A WELSH MAN has been diagnosed as being “unique” by Edinburgh Sleep Clinic thanks his bizarre artistic ability.
While sleepwalking, it seems 33 year-old Lee Hadwin is a talented artist - producing sketches on all manner of surfaces including tables and walls. Yet when he is conscious not only can he not remember what he did, he is also unable to recreate any of the sketches.
A FLOCK of sheep have become a local tourist attraction thanks to their unusual green colouring - with visitors literally “flocking” to see what has been described as the “alien” sheep in the Romanian village of Arsa.
Those looking for an extra-terrestial explanation will be disappointed though as the source was no other than a limestone treatment that their owner had applied in an attempt to rid them of a persistent skin rash.
A WHEELCHAIR user has been arrested by German police after being caught using a chisel and a screwdriver to break into an office. The 43 year-old man had already broken open the door of a shop further down the street, but had not been able to enter the building on account of it not having wheelchair access.
CABIN CREW on a flight from Nanning to Chongqing in China had a shock when they discovered a man taking a sponge bath in the toilet . . .
Passengers had complained that the toilet had been occupied for far too long and when a member of the cabin crew knocked on the door they noticed water was flowing out from underneath it. Upon opening the door with a key they were shocked to come face-to-face with an half naked man, who announced he was taking a bath and enquired as to whether they had some shampoo.
And his excuse? Well, the man, Jim Sheng claimed it was his first time on a plane and when he discovered the “bathroom” had hot water he thought he’d take a bath - after all he hadn’t had one for almost a week.
Since there isn’t actually anything in the regulations to prohibit passengers from taking a mid-flight bath, there wasn’t an awful lot the airline could do about it - well, other than perhaps to accuse him of being a selfish sod.
A PENSIONER almost burned down her residential home after putting her slippers under the grill . . .
The smoke triggered alarms which in turn alerted the fire brigade who rushed to the scene and evacuated all the residents from the Stockbridge home, until they were able to get the fire under control. It was then that the smouldering slippers were found.
The woman claimed she had put the slippers under the grill to dry after she had washed them, but had then forgotten all about them.
A ROMANIAN man has given a whole new meaning to the term “glued to the television” after making a 50lb television set cling to his chest . . .
The 40 year-old from Bucharest has the bizarre ability to make things stick to him like glue - books, spoons, television sets and all manner of things.
He claims he doesn’t know how it works, only that he focuses his mind on something, thereby releasing a feeling of magnetic attraction that makes even the heaviest of objects stick to him. He is now building a career out of his strange abilities.
A MAN with an unfortunate squeaky voice has been banned from telephone banking because staff keep thinking he’s a woman.
The 29 year-old man had rung the Halifax to check whether his salary had been paid in, but was told that the bank’s system had identified him as being a “suspect” customer who was possibly a woman.
Some days later he visited a local branch and his tele-banking was reinstated, but within a few days the same thing happened again - every time he called the bank, staff refused to accept he was who he claimed he was.
YOU REALLY couldn’t make it up . . . efforts to save a rare North American fish suffered a severe setback when scientists realised they’d actually been restocking rivers and lakes with the wrong fish . . .
The greenback cutthroat trout, named for the brilliant crimson slashes behind its jaw, was declared endangered in 1973, and became Colorado’s state fish in 1994.
For over three decades researchers at the University of Colorado have been trying to restore the cutthroat trout to its natural habitat. The scheme involved the use of sperm and eggs from what were believed to be nine relic populations. However DNA analysis revealed that five of those nine relic populations weren’t actually greenbacks at all, but Colorado River cutthroats.
Scientists tried to play the faux pas down by claiming they’d thought the species to be closely related and indistinguishable . . . .
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