Dual poisoning cases:

Cherbourg- France,

One of the most Bizarre marital cases, unfolded when an unhappily wed couple, Alain and Claudine Dubert checked in to a Cherbourg hospital complaining of intestinal pain.

Tests reveal that the hapless couple both had traces of arsenic in their systems.

How did it get there?

Upon questioning both parties confessed to poisoning the other for months.

Both have been charged with attempted murder and will face trial when they are released from the hospital.

The honest prisoner:

Orissa, India

Recently a mob of 2000 (one paper said 5000) entered the prison in the Indian state of Orissa, and killed two alleged extortionists.

They went on to set the Police station, some cars, and 90 houses ablaze.

Anyway Patra fearful that he would be attacked by the mob too he ran away but as he explained to a local newspaper “ I felt bad and came back”. And asked for his cell back. Prison official told the paper “ Patra is our best prisoner. He has always been helpful”. Thirty prisoners were reported to have escaped during the riot, a third of whom were quickly recaptured.

It looked dirty:

Vadodara, India

A slightly over zealous cleaner at India’s Baroda museum is in just a wee bit of trouble, after vacuum cleaning inside a dusty 3000 year old mummy case, in his cleaning he removed 2 fingers, ancient dust, toe paint, a bit of nose and rearranged a few bandages.

New way to keep the children good:

LONDON

Education in Britain could be going to the dogs, or at least it should be, says a teachers union that wants dogs to help keep order in schools.

Delegates at the professional teachers association conference backed a motion asking for canine assistance for primary school at the urging of Wendy Dyble, a Shetland Islands women who teaches young children up to age seven.

She says big dogs could help round up children, keep them in line, lick up the milk they spill on the floor, and provide the “extra eyes” that a teacher needs to keep order. “ A big dogs would also be helpful in breaking up fights and looking for lost property, like Gym shoes or Barbie dolls”. Dyble said.

“The dogs will also be useful in sniffing out smells that children do not own up to. It would be nice for teachers not to have to go around sniffing each child to find the culprit”.

License to kill:

Jerusalem

Isreal Schnitzer, a Russian emigrant who had just arrived in Jerusalem, wanted to obtain a driver’s license. Although he had done poorly on the written exam, he told the Instructor. “ If you fail me, I will shoot you”.
Apparently he was dead serious. When the Instructor failed him, Schnitzer pulled a pistol killed two examiners, a policeman and himself.. It was either that or learn to Parallel Park.

Executioner gets choked up over job:

Kula Lumpur, Malaysia

something strange is happening to the country’s Executioners manning the gallows.

Three people in the last two years have accidentally hanged themselves while cloning around. The most recent mishap occurred when the executioner prepared for an upcoming sentence and slipped the noose around his neck. Apparently he wanted pictures taken of himself standing on the gallows when the trap door gave away, breaking his neck instantly.

Cap on top of the vase:

London

When a British schoolboy was unable to remove a vase that stuck on his head, he was rushed to the hospital on a city bus.

According to reports in an attempt to make the boy look more normal to the other passengers, his mother placed his school cap on top of the vase.

Just wanting to sell:

La Crosse, Wisconsin

Police in La Crosse arrested a suspect who accosted a woman near an automated teller machine and menaced her with a knife.

The man told the police, he wasn’t trying to rob her- he only wanted to sell her the knife.

Odd laws from Texas:

It is illegal to take more than sips of beer at a time while standing.

You can be legally married by publicly introducing a person as your husband or wife 3 times.

A recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be commited.

The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a formula for making beer at home.

Man Enjoys job as human punching bag:

TOKYO (Reuters)

A 25-year-old Japanese man is finding pleasure where others find pain- He is making a living as a human punching bag on the streets of Tokyo’s fashionable Ginza district.

For two weeks, Jun Sato, as he calls himself, has dressed up in protective face and stomach equipment, stood on a sidewalk and allowed anyone who had the urge to punch him up for 1,000 Yen ($10) for three minutes, the Mainichi news said on Tuesday.

“ I enjoy being used as a punching bag. It is a good business and another way to experience life. I want to continue as long as my body holds up,” he told the newspaper. So far only a few passersby have laced up and belted him, but Sato says, he enjoys the work after failing to find other jobs and that his favorite part is chatting to the people just after they have beaten him.

He says he enjoys overcoming his fear of being hit after being picked on in junior high school and quitting high school due to a fear of bullies, the Newspaper said.