Cops become crash test dummies
Two police officers took a highpowered sports car for a spin after arresting its driver in the early hours - and wrote it off.
While waiting for a recovery truck, the pair climbed into the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII and fired it up.
Moments later the turbocharged, four-wheel drive car - which can do 0-60mph in 3.5 seconds - had ploughed through the gardens of two luxury homes and flipped on its side.
7.Sep.10 | Any other business
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Bereaved man doll-ighted with new girlfriend
A BEREAVED man has had a £15,000 life-size sex doll made in the image of his dead lover, The Mirror reports. The 50-year-old brought photos of his girlfriend to a sex shop…
6.Sep.10 | Any other business
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Plastic fantastic
AN EVENING newspaper has come up with an ingenious way to beat a League One football club’s ban on photographers, Sky reports. Instead of real-life pictures of their team thumping Southampton, readers…
2.Sep.10 | Any other business
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Phone goes home
A MAN who bought a shiny new mobile phone online, choosing it because it looked just like his old one, realised afterwards it was actually the very one that had been…
1.Sep.10 | Any other business
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Man blows himself up while killing spider
A MAN suffered flash burns after he accidentally blew himself up trying to kill a spider, The Telegraph reports. The 28 year-old suffered severe burns after attacking the arachnid with an…
31.Aug.10 | Any other business
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Google ‘dead body’ sparks panic
A schoolgirl sparked panic after she was photographed lying face down and seemingly dead on Google Street View. People living in Middle Road, St John’s, Worcester, were so concerned they contacted…
12.Aug.10 | Any other business
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Hundred club goes missing
NEARLY 200 of Japan’s centenarians are missing, according to the country’s latest audit of those aged over 100. An examination of Japan’s centenarian population was prompted by last month’s discovery of a mummified body believed…
11.Aug.10 | Any other business
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Air steward sees red
AN AIRLINE flight attendant who swore at an unruly passenger before storming out of his plane via the emergency inflatable slide has been arrested in New York. Steven Slater, 39, argued with…
9.Aug.10 | Any other business
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Two-track wonder arrested
A BUSKER who only knows two songs was arrested after threatening a pub landlord who pleaded with him to learn how to play something else, The Telegraph reports. Dean Langley played Wonderwall…
8.Aug.10 | Any other business
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A dog’s dinner
A RESTAURANT has opened its doors for four-legged customers to sample its tasty range of dogs’ dinners. The canine clientele can bring human chums but they are not allowed to eat. Chew Chew…
5.Aug.10 | Any other business
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Gambler loses bet over aliens
THE Ministry of Defence intervened in a dispute between a gambler and Ladbrokes, after the betting agency refused to pay out a bet that aliens existed, the UFO files disclose. The…
4.Aug.10 | Any other business
