A Malaysian landlord was shocked to find his double-storey wooden house missing while making his rent call, local daily The Star reports — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Florida man is suing an ex-firefighter for stealing his foot.
The limb was lopped off in a car accident in 2008 and retrieved by Cynthia Economou, who admitted taking the foot to help train her body recovery dog.
She was charged with second-degree petit (petty) theft and put on probation for six months — via redwolf.newsvine.com
French police have found stolen jewellery worth 14m euros (£12m; $19m) hidden in a drain in a Paris suburb — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Metro Trains is trying to work out why a train derailed and smashed into a bank in the Melbourne suburb of Sandringham last night — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This dentist has a self-proclaimed net worth of up to $4million and allegedly had $250 cash on him at the time.
But Dr Richard Ludwig, 54, was arrested after buying two pizzas for $40.64 with a military veteran’s credit card he found on the floor of a Florida restaurant, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US man high on methamphetamine drove with his wife on the hood of their minivan for more than 40 miles, hitting speeds of 100 mph, according to police — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An arborist’s legs have been severed after he got caught in a wood chipper in Sydney’s north-west — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 50,000 Mazda cars are being recalled across the United States because of possible problems with their fuel tanks, caused by spiders — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Firefighters are occasionally sent out on unusual animal rescues. It is just part of the job. But none may be more unusual than the animal rescue call Yuma firefighters responded to last week.
According to Mike Erfert, spokesman for the Yuma Fire Department, firefighters were sent to the El Encanto Apartments, 2652 S 8th Ave, at about 8 pm on Friday regarding a dog stuck inside a refrigerator — via redwolf.newsvine.com
And you thought cigarettes were expensive.
An Upper East Side man has agreed to fork over $2,000 to his next-door neighbors any time he smokes a cigar inside his apartment — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A pizzeria owner in Pennsylvania sought to sabotage competing shops by infesting them with mice, police say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The body of a Kent man who was due to attend a wedding in Thailand has been found washed up on a beach — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Apparently someone in Lincoln, Nebraska thinks that you can exchange rabbits. The man allegedly stole a bunny from a pet store and left a jackrabbit in its place.
The incident happened at a Pet Doctor pet store. A clerk witnessed a white man in his 40s put a bunny worth $60 in his coat and walk out. The kidnapped rabbit was a white, lop-eared Holland bunny, TheOmahaChannel.com reports.
Police have arrested Michael Stiles, 39, who is accused of stealing the rabbit. However it seems that Stiles has pulled off a bit of a David Copperfield act: the rabbit has disappeared, the Journal Star reports — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US woman looking for a place to stay in New York City on classified site Craigslist made an agreement with a man living in Brooklyn: she’d cook and clean in exchange for free rent.
But when she arrived from Wisconsin this month, she was handcuffed to a radiator and made to be the man’s sex slave for eight days, she told police — via redwolf.newsvine.com
French police say they have arrested a 63-year-old woman who was leading her 40-year-old companion along a busy shopping street by a leash attached to his exposed penis — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A submarine which is believed to have been designed to smuggle cocaine to Mexico has been seized in Colombia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police say a man’s remains found inside a drum north of Brisbane were encased in concrete — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Minneapolis woman accused of attempting to ship a puppy across the country will not get the dog back — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 37-year-old Somerset man can thank fast food for saving his life, after he plugged a serious throat wound with a doner ebab.
James Hobbs was attacked in Highbridge on 15 January after he popped out to Tasty Bitez for some meaty goodness. He suffered a deep cut across the throat, but held the wrapped £3.40 takeaway to his neck for several minutes
until his cousin could provide a towel to stem the flow of blood — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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