By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Wire Services
Posted: 4:17 am
November 20, 2008
A violent sneeze may portend a threat to one's health, but it usually doesn't happen this quickly.
A Boston man narrowly escaped with his life after a sneeze caused him to lose control of his car and plunge into the Charles River.
Andrew Hanson, 42, managed to wade to shore after being submerged in four feet of water.
It was a wild flamingo chase.
A flamingo whose wings were not properly clipped after molting escaped from a Des Moines, Iowa, zoo and led handlers on a seven-hour chase through the city.
The bird was finally recaptured and its wings were clipped.
The truth is out - Hitler did, in fact, have only one ball.
An account from a German army medic claims that Hitler lost a testicle in World War I, proving true the old English war ditty that went, "Hitler has only got one ball, the other is in the Albert Hall."
Medic Johan Jambor told the story in the 1960s to a priest, who wrote it down. Jambor died 23-years ago, but the written account has just emerged.
They're marked men - and damn happy about it.
Forty guys lined up for hours at Germany's biggest brothel to take advantage of an offer of free entry if they allowed the skin palace's name to be tattooed on their arms.
"My wife doesn't mind," said Herbert Manske. "I get free drinks and can look at all the pretty girls."
Here's a guy trying to drive his way to heaven.
A Taiwanese retiree - so fed up with the deterioration of public morality - has covered his four vehicles with handwritten lines of virtuous prayers from Buddhist texts.
Li Zongxiong's grandson has promised to buy him a big bus to write on, once they save enough money.
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