A man mowing his lawn has stumbled into a big hole.
The man discovered the hole when he was mowing his lawn. He started digging around the hole with water and rusty pipes in the bottom. It could be an old cesspit or a well. The man has blocked off the area. He have to remove the pipes and fill up the hole.
A US driver was stopped on suspicion of being a terrorist after his radioactive cat was mistaken for a bomb.
Anti-terror cops use specialist radiation detectors on motorway traffic. They flagged down the man but a search of his car revealed only his cat. The animal had undergone radiotherapy for cancer a few days earlier.
A man lost his wallet over 30 years ago and the instruction returned it to him.
The man lost his wallet while he was a student at Santa Clara University in 1975. The wallet has been sitting in a wall at the student center for 33 years. Construction crews found it recently while renovating the student union. The man doesn’t even remember losing it.
A lonely Japanese man has been arrested for calling directory assistance thousands of times.
The man is single and unemployed. He made 2600 calls to directory help between June and November. He reportedly would whisper “darling” as he tried to start a conversation and then pleaded with operators not to hang up. The man was arrested. He reportedly told police that he was lonely and grew to enjoy annoying the operators. His calls usually came late and sometimes exceeded 200 times a night.
A schoolgirl has written a guide to teenage slang after her parents complained they couldn’t understand her.
The girl said: “I hope the book clears up confusion. Some parents don’t give teenagers enough credit for some of the words they use. More come up every day and a lot are very creative.” Her guide includes 300 teen words such as “antwacky” (unstylish), “cotch down” (sleep), “rago” (OK) and “zip” (yob). It also includes her three golden teen talk rules: never make eye contact when talking to a “mouldie” (parent); always mumble inaudibly; try to include “like” in every sentence.
An Irish tourist has been arrested in Bulgaria after breaking into a furniture store to sleep in a bed for the night because he couldn’t find his hotel.
The tourist was on holiday and lost his way after drinking with pals. The man couldn’t find his hotel and broke into the furniture store. He was woken up the next morning by cops who were called in when staff turned up to find him in one of their showroom beds.
A cat baffles his owner by waiting to be collected by car every morning at exactly the same time and place. The cat goes out every night from his owner’s home. The next morning the 12 years old cat can always be found waiting on a pavement 1.5 miles away.
The cat disappeared one day. His owner began telephoning her neighbours to see if anyone had seen him. An elderly women called back to say she had found the cat on the pavement outside her house. The owner collected him but within days he vanished again. The cat turned up in the same place. A routine has now become established. Each morning she takes her son to school before collecting her cat on the way back. She also makes the trip at weekends and during school holidays.
A Romanian man has gone on hunger strike because he has been banned from his local casino.
The man started his protest after casino workers kicked him out for “swearing and shouting too loud”. He has been sitting on a chair in front of the casino with a note reading: “Roulette hunger strike”. He says he will not eat or accept medical attention until he is allowed to play roulette in the casino again. He plans to erect a tent just outside the casino and stay in it until he is allowed to play or is given back the money he lost there.
A married couple are divorcing after they chatted each other up on the Internet using fake names.
The couple met on an online chat forum while he was at work and she was in an Internet cafe. The pair started chatting under the names “Sweetie” and “Prince of Joy”. They both felt they had found their real soul mate. They eventually decided to meet up. There was no happy ending when they realized what had happened.
A man told police he crashed his car into a church because he was mad at God. The crash caused several thousand dollars in damage.
Deputies found the man sitting in his car when they arrived. The church’s door was demolished. The man told authorities he was Catholic. He didn’t explain why he was angry at God.
The man was charged with felony criminal mischief.