I’ll send an S.O.S. to the world

For some reason, while reading this, I had a Police song stuck in my head, and can't get it out!!!! But, this is a good story!

Alesha's British bottle bobs to Bob in Oz

Thu Jan 19, 1:57 PM ET

A four-year-old British girl was stunned to receive a reply to her message in a bottle from a boy in Australia, her nursery said.

Alesha Johnson chucked the bottle into the local Morecambe Bay on the northwest English coast in July. It contained a picture of herself and a brief message with her address.

"My name is Alesha. If you get this message, please write back," it read.

This week she gained a new friend when Bob, 10, from Perth on the Western Australia coast, wrote back saying he found her bottle in a local boatyard.

Alesha's surprised nursery manager Doreen Johnson said: "We were all very excited when the letter from Australia arrived addressed to Alesha. We never dreamed the bottle would go that far, it's amazing."

Bob wrote that he asked his father to look up Alesha's home town Heysham on the Internet.

He drew a diagram showing the distance between the two locations -- 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometres).

The boy did not include his own details as he was moving house but promised to write again when he knew his new address.

Copyright © 2006 Agence France Presse. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AFP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Agence France Presse.

Not at this address

Wonder if Ed McMahon will still deliver the millions???

Ananova:

Joker's last gag

A Swiss joker had his last wish fulfilled when his obituary was published as a change of address notice.

The obituary published in the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper read: "Change of address for Roland Jacob.

"My new address is the Rehalp cemetery, plot number 4276. I look forward to your visit."

Monkeyz n' da hood

Must have been a need for a gang problem here if the monkeys have to fill the void!!

From the Cambodia Daily, Tuesday Jan. 10, 2006, page 16

'Gangster monkeys' a Menace, Neighbors Say

By Lor Chandara and David McFadden
The Cambodia Daily

A roving band of what one municipal official has dubbed "gangster
monkeys" has been swiping laundry, biting students and eluding police
across Daun Penh district in Phnom Penh.

Pich Socheata, deputy governor of Daun Penh district, said monday that
she will seek approval from City Hall to launch a campaign to capture
unruly, violent wild monkeys.

"We have to collect the nasty monkeys from the city. Otherwise they
will disturb visitors and people living in the neighborhood," she said.
"I have seen some monkeys grab glue bags from street kids and then they
climbed up trees and sniffed it up. That's why some monkeys become
violent and attack people."

Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktena,
however, dismissed the notion that
any of the macaques, which he said are
largely peaceful animals and
popular with tourists, have been
sniffing glue. "No, there are no
monkeys sniffing glue. Some become
violent because of sexual
motivations," he said.

Pich Socheata estimated that more than 200
wild monkeys congregate in
trees around Wat Phnom, the Ministry of
Commerce and the French school
Lycee Rene Descartes. Following recent complaints
 of monkey attacks on
members of the public, the Daun Penh district has
seized 15 macaques.

"We contacted the Cambodian authorities
to tell them that the
monkeys were in the vcinity of the school and were affecting the safety of
the students," said Claude Abily, French Embassy spokeswoman. "There have been
several instances of students who have been bitten."

John Daigle, spokesman for the US Embassy, housed across from Wat
Phnom, said the embassy has not contacted district officials about the
monkeys.

At Lycee Rene Descartes, an administrator, who said school
policy prevented her from giving her name, confirmed that a few students had
been bitten by monkeys coming on school grounds because of a fig tree,
which has since been cut down for that reason.


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Will you wipe the drool please nurse??

Just goes to show, you never know what will happen when your strapped in a chair while wearing a bib!!!

I'm no dentist, but my girlfriend is -- open wide

Tue Jan 17, 9:02 AM ET

A British dentist has been banned from working after allowing her unqualified boyfriend to carry out dental work on patients in her surgery, the profession's UK regulatory body said Tuesday.

Mojgan Azari was found guilty of serious professional misconduct for letting boyfriend Omid Amidi-Mazaheri work at her practices in south London between 2002 and 2003, the General Dental Council (GDC) said.

The boyfriend worked on more than 600 people, drilling out cavities without local anesthetic and installing expensive fillings that crumbled within days, often leaving patients in agony, the BBC said.

The GDC said Azari had allowed him to carry on working in her surgeries for seven months after she had been warned that he was unregistered.

"The direct result of your actions was that a recall exercise involving several hundred patients had to be mounted, to establish whether they required further dental remedial action," the GDC said in its ruling.

"This caused the patients considerable distress and inconvenience, and cost the National Health Service (NHS) approximately 180,000 pounds ($317,000)."

The GDC said Azari had pleaded guilty in February 2005 to four counts of obtaining money by deception from the NHS in relation to the case and had been jailed for 12 months.

The BBC said Amidi-Mazaheri, an Iranian national, had received a two-year sentence for similar offences.

Consequently the GDC said its conduct committee had decided to strike Azari's name from the register.

"In view of the gravity of the offences and their effect in undermining public confidence and the damage to the reputation of the profession, the committee is satisfied that the only appropriate sanction in this case is erasure," it said.

Copyright © 2006 Reuters Limited.

Opps!! My Bad!!

Note to self... Don't get hurt in S. Korea

Surgeons remove wrong body parts

From: Reuters

SOUTH Korean doctors mistakenly removed part of the stomach of a patient due to have thyroid surgery, while removing the thyroid gland of another scheduled for stomach surgery, a hospital official said.

The surgical mix-up took place at Konyang University Hospital in the city of Taejon, about 150km south of Seoul and involved two women in their sixties who were both in for surgery the same day, hospital spokesman Kim Man-sik said.

Medical staff found out about the mix-up, which took place on December 29, only after they were filing paperwork on the two women, he said.

Doctors later performed the correct surgical procedures on both women and re-attached the part of the stomach they had removed from the patient with the thyroid problem, Kim said.

Both were recovering from their operations, he said.

Guilty verdict.... after this nap.

I bet next she will be getting credit card offers!!!

Toddler Called For Jury Duty

TAUNTON, Mass. -- There was a problem when Kaylee Reynolds recently received a summons to serve on a jury.

She wasn't nearly old enough to read it.Reynolds is just 2 years old, giving her 16 more years before she's old enough to be called to jury service.

Not to worry, said Massachusetts Jury Commissioner Pamela Wood. Reynolds will get a 16-year grace period.


Wood guesses a mistaken birth date on a census form probably led to the erroneous summons to serve on a Taunton District Court jury.

Besides her questionable understanding of the concepts of guilt or innocence, there are other reasons why it's best to wait for Kaylee to serve. Her mother, Patricia, said Kaylee gets really cranky if she doesn't get her noontime nap.