Weird News

Cashier slaps would be robber

An armed robber fled after a cashier in a betting shop pulled off his mask and slapped him.

Ana Zuric, 47, unfazed by the robber’s gun, told him: “Don’t be such a silly boy.”

The robber had demanded she hand over the day’s takings at the betting shop in Zagreb, Croatia.

Police are still searching for the man, believed to be in his 20s.

Furry friend not so friendly with Glasgow couple

A prison guard and his girlfriend found themselves staying in hotels after their Yorkshire terrier wouldn’t let them sleep in the same bed.

Phil Woodlock and Jacqui Mallin, of Glasgow, Scotland, claim it was the only way they could sleep without the dog barking.

The couple eventually turned to Victoria Stilwell, a dog-trainer on a television show called “It’s Me or the Dog!”

She was astonished to find the terrier, Bailey, was allowed by Jacqui and her daughter to eat from their forks and plates at the dinner table.

“It was obvious that Bailey belonged in a dog bed, not Jacqui’s bed,” Stilwell said. “There were three in this relationship – and Bailey was the top man.”

Deaf man’s hearing returns during skiing trip

A 72 year-old man from Lincolnshire, England, who had been deaf for 15 years got his hearing back while on a skiing trip.

Derek Glover was descending from a mountain in a cable car when his ears “popped” and suddenly heard an “incredible wave” of noise.

Experts believe that a sudden change in air pressure may explain the return of his hearing.

Glover has thrown away his two hearing aids.

Wives’ slippers used to punish drunken husbands

Men caught drinking by their wives in an Indian village now face being slapped across the face by their wives’ slippers.

A committee of women in Andhra Pradesh introduced the punishment in an attempt to “curb the menace of liquor.”

Any married man found drinking will be taken to the village elders and slapped five times with his wife’s leather slipper in front of local residents.

They will also be fined about $100. The fines will be handed over to the offenders’ wives to spend however they want.

The women decided on the new punishments after their attempts to close local liquor stores were unsuccessful.

– Compiled from wire reports