Topic: BOARD NEWS - on June 8, 2005 at 11:00:00 PM CEST
Forget a Coffin -- Wear Grandma on Your Finger
An enterprising young Berlin funeral home operator has come up with an odd and somewhat ghoulish offering for his clients: memorial jewels pressed from the ashes of their dead loved ones. He also has a few other unconventional death rituals on tap.

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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on June 8, 2005 at 10:59:00 PM CEST
Einem nackten Radler kann man nicht in die Tasche greifen
Wer nacktradeln will, soll es einfach machen und nicht nutzlos die Gerichte beschäftigen. Sie haben wieder den Sieg davongetragen, die Wächter von Sitte, Moral und Anstand! Dem Unsinn Einhalt geboten, jawoll! Jetzt können die unbotmäßigen Nacktradler, wieder in Jacke, Hose und Schuhe gezwungen, gehorsam die Hacken zusammenschlagen, hat doch das Verwaltungsgericht Karlsruhe am 7. Juni entschieden, dass das Landratsamt zu Rastatt das Nacktradeln am Weltnacktradeltag von Iffezheim zur Landkreisgrenze zu Recht verboten habe.
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Topic: STRANGE - on June 8, 2005 at 9:13:00 AM CEST
Flipping fish cause airport flap
DOZENS of live tropical fish have been discovered strapped to an Australian woman arriving at Melbourne Airport. The 51 fish were hidden inside a purpose-built apron containing 15 plastic water-filled bags.
The apron was concealed under the woman's skirt when she arrived on Friday on a flight from Singapore.
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Topic: DRUGS - on June 8, 2005 at 9:11:00 AM CEST
Parachute Police Department Has Too Much Marijuana
The Parachute, Colo., Police Department has a problem: how do get rid of 151 pounds of marijuana.
Police normally use a burn barrel outside the police department, but the stash from a recent drug bust is so big that the burn barrel can't be used.
"The whole town of Parachute would be getting silly (if it were burned in the barrel)," said Jeff Wells, a Parachute police officer.
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