Odd news

An inquest is to be held on a man who died during a contest to see who could eat the most fairy cakes.

A German backpacker was caught red-handed on camera tagging rock walls on the walk up to the Franz Josef glacier terminal face last Thursday.
English tourists managed to take a few pictures of the 28-year-old culprit and handed their footage to police who arrested him on Friday heading out of town.
The man was made to clean his work off the rocks and ice in the company of Department of Conservation staff.

Feb 25, 2008 (CNN) - Think Barack Hussein Obama has it rough campaigning for president with a name like that? The Illinois senator has nothing on Frankenstein Momin. Or Billy Kid Sangma. Or Adolf Lu Hitler Marak.
The three men are among dozens of others with equally colorful names who are competing for legislative seats in Meghalaya, a remote northeast Indian state, on March 3. There are about 60 seats up for grabs, 331 candidates vying, and no shortage of unusual names. There's Britainwar Dan, Admiral Sangma and Bombersingh Hynniewta - all ready for battle. There's Laborious Manik Syiem and Hilarius Pohchen. Boldness Nongrum and Clever Marak. Even a Tony Curtis Lyngdoh.

When students standing outside the gates started to scream at the sight of him, he dashed inside the school grounds, hoping to blend in with the crowds of teenagers, the paper said.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is facing public humiliation after he apparently used the site to break-up with girlfriend and Canadian TV personality Rachel Marsden.
Marsden, who pleaded guilty to criminally harassing a boyfriend in 2004, possesses reportedly saucy instant message transcripts with Wales and is now auctioning off his clothes on eBay.
The bitter backlash came after Wales announced in a statement on Wikipedia that he was "no longer involved with" Marsden and had only met her in person for the first time in February this year.
Marsden told The Canadian Press that "it didn't really help matters that Jimmy chose to announce the breakup to the entire world via Wikipedia".

Detectives declined to say where Kuch works, or whether he still has a job.

A Melbourne doctor and his wife surprised everyone - especially their daughter - when they crashed a police media conference about their suspected deaths.
Narre Warren GP William "Roy" Ostell, 63, and his wife Heather, 58, were reported missing by their daughter, who had not seen or heard of them since Thursday last week.
The couple's daughter had arrived at their home to discover it "abandoned", with their pet dog left behind, the house's doors unlocked and their 1975 Volkswagen Kombi missing, police said.
Police were told the disappearance was "out of character", deeming it so suspicious that homicide squad detectives this morning held a media call at the couple's house to appeal for information.
But the photographs of the Ostells prepared for the assembled media pack were straightaway made redundant by the sight of the "dead" couple chugging their faithful Kombi into the driveway.
Amongst the confusion, the couple's daughter ran towards the van yelling "where have you been, where have you been?"
The bewildered Ostells then told of the unfortunate chain of coincidences that lead to them being thought expired rather than where they really were - on holiday at Lakes Entrance.

Priest sent off in unholy row

It is a phenomenon that millions of British holidaymakers have witnessed at first hand – the German tradition of "reserving" sun loungers early in the morning with a strategically placed towel.

Indeed, the practice is so widespread it has become the basis of a long-standing national joke.

But some cruise ship passengers didn't see the funny side when the British captain came over the Tannoy to lambast such "Germanic behaviour". They accused Christopher Wells of racism and reported him to human rights watchdogs.

He made several announcements to try to end the so-called "sunbed wars" but his pleas fell on deaf ears. Eventually the captain – who has a German wife, Hedda – told the ship's 2,000 passengers: “We don't want that kind of Germanic behaviour here!�

But some cruise ship passengers didn't see the funny side when the British captain came over the Tannoy to lambast such "Germanic behaviour". They accused Christopher Wells of racism and reported him to human rights watchdogs.

Stowaway survivor: This poor little kitten survived a three-week voyage in a sealed crate of steel coil shipped from Singapore to Cleveland. Its mother and siblings were found dead; the kitten had been eating their bodies to survive. The 12-week-old female is doing well at the Cleveland Animal Protective League shelter.

They should just have hired one of the british holiday makers to get up early and remove the towels like they normaly do

Captain goes to table of english people, 'we need 5 helpers, payment is either 2 free meals or 5 free pints of beer. All you have to do is get up early once and...'

Sometimes the easy way is over looked by those in power... heck what am I saying, sometimes...

Most of the passengers on the trip to Barbados, Antigua, Mexico and Grand Cayman were British and none was believed to be German.

"You are a sad case, really," Judge Callaghan said. "This is such perverse and depraved behaviour it reflects a person of enormous deficiency in personality."
At his earlier appearance the court was told the man believed he wouldn't get caught because "animals couldn't talk" and he wouldn't be "told on".

He'd pleaded guilty then to the charge of attempting to commit bestiality with a goat.

Police said the man admitted taking the goat to the rear of his small lifestyle property in a rural township and trying to have sex with it.
After the unsuccessful attempt, the man did up his trousers, patted the goat and walked off.

Poles should not be allowed to vote online because the Internet attracts people who watch "pornography while sipping a bottle of beer", a former prime minister told his party's Web site.

"I thought it was a tornado or a terrorist attack," Mississippi State guard Ben Hansbrough told the Associated Press.

Star Telegram: March 14, 2008 - A 21-year-old Harris County woman filed a $200,000 lawsuit against American Airlines alleging employees on a flight to Los Angeles from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport failed to protect her while she slept from another passenger who masturbated to her and ejaculated in her hair, according to a lawsuit she filed last week in Tarrant County.

The woman turned toward the window in embarrassment and in an act of nervousness began to run her fingers through her hair where she noticed “a substantial amount of an extremely sticky substance in her hair,� the suit states.

...the Guo-li-zhuang restaurant (is) a specialist penis and testicle emporium that caters mainly to wealthy businessmen and Communist party officials (who, truth be told, are often one and the same).

FUCK THAT! She should have been screaming her head off and whacking the perv upside the head! Both heads if need be!

Palmerston North police were faced with a prickly problem during a drink-drive blitz on Milson Line on Friday night when a hedgehog tried to cross their checkpoint.

Traffic was stopped and the animal was escorted across the road.

"His reason for crossing the road was not ascertained and he was not breath-tested," Senior Sergeant Brett Calkin said.

A German man was chucked off a plane in Honolulu in 2006 for being excessively whiffy. After two hours’ chasing around a hot airport with heavy luggage, he took his seat, only to be asked to leave it when fellow passengers complained.

A German pensioner is suing a hospital after she checked in for an operation on her leg - and woke up to find she had been given a new anus.