Niki Passath, an Austrian electrician, has invented the world’s first tattooing robot — a tattoo gun powered by Palm OS
If you’ve ever wondered how the noxious John Edward runs his seedy little show, it has more to do with spewing lots of vague questions than with his alleged psychic gift
The Miskovic family in the town of Danilovgrad, Montenegro thought a World War II artillery shell was the ideal replacement for a broken table leg — until it exploded, injuring eight people as they were about to eat a meal
Passers-by alerted fire-fighters after hearing noises emanating from a locked dumpster. Within minutes of arriving at the scene, the occupant was rescued but fire-fighters say the puppy turned out to be a very large and apparently well-fed rat
A medieval fresco featuring a rodent with an uncanny resemblance to Mickey Mouse has been uncovered in an Austrian church. Disney has refused to comment
As former chief investigator for the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, Jerry Webster has seen lots of unusual things. So he didn’t blink when a family called to ask if they could set their deceased loved one afire on a Viking-style raft and push his floating funeral pyre into Puget Sound
It may work for Santa Claus and the singing chimney sweep in Mary Poppins
, but one Texas man found out that going down the chimney was no way to enter a home after he became wedged in the smoke stack
An eccentric Frenchman who goes by the name of Crazy Eric has entered the record books for the unusual feat of carrying permanently about his body more than 1,000 useful objects. Dubbed the human Swiss Army Knife, Eric is a 30-year-old electrician from the central-eastern city of Lyon who has a psychological obsession with neatness and an ingenious line in clothes design
Louis Dethy, a reclusive pensioner who booby trapped his home in Charlerois, Belgium with the intention of killing his estranged family, died himself when he inadvertently triggered one of his own devices
The British Army has appealed for anyone hiding one if its borrowed inflatable tanks — which blew away in a weekend gale — to kindly return it
A hatchet-wielding man who lured a German tourist from his camper and then chopped his victim twice in the back of the head paid for the brazen attack with his life. The tourist, described by police sources as a 15-year-judo expert, turned the tables on his attacker Saturday morning and killed the thug with his bare hands, despite suffering two axe wounds to the head
New Zealand police have become involved in a bizarre incident in Auckland, finding a severed human leg hanging off the back door of a house in the centre of the city
Pheasant season took an ugly turn for Michael Murray when he was shot by Sonny, his year-old English setter pup
Customers at a McDonald’s in Washington DC got a shock Friday when two deer jumped through the restaurant window
A 33-year-old has been charged with breach of the peace after police received reports that the man was engaging in a sexual act with a traffic cone at the bottom of Calton Hill, Edinburgh
The next time you’re in need of a wart remover, forget combing the aisles of the local pharmacy and head over to the hardware store for a roll of duct tape instead
A 24-year-old South Korean man died after playing computer games nonstop for 86 hours
It’s nurture over nature for a lioness in Kenya who keeps choosing to dote on baby antelope rather than devour them. Kamuniak, a lioness in northern Kenya’s Samburu National Park has adopted her fifth new-born oryx this year
Police in France’s Normandy region say a 31-year-old hunter trying out his marksmanship has accidentally cut power to 1,200 country homes and killed a cow
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