Real Life Funny Stuff

A Hong Kong chef has a suspected broken toe after a large turtle bit him in a struggle to escape the cooking pot. While the chef was taken to hospital, the turtle was trapped and put back in a cage and the banquet at the Kuen Fat restaurant called off — but only temporarily.

A Japanese zoo in Kushiro has discovered why it couldn’t get two polar bears to mate — both are female. During the rutting season, Tsuyoshi didn’t show mating behaviour such as chasing after the female. Suspicions deepened when Tsuyoshi was seen urinating just like the female bear.

A man who says he eats 10 Mars bars a day has claimed a lack of sugar prompted him to attack his girlfriend when she wore big, Bridget Jones-style knickers instead of a G-string. Marco Fella, 38, from Cornwall, admitted two common assaults. His sentencing was adjourned

A driving theory test on 400 Malaysian driving instructors resulted in 65 per cent of them failing. At a seminar in Perak, 396 instructors were asked to take the exam and only 35 per cent passed, said state road department director Mohamad Yasir Mastakim.

A British binman who found 10,000 pounds (A$15,542) in shredded banknotes has been told he can keep the cash - if he pieces it together. Graham Hill spotted the remains of 10- and 20-pound notes six months ago. Police have now told him that no one has claimed the money - and it is his.