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Truck carrying 12 million bees overturns in New Brunswick
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
A truck on the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick, Canada, carrying 12 million bees has overturned. The truck was carrying 330 crates of bees when it tipped on a ramp in Saint-Léonard. The bees were used to help pollinate blueberries, and were heading back to Ontario.
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Man auctions life, but disappointed at bid price
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
ebayAfter auctioning off his entire life on eBay for A$399,300, Ian Usher says he is "a little bit disappointed" at the final selling price.
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'Pregnancy pact' grabs international attention for small Massachusetts town
Monday, 23 June 2008
A supposed "pregnancy pact" at Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Massachusetts has drawn international attention to the small Massachusetts fishing city which is considered to be one of the oldest settlements (1623) in the American continent.
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Nepal officials strike after minister locks official in toilet
Friday, 20 June 2008
Workers in a Nepalese local government office have gone on strike in protest against actions made by Matrika Yadav, the minister for Forest and Soil Conservation.
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Hundreds of cyclists take part in 2008 London Naked Bike Ride
Sunday, 15 June 2008
London_Naked_Bike_RidePeople in London yesterday were surprised to see hundreds of cyclists in varying degrees of nakedness riding through the city as the annual London Naked Bike Ride took place, one of many other rides as part of World Naked Bike Ride. The ride was intended to protest against oil dependency and celebrate cycling and the human body.
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Monkey uses garden hose to flee Indiana zoo
Saturday, 14 June 2008
A spider monkey used a garden hose to scale the wall of a moat at a Michigan City zoo before being captured at a nearby boat dealership.
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Million-dollar trial aborted on account of sudoku
Friday, 13 June 2008
A drug trial in Sydney, Australia was aborted yesterday after several jurors were found to be playing sudoku puzzles during proceedings.
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Romanian fighter jet hit by UFOs
Friday, 13 June 2008
Officials from the Romanian Defense Military confirmed that one of their MiG-21 Lancer fighter planes was struck by four Unidentified Flying Objects on October 31, 2007, which shattered the plane's cockpit. The military also released a video captured by the plane's on-board camera as it was flying above Transylvania.
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Woman robs pawn shop by swallowing stolen goods
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
On May 27, 2008, in Salt Lake City, Utah, a woman stole two 14-karat gold bracelets from a pawn shop by swallowing them, as shown by a surveillance tape. The bracelets were worth US $2000 each according to the pawn shop.
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Woman arrested after caught living in man's closet
Wednesday, 04 June 2008
In the town of Kasuya, Fukuoka, Japan, a 58-year-old woman was arrested after surveillance tape from inside an unnamed man's home showed her living in his closet.
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Police: Woman arrested for non-emergency 911 calls
Wednesday, 04 June 2008
BENTON, Ill. (AP) — Police in Benton say Tabitha Artis was persistent in dialing up the county's 911 system, and they're calling it a crime. The 27-year-old woman was arrested for disorderly conduct for allegedly making several 911 calls police didn't consider emergencies.
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Urine attacker remanded in custody
Friday, 23 May 2008
Sahnoun Daifallah, of White City, Gloucester, was today remanded in custody by Cheltenham magistrates after being arrested for spraying a "foul-smelling, brown substance" from a sports bottle. The liquid is thought to have contaminated food, books, wine bottles, and other items across several stores in Gloucestershire.
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Medical Mystery: The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep
Sunday, 11 May 2008
sleeplessRhett Lamb, 3, is often irritable, but it's not just the routine growing pains of a toddler's life that has affected him. It's the fact that Rhett can't sleep.

"We went to the doctor after he was born, and I kept telling him something was wrong. He didn't sleep. They thought I was being kind of an anxious mom, and we went back and forth," Rhett's mother, Shannon Lamb, said. "Finally, they [were] starting to realize now that he really doesn't sleep at all. But we've had a lot of different diagnoses and nobody really knows."
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Norfolk teens banned from buying eggs and ketchup
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Youths in the Norfolk town of Caister-on-Sea, near Great Yarmouth, England, have been banned from purchasing "squirty bottles" of ketchup, and eggs after a number of complaints from residents in the area. The move, which is backed by the Norfolk Police, is aimed at reducing the number of anti-social incidents occurring in the area. Sergeant Andy Brown, of the Norfolk Police, has said that no further complaints have been received since the ban came into force.
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Man falls down elevator shaft; woman breaks his fall
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Police reported on Monday, that a man in Frankfurt, Germany is recovering after he fell 25 feet down an elevator shaft early Sunday morning at 6:30 a.m. CEST, and survived. According to authorities, the only reason why the man is alive is because he landed on top of a woman who had fallen down the same shaft just one day earlier.

27-year-old Jens Wilhelms, who was not injured in the fall, was walking up a dark stairwell, passing by the elevator shaft which was undergoing repairs. When he peeked inside the open doors to see what was going on, he slipped off the edge.
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Company Sells Greeting Cards for Inmates
Friday, 28 March 2008
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Finding it hard to express just the right sentiment to your loved one in prison? A Los Angeles company may have the answer. Attorney Terrye L. Cheathem noticed a market Hallmark wasn't serving and founded Three Squares Greetings, which provides cards for inmates.
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Texas police: 2-year old crushed by relative
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
According to police investigating the death of a 2-year old boy in Hidalgo County, Texas, the boy's death may have been caused by a morbidly obese relative who fell on him, fracturing his skull.

"It didn't look like there was any foul play," according to Justice of the Peace Bobby Conteras. The boy was pronounced dead on Tuesday.
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