Saturday's iGoogle news

There were a couple of interesting stories from Saturday's news feed.

The first comes from FoxNews.com. It's the story of the North Carolina woman who was charged in the disappearance of her five year old daughter. Antoinette Nicole Davis was charged with human trafficking, a child abuse charge involving prostitution, and filing a false police report. It's still apparently unclear whether the charges are directly related to the girl's disappearance.

Shaniya Davis, 5, was reported missing last Tuesday. An employee at a hotel in Sanford about 40 miles away called police to report seeing a girl matching Shaniya's description. Authorities confirmed her identity and were able to arrest the man who was with her on the tape, Mario Andrette McNeill. Police have not said if Davis and McNeill know each other. McNeill admitted to taking the girl, but he reportedly plans to plead not guilty. So far, police have still not been able to locate Shaniya.

This doesn't really matter that much, but I did notice a funny sentence in this article: "The following day a man described as Davis' girlfriend was arrested in the kidnapping but later released." I thought it was funny that such a mistake would get past the AP editors in the first place, and to not have it fixed by now is pretty inexcusable.

I saw a second article worth mentioning from CBC News. This story is about a court case regarding an incident that occurred all the way back on June 8, 2002. The plantiff, Alan Benzanson, sued Travis Hayter over an incident on a gold course that resulted in permanent damage to Benzanson's left wrist. The incident occured on the 16th hole after Hayter had consumed nine beers and a half pint of tequila. Hayter took a swing out of turn, similar to the one used by Adam Sandler in the film Happy Gilmore, and the ball struck Benzanson, who was standing about 20 yards away, in the left wrist. Benzanson, a woodcutter who has been unable to work without pain since the incident, sued and won $227,500 in damages.

What I found hilarious about this story was Hayter's defense. In his appeal, Hayter argued that it wasn't the first Happy Gilmore style shot he had taken that day and Bezanson should have known what was coming. That argument was not surprisingly dismissed by the court. I feel that Hayter should have proceeded further with his Happy Gilmore defense and argued that "he shouldn't have been standing there" and that he had told his caddy to "watch me, and make sure I don't do anything stupid," which he obviously failed to do.