Sacred Nose Job
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A Hindu woman has won £4,000 in damages after surgeons used “sacred” cow cartilage in her operation. The educational administrator said she would have never consented to the operation if she had known doctors were going to use parts of the cow, which is sacred to her religion.

Jerry Springer Guest Born
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A 51-year-old lesbian has given birth to her brother’s baby after IVF treatment in America.
The revelation has provoked new fears that artificial insemination techniques are being misused.
It comes just weeks after a 62-year-old woman became France’s oldest mother by using her brother’s sperm to father a child.

Coon Bashing
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Several Sparta teen-agers appeared in Monroe County Circuit Court this week for their part in a game they call “coon bashing.”
In the past two years, hundreds of animals including raccoons, deer and opossums have been killed in the game, said Department of Natural Resources officials.
Teens play the game by driving on rural roads in pickup trucks with anywhere from one to eight people in the back shinning spotlights on animals, said DNR Warden Rich Thole.
Shining is intended to cause the animal to stand still. When a group spots an animal, one person continues shining the animal while the others try to catch it.
The first to catch the animal steps on it. Then someone might beat it with a baseball bat or shoot it to death.

Man Tosses Puppies Into Shredding Machine
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A man accused of killing four puppies by dumping them into an agricultural shredding machine because he was tired of them making a mess could face felony charges of cruelty to animals.

Convict Wins $300,000 For Unlawful Entry
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James Stephens, a convicted burglar serving a 57-year sentence, took Marion County sheriff’s deputies to federal court. His mother wound up winning more than $300,000 in a lawsuit over the way they entered her apartment to arrest him.

Brushing Your Butt
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A 69-year-old man who tried to relieve a painful bout of haemorrhoids with a toothbrush was forced to have the offending item surgically removed after it was lost “where the sun does not shine”.
“In some instances, the incidents appear to be rather more recreational than accidental in nature.”