Don’t have a cow, man. But don’t have sex either.
To keep horny couples from copulating in public, one small Dutch town has hired heifers to graze a local nature preserve.
“Apparently the presence of the cows turns the people off having sex,” Spaarnwoude mayor Ellen van Hoogdalem-Arkema said.
Salt Lake City has proposed repealing part of its aviation code – which grants Santa Claus and his reindeer an official exemption from the rule that small aircraft must maintain an altitude of at least 2,000 feet over the city.
“Members of the panel felt it was just not appropriate,” said Tim Campbell, the airport department executive director.
Santa could not be reached for comment.
For one British man, a penny found on a routine dog walk will bring him a $215,000 jackpot.
He found the gold penny – dated to 800 A.D. – on a public footpath next to the Ivel River in Bedfordshire.
London auction house Spink predicts the Anglo-Saxon coin will sell for $215,000 to $270,000 in October.
“It’s obviously going to be far in excess of anything that the average guy would expect to find when he’s out walking his dog,” said Richard Bishop, a Spink spokesman.
Looks like German TV has done Janet Jackson one better – it’s also shown a woman’s nipple, but this time while it was being pierced.
Daniela Peter, a 23-year-old contestant on the German version of the reality show “Big Brother,” was shown live – and in pain.
And as with Jackson’s Super Bowl halftime flash, politicians were outraged.
“There is only one answer to this extreme, shameless voyeurism – switching off and straight away,” said Claudia Roth, of the Green Party.
A teen Pennsylvania vegetarian has a job that might anger her fellow PETA activists – she’s a McDonald’s supervisor.
When Amandah Povilitus isn’t picketing the local KFC, she’s overseeing the frying of meat and deep frying of chicken.
Her bosses don’t mind. “As long as I don’t protest them, it’s fine,” she told the Scranton Times.