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A Swiss man who had agreed to be killed and eaten by a Slovak cannibal reported the plan to the police and helped them catch his would-be murderer. According to Swiss and Slovak reports, the unidentified Swiss man agreed to the bizarre attempted murder after he met his Slovak would-be...

New Zealand war veteran John Bray, who calls himself a modern-day Batman, is on the lookout for a sidekick – after being banned from going out and fighting crime alone at night. The 91-year-old served in a raiding unit in World War 2 and therefore considered himself more qualified to deal...

A man arrested for keeping an alligator in his kitchen has told police he did it because the reptile impressed women. Police raided a property in Ford Heights, Illinois after receiving a tip-off that Dewayne Yarbrough had an alligator in his home. It is not clear who the information came...

A Canadian man’s attempts to meet up with a woman he met online have gone horribly wrong after his date turned out to be his own girlfriend. Barrie police said the 49-year-old woman turned up at a local coffee shop at the weekend at the arranged time and proceeded to throw coffee in her...

Neighbors reported a bad smell and police arrested a 63-year-old man on a parole violation Link Removed - Invalid URL Santa Cruz Police arrested I. John Clauer, 63, of the 1100 block of East Cliff Drive Tuesday after they were called to his apartment to investigate a bad smell...

Authorities on Massachusetts' South Shore are investigating an apparent bizarre murder-suicide with a power saw that left a husband and wife dead. The alleged crime was revealed at approximately 10 p.m. on Monday, when police officers in the historic town of Plymouth, located about 40 miles...

Mr. Caesar, who escaped police custody in New York while handcuffed to a chair, has been caught. Red-faced police managed to track down and recapture Caesar after he broke out from the police station before questioning. He was said to have been recaptured while riding a bike with the...

It should come as no surprise to any parent that kids will bring home the darnedest things. Whether it is a slimy toad or a sniffling cold, they'll certainly keep you on your toes. Those items, as irritating as they may be, however, pale in comparison to an item one New York child recently...

Powys, Wales is a hotspot for the supernatural, according to police records that suggest all manner of weird and wonderful creatures have visited the region. Dyfed Powys Police have been asked to investigate 26 ghosts, 20 UFOs, 11 witches and even two vampires in recent years, while...

Conservative councillor Mike Beech reported the incident after seeing the poster in question and officers have begun an inquiry under the Public Order Act, saying the poster could cause distress to Mr Beech. However, local residents are not in full support of the investigation, which has seen...

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Four bank robbers have been arrested after boasting about their successful raid on Facebook. The dim witted criminals posted the message "I'm rich" and "Wipe my teeth with hundreds" soon after an armed raid on a bank in Houston, Texas. Police were...

Students behind the discovery of an alien's body at a UFO crash site have admitted it was a hoax - made out of stale bread. A video of the find shot by Timur Hilall, 18, and Kirill Vlasov, 19 - supposedly showing the alien's mangled body frozen in snow in Irkutsk, Siberia - became a...

Florida resident Cameron Pittman failed in his attempt to rob a shop with a PlayStation controller, not least because police officers walked into the convenience store in the middle of the fiasco. Mr Pittman was arrested by police in St Petersburg and charged with strong-arm robbery and...

If a man's house is his castle, what happens when the emperor is wearing no clothes on his front lawn? Police in Spring Hill, Fla., say they found Gregory Hanscom lying in his front yard wearing nothing except his pants around his ankles, according to the Sun Sentinel's FloriDUH blog...

A real-life ‘evil hypnotist’ is being hunted down after sending at least eight elderly bank customers into trances and stealing their money. The crafty crook has been collecting cash from unaware victims in the south-western Russian city of Stavropol. It is thought that he has...

For seven years, Roger Huang, a pastor who runs a rescue mission in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, has been trying to shut down the sex shops there. This week he may have seen a sign that his efforts are working. On Wednesday, a man burst into flames while inside one of those porn...

Police in China were stunned to spot a man 'driving' two bumper cars along a street. Officer Liu Yulin was watching CCTV footage of a road in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province when the bumper cars came into view. He said: 'I saw on the screen that a man was driving two bumper cars. He sat in...

Two men have been shot on nuclear submarine HMS Astute, in Southampton. A man has been arrested. Link Removed The HMS Astute shooting took place around midday as the nuclear sub was berthed at the docks. An officer was killed and another man injured. An armed guard on the ship was arrested...