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Weird Tales - Page Eight
When a man was arrested for drink driving in Renfrewshire,
Scotland, on Christmas Eve, his wife drove to the police station
to see him. A thief in Yorkshire tricked his way into the home of an elderly man during a snowstorm and stole his overcoat. A burger bar in California is looking for a customer who was given a bag containing £10,000 instead of his meal! Cleo, a parrot that had escaped from a house at Sandown, Isle of Wight, was hosed out of a tree after refusing to move from a branch for 3 days. The most watched television show in New York last week was a two-hour programme on Christmas Day of a yule log burning in a fireplace. It attracted more than 620,000 viewers. An anti-Harry Potter Hotline has been set up in Vienna to enable Austrians to rail at merchandising surrounding J K Rowling's fictional schoolboy wizard. A Rotterdam man faces court after telephoning his wife over Christmas to say he had been kidnapped. Police found him with his mistress. A German electronics chain is removing 15,000 posters featuring 3-breasted women after scores of complaints. The British Department of Health spent £900,000 this year publishing 10 editions of NHS, a glossy £2.95 magazine. It printed 61,000 copies per issue, but only sold 22. Japan's Education Ministry is to start housework classes for husbands to help reduce their reliance on their wives. The men will not, however, be told to hang out the washing for fear of losing face with their neighbours. Cambodia's Prime Minister, Hun Sen, who has launched a crackdown on nightlife, announced that illegal karaoke bars will be destroyed: by tank! A bridegroom died during his wedding ceremony in Iran as he licked honey from his bride's finger, a custom to ensure that life together starts sweetly. He choked on her false fingernail. In an attempt to reduce a £9 million-a-year electricity bill, the Metropolitan Police has told officers to stop using kettles to make cups of tea. Fortnum & Mason is telling customers that European Union regulations compel it to warn them that "Children's Crackers" are unsuitable for those under eight. Police in Scarborough declared an amnesty in the hope of recovering their traffic cones. They have three left from an original allocation of 300. An Australian medical officer claimed that the Teletubbies are a poor role-model for children as the puppets encourage them to be obese. A survey by an internet company revealed that more than half the under-25-year-olds in Britain have never written a formal letter using a pen. Nearly 400 Cambodians lost their homes when a cat which was being roasted for dinner caught fire, burning 62 shacks. A £2 million EU-funded research project discovered that thyme and mint added to cattle feed makes a cowpat smell more tolerable. An ITV presenter sent a tape of a song that he had recorded for £25 in a disused outside lavatory as an entry for the BBC's Eurovision contest. It has been shortlisted. Franz Fischler, the European food and farm commissioner, missed the launch of the new European Food Safety Authority. He was struck down by salmonella poisoning. A court in Japan sent a man to jail for 14 years after he kept a girl that he had abducted when she was nine in his bedroom for nine years and three months. His mother insisted that she had no idea the girl was there. Police investigating the theft of an Amazon parrot from a house in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, say the bird will be easily identifiable because it speaks with a broad Yorkshire accent. A hidden surveillance camera installed by police in an empty flat on a troubled council estate in Norwich has been stolen. A record 70 per cent of voters turned out in a referendum in Siberia. All were entered in a lottery to win a car or television. A Florida town's attempt to honour the black actor James Earl Jones on Martin Luther King Day went badly wrong. The commemoration plaque read: "Thank you James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive." Ray murdered Dr King in 1968. A chief of police in Florida was suspended for arresting the proprietor of a Happy Dayz Diner when he told him that a hamburger ordered 20 minutes before was still not ready. An Irishman has been given permission by the Australian town of Kalgoolie-Boulder to dig through a council rubbish tip for a winning A$1.5 million lottery ticket he believes he has thrown away. Britons spent a record £3 million sending 30 million text messages on New Years Eve. A City of London banker did not notice that for 10 months her salary was mistakenly being paid to a colleague with the same name. A doctor and 10 midwives were suspended at a hospital near Sydney, Australia, for having nitrous oxide (laughing gas) parties as patients were giving birth. When a man was arrested for drink driving in Renfrewshire, Scotland, on Christmas Eve, his wife drove to the police station to see him. As she drove home she was detained for the same offence. The couple spent Christmas day in the cells.
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