Weird News.

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Surprised while burgling a house in Antwerp, Belgium, a thief
fled out the back door, clambered over a nine-foot wall, dropped down and found 
himself in the city prison.
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While motorcycling through the Hungarian countryside, Cristo Falatti
came up to a railway line just as the crossing gates were coming down.
While he sat idling, he was joined by a farmer with a goat, which the
farmer tethered to the crossing gate. A few moments later a horse and
cart drew up behind Falatti, followed in short order by a man in a sports
car. When the train roared through the crossing, the horse startled and
bit Falatti on the arm. Not a man to be trifled with, Falatti responded by
punching the horse in the head. In consequence the horse's owner
jumped down from his cart and began scuffling with the motorcyclist.
The horse, which was not up to this sort of excitement, backed away
briskly, smashing the cart into the sports car. At this, the sports car
driver leaped out of his car and joined the fray. The farmer came forward
to try and pacify the three flailing men. As he did so, the crossing gate
rose and his goat was strangled. At last report the insurance companies
were still trying to sort out the claims.
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Two West German motorist had an all-too-literal head-on collision in
heavy fog near the small town of Guetersloh. Each was guiding his car
in the opposite direction down a narrow two lane road, in the heavy fog,
their heads were both out of the windows when they smacked together.
Both men were hospitalized with severe head injuries. Their cars weren't
scratched.
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In a classic case of thing leading to another, seven men aged eighteen
to twenty-nine received jail sentences of three to four years in Kingston-
on-Thames, England, in 1979 after a fight that started when one of the men
threw a french fry  at another while they stood waiting for the train.
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Hitting on the novel idea that he could end his wife's incessant nagging by
giving her a good scare, Hungarian Jake Fen built himself an elaborate
harness to make it look as if he had hanged himself. when his wife came
home and saw him she fainted. Hearing a disturbance a neighbor came
over and , finding what she thought were two corpses, seized the opportunity
to loot the place. As she was leaving the room, her arms laden, the outraged
and suspended Mr. Fen kicked her stoutly in the backside. This so surprised
the lady that she dropped dead of a heart attack. Happily, Mr. Fen was
acquitted of manslaughter and he and his wife were reconciled.
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An unidentified English woman, according to the London Sunday Express
was climbing into the bathtub on afternoon when she remembered she
had left some muffins in the oven. Naked, she dashed downstairs and was
removing the muffins when she heard a noise at the door. Thinking it was
the baker, and knowing he would come in a leave a loaf of bread on  the
kitchen table if she didn't answer his knock, the woman darted into the broom
cupboard.  A few moments later she heard the back door open and, to her
eternal mortification, the sound of footsteps coming toward the cupboard. It
was the man from the gas company, come to read the meter in the cupboard.
Upon the man opening the cupboard, the woman stammered, "Oh! I was
expecting the baker." The gas man blinked, excused himself and departed.
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In 1976 a twenty-two-year-old Irishman, Bob Finnegan, was crossing
the busy Falls Road in Belfast, when he was struck by a taxi and flung
over it's roof. The taxi drove away and, as Finnegan lay stunned in the
road, another car ran into him, rolling him into the gutter.  It too drove on.
As a knot of gawkers gathered to examine the magnetic Irishman, a
delivery van plowed through the crowed, leaving in its wake three injured
bystanders and an even more battered Bob Finnegan. When a fourth
vehicle came along, the crowd wisely scattered and only one person
was hit - Bob Finnegan. In the space of two minutes Finnegan suffered
a fractured skull, broken pelvis, broken leg, and other assorted injuries.
Hospital officials said he would recover.