Three teenagers may be on the hook for a hefty fine if a court decides that their festive firecrackers outside an eastern German farm scared the libido right out of an ostrich named Gustav.
Rico Gabel, a farmer in Lohsa, northeast of Dresden, is claiming $6,450 in damages for the alleged antics of the three youths, ages 17-18, between Dec. 27 and 29, 2005.
According to his lawsuit, the farmer claims that fireworks set off by the boys made the previously lustful Gustav both apathetic and depressed, and thus unable to perform for a half-a-year with his two female breeding partners.
Don't Panic! Lighten Up!
Princely pranksters Wills and Harry have been accused of recording a bogus message on the Queen's answerphone.
The pair were asked for help by their regal gran when she was baffled by the technology.
But she was reported to be mortified when she heard the end result.
Their message said: "Hey wassup! This is Liz. Sorry I'm away from the throne."
The recording continued: "For a hotline to Philip, press one. For Charles, press two. And for the corgis, press three."
The pair were asked for help by their regal gran when she was baffled by the technology.
But she was reported to be mortified when she heard the end result.
Their message said: "Hey wassup! This is Liz. Sorry I'm away from the throne."
The recording continued: "For a hotline to Philip, press one. For Charles, press two. And for the corgis, press three."
The fact that female wasp spiders have numerous sexual contacts is something which their male partners cannot prevent. What they can do, however, is ensure that no offspring ensue from these tête à têtes with their rivals: the male spiders simply place a chastity belt on their partner while copulating. The tip of their genital breaks off during intercourse, blocking the sexual orifice of the lady spider.
A 54-year-old woman and her husband are advertising for an egg donor on London buses in a last-ditch attempt to try to have a baby.
A mysterious smell in a family saloon car led mechanics to a grisly find - a dead snake behind the instrument panel.
Staff at Murketts Garage in Histon Road, Cambridge, said they spent about three hours exploring a Vauxhall Astra before locating a 3ft python.
Staff at Murketts Garage in Histon Road, Cambridge, said they spent about three hours exploring a Vauxhall Astra before locating a 3ft python.
CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Two packages containing human body parts - including a liver and a partial head - that were intended for a lab were delivered to a home instead and officials said more than two dozen similar packages could be dispersed across the United States.
A Chinese couple were in such a rush to meet relatives they left their three-year-old son on a plane.
An attendant on the China Southern Airlines flight from Guangzhou to Dalian city found the child after landing.
She told Bandao Morning News that she spotted an unclaimed red coat on a window seat after the passengers had disembarked.
"I lifted the coat, and found a child around three-years-old sleeping underneath," she said.
An attendant on the China Southern Airlines flight from Guangzhou to Dalian city found the child after landing.
She told Bandao Morning News that she spotted an unclaimed red coat on a window seat after the passengers had disembarked.
"I lifted the coat, and found a child around three-years-old sleeping underneath," she said.
A woman who weighs more than 400 pounds (180 kg) said on Sunday she did not know she was pregnant until two days before giving birth this week to a healthy baby boy.
April Branum, 39, of Garden Grove, just south of Los Angeles, went to a local emergency room on February 26 with stomach pain only to discover she was pregnant with a full-term fetus.
Doctors discovered the baby as they took X-rays of Branum's abdominal area and referred her to UCI Medical Center in the nearby city of Orange, California, for prenatal testing, said Susan Mancia, a spokeswoman for UCI Medical Center.
No defects were detected and two days later on February 28, Branum gave birth by caesarean section to a healthy, 7-lb 7-oz (3.4 kg) boy named Walter Scott Edwards III.
April Branum, 39, of Garden Grove, just south of Los Angeles, went to a local emergency room on February 26 with stomach pain only to discover she was pregnant with a full-term fetus.
Doctors discovered the baby as they took X-rays of Branum's abdominal area and referred her to UCI Medical Center in the nearby city of Orange, California, for prenatal testing, said Susan Mancia, a spokeswoman for UCI Medical Center.
No defects were detected and two days later on February 28, Branum gave birth by caesarean section to a healthy, 7-lb 7-oz (3.4 kg) boy named Walter Scott Edwards III.
A barking dog runs up and down the length of the chain-link fence. His frenzied warning: Come any closer, I'll tear you to pieces.
I knock on the door. No answer. I knock again and hear a voice. I knock one more time and notice two eyes peeking from behind some blinds. Flashing my badge, I explain I'm doing a story about the alien.
It takes awhile, but she pries open the door a third of the way.
"I'm not sure I can be of any help," she says, in a girlish voice.
"Do you know where he was buried?"
"When people come here, I know they come to see him 'cause they go straight for that tree. The one over there that curves like an arm."
I knock on the door. No answer. I knock again and hear a voice. I knock one more time and notice two eyes peeking from behind some blinds. Flashing my badge, I explain I'm doing a story about the alien.
It takes awhile, but she pries open the door a third of the way.
"I'm not sure I can be of any help," she says, in a girlish voice.
"Do you know where he was buried?"
"When people come here, I know they come to see him 'cause they go straight for that tree. The one over there that curves like an arm."
Vandals have covered Copenhagen's famed Little Mermaid statue with pink paint, tourists who visited the landmark said.
Police could not immediately to confirm the incident, and it was not clear whether the vandalism was linked to two days of left-wing youth riots in the Danish capital.
"It was pink from head to toe," Kristoffer Eriksen, 29, said.
He said police were taking pictures of the statue while a cleanup crew tried to remove the paint with soap and high-pressure water cleaners.
Police could not immediately to confirm the incident, and it was not clear whether the vandalism was linked to two days of left-wing youth riots in the Danish capital.
"It was pink from head to toe," Kristoffer Eriksen, 29, said.
He said police were taking pictures of the statue while a cleanup crew tried to remove the paint with soap and high-pressure water cleaners.
Comment: You gotta wonder where these body parts came from... given the stories one hears about the Chinese using prisoners for body parts.