Cutting Room Floor 01/25/07

(KSL Staff)

PRICEY PAD

A lot of stories get cut from a typical newscast, but some deserve to be taken off the Cutting Room Floor.

How much would you pay for a dilapidated studio apartment the size of a prison cell... 77 square feet to be exact? Not much if it's in Lubbock, Texas.

But since this closet-sized space is located in one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the world... Knightsbridge, London... it's going for, get this... 335-thousand dollars.

4-thousand, three-hundred, forty bucks a square foot.

Oh, by the way, there's no power or heat.

But there is a toilet and a coffin sized shower.

Similar properties in New York can go for about $5,300 a square foot, while those in Hong Kong sell at around $3,950 per square foot.

POTTEY FALL

It's one thing to lose your balance while going to the bathroom... but when it happens and you fall in to Lake Erie in the middle of the winter... the situation goes from humorous to life threatening.

The 25 year-old woman had her friend pull over so she could go to the bathroom and that's when she fell in.

The friend helped pull her out and wrapped a blanket around her until an ambulance arrived.

Other than a little embarrassed, she's going to be fine.

DUNKING BIRD

Look out Tiger, there's another animal taking the tour by storm.

A.J., a 5-inch Indian ringneck parakeet is the star of the internet for his ability to sink putts on a miniature green.

David Cota has spent months training A.J.

He says the first time he gave A.J. a stick, he snapped it right in half.

And like a ginsu knife commercial... wait there's more.

He can dunk a tiny basketball...roll over, he can shake...and he can even play dead.

A.J. came to Cota as a gift from Johnny Carson.

Cota's previous parakeet was killed just before appearing on the Tonight Show when Cota's college roommate fell asleep and rolled on top of Axlbird.

A.J. was a gift from Carson to Cota to replace Axl... and the rest is history.

SUPER BOWL ALTERNATIVE

If you're looking for an alternative to the Super Bowl half-time show try the Hallmark Channel.

Hallmark is showing a 1/2 hour special showcasing the best of Hallmark cards and card ads.

Hallmark says the show is for viewers who "don't know a goalpost from a signpost."

You remember those commercials... the ones that make you cry like when the retiring school teacher gets a hand delivered card from an old student even as he is packing up his desk.