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A U.S. tourist got more then he bargained for when he was attacked by a crocodile while attempting to answer the call of nature in the Mexican resort of Cancun this week. According to Mexican police 20-year-old Andrew Dales, from Dallas in Texas, confessed that he had been on a mission to relieve himself at the edge of the local Nicupté lagoon , in the popular tourist resort of Cancun, when the crocodile suddenly snapped at him. He suffered ‘multiple bite wounds’ to his leg and neck and was also left with a head injury after the reptile knocked him...

Security officials are concerned over a tactic newly employed by al Qaeda. Sheila MacVicar reports suicide bombers are now storing explosives inside their bodies in order to avoid detection. Suicide bomber Abdullah Asieri, avoided detection by two sets of airport security and palace security by smuggling a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator in his rectum. Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia's counter terrorism operations. To get his bomb into this room, Abdullah Asieri, one of Saudi...

September 27, 2009 Police: Man doused with gasoline, burned By JULIE MURPHY Staff Writer DAYTONA BEACH -- A man suffered severe burns to his face, chest and hands during a fight over beer, cigarettes and money Saturday afternoon. He had to be airlifted to the Orlando Regional Medical Center Saturday for treatment of his injuries, officials said. Dean Allen Fultz, 47, was transported first to Halifax Health Medical Center shortly after 3 p.m. with "serious burns," said EVAC Ambulance spokesman Mark O'Keefe. Fultz was airlifted to Orlando about 30 minutes later, Daytona Beach police Chief Mike Chitwood said. Fultz was...

A woman trying to smash a penny on the tracks was hit by a train Thursday night. Emergency crews rushed to the scene at River Road and Idaho Street in Sedamsville just after 8 p.m. They say the woman in her 20s suffered a minor head injury and was walking around when crews arrived. She was taken to the hospital for observation.

Pocket Tazer Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife. A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Tazer for their anniversary submitted this: Last weekend I saw something at Larry's Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse- sized tazer. The effects of the tazer were supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety....?? WAY TOO COOL!

06:21 PM EDT on Friday, September 11, 2009 By NATALIE DICK / NewsChannel 36 E-mail Natalie: NDick@WCNC.com MAIDEN, N.C. -- A Catawba County girl is recovering after a bizarre incident at a local petting zoo, and now her mother worries other kids could be hurt, too. Animal Control is investigating and they've asked the State Department of Agriculture to get involved. Nine-year-old Elizabeth Ross has always loved animals but she'll never think about them in quite the same way after what happened to her at Buffalo Beal's Animal Park in Maiden on Labor Day. The soft spoken fourth-grader was hand...

First Lady Michelle Obama hits her head while boarding a smaller version of Air Force One.

A road-rage incident late Wednesday night in Lancaster led to a scuffle that ended when one of the combatants pulled out a gun and accidentally shot himself in the leg, Lancaster police said today. Detectives believe the incident started at about 10:30 p.m., when someone reportedly cut someone else off in traffic on Ransom Road. A chase ensued, involving two individuals on motorcycles and one in another vehicle. A short distance away on Ransom, at least one of the motorcyclists and the motorist confronted each other, and the motorist pulled out a gun. "The one male points the gun at...

A robbery suspect wearing only a Speedo-style swimsuit was arrested in East Hartford after a police dog tracked him down and bit him on the leg. Police say Tran tried to steal several vehicles, and also took items from them. The 18-year-old Tran allegedly told police he'd been drinking heavily and smoking marijuana.

A 26-year old Greek woman has become an overnight national hero after setting fire to the genitals of a 23-year old drunken Briton who allegedly tried to sexually assault her in a crowded bar. The unidentified woman from the fiercely proud island of Crete won herself even more praise by doing the right legal thing – turning herself over to police and the courts to be put on trial for what she claimed was her "right to self-defence". She will face a magistrate on Friday to see if the case will go to court. She is currently facing an investigating...

A Tunisian woman is reported to be about to eclipse the octuplets of the American mother Nadia Suleman after becoming pregnant with 12 babies.The unnamed teacher and her husband are said to be ecstatic about the pregnancy, which was achieved with fertility treatment after they suffered two miscarriages. They are expecting six boys and six girls and the woman is thought to be as much as nine months' pregnant. But fertility experts have condemned the news, alleging the doctors who treated the couple are "irresponsible" and risking the health and lives of the mother and her babies. It is not...

<p>"A Greek woman set fire to a British man's genitals at a club after he allegedly made sexual advances on her.</p>

A former soldier pulled his own teeth out with a pair of pliers because he could not find a dentist to take on NHS patients. Iraq War veteran Ian Boynton could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain. The 42-year-old, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, had not had his teeth looked at since seeing the army dentist in 2003. He had not been registered with a dentist of his own since 2001.

OAKLAND — A man apparently locked out of his West Oakland apartment was seriously hurt when he tried to rappel down the roof of the building into a back window and fell four stories, fire officials said. Fire fighters responded to calls of the man's fall around 1:40 a.m. today in the 700 block of Peralta Street, across from the Main Oakland Post Office. The man, whose age was not immediately known, apparently lived in the building and had been locked out of his apartment, officials said. He went to the roof and rigged an orange electrical extension cord, which...

Enraged at being two-timed, a Queens woman poured boiling water on her unfaithful husband's groin as he slept Monday, police said. In a twisted act of revenge, Oyinda Ojofeitimi, 67, a registered nurse, carried out the crotch-scalding attack to ensure her spouse stopped cheating, cops said. "She was hurt and angry that after all this time married, he was stepping out on her," a police source said. "She wanted to shut down that possibility forever because he had treated her with such contempt." The painful wakeup call left Emmanuel Ojofeitimi, also a nurse, screaming in the bedroom of the couple's...

<p>Michael Jackson wore a prosthetic nose, according a report — and it was missing from his surgically mangled face as he lay in an LA morgue.</p> <p>Left behind was a small, dark hole surrounded by bits of cartilage, Rolling Stone magazine said, citing witnesses who saw the King of Pop's body on the autopsy table.</p>

Recently Chastity Bono announced she was having surgery to become a man. A transgender center in Montgomery County is busier than ever. Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has the exclusive story of one of the oldest patients to make the switch. Renee Ramsey is recovering from the surgery that she's been dreaming of for decades. "Since I was about 13, I always knew something was different," said Renee............

Forty-four-year-old Douglas Herbstsommer of Gilbert, Ariz., wasn't seriously injured Sunday when he was stung by a venomous Arizona bark scorpion while going through his luggage.

A domestic horse found loose in Nevada with the brand cut out of its hide is drawing outrage from equine advocates concerned about the growing number of horses abandoned in the wild.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities said a bullet from a gun that was accidentally dropped injured a Tampa woman sitting in a bathroom stall. Police said the bullet hit 53-year-old Janifer Bliss in the lower left leg. She was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. Bliss was sitting on the toilet in a hotel bathroom when a woman in the next stall accidentally let her handgun slip out of her waist holster. The weapon discharged when it hit the ground.

A man who gave himself a DIY circumcision using nail clippers was taken to hospital for emergency treatment. Published: 9:00AM BST 30 Jun 2009 Nail clippers: 'This is something we would advise men never to attempt,' a medic said The young man had to be rushed to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The wound was disinfected to cleanse it before he was given a bed in an observation ward. "This is something we would advise men never to attempt," a medic said, "The results can be quite horrific and long-lasting and have quite an affect on a man's sexual...

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fractured her right elbow during a fall Wednesday, her chief of staff said. Clinton was on her way to the White House when she fell and injured her elbow, chief of staff Cheryl Mills said in a statement released late Wednesday.

CAIRO (AP) — A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday. After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his reproductive organ, said a police official. The young man came from a prominent family in the southern Egyptian province of Qena, one of Egypt's poorest and most conservative areas that is also home to the famed ancient Egyptian ruins of Luxor. The man was rushed...

BOULDER CREEK - A 23-year-old woman driving her boss' red Ferrari flipped the sports car on Bear Creek Road on Saturday, causing an estimated $125,000 in damage, according to the California Highway Patrol. The Morgan Hill woman and her passenger did not suffer any injuries, according to the CHP. Her boss, however, was none too pleased. "He was not very happy," CHP officer Elizabeth Addy said. "She's going to be paying that back for quite a long time." ... Alcohol was not involved in the incident, according to the CHP. Addy said the driver borrowed the car with the owner's...

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Lance Armstrong crashes after being knocked out of the first stage of the Vuelta of Castilla and Leon stage race in Spain.

Cheat hubby's willy severed   Pain ... angry wife bit off hubby's manhood  Published: 23 Mar 2009     A FURIOUS wife bit off her hubby's manhood after waking up to find him in a clinch with her best friend. Katya Kharitovonova, 36, was jailed for two years for the wounds she inflicted on hubby Mikhail, 40, and his lover Liza Dmitriyeva, 33. The Russian couple had gone for a walk when they met Katya's pal Liza and invited her home for a meal. After eating, they settled down to watch HG Wells movie The War of the Worlds...

Gorontalo. A villager in Bone Bolango district, Gorontalo Province, had to be rushed to the hospital on Tuesday after a horse bit off one of his testicles. The incident occurred when the 35-year-old victim, Haris, was unloading sand from a horse-drawn cart at a construction site. A witness told the state-run Antara news agency on Wednesday that the animal suddenly lunged at Haris and sank its teeth into his crotch. As bystanders tried to load the injured man into a vehicle to take him to Aloe Saboe Hospital, one person spotted a piece of flesh on the pavement, which proved...

AN Indonesian villager had to be rushed to hospital after a horse bit off one of his testicles during a freak attack.

McALESTER (AP) — An Antlers woman is facing a charge of attempted maiming in which prosecutors say she tried to pull out the eye of a motel maid in McAlester. Twenty-six-year-old Tommie Sue Cofflet is accused of attacking the maid after the group she was with was asked to leave the motel. Court documents say Cofflet held the maid in a headlock and began digging at her eye and caused severe trauma to the left eyeball. Prosecutors did not immediately return a phone call for comment.

A Fort Worth man will be facing what will no doubt be a series of painful reconstructive surgeries after half of his nose was torn off during a fight with his next-door neighbor. Scott Jackson, 37, says, "I got hit in the face with a beer bottle or something and it cut half my nose off." It happened Wednesday night in a mobile home park off Ohio Gardens Drive just north of Rockwall Golf Course near the Jacksboro Highway. The victim says he was only trying to protect himself and his property when his neighbor and possibly one other man...

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ROBINSON TOWNSHIP — Two children suffered minor injuries when a dog attacked them after following its owners onto a bus full of students headed to Robinson Elementary School on Wednesday morning. According to Grand Haven Area Public Schools Superintendent Keith Konarska, the pit bull followed two children from his family onto the bus at a stop at 120th Avenue and Fernwood Lane. Once on the bus, the dog nipped at two students and the driver, who was trying to remove it, Konarska said. A boy and a girl, both 9, were injured in the incident. Parents of both injured students...

VICTORVILLE • Armed with a knife and lurking in the dark, Thomas Lee Rowley waited in ambush to reclaim what he thought was rightfully his: his former girlfriend’s breast implants that Rowley paid for. As his former girlfriend stepped outside the back door of her mother’s house in Hesperia, Rowley, 28, stabbed her six times in the head and torso. That’s the picture painted by Deputy District Attorney David Foy on the first day of testimony in Rowley’s trial for attempted murder of ex-girl friend, Shanon Perry, 26, on July 25, 2006. Rowley’s former roommate Dennis McGill testified to a...

A 29 year old man has been left with the 'beak' of a needlefish stuck in his face after it leapt from the sea and impaled him below the nose. Experts from the Department of Otolarynology at Israel's Meir Medical Centre in Kfar Saba said that the man was admitted to the hospital after the fish hit him in the face, and left its toothy jaws wedged in the hole. The fish apparently leapt from the sea and impaled the man at the side of the nose. It's jaws hit with such force that they pierced his naval cavity, went...

Little Lil, a Columbian blacktailed cross hen, is the smallest of her flock but regularly lays eggs measuring 10cm across - more than twice the size of a normal egg. Youngsters at Raikes Centre pupil referral unit in Gloucester have been unable to measure the weight of the eggs because they exceed 8oz, the maximum their scales will reach. When pupils cracked open the latest oversized egg they found a yolk, an egg white and another small but complete egg on the inside, like a Russian doll. The six-month old hen has only been laying since October but once a...

OUCH! Mooloolah carpenter Greg Robertson is recuperating in Nambour hospital after a sickening accident in which he speared himself in the groin area with a speargun at Coolum yesterday. The drama unfolded off the rocks at Point Perry about 3.30pm when the 25 year old was pushed onto the speargun, which had been washed out of his hands by a wave. The two metre long spear pierced his inside upper thigh, just millimetres from his genitals and femoral artery, and lodged several centimetres under the skin. The first time spear fisherman had been enjoying a day at the beach with...

OCALA, Fla. -- A woman in Ocala was jailed for hitting herself in the face with a frying pan and then blaming her estranged husband.

A 27-year-old Deltona woman told authorities she bit her husband's schvanschtooker because she didn't want to have sex with him. Charris Bowers was arrested Saturday by a Volusia County sheriff's deputy, accused of misdemeanor battery. A judge set her free Sunday without requiring her to post bail. Her husband, Delou Bowers, today would not comment. According to a sheriff's office report, the Bowerses had been to a bar Friday night. Delou Bowers told authorities that when they got home, his wife began to perform oral sex on him but then began to bite his schvanschtooker.

2 guys who are wooping on each other using computer keyboards...

<p>Doctors have expressed considerable concerns about the growing trend for heavy wooden and ornamental toilet seats after a number of male toddlers were admitted with crush injuries to their penises.</p> <p>Writing in the December issue of BJU International, Dr Joe Philip and his colleagues at Leighton Hospital, Crewe, report on four boys under the age of four, who were admitted with injuries serious enough to require an overnight stay.</p>

Comedian, Hand Model Sues Over Finger Tip Loss DES MOINES, Iowa -- A Des Moines comedian, magician and hand model filed a lawsuit Monday in Polk County court over a lounge chair incident. Patrick Albanese, a comedian in the play Triple Espresso, is suing Kmart and the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. Albanese said he moved a lounge chair on a deck and it collapsed. Caught in the collapsing chair's front leg was his finger. Court documents show that the "plaintiff's crushed finger tip fell beneath the deck and was later retrieved by one of the plaintiff's relatives." The lawsuit...

Anyone have a stungun or tazer story? I recently purchased a new stun gun for my wife, and instead of the standard 300,000-650,000 volt guns, I purchased the 1 million volt model. Well, I took a page out of my military training and decided that we should test it out so we truly know what it will do. Like getting gassed in basic training and getting hammered by a puke laser in Afghanistan, I vounteered to do the deed. My wife really did not want to do it, or so she stated, but I talked her into it quite easily....

Marriage No. 3 was no day in paradise for Phil Collins, whose latest failed one cost him nearly $46.7 million - believed to be a record for a celebrity divorce. Collins, 57, had to pony up the huge sum to Orianne Cevey, 35, to end their six-year union, according to Britain's Daily Mirror. The soft rocker's settlement tops the Paul McCartney deal with Heather Mills, which was estimated to be worth about $45 million.

Paul Newman has finished chemotherapy and has told his family he wants to die at home... Yesterday, it was reported in America that Newman, 83, had only weeks to live and had returned home to his wife, Joanne Woodward...

A tourist who relieved himself over a live railway line at a south London station was electrocuted.

Lebanon - A woman is recovering in a Boone County hospital after injuring herself with a three-foot sword over the weekend. Katherine Gunther put a hole in her left foot in a cemetery early Saturday with a sword she was wielding as part of a Wiccan ceremony...

Dallas, TX (AHN) - A University of Texas Southwestern Medical School study linked the rise in kidney stone ailments to global warming.The connection of kidney stone with warm weather has been established based on statistics that southeastern states have 50 percent higher incident than northeastern states. Kidney stones, although on the rise nationwide since 1976, were observed to have higher rates of occurrence during summer. With global warming even the northeastern region will likely experience higher incidents with an estimated 1.6 million new cases by 2050.The rise in kidney stone incidents by 25 percent in 2050 will be accompanied by...

ANTRIM, N.H. (WBZ) ― A 21-year-old Antrim woman is recovering after being struck by lightning Wednesday night. The bolt hit her feet and came out through her nose ring. Jessica Lafreniere was hit while she was walking through her family's garage. "She had walked into the garage to go outside to turn off the faucet. The light came in through the garage and hit her," Jessica's mother, Danielle Taylor told WBZ. "It was like a red flash that came from her feet and she was thrown into my arms. She was blue and purple, and stiff as a board." "When...

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