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HAMILTON, Ohio — A young Cincinnati Bengals fan has been penalized for clipping. Dustin Reader got the NFL team's stripes and "B" insignia cut into his hair as a tribute to the team's good season. When he showed up to school in the southwest Ohio city of Hamilton on Monday, officials put the eighth-grader into in-school suspension. The school says its code of conduct prohibits extreme and distracting hairstyles. Reader's parents and barber say they don't understand why the haircut is out of bounds. His father says his son just wants to show pride in the 6-2 Bengals. School officials say he will continue to do his studies away from other students until the hair grows back or he changes the style. Source
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Caesar, Circus Probst's ferocious five-year-old star, was being transported a Mercedes van when the vehicle was stolen. The thief drove off, but abandoned the vehicle with the engine still running after crashing into a road sign. It was unclear whether the thief's sudden awareness of the animal in the back of the van had inspired him or her to abort the mission. Police recovered the van in the early hours of Wednesday morning in Wuppertal, in western Germany. They towed the van away, unaware of its feline freight, and it was not until midday on Wednesday that the circus lion was returned to its rightful owners, more than 12 hours after the adventure began. "Caesar is fine. We're not worried about him," said Laurens Thoen, a circus spokesman. "Since yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon he has been in his enclosure at the circus." Source
LIMA, Peru (AP) — "They call me the hardware store," says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru. Doctors in the city of Cajamarca said they removed 1.5 pounds of metal from Abanto's stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metal. Cajamarca hospital surgeon Carlos Delgado told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he's never seen anything like what he found in last week's operation. "We went in thinking it could be appendicitis, but weren't we surprised by what we found — a hole in his stomach," Delgado said. Delgado said specialists are examining Abanto's mental health as he recovers. The 26-year-old construction worker ate the metal for months, and told Peru's Channel 9 television that he may now do it in public "as sport." "I swallowed 17 nails in February and didn't die," he said. "Five-inch nails, all in one day." Source
A party promoter has banned "metrosexuals" from a popular club night in a bid to stamp out violence. The promoter, credited with bringing the Perth-based event Dorcia to Melbourne in September, warned punters they would not get in wearing trademark metrosexual attire - for example, low-cut V-neck T-shirts, skinny jeans and pointed white shoes. Scott Mellor said the move was made to end a "sports jock mentality" and a growing trend of aggression inside clubs and bars. "We are really trying to push a party night that is a safe place to go and have a good time without worrying about safety," the 27-year-old said. "We wanted to shed light on the problems with nightlife in Australia. We took everything that we disliked about going out to clubs and inverted it ... no dressing up like David Beckham. "We are about creating an environment where people can be comfortable and confident." Posters advertising the Dorcia event hosted by city venue the Ding Dong Lounge warn patrons: "No metrosexual attire, no aggression, no problems." Popular brand Ed Hardy tops the list of unacceptable clothing, as does "fight fashion" from brands such as Tapout. Other faux pas include pointed leather shoes, shirts with numbers on them, tight T-shirts and polo shirts with popped collars. Men sporting blond tips or dyed rats' tails will also be turned away. Management also warned that ejected troublemakers would be photographed for a "name and shame" wall just inside the entrance. "We are not turning away people who look after themselves, wear product in their hair or dress with a degree of style," Mr Mellor said. "We are simply providing a venue for people who don't subscribe to the standards of 90 per cent of other clubs." But Eve nightclub boss Nick Russian said the initiative seemed unfair. "I think you find the people who make an effort are the people who've come out for a good time, and the last thing on their agenda is starting fights," Mr Russian said. He said that a lot of clubs kept a strict dress code with that in mind. "The main objective is for people to come with the right attitude. If people are drunk or aggressive they won't get in." Melbourne councillor Jennifer Kanis said nightclub owners and managers had the right to refuse entry. "But I expect refusal to be based on demonstrated antisocial behaviour rather than discriminating against a person or group of people because of the way they dress," Cr Kanis said. Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner Dr Helen Szoke said everybody was entitled to service without discrimination. "It is against the law to refuse a person service on the basis of age, sex, physical features, race and a range of other characteristics," she said. Source
A hungry dog is being blamed turning on the heat under a chip pan which set fire to his owner's kitchen - causing £6,000 damage. Paul Gregson believes his pet retriever Alfie was looking for food when he jumped up and nudged a switch on the family's range oven, reports the Daily Post. Mr Gregson, 42, of Llanfairfechan, Gwynedd, said: "We're calling him Alfie the arsonist now." Fortunately Mr Gregson, his wife and their sons Charlie, 10, and Patrick, seven, - and Alfie - all escaped from their burning home unhurt. He said: "The dog sleeps in a basket in the kitchen. He went on top of the cooker looking for something to eat. He kicked a switch and there happened to be a chip fryer on top, which went up." Three-year-old Alfie is a liver-coloured, flat-coated retriever who Mr Gregson described as "very lively, bouncy and smelly". "The breed is a cross between a pointer and a red setter. They are slow to mature - if they mature at all. He exists to eat. He's a walking stomach," he said. The Gregsons were awoken by smoke detectors at midnight. Mr Gregson said: "At first we were disorientated. We thought 'What the hell's that noise?' My wife then rang for the fire brigade and we went downstairs and got everyone out the door. "The fire brigade were incredible. They got here in less than five minutes." Source
Anywhere between an estimated 600,000 and 1 million players who use Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service will be cut off from the service because they have modified their game consoles or played games that were illegally downloaded from file-sharing sites, according to the company. "All consumers should know that piracy is illegal and that modifying their Xbox 360 console violates the Xbox Live terms of use, will void their warranty and result in a ban from Xbox Live," Microsoft said in a statement Wednesday. The timing of the statement coincides with the release this week of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," a highly anticipated Xbox 360 game. The game's release means big sales — but also sales of pirated copies, which are illegal. There are more than 20 million players worldwide who use the Xbox Live gaming service, according to Microsoft. The service lets gamers play each other online as well as buy and download games. "All consumers should know that piracy is illegal and modifying their Xbox 360 console violates the Xbox Live terms of use, will void their warranty and result in a ban from Xbox Live," Microsoft said. "We can assure you that if an Xbox Live member follows the Xbox Live terms of use, purchased a retail copy of 'Modern Warfare 2' and played the game on an unmodified Xbox 360, no action will be taken.” Dave Taylor, publishing director for GamerZines.com, said he understands why some people may want to modify their consoles. "It's fair for people to feel that they should be able to do whatever they want with something that they have bought, but it's also fair for Microsoft to do everything it can to reduce the risk of piracy," he said. Source
TAMPA — Marine reservist Jasen Bruce was getting clothes out of the trunk of his car Monday evening when a bearded man in a robe approached him. That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions. What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist. Police say Bruce offered several reasons to explain his actions: The man tried to rob him. The man grabbed Bruce's crotch and made an overt sexual advance in perfect English. The man yelled "Allahu Akbar," Arabic for "God is great," the same words some witnesses said the Fort Hood shooting suspect uttered last week. "That's what they tell you right before they blow you up," police say Bruce told them. Bruce ended up in jail, accused of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He was released Tuesday on $7,500 bail. Marakis ended up at the hospital with stitches. He told the police he didn't want to press charges, espousing biblical forgiveness. But Tuesday, Bruce wasn't saying sorry. Source
Visitors to a New Zealand acquatic centre were stunned to see one shark give another shark an impromptu caesarean section. Staff at Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World in Auckland were initially dubious when visitors came running to tell them there were baby sharks spilling from a wound in a female school shark's stomach - courtesy of a large bite by another shark. But they found a female with a large gaping stomach wound and four babies swimming in the tank. Kelly Tarlton's aquarist Fiona Davies said it was common for sharks to take chunks out of each other, even in the wild, but she had never heard of anything like this. "It had to bite a certain part to let them out and do it without killing them [the babies] or her [the mother]." Ms Davies said the unusual delivery had probably saved the baby sharks' lives. Staff did not know the mother was pregnant and, had she given birth naturally, most likely at night, the babies would have been eaten by adult sharks and stingrays before staff could rescue them. The young sharks have been taken to a "nursery" tank with some baby eagle rays, where visitors can see them before they are released into the wild. Source
