Odd Spot

[kazthorn]

Friday August 1, 2008

Saudi Arabia's religious police have banned selling cats and dogs or exersising them in public in the capital, Riyadh, because men were using the animals to make passes at women. The ban follows an old edict issued by the supreme council of Saudi scholars.

Monday July 28, 2008

Authorities evacuated the airport terminal in Vladivostok, in Russia's far east, after a flight arriving from Seoul set off a radiation alarm. The alarm was called off when security officials pinpointed the source - a woman who had just received radiation therapy.

Friday July 25, 2008

A Chinese couple received a police caution for trying to teach their dog to drive. Police at Liunan reportedly spotted a car driving too slowly on a local expressway. As they pulled in behind the car, officers saw a poodle with its front legs on the steering wheel and its rear legs on the driver.

This must be the same dog in charge of security at the Olympic Stadium.

Thursday July 24, 2008

An Indian man who took an impersonator to court to get a divorce faces legal action after his real wife found out.

Saturday July 19, 2008

Activists in San Francisco have secured the 12,000 votes needed to hold a ballot in November to decide whether to mock US President George Bush by renaming a Californian sewage plant in his honour. In 2006, 58% of Bay area voters supported an initiative to impeach Mr Bush.

Friday July 4, 2008

A New Zealand doctor has apologised for referring 20 men for prostate investigations when the trouble was at the tip of his own finger. An injury meant the Dunedin GP had to use his left hand for the examinations, but did not realise he had a small skin growth on his index finger.

I bet Mike and Nutty (among others) are cringing at this one .
Wednesday July 2, 2008

Police in Maryland, US, are looking for a man who attacked a store clerk with a banana during an attempted robbery. When the clerk refused to give him money, he grabbed a banana and began hitting the store worker. When the clerk pulled out a knife, the man with the banana split.

Friday June 27, 2008

A surge in drugs and mobile phones in a Brazilian prison mystified officials, until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne. Inmates had bypassed the prison's high-tech security using carrier pigeons to smuggle in goods using pouches on their backs.

I'll post some more later...

[TheGuru]

Originally Posted by kazthorn

Friday July 4, 2008

A New Zealand doctor has apologised for referring 20 men for prostate investigations when the trouble was at the tip of his own finger. An injury meant the Dunedin GP had to use his left hand for the examinations, but did not realise he had a small skin growth on his index finger.

I bet Mike and Nutty (among others) are cringing at this one .

No Way

[Nutty_ZA]

Originally Posted by KazThorn

Friday July 4, 2008

A New Zealand doctor has apologised for referring 20 men for prostate investigations when the trouble was at the tip of his own finger. An injury meant the Dunedin GP had to use his left hand for the examinations, but did not realise he had a small skin growth on his index finger.

I bet Mike and Nutty (among others) are cringing at this one .

I am, I am...
And I turn 40 next year... that's when you're supposed to go

I beleive they check your prostate these days just by doing a Blood Test

[InLove]

Originally Posted by Nutty_ZA

I beleive they check your prostate these days just by doing a Blood Test

You hope

[kazthorn]

Originally Posted by InLove

You hope

LOL

[kazthorn]

The next installment...


Wednesday August 6, 2008

Dutch dairy farmers are pampering their cows with massages and comfy mattresses - some even get water beds - to produce better tasting milk. ''You can taste the difference in the milk of a happy cow, it tastes sweeter,'' farmer Nancy Vermeer said.



Tuesday August 5, 2008

A pizza restaurant in China has confused customers by using banana and peach signs on the gents and ladies toilet doors. The fruity markings were noticed by officials in Zhengzhou city, in central China. All 12 customers watched by officials hesitated before going inside.



Monday August 4, 2008

A former Chinese government official has been sentenced to death after a leaky toilet led police to 22.3 million yuan (A$3.5 million) he'd collected in bribes. Police called to investigate a leak from a vacant apartment, found eight soaked boxes containing the cash.
Friday June 13, 2008

A firefighter in Japan lost his job after officials found out he had been driving ambulances and fire trucks for more than 25 years without a driver's licence. The man, in his 40s, had been bringing in his father's licence to show an inspector. He had hidden the photo with his fingers.
Tuesday June 10, 2008

An Israeli rabbi has declared giraffe to be kosher, although observant Jews are unlikely to clamour for such exotic food. It is considered ritually pure because it has a cloven hoof and chews the cud, and its milk forms curds. "Indeed, the giraffe is kosher for eating," the rabbi says.

I'm not Jewish but I'll pass all the same .
Friday June 6, 2008

Swiss scientists have found that ignorant flies live longer. A group of flies was left in a natural state while another had its intelligence boosted by Pavlovian methods. The former lived longer, probably because the increase in neural activity weakened the latter's life-support systems.

More scientists with too much time on their hands .
Thursday June 5, 2008

The US designer of the Pringles potato chip tube was so proud of it that some of his ashes have been popped in one of the tall cylinders and buried. Fredric Baur died last month aged 89. He was granted a patent for the Pringles container and the method of packing the curved chips in 1970.



Wednesday June 4, 2008

A four-year-old boy is in rehab in Taiwan after he became addicted to smoking his father's cigars. The father, of Gaoxiong, started taking his sons to a rehabilitation centre after catching them. The boys said they did it because they thought their father looked "cool".



Tuesday June 3, 2008

A British holidaymaker was reportedly awarded compensation by a court because there were too many German tourists at his hotel. David Barnish paid $8000 for a resort holiday in Greece, but his family could not take part in activities because they were organised in German.

[TheGuru]

Originally Posted by kazthorn

Tuesday June 3, 2008

A British holidaymaker was reportedly awarded compensation by a court because there were too many German tourists at his hotel. David Barnish paid $8000 for a resort holiday in Greece, but his family could not take part in activities because they were organised in German.

Quite right too