Woman strips off outside busy Australian cafe in fight over man

Witnesses said the woman took off all her clothes after she and another woman had a full-on fist fight over a man yesterday.

"That was just a shocker," eyewitness Fernando Dentes, 34, said. "People were trying to eat."

Police said a 39-year-old woman had to be picked up from the median strip on Dick Ward Drive after she bared all in front of the Cool Spot Cafe in Fannie Bay.

The patrons were reportedly unimpressed. Children were rushed inside the venue and police were called to escort the naked woman away.

The woman was lying naked on the ground smoking a cigarette in full view of customers at the restaurant.

Three uniformed officers, in a paddy wagon and a sedan, arrived at the scene before giving the woman an on-the-spot fine and taking her to her home to Moulden, in Palmerston.

It is unclear whether she was drunk.

Mr Dentes, who was the shift manager at the restaurant at the time, said that staff had alerted police after customers complained about the striptease.

He said he saw two women arguing near the Cool Spot entrance before one of them was pushed to the ground.

"The two ladies were arguing about the fella they were there with," he said. "It was pretty verbal.

"One had the other on the ground," he said.

"She was pretty much just defending herself and then she was lifting up her shirt and showing her breasts.

"She took off her clothes and then she walked to the median strip lid a cigarette and laid down.

"The customers weren't terribly impressed. They were more concerned for the kids. They rushed them inside."

Mr Dentes said it was not the first time police were called to near the restaurant to resolve a disturbance.

"We do get incidents occasionally but not something like this," he said.

VIDEO: This 20-Year-Old Woman Drunkenly Rammed A Cop Car Head-On

Haylee Arnell of Riverton, Utah managed to break at least seven laws Wednesday night when she drunkenly plowed head-first into a cop car while driving the wrong way alone in an HOV lane. And it's all on video below.

Not much is known about how Arnell's night started, but some clue may be that her birthday is listed on Facebook as sometime in August. Or it's possible she just likes to drink on Wednesday nights. Either way she apparently was involved in an accident in Lehi, Utah before taking to Interstate 15. Eventually, she found herself driving slowly the wrong way in her Toyota Camry in the HOV(high occupancy vehicle)lane.

Numerous 911 calls led a Utah Highway Patrolman to track her down and cut across the freeway to block other cars from getting in her path and, hopefully, stop the woman. Unfortunately, the only way to stop a drunk Haylee Arnell is with the front-end of a police car.

The smack injured the troopers back and, as he points out numerous times in the video, it was "a brand new car." He was fine, as was Arnell, who can be seen trying to move out of the car a few times before giving up.

She was released on bond after seven counts, including DUI with injury, wrong way driving, unsafe lane travel, leaving the scene of an accident, and unlawful consumption due to her age.

Not much else is known about Haylee, who appears to have smartly deleted her Facebook page. A cached version of what's possibly her Facebook page shows she likes Family Guy and hated Farmville.

China examines milk powder 'premature puberty' reports

Beijing parent Wang Gang recently discovered his 13-month-old daughter had been diagnosed with premature breast growth

China's government is investigating reports that a brand of powdered milk caused infant girls to grow breasts.

It is being alleged that hormone-tainted milk from Synutra International caused several cases of premature puberty in Hubei province.

The Chinese firm, whose shares fell by up to 35% on the news, strongly denies its products were tainted.

Two years ago, the chemical compound melamine was found in milk products made by 22 Chinese firms. Hundreds of thousands of children were poisoned and six died.

Powder samples

A panel of nine experts on endocrine, paediatric and food safety issues had been assembled to investigate the tainted milk allegations, the health ministry announced on Thursday.

The ministry was "directly investigating the claimed premature puberty cases at the request of Hubei province" and would publish its conclusions "soon", it said.

Samples taken from the market where the milk powder was purchased, as well as from the homes of the infant girls, were already being tested, it added.

China Daily, the country's leading state-owned English-language newspaper, reported the cases in Hubei this week, quoting from a report by the Beijing-based Health Times newspaper.

At least three infants in Hubei were found to have abnormal levels of the hormones estradiol and prolactin, which stimulates the production of breast milk, Health Times reported.

The infants' parents feared that their conditions were linked to their milk powder, produced by Synutra, and a leading children's doctor in the region was quoted by Health Times as calling for the powder to be analysed.

On Tuesday, the father of a 13-month-old girl in Beijing told China Daily his daughter had been diagnosed with symptoms of premature puberty.

Wang Gang was quoted by the paper as saying he was "furious at Synutra".

'Unwavering product quality'

The chairman of Synutra, Liang Zhang, has said that there is "no scientific evidence" to support the allegation that Synutra products were responsible for the cases.

"While we offer our sympathy to any families experiencing health challenges, we firmly believe that our products are not involved in the claims recently made, and we feel this media event will pass," he said in a statement.

"We firmly believe they will illustrate our unwavering product quality and commitment to consumer safety."

A food safety expert for the World Health Organization, Dr Peter Ben Embarek, said China's test results were expected within days and that the agency would then examine them.

"At first look, it looks very surprising," he told the Associated Press, adding that this was the first time he had ever heard of such a case.

VIDEO: Woman Steals Police Cruiser

JOKE: Once upon a time in the kingdom of Heaven

Once upon a time in the kingdom of Heaven, God was missing for 6 days. Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on the 7th day. He inquired of God, "Where have you been?" God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds. "Look Michael, see what I've made?" Archangel Michael looked puzzled and asked, "What is it?" "It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put life on it. I am going to call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance." "Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused. God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth, "For example, Northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth while Southern Europe is going to be poor. The Middle East over there will be a hot spot. Over there I have placed a continent of white people and over there, a continent of black people," God continued, pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot and arid, while this one will be bitterly cold and covered with ice," God explained. The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a place..."What's that?" "Ah," said God. "That's Minnesota, the most glorious place on Earth. There are beautiful lakes, rivers, streams, and an exquisite shoreline along the Great Lakes. The people from Minnesota are going to be modest, intelligent and humorous. They are going to travel the world. They'll be extremely sociable, hard working, and high achieving, and they will be known around the world as diplomats and carriers of peace. I am also going to give them an undefeatable football team who will be admired and feared by all who come across them." Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed, "What about Balance, God? You said there would be BALANCE!" God replied, "Wait 'til you see the loud-mouth bastards I'm putting next to them in Wisconsin!"

GOT CAPTION? 8/22

NOW THIS IS A BIG BABY!

Chinese baby weighs as much as six-year-old

A ten-month-old Chinese boy has been nicknamed the 'Michelin Baby' after weighing in at an incredible 20kg (44 lbs) the average weight of a six-year-old.

Lei Lei was born a normal size but started rapidly putting on weight after developing a ravenous appetite.

Lei Lei's favourite thing to do is to eat, his mother Cheng Qingyu said. "No matter whatever he grabs, he unconsciously puts it in his mouth."

Doctors in southern China's Hunan province are now testing the baby to see if there is a medical reason behind his weight gain.

Otters Playing with Little Girl

HAD ENOUGH TO DRINK YET?

Animal Shelter Employee Eats Pet Pig

Bay County Florida officials are investigating an animal control employee who apparently did not follow proper shelter procedures. He reportedly took home a pig that had been surrendered to the facility, butchered it, then ate it. Animal lovers are outraged, while county officials are embarrassed and looking for answers.

Bay County officials are trying to find out how a pig, nicknamed "Fluffy" by animal shelter workers, wound up as dinner for one of their co-workers. The pig's owners turned it over to the shelter about 2 months ago. The official paperwork says the pig had some behavioral problems. Over the next 8 days, 2 people expressed interest in adopting "Fluffy." But they never got the chance.

On June 17th, shelter officials say an employee named Ivan Rogers took the pig home himself. "He slaughtered it, I hope humanely, I can't even think about that. But he slaughtered it and cut it up and ate it. It trusted everybody, it would oink at everybody and smile, kinda like Charlotte's Web, little pig. This shouldn't have happened," said Terry Watts, who rescues dogs and has volunteered at the shelter in the past.

"When people take their animals to Bay County Animal Control they expect that they will be treated humanely and re-homed if they can be. And if they can't be, they expect them to be humanely euthanized at the facility. That certainly is our expectation and we don't find any thing other than that acceptable," said Valerie Lovett, the Bay County Public Information Officer.

Although the pig was killed in June, the incident report wasn't issued until August 6th. "Part of the reason we are investigating the situation is to determine exactly what the timeline was and should people in management have been made aware of this situation sooner than they were made aware," said Lovett.

"The animal control facility does so much good in this community. They take in thousands and thousands of animals that aren't wanted and they make every effort that they can to re-home them. It's a very difficult job, a very difficult situation, and we are going to fully investigate this.

But the investigation won't bring "Fluffy" back. "I don't understand how people can do that. Look it in the face and kill it and then eat it. It broke my heart that someone could be that hideous."

County officials say Rogers has been reprimanded, but is still working at the animal shelter.