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A German farmer is suing two boys, claiming they left his ostrich impotent after throwing firecrackers at it.

Gustav’s owner says that for six months after the 2005 attack the bird lost his lust for life, had no interest in sex and was depressed and apathetic.

In usual circumstances, the owner says, he would have fathered chicks worth 5,000 euros (£3,400) in that period.
Read more at BBC News »

We’ve been dealing with the pocket-emptying effects of rising gas prices, new electric rates, and an increase in cab fare, but how would you feel about breaking the bank all for…a pizza? Now you can find out thanks to Manhattan restauranteur Nino Selimaj, who has apparently brought from the heavens a real "pie in the sky" with his new $1,000 pizza.

Yep, that’ll be $1,000 please.

The pizza will be added to the menu at "Nino’s Bellisima," one of Selimaj’s six restaurants in the city. Forget traditional cheese and pizza sauce, the record-priced pie will be topped with creme fraiche, chives, eight ounces of four different kinds of Petrossian caviar, four ounces of thinly sliced Maine lobster tail, salmon roe, and a little bit of spice with wasabi.
Read more at wcbs-tv »

An Australian woman was sentenced Friday to nine months of community service work for smuggling protected fish from Asia in her dress.

Sharon Naismith, 45, was caught in June 2005 at the airport in the southern city of Melbourne after customs officers heard "flipping" noises coming from her clothes and conducted a search, Australian Customs said.
Read more at kirotv.com »

What price love? A wise husband, or at least one hoping to continue sleeping in the marital bed, would likely answer, "Oh! There is no way to calculate it, no number large enough!"

Target, on the other hand, can tally it quickly. That’s what Tim Cashill of Stacy, Minn., discovered when he bought his wife, Dawn, a Valentine’s Day card last month. Cashill, 38, didn’t notice the "funny-as-heck" receipt until he returned to work:

"Wife: $3.99." Make that $4.25 with tax.
Read more at StarTribune.com »

BRITNEY Spears has flipped her lid in rehab, trying to hang herself with a bedsheet after screaming "I am the anti-christ" to frightened staff.

She made the demonic cry after scrawling the devil’s number "666" across her head.
Read more at news.com.au »

If you are too drunk to drive, you might want to think about ditching the assault rifle. And the cocaine. Ditto the marijuana. And you definitely don’t want to pretend you’re a police officer.

Gwinnett police have arrested a 24-year-old Lawrenceville man after he asked for change for $100 at a fast-food drive-through last week and the clerk noticed an assault rifle in his lap.
Read more at ajc.com »

Dozens of men say they have been victims of the hugger. Police say others are too embarrassed to admit it.

"She doesn’t just go up to you and hug you," said Detective Sergeant Tom Donovan.

"She actually grabs men, tries to talk them into something more, and then goes their wallet."
Read more at WWWeird »

An Amsterdam judge has ruled that peep shows — where sex workers performing strip shows and explicit acts can be watched from booths — are a form of theater and club owners are therefore entitled to a hefty tax break.
Read more at cnn »

Well we all new it was only going to be a matter of time but I personally thought it would take a little longer….The processing key used in encrypting ‘HD-DVD’ and ‘Blueray’ movies has been cracked.

Read more at engadget »

Now to find the spare 20gb per disc bandwidth to download those suckers.

"Dr. Charles Roselli set out to discover what makes some sheep gay," John Schwartz writes for the Times. "Then the news media and the blogosphere got hold of the story."
Read more at therawstory »

The prince became a Welsh landowner when he purchased the 192-acre Llwynywormwood Estate, in the village of Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, last year, and, under an ancient law, he is entitled to bed local virgins before the groom - unless their new husbands hand over 50p.
Read more at 24dash »