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The best man at a wedding has rigged the newlyweds' bed so it broadcasts a Twitter message every time the happy couple has sex. The best man explains in the Twitter feed that he was asked to house sit for his friend the groom while the couple went on its honeymoon and - apparently as payback for the groom's previous pranks on him - rigged the bed with a pressure-sensitive pad to detect when the couple is doing the deed....Source

A South Florida police officer got an eyeful when he pulled over a female driver early Saturday morning, according to a Fort Pierce Police Department arrest report....Source

A Colorado insurance company is changing its attitude about fat babies. Rocky Mountain Health Plans said Monday it will no longer consider obesity a "pre-existing condition" barring coverage for hefty infants. The change comes after the insurer turned down a Grand Junction 4-month-old who weighs about 17 pounds....Source

A safety alert has been issued for a device worn around the neck that enables users to push a button to summon emergency assistance to their homes because it poses a choking hazard resulting in serious injury or death....Source

A music lover has proposed to his girlfriend at a local cinema by screening a spoof pop video of him singing a romantic power ballad in his pants. Hannah McDonagh, 25, had been led to believe she was going to watch an arty French film at the Watershed cinema in Bristol for her birthday. Staff took tickets, cinema-goers filled the seats, the lights went down and adverts played, before her boyfriend appeared on the big screen….Source

It was an accident waiting to happen -- an open sewer and a 15-year-old girl who was texting while she walked. Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was  plunged into smelly darkness while texting. She said the manhole she fell in to was left open and unattended with no warning signs or orange cones, CBS station WCBS-TV reported....Source

The union that represents flight attendants who worked for Northwest Airlines before it was bought by Delta Air Lines is crying foul over Delta's failure to offer bigger sizes for its signature red dress uniform designed by Richard Tyler. When he was hired to create his uniform collection, Tyler said he wanted them to "look sexy and great."...Source

A gang of four looted 4.9 million euros ($6.9 million) worth of potency pills in a burglary at Bayer AG’s headquarters, the company said on Monday. Five weeks after burglars stole two barrels filled with 320,000 of Bayer’s Levitra pills, Bayer said…Source

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Amsterdam city council is turning its attention to a pressing problem for one of the city’s key business sectors — banking and credit for prostitutes who can’t get accounts from mainstream institutions….Source

He's the spy who came in from the beach. Holiday snapshots and family details about the newly appointed head of Britain's MI6 intelligence agency have been removed from a Facebook page after a newspaper told the government about them....Source