WEIRD BUT TRUE
By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services
Posted: 3:46 am
July 24, 2008
This was the worst getaway ever.
Three men stole a recliner from a Goodwill store in Cookeville, Tenn., threw it in the back of their pickup and tried to speed off, but the vehicle was out of gas and it stalled in the parking lot.
Cops found the truck, the recliner and the jerks in the midst of their own personal gas crisis.
Despite the ritual, this witch was not lucky at all.
A woman performing a Wiccan good-luck ceremony in Indiana accidentally thrust a sword through her foot.
She was aiming the blade in the ground to give thanks for a recent run of good fortune.
Katherine Gunther was hospitalized. Luckily, she had insurance.
British funnyman John Cleese made a career monkeying around on "Monty Python," so he says it was great honor to have a lemur named after him.
"I've had a species named after me. I would rather have that than a knighthood or peerage," he said.
The 68-year-old declined an Order of the British Empire in 1996.
Helga has two mommies - or is it a mommy and a daddy?
A German court ruled that a transsexual man seeking to be recognized as a woman wouldn't first have to divorce his wife.
The court said forcing someone to divorce is a violation of a person's basic rights.
Just don't expect them to solve crimes.
Romania has been using cardboard-cutout highway cops to slow speed demons.
The program has been so successful, it's being expanded it to include cardboard police cars.
Occasionally, real cops take the place of the cutouts to snare speeders who think they're wise to the tactic.
