This is so messed up. Some drunk man seeking revenge on his ex-girlfriend drove through her house. The problem is, that he drove into the wrong house, pinning down a couple who were lying in bed. Thank goodness they weren't really hurt. Their house, though is damaged badly.

(CNN) -- With motor fluid spraying their faces and the weight of a car numbing their bodies, two Nevada college students struggled to stay calm after a drunk driver allegedly tore into their home, ripping them from their slumber.

Kristin Palmer and Trent Wood were asleep in their home last week when a motorist allegedly drove into their bedroom around 4 a.m., mistakenly believing it was his ex-girlfriend's home.

The University of Nevada students spent almost an hour pinned between the car and their bed while emergency workers battled furiously to free them.

Somehow, the two left the scene with relatively minor scrapes and burns -- and a new lease on life, Wood said.

"When you experience something like that there's no limits anymore, you can try to do whatever you want to do," Wood told HLN's Mike Galanos. "We feel like we have more of a purpose, like we were meant to live."

Authorities say the motorist was drunk when he drove into the couple's home in Sparks, mistakenly believing it was the home of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.

Eric Cross is accused of drunken driving, battery with a deadly weapon, possession of a stolen vehicle, driving without a license and careless driving for his alleged role in the crash, which occurred October 21, according to the Washoe County Sheriff's OfficeVideo: Car lands on sleeping couple

"I thought the roof caved in from an earthquake because it's an old house," Woods said.Initially, Woods struggled to comprehend what had happened to him after being abruptly torn from his slumber.

Then, his girlfriend began screaming and parts of the car came into focus, helping Woods to groggily piece the scene together,

"I could see the tire to the right side and I was like, there's a car on top of me right now," he said. "That was really hard to get through my head."

As fluid poured from the car, burning Palmer's face, the couple feared that the car might explode with them underneath, he said.

Woods credited the slackness of the bed for preventing their legs from breaking altogether as the weight of the car pinned his girlfriend's entire body and his lower half to the bed.

"She was screaming really badly because I could actually move above my chest and neck, but she couldn't move anything," he said.

The couple calmed down somewhat after emergency workers arrived at the scene, using chainsaws to rip through the wall, Wood said.

About 42 minutes later, they had lifted the car enough to let the couple wiggle out from underneath it without it crushing their lower bodies.

"When the car was lifted and you could see blood circulating back through my legs, that was probably the happiest moment of my life: Yes! I'm not paralyzed," he said.

"I was so happy, hugging everyone and making sure Kristin was all right," he said. "I was just real happy to get out of there."

The couple is accepting donations through the Bank of America to replace items lost in the incident.

This is insane...

Law enforcement authorities have recovered 52 children and arrested 60 pimps allegedly involved in child prostitution, the FBI announced Monday.

More than 690 people in all were arrested on state and local charges, the FBI stated.

The arrests were made over the past three days as part of a nationwide law enforcement initiative conducted on the federal, state and local levels, the bureau said.

"Child prostitution continues to be a significant problem in our country, as evidenced by the number of children rescued through the continued efforts of our crimes against children task forces," Kevin Perkins, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, said in a written statement.

"There is no work more important than protecting America's children and freeing them from the cycle of victimization."

The three-day operation, tagged Operation Cross Country IV, included enforcement actions in 36 cities across 30 FBI divisions nationwide. It is part of the FBI's ongoing Innocence Lost National Initiative, which was created in 2003 with the goal of ending sex trafficking of children in the United States.

The initiative, conducted with assistance from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, has so far resulted in the recovery of almost 900 children, according to the FBI. It has also led to more than 500 convictions.

I cant believe that child prostitution is such a major problem in the US. Its like modern day slavery, because it forces kids to participate in terrible acts, at the profit of their "employers".

2 week observation of object

I observed an apple with a bite taken out of it for two weeks, and simplified it in a set of five drawings showing how the apple wilts.

Rant on a Rant

I have seen Levi jeans ads on TV that use excerpts from Walt Whitman's writing, "Go Forth". It really is an attention grabbing, emotional ad, but I think it really degrades Whitman's writing by using it for commercial purposes.

Ad Rant: Levi's celebrates America the beautiful...with $238 jeans and a greedy treasure hunt

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Would you buy a pair of used-looking Levi's jeans from this man?

I would.

But I draw the line at using a great ad celebrating the pioneer spirit of America, along with Whitman's stirring words, as a springboard for a crass $100,000 treasure hunt.

For the past few months, Levi's has been piggybacking the poetry of Walt Whitmanon its "Go Forth" ad campaign, linking its jeans to the can-do, hard-scrabble, exuberant spirit of early America. It even has Walt himself as its pitchman.

You'd think that would be difficult, given that the poet died in 1892. But, like DNA, MP3s live on forever: There is an original, 36-second wax cylinder recording of what is presumed to be Whitman's voice reading four lines from his poem, America. Levi's cleaned up the soundtrack; you can download the scratchy original here.

His voice is as stirring and passionate as any bootstrapper this country ever produced, as he extols the richness of the American people:

Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love

Watching this ad gives me chills. The good kind.

The black-and-white visuals of New Orleans under siege are both stark and stirring. The people of all ages in this ad are kinetic, alive. They do backflips, ride horses, dance in the spray of fireworks. They are -- yes! -- strong, strong, ample, fair, enduring ... just as Whitman envisioned.



I don't think he envisioned, though, a treasure hunt sponsored by Levi's, whose contest rules limit the game to anyone 18 or older who resides within the 50 states.

In other words, the people who actually make Levi's jeans, in all their outsourced geography, are not eligible to play.

The ad gives the feeling of indefatigable spirit and grassroots revolution. It ends with a kiss, the ultimate sign of hope. Despite the opening image of a hunk of signage in the shape of the word "America," half-submerged in water, the message is that America is unsinkable. It gives hope that we will rebuild, that our past is our future.

It's a noble sentiment. Somehow, I don't feel the same about treasure hunts.

It's clever to link the words of that most American of poets with a brand that's been around since Whitman was in his 50s. (Maybe he even wore them -- despite what one commenter said on YouTube, that Whitman probably wore Gloria Vanderbilts to Studio 54. Hey, if Whitman's voice could survive, not to mention disco, then who's to say the guy's sartorial choices don't reverberate in some ghostly way around the pop-culture universe?)

I like the ad enough that I'm not going to get all righteous about using Whitman to sell jeans costing up to $238, even though he spent his life poor and evidently required barely any more luxuries than Thoreau over at Walden Pond.

It doesn't even bother me (well, it does, but not enough to march on it) that this ad is about America undaunted, rising from the ashes of hard times; yet, during modern hard times, Levi's gradually laid off thousands of workers and closed its last two American plants in 2003. Levi's now manufactures the majority of its clothing in anyplace BUT America. Naturally, that goes against the spirit and intent of Whitman. Not to mention against the spirit of Levi Strauss, the Bavarian immigrant who patented the process of putting rivets in denim, thus inventing jeans.


All of that's true, but here, for me, is the final straw: Levi's has followed up this lyrical, lovely, hope-inspiring campaign with ... a greed-inspired, insipid treasure hunt. (Yes, the winner of the $100,000 prize also gets to choose a charity that will receive $100,000 as well, but that doesn't mollify me.)

Interestingly, the most expensive pair of jeans that Levi's sells -- the Landmine, $238 -- carries that price tag partly because it recreates the worn, faded, torn look that has become so prized in jeans. The Levi's brand originally took off because its workpants were more durable than other clothing of the period, but you spend more today for the look people back then were trying to avoid: wear and tear.

That has been true for a couple of decades now, but it is particularly symbolic in light of the "Go Forth" ad's queasy subtext, that "true" America is about the kind of work and effort it takes to wear out your jeans, when anyone will tell you that most people would rather pay for "the faded look" than do the good, clean work it takes to weather their own clothes.

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EIJING, China (CNN) -- Eight days after they were trapped in an underground mine in northwest China, three coal mine workers were rescued early Sunday, state media said.

The three men were taken to a hospital in stable condition, the China Daily newspaper said.

The men had been stranded in the shaft of a mine in Shanxi province since an accident in the colliery on October 17.

Of the 27 workers in the shaft at the time of the accident, 24 escaped -- leaving the three trapped inside.

Mine accidents are common in China.

Earlier this month, 26 people died in a mine accident in central Hunan Province. The October 8 accident occurred when a brake failure caused two elevators carrying 31 miners in a tin-ore mine in Lengshuijiang city to plunge, rescuers told the newspaper.

Last year, 3,215 people died in China's coal mines, down about 15 percent from the 2007 toll, the State Administration of Work Safety reported.

Government figures show almost 80 percent of the country's 16,000 mines are illegal with lax work safety procedures.

I am so happy to hear that those workers made it out of the mine OK. But I really think that there should be more moderation of mining safety (not only in China)

FLYING ELEPHANT

This is awesome: free flights for life for a woman who gave birth on a plane in Malaysia. It seems like a bad precedent to set for women. haha I bet more pregnant women are going to be flying in their 8th and 9th months...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Oct. 23) - A Malaysian woman who gave premature birth to a boy on board an airplane minutes before it landed will get free flights for life along with her child, an airline official said Friday.

Liew Siaw Hsia, 31, gave birth on budget carrier AirAsia's flight from Penang to Kuching on Wednesday.

AirAsia spokesman Nazatul Mokhtar said Friday that the flight was diverted to nearby Kuala Lumpur for an emergency landing when Liew started labor pains. He says Liew was 27 weeks pregnant, 11 weeks short of the full term.

A doctor on the flight helped the woman deliver while the plane was still 2,000 feet in the air in its final approach to land.

Mother and son were rushed to a nearby hospital after the plane landed, an airline statement said. Their condition late Friday was unknown, though Nazatul said earlier that they were both in good shape.

Nazatul says both Liew and her son will get lifetime of free flights.