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Backyard dentists
SOME Victorians are ripping out their teeth with pliers because they cannot get to a dentist.
Go ahead, egg my Hummer
A HUMMER owner in Russia's second city St Petersburg has given antiglobalists the green light to pelt his vehicle with rotten eggs as a protest against consumerism.
Orchidometry
Changing chocs trigger oddball complaint
DOCTORS have made a tongue-in-cheek complaint to a chocolate manufacturer after it changed the shape of two sweets that could be used to measure testicles in pubescent boys.
Fiendish
Poland's devils on display in exorcism centre
A CATHOLIC priest plans to open the centre for people believed to be possessed by the Devil.
Drunk driving excuse
The mozzies made me do it
A DRUNK driver caught behind the wheel at nearly five times the legal limit said he drove because the mosquitoes where he was fishing were "absolutely horrific".
Get the sleigh
Drug dealers take pot-shots at airborne Santa
SUSPECTED drug dealers have fired gunshots at a helicopter flying Santa Claus into a Rio de Janeiro slum to deliver presents to a party of children.
Urinating
Puppy latches on to man's member
A DRUNKEN man urinating through a fence got a nasty surprise when a playful puppy in the adjoining lot latched onto his member.
Global warming
Giant tulip may protect Netherlands
THE Netherlands wants to redraw the map of Europe - literally.
Hiccup
Drunk? It's in your genes
THE US ARMY has helped discover a gene that dictates how much booze mice will consume, but so far it's not clear whether humans have the same one.
Shoelace professor
Knot kidding - a better way
BY THE time you read this sentence Ian "the Shoelace Professor" Fieggen will have tied his shoelaces - both left and right.
Tragic fall
Neighbour's cockatoo rescue bid ends in death
A 58-year-old man has died in a fall from a gum tree while trying to rescue his neighbour's pet cockatoo, which had been perched in its branches for several hours.
Wizard hat
Potter fan trapped in traffic cone
A THREE-year-old English boy spent three hours with a traffic cone wedged on his head after deciding it would make an excellent Harry Potter wizard hat.
Record attempt
Neil's long quest
Britain's tallest man, Neil Fingleton, is on a search for his Australian equivalent to go into Guinness World Records.
Station shutout
Gatekeeper loses track of time
THE early bird may catch the worm but he certainly didn't catch the train yesterday.
Ig Nobel award
Gay bomb inventors 'applauded'
THE inventor of a method to extract vanilla smells from cow dung, developers of the "gay bomb" and research into how sheets wrinkle have won 2007 Ig Nobel awards.
Touchy feely
I saw mummy groping Santa Claus
A WOMAN is facing sex assault charges after allegedly groping a man working as Santa Claus at a US shopping centre.
Bigamy charge
I do ... I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
A 26-YEAR-OLD Cuban woman has reportedly developed quite the marriage habit, saying 'I do' to ten different men, without divorcing any of them.
Protest
Santa's refuses pillow because being fat isn't cool
A SHOPPING centre Santa is refusing to bulk up with a pillow for fear he might encourage children to think it is acceptable to be fat.
Research
Good at mathematics - chimps and uni students
CHIMPS performed about as well as university students at mental addition, US researchers said today in a finding that suggests non-verbal math skills are not unique to humans.
Fluorescent
Cloned cats glow in the dark
SOUTH Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene which makes them glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams.
Illegal
Police quiz Peruvian refugee called Paddington Bear
IMMIGRATION authorities have finally rumbled Britain's most famous illegal resident. At a time of heightened sensitivity to immigration, the refugee background of Paddington Bear has persuaded his creator, Michael Bond, to write his first novel about him for 29 years.
David Beckham
Bidders battle for Beck's backwash
SOCCER superstar David Beckham's backwash is a hot commodity, with memorabilia hunters in New Zealand bidding up to $5000 for a partly drunk Coke bottle.
Thai tattoo
Cats branded 'Gay Premiers'
A GEELONG Cats supporter wanting a permanent reminder of the team's AFL triumph is ruing his decision to get the tattoo done overseas, after the tattooist wrote the team were "Gay Premiers 2007".
Pictures
Bona fide Bigfoot or bear?
IS it a bear with mange or a mythical bigfoot practising some yoga?
Lazy slimmed
Mr Men sex swap
LONG-loved children's book characters Mr Men have had a radical transformation in the name of political correctness.
Phillip Island
Penguins pal up to fish
IT'S not just men who love to go fishing with their mates, research from Phillip Island has found penguins do it too.
Auckland
Boys give teachers the slip
PEER pressure is reaching new lows in Auckland schools as the fad of wearing household slippers to class gains momentum.
Naughty children
Supernanny kids torch home
A FAMILY who enlisted the services of TV's Supernanny to help them control their unruly children has been left homeless after their three-year-old apparently set fire to the living room.
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A holiday fist-fight
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