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Cell assault sergeant faces sack

A police sergeant who was caught on CCTV dragging a woman across the floor and pushing her into a cell faces the sack over the assault, it has emerged.

The video footage shows Sgt Mark Andrews dragging 59-year-old Pamela Somerville across the floor of the police station and pushing her into a cell, [...]

Man recreates dead lover as a sex doll

A grieving businessman has spent £15,000 creating a life-size doll of his dead lover, a sex shop owner has claimed.

A ‘RealDoll’ sex doll: not actually that lifelike
The 50-year-old took dozens of photos of the woman to the store, asking for a plastic copy with genuine blonde hair and exact matches [...]

Goats rescued from bridge after two days stranded on thin ledge

Two goats proved to be real silly billies when they got stranded for two days on the ledge of a bridge in Montana.

Two goats are left stranded

Cory Freeman looks at two stranded goats
The poor bleeters were plucked to safety by a towering crane after going without food and drink for 48 hours.
They are [...]

Dead rat found inside can of baked beans

The body of a dead rat, believed to have been trapped during tinning, has been found inside a tin of baked beans by a catering chef.

Baked beans on toast: Now available with added rat.
A cook discovered the body on opening the tin of beans, though authorities have so far refused to name the [...]

Police officers crash drink-drive suspect’s sports car into gardens

Two police officers are being investigated by their own force after crashing an arrested man’s high-powered sports car into the front gardens of two local homes.

The Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers stopped a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo in the early hours of Friday morning after spotting it being driven in an [...]

Russians urged to drink and smoke more to help the economy

Alexei Kudrin, Russia’s finance minister, has rather bizarrely urged Russians to drink and smoke more – to help the government’s cash flow.

Alexei Kudrin has urged his fellow Russians to crack open the tinnies and light up (Reuters)
Politicians usually urge citizens to adopt healthier lifestyles, but Mr Kudrin has called for [...]

‘Puppy drowning girl’ found by police

A young woman filmed in a disturbing video throwing puppies into a river has been traced in Bosnia, police announced today
The hooded top girl caused worldwide fury when she was shown taking the puppies from a white bucket and throwing them, one by one, into a raging river.
The girl was found as [...]

43-yr-old virgin wraps barbed wire around her leg so she won’t have sex

A 43-year-old virgin has revealed how she fastens a wire chain around her upper thigh every night to ensure she remains celibate.

A cilice: Wearing one will make you feel all warm inside, apparently (Corbis)
Sarah Cassidy, a Manchester University physics graduate, is a senior female figure in Opus Dei, the controversial Catholic [...]

Caterpillars line up for Africa’s shortest migration

It may not match some of Africa’s more famous mass migrations, such as the sight of thousands of wildebeest crossing the vast Serengeti plain. But this remarkable, if somewhat shorter, march over a dirt track by more than 100 caterpillars still had tourists marvelling at the wonders of nature.
The caterpillars follow a [...]

Unicorn cow becomes tourist attraction

Farmer Jia Kebing noticed a small bump on this cow’s forehead when it was born two years ago but didn’t expect it to grow into a 20cm (8in) horn.

Unicorn cow stuns farmer in China
‘My farm is famous in this region for this cow and people come in here just to see it,’ [...]

Hiker shoots himself in left bum cheek by accident

A hiker accidentally shot himself in the bum after putting a handgun in his back pocket… because he thought it would be more comfortable there than in its holster.

When I said I’d put a bullet in your ass.. (Corbis)
Darrel Elam, from Washington’s colourfully named Snohomish County, fired a bullet [...]

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Man’s new mobile phone is the one that was stolen from him

A man who bought a shiny new mobile phone online, choosing it because it looked just like his old one, realised afterwards it was actually the very one that had been stolen from him.

New phone even more rubbish the second time round? There’s a reason for that…
The California resident was browsing [...]

Man burns himself and almost blows up bathroom chasing a spider

A husband who tried to ‘save’ his wife from a scary spider ended up needing treatment for burns after nearly blowing up his bathroom.

Spiders: probably not worth blowing your bathroom up for
Christopher Robinson was ‘encouraged’ by his wife, Janine, to chase the arachnid – but failed to flush out the eight-legged beast when [...]

Golfer’s wild swing sets fire to golf course

In scenes comparable to golf film Happy Gilmore, a golfer in California inadvertently set fire to a large area of The Shady Canyon Golf Course thanks to a misplayed shot.
Caught in the rough (Getty)
Having seen his approach shot land in the rough, nothing could prepare the unlucky golfer for his next [...]

Internet hunt for puppy killer woman

An internet hunt is under way to trace a woman filmed appearing to
throw puppies in a river.
Smiles: The film shows the female laughing as she tosses the animals into the fast-flowing river

A video shows the female seeming to pick live animals from a bucket and chuck them in the water.
Squealing can apparently be [...]

Doctor dies sliding down lover’s chimney

A doctor in America who tried to sneak into her lover’s house by climbing down his chimney got stuck – and her decomposing body was only found three days later.

Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, who died after getting stuck in her lover’s chimney
49-year-old Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac was reportedly involved in an ‘on-again, off-again’ [...]

World Bog Snorkelling Championships sees records sunk

The 25th annual World Bog Snorkelling Championships saw records being demolished, after the bogs were cleaned out for the first time in a decade.
A competitor dressed as a (not very convincing) Dalek tries to crawl out of the bog after finishing the course in the World Bog Snorkelling Championships (Picture: Athena)
163 competitors [...]

Angry naked man wields spanner

Livid Chinese mechanic De Tseng went nuts when he was laid off – and stripped down to his toolbox to hammer home his discontent.
That’s one cheeky protest from De Tseng (CEN)
It has to rank among one of the most bizarre protests Metro.co.uk’s Weird Towers has ever found.
It’d be easy to surmise that he [...]

Shot man finds bullet in head five years on

A Polish man shot in Germany finds a bullet in his head five years on – as he was drunk when it happened.
Not tonight love, I’ve got a headache: X-ray shows the bullet in the man’s cranium (Pic: POLIZEI BOCHUM/AFP/Getty Images)
The 35-year-old in Bochum, west Germany, visited doctors to have a lump [...]

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