed he could see into the future and admitted consulting imaginary mystic dwarfs has asked for his job back after being fired by the country’s Supreme Court.
“They should not have dismissed me for what I believed,” Florentino Floro, a trial judge in the capital’s Malabon northern suburb, told reporters after filing his appeal.
Floro was sacked last month and fined 40,000 pesos ($780) after a three-year investigation found he was incompetent, had shown bias in a case he was trying and had criticized court procedure, a ruling showed.’
follow-up to Judge’s psychic leanings too over the top.
`A German man who unsuccessfully tried to kill himself by jumping in front of a train must pay compensation for the damage he caused, a court in the southern city of Munich ruled on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the court said the 47-year-old man leapt too late to land under the train and instead crashed through the side window of the driver’s cabin. He suffered head wounds but no other lasting physical injuries, the court said.
The driver of the metro train suffered shock and was unable to work for several weeks.’
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