Topless flasher mown down by car
By New Zealand correspondent Kerri Ritchie
A New Zealand woman who flashed her breasts at passing motorists distracted one driver so much he ran her over.
Cherelle Dudfield never meant to literally stop traffic.
She says she was egged on by a friend to flash her breasts at passing cars while standing in the middle of a road in the South Island city of Invercargill.
But the good times turned bad when one of the vehicles crashed into her.
The 18-year-old rolled over the bonnet, and cracked the windscreen, but luckily was not hurt.
Ms Dudfield pleaded guilty in the Invercargill District Court to one charge of disorderly behaviour.
The judge said the behaviour was dangerous and fined her $220.
ABC 16-12-9
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/16/2773191.htm
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Fugitive gives own mug shot to newspaper
A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mug shot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down.
South Wales police had issued media with the photo of Matthew Maynard, wanted by officers investigating a house burglary, as part of a crackdown on crime in Swansea.
When it appeared in the South Wales Evening Post, the 23-year-old sent the newspaper a replacement photo of himself standing in front of a police van.
They obligingly printed it on the front page.
The police thanked him for helping them in their appeal, saying: "Everyone in Swansea will know what he looks like now."
- Reuters
ABC 8-11-9
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Pilots in 'heated discussion' forget to land plane
Aviation officials in the United States are investigating why the pilots on an airliner with 150 people on board lost contact with controllers for an hour and flew more than 200 kilometres past their destination.
The two pilots of North West Airline's flight 188 told US Transport Safety officials they lost contact with Air Traffic controllers because they had become distracted during a heated discussion about airline policy.
Federal investigators are expected to review the plane's voice recorders to determine whether the crew were indeed distracted or whether fatigue had been a factor.
When the airbus A-320 failed to respond to air traffic controllers military authorities were alerted and fighter jets were put on standby status over fears of a hijacking.
- BBC
ABC 24-10-9
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/23/2723000.htm
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Mayors on one-way street to head-on collision
Police in Paris are dealing with traffic anarchy after the mayors of two feuding suburbs declared the same busy street one-way - but in opposite directions.
There was chaos among bemused drivers at the point where the rival systems converged, with all traffic forced down one side road.
The confusion followed a decision by the Mayor of Levallois who wanted to introduce a one-way system to free up traffic through his borough.
Fearing an overspill into his district, the Mayor of Clichy, Gilles Catoire, brought in a one-way system running the opposite direction.
The local prefect, representing the French state, has issued a decree ordering the immediate return of two-way traffic in Clichy, accusing its Mr Catoire of provoking serious disorder.
Mr Catoire is refusing to back down, saying he will challenge the decision in court.
- BBC
ABC 2-9-9
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/02/2674323.htm
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Novel published one tweet at a time
An American writer who failed to find a publisher for his novel is putting the book on Twitter - 140 characters at a time.
Matt Stewart, a San Francisco-based novelist, began "tweeting" his first book, The French Revolution, on the micro-blogging service on Tuesday (local time).
"As far as I can tell, I'm the first person to release a completed full-length literary novel on Twitter," Stewart wrote on his website, www.thefrenchrev.com.
"Loosely structured on the greatest identity crisis ever, The French Revolution tells the story of a San Francisco family forging its place in history," he said.
Stewart says putting the book on Twitter is a "social experiment" to "see how the world reacts to a long-form tale told in snippets."
He also acknowledges that he has been unable to find a publisher.
"My agent submitted The French Revolution to all the major publishing houses," Stewart said.
"Many of them loved it, but none were willing to buy what they viewed as a 'risky' novel - vivid language, elements of fantasy and farce, raunchy humour," he said.
Stewart says it will take approximately 3,700 "tweets" to transmit all of the 480,000 characters in his book.
- AFP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/15/2626221.htm
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Police clear street over kids' 'nuclear reactor'
Two six-year-old boys pretending to have built a mini nuclear power plant has prompted German police and the fire brigade to clear their street, authorities said.
The school children in the western town of Oelde had built the nuclear reactor mock-up out of a computer casing and taped a "radioactivity warning" they had printed out from the internet on its side.
"When the boys returned to their 'nuclear power plant' from a brief stop at home they were sent away again as the area and a wide radius around it had been cleared and blocked off," police said in a statement.
Residents were ordered not to leave their homes and firefighters tested for a radioactive leak.
The boys' parents thought the fire department was conducting a drill until they read about the operation online and what led to it.
They reported to the police station and explained their six-year-olds had not managed to build an actual nuclear reactor.
- AFP
ABC 24-6-9
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/23/2606539.htm
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Qantas had to take a plane out of service because of escaped snakes earlier this week.
Four baby pythons went missing from the cargo hold on a flight from Alice Springs to Melbourne on Tuesday.
When staff realised they had escaped from their cage, the aircraft was taken out of service and fumigated, causing delays for passengers.
The snakes remain missing.
ABC 16-4-9
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/16/2544073.htm
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