Weird:

Here are some weird things. The real funny thing? They're true.


Spectacular Errors: The Kuala Lumpur phone company Telekom Malaysia acknowledged in April that it mistakenly sent a bill for the equivalent of $218 trillion (that's 218 followed by 12 zeroes). The account was for the late father of Yahaya Wahab, whose final bill should have been the equivalent of $23.

Crime-fearing female pedestrians in Tokyo can soon protect themselves with a realistic-looking (except made of fabric), full-size vending machine that the designer hopes that thugs will pass by. It's one of several fanciful crime-avoiding creations of the genre that Japanese inventors are noted for. Another, "manhole bag", resembles a sewer covering when laid on the ground but can hold a person's valuables, again provided that the thug passes it up.

Would a bagel with white truffle cream cheese and Riesling jelly get your taste buds all atwitter? It can be yours -- if you've got $1,000 to drop on breakfast.

A Minnesota woman wants abuse charges filed against a co-worker who, the woman alleges, allowed her potbellied pig to get too fat when the acquaintance took care of it. "That pig is my life," says the woman.

Wild monkeys attacked a senior government official who then fell from a balcony at his home and died Sunday, media reported.

Thumper, a black Labrador retriever, is being hailed as a hero after grabbing his master's arm to wake him as a fire sweeps through their home in Maine. How did it start? Authorities say the family cat knocked over a kerosene lantern.





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