Weird News

Zoo puts humans on display

The London Zoo’s newest exhibit, which features eight humans wearing little more than fig leaves, intends to show our basic nature. The zoo selected its eight participants out of several dozen entrants in an Internet competition. A London Zoo spokesperson has said that the intention is to “highlight the spread of man as a plague species and to communicate man’s place in the planet’s ecosystem.” While living on display, the near-nude humans will try to stay entertained by games and music.

Husband for sale

A woman from Brussels has become so tired of spending time with her husband that she put him up for hire on e-Bay. Rather than leave her husband alone while she goes shopping, 21-year-old Nadia Manfroid wants to keep her mate busy. Her husband, 28-year-old Denis Manfroid, has reportedly embraced the auction, saying he will do anything and everything short of having sex with another woman.

Storage of frozen body OK’ed by Russian police

Police have told a Chinese man that he can continue to store his friend’s corpse in a freezer. The man, Xiao Li Bei, told police that the man they discovered in his warehouse had died of natural causes two years ago. Li Bei commented that he thought it would be easier to store the body himself to avoid filling out paperwork. Since the warehouse is in the Russian town of Novosibirsk where such storage is permitted, the man will be allowed to store the body until new evidence emerges.

Friendship pays

Friends of a nine-year-old former orphan are finding out why it pays to play nice. After his adoption five years ago, the orphan named only as Axel by the Bulgarian media began saving his Christmas and birthday money to give back to his old friends. The orphan, who was adopted by the family of a wealthy banker in Luxemburg, gave his former playmates