WORLD OF THE WEIRD: Condoms, Car-Crashes & Bikinis

Apart from the old lady who left £10 million to her favourite Chinese take-away and canoeists faking their own deaths, our foreign friends lead the way with weird news.

Vermont’s Van Miguel Hartless, is suing Burger King after discovering an unwrapped condom in his burger. Unfortunately he found it after eating half of it.

Oh, there's more where that came from…

How about Pennsylvanian Matthew McKnight? He’s just got in the Guinness Book of Records for the ‘Greatest distance thrown in a car accident.’ Seriously. He flew 36 metres.

It’s coming up to Christmas, you’ve worked in the same place for 40 years, it’s fair to see you might expect a decent bonus. So pity this poor NYC doorman who got his p45 instead, for having bad breath. Jonah Seeman has apparently now stopped eating garlic, uses mouthwash and takes mints to work. Surprised residents fought to get him re-instated, but you’ve got to ask which one of them got him fired in the first place. 

A Dominican Republic congressman is trying to ban bikinis on TV. They harm the country’s tradition and their ‘impressionable youngsters’. The obviously don’t like Baywatch, then.

Have you heard the one about Mickey Mouse, Donald and Daisy Duck and the Chinese counterfeiters? For anyone who thinks our legal system is a joke, click on the link. Please.

And on a festive note, Microsoft has had to have a word with Santa. Its instant-messaging programme that encourages kids to tell Santa what they want for Christmas has apparently been talking to kids about oral sex. Well it is the season of giving…

[story by Dave Mercer]