WEIRD NEWS
BURNING LOVEA Russian woman set her ex-husband’s penis on fire while he was watching TV naked and drinking vodka. The couple has been divorced for three years but because of property costs had to continue to live together in a small apartment in Moscow.
BURNING LOVE
A Russian woman set her ex-husband’s penis on fire while he was watching TV naked and drinking vodka.
The couple has been divorced for three years but because of property costs had to continue to live together in a small apartment in Moscow.
The man said the incident was “monstrously painful” and didn’t know what he did to deserve it. The police said it was hard to predict whether the man would make a full recovery.
SNAKE PLOT SNUBBED
Two men who plotted to recover a poker debt by killing a man with rattlesnakes were arrested Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said it sounded like a story straight out of the Wild West, complete with poker, rattlesnakes and insalubrious characters.
The two men planned to kill the owner of the Amateur Poker Tour after they hadn’t recovered the $60,000 the two invested in the company.
The authorities uncovered the rattlesnake plot while they were investigating the company owner’s business, suspecting it was illegally charging customers entry fees. One perpetrator is being charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, conspiracy to kidnap and extortion, while the other was arrested in New Mexico and will be extradited to Colorado.
CROSS-DRESSERS ARRESTED
Eighteen Nigerian men were arrested for cross-dressing. The men went on trial before an Islamic sharia court in the northern state of Bauchi, Nigeria, where it is illegal for a man to dress as a woman. The crime is punishable by up to a year in prison and 20 cane lashes.
According to a spokesman for the Hisbah Commission, which enforces sharia law in the state, the men are mostly in their 20s and were arrested for “addressing each other as women and dressing themselves as women” at a graduation party at a hotel. The men reportedly said they were at the hotel to witness a gay wedding.
NO HEARTS ACTUALLY BROKEN
A new study has found that breaking up isn’t actually that hard to do. Psychology professors at Northwestern University found that most people overestimated when predicting the level of devastation and distress they would feel after a break-up.
“We underestimate our ability to survive heartbreak,” said one of the professors.
The study examined college students who had been dating for at least two months. The participants filled out questionnaires every two weeks. Data was gathered from the 26 people who broke up with their partner within the first six months of the study.
The professors said people who were more in love felt more upset after their break-up, but their forecasted distress was much more severe than their actual experience.
“At the end of the day, it is just less bad than you thought,” one professor said.
The study can be found online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
