Strange & Stupid: Amusing News

HANOI, Vietnam—Faced with mounting public criticism, Vietnam’s Health Ministry suspended a widely ridiculed plan to ban short, thin and small-chested drivers.

The ministry had recommended that people whose chests measure less than 28 inches be prohibited from driving motorbikes — as well as those who are too short (less than 4 -foot-8) or too thin (less than 88 pounds).

When the media revealed the plan this week, it prompted disbelief and scorn among members of the public, who envisioned the police pulling over female drivers to measure their breasts.

Thursday’s state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper quoted ministry official Nguyen Huy Quang as saying the proposal would be suspended.

The honeymoon period is officially over two years, six months and 25 days into wedlock, according to new research.

And by the third wedding anniversary 83 per cent say they couldn’t be bothered to continue celebrating the day they got together.

The poll of 5,000 married couples, conducted by global research company onepoll.com, revealed that more than half feel undervalued in their relationship.

Seven in 10 men admit they are so comfortable with their spouse they frequently leave socks, pants and other dirty washing lying around the house.
And 79 per cent think nothing of leaving the toilet seat up after using the bathroom.

Two-thirds of women polled say they never make the effort to dress up and look nice for their partner, and 54 per cent no longer bother plastering on the make-up.

In fact, a slovenly 61 per cent of women readily admit the first thing they do when they get home from work is remove all smart clothes and make-up for comfy pyjamas or tracksuit bottoms. [and I ask: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT?!?!?]
Forty three per cent of couples haven’t had breakfast in bed together since they walked down the aisle. [good. it's cleaner that way.]

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A group of boys who stole a golf buggy from a resort in northern Australia sparked a low-speed highway chase when they were pursued down a major highway by two resort employees in a second buggy.

The chase occurred last Monday when the five boys, aged between 10 and 16, took the buggy from the resort near the city of Darwin, the Northern Territory police force said in a statement on its Website.

After running along the main Stuart Highway, the chase ended when police arrived and the boys abandoned the buggy. One of them, a 10-year old, was arrested, but the others escaped.

The buggy was retrieved and returned to the resort undamaged, police said.

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - The world’s heaviest man officially tied the knot Sunday in norhten Mexico.

Manuel Uribe married his girlfriend, Claudia Solis. But that didn’t mean the fattie needed to get off his, well, fat ass. He hasn’t left his bed in six years. Why would this day be any different? A flatbed truck towed his custom-made bed decorated with a canopy, flowers and gold-trimmed bows to a local event hall.

Uribe smiled as his bride walked down a flight of stairs wearing a strapless ivory dress, a tiara and hot-pink lipstick. He later broke into tears as a notary declared the couple husband and wife in a civil ceremony attended by more than 400 guests.

Two years ago, Uribe tipped the scales at 1,230 pounds, earning him the Guinness World Record as the world’s heaviest man. He has since shed about 550 pounds with the help of Solis.

The wedding will be featured in an upcoming Discovery Channel documentary, which I won’t watch, because I actually will vomit up everything in my confused 135 pound body.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Rather than go through with an unwanted wedding, a Japanese man set fire to the hotel where the ceremony was to be held.

Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had gone along with wedding plans despite already having a wife, the Yomiuri newspaper said.

“I thought if I set a fire I wouldn’t have to go through with the wedding,” the Yomiuri quoted him as telling police.

Guests at the hotel were evacuated and no one was injured when he set the fire in the early hours of Sunday morning at the resort hotel in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo.

Kawata and his fiancee had been set to get married before 80 guests. He was arrested after suddenly cancelling the event and behaving suspiciously, the Yomiuri said.

VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian man, charged with drink driving, drove to a police station to complain about the charge whilst drunk, officials said on Monday.

The 65-year-old had his driving license and car keys first taken away from him on Sunday after driving while over the alcohol limit in the northern city of Linz.

He then went home, picked up his spare car keys, went back to the abandoned car and drove to police headquarters to explain why he was unhappy with the charge.

“When the driver tried to show police officers what had happened the first time, they detected he was still under the influence of alcohol,” police said in a statement. The driver was charged a second time.

We’ve all heard it. Red is the color of love, sex, passion, whatever. But a recent study found that the color really does drive men wild more htan any other.
When shown photographs, men rated a woman more sexy when wearing red clothing or if the image was framed with a red border.

The study led by psychology professor Andrew Elliot of the University of Rochester, New York, seemed to confirm red as the color of romance — as so many Valentine’s Day card makers and lipstick sellers have believed for years.

Although this “red alert” may be a product of human society associating red with love for eons, it also may arise from more primitive biological roots, Elliot said.

Noting the genetic similarity of humans to higher primates, he said scientists have shown that certain male primates are especially attracted to females of their species displaying red. For example, female baboons and chimpanzees show red coloring when nearing ovulation, sending a sexual signal that the males apparently find irresistible.

“It could be this very deep, biologically based automatic tendency to respond to red as an attraction cue given our evolutionary heritage,” Elliot, whose findings appear in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, said in a telephone interview.

The researchers noted that the color red did not alter how men rated the women in the photographs in terms of likeability, intelligence or kindness — only attractiveness.

The researchers then had a group of young women rate whether the pictured woman was pretty. Red had no impact on whether women rated other women as pretty, they found
Gay men and color blind men were excluded from the study.

Senator Diane Wilkerson has been arrested after a year and a half FBI investigation.
She takes bribes, and sticks them in her bra.
Like any lady would.

LONDON (Reuters) - A senior civil servant who left secret intelligence files relating to Iraq and al Qaeda on a train was fined 2,500 pounds on Tuesday.

Richard Jackson, 37, from Yateley, Hampshire, admitted breaching the Official Secrets Act after he mislaid two documents when he inadvertently took them home on June 10.

He was physically sick when he realized he had lost the files on a train from London Waterloo to Surrey, the Press Association said. During the hearing, he spent much of the time with his head in his hands.

Jackson was suspended after the incident but has since returned to work, in a position described as at least three grades lower than before.

Man, finding those must have been pretty sweet.