This is where you will find out what's happening around Wilderness Wally's World, bits of interest and gossip.
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BRISBANE, Australia - Australian doctors said they plugged a poisoned Italian tourist into a vodka drip after running out of the medicinal alcohol they would normally have used to save his life.
The 24-year-old Italian, who was not further identified, was diagnosed as having ingested a large quantity of ethylene glycol, a common ingredient in antifreeze that can cause renal failure.

Pure alcohol is often given in treating such cases because it can inhibit the toxic effects of ethylene glycol. Dr. Pascal Gelperowicz at Mackay Base Hospital where the man was taken for treatment said he was given pharmaceutical-grade alcohol on arrival, but that the hospital's supplies soon ran out.

"We quickly used all the available vials of 100 percent alcohol and decided the next best way to get alcohol into the man's system was by feeding him spirits through a nasogastric tube," Gelperowicz said in a statement.

"The patient was drip-fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days in the intensive care unit," he said. "The hospital's administrators were also very understanding when we explained our reasons for buying a case of vodka."

The patient made a successful recovery (Although he was reported to have had one giant hangover headache.) The incident occurred several months ago, though the hospital did not release the information immediately. (Just kidding about the hangover.)

A Ukrainian woman survived a 100ft plunge from her ninth floor flat - into a giant vat of grapes.
Ludmilla Vasko, 29, fell from the balcony of her apartment in Uzhgorod but plummeted straight into the grapes, harvested from the vineyard below.

A police spokesman explained: "She was still sitting in the vat of squashed grapes when we got there. She was very shocked.

"But doctors examined her and said she was absolutely fine apart from the shock. The grapes cushioned her fall.

"She saved the winemakers a bit of work as well in the process because she crushed most of the grapes when she landed on them."

A jogger ran for a mile with a fox hanging on to her arm after it bit her while she was out for a run.
The fox had attacked her foot and then as she grabbed its neck, it bit her arm and would not let go, reports the BBC.

She ran a mile to her car, where she managed to free herself, wrap the fox in a shirt and throw it in the boot. It later bit an animal control officer and both jogger and vet received anti-rabies injections, and the fox was confirmed as carrying the disease.

The woman, from Chino Valley south of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, had been running for a mile when she came across the fox in a clearing.

It attacked her feet as she backed away, before moving up towards her knee. When she grabbed the fox by the neck, it closed its jaws around her arm and would not let go, despite her attempts to choke it.

Fearful that it was indeed rabid, she ran to her car and managed to free herself and trap the fox in the boot, before driving to a local medical centre.

A spokesman for the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said: "It is very difficult to prevent the attack of a wild rabid animal once in progress. Although containing the animal for testing is beneficial, immediate treatment is always the priority."

Authorities in Iran nabbed two birds believed to be "spy pigeons" near the country's contentious nuclear facility, the Agence France-Presse reported Monday.
Both pigeons were caught near the city of Natanz, which is home to Iran's uranium enrichment plant, AFP reported. Both had metal rings and invisible strings attached to them. (We know they are invisible, we can't see them!)

A source declined to mention what will happen to the pigeons now that they've been caught. (Note:The Iranians will have no problem water-boarding the suspected spies.)

A Newcastle man has been named one of the laziest in Britain (or anywhere for that matter) for walking his pet dog while sitting in his car... and more!
Kevin Pyle's son drives him slowly around the block and holds a lead attached to his bull mastiff Bruce, who walks alongside, through the window.

He claims to cover around four miles a week but never does any walking himself, reports the Daily Telegraph.

He said: "It sounds terrible that I take Bruce for a walk like that, but it saves me from getting wet when it's raining. He really enjoys it and it saves my legs."

Now Mr Pyle, 35, of Fenham, has won the title of being the region's Great North Bum after he was nominated by his 18-year-old son Karl.

"My dad is the laziest person I know. When he gets in from work he has a bath and goes straight to bed. He just lies there and watches the TV," said Karl.

"He even shouts down the stairs for us to go up and turn the channel over for him. But even we couldn't believe it when he came up with the idea to take Bruce for a walk like that."

Man sues doctors who cut off his penis
A Tennessee man is suing doctors who amputated his penis without his consent. Philip Seaton, 61, of Shelby County, was in hospital for a circumcision, reports WLKY.

But when he awoke from the operation, he realised his penis had been amputated.

Surgeons at the hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, said they had to take the drastic action after discovering a life-threatening cancer.

But, in his lawsuit, Mr Seaton says he has suffered mental anguish, pain, and lost the enjoyment of life.

Mr Seaton's lawyer Kevin George said: "Sometimes you have an emergency and you have to do this, but he could very easily closed him up and said, 'Here are your options. You have cancer,' and the family would have said, 'We want a second opinion. This is a big deal'."
(I would not add to this story for love nor money! Cancer is never a laughing matter but talk about a double blow... Ooops - WW)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia man accused of passing gas and fanning it toward a police officer no longer faces a battery charge.
The Kanawha County prosecutor's office requested that the charge be dropped against 34-year-old Jose Cruz.

According to a criminal complaint, Cruz passed gas and made a fanning motion toward patrolman T.E. Parsons after being taken to the police station for a breathalyzer test. Cruz denies fanning the gas and says his request to use a restroom when first arriving at the station was denied.

An assistant says Magistrate Jack Pauley signed a motion to dismiss the charge Thursday.

Cruz, who was arrested Tuesday, still faces driving under the influence and other charges.

A car driver in China was shocked when a cow suddenly dropped from the sky and landed on his hood.
The heavy black-and-white cow smashed a deep dent into the front of the vehicle in Changchun, reports the Northeastern News Network.

A resident who saw the accident said he saw the cow jump off the lorry driving ahead of the car. The lorry did not stop but sped off.

Police caught up with the lorry driver who is now in custody. They believe he is a cow thief who had stolen three cows from a local farmer and was transporting them to a market.

"He forgot to tie the cows securely on the lorry, and one of them walked off of the running truck and hit the car following behind," said the police spokesman.

OCALA, Fla. — Authorities say a Jasper man afraid to tell his wife how he lost $8,000 told deputies that he had been robbed.
The Marion County Sheriff's Office reports that 27-year-old Mario Oscar Carlos told authorities Friday that he had been robbed at gunpoint while exiting the highway. But when investigators pushed Carlos for details, his story changed.

Carlos told detectives that he gave a Sarasota spiritual healer $8,000 to have it blessed. The healer told him to roll up the money and put it in a white tube sock, but then the healer secretly switched the sock for one with about 50 singles. Carlos discovered the scam on the drive home.

Carlos was charged with false report of a crime. He was being held on $500 bail.
(Rumor has it that he asked to have the bail money blessed.)

Police have arrested a woman for allegedly attacking her husband with a frozen lasagne.
The suspected case of 'lasagne abuse' occurred in Atlantic Beach, Florida, where Amanda Trott was having an argument with her husband.

According to Metro, a neighbour called the police - when they arrived, Mr. Trott claimed he had been slapped in the face and then had the frozen meal thrown at him by his wife.

It's reported the lasagne hit him on the head - police say Mrs. Trott later admitted to the attack.

"In my opinion, it hurts very much and will cause welts. It's like throwing a block of ice, and it's very heavy," commented Sgt. David Cameron.

Mrs. Trott was arrested and charged with domestic battery, while - just to complete an excellent day for him - her husband was also arrested and charged with an unrelated injunction violation.

A New Zealand girl called Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii has won the right to change her name in court.
The nine-year-old had been left with an "unnecessary social disability and handicap", a judge ruled in a custody case.

The girl, who pretended she was called 'K' to avoid being teased, is now a ward of court, reports the New Zealand Herald. Judge Rob Murfitt said: "The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name." Her name has been altered and the dispute settled, with the new name not made public to protect her privacy.

The ruling on the girl, from Hawera, New Zealand, came to light when it was published in law reports.

The Judge added that he was dismayed at New Zealand's trend of parents giving their children wacky names.

Kids have been called Number 16 Bus Shelter, Midnight Chardonnay and Violence. But officials did block Sex Fruit, Yeah Detroit, Stallion and Cinderella Beauty Blossom. One couple had a bid to call their twin children Fish and Chips blocked but the names Benson and Hedges for twins were allowed.

Two lovers ended up in hospital in Taiwan after their car plunged 150ft down a cliff face as they made love in the back seat.
Lin Gu, 25, and lover Lee Shin, 29, were left with broken bones and bruises after their car toppled over the edge of a hill in XinDian, reports Today News.

A spokesman for police who were called by witnesses said: "They had parked up close to the edge of the mountain and had left the handbrake off.

"When they started having sex the rocking motion started the car moving and it rolled off the hill. They were lucky they were not more seriously hurt."

The two lovers had driven to a deserted mountain road and parked but their movements made the car topple over the edge and roll down to the bottom of the valley.

Despite their injuries - and being covered with mud and grass - the couple managed to clamber back up to the road where the woman asked the man to keep walking while she sought help at a nearby house.

Homeowner Chen Chenggang said the woman pleaded with him not to reveal how the accident happened as her husband "would definitely sue for divorce".

A 24-year-old American hiker given up for dead by mountain rescuers was saved when she threw her bra into a cable car.
Jessica Brown had fallen off a ledge in the Austrian Alps and was stranded injured for 70 hours in freezing temperatures.

Mountain rescue teams had been looking for her in the wrong place and gave up the search because they believed she'd fallen to her death.

But Jessica spotted a cable car on its way up the mountain in Salzburg and quickly flung her bra into a container carrying food as it passed her.

Workers higher up the peak realized the undies must have been thrown in as a message and sent out a search party.

"It certainly beats sending up a flare," said one rescue worker. "She hadn't been wearing much when she started on her walk and she ended up with even less on," they added. The woman is now recovering in hospital. (And the workers refused to return the bra!)

Surgeons reached for a claw hammer after a DIY enthusiast accidentally shot himself in the head with a nail gun.
George Chandler, 60, of Shawnee, Kansas, was nailing boards and lattice when a two-inch pin pierced his hat, shot through his skull and lodged itself in his brain.

"The gun went off, and I just felt a little sting," Mr Chandler said. "I'm fine, really. I was very surprised and very lucky."

With his hat nailed lopsided to his head, he was rushed to hospital where a doctor removed the nail with a claw hammer from the maintenance department.

Doctors told him he had barely avoided a traumatic brain injury, as the nail narrowly missed vessels tied to his eyesight, speech and physical movement.

Mr Chandler had been working with his friend Phil Kern when the nail gun's hose became entangled with a toy. As Kern tried to untangle it, the gun went off. At first the two men couldn't find where the nail went.

"He asked me if I saw where it went and I said I'm not sure, but I felt something on my head," Mr Chandler said.

Scientists claim to have developed an inoculation to reduce methane emissions from farting and belching sheep and cows.
Phil Goff, New Zealand's trade minister, told an economic summit in Paris that a solution was in sight.

"Our agricultural research organization just last week was able to map the genome that causes methane in ruminant animals and we believe we can vaccinate against flatulent emissions," Mr Goff said.

Sheep, cattle, goats and deer produce large quantities of gas through belching and flatulence, as their multiple stomachs digest grass. Animals are responsible for about a quarter of the methane produced in Britain, but in countries with a large agricultural sector, the proportion is much higher.
Testing is scheduled to begin in July and all New Zealand vegetarians are asked to contact the Ministry of Testing.

A tourist had a shock in Australia when a deadly snake bit his 'manliness' during a toilet break.
The highly venomous brown snake darted between his legs and bit him as he relieved himself at the roadside near Cairns.

Emergency workers rushed to the scene and wrapped the man's member in plastic in case it was infected with poison.

But the tourist - suffering from a wound, vomiting and stomach pain - was given the all clear after tests.

An ambulance spokesman, who described the victim as "lucky," said: "It certainly had a swipe at him but it didn't envenomate him."

As far as the vomiting and stomach pains are concerned, that probably came from the scare and not the bite. Enough Said! - WW

TOKYO — When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught — recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.
Police rescued the African grey parrot two weeks ago from a neighbor's roof in the city of Nagareyama, near Tokyo. After spending a night at the station, he was transferred to a nearby veterinary hospital while police searched for clues, local policeman Shinjiro Uemura said.

He kept mum with the cops, but began chatting after a few days with the vet.

"I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird told the veterinarian, according to Uemura. The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.

"We checked the address, and what do you know, a Nakamura family really lived there. So we told them we've found Yosuke," Uemura said.

The Nakamura family told police they had been teaching the bird its name and address for about two years. But Yosuke apparently wasn't keen on opening up to police officials. "I tried to be friendly and talked to him, but he completely ignored me," Uemura said.

At the Post Office –
Somehow, the fact that I lived overseas came up in a conversation with the gal behind the counter (she wanted to sell me a bunch of stamps and I told her I wouldn't need them.)

She asked where I was from and I told her New Zealand.

She said, "I hear that's a beautiful country!"

I said, "It is, but this is also a beautiful country."
She gave me a deer-in-the-headlights look as if she had never thought of that before.
Think about it.

Meanwhile, in California - Cal Worthington is STILL appearing on TV selling cars out of Long Beach. Yes, he's still selling Fords but, alas, his dog 'spot' seems to be missing. Do you remember the background music, "Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal...?

A man in Wisconsin is in car pulled over by police. He is afraid he's going to get arrested for unpaid traffic tickets so when the police ask for his name he makes one up. Out of the blue he picks a name and gives it to the police.
Turns out the name he made up belongs to a wanted murderer!
He has a heck of a time getting back to just unpaid traffic tickets.

Doctor says French must dare to fart
A French doctor is urging his countrymen to take a more relaxed view of bodily functions for the good of their health.

Frédéric Saldmann says they should give free rein to farting, burping and sweating to reduce the risk of cancer, reports the Daily Telegraph.

In his book, Le Grand Ménage, Dr Saldmann invites them to embrace the stereotypical British view of the French.

The French, he says, should "dare to fart". Getting rid of the two litres of gas produced each day is a "natural process" and retaining it can be harmful to the intestines.

Similarly, he says his countrymen should feel free to belch at will and certainly after each meal.

This, he says, is the best way to reduce the risk of getting a hiatal hernia, an ailment which affects almost a third of French people.

Keeping air in the stomach leads to more heartburn, which increases the risk of cancer of the oesophagus. The rise of this disease in France, he says, is due to "the burp that we no longer do".

Dr Saldmann also recommends throwing out anti-perspirants.

"To block sweat not only stops the elimination of toxins," he writes, "but also a certain number of messages that are potentially very attractive to the opposite sex."

Dr Saldmann also recommends cutting down on chewing gum, never eating while walking and reducing the intake of fizzy drinks.


A Russian man returned from holiday to find his entire two-storey house had been stolen by a neighbour.
Yuri Konstantinov, 50, from the Astrakhan Region, came back from a trip visiting relatives to find his house had been taken down brick by brick and all the contents sold. Only the foundations were left.

Police investigating the theft found out that a neighbour had taken the house apart and sold everything, including the bricks and window frames, and even the kitchen sink.

A police spokesman said: "A local resident decided to take it away piece by piece, and he dismantled it for construction materials.

"This is not though the first such case we have come across, and in remote areas it is considered normal by some people."

OLDSMAR, Florida — A Florida woman found an 8-foot long alligator prowling in her kitchen late Monday night, authorities said.
Sandra Frosti, 69, said the alligator must have pushed through the screen door on the back porch and then walked through an open sliding glass door at her home in Oldsmar, just north of Tampa.

The alligator apparently then strolled through the living room, down a hall and into the kitchen.

A trapper removed the alligator, which was cut by a plate that was knocked to the ground during the chaos. But no one inside the house was injured.
(An 8 foot alligator cut himself on a plate?)

A German farmer who married a woman he met on the internet has asked for the marriage to be annulled after finding out 'she' was a he.
Wolfgang Zober, 55, from Naumburg, said: "I don't meet many women as I am often out in the fields working all day, and so a friend suggested I try internet dating.

"I was delighted when I contacted Randy Victoria, 38, and was delighted when I met her and realized she was as lovely as her photographs.

"She even knew loads about farming - I didn't realize that was because she used to be a farmer herself.

"We only had a kiss and cuddle before we married. But on my wedding night she told me she had a penis - and that her real name was Ralf. I was devastated.

"The only true thing she did say was that she had two children, but she was the father - not the mother."

Plans for a new youth centre to tackle teenage delinquency and crime have had to be put on hold - after the building was stolen.
The prepacked building was delivered in boxes to the Austrian village of Traismauer ready to be put up the next day but were stolen by the time workers arrived to erect it.

A recent wave of vandalism, theft and burglaries in the area had been blamed on youths and local authorities met to try and find a way to keep them off the streets.

Mayor Johann Gorth said the new youth centre planned to give kids something else to do and get them involved in something positive.

Police are investigating but fear some of the children that the youth centre was aimed at helping may have been involved in the theft.

A spokesman said: "Of course there is a possibility that the thieves were youngsters who were well aware of the plans for the youth centre."

An airline pilot took his passengers on a 1,200-mile detour after refusing to land at a new airport in India because he had never heard of it.
With 233 passengers on board, the KLM pilot first diverted the flight to Hyderabad from Amsterdam northwards to New Delhi. But after he was denied permission to land in New Delhi, he flew on to Mumbai and finally landed two hours later.

The pilot reportedly claimed he knew nothing about Hyderabad's new Rajiv Gandhi International airport. Airport officials insisted all airlines had been notified of it opening on March 14.

But a report in the Times of India revealed a number of pilots had complained their flight computers did not recognise the new airport. The computers believed the aircraft were descending at an unknown place and issued verbal warnings, saying: "Terrain, terrain, pull up. Too low."

Most Indian pilots, who know the land around the new airport is flat, switch off the warning and continue their descent. (Flat is not the requirement - an airport being there is!!!)

But the Times of India said foreign pilots were understandably concerned and speculated it could have been a factor in the KLM pilot's confusion.
(Do ya think?)

A pair of bank robbers burst into tears and collapsed choking in Poland after they tried to use pepper spray on a cashier in front of an air conditioning unit.

The wind blew the spray back over the pair, who staggered from the bank in the south-western city of Wroclaw empty handed.

A local police spokesman said: "They told the cashier to open the till and then tried to put her out of action to grab the cash - but the pepper sprayed back in their faces because of the blast of warm air from the heater.

"They only managed to escape because they had a pal outside in a getaway car."

Security cameras showed the crooks were wearing wooly black balaclavas, although Polish media speculated that if they strike again - they might well have switched to gas masks. Police are still looking for the crooks.

A man who planned to walk from Bristol to India without any money has quit - after getting as far as Calais.
Mark Boyle in the New Forest, near Lyndhurst, during his planned walk from Bristol to Gandhi's birthplace on India's West Coast... he got as far as France and hit a stone wall.

Mark Boyle, 28, who set out with only T-shirts, a bandage and sandals, hoped to rely on the kindness of strangers for food and lodging.

But, because he couldn't speak French, people mistook him for a free-loader or an asylum seeker, reports the BBC.
(Leave it to the BBC to try and make people think he wasn't a free-loader... of course he was!)

He now plans to walk around the coast of Britain instead, learning French as he goes, so he can try again next year. Mr Boyle, a former organic food company boss, belongs to the Freeconomy movement which wants to get rid of money altogether. In his online diary at the start of his journey to Porbander, Gandhi's birthplace, he said he was given two free dinners on his first evening away in Glastonbury.

Later, he was joined in Dover by two companions, and the three managed to get to Calais. But in one of his last entries, he wrote: "...not only did no one not speak the language, they had also seen us as just a bunch of freeloading backpackers, which is the complete opposite of what the pilgrimage is really about."

Mr Boyle said he could not explain in words the disappointment he felt at abandoning the journey and he apologized to his supporters. But he added: "Whilst walking in the UK, I intend to learn French and to hit the continent again as soon as we feel we are ready."
(Face it, they didn't help you because you are a free-loader, not because you didn't speak French!)

Sergeant Wayne Leyde, 26, from the Washington National Guard bought a scratch-and-win lottery ticket at a road-side store and won 1 million dollars.
Now that he's won, Leyde, a 26-year-old member of the Washington National Guard, says he's still going to volunteer to go back to Iraq for a third tour and won't spend any of the money in the meantime.

Leyde was driving near his home in Mead, Washington when he stopped at a store on the side of the road and bought a ticket.

"I decided to walk into a local Zip Trip. I got a Coke and beef jerky and walked up to the counter and thought I'd pick up a few scratch tickets and try my luck. I was on my way out when the lady said, 'Do you have a lucky scratch coin?'

"I said 'no, you gave me a dime and nickel back.'"

"She said 'no, try this,'" handing Leyde a penny. "On my way home I started scratching tickets. They were losers. I'm thinking, boy, that lady didn't know what she was talking about."

Leyde couldn't believe it when he scratched a winning ticket, but he still plans to return to Iraq.

"It was a commitment I made about three months ago. I'm going to stick to it," Leyde said about his decision.

The sergeant says rents have gone sky high where he and his parents live in the Mount Spokane area of Washington and that, for now, he's not going to spend any of the money.

"For right now, I'm going to hold off [spending] and let reality sink back to earth. This is a true blessing. I'm going to turn it around and see if I can bless other people with this," Leyde said.
(If you are like me, whenever you get a chance, you will thank members of the Armed Forces for their service to our country. We are so fortunate to have people like this standing watch for us.)

Were pilots on snooze control - Or, what else were they doing?
US aviation officials are investigating whether two airline pilots, who overshot their destination by 15 miles, were both asleep.

A radar track of the go! airlines flight showed it remained at 21,000 feet as it flew past Hilo Airport, Hawaii, before returning to the airport.

Air traffic controllers, who had been tracking the plane by radar, were unable to reach the plane for 25 minutes, according to a report by KGMB-TV.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor told the Honolulu Advertiser: "We're investigating whether the pilot and co-pilot fell asleep while the plane was in the air between Honolulu and Hilo." Joe Bock, a spokesman for go!, said the company was conducting its own investigation.

Environmental Logic!
California's Solar Shade Control Act protects solar panels from obstructions from sunlight, and in January, Santa Clara County officials sought to enforce the law against home-owners who themselves are staunch environmentalists. Since the back yard of Prius-owners Richard Treanor and Carolynn Bissett contains lush redwood trees that block their neighbor's panels, the county ordered that the trees be cut down.

Australian police declared a state of emergency after a drunken man threatened to blow up half a city with his TV remote control.
Geoffrey Fryatt, 57, who lived in a luxury golf resort in Brisbane, was arrested by paramilitary police after terrifying neighbours by threatening to detonate a store of chemicals with the remote.

"One push of the button will blow up half of Brisbane," he shouted during a stand off with police.

Fryatt's lawyer told the Brisbane District Court that his client lost control after losing much of his life savings in a fraud, reports the Brisbane Times.

"People are genuinely scared of sudden explosions," the judge said before sentencing him to a year's probation. "Frightening members of the public with threats of bombs and bomb hoaxes has a much greater impact than it once did."

Fryatt was concerned the sentence could interrupt his plans to do humanitarian aid work overseas but the judge told him: "Let's get you right before we send you off to a third world country."

CHESTERTON, Ind. — Two fourth-grade boys mimicking a scene from the movie "A Christmas Story" wound up with their tongues stuck to a frozen flagpole.

Gavin Dempsey and James Alexander were serving on flag duty at Jackson Elementary School Friday morning, with the job of raising and lowering the school's flags. They decided to see if their tongues really would stick to the cold metal.

"I decided to try it because I thought all of the TV shows were lies, but turns out I was wrong," Gavin said.

Karen Alexander, James' mother , said her son told her he got the idea from the movie, which is based on stories about a boy growing up in the northwest Indiana community of Hammond in the 1940s.

"I can't believe he did it, but they learned their lesson," she said.

James said he plans to eat a lot of ice cream to help nurse his wound. "When you're young, you're just messing around," he said.

Billie Dempsey, Gavin's mom, said a nurse called them to tell them the boys' tongues were bleeding.

"The nurse asked them, 'OK, who double-dog dared who?"' Billie Dempsey said, a reference to a phrase that a character in the movie used to dare another child to stick his tongue to the pole.

A high tech, theft-proof £75,000 police car was stolen in Berlin - after officers left it unlocked with the key in the ignition.

The special BMW, which features high-tech surveillance equipment and sophisticated electronic locks and immobilisers to make it theft proof, was the pride of the Berlin police force.

But it was stolen in the city's Wedding district when two officers jumped out to chase a joy-rider on foot after he had abandoned a stolen car.

The criminal got away and when the officers went back they found the expensive BMW gone.

The pair are facing disciplinary action. Police chiefs say they have no leads on who may have stolen the car and are still looking for it.

Barbecue: A line of people waiting for a haircut.

Woman knocked out hubby with spud
Police were called to a house in the US after a woman knocked out her husband with a potato. She picked up the spud and threw it at him when he called her a rude name during a row in Nicholson, Georgia.

The potato hit him square in the nose and knocked him out cold, reports Metro News.

The pair had started to argue in the kitchen in the early hours of Thanksgiving morning after they had been drinking.

The 43-year-old woman said she didn't mean to hit her husband and called police as soon as he fell unconscious.

Her husband decided not to press charges.
(And he better not try - WW)

If you click here, you will go to a web site sponsored by Xerox where you can pick out a thank you card and it will be printed and sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services. P.S. A check of the Snopes web site verified this is a 'true' web site and it is sponsored by Xerox Corp. You will have to pick from a state list but under the "City" entry I put our town and New Zealand.