A teenager from South Africa has developed an unusual yet strong bond with a 10-foot long Burmese long python, a bond that has been sustained for two years. The teenager, 11th-grader Simone Naidoo, got the python named Theo after falling in love with snakes at 10 years old. She saw the slithery creatures displayed at a window during a grade school fair.

A 16-year-old Aussie teenager who threw up a wild house party while his parents were out of town, may face a $17,850 bill after police officers tried to disperse revelers by calling in a helicopter Monday. The teenage boy hosted a party on Saturday night which turned out of control when hundreds of teenagers arrived in to his house in Narre Warren, Melbourne suburb to party.

Gold Coast police on Sunday said they have fined a parent caught providing alcohol to a teenager during end-of-the-term school celebrations in Queensland, Australia. Queensland Police spokeswoman Melanie Loy said the parent, a woman, was slapped with a $600 fine.

A stripper sent to a U. K. high school by mistake left students and a teacher perplexed when she spanked a 16-year-old student in front of the class. School officials are now investigating the incident that took place at a drama class in Arnold Hill School in Nottingham.

A whimsical judge was dismissed from the bench by the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday, making him only the second magistrate to be booted out of the service for judicial misconduct. It was the end of the line for Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Judge James Michael Shull of Gate City who hogged the limelight when he decided a custody case by flipping a coin and making a mentally-disturbed litigant drop her pants in open court.