A bright green sign along a lonely country road in southwestern Puerto Rico proudly displays a silhouette of a flying saucer and two words: "Extraterrestrial Route." Most Puerto Ricans laughed when a horse farmer installed the sign on his property at the request of Reynaldo Rios, a local elementary school teacher who says he's been communicating with alien visitors to this U.S.
territory since he was a child. Scientists spy on panda sex habits Giant pandas are unusually discreet animals, forcing researchers to resort to Global Positioning System (GPS) sensors to find out what is really happening behind the bamboo leaves. The Chinese academy has linked up with the Zoological Society of San Diego for the three year, $US660,000 Peeping Tom project at the Foping Natural Reserve in north-west China's Shaanxi province.
A lack of interest in sex is one of the main reasons why the furry animal is endangered, and measures ranging from specially designed Viagra to panda porn movies have done little to change that. The thief was armed with a shotgun when he ordered a 26-year-old man out of his Chevrolet Camaro in a suburban Kansas City parking lot. The driver complied, but when the robber got into the car he was unable to manage the stick shift.
The robber fled the scene in a four-door car that someone else was driving. "I was checking one of the boxes when suddenly, something leaped out of it and bit me," fisheries quarantine inspector Mario Trio told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a report published Tuesday. The bite left a V-shaped wound on the inspector's finger, and the 34 piranhas in the consignment he was checking - falsely declared as "ornamental fish" from Peru - were confiscated over the weekend, but died two days later, the newspaper reported.
"Bilateral ties between Singapore and Shandong received another boost Monday, this time with Singapore presenting a unique gift of 200 straws of bull semen," International Enterprise Singapore said in a statement. The gift of semen was part of a pact to help the eastern Chinese province "improve the quality of cattle breeding and dairy products," said IE Singapore, the external economic wing of the government. A man fell asleep while siphoning gasoline into a 55-gallon tank that had been installed in the back of a van, police said.
Inside the van, officers reported finding a man asleep next to a 55-gallon tank and a battery-operated pump. A hose from the pump led to the gas station's underground tank. Divorced - for feeding stray dogs A Romanian pensioner has filed for divorce after 50 years because she is fed up with her husband spending all their pension on stray dogs.
She said: "I cannot accept the fact that we are starving every week while he uses his entire pension to feed the dogs that gather around our house. More and more dogs come every week. Watcharaphong Khaewka, a 21-year-old office worker, filed a complaint with police saying that the two men put a knife to his neck and forced him to take off his jeans and sport shoes.
"The attackers did not touch the money, watch and other valuables on the victim. They just took his jeans and sport shoes and let the victim walk home in his underwear," said police Lt. Phongsak Thongsri, of Bangkok's Thongsonghong police station.
"The victim fears that the thieves will come to hurt him when they find out that the jeans were fake ones that he bought from Chatuchak Market," Phongsak said. The animal kingdom's most famous gay couple has split up. Silo and Roy, the cohabiting penguins of Central Park Zoo, are no longer an item.
They blazed a trail for six other gay penguin couples at the zoo. But the affair ended when Scrappy, a new female penguin, moved into the neighbourhood and caught Silo's eye. "Silo and Roy stopped spending as much time together or building a nest," John Rowden, the zoo's head curator, told The New York Post.
Indian police have put a man who allegedly stole five chickens from a top magistrate on their 'most wanted' list. The Statesman of Calcutta quotes a source as saying: "As the residence of the chief judicial magistrate is in a secluded place, the thief found it easy to steal the hens and the cock. "A policeman on duty was sleeping when the incident took place.
" Italian vacationers admiring the view from a fairground Ferris wheel at the Munich Oktoberfest got more than they bargained for when a porn shoot suddenly began inside their cabin, authorities said on Friday. Having settled down to enjoy a leisurely spin on the wheel at the famous beer festival, the group of Italians were quite unprepared for the arrival of two men toting cameras and a woman who started to use a vibrator. Cancer the next 'big hit' British electronic music whizz Matthew Herbert is hoping to become the first musician ever to use the sound of cancer in a dance track.
"My new record is going to be a disco record. So people might be out having a good time on a Saturday night but they might be dancing to a disco record and the beats are made from cancer," he smiles. The Plat du Jour album took him two years of research and six months of recording, included no traditional instruments, and used recordings of a free-range chicken being killed and the noise of more than 3000 people biting into an apple.
A legless teen in Ohio who was told he cannot play during a game in Cincinnati because of a rule requiring players to wear shoes and knee pads will be allowed to play in future games, according to a Local 6 News report. The Colonel White High School senior had played in all of the other season games as a member of the punt return team, using his arms to move down the field. Martin is also on the school's wrestling team and is running for homecoming king.
Couple went to wrong funeral An elderly couple could not believe their eyes when they went to their 'dead' friend's wake - and he opened the door. Pensioners Maurice and Shirley Dodwell thought they had just sat through the cremation of their pal Roy Spencer. But when they arrived at his house for the wake they found he was alive - and they'd been to the funeral of another Roy Spencer.
Dog Registers to Vote in New Zealand Toby became a registered voter when his owner, Peter Rhodes of Queenstown, completed an enrollment form in the dog's name, giving his occupation as "rodent exterminator" and his age as 28. He signed the form with a squiggle and Toby's paw print before returning it to the Electoral Enrollment Center, the Otago Daily Times reported. Electoral Enrollment Center manager Murray Wicks was more angry than amused that an application filed by a dog had slipped through the center's checking system.
"It's an offense, and whoever's done it will be in the hands of the police," he said. Flasher shocked by exposure to the law A German flasher's lewd antics backfired when he leaped naked out of a bush and exposed himself to a woman, only for the off-duty police officer to call for back-up and send him scrambling back into his clothes. "He'd expected her to go 'Ooh, ooh!
' when he jumped out -- not that she would calmly call officers for assistance," said a police spokesman in the western town of Mettmann on Thursday. If you're going to steal a gas station employee's car, don't come back an hour later to get a fill-up. Investigators say that bit of logic escaped Artemio Castillo and Ernesto Garcia, who were arrested Tuesday night near the Parade gas station.
Employee Pam Pease, 49, was sweeping the parking area when she noticed a familiar car pull up to pump No. It was her blue 1994 Ford Escort with a missing hubcap. She had reported it stolen less than an hour earlier.
As children's books go, this one is a bit of a departure: depictions of children running across a busy road with their eyes shut and a boy setting fire to his head. On his web site, Griffiths defended his book, saying it is a "hilarious and irreverent collection of cautionary tales and violent demonstrations that serves as a warning to children and their parents everywhere." "On one page of the book a child says to his mother: 'Mummy can I run across this very busy six-lane highway with my eyes shut?
' to which the mother replies: 'Well, I don't know'" she said. "The child later runs across the road with a picture of him getting hit by a car. Jet fakes emergency so Gambian fans can watch soccer team play in Peru The plane, claiming to be low on fuel, landed Tuesday in Peru's northern coast city of Piura, where Gambia played Qatar in the FIFA Under-17 World Championships later that night.
Emergency crews were scrambled ahead of the Lockhead L1011 Tri-Star's unscheduled landing. It was to have landed in the capital, Lima. Gunman in undies didn't get far A drunk man carried a shotgun down a busy Darwin street wearing only his underpants, Darwin Magistrates Court heard yesterday.
Mark David Wright, 32, was charged with carrying a firearm in a public place, possessing a firearm while under the influence and with not having a gun licence after police found him walking down Trower Rd in the early hours of November 11 last year. "I realised I was walking down Trower Rd with a shotgun and it probably wasn't a good look," he said. Aries man sues over negative horoscope The man complained about a prediction earlier this year that Arians would "rediscover the emotions of adolescence especially in the field of love, where the desire to have fun will overtake the need to build something longer-lasting.
" He told the court that he was a "serious father" and risked being typecast by employers as a "skirt-chaser" and therefore unreliable. Jurors hearing the case against a former judge accused of exposing himself in his Creek County courtroom will be allowed to see the sex toy at the center of the state's allegations, a judge ruled Tuesday in rejecting a defense motion. They also can hear testimony that a second "penis pump" was seen under former District Judge Donald Thompson's bench, among other evidence Thompson's attorneys sought to have barred from next week's scheduled trial.
Woman banned from pub - for laughing Stephanie Berriman was told that her high-pitched laugh was annoying other drinkers, reports the Sun. She said: "I could understand it if I was some wild tearaway on drink and drugs but I'm a non-drinking, middle-aged housewife who likes to have a laugh." Farmer Gheorghe Popa, 52, from Galati, had been moving the grain sacks to the barn when he stopped to watch his 25-year-old wife Loredana hang up the washing.
He got himself over excited and dropped the sack on his erect penis, snapping vital tendons and ligaments. "We have done what we can for him but he may never regain use of the organ again, at least for sexual purposes." Dutch Reporter to Use Heroin, Pot on TV A field reporter for a new Dutch television talk show plans to use heroin and other illegal drugs on the air during the weekly program on issues that concern young people, producers said Wednesday.
The announcement of "Shoot Up and Swallow," scheduled to premiere as a late-night show Oct. 10, sparked an outcry. For one episode, Wesselink, 26, plans to smoke heroin, said Ingrid Timmer, spokeswoman for the show's producer, BNN.
For others, he plans to go on a drinking binge in a series of pubs and to take the hallucinogenic drug LSD - on his couch under the supervision of his mother. In a sobering lesson to always inspect goods before accepting them, the New South Wales police force took delivery of 50 lime green vests with ALCO emblazoned on them instead of ACLO, an abbreviation for Aboriginal Community Liaison Officers, The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported Tuesday. Alcohol abuse is a major problem in many Aboriginal communities, and Moroney apologized for any offence the typo may have caused before the vests were recalled.
A Wisconsin man upset with the Wausau parks department found an unusual way to retaliate, according to reports. Police said the man repeatedly hung women's underwear on department vehicles while they were parked for the night. He told investigators he was upset with the parks department because an employee cutting grass at a park would blow grass onto him while he sat in a gazebo.
A Shrewsbury teenager, who police said was trying to imitate a stunt from the MTV television show "Jackass," was killed Sunday evening when he jumped from the car he was driving. Police said Page was driving about 30 mph south on Quarterline Road in West Rutland when he turned on the car's cruise control, opened the driver's side door, and intentionally jumped from the vehicle while it was still moving. The Dynamic Steppers, a Wichita drill team, were practicing routines Saturday night when members of another drill team, the White Tigers, showed up and challenged the others to a "dance-off," police said.
When the challengers appeared to be losing, a woman struck a 17-year-old Dynamic Steppers drummer in the face with a drumstick, Easter said. An estimated 50 people became involved in the altercation. The fast-food chain, Burger King, is withdrawing its ice-cream cones after the lid of the dessert offended a Muslim.
The man claimed the design resembled the Arabic inscription for Allah, and branded it sacrilegious, threatening a "jihad". The chain is being forced to spend thousands of pounds redesigning the lid with backing from The Muslim Council of Britain. It apologised and said: "The design simply represents a spinning ice-cream cone.
" Bush and Hitler 'back' stray dog campaign George Bush, Adolf Hitler and Nicolae Ceausescu are being used to persuade people to adopt stray dogs in Romania. Posters featuring them with the slogan: "A dog loves you just the way you are" are appearing on billboards across the country. "I expect criticism but also some appreciation for our work and idea.
But more than that, I expect that people will get the message that anyone who loves dogs can save them from a shelter." Becca Gardner got a backside view of co-star Morgan Freeman for a scene in "An Unfinished Life." In the new movie directed by Lasse Hallstrom, Freeman plays a ranch hand who was mauled by a bear, making him dependent on morphine.
Becca's character has to give him an injection. "I was kind of nervous to see, like, his butt, and I pulled down his pants and he was wearing a thong!" the 15-year-old told the Associated Press in an interview.
He had said he would do the nude dash if rightist Act Party leader Rodney Hide won a parliamentary seat in the Aukland suburb of Epsom. Regarded as an outside chance, Hide romped home in the contest Saturday with a 3,200-vote majority. "We haven't set a date, we've got preparations to do in terms of choreography," Locke said.
"It will be artistic and it will involve body paint." "When Mr. Locke is ready, the .
.. association will warn the faint-hearted, clear the footpath on Broadway .
.. ensure there are the necessary officials, and provide a much-needed loincloth," Brewer said.
Jilted Lover in Web Hate Campaign A jilted lover set up a pornographic website featuring naked pictures of his ex-girlfriend in a hate campaign launched after she dumped him. Motor racing promoter Alan Williamson advertised the website address on the livery of his racing cars as he travelled the world to race events. He made numerous phone calls to his ex-girlfriend and sent up to 60 text messages a night to her mobile phone.
Psychopaths could be best financial traders? A team of U.S.
scientists has found the emotionally impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes and that people with brain damage may make good financial decisions, the Times newspaper reported Monday. One of the researchers, Antione Bechara, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Iowa, said the best stock market investors might plausibly be called "functional psychopaths." It was supposed to be just a regular theme park photo with Scooby Doo.
When Eddie Bronson arrived at Universal Studios, he saw Scooby and stopped so that his daughter could take a picture with the dog and shaggy. But witnesses said that was not the only thing that happened. Bronson told police he was only petting Scooby.
But, according to a statement, Bronson grabbed the character's head and was shaking it. The statement then said Bronson started to grab the character's snout and pull him down. Stripping suspect ditches jumpsuit 2 times in court In the midst of a hearing in Allen Superior Court, 40-year-old Bradford Zeigler re-enacted the crime he is accused of committing this year.
Zeigler appeared in court Wednesday with several other inmates. He was supposed to be pleading guilty to a felony charge of public nudity stemming from an arrest in May after an officer spotted him walking naked through Foster Park. Officials have already discussed how Zeigler will be taken into court the next time he must appear, with restraints to prevent him from disrobing yet again before the judge, attorneys and others in the courtroom, Kite said.
Cops: Man Throws Biscuits to Distract Dog Kim, 23, of Overland Park, Kan., along U.S.
24 on Wednesday, but reported that they called for a Wabash County Sheriff's Department dog after he appeared to be very nervous and at one point vomited. As the dog walked around the car, Kim threw dog biscuits and debris out the window toward the dog in an apparent attempt to distract it, police said. The dog nonetheless indicated the possible presence of illegal drugs in the car.
Vasil Plovdiv, 35, was shooting quail in Rasgrad in the north-east of the country with his German Pointer when the dog, which had retrieved a bird, refused to drop it. According to police, Plovdiv tried to dislodge the dead quail from the pointer's mouth with the butt of his rifle but the dog sprung at him, knocking the trigger and peppering the hunter's chest with shot. Power-dressing man leaves trail of destruction An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.
When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet. "We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said. Woman complains to cops after hitman she hired fails to get the job done A woman who hired a hitman to murder the wife of her lover, and then complained to police when he didn't do the job, has been arrested along with the hitman, police said.
The murderous intentions of Eriko Kawaguchi, a Tokyo Fire Fighting Department employee, came to light after she complained to police because the hitman didn't carry out the job, although she paid him about 15 million yen. Gorilla mask, teen streaker - the chase begins Some might call it monkey business, but Union Springs High School Principal Kimberle Ward didn't find it amusing when she learned a male student had streaked down a hallway with nothing on but a gorilla mask Monday afternoon. In fact, Ward ran after the naked student after he slipped out of the high school near the south side parking lot.
Ward, who runs three to five miles daily, chased the student down North Cayuga Street (Route 90) before finally losing sight of him near the village's retail district. Driving-test examiner Laurie Holden said she was deciding whether to give a new driver a passing grade yesterday when the road test ended with him crashing his car through the Rutherford County Driver License Station in Murfreesboro. "I remember telling him to stop as we pulled up to the building," said Holden, who has worked as an examiner for seven years.
"The next thing I knew it was raining bricks all around us." Investigators believe the driver hit the accelerator instead of the brake. Danes provide prostitutes for the disabled The official 'Sex, irrespective of disability' campaign pays sex workers to provide sex once a month for disabled people.
Stig Langvad of the country's Disabled Association said the politicians critical of the plan are showing "double standards". He said: "The disabled must have the same possibilities as other people. Politicians can debate whether prostitution should be allowed in general, instead of preventing only the disabled from having access to it.
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