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A Chilean prostitute raised $4,000 for a national charity by auctioning 27 hours of sex. The money was raised during a two day campaign which is similar to Comic Relief. It will go to help poor and disabled children.

Drivers in Thailand would be forced to stop their cars when the national anthem is played if a new law is brought into force. The law is being proposed by the government who think it would help to boost patriotism. A panel is currently reviewing the idea although some members of the Thai parliament have commented that it would be chaotic if the law was passed.

These signs have been launched in an attempt to stop Eastern European immigrants from taking fish from rivers and lakes. Fish such as carp and pike are a traditional Christmas dish in Poland and officials fear that there will be increase in fish being killed in the run up to Christmas. They follow similar signs that were posted in order to stop people eating the swans.

England might have played very badly against Croatia the other day but many Croatian’s found the national anthem more entertaining than the game. British opera singer Tony Henry sung the Croatian national anthem but managed to mispronounce a word giving it a very different meaning. Instead of singing You know my dear how we love your mountains Henry instead sang "My dear, my penis is a mountain" which greatly amused the Croatian crowd.

Some people do get married in strange places but this has got to be one of the strangest I have come across. Cyndi LaRose and Joseph David Smith decided to get married in The Honey Dew Doughnut shop in North Kingston, Rhode Island. They plan to spend their honeymoon in a casino.

Police in southern Ohio were called out to reports of a lion attacking vehicles. The lion had escaped from its pen and although tame caused a bit of surprise. The owner was called and was eventually able to get the lion called Lambert back into its cage.

An initiative to cut down on drink drivers in California has been rewarding sober drivers with a free turkey. The initiative is part of a road safety campaign in the run up to Thanksgiving weekend in the US.

Some of the early episodes of Sesame Street which were made in 1969 have been released on DVD. Unfortunately though these episodes have been deemed unsuitable for children and carry the warning "Sesame Street: Old School is adults only". The older episodes are now considered unsuitable because in one episode Cookie Monster holds a pipe which he later eats. However, the biggest problem is that Oscar the Grouch is considered to be too miserable for today’s children. How bizarre.

A man in Kentucky tried to rob an ice cream store with a stapler. He flashed the stapler at an employee before making his get away with $175. He was later arrested and police recovered a stapler, a ski mask and the money. It is still not clear whether he planned to staple the assistant to the counter or to use the stapler as a blunt instrument.

A cook in China poisoned himself and five other people when he put rat poison in the soup instead of herbs. Chen Ruyan had a business selling rat poison but had been storing the chemicals in his kitchen. He grabbed the poison by mistake thinking it was flour. Unfortunately the mistake proved fatal.

When a driver for stopped for a bite to eat at a McDonalds restaurant, eight cows escaped from the trailer of his truck. The cows, obviously not very happy at being so close to a McDonalds, naturally stampeded towards it, to get their revenge. The cows were eventually rounded up after about two hours.

After a groom turned up at his wedding drunk his bride married his brother instead. The groom had turned up drunk and misbehaved with guests upsetting the bride’s family who chased him away. Luckily the groom’s younger brother was on hand to take his place and the wedding still went ahead.

An Indian man has married a dog in the hope it will help lift a curse. He believes he has been cursed after he stoned two dogs to death around 20 years ago. After he killed the dogs he lost the hearing in one ear and his legs and hands were paralysed.

A German man stopped to fill his car up at a petrol station but then forgot about it and walked home. After the car had been there for around an hour a member of staff became suspicious and alerted the police. Officers then contacted the man who immediately came back to collect his car.

A 70 year old man was arrested after he admitted robbing a bank in order to solve his financial problems. Donald Cesare used a 50 year old hand gun to rob the First National Bank in Millcreek Township, Pennsylvania. He had no criminal record and when he was tracked down by police he apologised for the robbery.

A man in Texas who calls himself the Texas Snake Man has broken a world record by spending 45 minutes in a bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes. The snakes had not been defanged and still contained their venom. He also set another world record last year by holding 10 rattlesnakes by their tails in his mouth at the same time. He hopes to break this world record with an attempt to try it with 11. Crazy.

A beach near Amsterdam was covered with bananas after six containers fell off of a cargo ship during a storm. The bananas were washed up on two Dutch North Sea islands last week. The locals are now wondering what to do with them. Some suggestions include sending them to nearby zoos.

A Mum who thought she had booked a gorillagram for her teenage sons birthday was left rather embarrassed when it turned out she had actually booked a stripper. The birthday surprise turned up at the boys school dressed as a policewoman. She then proceeded to spank the boy before asking him to rub cream over her body. It was at this point that a teacher decided to call an end to the show.

A man from Muncie, Indiana who picked up a parcel of baby timber rattlesnakes from the post office and took it home on a bus is facing charges. He is likely to be charged with possessing an endangered species and transportation of a dangerous reptile without a permit.

A crocodile that attacked fishermen ended up spending the night in a police cell. The crocodile had attacked fishermen in a remote Australian mining village. Police and wildlife officers decided it was best to hold the crocodile in a cell until it could be safely moved to a crocodile farm.

A police station in Paignton in Devon had to be evacuated after a member of the public left a hand grenade on the front desk. The man had found the hand grenade on an allotment and decided he should hand it into the police station. Although the man was trying to be helpful a spokesman for the police said they would have preferred him to leave it where he had found it.

I read this article about these photos of a strange creature. Some people think it’s a bear, others think it’s Bigfoot. I think it looks a big like a large ape. What do you think?

A policeman in Sussex suffered four broken ribs and a punctured lung after being attacked by a herd of cows. He was walking his dog on the South Downs when a cow butted him in the back pushing him to the ground. The other cows in the herd also started to attack him. Mr Poole escaped when the cows were distracted by his dog running away. The RSPCA warned that although cow attacks are rare, they can become aggressive when protecting their young.