Some more ‘odd spot’ articles:
A German publisher is printing novels and poems on to toilet paper for people who like to read on the toilet. Readers will be able to choose between detective stories and poems by German literary giants Heinrich Heine and Christian Morgenstern.
A Welsh police team dubbed “the Frying Squad” has been formed to catch motorists who fuel their cars with cooking oil from fish and chip shops in a bid to avoid paying high government fuel taxes.
A 20-year-old found out that blue pants with orange stripes down the side weren’t a wise fashion choice in Michigan when two off duty prison staff, thinking he was an escaped convict, bound his hands with duct tape and called police.
A small boy who fell from a first-storey window was saved from injury by his fully laden nappy, which burst on impact. Experts in Germany said the nappy had acted like a car airbag, absorbing the shock.
A Turkish woman is regretting her benevolence after giving a jar of rice to a beggar who knocked at her door. Later the woman, 60, remembered she had hidden her life savings of three billion Turkish lira ($A3690) in the jar only a few days earlier.
A British council has won £18,000 compensation after discovering that toilet rolls used in public buildings had 200 sheets, not the 320 stated in the contract with its supplier.
Bees have shown a remarkable ability to detect land mines, suggesting a possible new way to find the estimated 110 million unexploded mines around the world, according to US researchers.
An employee at a fast-food store in the US was arrested after a customer at a drive- through received the wrong side order with his chicken dinner – marijuana.