As greedy as a pig
US authorities are investigating how a US farmer was eaten by his hogs. The district attorney’s office says 70-year-old Terry Vance Garner never returned after he set out to feed his animals on his farm near the Oregon coast. A family member later found Garner’s dentures and pieces of his body in the pig enclosure, … [Read the full story]
A ghost attacked my wife
A US man who was arrested on charges of assaulting his wife has told police that a ghost was actually responsible for the attack. Michael F. West, 41, from Wisconsin, was charged this week with strangulation, battery, disorderly conduct and resisting or obstructing an officer. He was arrested after police were called to his home … [Read the full story]
Is Dwarf Tossing coming to Melbourne?
A politician wants to make “dwarf tossing” legal in Melbourne. But Victorians shouldn’t expect such a competition in their capital city any time soon. It’s the city of the same name in the US state of Florida where the push is on to provide employment opportunity for little people. Republican Ritch Workman filed the proposed legislation … [Read the full story]
Man in wheelchair robs bank at gun-point
Police in Phoenix, in the US, are on the lookout for a gunman who robbed a local bank of $70,000 while in a wheelchair. Detectives said the man rolled into a branch of AmTrust Bank in south Phoenix overnight and demanded money from a teller at gunpoint. After the teller complied, the man placed the cash … [Read the full story]
Poppy fields don’t need eradicating…but something does…
There’s some good news in Afghanistan. The opium poppy production was halved last year. This was because of a crop disease…NOTHING to do with what the troops were doing. I’ve always thought the American obsession with eradicating poppy crops was pointless. Why deny the locals with their best chance of beating starvation? It’s one war that … [Read the full story]
Alice Cooper’s mum will fight war on terror
If the US wasn’t already winning the war against terror, it will be now, after being given a boost from Alice Cooper. The rockstar reckons the US should send his mum to find Osama Bin Laden. Cooper said, “She’d find him and she’d make him clean the cave first before they arrested him”. I didin’t … [Read the full story]
Sexsomnia
Sexsomnia is the term US scientists use for people who perform sexual activities unconciously during sleep. The spectrum ranges from masturbation to sexual intercourse, in the event that the sexsomnia patient comes across a partner. About 80 percent of the sexsomnia cases occur with men. (Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine)
Transformers have a ‘spastic’ character
By Debbie Dot A STORM has erupted between UK and US fans of Transformers toys after it was revealed a new character in the toy range is to be called ‘Spastic’. Transformers creators Hasbro, clearly unaware of just how offensive the term, originally used to describe someone affected by spastic paralysis, is in Britain - released their press … [Read the full story]
Woman sits on the toilet for two years
A woman in the US has supposedly been sitting on the toilet for nearly two years. You may have read our article yesterday about a French woman that was trapped in her bathroom for three days, but this story beats that hands down. Authorities in the US are trying to establish what caused a 35-year-old … [Read the full story]
