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Mum put kids for sale on eBay 'as a joke'

VICTORIA: A woman is under investigation after she offered her two young children for sale to the highest bidder on eBay.

She also included images of her children, both aged under 10. It just gets worse. Some people even placed bids on the sickening auction, said Sunday Herald Sun.

Authorities were alerted to the internet page by a horrified member of the public, said the paper. Police has decided not to press charges against the mum, who claims the act was a joke. However, police sources were quoted by the daily as saying that they were disturbed by the incident and in particular the genuine bidders who tried to obtain the children.

The page has been taken down and the woman's children could be taken into permanent care.

Inmate wins payout for 'hurt feelings'

NEW ZEALAND: A prisoner took offence when he discovered that a government department had incorrectly listed him as having a domestic violence conviction. He recently won compensation for "breach of privacy and hurt feelings", says NewsCore.

The man has been convicted for attacking a police officer, unlawful possession of firearms, aggravated robbery, theft, burglary and trying to escape from custody.

when he found the inaccuracy, he filed a complaint to complained to the Privacy Commissioner and then to the Human Rights Review Tribunal, the New Zealand Herald reported.

He was quoted by the daily as saying: "I have never been convicted of domestic violence," he told MSD officials. "Indeed, the only violent offense I have ever been convicted of was for aggravated assault on a police constable."

After hearing evidence the tribunal ruled the inmate's privacy had been breached, he had suffered emotional harm and that he was entitled to NZ$3,500 in compensation.

Firefighters caught in elevator gaffe

LONDON: Firefighters were trapped inside lift after they refused to use stairs in an apartments during a blaze.

Four crew members were rescued choking from a lift at a blazing tower block - after they broke a cardinal rule by not using the staircase, said The Sun. The crew members were in the elevator when it got stuck as their colleagues battled a fourth-floor blaze at the 17-storey building.

The 3am inferno at swanky Salamanca Place in Lambeth, South London, saw 75 firefighters turn up in ten engines and five rescue units.

London Fire Brigade told the daily the four who were rescued suffered "minor smoke inhalation and slight heat exhaustion".

A source slammed the firefighters' error, according to the Sun: 'It beggars belief firemen used the lift. Everyone has it drilled into them to use the stairs - even in a fire drill.'

An investigation is now under way into why the firefighters chose to use the lifts.

Giant crop circle adds to the mystery of Stonehenge

BRITAIN: The ancient site of Stonehenge has long been the subject of debate among scholars. It is also the most important prehistoric monument in Britain.

Now  someone has gone and created a giant crop circle right across the road to add to the mystery of the site. And nobody knows where it has come from.

The ancient site is proving to be a popular attraction for crop circle-creators lately. The 60 metre wide effort is just the most recent in a string of field phenomena in Wiltshire over the last few weeks, reports the Daily Mail.

The design has sparked yet another debate. While some believe they are manmade, others that they are caused by earth's magnetic field. And there are a number who are convinced they are the work of extra-terrestrials, says the paper.

Online enthusiast Eliakis Joseph-Sophia believes the "three half moons in the crop...could indicate plans due to budgets in the third quarter."

The mystery of how crop circles are created has never been solved although they are widely considered to be an elaborate hoax, said the paper. 
 

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