Bilingual Dogs Invade Britain

The sad thing is that the dogs will probably become fluent in two languages, much better than humans

clipped from news.yahoo.com LONDON (AFP) - British police dog handlers are learning to give orders to their animals in German after bosses decided to import Alsatians because of a shortage of suitable animals here, media reports said Friday. A trial of the German dogs by Derbyshire Police in east central England has been deemed a success, prompting 16 other forces to recruit the canines at 2,000 pounds (2,600 euros, 3,900 dollars) each. Handlers have had to learn a series of orders in German, including "sitz" (sit), "platz" (down), "aus" (let go), "holen" (fetch) and "bissen" (bite). A Derbyshire Police spokeswoman told the Press Association news agency said they were attempting to get the dogs to respond to English. "We are repeating the German commands in English so they are becoming bilingual," she added.

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Snake Balls Snapped Up on eBay

People will buy the strangest things. Hey, if I swallow a couple of golf balls do you suppose?.....maybe not...

In a follow-up to the story of a snake eating golf balls (Snake Eats Balls), the balls have been sold on eBay for over $1000!

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Corpse tries to Cash Check

It's what he would have wanted...

clipped from www.ananova.com Two men have been arrested in New York for wheeling a dead friend through the streets in an office chair and trying to cash his cheque. David Dalaia and James O'Hare, were seen pushing Virgilio Cintron's body from their Manhattan apartment to a cheque-cashing store a block away. The men left Cintron's body outside the store, went inside and tried to cash his cheque, worth about £180. Cintron's body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner's office told police it appeared Cintron, 66, had died from natural causes.

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Granny Shoots Lion

Sometimes you gotta do, what you gotta do.

An 80 year old woman shot and killed a mountain lion after emergency services said there was no one to help her.

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Snow in Kabul

And I complain when we have a few inches...

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Man Pulls Plane With Teeth

The things people will do to get their plane to take off on time...

clipped from www.ananova.com A Chinese man has pulled a small aeroplane more than ten metres with his teeth. Zhang Shaoxiong, 42, nicknamed Dragon Boy, performed the stunt in Red Sun square in Xiangtan city. "It wasn't a big deal for me. I've pulled things that are even heavier," he told Changsha Evening News. Zhang says he was inspired to train himself to pull heavy objects with his teeth 20 years ago. Zhang says his super-strong teeth also come from his life-long habit of chewing betel nuts.

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Dog Drunk as a Dog

I've heard of "drunk as a skunk"...

A dog was hospitalized after being well over the alcohol limit, unable to stand properly and certainly unable to drive (except in Italy).

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Raining Cats, Dogs and...Lizards?

Hey, it's like an iguana popsicle!

clipped from news.yahoo.com MIAMI (AFP) - An unexpected cold snap this week sent thermometers plummeting in Florida and heat-hungry iguanas dropping from tree branches like autumn leaves, scientists and witnesses said. Passersby in Bill Baggs and Crandon parks in Key Biscayne, south of Miami, were seen picking up the seemingly lifeless lizards from the ground beneath trees and setting them in the sun, where after a brief warm-up, most revived and scampered off into the bushes. Iguanas are not native to Florida but were brought in by travelers from Mexico, Central and South America.

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Cat Spends Two Months Locked in Shed

Poor pussy. Then they showed how much they loved her by giving her away!

clipped from www.ananova.com A cat accidentally locked in a garden shed in Devon survived for two months by licking condensation off the windows. Emmy, imprisoned when she followed her owner into the garden shed in Toray which he locked up for the winter, left tongue marks on the glass. The family has since moved and given Emmy to the Blue Cross animal centre, reports the BBC. Centre manager Laura Valentine said the family had been upset at the accidental distress they caused the 10-year-old cat. "She is absolutely fine now and is a little fighter," she added.

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Man Stabs Barber

I have to admit, I don't like it when they talk too much - but this is going a bit too far!

A San Diego man was arrested after he stabbed his barber because he didn't like his haircut.

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Snake Eats Balls

Hey, it was probably dark in that chicken coop.

A carpet snake had to undergo surgery after it ate four golf balls by mistake.

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Kisses Missin' at "Kiss In"

60,000 thousand people gathered for a mass "kiss in" in Venice on New Years Eve. I don't know about you, but I can't see anyone kissing!

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