News from Romania and elsewhere
Romanian police arrested a female mobile phone thief whose knickers started to ring when they dialled the stolen phone. A Romanian traffic policeman who fined a driver for 'having a face like a moron' was demoted to a desk job in a remote village. A face moisturiser made out of semen has been launched in Mexico. A 5-year-old Shropshire boy thought he'd found a toy in his box of Golden Puffs, but it was a live two foot long corn snake. A Polish tourist whose car broke down was dragged down a busy motorway in Thuringia at 100 mph by a motorist who kindly offered to tow him to the next service station. Scientists have developed a system which enables people to stroke chickens over the internet. A new computer virus reported in Romania deletes only gipsy music files. An American couple have created a scented candle based on biblical accounts of what Jesus smelled like. Visitors to Hamburg parks are being warned to watch out for exploding toads. Police in India arrested a holy man who forced a woman to strip naked and broke coconuts on her head. A Ukrainian woman was arrested after she tried to smuggle two bears on board a plane by claiming they were dogs, and a Chinese man pretended to be a hunchback in order to smuggle his pet turtle onto a flight. Police in Italy have uncovered a secret racecourse with grandstands, a car park and 80 racehorses. A shop in Cornwall has called in a vicar to get rid of a ghost which keeps rearranging a pair of brown shoes on display in the window. Ukrainian firemen fled in panic from a blazing building after one of them grabbed a hosepipe that turned out to be a ten foot python.