Weird News
Getaway driver with no legs jailed for leading police on 90mph car chases
He used hand operated rods attached to the accelerator and brake pedals to steer the vehicles - but crashed them on both occasions
Convicted child sex offender used gardening gloves and a rope made of face towels to escape from prison
Gintautas Urbonas, 52, fled from HMP Peterborough by running ahead of a group being escorted from the gym and scaling the "very high" prison wall
Pensioner on mobility scooter given police escort after taking wrong turn and ending up on busy dual carriageway
This is the moment a pensioner was given a police escort after he took a wrong turn on his mobility scooter - and ended up on a busy dual carriageway. Officers were called by concerned motorists who spotted the elderly man tootling alongside traffic on the A500 in Nantwich, Cheshire, at around 12pm on Monday (26/2). A police van and squad car attended the scene and provided an escort to help bring the OAP back onto the pavement so he...
Retired builder who turned into a pothole ‘vigilante’ has fixed his 200th – at a rate of one a week for four years
A retired builder who became a "pothole vigilante" has completed his 200th successful repair - at a rate of one EVERY WEEK. Resourceful Reg Winsor, 75, got so fed up waiting for a huge pothole on his street to be repaired that he took matters into his own hands. The job took him just 15 minutes and council roadworkers were so impressed by his handiwork they offered him a full-time position. After taking a two-hour 'course' on how to fill...
Movie extra builds a life-size version Luke Skywalker’s X-WING in his garden
He said it was a tribute to Mark Hamill returning to the Star Wars franchise
KFC fans call the ‘coops’ to complain to police about lack of chicken
Frustrated KFC fans have ruffled the feathers of cops by calling them to complain about the chicken crisis that has seen hundreds of shops closed. So many calls were received by police in east London about the lack of KFC that they had to take to Twitter to warns people there was nothing they could do. Tower Hamlets Police tweeted: "Please do not contact us about the #KFCCrisis - it is not a police matter if your favourite eatery is...
Watch: Farting passenger causes emergency landing when his fellow passengers kick up a stink
A Transavia flight from Dubai to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency airline when a passenger wouldn’t stop farting. According to reports that have blown up in the Dutch press this week, the man’s constant wind wound up two fellow passengers who demanded he stopped blowing off. The men got eggy with his constant egging especially when crew on the low cost airline insisted they could not intervene to stop the flatulent passenger quacking. When he refused to stop...
Pictures show moment man finds SHARK in his back garden – after it falls from SKY
This is the moment a man found a SHARK in his back garden after it fell from the sky while he made a cup of tea. James Hill, 26, was in the kitchen when dad Colin, 59, alerted him to the two-foot long small-spotted catshark. Perplexed Colin, an environmental scientist lecturer at Greenwich University, asked: "What’s the British shark commonly found in the UK - the shark that is two foot long and has a slopey nose? "Because there's one...