World record attempts are usually amusing. This is because nowadays most of the attempts are on rediculous records, like how many hours someone can go without sleep or eating as many hotdogs as possible in 10 minutes. However, the reason they’re amusing is not often down to the organisers or participants failing in a pretty [...]

Ah, bad thieves. They provide constant amusement with their antics for all the rest of us to enjoy, making us feel a little less infuriated by the ones who are good at what they do (the sods). This time, its a thief in Mexico who stole a gold bracelet off an 8 year old girl.
When [...]

Japan, and a once-troubled train station has been saved from eventual closure by none other than a stray cat. The station had lost all of its staff as traveller numbers decreased ever lower, and was in danger of being closed down by Wakayama Electric Railway, the station’s operator.
The cat, who was born and raised at [...]

A shopkeeper in the US has been using his own novel method of stopping the plague of shoplifters who come into his shop regularly. He simply tells them to either hand over their shoe or he will call the police, relying on the fact that people would rather lose a shoe than be hauled in [...]

Wolf whistling is the passtime of men around the world (well, builders around the world). It annoys women, allows men to be chauvenistic without being directly offensive and is the signal of ‘you have a nice body’ from those men who find communication using speech a little bit too hard. Usually the woman ends up [...]

A couple accidentally drove up a runway at Norwich International Airport in an attempt to hand over a cheque for £10,000 to air ambulance services at the airport. They had been involved in raising the money for charity and were looking for the air ambulance depot when they made the ‘wrong turn’.
Pat Newman was driving [...]

A woman who believes her husband was cheating on her with another woman before they split up has got her revenge: by posting pictures of his naked backside all over his home town. The posters carry the tagline ‘Pasha Cummings: lying, cheating, two-timing arse! Sandra Beckworth is no better.’
He claims he didn’t start seeing the [...]

An 18 year-old in Australia was in court to answer to charges of possession of drugs, and his sentencing may well raise eyebrows. In addition to the usual sort of punishments for drug possession, 3 years probation and 100 hours community service, he has been ordered to produce a 2,000 word essay on the dangers [...]

Americans love their guns, they also love their cars. So what could be better than bundling them together for a promotion to sell more cars? A car dealership in the USA has started a promotion offering a free gun or a free gas card worth $250 – and guess which is proving the most popular!
Apparently [...]

A few thousand GCSE Music students got an unexpected bonus the other day when the exam they sat turned out to have the answers on the back of it. A list of composers was featured on the paper, apparently linked to the answers of the questions on the other side.
The exam board, OCR, only realised [...]