Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Not cradle-robbing, but 'tadpoling' NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A third of single women over 40 prefer dating much younger men, a survey released Monday said. Advertisement Steve Slon, editor of AARP The Magazine, said that while much was made over 40-year-old Demi Moore dating Ashton Kutcher, 25, the AARP survey found the relationship, dubbed "tadpoling," is not just a celebrity trend. "Twenty years ago, when a guy made it to the top, he could afford a trophy wife," Slon said. "Now, as women have more money, they can afford to date a man with less money." The AARP Singles Survey of 3,50l men and women aged 40 to 69 found 34 percent of women were robbing the cradle, the New York Daily News reported. Along with a rising divorce rate, biology also may help explain an older woman's lust for younger men. Advertisement "Young men have more sexual vigor and women often don't get there until their 30s," Dr. Joyce Brothers said. "So the older woman matched with a younger man has a better sex life." Gypsy king marries off young daughter BUCHAREST, Romania, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A Romanian gypsy king has married off his 12-year-old daughter to a 15-year-old bridegroom, the BBC reported Monday. Ana-Maria Cioaba stormed off at one point during the ceremony at Sibiu in central Romania, shouting at reporters to leave her alone. But she was persuaded to return by her family and went through with the wedding to Birita Mihai, himself from a wealthy gypsy, or "Roma" family. Reports said Ana-Maria had been promised as his bride when she was aged seven, for the price of 500 gold coins. The wedding is technically illegal under Romanian law, where girls must be at least 16, but the practice of school-age marriages remains common in the gypsy community, and the Romanian authorities normally turn a blind eye. "She has been crying all day, but the marriage ceremony will go ahead with or without her," said a family adviser, Dana Cherendea, after the bride had stormed out, and hinted that the girl might receive a beating for her defiance. Advertisement Escaped gorilla injures two BOSTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A toddler and 18-year-old girl are recovering from minor injuries they got from a gorilla who escaped from Boston's Franklin Park zoo, a report said Monday. The simian, known as Little Joe, made his second escape in a month, leading zoo and emergency officials on a two-hour chase that involved night-vision goggles and tranquilizer darts. Little Joe took six hits from the tranquilizer guns but simply plucked out the dart each time, the Boston Globe reported. The drugs did eventually catch up with him though. Much of the densely-packed neighborhood turned out to watch the display of zoo officials, veterinarians, a SWAT team, city and state police trying to corral the 10-year-old ape. "I think he was as intrigued with us as we were with him," Police Superintendent Robert Dunford said. Late Sunday evening, zoo officials said Little Joe was up and moving around as if nothing had happened. However, he won't be permitted out into the display area for some time as security is reviewed. Cops laughing over pirates' stupidity CHICAGO, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Chicago police are laughing Monday over three bungling music pirates who included family photos in their illegal compact discs and tapes. Advertisement Investigators who searched a home spotted a photo of a girl that matched the picture on some of the CD cases, said Sgt. John Drapiewski. The girl turned out to be a daughter of one of the three men charged, The Chicago Sun-Times reported. Investigators "were like, 'holy cow,'" Drapiewski said. "They laughed. They couldn't believe it." The probe turned up about 5,100 pirated CDs and 800 cassette tapes the men were planning to sell at flea markets, restaurants and grocery stores, said Rick Aguinaga, a consultant with the Recording Industry Association of America, who asked police for assistance with a Sunday stake-out. At $10 to $15 a sale, the haul represents a profit of as much as $88,500, Drapiewski said. The operation is believed to have used computer equipment at another location to burn recordings from legitimate, store-bought CDs, Aguinaga said.
