A japanese doctor has come under fire for his unique way of calming a patient down. While in surgery, an elderly female patient at a hospital in central Japan was administered local anasthesia early last month, and began jerking around on the operation table, yelling at the doctor to stop.

A routine surgical procedure ends up with a doctor giving a patient a good smack on the head. According to Reuters

Authorities have found a missing 12-year-old North Carolina girl who reportedly ran away last week and was suspected of traveling with a convicted sex offender. Jodie Collie was recovered by Des Moines police at a bus station following a phone call she made to her grandfather, who in turn notified the FBI, leading local authorities to her location. Officials say Collie was alone and unharmed. The girl's mother, Kim Baker says, "The hugest weight has been lifted off my shoulders. All the prayers I've been praying have been answered. She's safe and she'll be back soon. I think we'll all be fighting to see who hugs her first. I don't think I'll let her go for a couple of hours. "

A 31 year-old man has been arrested in Berlin, Germany after being busted while scratching large penis-shaped gouges into the paint of two cars. The man has been under investigation for vandalizing around 330 vehicles in the region over the last few months that had also been marked with the same penis insignia.

An unusually thin firefighter was able to put his stature to work when he wiggled his 6-foot-1, 160 pound frame into a narrow crevasse to rescue a toddler trapped nine feet underground. John Michael Butterfield, 16-months-old, was running at the Tamaques Park playground when he wondered into a nearby tennis court and fell into one of six holes dug by a contractor earlier that day to support new floodlights.