| Shortest man dies
March 17th, 2010 04:01 pm
A Chinese man who was the world's shortest human has died.
He Pingping from northern Inner Mongolia - who at 74.6 cm held the record for being the world's smallest man - died of heart complicatio ... |
| Spider-Gran's window escape
March 17th, 2010 04:01 pm
A homesick Chinese grandmother tried to abseil down a five storey building.
Zhang Yingfeng had been staying with her son in his apartment in Hebi city, Henan province when she started feeling home ... |
| Star Wars fan re-hired
March 17th, 2010 04:01 pm
A British 'Star Wars' fan has received an apology from an employment centre who threw him out.
Chris Jarvis, 31 - who is a member of the International Church of Jediism, based on the famous sci-f ... |
| Sky-diver survives 3,000 ft fall
March 9th, 2010 04:01 pm
A South African woman miraculously survived a 3,000 ft sky-dive fall.
Mother-of-one Lareece Butler - who plummeted to the ground when her parachute became entangled during a sky-dive - ended up i ... |
| Smokers' warning
March 5th, 2010 04:01 pm
A British man had 'Smoking killed me' signs placed on the car carrying his coffin.
Alan Whittamore from Dover - who died aged 85 after a long battle with lung condition emphysema - had his dying ... |
| Student fire
March 3rd, 2010 04:01 pm
A Croatian student accidentally caused $45 million worth of damage to a national park.
Jure Erceg, a religious studies student admitted setting fire to a thorny bush which scratched him as he wal ... |
| Shoe stealer
March 3rd, 2010 04:01 pm
A South Korean man stole 1,200 pairs of designer shoes.
Mr. Park, a 59-year-old second-hand shoe shop owner - who has admitted to an uncontrollable fetish for footwear - stole the enormous number ... |
| Stolen car man
March 3rd, 2010 04:01 pm
A US man was caught out by his footprints.
The 42-year-old man from Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin - who told police his car had been stolen from the town's Tapper's Bar where he'd been socialising - ... |
| Scratch card rage
March 2nd, 2010 04:01 pm
A Polish man ate a winning scratch card because he couldn't claim the money immediately.
The unnamed man - who was on a Ryanair flight from Krakow, in Poland, to East Midlands Airport, England whe ... |
| Spooky horror challenge
February 24th, 2010 04:01 pm
An Indian filmmaker has offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who can sit through his horror movie. Ram Gopal Varma - who is behind 'Phoonk 2', a sequel to his 2008 film about an evil spirit which t ... |
| Smelly Valentine
February 19th, 2010 04:03 pm
A US man expressed his love for his wife by making her a half-mile wide heart out of manure.
Bruce Anderland from Minnesota celebrated Valentine's Day (14.02.10) by making his spouse of 37-years B ... |
| Smoking holes
February 18th, 2010 04:03 pm
A Swiss bar owner has beat the smoking ban by cutting holes out of the wall.
Entrepreneur Dino Lottaz has cut three spaces into the side of his restaurant in Bosingen, Switzerland to allow custom ... |
| Sweetie insects
February 17th, 2010 04:02 pm
A British theme park has started handing out edible insects.
The Chessington World of Adventures park is offering thrill-seekers the unusual snack in a pic'n'mix style serving as a trial, before d ... |
| Sexy tortoise display
February 16th, 2010 04:02 pm
A 70-year-old tortoise has been entertaining British zoo visitors with his energetic sexual behaviour.
Dirty Dirk - who was caught from the wild Galapagos Islands in 1962 and weighs over 31 stone ... |
