Weird News

Gay penguins refuse to be paired with females

Swedish female penguins have failed to seduce gay male Humboldt penguins in a German zoo.

The Bremerhaven Zoo introduced the female penguins to establish more breeding pairs in its penguin pens.

The zoo has an overabundance of male penguins, while Kolmarden Zoo in Sweden has too many females.

At Bremerhaven, the birds, which find new mates every year, form all-male pairs and adopt pebbles as if they were eggs.

Last year, zoo officials said the females had arrived too late for pairing. And this year, the birds arrived in time, but were too shy.

“The Swedes are rather stand-offish,” zoo chief executive Heike Kueck said.

Four local females were quickly snapped up but the rest of the 22 penguins ignored the newcomers and formed broody male couples.

Last year, gay activists flooded the zoo with e-mails and protest letters, claiming it was interfering in the penguins’ freedom of sexual orientation.

Man calls daughter during his funeral

A Serbian funeral director is facing legal action after arranging the burial of a man who was still alive.

The mistake was noticed only as the coffin was being lowered into the ground, prompting angry scenes from relatives who had flown in from as far as America.

The Topalovic family rang relatives to inform them of the death of the head of their family, Bogoljub Topalovic, 84, who they were told had passed away in hospital.

But they realized a mistake had been made when Bogoljub rang his daughter on her cell phone during the funeral service to ask why no one had been to visit him lately.

An investigation into the mistake exposed a system where nurses tipped off funeral staff about deaths.

A nurse noted down the wrong name as she hurried to be the first to inform the funeral parlor and claim a cash bonus.

Slobodan Curic, head of the haematology clinic in Novi Sad, said: “We are extremely sorry for the mix-up and are taking the matter very seriously.”

Bread bakers shave heads to resemble their product

The owner of a Romanian bakery has asked his employees to shave their heads to “better resemble the bread they bake.”

Vasilie Presecan, wants to create a trademark for the company that would be easily recognizable.

To help convince the workers, he shaved his head first and claimed it would be good for hygienic and marketing reasons.

“I shaved my head myself and asked all of my 60 workers to do it,” Prseecan said, “and offered