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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...
Mexican worker sews his lips to demand promotion
Mar 3 2009 - AP
VERACRUZ, Mexico – A Mexican state water company worker has sewn his lips together to draw attention to his five-year fight to get a promotion. The man used a needle and thread to put five stitches through his lips in front of the water company...
Lewd vandal leaves greasy imprints on Neb. town
Sep 12 2008 - AP
Boy, how people here wish their busiest vandal would find another way to make his mark. Beginning more than a year ago, some man has been skipping from one business to another at night, pressing his naked behind — sometimes his groin, sometimes...
Buy evidence of my husband's adultery on eBay
Aug 13 2008 - Reuters
An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by putting a photograph of his lover's underpants up for sale on the auction site eBay.
In the listing the woman says she is selling a picture of a pair of lacy black knickers...
Clothing store opens bar in middle of sales floor
Aug 1 2008 - AP
A Cleveland clothing store wants to make sure its customers are comfortable, so it has opened a bar in the middle of its sales floor. M. Lang Executive Attire owner Mike Lang said he hopes the cash bar will not only help put shoppers in a relaxed mood...
Never underestimate cheap, easy or stupid in home maintenance
Jul 5 2008 - The Seattle Times
Quite regularly, as a home inspector, I see run-of-the-mill "bad" popping up. Occasionally "that was really dumb" makes an appearance. But you know you are in rare air when "Hall of Fame Stupid" presents itself. Now, gentle...
Naked pilot, flight attendant arrested in woods
May 20 2008 - AP
An airline pilot was found hiding behind a shed wearing only flip-flops and a wristwatch as a nighttime romp in the woods with a flight attendant ended with both under arrest, police said.
Jeffrey Paul Bradford, 24, and Adrianna Grace...
Cosmetic castration banned
Apr 2 2008 - Reuters
Thailand's health chiefs barred hospitals and clinics on Wednesday from castrating would-be "ladyboys" amid growing concern about the operation being seen as a cheap and quick alternative to a full sex-change.
In a letter to 16,000...
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...
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...
Voters consider changing Alcatraz to peace center
Feb 5 2008 - Reuters
San Francisco voters will decide on Tuesday whether to remove the famous Alcatraz Prison visited by thousands of tourists a day and instead create a "global peace center."
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The proposition sharing the presidential...
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...
Driver who killed teen sues for damage
Jan 25 2008 - AP
A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says.
Enaitz Iriondo, 17, died instantly in August 2004 when businessman Tomas Delgado's Audi A8 crashed into...
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...
Pedophile allowed to work in kindergarten
Nov 15 2007 - Reuters
A convicted pedophile sentenced to do community service in a German kindergarten will return to court next week to face charges of abusing two children there, a regional prosecutor's office said Thursday.
The man was allowed to work as...
Armless man gets 5 years for driving
Aug 3 2007 - AP
A man with no arms and one leg who wouldn't stop driving despite a long list of traffic violations was sentenced to five years in prison Friday on felony driving and drug charges.
Michael Francis Wiley, 40, also was sentenced to 15 years...