Weird Shorts
An 81 year-old Australian took a wrong turn when driving to collect the morning paper, ending up on a major highway. Nine hours and four hundred miles later, he finally stopped and asked for directions. Eric Steward later rejected offers of a satnav device saying he’d only been lost once before, from 1997 to 2001 (Reuters).
The British Government has produced a sex guide for pensioners. The guide examines the benefits of a healthy sex-life, suggests the safe positions for the frailer retirees, and explains how to use Viagra and practise safe sex (STV).
Santa Claus will have a slightly easier job of it this year as the US Postal Service has axed its seasonal practice of forwarding letters to Santa to North Pole, Alaska, where dozens of volunteers help answer them, after one volunteer recognised another as a listed sex offender (CNews).
A new exhibition at the National Socialism Documentation Centre in Cologne, Germany is revealing how the Nazi Party tried to “de-Christianise” Christmas. It documents how many carols still sung in Germany today were rewritten without their previous religious imagery, and includes a display of Nazi designed Christmas decorations from that period in the shape of swastikas, grenades and Iron Crosses (Telegraph).
A woman who left $40000 of rare coins at a Catholic shrine, for the Virgin Mary to watch over while she went away, has got her money back. The coins had been hidden under a pile of fallen leaves where they were found by a gardener and initially assumed to be a donation (CNews).
More well-heeled women now, ninety-six of them to be exact. That’s the number of contestants who made the final of the Stiletto Championship in Paris, France, out of the hundreds who signed up for the regional heats. The 32 three-woman teams must run relays over a 180m course while wearing heels of 8 cm or higher. With a first prize of dozens of pairs of free shoes, competition is unsurprisingly fierce (ABC News).
Three deaths and seven serious injuries is the tally of a single incident on the highway into Plune, India. The accident started when a truck ran into the back of a bus travelling in the same direction, causing a people carrier to stop, whereupon it was hit by another bus, killing two and injuring seven. The survivors from the people carrier then set fire to the second bus in retaliation, only for a second truck to run into the back of the burning bus, trapping the driver who burned to death (Times of India).
Finally. in slightly lighter car-related news, a couple from Dorset, England have named their new daughter after the car she was born in, when she arrivied before the couple could make it to the hospital. In future years Kia Smythe will probably be very glad that her parents did not own a Subaru Impreza (Orange News).
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