Sunday, October 28, 2007

Disney's Ratatouille Film Boosts Demands for More Pet Rats

LONDON Oct 28 - As if your kid needed more excuses for having a rodent pet. With the launch of Disney's film "Ratatouille" featuring a chef-rat from Paris, demands for rodents have skyrockted in some parts of London.

According to Pets at Home spokesman Steve Fairburn, "It's early doors yet, but it seems 'Ratatouille' has done wonders for the image of rats," He also added, "Contrary to popular opinion, rats are actually one of the cleanest and least smelly pets you can own. They are incredibly responsive to learning and can be taught to do amazing tricks, much in the way that dogs and cats can."

It isn't just London that is experiencing a surge in demand for pet rats in summer but also parts of the USA, Germany and Sweden.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Run! It's Chilli Time!




LONDON Weds 3 Oct - How's this for bizzare? A Thai restaurant's sercret chilli concoction managed to set off alarm bells in Central London, causing police to shut down the area and breaking into the restaurant.

Streets were closed off around London Soho area as police investigated the cause of what they thought were 'chemical bio-weapons' in play. The Hazardous Area Response Team were dispatched immediately after someone thought they smelt something suspicious.

Chef Chalemchai Tangjariyapoon who made the chilli is baffled and amused at the whole event. "I was making a spicy dip with extra-hot chillis that are deliberately burnt. To us, it smells like burnt chilli and it is slightly unusual," He told one London newspaper. "I can understand why people who weren't Thai would not know what it was. But it doesn't smell like chemicals."

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Oktoberfest Man Stuck in Chimney for 12 Hours

BERLIN Fri 28 - How's this for one of those days? A drunken German man actually got himself in trouble with law by being stuck in a friend's chimney for 12 hours! He claimed that he was trying to get into his friend's apartment so instead of using the front door, decided to take an alternate route.

After drinking heavily at the Munich's Oktoberfest Beer Festival, he decided to pay his friend a visit at 2am. Upon finding the apartment door shut, he began his adventure by climbing onto the nearest neighbor building then heading for what he thought was a gap between the two walls.

The result? A 98 feet slide down the chimney with his head first. At around 2pm, an 82 year old janitor finally heard his cries for help and contacted police who had to knocked a hole in the wall to finally liberated him. Lucky for the man, he had only suffered minor injuries and is being treated for hypothermia.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Man Hits His Wife With Onion




Don't like your wife too much? In the town of Des Moina, Iowa, James Izzolena (54 years old) was charged with hitting his wife Nicole Izzolena (27 years old) with an onion during a heated drunken argument.

Police who arrested Jame Izzolena said that the man admitted to hurling the onion at his wife but did not mean to hurt her. Mrs. Izzolena claimed the onion made her head hurt.

Really Weird News: Weiners can be too filling!

Be careful before you bite into a weiner. The filling may disagree with you. In weird food news from Berlin a man tried to smuggle two dildos inside sausages. This creative smuggler went to the butcher and bought two sausages. He then took these sausages and insterted dildos inside the sausages then went back to the butcher and asked him to wrap up the sausages.

The butcher was suspicious when packing the "Schwartenmagen" sausages as they felt much heavier than they should. The butcher informed the police and an investigation found that the man had hidden a dildo inside each sausage and wanted to smuggle them to Dubai. This was not a crime in Germany. It's unknown what Dubai authorities would do if these dildos were smuggled into Dubai.

"It was two latex dildos with a natural look," said German police spokesperson. The police spokesperson said "It's not against the law here."

The smuggler should have realized that sausages could be used as sex toys even without dildos being stuffed inside. LOL.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Internet Addiction Kills Man in Cafe

In news from China, a man in the Guangzhou province dropped dead of exhaustion in an internet cafe after playing online games for three days straight. China has over 140 million internet users, second only to the United States. Many chinese have become internet addicts.


The Chinese state newspaper did not report the man's name nor mention what game(s) the man had been playing. Apparently paramedics arrived on the scene but were unable to revive the man and declared him dead in the cafe.


Several cities in China have psychiatric facilities to treat internet addicts.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Weird news: caskets

Trekkie fans will be very pleased to spend their last voyage in a Star Trek casket. An innovative company has teamed up with the Star Trek franchise to create Star Trek caskets which look futuristic and designs of which you may have seen on Star Trek episodes.


This marketing ploy may lead to untapped potential in a business which is otherwise stale. Caskets generally come standard in shape and color. This is the first time that such a bold design has been applied to caskets. Now fans can "live long and prosper" in their next lives by requesting their family memebers to make sure their remains are buried in a Star Trek coffin.