BERLIN (AP) - An early-morning German bank customer had a bit of a shock when he found a horse already in line at the automatic teller machine in front of him. It seems the horse’s owner, identified only as Wolfgang H., had a bit too much to drink the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank’s heated foyer, police said Tuesday.
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NEW ROCKFORD, N.D. –Forget taking a limousine to the prom. One high school senior drove his date in a 1992 green John Deere 8760 tractor.
“A few people made bets with me that I wouldn’t do it,” said Levi Rue, a senior at New Rockford-Sheyenne High School. “I guess I won them.”
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MOBILE, Ala. - There’s no use crying over spilled milk, but spilled soda has been a nightmare for one man.
Eric Burns Overstreet was put in jail in September after entering the Mystik Stop & Shop, paying for a fountain drink and spilling three cups of it onto the floor.
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GUWEI’IYYA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - The legs are long, the eyes are big, the bodies curvaceous.
Contestants in this Saudi-style beauty pageant have all the features you might expect anywhere else in the world, but with one crucial difference — the competitors are camels.
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MUMBAI: Indian teachers sprinkled cow urine on low-caste students to purify them and drive away evil, reports said, in a country where millions of people remain oppressed at the bottom of the ancient Hindu caste system.
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Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pa., was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from “Mary Poppins” in 15 seconds.
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A 20-year-old Mesa woman who had urinated on herself grabbed a pair of khaki pants at a department store, put them on and attempted to leave, police records show.
The woman was stopped by security officers at the Mervyn’s in the 1200 block of East Main Street on Sunday afternoon with several articles of underclothing valued at $47 stuffed in her purse, police said.
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A San Francisco woman who allegedly walked away from her baby boy after giving birth to him on a street corner was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment and neglect, police said.
Nadine Matthews gave birth on the sidewalk Sunday night, then walked away pretending that it never happened, said SFPD Capt. Al Casciato.
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A controversial sex therapy where men pay to get erotic “lessons” from women is having success in Australia, a world sex congress has been told.
Sex surrogate therapy is frowned on by most in the medical establishment, but a Melbourne-based sexologist who recently resurrected the contentious treatment says business is booming and the results are good.
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Hong Kong - Deep in the belly of one of Hong Kong’s largest malls, a mechanical stomach is digesting a social ill that is now catching the attention of this city’s restaurateurs and environmentalists: too many leftovers.
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