Botox for your Dog

As if the dog Snuggie wasn't proof that we as a society have lost our freaking mind, you can now get your dog plastic surgery. In a scene straight out of the Ricki Lake, the picture to the left comes from AOL and is the before and after of a dog in Australia.

This dog is Roland and was a stray shar pei . According to the Sydney Daily Telegraph the dog's wrinkles caused his eyelashes to turn inwards. That is apparently a common problem with this breed and can cause blindness. So the RSPCS spent a grand to get this DOG-- a full face lift and double eye lift.

The chief vet told the paper the dog is more adoptable because potential owners aren't facing that major financial burden upon taking the pup home.

Harry Connick Jr. on Blackface

New Alcohol Limits Placed on Race Fans

Spectators who are gearing up to watch the Bathurst 1000, a road race in Australia, will also be faced with a daily limit on how much alcohol they can drink. It's an effort on the part of the police to limit violence, which is thought to correlate with alcohol consumption.

The limit?

For beer drinkers: 24 cans per day per person, or 36 cans per day if drinking "lower strength beer."

For wine drinkers: 4 liters of wine per day per person.

Let's hope these new limits work...

(pictured below: 24 cans of beer)

Need It Like A Hole In My Head

On the heels of the man who delivered a baby after watching YouTube videos, an Australian doctor working in a small town 100 miles northwest of Melbourne has saved a teenager's life by performing brain surgery using a regular power drill and some telephone guidance.

The teenager was suffering from a skull fracture that had caused a blood clot to form on his brain.  This is the same condition that killed Natasha Richardson in March 2009.

With every minute counting and no specialized equipment, the doctor called a specialist in Melbourne, who gave assistance via telephone.  He drilled a hole in the boy's skull at the hospital, using a De Walt power drill.  The blood clot was removed and the boy is recovering well.

video: www.timesonline.co.uk

Unlucky Strikes

Have you ever been in a public place and asked someone to stop smoking?  Say you are waiting for a bus or a train, and you think the waiting area is nonsmoking - and then a great big gust of cigarette smoke wanders into you.  If you were very sensititve to cigarette smoke, maybe you'd make a show of being affected by the smoke, waving your hands in front of your face and coughing.  Or maybe you'd simply ask the smoker to put out the cigarette.

But then what if the smoker didn't put out his or her cigarette?  What if, instead of putting out their cigarette, they punched you in the nose?

That's exactly what happened to a woman in Melbourne, Australia.  Police are asking the public's assistance in finding the assailant.