Select a Category:

Most Emailed Odd News

  1. 9-year-old cat named Tama wears a stationmaster's cap of Wakayama Electric Railway at the Kishi station, in Wakayama prefecture of Japan. As the economic might of Japan faces up to the global banking crisis, Tama has boosted the finances of a small Japanese city by millions of dollars, according to a study.(AFP/Toru Yamanaka)
    Tama is the purr-fect antidote to financial gloom: study AFP - Sun Oct 5, 3:03 AM ET Sent 127 times

    TOKYO (AFP) - As the economic might of Japan faces up to the global banking crisis a single cat has boosted the finances of a small Japanese city by millions of dollars, according to a study.

  2. Many workers do not respect their bosses Reuters - Mon Oct 6, 3:45 PM ET Sent 26 times

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Almost half of U.S. workers do not respect their boss and only half believe they are competent, according to an online survey released on Friday.

  3. 'Bra Bandit' strikes again in southwest Florida AP - Mon Oct 6, 9:24 PM ET Sent 17 times

    BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - There's a bra bandit on the loose in southwest Florida. The Lee County Sheriff's Office was searching for an individual they say stole 160 bras valued at nearly $6,000 on Thursday from a Victoria Secret store, the latest in a string of bra burglaries in the area.

  4. 86 cats rescued from 2-bedroom condo in Colorado AP - Mon Oct 6, 9:24 PM ET Sent 15 times

    GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. - A Glenwood Springs animal shelter was trying to find homes for 86 cats rescued from a two-bedroom condominium. The Colorado Animal Rescue Shelter received the cats on Wednesday. Since then, workers have been scrambling to accommodate the animals at area shelters and homes.

  5. Bao Xishun, 57, a 2.36-metre (7 feet, 9 inches) herdsman listed by the Guinness World Records as the tallest living man, looks at his new-born baby at a hospital in Zunhua, Hebei province October 2, 2008. The world's tallest man, China's Bao Xishun, became the world's tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mom. Picture taken October 2, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)
    World's tallest man becomes world's tallest dad Reuters - Mon Oct 6, 3:44 PM ET Sent 14 times

    BEIJING (Reuters) - The world's tallest man, China's Bao Xishun, became the world's tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mum.

  6. A large male crocodile watches a crowd gathered for feeding time at Darwin's Crocodile Farm located 100 kilometres south of Darwin in this file photo from May 10, 2005. (David Gray/Reuters)
    Australian boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc Reuters - Mon Oct 6, 3:39 PM ET Sent 12 times

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.

  7. Extremely drunk R.I. driver pleads no contest AP - Mon Oct 6, 9:24 PM ET Sent 10 times

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A man who state police said had a blood alcohol level more than six times the legal limit when he was arrested in July has pleaded no contest to drunken driving.

  8. France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner addresses a news conference in Brussels in this September 15, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Thierry Roge
    Dropped "h" causes trouble for France's Kouchner Reuters - Mon Oct 6, 3:42 PM ET Sent 9 times

    PARIS (Reuters) - A dropped 'h' landed English-speaking French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner in trouble on Sunday after he was mistakenly quoted as saying Israel could gobble up Iran if it wanted to.

  9. Woman seeks new route after 2 intersection wrecks AP - Mon Oct 6, 9:26 PM ET Sent 5 times

    POCATELLO, Idaho - An intersection in southeastern Idaho has proven unlucky for a woman who's been in two car accidents at the same crossroads since August. Kris Payne was driving at the intersection of Pole Line and Eldredge roads on Thursday when another driver ran a red light and collided into her Chevy Blazer.

  10. A large male crocodile watches a crowd gathered for feeding time at Darwin's Crocodile Farm located 100 kilometres south of Darwin in this file photo from May 10, 2005. (David Gray/Reuters)
    Boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc Reuters - Fri Oct 3, 3:10 PM ET Sent 5 times

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.

  11. Man shoots himself in arm after being denied sex AP - Thu Oct 2, 9:02 PM ET Sent 3 times

    FORT MYERS, Fla. - Authorities say a Fort Myers man shot himself in the arm after his girlfriend refused to have sex with him. The Lee County Sheriff's Office reported that a 29-year-old man and his girlfriend returned home from a bar early Wednesday morning.

  12. In this undated image released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT student Oliver Smoot is shown lying on the ground of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge in Cambridge, Mass. Smoot was the shortest pledge in the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1958 when its members decided to lay him on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge. After discovering Smoot measured 5-foot-7 inches, they marked the bridge every five feet and seven inches, with an eventually exhausted Smoot getting up and down for each new measurement. They soon determined the bridge was 364.4 'Smoots' long. Smoot returned Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008, to be honored at MIT, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented the unique measurement 50 years ago. (AP Photo/MIT)
    'Smoot' measurement reaches new heights at MIT AP - Sun Oct 5, 10:50 AM ET Sent 3 times

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The father of a measurement known as the "Smoot" returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years ago.

  13. A box of Viagra, typically used to treat erectile dysfunction, is seen in a pharmacy in Toronto January 31, 2008. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)
    Horny Goat Weed may offer Viagra alternative: study Reuters - Tue Sep 30, 3:31 PM ET Sent 2 times

    LONDON (Reuters) - A Chinese herbal remedy called horny goat weed is a promising alternative to Viagra for impotent men, Italian researchers said on Monday.

  14. This photo released by Lamar University shows Jim Westgate, a trained paleontologist and a research associate with the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the University of Texas Memorial Museum, posing in Beaumont,Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, with a fossil tooth of a mammoth that he found in Caplen, Texas, in the debris from Hurricane Ike. Westgate believes the fossil discovered in the Ike-damaged debris is from a Columbian mammoth. (AP Photo/Lamar University, Brian Sattler)
    Big fossil found in Ike-ravaged home's front yard AP - Sat Oct 4, 12:27 AM ET Sent 2 times

    CAPLEN, Texas - A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris.

  15. Mexican Air Force aircraft fly past during a military parade celebrating Independence Day in Mexico City September 16, 2008. (Henry Romero/Reuters)
    Thieves steal five small planes Reuters - Wed Oct 1, 12:42 PM ET Sent 1 times

    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Armed men stole five small planes from a private airstrip in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa on Tuesday by overpowering a police officer and flying away, security forces said.

  16. Decoys wanted: Ad drew look-alikes for Wash. thief AP - Thu Oct 2, 9:02 PM ET Sent 1 times

    MONROE, Wash. - An online advertisement offered $28.50 an hour to anyone who wore a blue, long-sleeved shirt, yellow safety vest, eye protection and ventilator mask and waited near a bank.

  17. A giant inflatable condom at an AIDS Solidarity rally in France. A missing Mexican "condom-mobile" was found in a parking lot outside the capital minus 4,000 condoms and a seven-meter inflatable replica, an HIV/AIDS prevention worker told local television Thursday.(AFP/File/Stephane de Sakutin)
    Stolen condom carrier recovered in Mexico, minus condoms AFP - Thu Oct 2, 1:23 PM ET Sent 1 times

    MEXICO CITY (AFP) - A missing Mexican "condom-mobile" was found in a parking lot outside the capital minus 4,000 condoms and a seven-meter inflatable replica, an HIV/AIDS prevention worker told local television Thursday.

  18. The clipper ship Cutty Sark at Greenwich dock in London in 2004. A fire which gutted the 19th century ship, which is one of London's most popular tourist attractions, was sparked by a vacuum cleaner, police have said.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)
    Cutty Sark fire started by vacuum cleaner: police AFP - Tue Sep 30, 7:57 AM ET Sent 1 times

    LONDON (AFP) - A fire which swept through a 19th century ship which has long been one of London's most popular tourist attractions was sparked by a vacuum cleaner, police said on Tuesday.

  19. Taxi drivers gather in front of the city hall during a protest against fuel price increases in Berlin July 8, 2008. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
    Man swings machete in parking dispute Reuters - Wed Oct 1, 2:35 PM ET Sent 1 times

    BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man became so angry in an argument with a taxi driver over parking that he struck him on the head with a machete and chopped off the man's finger.

More Most Popular