Toilet squatters

Toilet squatters

Ten Chinese squatters could be evicted from their home in a public toilet.

Ai Lian has revealed how she and her husband were forced to move into the loos over a year ago, because they could no longer afford to pay rent on their home.

Since they moved, they have been joined by eight of Ai’s co-workers and friends. read more…

Woman crashes while shaving bikini area

Woman lets ex drive while she shavesMan crashes automobile into back of truckPair switch seats; police not fooled

A WOMAN who shaved her bikini area while driving caused a automobile crash in Florida Keys, prompting police to issue fresh warnings about safe driving.

MyFox National reported this day Megan Mariah Barnes, 37, crashed into another automobile on Cudjoe Key after giving her ex-husband the wheel as she shaved her private parts.

Barnes was driving to meet her boyfriend in Key West and told authorities she wanted to be "ready for the visit," WJZ.com reported. read more…

Freak Out: Skyaking v Giant George

We all love a good weird picture – but which is the strangest of the strange? Each week, we will put two of our favourite bizarre images to a public vote in a tournament to find the weirdest picture in the world. Two photos enter – only one will leave…Reigning Champion – Giant George

Winning a nail-bitingly close contest last week, Giant George – the world record holder for the title of World’s Tallest Dog – defeated Can Cat (the cat with a pet food can stuck on her head) by a single, tentative vote. read more…

Some Of The Minor Oscars You May Have Missed Sunday

Accidental surprise setting off of small stunt improvised explosive device – causes camel to balk and knock actor flat onto his front – hits his head on a massive canister of milk, knocks it totally over sort of backwards onto him, he ends laying in massive puddle of milk, then ten hungry feral neighborhood cats appear screaming and fighting over milk – The Hurt Locker

4 minutes of general hilarity / corpsing when Colin Firth states ‘knob’ in A Single Man

Sandra Bullock’s stunt double trips over and misses an attempt to fall down a well, instead trips over own feet, hits head on grass, passes out with ass in air. read more…

Bad weather blamed for Scotland having ‘more people with ginger hair’

By Andrew Hough
Published: 10:00AM GMT 08 Mar 2010

The non scientific research found that in areas where the temperatures in summer were cooler and winter days were shorter – such as in Scotland – people with ginger hair were more likely to survive and evolve.

This was compared to people with the trait living in places with hot temperatures, such as Africa where humans are thought to have evolved, where people with a ginger hair genetic strain were more likely die. read more…

Man proposes to girlfriend in cinema with Lou Reed video before Avatar

Published: 9:29AM GMT 08 Mar 2010

Kerrie Richardson, 27, thought she was going to spend the evening watching Avatar, the Oscar-winning Hollywood blockbuster.

But Bryan Hughes, 35, had arranged for the cinema to show a video with all her nearest and dearest singing lines from the 1970s classic.

Mr Hughes, who had made an excuse to go to the lavatory, reappeared at the front of the cinema to get down on one knee and pop the question with an engagement ring. read more…

Smoking snake

Smoking snake

A snake in Taiwan is addicted to cigarettes.

Three-year-old pit viper Po, who lives in Taipei, has developed a smoking habit after stealing his owner’s discarded butts.

Owner Sho Lau – who smokes 20 nicotine laden cigarettes a day himself – now grants his pet to smoke twice a day, first thing in the morning and last thing at night. read more…

Teen escapes from shark

Teen escapes from shark

A New Zealand girl beat off a shark with her body board.

Lydia Ward, 14, was in water up to her middle when she was attacked by the vicious fish – which clamped its jaws on her hip.

Rather than panicking, she beat the shark – which was about five feet long – on the head with her floatation board until it let go. read more…

Police buzz in to solve vibrator mystery

Woman hears suspicious noises in flatPolice patrol automobile sent to investigateThey find a ‘personal battery-operated device’

A WOMAN phoned police after hearing "suspicious noises" in her flat, but much to her embarrassment officers found the source was a vibrator, authorities say.

The noise was so loud and strange, even over the telephone, that police in Bochum in western Germany decided to send a patrol automobile around to the "scene of the crime", a statement said. read more…

Britain’s ‘big cat X files’ revealed

By Jasper Copping
Published: 9:00PM GMT 06 Mar 2010

They are the stuff of rural legend – but for decades, alleged sightings of huge cats stalking the British countryside have been dismissed as hoax or fantasy.

Yet now the head of a Government bureau responsible for investigating such incidents has declared that he believes these mysterious creatures do indeed exist.

His comments follow the release of a dossier by Natural England which lists more than 100 sightings of exotic, non-native and unidentified animals in England since 2005. read more…