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HONOLULU - An 18-month-old girl was touring a chocolate factory with her family when her hand was caught in a conveyor belt and cut off. Employees at the Menehune Mac Factory Gift Center worked quickly to bandage the girl and retrieve her left hand before firefighters even arrived.  "Our guys just put it in a bag on ice, just to preserve it in case doctors are able to do anything with it," Fire Capt. Chris Ah Mook Sang said. The incident occurred during the company's Fifth Annual Mother's Day Candy Making Event, which is a fundraiser for the Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation.  

LONDON - The BBC is issuing a big "Whoops" after it interviewed the wrong man live on TV. Thinking the man sitting in reception was Guy Kewney, the editor of a technology website, a producer brought him into the studio, sat him down, and clipped a microphone on him. However, they literally had "the wrong Guy." He was Guy Goma, a graduate from central Africa, waiting to be interviewed for a job. The presenter introduced Goma as the editor and asked if he was surprised by computer company Apple's victory in a trademark dispute with The Beatles' Apple Corp, Yahoo News reported. Goma, clearly shocked, answered the question and struggled with two more questions about music downloading before the presenter thanked him and moved on. It was discovered later that he was the wrong Guy

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Shortly after poisons were supposed to be pumping through the body of a double murderer being put to death, the condemned man sat up and told his executioners, "It's not working." CNN.com reported that the execution was delayed about 90 minutes because technicians had trouble finding a site in Joseph Clark's arm for the intravenous line carrying the chemicals. After Clark let executioners know it wasn't working, officials determined that a vein had collapsed. The curtains were closed to block witnesses' view until technicians were able to locate a vein in his other arm. They were then parted to reveal him dying, witnesses said.  

 

TORONTO - A Canadian family is horrified that someone broke into a funeral parlor and cut off their mother's head, leaving behind her earrings and a cash donation. The family of 68-year-old Cecile Lemay is offering a reward for the return of their mother's head, which was hacked from her body by a thief or thieves last summer. "Each morning, when we get up, we ask ourselves: 'Where is the head? Will it show up on our lawn one morning?'," the Globe and Mail newspaper quoted Lemay's sister Carmelle as saying. Information leading to the return of the missing head will earn a reward of C$10,000 ($8,900). "We think about it each day. We can't find closure and we want to know who did it and why," another of Lemay's sisters, Ghyslaine, said.