Elderly man sticks himself to roof

Taken from ABC 15 March 2007

Police say a 91-year-old man sparked a rescue operation 
when he slipped mending his roof and got stuck in tar.

Police in the eastern city of Magdeburg in Germany say 
passers-by were so shocked to see the elderly handyman 
working on the roof, they first thought he was planning 
to commit suicide.

"In fact, he was just re-coating the roofing with bitumen 
but then he slipped," a police spokesman said.

"When we got there, he was like a beetle on its back, 
with his arms and legs sprawled out and completely 
glued to the roof.

"Due to his age, he couldn't free himself from his 
unfortunate situation."

Local firemen carefully detached the man using ropes 
and ladders.

Police say he was unharmed but had sticky clothes.

To Wit to Woo

Taken from Canberra Times 21 March 2001

Then there was Kevin, of Weston, who rushed into
the bookshop at Hong Kong airport with seconds to spare
before his aircraft took off.

Not surprisingly to those who know him, he grabbed the
title, How to Woo and ran for his plane.

Settling down over the South China Sea after the evening
meal he slipped it out of its plain brown wrapper. "Wacko",
he thought. That's when he discovered he'd bought the third
part of the Hong Kong telephone directory.

Sheep Shoots Shepherd

Taken from AFP 9 March 2001

00:05 (AEDT) CAIRO: An Egyptian shepherd who was
sleeping in the desert died when one of his sheep
kicked the rifle cradled in his arms and set off the
trigger, the state-owned MENA news agency reported today.

Detectives found that 20-year-old Muktar Yadim Fadl
had fallen asleep among his flock in the Sidi Barrani
region of Egypt's western desert with a home-made rifle
in his arms, the agency reported.

Police are conducting an autopsy, the agency added.

Pigs can fly in US

This was taken from the ABC News Website
dated 31 October 2000.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is convinced that pigs can fly,
now it wants to know how and why.
The FAA said today its investigators are trying to
sort through a bizarre series of events that allowed
a 135 kilogram pig to fly first-class aboard a non-stop
USAirways flight from Philadelphia to Seattle.

In the rare case of a pig that actually flew, the porker
boarded USAirways Flight 107 on October 17 with its two
women owners and 198 other human passengers, and slept
for most of the six-hour flight. But the animal went
hog wild as the Boeing 757 taxied to the terminal in Seattle.
The squealing beast ran through the plane, discharging
faeces as it went, and tried to get into the cockpit before
taking refuge in the aircraft's food galley.

"It will not happen again," USAirways spokesman
David Castelveter said. FAA investigators were expected
to examine the flight's passenger list and interview every
crew member on board the plane. "We'd like to know how a
300 pound pig flew first class," FAA spokesman Jim Peters said.

The Philadelphia Daily News, which first reported the
strange tale, said the owners got permission to take their unruly pet
aboard the flight by producing a doctor's note that described the pig as a
5.8 kilogram "service animal", like a seeing-eye dog.
They also bought the pig a ticket.