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Weird Tales - Page Thirteen
New Yorkers who allow their mobile phones to ring during performances at the theatre or cinema are to be fined £30. A German schoolgirl has invented a bed for people who find it difficult to get up in the morning. It tips half an inch until the occupant is thrown to the floor. Council road sweepers who are clearing up the debris of fallen trees have been redesignated "leaf operatives". Barbara Lewis rejected the man offered to her by a dating agency in Slough, Berkshire. He was the husband she divorced in 1986. As he broke into a car in Texas a thief was killed by the owner - a hunter - who shot him with a bow and arrow. Hans Mueller of Frankfurt, Gemany, sued a railway company after all the lavatories were out of order on this two-hour train journey. He was awarded £350 for unnecessary suffering. A smartly-dressed man in his thirties handed out more than £1000 in £5 notes to shoppers in Keighley, West Yorkshire, telling surprised recipients that the money was 'a present from Jesus'. Motorists are enjoying free parking at the Tesco store in Axminster, Devon, when it rains because solar-powered pay-and-display parking machines only work when it is sunny. An Israeli man who hired a prostitute suffered a heart attack when she arrived at his Red Sea hotel. She was his daughter. Matthew Palmer held up an off-licence (liquor store) in Brighton with a courgette in a brown paper bag, telling staff he had a gun. He was jailed for 2.5 years. Two zookeepers near Cologne have been suspended for eating the zoo animals. Police believe the men have eaten five Tibetan mountain chickens and two Cameroonian sheep. A Chinese tourist was refused entry to Russia after he set off a Geiger counter at the customs desk. Medical treatment for a thyroid disorder gave him a radiation reading 200 times higher than normal. Television bosses have changed the name of the new adaptation of Dr Zhivago to simply Zhivago. They were worried that viewers might think it was another medical drama. Clayton Pettman of Edenbridge, Kent, returned home from a safari holiday in Kenya to discover that he had won a a raffle to visit Longleat Safari Park. Clergyman Dorian Baxter has been sacked for impersonating Elvis Presley at funerals in Ontario, Canada. Police in Codstall, Staffordshire, stopped three teenage boys playing on their home-made wooden go-cart because it had no tax disc. Brian O'Neill of Hodge Lea, Buckinghamshire, caught his estranged wife in flagrante with her policeman lover. Mr O'Neill was arrested when he tried to stop them. A recent survey claims that the more gadgets a man has, the more attractive he is to women. It was sponsored by an electrical retail chain. Marks and Spencer in Norwich are employing six prisoners on day release to stock shelves, carry customers shopping to their cars and work in the stock room. They are being paid up to £700 a month. A man in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, walked into his local police station and asked for the lost property department. He wanted to hand in a horse. The Royal Academy of Art is displaying a piece called The Dark Throttle which consists of a dirty pub bar complete with overflowing ashtrays and empty lager bottles - and charging £5 admission. Worshippers in Holland can download 15 hymns and psalms as ring tones for their mobile phones. A German sauna has banned a man found filming naked customers with a tiny camera hidden in a shower gel bottle. A motorway in New Zealand was rerouted after Maoris said that it would cross the lair of a legendary swamp monster. A coach firm in Sutton Coalfield sprays OAP passengers with an anti-snoring spray at the start of journeys because drivers have complained about the noise. Bride Manuela Voicu went into labour at her wedding in Romania so the best man, Ion Vidican, put on her dress and stood in for her. An Iranian woman who cut off her husband's ear and handed it to him after he challenged her late arrival home one night was remanded in custody after telling a court in southern Teheran that she did it to "teach him a lesson" An Iranian paid a holy man the equivalent of several hundred pounds to make him invisible. Convinced that he could not be seen, he went into a bank in Teheran and helped himself to a large number of banknotes. The police arrested him. Burglar Karl Schulz of Dornbirn, Austria, took his dog with him on 50 raids. He was caught when police found a paw print at the scene of one robbery. A bankrupt plastics firm in Panicino, Bulgaria, paid off its staff in combs instead of cash. Two Japanese men went deer hunting at night near Mitsuishi on Hokkaido Island and managed to kill two prize racehorses and wound a third. They were worth a total of nearly £400,000. A dedicated fan of Gareth Gates missed meeting the pop star when he turned up at her house because her father had the television set on too loud. Nobody heard the doorbell when the singer paid a surprise visit to the home of Lisa Dragoonis, 15, in Griffnock, near Glasgow, after she had won a competition on his web site. A man from Hagen, Cologne, was arrested by police after drinking six pints of beer, stealing a child's tricycle and getting a taxi to tow him home. He was charged with drunk riding. Only two hotels in Las Vegas still put on shows by high-kicking showgirls compared to more than 40 in the sixties. There are, however, 200 lap-dancing clubs.
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