Weird News
Break-dancer gives it the elbow
A Swiss break-dancer has won a place in the “Guinness Book of Records” after managing to spin around 16 times on his elbows.
A Swiss newspaper said Mark Dossenbach, 25, began to spin on his elbows instead of his hands after injuring his wrist.
Break-dancer gives it the elbow
A Swiss break-dancer has won a place in the “Guinness Book of Records” after managing to spin around 16 times on his elbows.
A Swiss newspaper said Mark Dossenbach, 25, began to spin on his elbows instead of his hands after injuring his wrist.
He said he had trained for at least an hour a day for eight years to be good enough to spin 16 times from a single push.
Dossenbach said, “Getting my certificate from Guinness made it all worthwhile. Now I plan to try for even more spins.”
“The Simpsons” head to the Middle East
“The Simpsons” has been re-branded in the Middle East as “The Shamsoons.”
TV bosses have made several changes so that characters are more acceptable to Muslims.
Homer has been renamed Omar, and scenes of him drinking Duff beer and eating pork have hit the cutting room floor.
Bart has been renamed Badr.
The show’s catch phrases, including “Doh!” and “Aye carumba!” will stay.
Dubai-based satellite network MBC is screening episodes twice a day.
Green mamba sent through mail
German police are conducting investigations after a deadly green mamba snake was sent through the mail.
The parcel came with a note that said, “Warning! Poisonous snake!”
It contained a 3-foot-long green mamba and was sent to an address in Berlin.
Police are now trying to track down the sender, who attached the warning, but not a return address.
The green mamba, one of the world’s most dangerous snakes, has been handed over to a zoo in the German capital.
Stones tour with heart machine
The Rolling Stones reportedly have a heart machine backstage in case someone collapses on their U.S. tour.
Organizers have brought in a defibrillator, which is used to shock the heart back into a normal rhythm.
“With all four band members now veterans,” a source said, “their managers are not taking any chances.”
A spokesman for the band said they had never seen a defibrillator backstage.
