CCTV Quick Thinking & People Power : Passenger fails to mind the gap at Stirling train station SAVED

Commuters and railway staff teamed up to free a man by rocking a train carriage to free his leg after he became trapped between the platform and a carriage on Wednesday morning.

The man was boarding a rush hour train at Stirling station, 9km northwest of Perth, Western Australia, at 8.50am when he slipped and one leg became wedged in the gap.

Quick-thinking passengers and staff saved the man leg's, as it was being squeezed by the 90-tonne of train, by collectively rocking the carriage.

'He stood in the doorway and as he was sort of taking up his position there, one leg slipped outside the door, slipped outside the gap, and he was stuck,' Transperth spokesman David Hynes told the ABC.

'We alerted the driver, made sure the train didn't move.

'Then our staff who were there at the time got the passengers, and there were lots of them, off the train, and organised them to sort of rock, tilt the train backwards away from the platform so they were able to get him out and rescue him.'

An ambulance was called to the station but the man did not sustain any serious injuries.

Mr Hynes said it was not a problem caused by overcrowding and praised the actions of staff and passengers who helped free the man.

'Everyone sort of pitched in. It was people power that saved someone from possibly quite serious injury,' he said.

Nicolas Taylor told Perth Now that he and fellow passengers got off the train and worked together to free the man by pushing against the carriage away from the platform.

'He seemed to be a bit sheepish, because right where he fell was the �mind the gap� writing,' he said.

Mr Taylor said Transperth staff coordinated the incident well, taking about 10 minutes to free him.

'They did a really good job, they took control and handled it well. When I first saw it I thought we�d be there for hours.' he said.

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Monster Croc Vs Bull Shark : Shark is eaten alive by a crocodile named Brutus in Australia

Sharks and crocodiles are predators in their own right, but who would win a fight if the two creatures came up against each other?

The answer is a crocodile - at least if this photo is anything to go by.

Andrew Paice, 43, managed to capture the moment this 5.5 metre crocodile named Brutus latched onto a bull shark in the Northern Territory before it swam off into the mangroves to devour its prey.

The ordeal took place in Kakadu's Adelaide River on Tuesday when Mr Paice was on a river cruise with his partner Nikki and seven-year-old daughter Madison.

'The tour guide had Brutus jumping at some meat the first time we went past him. Brutus is quite well known up here� he jumps really high for an old crocodile,' he told Daily Mail Australia.

'We were near the end of the tour and we'd fed all of the crocodiles along the river. We were on our way back to the jetty when we saw (the crocodile) had something in his mouth.'

The tour guide, Morgan from Adelaide River Cruises, backed the boat back just as Brutus the crocodile was on the river bank with the shark in its mouth.

'The shark was definitely alive... it was still wriggling. The crocodile slid back into the water and the shark started to flip around a bit. The the crocodile swam into the mangroves, I guess to protect his catch,' Mr Paice said.

'I never even thought about a crocodile catching a shark before. It was absolutely amazing to see. Everyone was astonished. I was amazed I even caught it on camera.'

Mr Paice, who lives in Sydney, is four months into a year long trip around Australia with his partner and daughter.

'There's some amazing sites to see up here. To see the jumping crocodiles was pretty amazing but then to see this... I think it will be pretty hard to top,' he said.

They have already travelled through Queensland and are now part way through the Northern Territory, before they head down into Western Australia.

Brutus the killer crocodile is believed to be around 80 years old - and has a front leg missing which he is believed to have lost during a fight with a shark.

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U.K Adorable Triplets are so identical parents have to colour code their toe nails to identify them

Whenever identical twins or triplets are born their parents will often be met with a cry of 'how do you tell them apart?'

Well, one family have come up with their own way of making sure they can by colour coding their triplets' toe nails to tell them apart.

Proud mum and dad Karen and Ian Gilbert, from Pontypool, South Wales, had to buy bright nail varnish so they know which of their little girls is which.

Baby Ffion has fuschia polish on her toenails, Maddison has mint green and Paige wears purple.

Mother Karen, 33, said: 'It's not a fashion statement we really struggle to tell them apart.

'We came up with the nail varnish idea and it works a treat.

'It makes life a lot easier when it comes to our daily routine of feeding, bathing and nappy changing.

'The colour coding helps us to know who has had what!'

Karen and company director Ian matched the first letter of the baby's name with the first letter of the shade of nail polish just to make sure they always get it right.

They hope as the little girls get older they will develop individual looks and personalities to help them tell one from another.

The triplets celebrated their first birthday at the weekend after a 'fun filled year' where everything had to be done in triplicate.

The family from Pontypool, South Wales, gets through more than 120 nappies and 84 bottles of formula milk a week. 

But the trio are already earning their keep with appearances on TV's Casualty and the family drama Stella.

Because they are so identical Ffion, Maddison and Paige can play the same baby on screen, so they get rotated while scenes are being filmed to avoid a single baby getting too tired.

Full time mother Karen said: 'They were all TV stars before they reached the age of one.

'They are lovely little girls who have already brought us so much joy - in triplicate.'

The trio was conceived naturally from one egg - against the odds of 160,000-1 according to the Multiple Births Foundation.

Ffion, Maddison and Paige, weighing 3lb 8oz, 3lb 5oz and 3lb 4oz, were delivered via emergency caesarean section two months early.

Karen said: 'It has been a frantic but fun-filled year.

'Going out is a military operation which we call 'Operation Triplets'.

'We can't just think, 'Oh, shall we go out?' We need at least 24 hours notice. It's like packing to go on holiday every time we leave the house.

'We have a triple pushchair and we've had to get a bigger car, a seven seater Ford Galaxy.'

Their local supermarket Morrisons has even ordered a treble baby seat shopping trolley to help the family.

The couple have a four-year-old little girl Faye who tries to help out by painting the babies toe nails.

Karen said: 'We have treble trouble - but we would not have it any other way.'

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Painfully thin looking TIGER lying on floor but Zoo says animal is not badly treated in China

A Chinese zoo under fire for teaching its elephants to perform martial arts stunts is facing further complaints after pictures emerged of an apparently emaciated tiger.

The pictures appear to show a painfully thin-looking tiger lying on the bare floor of a pen at Tianjin Zoo, in Tianjin, China.

The zoo has now received a number of complaints after the pictures were posted on to social media site Weibo.

The post on Weibo reads: 'These pictures were taken by a friend of mine. I can't help but cry when I see this.

'I have no idea how to help, but I just emailed the Animal Protection Organization. Hope it will work.

'Whoever has a clue how to help, please take action to improve the tiger's living condition.

'I am asking for the people concerned to investigate it and to treat animals better!'

Officials at the zoo have insisted the tiger had been diagnosed with a digestion problem.

Zoo keeper Wei K'ung told local media: 'We have seven tigers and only one is not healthy. She had a digestive disorder since she was a cub but it worsened as she aged.

'She is now 13, that makes her an OAP in tiger terms, and the medicine she has been given no longer works so well. That is the reason she seems so thin.'

Critics however have accused the zoo of keeping the tiger alive longer despite her suffering in order to have something to show zoo visitors.

The zoo has denied the tiger was in pain, saying that only when she really seemed to be suffering would they consider putting her to sleep.

Source : DailyMail , Mirror , Shangaiist

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Invisible woman: Artist whose impressive body art makes her models disappear into New York city�s surroundings

Her models meld into the grey Manhattan skyline as if they're made of mirrors and glass.

Now body artist Trina Merry has spoken about her head-turning technique, painstakingly painting women so they blend in with New York's landmarks, after her incredible creations made headlines around the world.

The 33-year-old shuns studios and canvases, instead letting her nude models camouflage seamlessly into the world around them.

They have been photographed in front of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, Central Park, the Guggenheim Museum and the iconic towers of downtown Manhattan.

It's not an easy process - the models must be painted live on the streets in a process that takes several hours and can attract some unwanted attention.

But the law is firmly on her side, as the city of New York allows people to strip off in public for the purposes of artistic expression - even if that doesn't stop police approaching the artist altogether.

Ms Merry came up with the idea after moving to New York from the San Francisco area earlier this year.

'I wanted to engage the city and understand it and make some observations,' she said.

'So instead of a person right in front of the Empire State building or the Statue of Liberty, they're softly in the background, and you've got more of a reflective view of the person within the landscape.'

Photographers followed the artist as she went through the process of creating her images in the middle of a busy Brooklyn street last week.

It is a carefully-planned ritual, which involves waiting until there is no chance of rain which could wash off the meticulously detailed designs.

And at one point, Ms Merry had to repaint some of her model after the owner of a van in the background got into it and drove away.

That's not to mention the stream of pedestrians and cab drivers who slowed down to gawk, snap pictures and ask questions - their faces a mix of shock, intrigue and anything-goes resignation.

'It feels great to be painted,' said model Jessica Mellow, who wore only a bikini bottom and running shoes.

'You feel the transformation process. The brush itself, it's really soft. It feels more like a massage.'

Passer-by Celeste Hernandez said: 'That's so very New York. You cannot be surprised by anything.'

New York's laws allow public nudity when it is in the context of performances or artistic expression, and women are allowed to be topless, two traditions established through a string of hard-fought cases.

In 1986 seven women from Rochester, New York, protested laws which allowed men to go topless but not women by holding a bare-breasted picnic in a park.

The publicity around the stunt - and their hard-fought campaign afterwards - led eventually to a ruling in 1992 by the state's highest court, the New York Court of Appeals.

One of the justices wrote: 'One of the most important purposes to be served by the equal protection clause is to ensure that "public sensibilities" grounded in prejudice and unexamined stereotypes do not become enshrined as part of the official policy of government.'

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Brazilian real life Ken doll: Man turns himself into Barbie's boyfriend and now he's bringing out his OWN figurine

He is Brazil's very own walking, talking, living doll.

And soon he's going to be a rich one.

Despite spending �30,000 morphing himself into a human version of Barbie's boyfriend Ken, Celso Santebanes is set to rake it all back and more - with his own line of Celso Dolls.

The 20-year-old Brazilian, who 'behaves like a puppet', has had four operations on his nose, chin and jaw - plus silicone implants in his chest - to look like Barbie's boyfriend.

Sharing pictures of him and his mini-me on Instagram, he gushed: 'I went to the city to become a model.

'I never expected to have a toy myself.

'I dreamt of being a human puppet, but having one in my image was completely unexpected.'

Celso, a doll enthusiast, grew up with a shelf-full of dolls and started his transformation after winning a modelling contest at the age of 16.

For years, he claims, his family had been telling him he looked like the doll - which inspired him to become 'a human puppet'.

He changed his last name from Borges Pereira to Santebanes, the name of his favourite character on a Mexican TV show.

Then saved and scrimped to afford each stage of his meticulous transformation.

Last year, he was spotted by a talk show in his native Sao Paolo, Brazil, and he was catapulted to fame.

He charges up to �10,000 for a VIP appearance and revealed he is in talks with reality TV show producers.

Now he is preparing to travel to LA next month to launch the Celso Doll.

In an interview with a Brazilian paper he said: 'This is all so magical. My life has changed.

'I feel like the whole of Brazil is supporting me.

'People are sometimes frightened by the way I look, and stop me to say how much I look like a doll!

'And I do suffer a lot of prejudice. But the world is full of judgemental people, I don't care.'

With a self-professed addiction to staring at his reflection, Celso has also vowed to join forces with the Russian Barbie Valeria Lukyanova.

He said: 'The human Ken bachelor is looking for his Barbie. Who wants to be my girlfriend? After all no one happy alone.'

Source : DailyMail

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Busted ! Failed attempts by the World's Drug Dealers to outsmart customs

When it comes to avoiding the beady eyes of border officers, you can't say they didn't try.

These are the bizarre methods used by the world's drug smugglers to stow away their hauls - but all of them were caught before they could cross the border.

The cleverest failed missions have included cocaine bras, wigs and nappies, cannabis garden hoses and heroin thigh bandages.

Some of the most unusual have been released by customs officers working in two busy airports on the U.S. east coast.

They reveal the desperate and inspired lengths smugglers will go to in their attempts to pass muster at New York's JFK Airport and Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey. 

Anthony Bucci, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection for New York and New Jersey, admitted he has seen so many odd attempted concealment methods he is rarely surprised.

'Some of the more interesting concealment methods include narcotics concealed in prosthetic limbs, wheels on luggage made of heroin and cocaine and heroin secreted into book covers,' he said.

'One person we caught at JFK had inserted narcotics anally, vaginally and swallowed pellets.

'We even intercepted a dog years ago that had narcotics sewn under his skin.

'I have been with the CBP approximately four-and-a-half years. The longer I am here the less surprised I am by the attempted concealment methods.'

But the phenomenon has never been confined just to New York - as our collection of photos over the years from around the globe shows.

The world's drug dealers have tried to smuggle cocaine in an avocado, a can of Stella Artois and a champagne couple.

One British pair surgically implanted drugs into their pet Labrador on the way home from Colombia.

In China, a 64-year-old smuggler tried to sneak 5kg of cocaine into the vice capital Macau by secreting more than 100 tiny packages of the drug into little pockets in his trousers.

And the border between the U.S. and Mexico is where officials see some of the most brazen attempts to bring drugs into the country.

The lure of profit from drug smuggling has seen substances concealed in items including a baby's stroller, a lawn mower, a garden hose and concrete garden furniture.

In June 2009, a 30-year-old Mexican man was even arrested trying to smuggle more than 10kg of marijuana ashore on a surfboard.

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