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Thursday 29 July 2010

A Whale of a Time

A couple of middle-aged South African sailors were pootling around the coast off Cape Town in a 33ft yacht when a rare 40-tonne southern right whale leaped out of the water and crashed down onto their boat, flattening the mast. According to some reports, boats in the area had been harassing the whale, but wildlife experts said they had seen other examples of this uncharacteristic behaviour in recent weeks, for reasons they could not explain.

Thursday 29 July 2010

A Fur Old Price

A Coronation Street fan has paid £844 at auction for the ashes of Frisky – the cat who appeared in the opening sequence of more than 1,000 episodes of the soap, crouched on the roof of Jack Duckworth’s pigeon loft. Frisky, who made his first appearance in 1990, died in 2000, aged 14.

Thursday 29 July 2010

Separate your Colours from your Reptiles

A woman in Exeter received a nasty shock when she opened up her washing machine and found a five-foot-long snake curled up on her laundry. “I took it to be part of a pair of jeans – then I wondered if it was a toy snake. But then it poked its tongue out at me,” said Wendy Foley. The serpent was later identified as a non-venomous corn snake. It’s unclear where it came from, or how it survived the wash cycle.

Thursday 29 July 2010

On the Ball

Two armed robbers escaped from a jail in Argentina after noticing that the “guard” in the watchtower was just a football wearing an officer’s cap. Officials later admitted that, owing to staff shortages, they had only been able to man two of the 15 lookout points. So they created the dummy, which they named Wilson after the volleyball that Tom Hanks befriends in the film Cast Away.

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Mars Attacks

A Bosnian man whose house has been hit six times by meteorites reckons he is being targeted by aliens. The rocks have fallen repeatedly on Radivoje Lajic’s house since 2007, forcing him to have his roof strengthened. “The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit six times has to be deliberate,” he said.

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Ronaldo’s Baby

The mother of Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo’s baby is an American waitress with whom he had a one-night stand, it was claimed this week. According to The Daily Mirror, Ronaldo (above) was in Los Angeles when he strutted into a restaurant and spotted the woman. A friend allegedly told the paper: “Ronni looked the girl in the eye and said: ‘Me, you, f*** f***.’”  She tracked him down after the baby was born, and a DNA test proved paternity.

Wednesday 21 July 2010

A Rotten Flight

A US Airways flight from Atlanta was grounded when hundreds of maggots began pouring out of an overhead locker. With passengers refusing to take their seats, the pilot was left with no option but to radio in an emergency, and return to gate. The airline later blamed spoiled meat in hand luggage for the maggot invasion.

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Name Changing

A new trawl through the birth records has revealed that 20 babies born in Britain since the Second World War have been named Adolf. In the century before the war, there were 320 Adolfs. The research also revealed some unusual trends, with 10 babies in Lancashire in the 19th century named Fish Fish, and one registered with the full name Fish Fish Fish. 

Thursday 15 July 2010

Street Talk

US hip-hop star Snoop Dogg is in talks to appear on Coronation Street. The 38-year-old rapper told fans last week that he has been a Corrie fan for 11 years, and has asked his agent to negotiate him a cameo role. “It would be perfect for me to be on the show,” he said. “I love the whole dynamic. It is my world.” 

Thursday 15 July 2010

Don’t Forget to Flush

Undertakers in Belgium have come up with a cheaper, greener way of disposing of dead bodies: dissolving them in a caustic solution and flushing the resulting green-brown liquid down the drain (white ash from the bones being first returned to next of kin). The EU commission is now researching whether the liquid can safely enter the country’s sewage system.

Thursday 15 July 2010

Hot News

Eight staff members from one of Italy’s largest estate agencies have been sent to hospital after getting their feet burnt. They had been walking on burning coals as part of a “motivation day” designed to get employees to “over­come their fears and meet challenges”. Alessandro Di Priamo, the “performance coach” in charge of the fire walk, said that he only realised a hot-burning variety of charcoal had mistakenly been used after doing a test walk himself. “It was too much,” he said.

Thursday 15 July 2010

Iron Out your Problems

A 29-year-old man who held his mother hostage at gunpoint for six hours because she refused to do his ironing has been arrested and charged with kid­napping. Police say that Robert Tyrrell Jr, who lives with his parents in Georgia in the US, had made it clear to his mother that ironing was “woman’s work”.

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