Tightrope walker breaks record

A circus tightrope walker set a new world record by completing a walk on a cable car wire - nearly two miles above the ground.

Freddy Nock, 46, did not use a harness or safety nets for the stunt near the Swiss mountain resort of St Moritz.

Using only a balancing stick, he walked down the cable of a funicular on Mount Corvatsch - which is 9,908 feet above sea level.

He shuffled along the cable for some 5,249 feet, starting from the mountain station - at an altitude of 10,836 feet - to the middle station, which is 8,865 feet above sea level.

Nock, who starting learning acrobatic skills at the age of four, successfully completed the walk on his second attempt, after bad weather forced him to stop earlier in the day.

He previously performed similar stunts Germany, staging a climb over the slopes of the country's highest mountain, and walking 900-metres over Lake Zurich.

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Woman arrested for mooning cops

A US woman has been arrested - for mooning the police officers who arrested her brother.

Rita Zambrano, 45, of Hamblen County, Tennessee, saw police arresting her brother for driving offences.

She allegedly turned around, dropped her drawers and showed the officers her naked backside, reports Knox News.

Ironically, she is still behind bars, charged with indecent exposure, while her brother Ronnie Waddell, 44, has been released on bail.

Police officer David Gulley said Waddell was arrested after officers saw him driving a car outside of his sister's apartment.

As he and another officer cuffed Waddell, Gulley said that Zambrano stood in her doorway and harassed the officers.

"She was standing at her door and mooned me through the window on her front door," Gulley said.

Gulley said he was too busy to deal with Zambrano at the time, so he took Waddell to jail, then later issued a warrant for her arrest.

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Woman tried to post live puppy

A US woman has been charged with animal cruelty after she parcelled up a live puppy and tried to post it more than 1,100 miles.

Police say Stacey Champion, 39, tried to air-mail the dog from Minneapolis to Atlanta, Georgia, for a child's birthday.

She was stopped from posting the parcel when a stunned postal worker saw it move and then heard it panting, reports the Star Tribune newspaper.

Within minutes, postal workers had unwrapped the tightly sealed box and rescued a four-month-old puppy, called Guess.

Police Sgt Angela Dodge said it would have taken at least two days for the box, which had airholes - unfortunately covered up with tape, to arrive at its destination.

"It's just crazy," she said. "It was supposed to be a birthday gift for a family member. It would have been kind of traumatising to get a dead puppy.

"If you don't identify it so that it can be handled properly, it goes into the cargo hold of an airplane. And there was no food or water. Puppies can't go for long periods without food or water."

Thompson Ojoyeyi, supervisor at the post office, said the woman cautioned postal workers to "be careful, be careful" as they handled the box because "it was so delicate".

On the outside of the package she had written: "This is for your 11th birthday. It's what you wanted." She told the clerk not to worry if she heard sounds from the package as it contained a toy robot.

Guess has been taken in at the city's animal control facility and will be put up for adoption if Champion is convicted of animal cruelty.

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Lorry driver hits pylon 'while texting'

A lorry driver sparked a 100 square mile blackout in China when he ploughed into a massive electricity pylon.

The 200ft pylon was left teetering at 45 degrees after Sing Lu, 35, smashed his truck into it in Tianjin, northern China.

He later admitted to police officers that he had been trying to send a text message on his mobile phone at the time of the accident.

"He said afterwards he had been texting on his mobile phone and hadn't been paying attention. Even so, it would be hard not to see something that size," said a police spokesman.

The damage to the pylon created a massive electrical surge which knocked out the local power station, plunging thousands of local homes and businesses into darkness, say officials.

Rescue workers spent five days clearing the debris from the road and electrical engineers took almost a week to restore power.

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