Keep it in the Family

Sweden – Police in Koping, Sweden, said a woman was caught using a fishing line to cheat a bottle deposit machine at a supermarket while her young son shoplifted..

Full story : News Daily/UPI

Bad Hair Day

PARMA, Ohio – A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been suspended from school…the school said the hair was a distraction for other students….

Full Story:AP

Please Sir , or was that Miss

TOKYO – A Japanese man was arrested for trespassing this week after turning up at a high school dressed in a girl’s uniform and a long wig, local police said….

Full story: Reuters

That’ll be more pies please, postie

SYDNEY – Australia’s postal service has increased the maximum weight for mailmen and women by 15 kg (33 pounds) in an attempt to attract more “posties”, local media reported on Tuesday….

Full Story : Reuters

Not a romantic spark then !

BERLIN – A virulent anti-smoker in Germany was so angry when his girlfriend lit up he emptied a fire extinguisher to put out the cigarette, caking her and their apartment in powder…..

Full story : Reuters

And this isn’t your living space ….

An estate agent who took a prospective buyer to view a house in central England found the owner hanging dead in a closet ……

Full story : Reuters

You’d have thought people would have learnt by now !!

A man who joked the case he was carrying contained a machine gun was marched off a Freedom Air flight at Hamilton Airport yesterday…..

Full Story : Stuff

Helloooowwwwwww !!!!

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A lawyer has been charged with assault for shaking a federal prosecutor’s hand so hard, authorities said, that it injured her shoulder……

Full Story : AP/Miami Herald

This really isn’t funny ……but

London – A hearse overturned when the horses pulling it to a south London cemetery stampeded, dragging the carriage and coffin past appalled relatives and sending floral tributes flying……

Full Story : Reuters

A Man’s Home is his Haystack

LONDON – A farmer built an entire mock castle behind a screen of hay bales and lived there concealed for four years to evade planning regulations, officials said on Friday — but it may be torn down anyway.

Full story:Yahoo/Reuters