Odd news

New Delhi, India (AHN) - A man from the Indian state of Chennai is bidding for a place in the Guinness Book Of World Records by inserting live snakes into his nostrils and then pulling them out of his mouth. Manoharan, who goes by the name "Snake Manu," has reportedly been performing the feat for quite a few years.

Brazilian and US scientists are looking into using spider venom as a possible treatment for male impotence.

Their investigation follows reports that men bitten by the Phoneutria nigriventer experienced priapism - long and painful erections.

The Australian expat community in Germany is abuzz with speculation about where the stash could have come from.
Australia Shop owner Colin Truslove said he wished he had found it.
"I reckon it was someone on their way to my shop to stock up on Cherry Ripes and Vegemite," he said. "Or, because Cologne is a bit of a gay mecca, maybe they were heading here for a big weekend."

Employees of a historic department store in Hexham learned that they were being made redundant after responding to a fire alarm.
Bosses at the almost 189-year-old Robbs store deliberately set off the fire bell to clear the building of customers and get staff together in one place.
At the designated fire point, the 140 members of staff were told the landmark store would be shutting in two weeks.
The store's administrators called the decision "efficient and practical".

A German man failed his driving test after attempting the examination while three times over the legal alcohol limit, police said Tuesday.

The high-tech brolly allows you to take pictures with a built-in camera. These can be uploaded to Flickr (a photo-sharing website) via a wireless internet connection and within two minutes you can watch downloaded photo-streams on your umbrella screen with a simple wrist-snapping movement.

Scientists who study dolphins in the Shannon river estuary believe that these animals can develop a dialect of their own for communication purposes among themselves. [...]
- They produce other types of sounds as well, similar to barking, snorting or gun shots...

Something’s brewing in a garage in St. Charles [Illinois]. Tom Seefurth is mixing up a concoction he'll eventually pour out as beer - pizza beer.
"It's pizza and beer in a bottle," Seefurth, a self-proclaimed beer nut, says.

Five Thousand soldiers in the controversial Royal Regiment of Scotland are having to share 320 kilts because no kilt-maker has so far been awarded the supply contract.

Twin brothers Raymon and Richard Miller are the father and uncle to a 3-year-old little girl. The problem is, they don't know which is which. Or who is who.

The identical Missouri twins say they were unknowingly having sex with the same woman. And according to the woman's testimony, she had sex with each man on the same day. Within hours of each other.

The creator of a website which provides a platform for people to remember dead family and friends apologised today after online adverts upset users so much he felt "sick to the stomach".
Terry George's website www.gonetoosoon.co.uk (GTS) was bombarded with complaints after adverts started appearing at 2pm yesterday.
They included adverts for self defence classes on a tribute site for murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, adverts for the airline RyanAir on sites for dead boys and men called Ryan, an advert for a motorcycle on a tribute page for a man who died in a bike crash and adverts for baby products alongside tributes for babies who have died.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.

Bomb squad officers called in to blow up a suspicious package found it contained a packet of chocolate buttons and a vibrator.

11 year old boy bags hog bigger than Hogzilla
My God, look at the size of this thing! I couldn't even imagine running into something like this in the backwoods of Alabama. (Not that I would ever BE in the backwoods of Alabama, but anyway...)

Bruce Riedel, until six months ago the senior CIA official who dealt with Iran, said: "Vice-President [Dick] Cheney helped to lead the side favouring a military strike, but I think they have concluded that a military strike has more downsides than upsides."

However, the CIA is giving arms-length support, supplying money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan.

Iranian officials say they captured 10 members of Jundullah last weekend, carrying $500,000 in cash along with "maps of sensitive areas" and "modern spy equipment".

TOKYO (Reuters) June 1, 2007 - Police found more than 8,000 pieces of women's clothing and lingerie in the home of a Japanese man who stole the items so he could sleep buried in them. [...]
"He seemed to get a thrill out of sleeping covered in women's clothes," a police spokesman said. "He seemed to like the smell."

It was just six inches.

That was what made the difference at 4:40 a.m. yesterday as Gilberto Cantu, a truck driver from Texas, approached the New Jersey entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel in his big rig, loaded with bathtubs, toilets and plumbing fixtures. The truck was 13 feet 6 inches high. The tunnel has a height limit of 13 feet. Six inches can make a big difference.

An amusement park in China has built what it claims is the world's largest penis.
The 30ft erection, named Sky Pillar, has been built at Longwan Shaman Amusement Park in Changchun city.

A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: "That's yours."

and some cans of Schlitz beer.