The latest craze in Germany is Kartoffelkanone
or potato bazookas. These use hairspray ignited by a spark to fire potatoes at colossal speeds. The authorities are not amused — via Slashdot
A 32-year-old Boulder man who had opened his apartment’s patio door to enjoy the unusually warm weather was later overheard screaming threats and seen waving what appeared to be a handgun, prompting a maintenance worker to call police. It turned out that the man was simply upset at his computer — which he had called a bitch
he wanted to kill
— and the gun was a plastic pellet gun, not the .45-caliber automatic handgun it was made to resemble
A man trying to beat his dog to death with a gun was fatally wounded when it apparently went off accidentally
A Sicilian man who had been pronounced dead by doctors startled relatives by sitting up just before he was to be put into his coffin and demanding a glass of water
A 60-year-old motorist in Britain, Barbara Byrne, has been banned from driving for a year after she was convicted for driving with one dog on her lap, four on the front passenger seat and 22 in the back
Children at a school in Norfolk have been banned from throwing snowballs at their classmates unless they ask their target’s permission first
A German family has kept a live eel in its bathtub for the last 33 years and even trained it to swim into a bucket when someone needs to wash
An anti-terrorism squad raided the home of a Danish family after mistaking a light-hearted message on their answering machine for a hostage alert
A man wielding two axes went berserk in the crowded town centre of Waltham Abbey yesterday, leaving two people in hospital and a third in shock, before launching a frenzied attack inside an historic abbey
Bill Talen, known as Reverend Billy, has been exhorting people to resist temptation — the temptation to shop
Ukrainian police at Rovno, southern Ukraine, have seized a batch of radioactive xmas trees that businessmen were selling at local markets for the upcoming Orthodox festive season
A British woman, told by her construction worker husband to expect an expensive vehicle
for Christmas, naturally expected a sports car, but she was wrong. Denise Guy, 54, opened her front door on Christmas day to find her 40-year-old husband dressed as Santa Claus, behind the wheel of a seven-tonne excavator
The frenzied bidding for a tumbledown Northern California town closed at nearly US$1.8 million yesterday on eBay. If the deal goes through, 82 acres of Bridgeville will go to the unidentified buyer who put in a bid for US$1,777,877 just seconds before the Internet auction closed
A bizarre rumour that Malawi’s government is colluding with vampires to collect human blood for international aid agencies in exchange for food has led to a rash of vigilante violence
Slaughter, and then worse, came to Butare, a sleepy, sun-bleached Rwandan town, in the spring of 1994. Hutu death squads armed with machetes and nail-studded clubs had deployed throughout the countryside, killing, looting and burning
Canadian thieves calling themselves Grinch Enterprises kidnapped a Santa Claus figure off an Ontario family’s front lawn and are holding the jolly icon for a ransom of canned goods for a food bank
Ahsan Azamtullah, a Pakistani man, has been sentenced to life in prison under the country’s blasphemy laws for being a follower of Sardar Ahmed, a self-proclaimed prophet
A pub with no beer is one thing but Goondiwindi, in southern Queensland, has a new water park with no water
British vagrants will be wearing a variety of styles in fur this winter as an animal rights group hands out unwanted coats in its ‘Fur Giveaway‘ campaign
Relatives of Ray Wallace, the man behind the legend of Bigfoot, which became the US equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster, have finally confirmed it was a hoax after his death at the age of 84
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