News So Weird, you will tell your friends! #1

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Man grows pencil on his arm
ananova.com




Doctors have replaced a man's pencil with one grown on his forearm.

The 30-year-old Russian, named only as Sergei, has his 2-and-a-half-inch pencil removed and attached to his arm.

Using tissue it grew to 6-and-a-half inches and was sewn back on his groin in an 11-hour operation reports The Sun.

A Moscow surgeon said the man will be able to have sex in a few months. He said: "Women will never suspect."

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Woman wins 10p compensation
ananova.com



A judge from Rio de Janeiro has ordered a bank to pay 10p to a costumer.

In 2002 Janice Araujo's savings account at the HSBC bank lost 10p during a transaction. She sued the bank as a result of the mistake.

She won her case and the judge has ordered the bank to pay her 10p compensation

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Bored fireman start fires
ananova.com



Two firemen from Ancud in Chile have been arrested for setting property on fire.

Jose Antecao Gonzales and Luis Navarro Aguila are being accused of setting fire to houses and shops in the Isla Chiloe area.

The firemen told the police they were bored and that they would compete to see who would arrive first at the fire.

A police spokesperson told La Cuarta newspaper: "They would set the places on fire then run back to their HQ."

Nobody was injured in the fires.

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Formula for a happy relationship
ananova.com



A German scientist has calculated a formula for a happy relationship where criticism needs to be cancelled out by five compliments.

Dr Hans-Werner Bierhoff, from the social psychology department at the Ruhr University Bochum, claims that couples should ideally compliment their partners five times for each time they criticise them.

He said:"Then people feel good in their relationship. Goodwill increases your potential to be happy."

Professor Bierhoff and his colleague Elke Rohmann conducted tests on thousands of individuals and couples and used the results to write a book called "What makes love strong" that provides advice on how relationships can be made to last.

The book also addresses problems that relationships can face as circumstances change.

He said that unemployment, infidelity or "stressful experiences" like diseases, depression or child birth can upset the balance and lead to a break-up.

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Japanese youth 'hijacks' airport bus and lands in jail
Tue Mar 22, 2005




TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese youth who wanted to go to Tokyo's Haneda airport boarded a bus heading there before threatening to hijack it unless it took him to ... the airport.
The unemployed 19-year-old bought a ticket for the early morning bus on Monday. During the journey he stood up and shouted to the driver that he was going to hijack the bus.

The youth was drunk and wasn't carrying a weapon. He was arrested when the driver alerted police and is being held on suspicion of forcible obstruction of business.

"He just wanted to make a scene," a police spokesman said on Tuesday.

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Horrifying Highway 401 scene, but first impressions deceiving, no injuries
cnews.canoe.ca



NAPANEE, Ont. (CP) - It was a horrifying scene on the nation's busiest highway Monday morning, with mangled cars and a disabled tractor-trailer scattered across Highway 401.

Early calls to the nearby Ontario Provincial Police detachment in Napanee, Ont., painted a terrifying picture of a tractor-trailer crushing several cars on the highway.

But initial appearances were deceiving.

"When the officers first arrived, they weren't sure what they had because there were crushed cars all over the place," said Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Jim Cosgrove.

"But it turned out that it was part of the load of crushed cars - fortunately."

Police closed a section of the highway running through eastern Ontario for a few hours when a tractor-trailer hauling the cars dropped part of its load early Monday.

Several of the vehicles came loose and slid onto the highway. It looked like a tragic, multi-vehicle crash, but the cars were empty and had already been scrunched for scrap metal.

There were no injuries and police reopened the highway a short time later.

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One of our local radio stations (Vibe 98.5) is a regular daily visitor to the Total Motorcycle Forum as they keep using the stories I'm posting in the Funny Stories/Weird News topics (this one) on the radio each morning!!

This morning they used the "Horrible accident on Hwy with crushed cars story"

I really don't mind at all, as these are great funny news stories to share on the radio!

Mike.

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Well I think they should give us a plug for free.