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Thursday, June 21st, 2007A heavy metal fan has been awarded sickness handouts after doctors said his addiction to music was a disability. The ruling means Roger Tullgren, 42, will pocket thousands of pounds in state benefits to help finance his 36-year obsession.
His boss is also letting him play his ear-splitting music at work and giving him time […]
Bargain shoes not so cheap
Thursday, June 21st, 2007A Romanian woman has been fined for reporting her car stolen then realising she’d left it in a supermarket car park.
Madalina Nesan, 29, told officers she was “so excited” to try her new bargain shoes that she completely forgot about the car. She had called the police when she couldn’t find her car in its […]
Honduras Audits ‘Love Motels’ Over Taxes
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Lovers seeking a private tryst may come face to face with the taxman in Honduras. In an effort to crack down on tax evasion, Honduran government officials began counting the cars outside hundreds of so-called “love motels” on Tuesday, saying the establishments earn more than they report and cheat the government out of about $40,000 […]
Man Says Salad Stolen From Refrigerator
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Someone kicked in the door of a man’s apartment, stuck a knife in the door and took a chilled salad from his refrigerator.
Somerset police said the man reported the bizarre burglary on Monday. He told investigators someone broke into his apartment while he went to a nearby tavern. Nothing but the salad was missing, police […]
Court Nixes Bid to Sell ‘World Cup Air’
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007A Chinese company that once tried to sell land on the Moon has lost an appeal against a court ruling that stopped it from selling bags of “World Cup air,” state media reported Wednesday.
Xinhua News Agency said that Beijing Lunar Village Aeronautics Science and Technology Co. lost a suit against the Beijing Administration for Industry […]
8-Foot Alligator Removed From Basement
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Reptile experts removed an 8-foot-long, 170-pound alligator from the basement of a Buffalo home and planned to drive it to a Florida sanctuary in the back of a minivan.
“Jojo” the alligator was removed Sunday from the home where it was raised after its owner called the state Department of Environmental Conservation and said he could […]
Reptiles Smuggled in Garden Gnomes
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007What’s in a gnome? For surprised Australian customs officials, the answer was snakes and lizards.
During a routine check of international mail on June 10, an officer discovered two snakes and three lizards stuffed inside three of the diminutive garden figurines in a shipment from Britain.
“When the package was opened, the officer spotted several snakes moving […]
Dead man woke up at funeral
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007An 87-year-old man gave his relatives a shock in Taiwan - when he woke up at his own funeral.
The man’s relatives were in a Buddhist mourning hall, reciting prayers over the dead body, when it gasped and woke up, the Shanghai Daily reports.
The family had been told by the hospital which had been treating the […]
Teen unplugged ‘noisy’ life support machine
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007A teenager in intensive care unplugged his neighbour’s life support machine because the noise was keeping him awake.
Frederik Moelner, 17, said he had been trying to sleep as he recovered from a car crash but the noise of the life support machine as it helped 76-year-old Hermann Berghof breathe kept waking him up.
A police spokesman […]
Toddler Served Margarita in a Sippy Cup
Monday, June 18th, 2007Kim Mayorga was confused when her 2-year-old started making funny faces and pushing away the apple juice he had ordered at Applebee’s. The explanation came when she opened the lid of the sippy cup and was hit by the smell of tequila and Triple Sec.
The restaurant staff accidentally gave Julian Mayorga a margarita Monday. He […]