Odd Stuff News
- Man caught with penis in pasta jar - A man caught near New South Wales's Nobbys Beach with his penis in a pasta sauce jar led police on a 20kmh car chase, has had his day in court.
- Bee swarm has city residents spooked - The Invercargill City Council appears to have done an about-turn after residents of a city street said a visiting swarm of bees was putting their safety at risk.
- Inmates caught sneaking into jail for sex - Frisky male prisoners in a United States jail have been caught sneaking into the women's wing for sex.
- Google iPhone app stumped by British accents - Google's voice-recognition search technology for the iPhone has trouble with British accents, media reports say.
- Flying coffins a booming business for NI airline - Commuter airline air2there is gliding through the turbulence of economic slowdown through a booming casket transfer business which it calls air2thereafter.
- Festival-goer faces bus theft charge - A Toast Martinborough reveller was left with more than just a hangover after allegedly stealing a bus, only to crash it moments later and fall flat on his face in front of security guards.
- 'Sex ramp' saves fattest man's wedding day - A man who was once declared the world's fattest living person has consummated his marriage, with a little help from his friends and a specially built "sex ramp".
- Hubby blames iPhone glitch for nude emails - A US woman has discovered her husband using his iPhone to send raunchy pictures of his genitals to a lover, which he tried to explain was caused by an Apple bug.
- Spending a penny for charity - A Mirimar Christian School class is busting to celebrate World Toilet Day, all in aid of those who go without the luxury of flushing loos.
- Kakapo repaired after painful poke - A female kakapo who indelicately injured herself by sitting on a sharp stick has been repaired at the Auckland Zoo.
- Tonga's court jester becomes play (+vid) - One of the stranger moments in Pacific history - the time in 2001 when the official Tongan royal court jester lost US$26 million of the king's money - has been turned into a piece of New York theatre.
- 'Meh' - The Simpsons make word history - The phrase “meh” might denote utter boredom but it has the world of wordsmiths very excited.
- Artist wants to switch lost eyeball for webcam - A San Francisco artist wants to replace her missing eyeball with a video camera to record her life.
- Slippery situation for truckie - A Levin truckie found himself in a bit of a split when his truck, carrying 1400 cartons of bananas, ploughed into a ditch near Palmerston North.
- Loo roll rationed on bummer diversion - Qantas was forced to ration water, biscuits, nappies and toilet paper - four sheets a person - to passengers who spent more than 24 hours on a flight diverted from Sydney because of a storm.
