A man in Australia attempted to use a frozen chicken he had stolen earlier to break into a cafÈ. The man was apprehended around 3am when he called emergency services after slashing his wrist on the window glass he had used the bird to break.
Leeds University (England) recently apologized to a doctoral student for throwing out a 77 lbs. bag of lizard feces. Daniel Bennett had been using feces samples to study for his dissertation on the butaan lizard, an extremely shy relative of the komodo dragon. The university said that protocols would be implemented to avoid such errors, and that the loss of the feces samples would not prohibit the completion of Bennett’s thesis.
A worker in Guangzhou, China died after his cell phone exploded, severing an artery in his neck. A co-worker and witness said the man had recently charged his battery. Authorities have yet to determine the make of the phone and battery, and police are investigating the possibility that one or the other was counterfeit.
A drug trafficking trial in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ended with two acquittals Friday, as officers were unable to testify which of two identical twins had held the key to the house where the drugs had been stored. The judge presiding in the case had ruled previously that only the twin who had held the key could be proven guilty, a fortunate ruling for the twins, as Malaysia requires death by hanging for those guilty of drug trafficking.
Lismore County, Australia, has started offering environmentally friendly, carbon-neutral burials. For roughly $2,000 U.S., the deceased are provided with a biodegradable shroud or coffin and an entombment in the Lismore memorial gardens, which feature gum trees, koalas, and other fauna. Burials are tracked on a cemetery map, and by GPS coordinates.
Colorado Springs has seen a small rash of hold-ups by a man wielding a pint-sized replica of a Klingon weapon. As of February 4th, the man had entered two 7-Eleven stores, leaving the first with money, and leaving empty-handed after being rebuffed at the second. Police said they did not know if the replica weapon was metal.
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