Best of, err, worst of?
Mankind has created spectacular works of art, engineered incredibly tall buildings, designed impressive supercomputers, lived in outerspace, discovered cures for nasty diseases. As a whole, nothing can compare to human intelligence, but sometimes humans, well, you know...
Sheriff: Woman sat on toilet for 2 years
Mar 12 2008 - AP
Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the man finally called police.
It appeared the 35-year-old...
Man stiffs cabbie, is hit by oncoming car
Mar 10 2008 - The Salt Lake Tribune
A man was in critical condition after he tried to flee a cab without paying his fare and stepped in the path of an oncoming car Saturday in Salt Lake City.
The man, 31, was belligerent and apparently drunk during a ride in a City...
High on Mount Sinai?
Mar 4 2008 - Reuters
The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.
Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny...
French mayor tells locals not to die
Mar 6 2008 - Reuters
BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) - The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.
In an ordinance posted in the...
Man charged with withdrawing $2 million after $5 million bank boo-boo
Feb 20 2008 - AP
A man was charged with withdrawing $2 million from an account after a bank confused him with a man who has the same name.
Benjamin Lovell was arraigned Tuesday on grand larceny charges. The 48-year-old salesman said he tried to tell officials...
Daredevil's Super Skydive
Feb 19 2008 - The Sun
A DAREDEVIL ex-SAS soldier is to attempt a record-breaking skydive — from 120,000ft.
Movie stuntman Steve Truglia, 40, will jump from a hot air balloon 24 miles up on the edge of space.
That is three times the cruising altitude...
That'll teach him to tinkle outside
Feb 25 2008 - AP
An apparently drunk man picked the wrong place to tinkle. Appleton police arrested the man Friday afternoon after he reportedly relieved himself in front of the police department.
The 40-year-old was cited for public urination and jailed...
Internet sex auction sparks paternity row
Feb 13 2008 - Reuters
A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won a court battle to force the Web site that hosted the sale to reveal the names of the winners, so she can find out who's the father.
Six different men won Internet...
Burglar found sleeping in Malaysia home
Feb 4 2008 - AP
There was no fairy tale ending for a Malaysian man who copied Goldilocks.
The man broke into an empty house in northeastern Malaysia, helped himself to cookies in the kitchen and then went to sleep in a child's bedroom, where he was discovered...
Sex toy punter feels a dummy
Jan 16 2008 - The Sun
RETAIL bosses may have to issue bizarre health warnings on its clothing mannequins - after a punter said he got his MANHOOD trapped in one.
The man, 31, rang officials at an online firm to whinge that he got “part of himself” stuck...
Man killed in fall after reported escalator stunt
Jan 13 2008 - AP
A man died after falling several stories in a Hollywood shopping mall while apparently attempting to slide down the banister of an escalator, authorities said.
The Hollywood & Highland complex includes the theater where the Academy Awards...
Man cuts off, microwaves his own hand
Jan 9 2008 - AP
A man who believed he bore the "mark of the beast" used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said.
The man, in his mid-20s, was calm when Kootenai County sheriff's...
Mexican boy glues self to bed to avoid school
Jan 7 2008 - AFP
A 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed to avoid going back to school after the Christmas break, authorities said Monday.
"I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn't make me go to school," the boy, Diego, told...
Ecstasy 'safer than aspirin'
Jan 2 2008 -
KILLER drug ecstasy is safer than ASPIRIN, top cop Richard Brunstrom claimed yesterday.
He also repeated his call for Class A substances like heroin and cocaine to be LEGALISED.
The North Wales chief const-able claimed such a move...
Accused bird smugglers stopped at border
Jan 1 2008 - AP
Border agents pulled four live birds from the pockets of a pigeon collector and a traveling companion trying to enter the United States from Canada.
The pair were stopped Sunday at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge border crossing, where...