Weird News

Chinese resort to diapers for long train trips

Adult diaper sales have increased dramatically in China as millions of people prepared for extensive train trips to be with their families on New Year’s.

Finding a vacant bathroom is often impossible during train rides that take as long as 30 hours on overcrowded trains.

Some supermarkets reported a 50 percent rise in diaper sales since the travel season started Jan. 14.

Up to four million travelers a day crowded onto China’s trains, which move slowly between cities as far apart as Harbin in the northeast and Kunming, about 30 hours away in the south.

Stations sell twice as many tickets as there are seats. Riders are forced to crouch on the floor, sleep in luggage racks and sit for hours in toilets.

German, British troops face off in national park battle

A German park ranger asked for the army to back him up after a standoff with British soldiers who were trying to ‘invade’ his park.

Juergen Peukert, 60, stopped over 100 British troops from taking part in a long-planned training exercise in the area of the park, codenamed Silver Head.

“The Harz Mountains (where the park is located) cover a huge area and are extremely important to this region’s ecology,” Peukert said. “They contain hundreds of endangered plants and animals that are under protection, and we can’t allow hundreds of soldiers to run around trampling everything underfoot.

“The British officers had permission to drive up the mountain pathway, but not to carry out maneuvers there, by the time I discovered them they had already set up a huge tent some meters high to act as a base.”

After calling the German troops, the British were forced to return to their base.

Colin Gordon, chief liaison officer of the British armed forces in Germany, said it was an “isolated incident” and promised no “British in uniforms or military vehicles” would be seen in the Harz National Park again.

Government refuses to allow furry underwear

Fur-lined underwear has been banned in Uzbekistan after authorities deemed it too alluring.

Sales of the furry underwear have been booming in the sub-zero temperatures that have hit the region.

But the government has now banned the items, saying the potential for “unbridled fantasies” caused by the underwear is inappropriate.

Textile company Collapse, which has been making fur underwear for both men and women, has protested the decision.

Retiree admits to 1926 firecracker prank

A retiree has turned himself in to police after carrying a guilty conscience for 80 years about placing a firecracker on a railroad track.

Helmut Bleibtreu, 84, from Herne in Germany, had planted the firecracker on a track at a rail station in 1926 and ran off when he was spotted by police.

He said he had been tormented by guilt ever since, and decided to turn himself in.

Police however have told him the offense, which was never reported, had passed the statute of limitations and that he would not face any charges.

They did, however, tell him not to try it again.

– Compiled from wire reports