Here are a few highlights from Reuters Oddly Enough section from the past month.
Brazil have introduced pink-striped metro carriages which men are not allowed to board. The rule is policed by women themselves. One problem that occurs to me is that if these carriages are full and women have to enter the normal carriages they will receive even more unwanted attention.
Believing they had a botched burglary on their hands, police in Hayward, California, called to a house instead found a naked man wedged in its chimney, a police officer said on Monday. [...]
The 23-year-old man came home early Saturday morning and, finding himself locked out and without his keys, tried to enter the single-story house through its chimney.“He told us he took off his clothes because as he was going down the chimney the clothes would rub up against it and slow him down,” Branson said. “If it was skin on cement he felt he would go down easier.”
A turkish official was arrested for chewing gum as he laid a wreath at a memorial to Ataturk.
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The Foreign office urges English football fans to learn German versions of their chants.
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TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese man wept for joy this week when he recovered 5 million yen (24,000 pounds) in cash his wife had mistakenly thrown out with the household rubbish.
Some fascinating trivia about the Queen, who sent her first email in 1976.
Italy’s Big Brother contestants were released to vote in the General election.
A Norwegian Coach who replaced a Canadian skiiers pole received 5.5 tons of maps syrup in thanks.
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A Chinese man tried to sell his soul on a service like eBay.
“We reviewed Taobao’s policies and realised we had no specific policy on the selling of souls,” said Porter Erisman, spokesman for Taobao’s parent, Yahoo-backed Alibaba.com. “After reviewing our policies, the posting was taken down last Friday.”
German teen truant exposed by “burglar” boyfriend
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