Weird News
Woman lives with the birds
A Chinese woman has taken up living in a cage in the middle of a park with 300 birds.
The 25-year-old plans to stay in the cage, suspended 12 feet above the ground, for seven days.
The cage has a bed and a computer with Internet access.
Woman lives with the birds
A Chinese woman has taken up living in a cage in the middle of a park with 300 birds.
The 25-year-old plans to stay in the cage, suspended 12 feet above the ground, for seven days.
The cage has a bed and a computer with Internet access.
The woman, selected from 70 volunteers, said she hopes to increase her awareness of conservation by experiencing the life of a caged bird.
Mother-in-law for sale
A man is so tired of his mother-in-law he has put her up for sale on eBay.
Steve Owen, 42, published a photo of 50-year-old Caroline Allen under “Collectables And Weird Stuff,” describing her as “used”.
Bidding started at just $2.
He posted the ad after Caroline quit her home of 27 years in America and bought a house around the corner from him and common-law wife.
“I’m deadly serious,” Owen said. “She comes to the house every day trying to change me and make me tidy.
“I just hope someone will take her off my hands. She’s single and not bad looking.”
“He’s lazy,” Allen said, “and I won’t stop nagging him until he changes – that’s my job.”
No mirth in German woods
A German has been ordered to stop laughing in the woods after joggers complained he was disturbing the peace.
Accountant Joachim Bahrenfeld, 54, said he goes to the woods after work and at weekends to have a good laugh.
“It’s part of living for me, like eating, drinking and breathing,” Bahrenfeld said. “I feel much better when I laugh, it’s freeing and healthy.”
But he now faces an $8,000 fine or six months jail if he laughs again after a jogger successfully sued him, saying he was disturbing the peace.
German laugh expert Susanne Maier, who founded the German Laughter Academy said that the punishment was unwarranted.
“Mr. Bahrenfeld has been doing what we advise our students to do and that is to find a place they like to have a good old giggle,” Maier said.
“It would do the person who made the complaint and the judge good to come along to our school and learn for themselves the benefits of letting it all go.”
– Compiled from wire reports
