Trigger happy
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com MATT ROBINSON, a 17-year-old from the US, accidentally shot himself in the heart with a nail gun – and survived. The gun slipped and his finger
Pot luck
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com POLICE IN the US were baffled after a man asked for their help to break into a church in Wisconsin. They saw him trying to break
Body snatchers
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com FOUR ARMED men stormed a cemetery in southern Mexico and stole the body of a suspected gang member, who had been killed days earlier. They tied
Peg leg
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com RESEARCHERS APPEALED to scientists all over the world to help make a prosthetic leg for a panda in northern China in order to save her sex
Sad bride
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A WOMAN in India refused to let her fiancé be cremated at the weekend – until she was married to him. He had fallen down a
Palace pranksters
PRINCE WILLIAM and Harry were accused of abusing their granny’s trust after she asked them to help her work out her answering machine. They recorded a message, which said: “Hey
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Concealed weapon
DURING A security clampdown at an El Salvador jail, prison guards were surprised to find a hand grenade hidden up an inmate’s rectum. The V40 grenade was part of an
Hairy crime
AUSTRALIAN baggage handler for national airline, Qantas, was imprisoned for more than two-and-a-half years after he was found guilty of 50 counts of an unusual theft. Rodney Lyle Peterson regularly