LONDON, England - November 5, 2010 - An angry resident remonstrated with the crew of a CCTV "spy" car before covering up their camera lens.

The man made his feelings known after he spotted the Westminster council Smart car, which was monitoring illegal parking in Maida Vale.

GALLATIN, Tennessee - November 5, 2010 - A mother says she saw Gallatin police officers sic a police dog on her son while he was handcuffed and then Taser him to death because they thought he had filed a false police report. The man had called police because he thought his mother was missing.

The wife and mother of the late Jeffery Woodward said he went into cardiac arrest and died after the needless attack by police officers. The family is suing for damages and has also named Taser International in the lawsuit, claiming it misrepresents its products as non-lethal and safe.

WASHINGTON - November 2, 2010 - Having been taught by nuns in grade school and later going through military boot camp, I have always disliked uniformed authorities shouting at me. So I was unhappy last week when some security screeners at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago started yelling.

“Opt out! We got an opt out!” one bellowed about me in a tone that people in my desert neighborhood in Tucson usually reserve for declaring, “Rattlesnake!”

DENVER, Colorado - November 4, 2010 - A Denver parking enforcement officer took revenge on a driver who called him a "meter maid" by asking a co-worker to write the driver a false parking ticket, 9Wants to Know has learned.

The parking officers then mailed the $150 handicapped parking ticket to the driver late, so by the time he received it, the fine had doubled.

WASHINGTON - November 4, 2010 - Computerworld - Several privacy groups have raised alarms over plans by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to build a database that would contain information about the healthcare claims of millions of Amerikans.

The concerns have surfaced because the OPM has provided few details about the new database and because the data collected will be shared with law enforcement, third-party researchers and others.

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia - November 3, 2010 - Fast food giant McDonald's said Wednesday it was "extremely disappointed" at a ruling by San Francisco authorities banning high-calorie Happy Meals, which use free toys to entice children to eat their food.

The response came after the Kalifornian city's board of supervisors voted to forbid restaurants from giving gifts with meals that contain too much fat and sugar.

BOSTON, Massachusetts - November 2, 2010 - A teenager was suspended from his Massachusetts school after he arrived on campus on horseback while dressed as a medieval knight.

Teachers failed to see the funny side when Dan Depaolis, 17, arrived for lessons at Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School last Thursday on his family's steed Pierre.