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Weird Tales - Page Seventeen
A police operation against speeding drivers in North Wales caught 12 police officers breaking the law. Passengers on a P&O cruise were given free hairdos after they found their hair turned bright green when they swam in the liner's swimming pool. A lorry driver arrested in St Petersburg protested to police that he was only carrying scrap metal. His load was a disassembled MiG31, the long-range fighter aircraft, codenamed the Foxhound. A council told a couple in Solihull to remove a headstone on the grave of their 11-year-old daughter. It is an inch above the cemetery regulation height of 8 ins. A suitcase a German lost in 1979 was found outside a Dusseldorf police station. His clothes showed no signs of moths. A husband in Manchester died from a drug overdose after an argument with his wife during the television quiz Test The Nation. She had scored more points. Street markets in Caracas, Venezuela, are selling pirated copies of the latest Harry Potter book. On almost every page chunks are missing with a note from the Spanish translator saying: "Sorry, I didn't understand this." The Prison Service objected to plans for a new rail depot in East Anglia. It said that prisoners at Whitemoor jail might be kept awake at night. For years a recluse chased children off his ramshackle farm in Jackson, Oregon. In his will he left $11.25 million to turn his land into a sports park for children. Turkey's religious leaders urged Muslim football fans not to swear at matches. Instead they should shout "Maasallah" (May Allah preserve you). A German businessman lost €98,000 from a briefcase he left on the roof of his car. Police found €4,200 scattered on a motorway - and two days later a man handed in another €40,600 Three Italian tourists spent two nights in their car after forgetting the name of their B&B in Dublin. Police found the landlady by issuing a radio appeal. Surgeons in Texas settled out of court with a man who sued them for $3 million. He awoke from a prostrate operation to find his penis had been removed. A businessman made a redezvous with a thief who had stolen one of his delivery vans in Bradford and asked police to go with him to arrest the man. The police said: "We are too busy." A women's football team in Germany is being sponsored by a brothel. The players will wear shirts with the name of the brothel across their chests and "Always worth a visit". A youth of 17 died of suffocation while swimming in Cambodia. He caught an 8in kantrob fish, but it leapt out of his hands and into his mouth. Forgers have successfully passed counterfeit €300 notes in Europe, according to the European Parliament economic committee. The €300 denomination note does not exist. A man who had lost his home two weeks ago was arrested near Berlin. He was trying to take a shower in a car wash. Scientists at Bradford University have received a £90,000 grant to study the cause of hair turning grey. Two Coventry social workers were suspended after taking children in care on a trip to Bournemouth. One 14-year-old boy was found 100 miles away beside the A34 - apparently dumped because of his bad behaviour. When Vietnam's top beauty queen vanished her family said she had been kidnapped. She emerged from hiding a week later saying that she did not want to go to Britain to study. A couple in Urbana, Ohio, shaved the head of their seven-year-old daughter and gave her sleeping pills to make it look as if she had leukaemia. They obtained $31,000 from donors before being arrested. The Malaysian government has overturned a religious court's ruling that Muslim men can divorce their wives via mobile text messages. Brian Walker from Newcastle-on-Tyne has become the first person to walk from John O'Groats to Lands End for charity with a 40lb door on his back. A man who put up his wife for sale on the internet was inundated with responses. Andy and Mel Hoyle of Wrexham opened bids at £1 as a joke but withdrew when a man offered an £8,000 motorcycle and his wife. Directors at Woolworths were baffled by a new Japanese game that is expected to be a best-seller at Christmas. They hired a boy of nine to explain it to them. A mother in Kazakhstan kept her daughter's mummified corpse in her flat for three years. Police said that she told them she hoped that aliens would resurrect her. A warlord accused of running a brutal campaign of murder, torture and extortion in Afghanistan was arrested in London. He was running a pizza parlour in Streatham. Ghyllgrove infant school in Basildon, Essex, has appealed to parents to donate toilet rolls because the school cannot afford to buy its own. A husband in Plymouth was jailed for two months for being in breach of a restraining order. He had sent his estranged wife a bunch of flowers. When the 380 Danish troops stationed in Iraq complained about the heat in their armoured vehicles they were sent salt for de-icing equipment, a snowplough and a lawnmower. A man who tried to hide a cooked chicken in his underpants was given one day's detention at Lowestoft. When caught he had offered to put the chicken back on the supermarket shelf. A burglar severed a testicle as he climbed through a window in Berkshire. The householder, Joyce Edwards, 80, said "He was screaming but I was in no mood to be sympathetic." A 53-year-old man from the United Arab Emirates, who has 30 sons and 33 daughters, married for the 12th time in an attempt to win a place in the Guinness Book of Records by fathering 100 offspring.
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