January 2002
Traffic cop drove without licence for fifteen years
Tuesday, January 15, 2002
A Japanese traffic policeman has been fired for driving without a licence for 15 years.
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Criminal accidentally confesses to 40 burglaries
Tuesday, January 15, 2002
A Belgian man has been jailed after accidentally confessing to 40 burglaries.
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Man 'drives to his own funeral'
Tuesday, January 15, 2002
A New Jersey man drove himself to a funeral home and died moments later in the car park.
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Drunk priest 'shoots himself in leg
Tuesday, January 15, 2002
Police in Bulgaria say a drunk priest accidentally shot himself in the leg after a drinking binge.
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Immigrant 'committed anthrax hoax to get free flight home
Tuesday, January 15, 2002
An Indian immigrant has been charged with creating a false anthrax scare in New York to get himself transported home.
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Firm chooses staff by blood type
Tuesday, January 15, 2002
A Chinese firm will only employ people with a certain blood type because it considers them more stable.
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Tottenham Court Road dug up 92 times in past year
Friday, January 4, 2002
One of London's main roads has been dug up 92 times by different utility companies in the past year.
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Driver stops bus and calls police when passenger eats sweet
Friday, January 4, 2002
A driver near Norwich stopped his bus and called police when a passenger put a sweet in his mouth.
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Bridegroom in hospital after celebration goes wrong
Friday, January 4, 2002
A Romanian bridegroom ended up in hospital after celebrating guests threw him in the air but failed to catch him.
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Referee sends off his linesman
Friday, January 4, 2002
A referee has sent off his linesman after becoming angry with him.
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'Hobby cops' buy machine guns
Friday, January 4, 2002
Four friends in a sleepy US village secretly bought machine guns to create their own SWAT team.
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Bunny brute attacks boyfriends
Friday, January 4, 2002
A jealous rabbit attacks every boyfriend his owner brings home.
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Thief drives $125,000 Porsche away after convincing dealership it's his
Thursday, January 3, 2002
A thief in California, has driven off in a new $125,000 Porsche after convincing sales staff it was his.
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Pensioner prayed at wrong tombstone for 11 years
Thursday, January 3, 2002
A pensioner is demanding £150,000 compensation after discovering he has prayed for 11 years at the wrong tomb.
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Taxi driver attacked with frozen hamburger
Thursday, January 3, 2002
A Norwegian taxi driver has been attacked by a passenger armed with frozen hamburger meat.
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Family rejects saved man they symbolically buried
Thursday, January 3, 2002
A Kenyan man saved from the hangman is being rejected by his family because they symbolically buried him years ago.
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Judge orders men to wear dresses
Thursday, January 3, 2002
Two men will walk down the main street of their home town in frocks - on the order of a US judge.
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Businessman says he last saw his desk top in 1958
Thursday, January 3, 2002
An 85-year-old Philadelphia timber yard owner says he hasn't seen the surface of his desks for 43 years.
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Scorned man 'posted nude pics of pen pal on net'
Wednesday, January 2, 2002
A Tokyo man allegedly put nude pictures of a pen pal on the internet after she refused to live with him.
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Woman locked out of flat sleeps in corridor for weeks
Wednesday, January 2, 2002
A Singapore woman has been sleeping in a corridor for weeks after getting locked out of her flat.
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Funeral salesmen face hospital ban
Wednesday, January 2, 2002
A councillor in the Philippines wants to ban funeral sales reps from hospitals.
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Judge calls air traveller an idiot for claiming he had guns
Wednesday, January 2, 2002
A New Zealand judge has called a plane traveller an idiot for claiming he was carrying weapons at check-in.
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Police bust illegal racket in rhino urine
Wednesday, January 2, 2002
Rhinos at a Calcutta zoo have been allegedly doped to make them relieve themselves several times every day.
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Man collects a million pennies in his basement
Wednesday, January 2, 2002
A man collected more than one million pennies in his basement in an attempt to hide them from his wife.
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