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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007A Gloucestershire artist is selling a squashed hare and fox in a frame for £35,000.
Adam Morrigan, 38, from Horsley, scraped the animals off the road, skinned them and then displayed them in a frame.
Mr Morrigan has a “roadkill hotline” for people to call when they spot a flattened animal, reports the Daily Mail.
He skins the […]
Wee dog problem
Monday, June 11th, 2007Two top sniffer dogs have been fired - for urinating on luggage and sexually harassing women.
Mok and Lai, strays retrained as police dogs, won praise for finding drugs.
But some passengers complained at their antisocial habits, reports the Daily Mirror.
Mok’s former handler at Chiang Rai airport in Thailand said: “He liked to pee on luggage while […]
Green blood shocker
Friday, June 8th, 2007Surgeons operating on a man were shocked to find he had green blood.
Tests showed he had taken too many of a headache pill called sumatriptan.
He was diagnosed a rare condition in which sulphur from the sumatriptan combined with the blood’s haemoglobin to change its colour.
The 42-year-old smoker had needed an operation on his leg to […]
Man Pinned Under Tree Amputates His Leg
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Alone in the woods with his left leg pinned beneath a fallen tree for 11 hours, a 66-year-old man used pocket knives to cut off his limb below the knee to free himself, a neighbor and authorities said.
Al Hill had been cutting trees last Friday when one fell on him. After freeing himself, he cried […]
Calif. Woman Found With 120 Pet Rats
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Officers seized more than 100 pet rats, dozens of rabbits and other animals including several birds from the home of an 81-year-old woman, who was later treated at a hospital for what appeared to be bites, authorities said.
“The woman had no food in the house for herself and seemed disoriented,” said Annette Ramirez, an officer […]
Bondage couple lose key
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007A German couple had to call out the fire brigade after tying each other up in chains - and then losing the key to the padlock.
Jochen Ranstett, 56 and his wife Maria, from the town of Weiden, dressed up in leathers and chained each other to their beds, but lost the key during the romp.
After […]
Thousands go naked in Amsterdam
Monday, June 4th, 2007Thousands of men and women posed naked in Amsterdan in a photo shoot for US artist Spencer Tunick.
The first and largest composition was in a multi-storey car park on the city’s outer ring road in the early hours of the morning.
“It was very hard to find space in a city meant for such a small […]
Serbs barter cows for penises
Friday, June 1st, 2007Serbian men are swapping their prize cows to get a bigger penis.
The bizarre exchange was revealed by the country’s top plastic surgeon Srecko Djordjevic who said dozens of farmers obsessed with the size of their penis had traded in their prize cows for larger members.
He said: “The size of a man’s member seems to play […]
Researchers Find 2,100 Year-Old Melon
Friday, June 1st, 2007Archaeologists digging in western Japan have excavated what they believe to be the oldest remains of a melon ever found, an official said Friday.
Based on a radiocarbon analysis, researchers estimate the half-rounded piece of fruit to be about 2,100 years old, said Shuji Yamazaki, a local official in the city of Moriyama.
The remains are believed […]
Doctor Finds Spiders in Boy’s Ear
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007These guys weren’t exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop. What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy’s ear - “like Rice Krispies” - ended up as an earache, and the doctor’s diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.
“They were walking on my eardrums,” Jesse Courtney said.
One of the […]