Cambodians are being urged to eat more dogs as part of a crackdown on stray mutts.
“Come on, dog meat is so delicious,” Phnom Penh Gov. Kep Chuktema said. “Poor people can enjoy their dog meat with palm-juice wine.”
Oh, yummy.
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Don’t drink and drive – even if you’re just driving your lawnmower.
That’s the painful lesson Charles Melvin of Smyrna, Del., learned when he took his mower out for a spin and was struck by a freight train at a crossing.
Melvin, 48, suffered a broken arm, broken ribs, facial fractures and cuts when he was hit by a freight train.
He’s also been hit with drunken-driving charges.
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An Arizona man has been evicted from a cave – after living there for 11 years.
Inside his mountainside home in the Coconino National Forest, Thomas Crawford had a bed, books, clothes and cooking utensils arranged on hangers.
“I don’t have a TV or anything. I’ve got the sky, the wind, the rain, the canyon wrens,” he said.
“This is a beautiful mountain. You could explore it a lifetime.”
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A man has admitted starting a fire behind his house to avoid having sex with his wife.
Svetin Gulisija, 26, of Seget, Croatia, says he began a blaze in the back yard because he was too tired for sex.
He won’t have to worry about getting amorous for awhile – a judge has sentenced him to two years in the slammer.
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The S&M games of two Germans prompted a massive police hunt involving more than 40 cops after witnesses mistook their frolics for a violent crime.
Dusseldorf police began a search for a black Porsche after alarmed callers reported seeing a man in the car using a stick to batter a blindfolded woman who was on her hands and knees.
By the time police arrived, the car was gone and the search was on.
When police found the car, they were red-faced to discover it was a 31-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman who met over the Internet and share a passion for kinky car games.