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A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to "no it's not"

NEW YORK - Police responded to a New Jersey home Wednesday with guns drawn after hearing what they thought was a female voice inside, pleading for assistance.

Police in Trenton said they could clearly hear the voice inside the home repeatedly yelling “Help me! Help me.”

After a knock on the door, police kicked it in around 9:50 a.m. Wednesday.
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Inside, officers found the distress calls were coming from a caged bird.

Luna, a spunky cockatoo, greeted the officers with a “hello.”

According to the Star-Ledger, the 10-year-old cockatoo has a history of police encounters.

The owner told the newspaper police were also summoned to the house about seven years ago after it cried all day, imitating a baby. Neighbors became alarmed and called the authorities, who brought the Division of Youth and Family Services to the house.

It’s unclear where Luna is learning her vocal stylings.

According to South Africa's Beeld newspaper

A row has broken out at the University of Manchester after its student union lavatories were stripped of their genders so as not to offend transgendered people.

The ladies' lavatory is now simply labelled "toilet" while the mens' has become "toilets with urinals".

Women in Japan wear the £5 belt around their bonces while sleeping.

Makers of the Kogao Meiku Beruto — the “Small Face Make Belt” — claim it will shrink the size of heads over time.

Mail Online: October 1, 2008 - Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia happens to have been built next to a mango tree that one family of pachyderms have always visited when the fruit ripens.
When they returned one year and found the luxury accommodation in the way, they simply walked through reception.

Vitali Klitschko used his son's wet nappies to keep his fists from swelling up after winning his WBC heavyweight title bout against Nigeria's Samuel Peter, the Ukrainian boxer told a German newspaper this week.

Mr Klitschko said he wrapped them around his hands and it helped him recover.

'Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell,' the 37-year old boxer told Bild after he won back the WBC title on Saturday.

The gas best known for being used in many stink bombs may also control blood pressure, say US researchers. Small amounts of hydrogen sulphide - a toxic gas generated by bacteria living in the human gut - are responsible for the foul odour of flatulence. But it seems the gas is also produced by an enzyme in blood vessels where it relaxes them and lowers blood pressure.

The findings in mice may lead to new treatments for high blood pressure, the Science journal reported. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, in Maryland, found that the gas is produced in the cells lining blood vessels by an enzyme called CSE.

Vienna tram driver in Nazi salute . Could be jailed for 10years for saying 2 words. Retard!

He said there have been up to twenty drinkers in their team but most have fallen by the wayside after getting married.

A man had to be taken to hospital still attached to a steel toilet after super-glue was deliberately smeared on the seat.

Firefighters were unable to free the man and were forced to remove the entire toilet with the man attached.

The 35-year-old was in a public toilet cubicle in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands when he became stuck.

He was taken to hospital where doctors were forced to get into the ambulance before using chemicals to free him.

Oct 31, 2008: A vicar attended hospital with a potato stuck up his bottom - and claimed it got there after he fell on to the vegetable while naked. The clergyman, in his 50s, told nurses he had been hanging curtains when he fell backwards on to his kitchen table.
He happened to be nude at the time of the mishap, said the vicar, who insisted he had not been playing a sex game.

A Brazilian woman has died after being struck by her husband's coffin when the hearse they were travelling in was involved in a car crash.

The 67-year-old woman was on the way to the cemetery to bury her husband, who had died the day before.

The hearse was struck from behind by an Alfa Romeo car, police said.

The coffin slammed into the head of the woman, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the hearse, killing her instantly (...)

A fake edition of the New York Times announcing the end of the Iraq war has been handed out to commuters in the US.

More than one million free copies of the 14-page "special edition" newspaper were distributed, mainly in the cities of New York and Los Angeles.

One die-hard customer, 46-year-old Herbert Manske, told the paper he didn’t hesitate long to get the six large blue letters tattooed on his arm. "My wife doesn’t mind. I save five euros entry, plus the thirty euro cost of a lap dance," he said. "And apart from that I get free drinks all night and can look at all the pretty girls. She knows that me and my friends go once a month to party in the Pascha.”

A man caught near Nobbys Beach with his penis in a pasta sauce jar led police on a 20 kmh car chase, Newcastle Local Court heard yesterday.
Police drew their weapons when they suspected Keith Roy Weatherley, 46, was armed.
Instead, they found him partially clothed with his genitals in a jar, a police statement said.
Weatherley, of Promontory Way, North Arm Cove, attracted attention parked in a no-stopping zone before noon on October 26.
Police believed Weatherley was doing something with his hands in his lap and thought that he might have a weapon.
Weatherley saw the police and drove away, despite them flashing their lights.
The chase lasted five to 10 minutes, with a top speed of just 20 kmh, before Weatherley was stopped at Centenary Drive, Newcastle. He refused to leave the car.
Four officers used batons and capsicum spray to remove him.
They found a 750-millilitre jar around his penis and noted that Weatherley attempted to continue "pleasuring himself in between bouts of wrestling".
A search of his car uncovered pornography, a home-made sex aid, women's stockings and a Jack Russell terrier.