A three-year-old boy named Jack Neal reportedly used his mother's computer to buy a Ł9,000 ($17,067. 34) car on Internet auction site eBay. The boy's parents discovered their son's successful bid when they received a message from eBay about the Barbie pink Nissan Figaro. His mother Rachel Neal, 36, told the Sun, "We couldn't understand what was happening. Neither of us had bought anything. So we checked and saw it was a Barbie-pink car which we'd bought for Ł8,999. We flew into a panic. "

He successfully made a bid. Unfortunately for him, it wasn't meant to be honored. He is only three years old. Jack Neal, 3, went on his parents' computer and made a successful bid for the Barbie pink Nissan Figaro on eBay for US$17,000.

A pink and gold-painted elephant stirred controversy last weekend amongst Los Angeles Animal Services. The elephant was part of an art exhibition by UK Artist Banksy. The 38-year-old Indian elephant was painted and put inside a "mocked-up" house to represent the way world poverty is ignored.

RadioShack employees would learn the fate of their job, and if they would be terminated or not, in an e-mail. In a corporate downsizing, RadioShack Corp. sent 403 employees an e-mail telling them their services were no longer needed.

A couple from a historic neighborhood near downtown Des Moines is trying to be positive about the theft of flowers from his 1880s-era home. The reason - a note left by a courteous thief thanking the owner of the flowers. Jason Jasnos told the to Des Moines Register that he found the note in his garden Sunday, a day after he caught two women clutching a bunch of posies picked from his garden.