Wacky World News

Royal Navy munitions disposal experts were recently compelled to blow up a lobster. Divers noticed the lobster inside an unexploded World War II mine in a Dorset, England, harbor that had been targeted for detonation. Although the divers attempted to coax the lobster out from the mine, they were unsuccessful, and were forced to proceed.

A finalist in the Miss Plastic contest in Hungary–held to find the world’s top plastic surgeon–tore a ligament after the weight of her recent breast implants, coupled with new hair extensions, caused her to lose her balance and fall. The injured participant requested that she be allowed to remain in the contest.

A German man mooning railway staff got his pants stuck in the car, and was dragged some 200 meters until a passenger pulled the emergency brake. The young man’s poorly considered self-exposure was an act of retaliation after staff expelled him from the car for traveling without a ticket. The man escaped major injury, but faces charges for dangerous interference in rail transport and a large compensation claim for the 23 trains that were delayed.

A woman in Sheboygan, WI, unsuccessfully employed stripping as a tactic to avoid arrest. Confronted by police at her home after shoplifting beef jerky, the woman first swore at her children, and then stripped to her underwear, informing police: “You can’t arrest me as I am going to be naked now.”

A Utah man missed the birth of his child after being arrested for groping one of the nurses assisting with the birth. After his initial verbal advances were ignored, the man began massaging the nurse’s neck, and then grabbed her breast, at which point the nurse pushed the man away and called the police. The man was promptly arrested.

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