A 12-year-old boy awoke to an unpleasant surprise
this week when a python bit him in his bed.

Michael Rodriguez discovered the 4-foot snake
clinging to his right arm early Monday morning. He
flailed his arm, flinging the snake to the carpet.
"I didn't cry, and then I walked to my parents' room,"
Michael said Tuesday, still displaying bite marks on
the side of his right hand. He suffered only a minor
injury. The snake is not venomous.

"We thought he was dreaming, but he was holding his
hand and it was bleeding," said his father, Cedric
Esqueda. "It was a pretty good bite, and I think when
he threw it from his arm it made the bite worse."

The family just recently moved into the northwest
Fresno home and doesn't own a snake.

"We have no idea where it came from," said Michael's
mother, Christina Esqueda.

Animal control officials seized the ball python and it
could be adopted or euthanized.

A Deltona FL convenience-store employee was suspended
after a customer became violently ill upon drinking
soda that tests later confirmed had been urinated in.

"He vomited three or four times afterwards," said the
victim's attorney.

Newlin said his client, a foreman with a Daytona Beach
construction company, became suspicious of the drink
after he chugged "a lot" of the beverage last week.

"Imagine a construction worker just grabbing a
Mountain Dew and just sucking it down," Newlin said.
The man took the soft drink back to the Howland
Boulevard store and told the manager of his concerns.

Testing confirmed that the soda had been urinated in,
upon the advice of an infectious-disease doctor, the
construction worker was being tested for diseases such
as gonorrhea and hepatitis C.

"CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] does
not consider urine to be a potentially toxic thing,"
said Dr. Scott Brady, the senior medical director for
Florida Hospital Centra Care. "As gross as it sounds,
the urine is not harmful as long as it's not bloody."

A mobile phone dealer has been arrested for allegedly
selling thousands of amateur sex videos he had
downloaded from cellular phones brought to his shop
for repairs.

The footage had all been recorded by the dealer's
clients for private use on their mobile phones, and
stored in the devices.

Thousands of such sex videos were also found stored on
computer hard drives seized in the shop. The suspect
faces charges of distributing indecent material and
breach of privacy.

Jerry Dunlap spent more than a year fixing up his 1910
dream sailboat. But a gaggle of about 15 hefty sea
lions managed to sink the 50-foot craft in just 30
seconds.

"This is a major setback. I'm 63, I don't know if I
feel like working another two years to get a boat to
work."

The scuttling of Dunlap's $24,000 boat may be the most
striking example of mayhem that sea lions have caused
since they started showing up in the harbor in May.

Residents complain that they bark all night long, the
city received a report that a rogue sea lion tipped
over a mother and her child in their kayak, and two 20
year old bikini models were trampled and pushed into
the sand when three sexually aroused sea lions began
humping them.

The Harbor Patrol sprays the sea lions with fire hoses
but they reboarded the girls within minutes.