He may well just be doing it because he can or because he dislikes banks , but whatever the reason its a fair guess that Dalton Chiscolm is enjoying himself at the moment – he is currently suing the Bank of America for a record 1748 billion trillion dollars or in real money

$ 17,840,000,000,000,000,000,000 ( + an additional $200m )

The reason he gives , not that he really needs to , is that he received what he considered bad customer service. The judge in New york hearing the case , Denny Chin , is the same judge who recently sentenced Madoff. He has given Chiscolm till 23 October to justify the size of the claim or it will be dismissed

Chen called the lawsuit incomprehensible !! – not really if you dislike banks enough and you never know , the Bank of America may settle

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Somehow he manged to esacpe , and was next spotted floating down a local river  , still quite happily sitting on his truck , some tweleve kilometres ( just under eight miles ) away near Fort St John , British Columbia , apparently oblivious to his surroundings.

Apparently , he was very excited to see the local police , according to the RCMP , and was duly rescued and returned to very surprised and relieved parents . Perhaps most important from his point of view  was that the truck was also rescued unharmed 

All that was missing was a fireman and a builder really !

The intent was to have the president , Rupiah Banda , sitting in the opulant grounds of his state house , surrounded by luscious looking plants and shrubbery.

This he was , but unfortunately he was also positioned underneath a bunch of trees when a monkey , playing in the branches above him , suddenly decided to relieve itself and urinate all over him , much to everyone's amusement .

There are probably numerous morals to be drawn from this , perhaps the most obvious being about sitting under trees where monkeys play and live .

The less obvious one may be that its actually quite a subliminal way of getting people to feel sorry for you , which has to be a good idea for any politician , even a wet one !

'French workers held the boss of their factory hostage as they sought to renegotiate redundancy packages. It is the second time a boss has been held hostage in France recently over lay-offs. Others have merely been pelted with eggs'

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The survey by a very serious sounding German company , The Institute of Condom Consulting , approached 10500 men in 25 different countries , over an eighth month period ,asking them to measure the size of their penis and enter the result ( anonymously  ! ) in a database , which then came up with these results.

Its not entirely clear why this survey was done , apparently for educational purposes , or possibly to draw attention to this company's great ongoing project that they are developing , a spray on condom , which they describe as being  a bit like a  car wash  !

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Hjartarson is founder and owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which offers visitors from around the world a close-up look at the long and the short of the male reproductive organ.

His collection, which began in 1974 with a single bull’s penis that looked something like a riding crop, now boasts 261 preserved members from 90 species……

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