New Hampshire student sues over heart-stopping shock

Kelly Dubois

An 18-year-old Dover High School student who was shocked so severely this April that his heart stopped is suing the school, his teacher and the city, saying he suffered brain damage.

Kyle Dubois and his parents, Robert and Sandra, claim teacher Thomas Kelley did not warn Kyle and other students how badly hurt they could be by electrical demonstration cords in their electrical trades class. According to a suit filed in Strafford County Superior Court, Kelley encouraged Kyle to shock himself, even offering a Mountain Dew in exchange for doing so. "As a master electrician and experienced teacher of electrical technology, Mr. Kelley knew or should have known that the electrical circuits in his classroom could administer harmful or fatal shocks to his students," the suit says.

During class on March 11, Kyle Dubois willingly placed an alligator clamp on one of his nipples while a second student placed one on his other nipple and a third student plugged in a cord providing electricity, sending an approximately three-second jolt through Dubois, police said in a statement following an investigation of the incident.

The suit claims Kelley was "less than eight feet away at the time and saw and heard the students engaging in this activity."

Authorities did not file charges in the case, and police said Kelley denied the allegation he offered soda.

Kelley told police he was speaking to another student when everything happened.

"I was talking up my fantasy baseball team with one student and the next thing I know there was a commotion," Kelley said during a video interview obtained earlier by the New Hampshire Union Leader. "I look and I hear an �Ouch.' I look and there's Kyle going to the ground." Dubois' heart stopped and paramedics had to restart it with a defibrillator. He was in critical condition and had to be taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where doctors drilled a hole into his skull to check on brain swelling.

"Kyle suffered brain damage due to his heart stoppage," the suit says. "He suffers from short-term memory loss and other losses and disruptions related to this incident."

The suit also says Kelley "had a pattern and practice of leaving the students in his electrical technology class unattended for up to 20 minutes at a time" and that "other faculty members, administrators and staff members" knew this.

Kelley resigned about a month after the incident.

Kelley declined to comment on the suit yesterday. Superintendent Jean Briggs Badger referred questions to the school district's attorney Corey Belobrow, who also refused to comment.

City Manager Michael Joyal did not return a message.

The Dubois family is suing the district, the city and Kelley, alleging 11 different counts of negligence. Their attorney, R. David Depuy, did not return a message yesterday.

Drunken Deliveryman Lost $1.3M Painting

"Portrait of a Girl" by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, worth $1.35 million, was reportedly lost by a drunken courier.

Great art has been made by people under the influence of alcohol. Great art deliveries have not.

Just ask New York City art courier James Haggerty, who is being sued for losing track of a $1.35 million painting after getting liquored up in a hotel bar.

Haggerty was tasked with showing a Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot masterpiece to a prospective buyer at The Mark hotel in Manhattan's Upper East Side on July 28.

According to the suit, surveillance footage shows Haggerty arrive at the posh hotel with the painting, titled "Portrait of a Girl," at 10:54 p.m. Six minutes later, Haggerty left the painting with hotel staff at the front desk and went into the hotel bar with the possible buyer, a British gallery owner who wanted to examine the work with a black light.

But the prospective buyer, Offer Waterman, thought something fishy was going on when Haggerty showed up at his hotel without an appointment.

"Something just didn't feel right, and I didn't want to be involved," Waterman said. "So I said no, and I said goodbye."

Footage shows the pair exiting the bar at 11:30 p.m. and Haggerty retrieving the painting from the front desk. But four minutes later, the tape reportedly shows Haggerty heading back to the front desk, stowing the artwork and returning to the bar, alone.

At 12:50 a.m., security cameras capture Haggerty as he leaves the bar, picks up the painting from the front desk and "stumbles out the front door, colliding with the doorman as he is exiting," according to the lawsuit.

When he next appears on surveillance tape entering his apartment in the Trump Building at 2:30 a.m., Haggerty doesn't appear to be holding the painting made by the acclaimed 19th-century Barbizon School artist.

The following day, Haggerty called one of the owners of the artwork and said "he did not have the painting and could not recall its whereabouts, citing that he had too much to drink the previous evening."

But painting co-owner Kristyn Trudgeon isn't taking his word for it. She's suing Haggerty for $1.35 million -- the work's estimated value.

"I think he's a complete fumbling idiot," she told the tabloids. "He's just a complete a--hole."

For now, it's unclear if the work is lost or stolen -- though according to the suit, Haggerty exhibited "deception" on a polygraph exam when asked if he was hiding information or was involved in an attempt to steal the work.

Art security experts said that art works aren't more vulnerable to thieves when they are put in the hands of couriers, so long as you've hired the right couriers.

Glenn Bertrand, general manager of Fine Art Security Transport, said that professional firms usually entrust two people to move art works, one to guard the art and the other to protect the vehicle -- which should be alarmed and tracked by satellites.

Good art handlers know how to safely move works of art, and according to Bertrand, they also know when they don't have to.

"Any kind of unnecessary travel for anything very delicate -- a lot of people would frown upon that," he said.

"If someone wanted to see it, maybe it would be better if they just came in to see it in person."

Beautiful Wave Photos by Clark Little

Waimea Bay shore-break surfing pioneer, husband, and father of two, Clark Little has gained nationwide recognition for his photography with appearances on Good Morning America, Inside Edition, and many local news stations across the U.S.

It all started in 2007 when Clark 's wife wanted a nice piece of art to decorate a wall.

Voluntarily, Clark grabbed a camera, jumped in the water, and starting snapping away capturing the beauty and power of monstrous Hawaiian waves from the inside out.

" Clark 's view" is a unique view of the ocean that most will only be able to experience safely on land while studying one of Clark 's photos.

Now with a camera upgrade and an itch to get that better shot, Clark has taken this on full time and has moved his office from land, to the inside of a barrel.

Since the recent stir of Clark 's work, his images have been run on the Today Show, ABC World News Now, Nature's Best Photography, Paris Match (France), La Vie(France), Hana Hou (Hawaiian Airlines) magazine, Surfer magazine, Surfer's Journal

as well as multiple publishers and newspapers in the U.S. and overseas.

These incredible images of waves in the Hawaiian Islands were taken by Clark Little, the number one photographer of surf.

He is dedicated to photographing the waves and has published a selection of his best images.

He captures magical moments inside the tube as surfers say.

JOKE: the Shearing Shed

Norm went to work at a shearing shed, but after a couple of weeks started feeling horny. He asked the stationmaster, "Mate, I'm horny and, this being me first time at a shearing shed, what do the fellas do around here for sex?"

"Well," said the stationmaster, "Most of the blokes screw old Hung Chu the cook when there's no skirts around."

Shocked, Norm said, "No way, mate! I ain't gonna do that!" and stormed off in a rage. But a couple of weeks later, Norm was desperate. He needed some human contact -- bad! So when the stationmaster wasn't busy, he asked, "Mate, I'm desperate. What was the name of that Chinaman?"

"Hung Chu. Want me to bring him around for you?"

"Yeah, but can you be cool about it? I don't want anyone else to know." The stationmaster replied,

"Sure, just the five of us will know."

"Five? What do you mean, five?"

"Well, there's you, me, Hung Chu ...and the two blokes it takes to hold him down!"

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Man blows himself up trying to kill a spider

A man suffered flash burns after he accidentally blew himself up trying to kill a spider. 28-year-old IT engineer Chris Welding suffered severe burns after attacking the arachnid with an aerosol can at his home in Clacton in Essex,England. He was summoned by his wife to deal with a spider she had seen scuttling behind the lavatory on Bank Holiday Monday. Not being able to reach it, the man decided to kill it by spraying it with the can.

However he was unable to see whether it was dead because the bulb in the bathroom light had blown. At this point he turned to a cigarette lighter to illuminate the room, but in the process ignited the gas fumes and caused an explosion. The blast was so strong it blew him off his feet and lifted the loft door off its hinges. He suffered flash burns to his head, legs and torso and was rushed by ambulance to hospital after dousing himself in cold water.

A spokesman for Essex Fire Service said: "It appears the wife had spotted the creepy crawly in the bathroom and asked her husband to capture it. He sprayed it first with an aerosol where it was lurking behind the toilet bowl and when that didn't appear to work, he lit up his lighter to spread some light on the situation as the bathroom bulb had blown. There was an almighty explosion which blew the man back into his hallway and lifted the hatch on the loft. He did exactly the right thing by jumping into the shower and cooling his burns with cold water while his wife raised the alarm."

Firefighters administered emergency first aid at the scene while waiting for ambulance teams to arrive. A spokesman added: "We're not entirely sure whether the spider got away or not but there was no sign of it at the scene." Ambulance crews treated Mr Welding for burns to his arms, legs and face and breathing difficulties and he was taken to the Colchester General Hospital, in Essex, where he was given pain relief and discharged in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Cat adopts squirrel

An Ohio woman said her cat has adopted a baby squirrel as one of its litter of kittens, but experts said the experience may not end well for the squirrel. Lisa Reichel of Wilmot said the baby squirrel fell from a maple tree in her yard and a naturalist from the Wilderness Center told her on the phone that the animal would likely soon die.

Reichel said the baby squirrel rejected an eyedropper full of a milk-replacement substance so she attempted introducing the infant to her cat, Jingles, who had given birth to a litter of kittens about a week earlier. "I thought maybe, if I snuck that squirrel in there underneath her other kittens, that it could find a place to latch on and nurse from her and that she wouldn't mind, if she didn't notice it," Reichel said.

She said Jingles now nurses and grooms the squirrel as one of her own kittens. Wildlife experts said the experience may be dangerous for the squirrel later in life.

"If he opened his eyes already, he's going to associate the cat as mother and that's what we don't want," said Stephon Echague, director of animal care at Stark Parks' Sanders Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Perry Township. "Unfortunately, when the squirrel gets older, he's going to recognize cats as something friendly and not worry about being around them. But cats are true hunters and could possibly cause his death. He needs to be with other squirrels so that he knows that he is a squirrel."

Disturbing video of girl throwing puppies into river sparks anger and death threats

A young woman has become the focus of death threats and hate messages after video of her throwing live puppies into a river was recently posted online.
Her identity is unknown, but some have suggested she may be from Bosnia.
Contains graphic content.


The disturbing video shows the young, blonde woman smiling as she picks several puppies out of a dirty bucket and viciously tosses them into a rapidly flowing river.
At one point, as the woman lobs a black-and-white pup into the water, she can clearly be heard saying, "whee."