The New Straits Times reported that the flower shop in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak state on Borneo Island, has been robbed 30 times.
The owner of the shop, shop owner Tengku Auvaroza Tengku Abraham, estimated her total losses since the serial burglaries started in 2004 is at $56,300.
The newspaper noted the woman saying […]
Can you imagine spending the night 20 meters under the sea? Can you imagine waking up not to the early morning sun but seeing schools of fish swimming by, or a shark trying to bite his way through your window?
You may soon be able to do this, sleep in an underwater luxury hotel 20 meters […]
A mysterious old photo of a man sitting ontop of a dead horse has been has caught the attention of a lot of Americans. It has set off nationwide couriosity, speculations and jokes.
The black and white photo was taken in Sheboygan in the 1870s. It’s a picture of a man, who has a mustache and […]
When Tina Albrecht, 27, who was to marry fiancé Dietmar Koch, 29, at a castle in Steyr, Upper Austria, jokingly said “I don’t” instead of “I do”, found the joke was not funny when the official performing the civil wedding refused to go ahead with the ceremony.
Not even the bride’s sobs could reverse the decision and the […]
A mysterious metallic object crashed through the roof of a house in New Jersey is still being identified by experts. Tuesday night, a golf-ball sized object, weighing nearly as much as a can of soup, struck the home and embedded itself in a wall of the house. Federal officials who saw the object said it […]
Here are the top oddities of 2006 according to Reuters. Top Fluke News:
Camel sacrifice, spray-on condom among 2006 oddities
by By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN (Reuters) - From the Turkish Airline workers who sacrificed a camel at Istanbul airport to celebrate a job well done to the German who invented snug spray-on condoms, the world was full of […]
Would you rather be in a car driven by a drunk driver or by a blind man? Or which is worse: getting hit by a drunk driver or hit by a blind driver?
Te Aute Matuakore Collier, 29, from Hamilton is virtually blind. He took over the driving of the car because both the driver and […]
It’s Santa Claus season so we should expect to see a lot of everywhere spreading cheer blah, blah, blah. It seems this year Santa’s been more naughty than nice. I guess after more than 100 years of doing the same thing every year, and possibly every day, Santa’s burned out. Santa does get stressed too […]
People all over the world are getting heavier and fatter. It’s really difficult to find good fitting clothes, shoes and most specially underwear. Extremely overweight people have a harder time moving around, using the stairs, even something as mundane as using a chair or getting a seat.
Overweight man sues Air France over seat row
Jean-Jacques Jauffret, […]
I came across this video on YouTube, a Japanese potty training animation. I think it’s cute, a bit strange but practical.
Just from watching you would be able to figure out what the baby tiger is doing, whether he is peeing or pooping. I like the way the parents are involved in the potty training, they […]