Archive for May, 2007

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Imaginary friend sold on eBay by real ‘friend’

*Billy and all his mates*
A 27-year-old man is selling his imaginary friend on eBay — because he has grown out of him.

May 8th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Man chops off head with chainsaw

A man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after stabbing his 70-year-old father to death in their apartment in the German city of Cologne, police said.

May 8th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Drunk man fails driving test

A German man failed his driving test after attempting the examination while three times over the legal alcohol limit, police said on Tuesday.

May 8th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Giraffe teaches students a lesson at zoo

Climbing into a giraffe’s cage at the local zoo seemed a good idea after a few drinks. But the prank went wrong when the 1.3 ton animal flew into a rage and attacked the three student trespassers at a zoo in Lithuania on Monday night.

May 8th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Woman, 83, allegedly made to smoke crack

A woman forced an 83-year-old housemate to smoke crack cocaine so she could steal personal information to get a credit card in her name and run up more than $3,000 in charges, authorities said.

May 7th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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HIV man accused of having sex with 130 boys

DALLAS – A man who may have infected more than 100 young men with the HIV virus and videotaped the encounters will spend the rest of his life in jail.

May 7th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Algerian man allowed to vote despite not having French nationality

In Grasse, the perfume capital on the French Riviera, a 52-year-old Algerian man was allowed to vote despite not having French nationality.

May 7th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Teen gives pitbull an extreme makeover

(CBS) WEST PALM BEACH, Fl. When pit bulls are in the news it is most likely because they’ve been involved in a mauling incident, but in West Palm Beach it was the dog who was the victim of violence, after police say a teen cut the ears off a pit bull puppy with [...]

May 6th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Teacher Makes 7-Year-Old Hit Himself

A music teacher who twice ordered a seven-year-old pupil to hit himself in the head with drum mallets will not return to the Parkway School District next year.
The incident happened on February Ninth in teacher Paul Provencio’s music class at Carman Trails Elementary School in suburban St. Louis.
State officials say the 36-year-old teacher intended the [...]

May 6th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Woman gives birth to grandsons

A 52-YEAR-OLD Greek mother has given birth to her two grandsons, after getting legal permission to be a surrogate mother for her daughter and son-in-law.
The woman, who was implanted with embryos from her daughter’s fertilised eggs by her son-in-law, gave birth to twin boys in good health and weighing 2.5 kilos, gynaecologist Dr Charalambos Batakis, [...]

May 6th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Man Uses Deodorant, Batteries To Rob Bank

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. — Authorities on Friday arrested a man who they said walked into the First Commonwealth Bank on Station Street in Bridgeville and put a device down, saying it was a bomb.
Police said Sean Fite, 42, of Bridgeville, took off with an undisclosed amount of cash, leaving the “activating device” behind.
Officials evacuated the bank [...]

May 5th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | Continued
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Soccer game for priests, imams canceled

A soccer game between Muslim imams and Christian priests at the end of a conference to promote interfaith dialogue was canceled Saturday because the teams could not agree on whether women priests should take part.
Church of Norway spokesman Olav Fykse Tveit said the imams refused to play against a mixed-gender team of priests because it [...]

May 5th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 2 comments | Continued