Weird

A Victoria woman is suing her former fiance after a drunken fall off a veranda left her impaled on a garden picket in November 008.

South Ballarat woman Michelle Egglestone is suing for damages and loss of earnings after being injured at the home of Leslie Furness at Smythes Creek near Ballarat.

The document states the 35-year-old was urinating off the side of a veranda in the back garden when she fell onto a star picket underneath.

She suffered pelvic, lower abdominal, vaginal, rectal and bladder injuries and required surgery — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Most people would think twice before buying a boat named Titanic II.

And sure enough, when Briton Mark Wilkinson took the 4.8-metre cabin cruiser out for its maiden voyage, it promptly sank — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Texas authorities have found up to 30 dismembered bodies, including children, buried at a house in a rural county east of Houston, local media is reporting — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A man has pleaded not guilty to charges relating to the clamping of two unmarked police cars as officers allegedly sat inside carrying out security duties during a visit by the Queen — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Police in southwest suburban Palos Heights and the FBI are continuing their search for two men who robbed a bank while donning nun masks Sunday afternoon.

A few more details emerged Monday, and Palos Heights police Detective Gerald Wodka said they have some leads, but nothing concrete— via redwolf.newsvine.com

Allan Dunn, who committed suicide at 86, had told neighbours his wife was in a nursing home.

But when the sisters went into his foetid apartment Tuesday afternoon, Kingsbury made a gruesome discovery: a body in a chest freezer on the porch.

Investigators believe it could be Dunn’s wife, Margaret, and that he kept her death secret more than a decade so he could collect her benefits — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A US woman who forced her two-year-old son to drink a concoction of olive oil and vinegar because she thought it would exorcise a demon from him has been convicted of murder.

Latisha Lawson was also convicted of neglect and battery charges, the Journal Gazette reported. Jurors deliberated for about five hours before finding her guilty. Lawson faces at least 45 years in prison when she is sentenced next month — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Protesting members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church were met with an unlikely group of counter-protesters Monday at Arlington Cemetery.

Hours before President Barack Obama led the nation’s Memorial Day observances at the Tomb of the Unknowns, three members of the Westboro Baptist Church were challenged by others who disagreed with them — including members claiming to be from the Ku Klux Klan — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Florida police are investigating an incident that saw a husband and wife engage in drunken shooting antics, which ended up with a washing machine being shot — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Three children have been injured – one seriously – after a bouncy castle broke loose from its tether, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A woman’s attempt to sell a purported $1.7 million moon rock was thwarted last week when the buyer she met with turned out to be an undercover agent working for NASA — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Police are trying to trace the owner of a life-sized tiger toy which sparked a major police alert in Hampshire over fears a real animal was on the loose — via redwolf.newsvine.com

An evangelical offshoot of Hillsong Church has opened a School of the Supernatural offering a course it reportedly says teaches the power to cure cancer, help women conceive and bring the dead back to life.

Seventy people have already enrolled in the six-month course on how to perform miracles and run by the Westlife Church in outer Brisbane, The Queensland Times reports — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The story broke Sunday, when KATU reported that passengers on an Amtrak train said [Lakeysha] Beard had talked loudly and non-stop on her phone for 16 hours, from the time she boarded it at 10 pm Saturday in Oakland to her arrest at 2 pm Sunday in Salem.

When passengers complained, police said she refused to hang up and got aggressive, the station reported. That prompted officers to stop the train and arrest her — via redwolf.newsvine.com