According to a report we have seen on CBS News, a traveling salesman from Milwaukee has clocked up 1,001,385 miles in his 1989 Saab 900 SPG.

According to a report we have seen on Yahoo News, a New Jersey mother has organized a collection and now has 1000 canisters of 'Silly String' ready to be sent out to troops in Iraq.

According to a report we have seen on Ananova, police were called recently when an Emu began pestering people in a park in Kaarst, in the west of Germany.

According to reports in the Wichita Eagle, which we found out about on Ananova, an attempted kidnapping in Wichita, Kansas, ended abruptly recently, after a shooting accident.

According to a report we have seen on Ananova, David Fearn, James Bond extremist, has change his name by Deed Poll to include all 21 of the British spy's films...

According to reports we have seen on Yahoo News, as reported by Associated Press, a 33 year-old man from Pittsburgh, USA, has been arrested by police for carrying a concealed weapon.

According to a report we have seen on the internet, election officials in Grand Haven, Michigan, have been left with red faces when the word public appeared on a ballot paper as pubic.

Ananova is claiming that a woman in India eats between a kilo and a kilo and a half of sand a day 'to stay healthy'.

According to reports we have seen on the internet, a High School in Concord has banned all school dances after a number of students were seen 'dirty dancing'.

USA. Montana, Sanders County: According to court papers, Mr Bob Craft says he legally changed his name to Mr Jack Ass on 9th December 1997...

Omed Aziz, 31, who has no eyes, has two fingers missing from his right hand, is partially deaf and suffers from leg tremors, was caught driving at 56kph at Oldbury Ringway in the West Midlands of England, in April 2006.

According to a story we saw on web site canoe.ca, there is a large and growing demand for camel's milk in the Indian state of Rajasthan, after an 88 year-old man claims drinking the stuff enabled him to father a child.

According to the BBC's children's news website CBBC, a 116 year old woman, who died last week, attributed her longevity to drinking donkey's milk.

According to reports we have just seen on the BBC web site, Pluto is no longer the Ninth Planet.

The Guardian in the UK reports that Turner, the owners of the Tom and Jerry cartoons, have decided to edit out images where characters are seen smoking.

According to NBC, a couple have just been married in Bismarck, North Dakota, with their family friend, Henrietta, a chicken, as their bridesmaid...

Speaking on a British breakfast television show, GMTV, teen pop smash, Justin Timberlake, says that, when he was younger, he used to look like broccoli.

According to the Sun newspaper, a British tabloid, Ron Cox decided to add a cupful of petrol (gasoline) to his cleaning liquid as he tried to get some dried glue off tiles in his kitchen.

Every quarter the Canadian Border patrol release their list of DVD's they have allowed across the border and those they have prohibited. Adults Only.

An Ohio man, who we will not name because he has not been convicted yet, only charged, is accused of sucking on a woman's toe after he persuaded her to allow him to kiss her foot in a public library...

Pet loving Jaroslaw, and married Lech Kaczynski, had agreed to not appear in public together because it is difficult to tell them apart...

World Cup 2006: There are reports that we have seen on the internet today, that two England football supporters parked their car down a road in Cologne, Germany, and then went to watch a football match, the other day...

USA, Milwaukee: A 47 year-old woman broke into a house in the early hours of 11th June 2006...

USA: The souvenir shops are well stocked up in Hell, Michigan, for the 6th June 2006 (6/6/06).

The mix-up all began after Apple, a computer company, had won a court case against Apple Records, the Beatles label, and the BBC called into the studio an expert on music downloads, Guy Kewney, on 8th May 2006.

In a desperate plan to make Stilton cheese more popular, the Stilton Cheese Makers Association (SCMA) has had a Stilton based perfume blended.

BELLEVUE, Iowa: An auction was being held for the benefit of a family whose home burned down last month.

Security conscious football stewards in Moscow stopped a man trying to smuggle a pig into a premiership football match between Spartak Moscow and St Petersburg's Zenit, recently.

Newquay, Cornwall (England): A vicar threw off his cassock and sprinted to the bride mother's house to get the wedding rings after the chief bridesmaid realized she had forgotten to bring them.

A Los Angeles motorcycle cop was watching as 82 year old Mayvis Coyle, who walks with a cane, was walking home carrying her shopping from a grocery store...

You've had bad phone bills, but you've never had a phone bill asking you for what is probably more money than there is in the whole world...

Cheeta, who starred in 12 Tarzan movies in the 1930's and 40's, turned 74 on 9th April 2006.

December 2005: A court in Des Moines received a letter supposedly signed by Kimberly Du's mother confirming that Kimberly had passed on to 'the other side', so she couldn't possibly have to pay all the fines for the traffic offenses she had committed...

First: take a couple who want to pay for their burgers by debit card...

Tom Cruise, Scientologist, denies he put any pressure on Viacom management (who own Comedy Central [which shows South Park] and Paramount Pictures [which owns Cruise's latest movie, Mission Impossible 3]) to get them to pull an episode of South Park, a repeat of "Trapped in the Closet", an episode which ridicules Cruise and The Church of Scientology.

City of Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa: “Arthur Winston is a true inspiration. We thank him for his years of service and congratulate him on reaching the century mark. We all wish Mr. Winston continued health and prosperity as he enjoys a long and well-deserved retirement.”

Sarah Zabolotny stole a rug from Upshur County Courthouse after turning up to pay a parking ticket.

Edinburgh, Scotland: David MacGregor, 28 months in prison, has finally been put behind bars after a grand total of 85 convictions, some hilarious.

Palm Beach, USA: A 53 year old woman, who has battled depression and anxiety for years, was shocked to find, on a written summary attached to her medication, that she was "CrAzY!!", it is reported in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Milwaukee Art Museum, USA: Radio station Clear Channel held an all-you-can-drink Martinifest for the bargain price of $30 in a well known art museum.

Behror (Rajasthan) India: Farmer, Shiv Chara, alias Sheojiram, a 72 year-old bachelor, has taken 36 attempts to pass his high school (secondary board) exams.

A bank robber who dressed up as a woman is being sought by Australian police, who have released the following security camera picture hoping, presumably, that someone is going to recognize him...

In our day, Mr Potato Head just had big ears, a big nose and funny, boggly, eyes...

Nick Flynn, 42, has received a letter from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, banning his visits after an incident in which he accidentally destroyed three 300 year old Chinese vases.

A 6 ft 6 inch crocodile collided head first into the side of a moving car in Australia's Northern Territory last week, giving itself, as well as the driver, a bit of a shock.

Brian Spencer from Sneinton Nottingham is celebrating after being told he was pregnant by his local hospital.

An elderly man collapsed from a heart attack at the seventh annual "Heart Ball", a $250-a-plate American Heart Association fundraiser, reports Yahoo News.

Police have arrested a man accused of peeing into open windows in residential areas after offering a $25,000 reward.

England, Wiltshire: A farmer has been sent a speeding ticket for driving his tractor at 85mph.

Melbourne, Australia: A 34 year old man has been charged with burglary and assault after he made the mistake of stealing a bicycle from a guy who draws pictures for a living.

Croatia: Is Vera Dudas' pickled cucumber the oldest pickled cucumber in the world?

We put up this video last year, but now we have reduced it in size to fit on your cell phones...

The 6th June 2006 is proving popular as a Wedding date, according to reports seen on the BBC and Ananova.

The 6th June 2006 is proving popular as a Wedding date, according to reports seen on the BBC and Ananova.