Chinese fail to embrace hugs from strangers
"Chinese appear not to have warmed to a 'free hugs' campaign aimed at cheering up strangers by hugging them on the street, with some huggers even being hauled away by police for questioning"

The Art of Complex Problem Solving

The Dog Who Loved to Suck on Toads
"'We couldn't keep our dog's addiction a secret any longer,' Laura Mirsch says. 'The neighbors all knew that Lady was a drug addict, and soon the other dogs weren't allowed to play with her.'

In the end, Lady seems to have found a way to manage her problem.

'She seems to have outgrown the wild toad-obsessed years of her youth,' Mirsch says, 'and now only sucks on weekends.'"

Snake Fried Under Car Bonnet : "Your engine starts hissing, smoke begins pouring out and the smell is enough to make your eyes water.

There must be something wrong with the car, most people would surmise, but for one Surbiton family the truth was far more shocking - there was a metre-long snake being cooked to death on the engine."


Area man charged with bestiality: "A 44-year-old Saginaw man remains jailed today on charges of bestiality after he was seen engaged in sexual acts with a dead dog, Michigan State Police troopers said.
Kuch is charged with crimes against nature and assaulting a law enforcement officer.

Troopers said a woman from the day care center called for animal control because there was a dead dog near the property that had been hit by a car several days earlier.

Before officers could arrive, the man showed up and began engaging in sexual acts with the dog, police said. The animal control officer also reported seeing Kuch involved in the sex act and as he approached him, Kuch shoved him away and ran off.

State troopers searched the area and found the man hiding in the attic of a nearby house.

Officers determined that the house belonged to the man's girlfriend and later learned that the dog, a black Labrador retriever, also belonged to the girlfriend. The dog had been dead for four or five days. "

BBC NEWS | Train defecator hunted by police

A man has been defecating in trains across south-east England, causing damage costing £60,000 to repair.

British Transport Police have released CCTV images of the man, who has struck on at least 30 trains since August.

He waits until he is alone before committing the offence, smearing excrement inside carriages.

"There is no particular pattern as to when he appears," said Ms Fox.

"He travels to various areas and at different times of the day and different days of the week.



At the Zoo

TheStar.com - Stingray jumps onto boat, stabs man in heart: "LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. (AP) — An 81-year-old man was in critical condition Thursday after a stingray flopped into his boat and stung him in the chest with a 30-centimetre-long barb that penetrated his heart similar to the accident that killed 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin.

'It was a freak accident,' said David Donzella, Lighthouse Point's acting fire chief. 'It's very odd that the thing jumped out of the water and stung him. We still can't believe it.'"

TheStar.com - Activists free 15,000 captive minks
"MADRID, Spain (AP) — Vandals broke into three mink farms in northwestern Spain and freed more than 15,000 of the prized, furry animals, officials said Sunday.

The raiders, believed to be environmental activists, acted under cover of darkness late Saturday in three towns in Galicia, which has about 80 mink farms.

The operation was so well organized that the vandals propped boards on the walls to help animals scale them and placed fish outside the walls as bait to keep them going, said Maria Dolores Sendon, a police official in the town of Muros."

One dead, 13 injured in X-ray blunder at French hospital - Yahoo! News: "The 13 who fell ill suffered from rectal inflammation and needed surgery to fit an artificial anus"

Lightning exits woman's Anus
"A WOMAN has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.

Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at in her home in the Croatian city of Zadar when lightning struck the building.

She said: 'I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building.

'I don't remember much after that, but I was later told that the lightning had travelled down the water pipe and struck me on the mouth, passing through my body.

'It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then I don't remember much at all.' Doctors at the city hospital where she was treated for burns to the mouth and rear said: 'The accident is bizarre but not impossible.'"

Is this the perfect penis, as the title suggests? I beg to differ...

A PROSTITUTE who had her arm ripped off in a savage attack returns to work THREE weeks later.

Pranks... always make me laugh.

If ever I want to learn to really dance, it has emerged that India is the place to go.

...Is he singing "girlie man"?

This video clip is so great that it deserves to be posted again. You have to watch it more than once. The first time, sit back and enjoy the little man. However, the second time be sure to pay attention to the other little person sitting in in the back row (the one in the blue shirt, second from the right). Believe me, this will add a whole new dimension to this video gem.

At the Aquarium on Yahoo! News Photos: "A ring-tailed lemur (R) looks at a fennec fox at Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo"