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• Police in Lincoln are baffled after finding thousands of pounds of cut up money dumped in bins. The money has been cut into tiny pieces and is said to be beyond repair.

A man in Chicago has ordered a custom made beer can coffin. However, he has no plans to use the coffin just yet and instead threw a party for his friends using the coffin as a giant beer cooler.

A man in Crowley was arrested after he tried to cash a cheque for $360 billion. He had said the cheque had been given to him by his girlfriends mother so that he could start a record business. Surprisingly staff at the bank were a little suspicious and called the lady who had supposedly written the cheque. Also surprisingly she had no knowledge of writing the cheque. Now I think I might recall writing a cheque for $360 billion. Perhaps if he was trying to get away with it, he should have chosen to cash a cheque for a slightly smaller amount.

A luxury watch with a price tag of £150,000 has sold out within 48 hours of going on sale. That might not seem surprising but the watch is unusual because it doesn't tell the time. It has a crocodile skin strap and is made from steel salvaged from the wreck of the titanic encrusted with sapphires. The face is divided into two sections which signify day and night. It is described by the manufacturer as “world unique - a watch that does not tell the time” and the chief executive of the company says “Anyone can buy a watch that shows time, but only a discerning customer can buy one that doesn’t.” Call me old fashioned I think I will stick with a cheaper watch that tell the time.

Actually the headline is a little misleading; it’s actually the farmer that does the tai chi and not the cows themselves. Rob Tavener says that practising tai chi in front of his cows relaxes them and increases milk production. Apparently if he is relaxed and happy, then so are his cows. He says “Animals are very receptive to human moods and tai chi is all about leaving your problems behind and getting into a better zone,” he said. “The happier I am, the happier the cows are. And the happier they are, the more milk they produce.” I’m not convinced.

A judge from New York is suing the city for $1 million after he slipped and fell in his own courtroom. Judge Battaglia broke his knee in the accident and is accusing the city of "negligently using a mop bucket and wringer" and "negligently using a mop and soapy water" to create a "dangerous and hazardous traplike condition".

One Italian man decided to protest against the country’s politicians in a rather novel manner. He ate his ballot paper rather than using it to vote and said Italian policies “are crap”. He has now been charged with destroying election materials.

If you are driving whilst drunk I would have thought the last place you wanted to go was a police station. One woman in Oregon, however, who worked at the police station as a cleaner did just that. Not surprisingly she was given a blood alcohol test and found to be over the limit.