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Death By Cu-bum-ber

A man taken to hospital to have a cucumber removed from his bottom told doctors he inserted it in a SUICIDE attempt. Chin Wei, 62, claimed the method was a variation of ritual suicide hara-kiri - usually carried out with a SWORD plunged into the belly. Medics said a severe tear to the man's rear was not life-threatening. Read more

2nd Best Job In The World

If chilling on a beautiful island in the sun and splashing about in tropical waters is not your thing, then how about being an assistant to a giant bunny rabbit? No experience required. £70,000 pa. Foxes and Cats need not apply Apply here

No Can Do

It's true! Try it.. Why is this? In MS-DOS, several special "device files" were available to aid in performing certain tasks, such as clearing the screen or deleting extraneous output from a program. In order to maintain backwards-compatibility, all versions of Windows up to and including Windows Vista will refuse to allow you to create a file with these "reserved" device file names. The following file names are all reserved: Read the rest here

WANTED Parrot Of The Caribbean

The owner of the celebrity parrot which features throughout the Pirates of Caribbean films has been jailed after being caught driving with the bird on her shoulder. Ludmila Sweeney was pulled over and arrested at the Port of Dover in Read more here

Woman Finds Severed Finger Tip In Her Salad

Ronald Neilly was working at an International House of Pancakes in Hallandale, Florida one Sunday morning when he accidentally cut off a fingertip while preparing an order. Neilly, 35, was immediately rushed to a local hospital by Department of Fire Rescue workers. But the severed fingertip (nail intact) could not be located by his fellow kitchen employees. That was until, it turned up in the fried chicken green salad being consumed by Read the full story here

The Ultimate Big Boy Toy

It's a homemade flying hovercraft that can travel on water, land and air. This unusual machine was designed and built by Rudy Heeman. Rudy said: "It has been called all sorts of things including aircraft, airplane, hovercraft and flying boat. It is actually a W.I.G, a Wing In Ground effect vehicle in the form of a hovercraft. "Having a go on it is like a bungee jump, however the thrill lasts as long as the ride. This machine is fast and furious, it roars like a lion, and is not for the faint hearted. It is adrenalin pumping and exciting." Its now up for sale Watch the video and read the full story here

Sperm Therapy

Doctors had never suspected a link between the act of fellatio and breast cancer, but new research being performed at North Carolina State University is starting to suggest that there could be an important link between the two. In a study of over 15,000 women suspected of having Read the full story here

Rickrolling No More

It's been the punchline in thousands of internet pranks, but no more - the original 'RickRoll'D' video of Rick Astley's 80s hit Never Gonna Give You Up has mysteriously vanished from YouTube. The video, has been taken down, replaced simply with the text: 'This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.' Rickrolling - in which unwary web users are tricked into clicking a link to the video for Read the full story here

Sujet Salee - The Blind Boxer

Being blind doesn’t stop 29 year old Sujet Salee stepping into the ring to earn a living fighting blindfolded opponents. Boxer Sujet who hails from Surin province, Thailand was born blind and doesn’t think that blindness is a handicap and Read more