A hot Berlin couple burning up the floor to Dob Dobberstein’s rock and roll band. Yes she does know what she is showing!
A Welsh firm has come up with a way to get men to do the ironing. It is marketing ironing board covers featuring a picture of British model Jordan in a bikini. The bikini disappears as the cover heats up.
Two robbers of a German post office, distracted when the alarm was raised, grabbed the lunch bag of an employee, which was full of potato salad, instead of the one they had stuffed money into.
A Berlin artist has asked German zoos if they will feed him to piranhas once he’s dead. Karl Friedrich Lentze, 56, got the idea after reading about a Dutch man who wanted to be fed to snails.
Two five-year-old Austrian girls escaped from nursery school by scaling a fence, then walked 2 kilometres along a busy main road and train tracks so they wouldn’t miss Sesame Street.
A German dog breeder’s attempt to brush his prize Rottweiler’s teeth ended in a hospital emergency ward when the animal savaged the man, severing arteries in his right arm.
A hungry Dutch burglar was caught after the smell of his cooking woke the householder. The 45-year-old intruder told police he fried a fish and took a cold beer from the fridge to complement his meal.
German pop star Werner Boehm’s wife has left him after he fell for a baboon. “It was love at first sight,” he said. “The monkey is extremely musical and can even play the piano. We’re on the same wavelength.”
A British company is selling MP3 players that attach to an assault rifle in place of ammunition. A company partner said: “Hopefully militants and terrorists will use their AK-47s to listen to music.”
A disgruntled motorist in Somerset blew up a speed camera with a home-made bomb. Earlier, someone wrecked a camera with an angle grinder and three others were burned in tyres filled with petrol.
A Pittsburgh girl, 7, has been suspended from school for saying “hell”. But she says she was only warning a boy for saying “I swear to God”. “I said, ‘You’re going to go to hell for swearing to God’.”
Inspired by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s facelift, a Tuscany mayor is offering to pay for cosmetic surgery for councillors so they can better represent the image of the town Mulazzo.
A shopper in Wales was banned by a grocery store for going through the check-out with her trolley back-to-front. Patricia Evans was told it was company policy, before red-faced bosses lifted the ban.
A tomcat nicknamed Frosty found frozen to the ground in minus 29 degrees was saved by a Minnesota animal shelter. Staff wrapped four- year-old Frosty in hot towels to thaw him out over three days
In Tanzania, a man cut off his genitals in an attempt to win sympathy from friends and relatives after squandering the money they lent him on prostitutes and alcohol.
A German man who taught his dog Adolf to give a Hitler salute by raising his right paw was charged with violating Germany’s anti-Nazi laws.
The Backpacking magazine “Trail” has apologized after its latest issue showed a route that led off a cliff on Britain’s highest mountain. Editor Guy Procter said he was gutted by the error made in production.
Russian troops, divers and others using a modified T72 tank are helping retrieve 10 tons of beer trapped under a frozen Siberian river. In minus 27C, a week-long effort to extract the truck carrying the beer has proved fruitless.
A diamond merchant in India, whose cow swallowed a bag of diamonds, has tried for three days to make it pass dung so that he can recover them. Dilubhai Rajput has so far retrieved 310 of the 1722 diamonds.
A bachelor in China, fed up with giving away money at weddings of relatives and friends, hired a prostitute for a bogus marriage to recoup his losses. The man paid the prostitute $93 to pose as his bride and collected $627 in cash gifts at the ceremony.
Ah, to be in Germany!
A German TV network’s early-morning regular “burning log” video has tricked a woman into calling out the fire brigade. The woman woke, believed her television was on fire and called emergency services, who used the remote to “extinguish” the fire.
A “kindergarten” for men has been established in Hamburg, Germany, to allow women to drop off their partners so they can shop in peace. Lunch and two beers are included in the fee at the adult play pen run by specially trained “nurses” Jenny and Bianca!