Yahoo! News Story - Sex, Dogs and Chickens -- Weird Headlines of 2004

January 3, 2005

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Sex, Dogs and Chickens -- Weird Headlines of 2004

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Sex, Dogs and Chickens -- Weird Headlines of 2004

Mon Jan 3, 9:10 AM ET

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By Majendie

LONDON (Reuters) -

Humming sex toy shuts Australian

airport. Taiwanese man tries to convert lions to Jesus, gets

bitten.

Talking toilet orders German men to sit down. Chinese get

busy signal on Beijing suicide line.

Judging by the bizarre headlines that greeted readers

around the world, 2004 was a bumper year for the weird and

wacky.

Canadian guide dog barred for only answering its master's

commands in French. Japanese boy writes apology in blood for

dozing in class.

The list is endless, living proof that truth is all too

often stranger than fiction.

A vibrating sex toy chucked into a rubbish bin at an

Australian airport sparked a security alert that only ended

when an embarrassed passenger came forward to claim what was

identified as "an adult novelty device."

A fervent evangelist who leapt into the lions' den at

Taipei zoo and shouted "Jesus will save you" was lucky to

escape with just a bite in the right leg when he tried to

convert the king of beasts to Christianity.

Feeling suicidal in Beijing? Then be patient.

Nine out of 10 Chinese calling into a suicide-prevention

hotline were greeted by an engaged signal.

When it comes to quirky ideas, man's ingenuity knows no

bounds.

A German inventor came up with a best-selling gadget that

berates men if they try to use the toilet standing up, telling

them: "Put the seat back down right away, you are definitely

not to pee standing up."

The Germans have been accused of being a deadly serious

people with a severe sense of humor failure.

But several surreal tales that would not look out of place

in a Monty Python sketch prove they can laugh at themselves.

German police arrested a flasher who stumbled over his

dropped trousers during an aborted attempt to flee.

A cost-cutting German theater was berated for using just

four dwarves instead of seven in their Snow White show.

A survey revealed that most German men wear the wrong size

condoms. Germans said they find smelly co-workers to be the

most annoying aspect of their jobs.

Britain had its share of oddities too.

UK nursing home staff were so proud of a 105-year-old woman

who had smoked since the age of 15 that they cremated her with

a packet of her favorite cigarettes in the coffin.

A British train conductor stamped and carefully returned

the ticket of a slumbering passenger without realizing the man

was dead.

A South African radio reporter went a little more live than he

anticipated when he was mugged on air for his cellphone while

transmitting from a squatter settlement.

Romance certainly had its rough patches in 2004.

A Norwegian court acquitted a man accused of raping a

sleeping woman after he said he was also asleep at the time.

All three wives of a 67-year-old Iranian man took overdoses

in an unsuccessful triple suicide bid after the youngest wife

sparked jealousy by buying an expensive pair of boots.

A Malaysian man shot his wife dead after he mistook her for

a monkey picking fruit behind their house.

A Spaniard tried to have his wife charged with domestic

abuse because she refused to have sex with him on five

consecutive nights.

Two Italians with the nicknames Bull Shark and Nurse Shark

donned bubble-helmet immersion suits to get married in a shark

tank.

But from Latin America to Africa, tainted love turned twice

to tragedy.

A Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken, drugged fight

and then cooked the man's body in tomato and onion sauce and

ate it over three days.

And a Zambian man hanged himself in shame after his wife

rushed into their house to investigate a noise and found him

having sex with a chicken. The chicken was slaughtered

afterwards.

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