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.
Stuck by the tip of her tongue
A Russian teenager has ended up with frostbite after scalding her tongue while drinking a cup of tea. In a panic, the 13-year-old girl opened the freezer and placed her burning tongue on the ice to cool it down, but it stuck to the appliance.
Her frantic parents called an ambulance after failing to pry her tongue loose, a local news agency, Delfi, reported. Paramedics managed to free the girl, but discovered she had suffered severe frostbite and took her to hospital. Doctors managed to save the girl’s tongue after several hours of treatment.
I wonder what she would have done if she had started with an Icee??