Teens kill bird by blowing smoke from electronic cigarette into its mouth

A teen was arrested on charges of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, after a group of teens abused a bird until it died, police in Florida said.

Wildlife officials said that the group of teenagers used an electronic cigarette to kill a pelican in an attack that was caught on a security camera of an exclusive apartment complex Fort Lauderdale.

A security guard told officials about the attack, Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Liz Barraco said.

Barraco said that according to the investigation, one teenager held the bird down and blew smoke from an electronic cigarette into its beak and eyes. 

He then held the beak closed so it could not breathe, repeating the action several times until it died. The main suspect was charged with a violation of the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

The teen will likely be placed in a juvenile facility.

Dog helps woman give birth

Pets all over the world are a major part of family life. 

Now, a pregnant woman was allowed to take her dog to a hospital to help the woman throughout her labor and birth.

The maternity ward at St. Michael's Hospital in England, allowed the woman to take her dog inside the delivery room, “because it is a certified therapy dog.”

The presence of the dog was discussed and agreed upon in advance with the hospital’s infection control team giving their approval that it could be in the room during labor as therapy for the woman. A thorough cleaning of the delivery room was done after the dog, named Barney, left.

Head of midwifery at St. Michael's Hospital, Sarah Windfeld, said: "Barney is a certified Pets as Therapy or PAT dog, and it regularly visits patients in the hospital."

Pets as Therapy, is a charity founded in 1983. Volunteers take their own friendly dogs and cats that have been tested and vaccinated, to visit hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, schools and more to provide therapeutic visits for those in need.

To date, there are about 4,500 active dogs and 108 cats in the Pets as Therapy program in the United Kingdom. Each week, these calm friendly dogs and cats give more than 130,000 people, both young and old, the pleasure and opportunity to hug and talk to them.

Man redeems 22-year-old Pizza Hut coupon

A man tried his luck with cashing in a 22-year-old Pizza Hut coupon, according to video uploaded to the Internet.

Taking a trip back to the early 1990s, a strangely dressed prankster tried using a coupon from Pizza Hut he found inside a VHS copy of the 1990 classic film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

The man arrived in Pizza Hut and opened the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" film and showed the manager the discount coupon book.

The manager, an obvious fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, accepted the discount from the 1990s even though the coupons had expired long before Bill Clinton took office.

The man was happy with his free pizza and uploaded the video of his feat to the Internet.

Dog seen teaching puppy to climb up and down stairs

A dog was seen teaching a puppy how to walk up and down stairs, according to video uploaded to the Internet.

When Daisy, a puppy that is just 8 weeks old, climbed a staircase in the home of its adoptive family, it screamed in frustration when it realized it could not get back down.

Luckily, Simon, a dog that is 6 months old, was there to help. Daisy is a very strong willed puppy, said its foster mother Caitlin Doucette.

"If it wants something, it gets it," Doucette said.

Daisy’s stubborn personality landed it on top of the stairs with no idea of ​​how to get back down. On the corner of its eye, Doucette saw Simon help the puppy. She immediately grabbed her phone and hit record.

Simon pushed and pushed the younger dog, repeatedly showing it how to go down the stairs. The hesitant puppy finally made ​​the leap by itself and was greeted by applause and a good job by its adoptive mother.

This is not the first time Simon has offered to help a fellow puppy in need. The Doucettes have hosted several puppies that were up for adoption at the Manitoba Mutts Dog Rescue in Winnipeg, Canada. Simon has been a teacher and guidance to other dogs that have been hosted in the Doucettes’ home.

"We have hosted some puppies that did not know how to play," Doucette said. "Simon taught them to play tug of war and fetch. It was fun to watch," she added.

Man finds valuable vomit on the beach

A man got really lucky after finding vomit on a beach.

Just because something is disgusting does not mean it is worthless.

Time to get to know whale vomit. The man taking his dog for a walk along the beach found a deposit of whale vomit. Now, he could stand to earn more than $250,000 from the disgusting find.

The reason whale vomit is so expensive is because perfume companies use it to manufacture perfume. The substance, which stinks when it first hits land, becomes a huge asset when its dried in the sun, and is used to prolong the scent of perfume.

Ken Wilman's dog began sniffing the substance known as ambergris, while walking on the beach at
Morecambe England. 

Wilman went to investigate, picked up the stone-like object, gave it a smell and then dropped it like a bad habit. Wilman said: "When I picked it up and smelled it, I put it back down.”

Wilman left the beach, but the stinking discovery was on his mind. He did some research and discovered that the stone was likely ambergris. So he then returned to the beach and recovered the object that weighed three kilos. A French trader has already offered him more than $250,000.

17-year-old sleeping beauty sleeps 64 days in a row

(Scroll down for video) A girl in the U.S. is a real life sleeping beauty, according to reports.

The Pennsylvania teenager slept for 64 days from Thanksgiving to January, her longest episode yet of sleeping.
Nicole Delien, 17, struggles with a rare sleep disorder called Kleine-Levine, or "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome.”

During her periods of sleep she can wake up in a state of confusion for short periods of time to eat and go to the bathroom and then go back to sleep.

Nicole's mother, Vicki, said her daughter will sleep 18 to 19 hours a day, and when she finally wakes up to eat she is in a "state of sleepwalking which she does not remember."

Delien’s family also appeared on a syndicated talk show this week to ensure that other families are aware of the rare disease.

Vicki Delien told reporters it was very frustrating trying to get a diagnosis for her daughter. She said it took several trips to a hospital to find out what has been affecting her daughter.

Finally, a doctor at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was able to identify the disorder and offer some suggestions on how to manage the disease, including medication.

"Affected people may go a period of weeks, months or even years without experiencing any symptoms, and then it reappears with little warning.

Inspector finds restaurant kitchen infested with snakes

An inspector to a restaurant made a shocking discovery.

The kitchen was infested with snakes.

It's disgusting, but not exactly a surprise to find restaurants infested with bugs, cockroaches, mice and rats.

They usually infest the kitchen or dining room walls.

An animal definitely not expected to see at a restaurant is a snake.

However, that's what Ben Vaughn saw in the Pig-N-Whistle restaurant in Millington, Tennessee.

Vaughn, a restaurant consultant, was recording for the Food Network show "Health Inspectors," when he saw garden snakes in the corner of the restaurant.

The snakes were not very new residents either.

A shed skin sat right next to the snake, showing that the animal had been hanging out there long enough to shed skin.

In the TV program, which has not been shown yet, Vaughn tries to help exterminate the restaurant of its plagues to be able to pass the next health inspection.

Man burns himself after confusing hot iron with phone

A man was left badly injured after confusing a hot iron for a phone, according to press reports.

Tomasz Paczkowski was just trying to be a good husband. He has the scars to prove it.

He had a few days off from work, so when his wife asked him to help around the house, Paczkowski, who is 32 years old and a resident of Elblag, Poland, agreed.

Paczkowski had breakfast. Then he went into multitask mode. He turned on the TV to the boxing channel, opened a beer and began to iron some clothes.

"I was really involved in boxing and not really thinking about what I was doing," he said. The phone rang and instead of reaching for the phone, Paczkowski put the boiling hot iron to his ear. 

He immediately realized his mistake and rushed to the bathroom to cool the burn with water. But along the way, he hit his head on a door frame. He now wears bandages around his head and has an injury just above his left eye.

"I failed as a good husband," Paczkowski said. The traumatic incident has left doubts about his watching boxing on television. However, he will continue to help his wife with ironing clothes, Paczkowski said.

Bubble man in desperate search for a cure

An Indonesian man is in search of a cure for bubble-like tumors that caused havoc on his body - if not for himself than for his children, who fear they will be suffering a genetic disease.

Wisnu Chandra, nicknamed the "bubble skin man", wearing a ski mask and sunglasses to hide his appearance on the rare occasions when he walks outside.

Now, desperate for help, the 57-year-old is making public his condition. His plight will be presented in a one-hour documentary debuts Wednesday on The Learning Channel.

"People have never been teased or ridiculed me directly, but look at me and avoid me. Most people act very strangely around me," said Wisnu last fall, according to the news media.
"It makes me feel very insecure and angry when people treat me differently," he added.
He began to feel the bumps on his skin when he was 19, he said. He married a few years later, and his condition intensified ever since.

At the age of 32, it spread all over his face, according to reports.

The doctors told Wisnu the tumors were benign, possibly caused by a genetic disorder caused by abnormalities in the nervous system, reported the news media.

At first, he was prescribed different types of creams, but they did not work.
Meanwhile, he and his wife, Nanik Tri Haryani, had four children together.

He was sure she would leave him."But I refused," said his wife, according to the news media. "Seeing him get on with life despite his changing appearance was, for me, a sign of great strength, not weakness."

Adult Japanese women love to wear adult diapers

Some Japanese women have decided to level the playing field with men in some awkward way, by stinking more, according to reports.

In the U.S., adult diapers are mainly for the elderly, but in Japan, young women have started using diapers as a way of leveling the playing field with men.

The logic is that men are drooling dirty, horrible and have much lower standards when it comes to household cleaning and personal care. Therefore, women have decided to become raw through leaving the dishes in the sink, not removing body hair and peeing in their pants.

Instead of getting up to squat over the hole in the floor a strange bathroom passes for a toilet in the Far East, as women in Japan have decided they prefer to wear an adult diaper and let nature take its course.

One 25-year-old woman, identified only by a nickname, has been wearing a diaper to work in a real estate agency almost every day for the last six months. She does it to save time and hassle of going to the bathroom. She does not wear one when her boyfriend is around and only used it under a skirt because pants makes it too obvious for onlookers.

Thousands of dollars raised for teen jailed for missing school

A group in Louisiana has raised over $70,000 for an honor student, 17-years-old of Texas, who was jailed for skipping school a lot because she works two jobs to support her brother and sister.

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Diane Tran, an honor student in grade 11 at Willis High School near Houston, was sent to jail for 24 hours last week by Judge Lanny Moriarty. She was also ordered to pay a fine of $100 for excessively missing school.

It is unclear how many days Tran skipped, but state law allows only 10 absences in a period of six months.
Tran, who works full time at a dry cleaning company and part-time for a wedding planner, has been supporting her brother, sister and her parents, who are separated.

Houston Councilman Al Hoang and others have criticized the judge, saying he should have used discretion in the case of this honor student.

Fat couple addicted to McDonald's lose 238 pounds

An obese couple who was addicted to McDonald’s and Burger King food, finally decided to lose weight and fight their addiction after they couldn't fit into amusement park rides with their children, according to press reports in England.

The couple, who ate all their meals at McDonald’s and Burger King, have lost a combined 238 pounds between them after ditching the two fast food restaurants.

Emma and Dylan Smith ate three McMuffins every morning before returning for lunch when they would have two chicken wraps each.

For dinner, the couple, who have four children, ordered Burger King burgers.

Weighing in at nearly 560 pounds between them, the couple of Froome in Somerset, were shamed into weight loss when they learned they were too big for any of the rides during a family trip to Butlins.

Emma, 28, said: "We liked to take the kids to school and then go to McDonald’s on our way home.
We easily ate our way through three McMuffins every morning, every day. We lived in the restaurants.

"We snacked on McFlurries and hot chocolate too. It was embarrassing that the McDonald’s staff knew us so well, they knew our order without us having to ask.

"We received no fruit or vitamins and were anemic because of it. We never used to cook at home. It was McDonald’s or Burger King for every meal.”

The couple kept piling on the weight until they went to Butlins, to celebrate the fourth birthday of their son, but could not fit into any of the fun fair rides as the seat belts would not go over their waists.

The Breast Milk Baby now on sale at U.S. retailers

There is a new type of baby doll called “The Breast Milk Baby." however, U.S. retailers are worried about selling it.

The breastfeeding doll is having a hard time getting into the mainstream stores in the United States, due to the fact that the stores want to avoid potential disputes, said the manufacturer of the dolls, Berjuan Toys, a family owned business and a 40-year-old doll maker based in Spain.

This is how the doll works: Children use a special cap with sensors which attach to the nipples. When the doll makes contact with the sensors, sounds are activated in the doll that imitates infant sucking. The doll also burps and cries.

The Breast Milk Baby also comes in eight varieties, with different skin tones and facial features. They cost $89 - but are listed for a 50 percent discount on the company website in time for the holidays.

What do you think of the doll? Did you buy it for your child? Tell us below in the comments section.

A 12-year-old girl who sued her mother, won $256,000 - according to court proceedings.

Faith Varden-Carberry, who sued her parents and the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland, has been awarded $256,000 following the car accident that killed her younger sister Ava and friend Michaela Logan, in 2007.

The settlement agreement was reached in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Varden-Carberry, originally from Longford, sued her parents and MIBI through her grandfather Anthony Carberry.

In 2007, Mary Carberry, an alcoholic, blacked out drunk while driving with three children in her car. The younger sister, Ava, who was 6 years old at the time, and her friend Michaela Logan, died after the car went off the road and crashed into a muddy embankment outside Edgeworthstown, Co Longford.

Faith, wearing a seatbelt in the back seat, suffered severe physical and emotional trauma. She was confined to a spinal cast for two months, and went through months of therapy to help her cope with the tragedy.

Mary Carberry had been excluded from driving at the time of the accident, resulting from a previous conviction. However, with two young daughters, she needed a way to get to and from school. Carberry had her daughters ask their father Thomas Varden, whom Mary had little or no relation to, for help. 

Varden agreed to buy a car for the family on the condition that Mary did not drive it. However, Mary Carberry did not adhere to the condition, and ultimately caused the death of the two young children.

While young Faith had brought charges against her father as well, they were later dropped, leaving only her mother and MIBI responsible. Mary Carberry was sentenced to six years in prison with two years suspended, and MIBI was found by the court on Wednesday that they were responsible for a payment of $256,000 to Faith.

Awesome story of the mother with her baby must read

In Japan, a young mother has created unique works of art where the main character is her little sleeping baby girl named Nuno.

Mami Koide recently released a book with photos of the art she created around her sleeping daughter. The book became an instant hit.

When the baby fell asleep she became the studio space, and her mother became the artist. Koide used household items props such her as clothes, stuffed animals, towels, socks, toys, coat hangers and vegetables. Through skillful arrangement by the mother, a funny scene gradually appears on her mattress.

"At first, when I began making the art I was not sure whether my creation looked real or not, I wasn't sure others would see the picture as I intended it to look, so I sent a picture of my artwork to my husband, he saw it at work and he loved it,” she said.

Her husband Katsunori Sunami, the baby's father often has to work late at the bar, she said. The photos always reminded him of the important things in his life. “I look at the picture of my daughter and I try to work harder for her future,” the father said.

Koide published a book with 200 photos of art around baby Nuno. Only one week after it was published, the book became the best-selling album on Amazon in Japan.