Weird News

Chocolate egg tasters

Jeff Pyne and Rahul Patel have eaten 350 Easter eggs over the last six months. The two work for Tesco as professional Easter egg tasters. The two have been eating chocolate eggs round the clock to sample the quality of the company’s product. The two have been employed by Tesco for the last 10 years and have eaten close to 6,000 chocolate eggs and 4,000 boxes of chocolate. Although the two said their job might sound too good to be true, they said there are some downfalls to this line of work. They said they can never give chocolates as a gift because people know they get it for free, and they routinely are forced to go to the gym to work off the excess calories. Rahul said he did not like the taste of chocolate before he took this job.

Prisoner returns home

A Czech prisoner was set free and allowed to go home to his wife after suffering from a permanent erection. The 37-year-old man was serving a six-month sentence for theft when he realized he had an erection that would not go away. The prisoner said it was very painful and prison doctors were brought in to take a look at the situation. Unable to help, they sent the man to a local hospital where a medical staff had to operate to solve the problem. The man was suffering from a condition called priapismus. After surgery, the man was allowed to go home to recuperate with his wife rather than spending that time in the prison hospital ward.

Giant egg

A city in Belgium created the world’s biggest Easter egg ever. Guinness has declared this egg to be the largest Guylian: A Belgian chocolate producer donated 50,000 bars to produce the egg which was over 27 feet in height. Guinness has declared this egg to be the largest, beating the previous record holding egg which was just over 25 feet high. It took 26 workers and 525 hours to build the Easter egg and they used almost 4,300 pounds of chocolate. Although this egg may sound tasty, a city official said it would never be eaten because after one week outside in a variety of weather conditions it would not be very appetizing.

Prison mix-up

Two brothers from Brazil secretly changed places while in prison. The twins had been convicted of different crimes, and when one twin finished his sentence his brother presented himself as the soon-to-be freed twin. The mix-up was only discovered when inmates told the guards about the situation and tests were run on the remaining brother to verify his true identity. Police were able to apprehend the erroneously freed brother, however the brother, who had remained in prison, lost his right to leave and was promptly moved to a different cell.

Advertising revives funeral home sales

Some Romanian undertakers have found a new way to drum up business. A company called Eternity has started leaving pamphlets at retirement homes to find new clients. The company has shown record sales since distributing the literature that advertises special discounts on coffins, funerals and graveside crosses. Many people from the homes have taken the company up on its offers.

Cockroach records

Ramesh Kumar, an Indian man, hopes to break a record by eating 50 cockroaches in one minute. Kumar said he has eaten the insects since he was a child and said he has developed a taste for them. The current record for cockroach-eating is 36 in a minute, but Kumar is confident he can beat the record. Kumar also plans to stay in a glass case filled with 25,000 cockroaches for three days in an attempt to break another record.