Dead men tell no tales, but dead women do.
After a family failed to pay a Gadsden, Ala. funeral home to cremate a relative, the funeral director left the woman’s body in a hearse for 1 1/2 years.
When someone complained about the odor, police found the remains and charged the director with abusing a corpse.
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Here’s the definition of adding insult to injury.
A good Samaritan who pushed three people out of the way of a speeding truck in Denver, only to be hit himself and suffer serious injuries, was given a ticket for jaywalking.
When Jim Moffett came out of intensive care and was told of the ticket, he “was a little angry.”
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Monkey see, monkey do, monkey kill!
Puerto Rico has been working to ease the explosion of monkeys on the island by shipping the surplus to Iraq.
“We will give them all the monkeys they want,” said Sgt. Angel Atienza of Department of Natural Resources.
The first batch is headed to the Baghdad Zoo, which was looted following the US invasion in 2003.
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It’s one way to hop out of economic trouble.
Scientists in Belarus say that breeding edible frogs is an excellent way to help revive the country’s crumbling economy.
“We have immense reserves,” said Ruslan Novitsky, of Belarus’ National Academy of Sciences.
“The republic could expect a huge foreign currency inflow if it developed the industrial breeding of these amphibians.”
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And you thought walking through 10 miles of waist-deep snow to school was bad.
Officials in a remote area of Australia canceled a ferry used to bring Aboriginal children to school through a crocodile-infested swamp because it was deemed too unsafe.
Unfortunately, the kids now have to walk through the swamp to get to class.