Bizzare News
These stories may seem bizarre but believe it or not, they are actually real life stories!

Organ cut off by mistake
Bucharest: An elderly Romanian man mistook his penis for a chicken's neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it, the state Rompres news agency said on Monday.
It saiid Constantin Mocanu, 67, from a village near the town of Galati, went to his yard in his underwear to kill a noisy chicken keeping him awake at night.
"I confused it with the chicken's neck," said Mocanu, who was admitted to the emergency hospital in Galati. "I cut it and the dog rushed and ate it." - Reuters

Vibrator shuts down Aussie airport
Brisbane: Hundreds of airline passengers suffered disruption yesterday when a major regional airport was shut down for an hour after a humming and vibrating sex toy was mistaken for a bomb, police said.
The vibrator was dicovered at 9.15am by a security officer who checked out a suspicious package inside a rubbish bin at the terminal cafeteria of Mackay Airport in the northeastern state of Queensland, a police spokesmoan said.
The terminal was evacuated immediately while passengers who had just arrived from a flight, check-in-staff, cafeteria employees and hire car personnel were all forced to leave.
Cafeteria manager Lynne Bryant said her staff had been cleaning tables then they noticed a strange humming noise coming from the rubbish bin.
"We called security and next minute everybody was being evacuated while they checked it out." - AFP

Collegeee closes due to fear of ghost
New Delhi: Fear of ghost who knocks on doors and wafts the scent of aftershave lotion along corridors has forced a prestigious college for statisticians in the Indian capital to close.
Students of the Indian Statistical Institute sid the ghost of a dead classmate had knocked on doors, jostled them on staricases and left traces of aftershave lotion and cigarette smoke, the Times of India said.
Students linked the aftershave aroma to a first-year student who died last month of a rare heart condition.
"A fear psychosis had gripped some students. We thought it was best to allow them to go home if they wanted to," Rajeev Karandikar, head of the institute, said. - Reuters

'Crushed' to death
ADDIS ABABA: An enraged Ethiopian mother of five will be tried for the murder of her husband who died after she crushed his testicles in a fight, police told the state-run Ethiopian News Agency.
Police said the man was so embarassed after the incident that he declined to seek treatment for the injury and died days later.
"Following a disagreement over the husband's spending habits, his wife refused to give him his dinner and also decided to sleep alone," said a police spokesman in the western region of Wellega.
"In the melee that followed, the wife grabbed and twisted his testicles causing serious damage." - Reuters

High seas terror hoax lands woman in jail
HONOLULU: A Southern California woman was sentenced in a US District Court on Monday to two years in federal prison for commiting a high seas terror hoax that she had hoped would cut short a vacation cruise with her parents and return her to her boyfriend.
Kelley Marie Ferguson, 20, of Laguna Hills, California, will begin serving her sentence in six weeks, said Assistant US Attorney Ken Sorenson.
Ferguson had been accused of writing threatening notes on April 22 and 23 while aboard Royal Caribbean's Legend of the Seas, which was sailing to Hila, Hawaii, during a 10-day cruise out of Ensenada, Mexico.
The notes said "all Americanos would die if the cruise ship and 2,400 crew and passengers docked at a US port.
The ship was diverted to Oahu and searched for biological, chemical, radiology and explosive materials.
While interviewing people on board, Ferguson, who was travelling with her parents and siblings, confessed to writing the notes, saying she hoped the letter would bring an early end to the trip - Reuters

Bank robber waited to be arrested
TAIPEI: A Taiwanese man yesterday robbed a bank with a toy gun, but waited to be arrested instead of running away, claiming he wanted to be jailed to avoid paying a loan shark, police said.
When police arrived at the bank, they said they found 45-year-old Chiang Tu-cheng sitting on a chair holding T$230,000 from the bank in the southern city of Chiayi.
Police said Chiang told them he did not mean to rob the bank, but he wanted police to arrest him so he did not have to face the loan shark.
But police doubted his claim.
"If we had not arrived so soon, perhaps he would have grabbed the money and run away," said a polic officer. - AP

Oklahoma highway blocked by 800 piglets
OKLAHOMA CITY: Interstate 40, the main east-west highway in Oklahoma, was closed for several hours on Teusday when about 800 piglets spilled on to the road after the truck transporting them over-turned, police said on Friday.
Several pigs were killed when their vented livestock truck over-turned just east of here.
And the pigs, all of which were under a year old, had little idea what to do with their first taste of freedom.
The freeway was closed in both directions as state troopers, firemen and ambulance workers doubled as farm hands in a bid to prevent the pigs from running amok in the suburbs of this city and return them to a pig farm, police said.
Some of the pigs plunged to their deaths when they jumped off a highway bridge near the wreckage as law enforcement official were closing in for their capture.
James Watson, an Oklahoma state trooper, said the situation would have been much worse if the pigs had been adults.
"If these had been full-grown hogs, they would have gone ballistic," Watson said. "We would had to shoot them."
Several motorists who stopped at the scene asked if they could take home a pig or two in their pickup trucks, Watson said.
He added he thinks all of the surviving pigs were captured and being held at a livestock pen here. - Reuters

Woman swallows fork
JERUSALEM: There was an Israeli woman who swallowed a flying bug, which wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed a fork, trying to catch the bug that flew into her mouth while she was cleaning her house.
Doctors removed the fork. The insext had already been digested. - Reuters

'Wizard' sets home on fire
MADRID: A woman set her Madrid home on fire on Wednesday as she cooked up a potion in an attempt to imitate the fictional wizard Harry Potter, emergency services said.
The 21-year-old was rescued by firemen and treated for minor injuries, but half of her home was destroyed. - Reuters

'Occasional smack okay'
LAUSANNE: Parents have only a limited right to smack their children to punish them, Switzerland's cour ruled.
The Swiss supreme court was ruling on an appeal from the father of two children who lodged a criminal complaint against his estranged wife's new partner. - AP

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