Russian tycoon Sergei Polonsky is taken into custody by Cambodian police on December 30 following an incident in which he allegedly forced men to jump overboard from his boat at knifepoint. Photograph: AFP
Freedom of Shrieks BERLIN - A swingers club in Berlin was forced to shut
because a court ruled that members' moans and shrieks of pleasure violated noise
regulations.
Freedom of Expression SYDNEY - Australian police
warned that the law would lose its bite if "mooning" became enshrined as an
implied constitutional right.
Long Ride AMSTERDAM - Two Dutch
mechanical engineering students tried to ride into the record books on a
28-meter (90-foot) bicycle they made themselves.
Bowling Alone
LITTLE ROCK - An Arkansas man was charged with murder for allegedly bludgeoning
his wife with a bowling ball.
Kiss of the Spider Woman MODESTO,
Calif. - A police pathologist ruled that the bite a woman gave her husband after
he refused to have sex eventually caused his death.
Transparent
Plot TEHRAN - Iranian police were on the lookout for an alleged sorcerer who
conned a man into believing he was invisible and could rob banks.
Pit
Stop BERLIN - A German driver who got out of his car on a hill to relieve
himself found his vehicle at the bottom of a river after he forgot to apply the
hand brake.
Nut Case CAIRO - A woman set fire to her Cairo
apartment after a row with her husband over his refusal to buy dried fruit and
nuts traditionally eaten in the holy month of Ramadan.
Elks Club
STOCKHOLM - Police shot dead a drunken bull elk that attacked a young boy after
becoming intoxicated on fermented apples.
Getting the Drop LAKE
CITY, Fla. - A Lake City woman was hospitalized after her 9mm handgun fell into
the commode and discharged, hitting her in the left buttock.
Wedding
Gaity AMMAN, Jordan - The groom spent his wedding night in jail after
accidentally shooting dead two guests while firing his automatic rifle to
celebrate his marriage.
Something's Fishy LONDON - A Welsh police
team dubbed "the Frying Squad" was formed to sniff out motorists who fuel their
cars with cooking oil from fish and chip shops in a bid to avoid paying high
government fuel taxes.
Barrel House OLATHE, Kan. - Attorneys for a
man accused of killing women and stuffing them into barrels asked for a change
of venue after a disc jockey showed up on the courthouse lawn handing out
T-shirts that read "ROLL OUT THE BARRELS."
Tossing Off GENEVA - A
United Nations committee rejected a Frenchman's appeal of his country's ban on
dwarf-tossing on the grounds it violated his human rights.
Speeder
Caged LONDON - British detectives were looking into the mystery of a hamster
found driving a treadmill-powered toy racing car along a promenade near the
seaside resort of Blackpool, newspapers said.
CIA Guinea Pig
OXNARD, Calif. - An Oxnard man was charged with animal cruelty and being under
the influence of amphetamines after allegedly torturing and dissecting his
daughter's pet guinea pig because he thought it was a camera-equipped robot
placed in his home by government agents.
Night Work JIM THORPE,
Pa. - A man sentenced for falling asleep behind the wheel of his car and
crashing into a school bus told the judge he dozed off because he was up late
the night before making counterfeit checks.
Angkor Shots PHNOM
PENH, Cambodia - Cambodian police presented a $256 crime-fighting prize to an
officer who surprised a suspected temple looter at Angkor Wat and shot him in
the testicles.
Bad Rap PARIS - A court fined French rapper Joey
Starr the equivalent of $9,100 after he hit his pet monkey on television,
sparking a storm of protest from animal rights activists, including former film
star Brigitte Bardot.
Auto Examination VILNIUS, Lithuania -
Lithuania's Health Ministry scrapped a Soviet-era rule requiring that women
undergo gynecological examinations to qualify for a driver's
license.
The Eyes of Rhode Island PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Rhode
Island State Senate unanimously passed a bill to issue automobile license tags
honoring the 50th anniversary of Mr. Potato Head.
A Nice Chianti
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Two crematorium workers accused of eating human body
parts, washed down with a bottle of wine, were freed by a provincial court
because there is no law against cannibalism in Cambodia.
Pig Party
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Members of a Wake Forest University fraternity were
charged with animal cruelty and abandonment after their pet pig was found drunk,
dehydrated and sunburned in a local park.
Dream Ticket BUENOS
AIRES - An Argentine fortuneteller threatened to burn down the house of a
lottery ticket seller she accused of entering her dreams to steal winning
lottery numbers.
In a Jam MONROEVILLE, Ala. - A man was convicted
of shooting into his girlfriend's car because she didn't fix him toast for
breakfast.
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