Salami Captures Thief

You should always remember to take your salami with you!

clipped from news.yahoo.com BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities were able to pin a burglary committed in April on a suspected serial thief after he left a half-eaten slice of salami carrying a sliver of his DNA at a crime scene, police said Thursday. The 37-year-old Romanian man is accused of breaking into a workshop office in the western city of Darmstadt, stealing cash and two locks and causing damage worth around 3,400 euros ($5,055), Suedhessen police spokesman Ferdinand Derigs said. "He didn't bring the salami with him -- it was just lying around in the office," Derigs said.

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Bird Poops in Reporter's Mouth

During a live report on bird infestation a bird dropped something into a reporter's mouth as he was looking up. A whole new meaning to the phrase "potty mouth!".

Bird Poops in Reporter's Mouth

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Father and Son Have Webbed Hands

A father and son in China were both born with webbed hands. They are looking to have surgery to correct it.

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Cheeta to Write Tell All Book

Actually, it will probably be better than some other Hollywood biographies.

clipped from www.ananova.com Cheeta the Chimp, who co-starred in a dozen Tarzan films, is to publish his memoirs. The chimpanzee is listed in the Guinness World Records as the oldest living non-human primate at 75. He has taken on a literary agent and is working with a ghostwriter on a "funny, moving and searingly honest" autobiography. Me Cheeta will be published in October. The publisher would not reveal the advance payment, but said the sum was "substantial - not bananas".

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Duck Prodigy

Obviously home schooled.

clipped from www.ananova.com A duck in China has become a celebrity for its singing, dancing and counting abilities. According to Dahe Daily, Bengbeng (Silly), follows its owner, Du Xinai of Xingxiang city, to the local agricultural market to buy vegetables every day, wearing a small red scarf and a pair of tiny shoes. "If you ask him to sing, he quacks rhythmically while shaking his head and body. He quite enjoys it." "If you put up one finger, he quacks once, then twice with two fingers, and so on." Du says Bengbeng has become quite a star. "Everywhere he goes, people welcome him like a super star."

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Public Space Flights Coming Soon

I wonder if you have to go through immigration when you return? Technically you would have left the country, but you hadn't landed in another. Let's hope they offer air miles!

Richard Branson has unveiled plans for commercial space flights - Virgin Galactic. Over 200 people have already signed up.

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Lost Cat Turns Up in Texas

Lucky the suitcase didn't get lost!

A missing cat was found 1300 miles away after it crawled into a suitcase.

clipped from news.yahoo.com PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - The last time cat-owner Kelly Levy saw her tiger-striped feline was before she took her husband to the airport. The 24-year-old came back to her house late Friday to find the bottom step, where Gracie Mae would usually be waiting, empty. "Hi, you're not going to believe this, but I am calling from Fort Worth, Texas, and I accidentally picked up your husband's luggage. And when I opened the luggage, a cat jumped out," Levy recalled the caller saying, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. Gracie Mae had crawled into Seth Levy's black suitcase undetected, been put through an X-ray machine, loaded onto an airplane, thrown onto a baggage claim conveyor belt and picked up by a stranger. Carter delivered Gracie Mae to Seth Levy and the tabby made the 1,300-mile trip home on an $80 plane ticket Sunday night.

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Another Reason Teenagers Hurt Their Wrists

If you can get hurt using a PC then something like the Wii could really hurt, especially if you're unfit.

British medical experts say that the Wii has caused thousands of injuries in the UK, especially among the middle-aged.

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Prince Charles In Two Places At Once

This could come in handy when playing golf!

clipped from www.ananova.com Prince Charles delivered a speech on the environment to the world's leaders as a hologram before vanishing into thin air. The Prince was reluctant to attend the summit in person because the flights for him and his entourage would have generated an estimated 20 tons of carbon waste. In comparison the hologram is thought to have left a carbon footprint equivalent to a lightbulb, reports the Daily Telegraph. It meant that the Prince could be seen in two places at the same time - in Abu Dhabi and visiting a former colliery in Ayrshire.

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Thief Calls a Cab

Well, perhaps he didn't want to run his mintutes up on his mobile phone.

A thief in Wales, called a cab after he had finished ransacking the victim's house.

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Olympic Ice Sculptures

An ice sculpture show with the theme of Olympic Songfest in Beijing.

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Amazon Fined for Viciously Offering Free Shipping

If I walked to a bookstore then I wouldn't be paying for shipping. Should I pay more for the book when I got there? A strange law.

clipped from technologyexpert.blogspot.com Amazon.com has run afoul of a French law that basically makes free shipping a crime. On Monday it said it will continue to ship books for free in France and take a €1000 (or nearly $1500 at the time of this writing) a day fine. The Lang Law (81-766 August 10, 1981) says that the selling price of books must be indicated by the editor on the cover, and that any retailer is required to sell the work at a price ranging between 95% and 100% of that price. This system is designed to prevent independent booksellers from being forced out of business by large discounters (just look at how many independent booksellers have gone out of business in the United States). Last month a union of French bookstores sued - and won - over the free shipping on orders over €20. The argument was the free shipping effectively lowered the price of books outside of the Lang Law limits. The union was awarded €100,000 and Amazon.com was ordered to start charging for shipping.

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