Pro-government activists in Russia staged one of the best pranks ever to disrupt the chess champion Garry Kasparov – a remote controlled helicopter modified to have a penis instead of the regular ‘chopper’. He was giving a speech at a rally in Russia about his new favourite topic, the Kremlin (and how he dislikes them [...]

Power cuts are bloody annoying. All of a sudden, the TV flicks off in the middle of the program you’re watching, or the PC turns off before you have a chance to save that important bit of work you were doing. Then you have the joyous experience of navigating your darkened house, stubbing your toes [...]

Benefit scammers – everyone hates them. Everyone seems to know someone who has done it. But when do the punishments lose all credibility? How about they already have… A man who claims income support, council tax benefit, disability living allowance and incapacity benefit, while his wife claims carer’s allowance for looking after him. This is [...]

In a story to delight young and old (and then make them sick) a woman in Greece found an unwelcome passenger about her person, specifically her ear. The Greek woman was out on a motorbike when she felt a sharp sensation in her ear. Not knowing what it was, she went to the doctors soon [...]

Usually if you want to throw a sickie, you do it with something understandable, short lived and not deadly. Usually. A woman in Washington, USA (what is it with these yanks?) went a step or two further, by blagging that she had a brain tumour. For a good while she managed to get away with [...]

Animal welfare officers took two German Shepherd dogs into their care after allegations that a man has been using them for his own thrills. They claim that he has repeatedly sexually abused them, and are trying to get a court to give them custody of the dogs in order to protect them from further advances. [...]

Ah, bless those Americans, always there to provide us with some hilarity during the day. Texans are even better, which makes this story all the more funny. A group of friends were playing poker and drinking in one of their houses – nothing unusual there, you might say. But when one of them got an [...]

In a superb piece of damage limitation, the Vatican has finally broken its silence on the matter of extra-terrestrial life (aliens to you common sods). They say that aliens can exist without blowing a giant hole in their religious ideas – those aliens would of course have been created by our god too. Another funny [...]

A driver in Australia was stopped by police, where they found that his priorities were a bit skewed (or perfectly normal, depending on your view). Whilst his child was rolling around the floor of the car with no seatbelt, his crate of beer was safe and secure, strapped-in and wedged between two rear passengers. The [...]

A hundred 6th year students at a school in Scotland (year 11 here) have been sent home for turfing the floor of their common room on their final day of school. Apparently they had been drinking too, which didn’t help their case. “There was evidence that some pupils had been drinking and given the size [...]