From The Kitchener-Waterloo Record
LIMA, PERU — “They call me the hardware store,” says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru.
Doctors in the city of Cajamarca say they removed 1.5 pounds of metal from Abanto’s stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metal…
…The 26-year-old construction worker ate the metal for months, [...]

A Chinese man who was attacked by a giant Panda after breaking into the animal’s cage in order to cuddle with it did not apparently consider that the unasked for affection would likely provoke the beast.
Link to full story here.
Now I’m not the kind of guy that thinks a developed sense reason and finer emotional [...]

This is a strange story. A man who received the heart of a suicide victim later commits suicide. Even stranger, hehad married the original heart-owner’s wife.
“HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – A man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago and later married the donor’s widow died the same way the donor [...]

Here’s a weird one: in Lewiston, Maine, an unidentified substance has blocked a sewer pipe causing all sorts of sewer-blockage trouble.
Mysterious, doughy blob clogs sewer
City crews discovered the clog earlier this month after responding to complaints of blocked sewer lines downtown. Jones said crews opened a manhole at the Bates Street intersection and saw the [...]

I am reminded almost daily why I love the internet (yes, in that way) by sites like this one.
http://www.weirdasianews.com/

Check out this page of bizarre Christmas Ornaments. Who wouldn’t be inspired by an unborn fetus ornament? What would I do without the internet and my Christmas Poo Ornament? This is a good roundup of various funny, strange, and disturbing Christmas Ornaments. I believe some might even be for sale.
Did I [...]