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According to this article Mexico will dive out free Viagra and other drugs that enhance sexual performance to impotent men. The idea is simply to make people happy because as the mayor says sexuality "has a lot to do with quality of life and our happiness." The drugs will be available to the men over 70 and will be handed out at special clinics from the 1st of December.

A man has to be taken to hospital after he became stuck to a toilet. Emergency services were called to a public toilet after a man found himself stuck. An ambulance crew were unable to free him so he was taken to hospital still attached to the seat. A doctor used a special chemical to free the man and the toilet was later returned. It appears that someone had left glue on the seat as a prank. 

A passenger on a French train had to be rescued from a train toilet after his arm became stuck. The man became trapped after he tried to fish his mobile phone out of the toilet bowl and his arm got stuck in the suction system. The high speed train was stopped for two hours to allow fireman to cut through the train's pipework. The man was eventually rescued from the train with the toilet still stuck on his arm. The fire brigade then had to saw through the toilet to remove it.

A drunk pony had to be rescued from a swimming pool after he ate too many fermented apples and fell into the water. The pony broke into a garden in Cornwall to get to the fruit trees. He gorged himself on the fermenting apples, getting himself "punch drunk" and then ended up in the swimming pool. The pony was later rescued by a team of firefighters who used a harness to pull him out.

An attempt to break the world record for the world's largest sandwich has failed because onlookers ate it. The 1,500 metre long sandwich was going to be filled with ostrich meat before being displayed in the park in Tehran. As the sandwich was being measured hungry spectators rushed forward and started eating it meaning that the exact length of the sandwich could not be verified for the world record attempt.

Cooks in Iran have assembled what could be the world's largest ostrich sandwich at a food festival in Tehran. 1500 cooks used 1,000kg of ostrich meat to make a 1,500m long sandwich which they hope will be large enough to earn a place in the Guinness Book of Records. It took two days to prepare the enormous sandwich which was created as part of an effort to promote Iran's ostrich farming business.

Romanian police have arrested a horse because they suspected it was drunk. The officers noticed the horse because the cart it was pulling looked out of control. They ran an alcohol test which came back positive and the horse was then arrested. It is thought the horse had been given alcohol before it was sold to make it look stronger and healthier.

This is interesting, it about a herd of elephants that pass through a hotel during their migration. The Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia was built right on the elephants migration route and rather than find another way around the elephants simply walk straight though. The herd of 10 elephants appear every November and take the same route every year to get to their favourite mango trees.

Two robbers had to leave half of their loot behind because they didn't have a big enough car to carry it away. The robbers could have escaped with £1 million when they hijacked a security van full of cash. Unfortunately when it came to fitting the loot in the car they were forced to leave half of it behind in the van. The van was later discovered with half the money still inside.

A women is Australia has been trapped inside her home by a large pig. The pig which is as big as a Shetland Pony won't let Caroline Hayes out of her house. Caroline and other neighbours had been feeding the pig which they named Bruce but he started to become aggressive when hungry. Animal rangers plan to catch him and take him to a piggery.

This giant ice penis was photographed by a man called Andy Rouse in Antarctica. The article that accompanies the picture gives assurances that it is a genuine picture rather than a photoshopped job. What do you think, giant ice penis or clever Photoshop work?

A confused Swedish woman checked herself in at Stockholm's Arlanda airport after misinterpreting instructions. The 78 year old lady checked in her suitcase and then climbed on the belt after it. She arrived in the baggage handling bay where she was rescued by surprised airport staff. The woman suffered no injuries and managed to get her flight on time. Perhaps this conveyor belt system could be a way of speeding up the check in process.

This rather curious cow managed to get her head stuck in a washing machine drum that was dumped in her field. RSPCA inspectors were alerted to the usual situation by a passer by and the cow was later released unharmed.

Police in Bristol who were called out to deal with an escaped alligator might have been relieved to find out that it was simply a toy. Roads were sealed off as they stalked the creature which was hiding in bushes. However, after 30 minutes emergency workers used a camera to zoom in on the reptile and found that it was a harmless stuffed toy.

A giant inflatable turd broke free of its moorings and brought down a power line when it escaped during a storm. The turd was a piece of modern art created by American artist Paul McCarthy. The work entitled Complex Shit was lifted by a sudden gust of wind during a storm and took off landing 200 yards away. I'm not too sure about the whole modern art thing, it looks like a pile of poo to me.

We all know that you can fined for carrying for carrying an offensive weapon such as a gun, knife or a gobstopper. Ok, maybe you weren't aware that a gobstopper could be considered an offensive weapon. It is apparently in Edinburgh where a man was fined £400 for carrying one in a sock. The man in question was found with a gobstopper the size of a snooker ball and when questioned said he needed it for protection because he had been attacked. Sheriff Kenneth McIver told him that, even though it was not in the same category as a knife or axe, it was capable of inflicting a nasty injury.

Two people in Japan were attacked and robbed by a vicious Winnie the Pooh. Pooh was actually a man called Masayuki Ishikawa who was out with his friends who were dressed as a mouse and a panther. Apparently he took offence to being stared at, approached the couple saying "What are you staring at?" and then robbed them. It later emerged he was wearing the Winne the Pooh costume because he had run out of clean clothes, obviously he has not heard of a washing machine.

When Hector the great dane started drooling and looking unwell, it was obvious there was something wrong with him, so his owner took him to the vet. It was only when, he was given an X-ray, however, that it emerged he has managed to swallow a 63cm stick. The stick was so long that it stretched over two thirds of the dogs body. It was later removed under anaesthetic and Hector appears to be fine despite the sticky situation.

A woman who mistakenly flushed 900 euros down the toilet managed to get it back after sewer workers were able to recover it. The money had been in her back pocket and slipped out into the toilet bowl. Not realising what had happened she flushed the toilet and then realised that the money was gone. She called the council and sewer workers used a mini camera to find the notes. The bank notes were returned to the lady and hung out to dry.

A lady from New York had a surprise when she opened her washing machine to find a 8ft python. The snake had apparently managed to climb up the pipes where it ended up among her washing. She called animal control who took the snake to New York Wild Animal Kingdom where it is recovering from its adventure.

Motorists in Doebriach in Austria had to wait for several hours after camels stopped traffic. The camels had escaped from a nearby circus and ended up wandering along a busy road. An eye witness said "I came out of a bend on the road and suddenly saw a load of camels strolling around. I could hardly believe my eyes."  The camels were eventually rounded up and returned to the circus.

Nasa has appealed to its employees for donations of urine. The urine is needed for space tests on the new Orion space capsule. The testers need 30 litres of urine everyday in order to conduct the tests because as the head of support systems says "you can't make fake urine".

A man in Connecticut who was being sought for questioning by police made their job easy for them when he crashed his truck into a police garage. Police were looking for the man in regard to a number of accidents that he had been involved in the previous day. They obviously didn't have to look very far. Not a very bright criminal.