Wacky News Stories

Should be any week (or day) now ...


1. On Italian police investigating a break-in…of a virtual home:
"Sources say the suspect is an Italian plumber with a brother named Luigi ..."
http://matadornetwork.com/radar/italian-police-investigating-break-in-of-a-virtual-home/

2. On airports cashing in on the queues at their security gates by charging passengers to use fast-track priority lanes:
"Why do I get the feeling that Milton Street is behind this?"
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=517750

3. On Army cadets being banned from carrying rifles on Remembrance Day parade because it 'glamorises' weapons:
"My hope is that the politicians currently in power who let this happen have been voted out of office."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327034/Army-cadets-banned-carrying-rifles-Remembrance-Day-parade-glamourises-weapons.html

4. On a radioactive rabbit being trapped at Hanford:
"Duck Dodgers was unavailable for comment ..."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013354107_apwaradioactiverabbit1stldwritethru.html

5. On a 13-year-old schoolboy shooting Physical Education teacher in the face with a handgun because he didn't want to play rugby:
"Drug pushers and pimps think this was a little harsh ..."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326988/Schoolboy-13-shot-PE-teacher-face-handgun-didnt-want-play-rugby.html