by
lee954
@ 13 Jan. 2007 - 06:52:06
A woman flying first class to New York in a redesigned Boeing 747 complained to British Airways that the lavatory had a window. She demanded that it be covered by a blind.
An Italian court ordered a divorced father to continue to keep his estranged son until he finds a job. The son, aged 30, who has a law degree, receives £500 a month.
Police told a Cardiff court that a boy of 11 had stolen hundreds of cars since the age of nine - almost one a day. In some cars he drove standing up to see over the steering wheel.
A priest near Barcelona has put a jamming device in his church to stop worshippers using mobile phones during Mass.
A classic car collector in San Francisco paid £9,000 for a 1950's Buick. He gave the money to a tramp who had been living in the car.
Japanese delegates going to a conference on the state of railways travelled by taxi from London to Cardiff when their train was cancelled.
The US Supreme Court ordered Kenneth Curtis, of SOuth Carolina, to find a different line of work when he sold his urine over the internet to people facing drug tests at work.
A firm is selling software to make computers talk with an Australian accent.
Taxi drivers in Amsterdam have started installing condom machines in the back of their cabs.
An executive at Sony Pictures was suspended after he made up a quote by a non-existent critic on a local paper in Connecticut to advertise a film. His job title was director of creative advertising.
An actor who poses with a sword as a gladiator for tourists at the Colosseum in Rome faces jail after being charged with bearing arms illegally.
A Norfolk chip shop owner is offering a reward for help in catching two armed robbers who attacked his staff: two portions of fish and chips a week for life.
Thieves stole a gold Rolex watch worth £40,000 and had it encrusted with diamonds for resale. When it was seized in a police raid, and returned to its owner, it was worth £200,000.
A thief in Blackwood, near Caerphilly, stole a bus and drove it for two hours, picking up passengers, before disappearing with about £150 in takings.
A toymaker in Kent has produced a scale model of a white Ford Transit van honouring the new social stereotype, "White Van Man". The replica includes fake grime with the legend, "I wish my bird was as dirty as this van".
After years of turning a blind eye, Tennessee University closed down a house where students gambled on cockfighting and hired homeless men to box. The authorities suddenly discovered that the students were hiring a stripper at least once a week.
Rats and mice are among a group of animals to be given full European citizenship, complete with passports to allow them to travel abroad without going into quarantine. Ferrets were refused citizenship.
Firemen had to rescue a 25-year-old man from a rubbish chute in a block of flats in Stockholm, Sweden. He had climbed in to retrieve a favourite old sweater thrown away by his wife.
The Latvian government spends more on food for its guard dogs (£1,576 a year each) than it does on its soldiers (£924). An official said: "No one makes dog food in Latvia so we have to import it."
The University of California suspended its course on male sexuality after students were taken to watch their professor have sex at a strip club.
Ninety members of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the oldest in Russia, were removed from a flight to Los Angeles because they were rowdy and refused to sit down.
The mother of Miss America complained that contest organisers sent her daughter a £2,000 bill for the celebration party after her crowning.
Thomas Mitchell, 54, was convicted in Texas of shooting his girlfriend three times after she said 'New Jersey'. He suffers from an irrational hatred for the sound of certain words.
A Lisbon firm recalled 300,000 bottles of red wine because the image of a bearded man on the label was reminiscent of Osama bin Laden.
A man was locked in a Belgian police cell without food or water for three days. Arresting officers had forgotten about him.
Traffic wardens in Bath park their own cars illegally without collecting fines. They warn colleagues by leaving their police pass numbers on the dashboard.
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints of the Last Days, in Salt Lake City, paid £200,000 compensation to two women who were told Jesus would appear in the flesh. The church was found to be in breach of contract.
Giorgio Valentinuzzi is selling fog at £1.30 from his home village Rivignano. He got the idea after being told it was the wettest in Italy.
An Isle of Wight pensioner who dialled 999 to say that someone was drilling a hole in the wall of her house had been confused by the noise of her electric toothbrush.
Three thousand prisoners and ex-prisoners have signed up to use a website, www.convictsReunited.co.uk set up to help them stay in touch.
Foreign nurses recruited by Oxford Radcliff Hospitals NHS Trust are being shown Fawlty Towers and the Two Ronnies to demonstrate to them how British patients are likely to use humour.
