Sex in fast lane halts traffic on Israeli road

Israeli police investigating why a car was blocking traffic in the fast lane of a major highway on Sunday found a couple inside having sex. A police spokesman said the female driver and her male passenger gave in to their passions without pulling over to the side of the...

Nude jogger will miss that 'liberating feeling'

A man whose habit of jogging in a park wearing nothing but a pair of running shoes said he would keep his clothes on after he was fined $95 for indecent exposure. Darryl Delacruz, a Silicon Valley engineer, said he would miss the "liberating feeling" of running naked in...

Vodka-fueled man catches shark barehanded

A fisherman fueled by vodka caught a 4-foot shark and wrestled it onto a jetty on Australia’s south coast, suffering only small tear marks in his trousers, media reports said on Friday. Phillip Kerkhof, 41, caught the bronze whaler shark by hand on Monday after he spotted...

Couple plans Cemetry Wedding

It's not the traditional "till death do us part," but Scott Amsler and Miranda Patterson believe getting hitched in a graveyard is just thinking outside the box. Come September, the Illinois couple expects to pledge their undying love among the dearly departed in this St....

Tiny Duckling has rare mutation: four legs

Webbed feet run in Stumpy's family, but a rare mutation has left the eight-day-old duckling with two nearly full-sized legs behind the two he runs on. Nicky Janaway, a duck farmer in New Forest, Hampshire, 95 miles southwest of London, unveiled the duckling to reporters on...

Eagle lugging Deer Head causes Power Outage

About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power Sunday after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines. "You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario," said Gayle Wood, an Alaska Electric Light & Power spokeswoman. "This is the...

Shot duck survives 2 days in refrigerator

Neither gunfire nor two days in a refrigerator could slay this duck. When the wife of the hunter who shot it opened the refrigerator door, the duck lifted its head, giving her a scare. The man’s wife “was going to check on the refrigerator because it hadn’t been...

Crying child results in death of 100s of chickens; barking dog blamed

REUTERS Chinese court rules boy’s screaming led to the death of dozens of chickens Hundreds of chickens have been found dead in eastern China — and a court has ruled that the cause of death was the screaming of a 4-year-old boy who in turn had been scared by a barking...