| Wednesday September 10th 2003 |
Man
mails himself to Texas. A man has shipped himself as air cargo from
New York to Texas in a scheme to save money.
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| Monday September 8th 2003 |
Music
'instils religious feelings'. People who experience a sense of
spirituality in church may be reacting to the extreme bass sound
produced by some organ pipes.
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| Tuesday September 2nd 2003 |
Banker
stole to buy parrots. A financial advisor who stole £2m from
customers and used the money to buy rare parrots has been jailed for
nine years.
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| Monday September 1st 2003 |
US pizza man's death riddle.
The FBI is investigating the death of a pizza delivery man who said he
had been forced to rob a bank by someone who had strapped a bomb to his
chest.
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| Friday August 22nd 2003 |
Vietnamese
man 'back from dead'. Hospital officials in Vietnam say an elderly
man declared dead by doctors has been found alive after spending a night
in a hospital morgue.
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| Thursday August 21st 2003 |
Earache
Brazilian loses more than hearing. A man in Brazil who expected
surgery on his ear, mishears his name and ends up with a vasectomy.
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| Friday August 15th 2003 |
Sunbather
killed by falling car. A holidaymaker sunbathing on a beach has been
crushed to death when a motorist reversed her car through a sea wall.
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| Monday August 4th 2003 |
Man
killed in miniature train crash. A man was fatally injured when a
miniature train he was driving collided with a car in Dymchurch, Kent.
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| Monday August 4th 2003 |
Thieves
steal family's entire home. A family in California were shocked at
the extent of a robbery at their country home - the whole house had been
taken, including a 10,000 litre water tank.
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| Monday August 4th 2003 |
Stones'
fans throw drugs onstage - Keith Richards not complaining. Yeah,
some of it's pretty good," he tells Q magazine.
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| Monday August 4th 2003 |
Power
from blood could lead to 'human batteries'. Researchers in Japan
are developing a method of drawing power from blood glucose, mimicking
the way the body generates energy from food.
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| Monday August 4th 2003 |
Suicide
by ballpoint? How the pen was almost mightier than the sword. A 44
year old man tried to kill himself by inserting stationery into his
brain.
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| Monday August 4th 2003 |
Flying
jellyfish over Northamptonshire. A man claims to have spotted
"2 flying jellyfish" over his home in Daventry, Northants.
" They were like two brown jellyfish in the sky, they looked like
they were swimming and I had not taken any drugs. "
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| Monday August 4th 2003 |
Man
Buys second-hand sofa, finds 3 pounds of dynamite down the back of it.
The man alerted authorities in the western town of Hagen after finding
seven suspicious blocks in the sofa's armrests.
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| Monday August 4th 2003 |
Car
Crash Reveals Racist Church. A car crash in a town near New Orleans
revealed that a building thought to be a home improvement business was
actually a white supremacist church, police said on Friday.
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