Tag: humorous
member name: troublemkr s.
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December 03, 2006 03:11 AM EST --
Four people buried 450 years ago had been scared to death - by fairies.
According to the burial register for the parish of Lamplugh in Cumbria between 1656 to 1663 seven people were also 'bewitched'. . . . more
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November 27, 2006 05:59 AM EST --
Forget Friday the 13th - insurers say Monday the 27th is really the unluckiest day.
More people suffer mishaps when the 27th is a Monday than on any other day, insurers AA warn.
Their report, based on . . . more
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December 02, 2006 04:36 AM EST --
A York woman called in a plumber to check her noisy heating system - and found a tramp living in her attic.
Natalie Summers asked the workman to check the pipes after hearing creaking sounds above her . . . more
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December 18, 2006 11:52 AM EST --
Teenagers do crazy things. They take drugs, have unprotected sex, ride with drunken drivers, and pretend to be asleep when it's time to do the dishes.
But it's not that they don't . . . more
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November 17, 2006 06:40 PM EST --
There are many incompetent people in the world. Dr. David A. Dunning is haunted by the fear that he might be one of them.
Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell, worries about this because, according . . . more
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December 05, 2006 11:57 PM EST --
It is considered polite to light a match after passing gas. Not while on a plane.
An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise . . . more
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December 08, 2006 02:28 AM EST --
The world's only bald, Welsh-speaking, Elvis has been receiving death threats.
Geraint Benney said he'd been receiving threats from extreme Elvis fans who claim he's showing disrespect to . . . more
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December 15, 2006 08:54 AM EST --
A children's Christmas choir was left in tears after shopping centre security guards told them to shut up.
The 23 children - aged three to five - were ordered to stop singing carols because they were . . . more
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December 02, 2006 04:32 AM EST --
A German policeman had his trousers ripped off after he tried to arrest a giant emu.
The emu had been pestering passers by at a park in Kaarst, western Germany.
A day later a three foot red and green . . . more
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December 03, 2006 03:03 AM EST --
A man is recovering after shooting himself with his own crossbow.
Weapons collector Steve Samson, from Rochford, Essex, was cleaning the crossbow when the aluminium arrow speared seven inches into his . . . more
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December 06, 2006 12:01 AM EST --
Saying "ho, ho, ho" is practically a Christmas miracle, given the job woes that shopping mall and store Santas face each day, according to a survey released on Monday.
Santas get sneezed upon . . . more
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December 06, 2006 12:11 AM EST --
Hoping to stir up thirst for milk, officials installed advertisements in several San Francisco bus shelters on Monday that give off the scent of freshly baked cookies.
The technology that creates the . . . more
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December 08, 2006 02:31 AM EST --
Harrods have sacked a Father Christmas who made 'inappropriate' remarks to customers.
The former employee worked at Father Christmas World at the flagship store in London's Knightsbridge. . . . more
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December 09, 2006 03:45 PM EST --
A man had to call police for help after waking up in the lobby of a hotel wearing only a string vest.
The man had woken at 3am after sleepwalking virtually naked out of his hotel room, reports the Sun. . . . more
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December 09, 2006 03:55 PM EST --
A Romanian priest says he wants women to pay a 'white dress fine' if they are not virgins when they marry.
Father Petrica Bratu, 37, from Valea Sarii says he hopes the fines will stop couples . . . more
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December 15, 2006 08:37 AM EST --
A Clinton man arrested for burglary also was charged with theft for taking the handcuffs he was wearing when he escaped from officers, police said.
David Lee Griffin, 19, is accused of taking items from . . . more
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December 17, 2006 10:30 PM EST --
Nepal's peace process has been disrupted by a row over whether the country should retain the cow as its national animal or replace it with the rhinoceros.
Cows are sacred in Hindu Nepal while the . . . more
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December 19, 2006 04:18 PM EST --
A North Carolina woman was arrested after complaining to a police officer that the crack cocaine she had just purchased wasn't very good, authorities said.
Eloise D. Reaves, 50, approached the Putnam . . . more
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November 28, 2006 01:43 AM EST --
Santa Claus is being banned from Christmas markets in Germany and Austria.
Anti-Santa campaigners claim Father Christmas was invented by Coca-Cola and detracts from the true spirit of the festive season. . . . more
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November 28, 2006 05:42 PM EST --
A Romanian woman was sent the body of her dead father in the post after a cemetery was sold to developers.
Aurelia Cenusa, from Severin, says clergy in her father's hometown of Darvari, 300 miles . . . more
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