Archive for the ‘Oddly Enough’ Category

A FINNISH court is to hear a sexual molestation case against a doctor who says he sucked a patient’s nipple to diagnose a medical problem in accordance with an old midwives’ trick.
ower courts earlier ruled that the doctor had not committed a crime, but the prosecution and the patient appealed against the judgement to the [...]

Party-goer Jader Mota survived for an astonish 12 hours with an eight inch knife jammed into his eye after fleeing from a mugger on his motorbike.
These astonishing pictures show how close the razor sharp blade came to piercing his brain, which surgeons say was missed by only a fraction of an inch.
Mota, 24, had been [...]

The Sister Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will launch the 15th Nun’s Beach Surf Invitational with proceeds going to the maintenance of its 150-bedroom beachfront retreat on the harbor, the New York Post reports.
The pact between surfer and nun in Stone Harbor was forged more than 60 years ago when local surfers [...]

The Minneapolis city attorney’s office has decided to pay seven zombies and their attorney $165,000.
The payout, approved by the City Council on Friday, settles a federal lawsuit the seven filed after they were arrested and jailed for two days for dressing up like zombies in downtown Minneapolis on July 22, 2006, to protest “mindless” consumerism.

You know that urban legend about alligators living in New York City sewers? Well: A baby alligator crawled out of a storm drain and took refuge under a Datsun in Queens on Sunday.  So, now all urban legends are true.

A British billionaire, Alki David, has offered $1 million to the first person who manages to streak naked in front of Barack Obama.
The billionaire heir to a shipping and bottle-plant empire, currently ranked 45th in the Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated fortune of £1.15 billion, made the pledge as part of a publicity [...]

A total of 10,276 people in China’s Inner Mongolia have broken the world record for the biggest human domino chain, state media say.
The participants in the city of Ordos sat cross-legged and fell backwards in sequence in a record which took an hour and 20 minutes on Thursday.
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The latest trend in lawn care doesn’t have four wheels. Try four legs. Across America, goats are being put to work in the backyards of homes and businesses alike, Fox News Channel reported Sunday.
They don’t need to be specially trained, since it is their natural instinct to eat any and every [...]

Four sisters from one family have each given birth within four days. That’s four sisters, four babies, four days. The same obstetrician delivered the babies of three of the sisters — 27-year-old Lilian Sepulveda, 29-year-old Saby Pazos and 24-year-old Leslie Pazos — in the same suburban Chicago hospital on Friday and [...]

Health authorities in China have ordered an investigation into claims that a batch of powdered baby milk has caused children as young as four months old to grow breasts.
Tests were ordered on infant formula made by the NASDAQ-listed company Synutra after reports surfaced in China’s state media that three children fed on the formula had [...]

From bare nipples to white knuckles – more than 100 thrill-seekers rode a rollercoaster naked today.
The 102 enthusiasts bared all to take their seats on the Green Scream rollercoaster at Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Organisers were hoping they had broken a new record after 32 attempted the same feat in 2004 at Alton Towers, in Staffordshire.