Stupid Odd News Stories

A parrot has been reunited with its Welsh owner after reportedly chirping its name down the phone. The woman who found two-year-old cockatiel Smokey wanted to be sure she was speaking to the owners. So she passed the phone to the bird, and it immediately squawked its name.


Opinion is split over artistic merit in a Wolverhampton gallery in England after 14 tonnes of coal was piled up as an exhibit by artists Matthew Cornford and David Cross to highlight fuel costs and climate change. Paying customer Lee Rue, 31, said: "That’s not art, it’s a pile of coal."


Peru's national cocktail, the pisco sour, has been packing a punch at the APEC summit, helping to sour relations with fellow APEC member Chile, which claims its version of the beverage is the real thing. The two have been locked in a battle over the drink since an 1879-1883 war.


The Spanish town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, near Barcelona, has transformed a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy. Flat, open land is so scarce that the graveyard was the only viable spot to accommodate 462 solar panels.


A Colorado judge makes persistent noise nuisances listen to music by Barry Manilow and Barney the Dinosaur. He claims his method of making offenders sit in a room and listen to music they hate for one hour has heavily reduced the number of repeat offenders