Man jailed after shooting his testicles
A British man who accidentally shot himself in the testicles after drinking 15 pints of beer has been jailed for...
A British man who accidentally shot himself in the testicles after drinking 15 pints of beer has been jailed for...
Dogs in the German state of Bavaria can now blend in with the local Alpine scenery wearing the same traditional attire worn by their owners -- lederhosen.
Dogwear designer Hildegard Bergbauer, who also makes Tyrolean mountain hats and rainwear for canines, said the leather outfits were best suited for dachshunds and other small dogs but also looked good on poodles, spaniels and boxers.
"There are lederhosen for the dogs and Dirndls for the bitches," she said on Wednesday.
A Chinese woman found herself a divorcee after she hired a group of men to kill her husband's pet dog, state media said.
Xiao Fang, a housewife in eastern Nanjing city, took the unusual step as she was afraid the dog, a wolfhound, would make a mess of their newly furnished apartment, the Xinhua news agency reported on its website. She tried to send the dog away but it always returned, leading her to eventually hire four men to kill it while her husband was away on business, according to the agency. When her husband returned, he declared he could "no longer live under the same roof with a murderer" and decided that divorce was the only way out, Xinhua said.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California woman says she swallowed a live bullet and bit into a second round while eating a hotdog and that she has the X-rays to prove it.
Police said on Thursday they were investigating the bizarre incident the 31-year-old woman said happened at a Costco store in Irvine, California, about 47 miles (76 km) southeast of Los Angeles.
"She said she had swallowed one bullet and felt another in her mouth," Irvine police Lt. Jeff Love said. "She showed us the bullet and we took it as evidence. We had them cut up all the other hot dogs and found nothing in the buns."
A spokesman for Seattle-based Costco Wholesale said the company had no comment on the incident, which occurred on Sunday and was still being investigated.
The woman showed local television news an X-ray of her stomach with a bullet lodged in it.
Love said the Hebrew National brand hotdogs served at Costco were prepared under Kosher laws with a high standard of cleanliness, and were X-rayed before leaving the factory.
He said it appeared "highly unlikely" that a hot dog would leave the factory with an undetected bullet in it.
A man in America has cheated death after an accident with a nail gun left six nails embedded in his head.
Doctors at a hospital in Los Angeles feared that they would not be able to save the life of builder, Isidro Mejia.
Isidro was working on a building site in California when he fell from a roof and on to a co-worker who was using a nail gun.
The nail gun discharged, three nails penetrated Mejia's brain and one went into his spine below the base of his skull.
Another went through his face.
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Imitation is flattering, says designer Giorgio Armani, who has a fake Armani watch to prove it.
Armani said he bought the watch for $22 US in Shanghai. "It was an identical copy of an Emporio Armani watch," he said at a news conference Monday. The real timepiece costs many times as much.
"I know I have some stores in China - Giorgio Armani, Armani Fiori, Emporio Armani - that have nothing to do with me," said the designer, who was in China over the weekend to announce the opening of a store on Shanghai's trendy Bund.
Armani said the imitations can cause "confusion" among consumers.
"On the other hand, it's flattering to be copied. If you are copied, you are doing the right thing," he said with a smile.
Body piercing and tattoos make way -- the latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewellery.
Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewellery called "JewelEye" in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam.
The procedure involves inserting a 3.5 mm (0.13 inch) wide piece of specially developed jewellery -- the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart -- into the eye's mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of 500 to 1,000 euros (270 to 540 pounds).
MARYSVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A woman imprisoned for faking her daughter's leukemia to gain thousands of dollars in donations said she concocted the scheme to keep her husband from leaving.
Teresa Milbrandt told the Columbus Dispatch for a story in Sunday's editions that she regrets what she did, which included shaving her daughter Hannah's head and giving her sleeping pills to make it look like she was undergoing chemotherapy. She also made Hannah wear a protective mask and put her in counselling to prepare for death.
Holiday travellers are being advised to forget the fruitcake as carry-on luggage if they want to avoid delays when boarding planes over the holiday season.
The head of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority said Tuesday about 500,000 prohibited items have been intercepted at Canada's 89 airports during the past six months.
Jacques Duchesneau said the public still isn't aware of what is allowed on board.
He said a lot of scissors and Swiss Army knives are still being confiscated along with toy guns, ice skates and flammable liquids in aerosol cans.
Duchesneau noted even fruitcakes will be X-rayed because they're dense and could hide a weapon.
China's largest city plans to hound people sticking up illegal flyers with new software that repeatedly calls numbers placed on the ads, an official newspaper reported Friday.
The computer phone harassment is the latest tactic in the battle to curb unsightly ads that festoon walls, lampposts, phone booths and virtually every other public surface in the city.
Numbers will be called every two hours over the first two days with a message ordering the person whose phone it is to appear to pay a fine and remove the ads, the Shanghai Daily said.