Bizarre Ski Accident

In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin.

Full story and more photos HERE.

Scrabble Keyboard

Amazing! Go HERE for the full story behind this.

Downloading the Internet

Text Maniac

An American teenager has set a world record after sending an unprecedented 14,528 text messages on her mobile phone in one calendar month, a figure that equates to 484 texts per day. Reina Hardesty, 13, came clean to her parents after they received a 440-page phone bill. Fortunately, Reina was signed up to a contract that allowed her unlimited text messaging. Ordinarily, her bill would have been £1,940.

Full story HERE.

Bride Advertises For Guests

A Ukrainian-born bride has advertised for guests to attend her London wedding after most her friends and family were unable come to England for the ceremony. The resourceful bride, whose identity has not been disclosed, posted an ad on free classifieds website Gumtree for 30 ‘decent’ guests to fill her side of the church.

Full story HERE.

Referee Sends Off 19 Players

A football referee issued 19 red cards as a regional match ended up in a brawl. The regional first division clash between Recreativo Linense and Saladillo Algesiras took place in the southern province of Cadiz. With Lisense leading 1-0, a fight broke out between two players. The exchange quickly escalated into a mass brawl involving several players and some spectators who invaded the pitch. Unable to restore order, referee Jose Manuel Barro Escandon fled to the locker room and stopped the match. In his post-match report, he wrote that he had sent off 19 players.

Full story HERE.

Put Women Sailors in Bikinis!

Put women sailors in bikinis and young men will flock to join the Australian navy. That's the suggestion of Commander Tom Phillips, a British-born navy submarine commander. His remark has landed him in hot water among feminists and politicians. The 37-year-old, who joined the Australian navy in 1990, went even further by suggesting that the submariner's equivalent of the 'mile high club' for people having sex on a plane was the 'going down club'.

Pictured above: new recruits for HMS Australasia.

Full story HERE.

Heavy Breathing News Bulletin

BBC newsreaders are famed for their unflappable composure, whatever the circumstances. So viewers tuned to BBC Three's 60 Seconds news bulletin on Thursday night were puzzled, to say the least, by presenter Tasmin Lucia Khan's breathless delivery.

Although she would normally appear fleetingly at the beginning of every programme, only Tasmin's voice could be heard in the broadcast – which some suspicious viewers probably thought just as well. In all, she managed just 28 words before producers decided to abandon the bulletin.

Full story, plus video of the actual bulletin, HERE.

Patrick McGoohan

He is no longer a number; he is now a free man...

Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy-winning actor who created and starred in cult classic TV show The Prisoner, has died. He was 80 years of age. His film producer son-in-law Cleve Landsberg made the announcement.

His death came after a short illness but the much-lauded actor has left a memorable legacy. He won two Emmys for his work on Columbo, the hit detective drama which starred Peter Falk. More recently, he appeared as King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart. However, he remains best known as the title character Number Six in the surreal 1960s British series The Prisoner. Born in New York, Patrick McGoohan was raised in Ireland and England. He trod the boards but his first real brush with fame came courtesy of Danger Man, a 1960s Brit spy series. The work he did in The Prisoner, his next big TV project, stayed with him for the rest of his life. It was this show that brought us the iconic phrase: "I am not a number! I am a free man!"

First airing on ITV between 1967 and 1968, The Prisoner is viewed by many critics as one of the most radical, thought-provoking dramas in the history of television. Slick and intelligent, the 17-episode series explores numerous themes: from democracy and freedom, conformity and rebellion to the nature of the individual and revolution. Widely regarded as a political commentary which is as relevant today as it was 40 years ago, The Prisoner continues to fascinate. ITV are even remaking it with The Passion Of The Christ's Jim Caviezel in McGoohan's role and Ian McKellen as Number Two, the Chief Administrator of The Village.

At the time of his death, Patrick McGoohan was mostly retired and living in Los Angeles with his wife of 57 years, Joan Drummond McGoohan.