Scott James
10-07-2007, 07:42 PM
I am quite fond of oddball stories and I just picked these gems out of today's edition of The Independent on Sunday:
- Saudi man divorces his wife for watching male presenter on television while alone. The hussy.
- Glaswegian drinks 60 pints of beer in four days and suffers a hangover that lasts a month.
- Bermuda's health officials blame rise in obesity on islanders' taste for large bowls of Coco-Pops.
- North Wales couple surprised to get a phone bill of 74,585 pounds and 39 pence (plus VAT) for a seven-minute call to Chester.
- Massachussetts parking meter thefts solved after police find 124 of them in man's apartment.
- Thieves rob New Hampshire convenience store of 1,000 dollars by hypnotising shop-keeper.
- Polish Prime Minister admits he doesn't have bank account and hands his salary to his mother each month.
- Italian archbishop shuts down convent after cat-fight among its nuns.
and my personal favourite:
"Oh ... yes ... yes ... yes ... do it to me ..."
- The breathless female voice that is the ringtone of a mobile phone owned by a man in the public gallery of Queensland court. We know because he forgot to turn it off during a case last week.
- Saudi man divorces his wife for watching male presenter on television while alone. The hussy.
- Glaswegian drinks 60 pints of beer in four days and suffers a hangover that lasts a month.
- Bermuda's health officials blame rise in obesity on islanders' taste for large bowls of Coco-Pops.
- North Wales couple surprised to get a phone bill of 74,585 pounds and 39 pence (plus VAT) for a seven-minute call to Chester.
- Massachussetts parking meter thefts solved after police find 124 of them in man's apartment.
- Thieves rob New Hampshire convenience store of 1,000 dollars by hypnotising shop-keeper.
- Polish Prime Minister admits he doesn't have bank account and hands his salary to his mother each month.
- Italian archbishop shuts down convent after cat-fight among its nuns.
and my personal favourite:
"Oh ... yes ... yes ... yes ... do it to me ..."
- The breathless female voice that is the ringtone of a mobile phone owned by a man in the public gallery of Queensland court. We know because he forgot to turn it off during a case last week.