> > A Norwedian farmer was in the hospital Monday after an ostrich kicked him in the ribs, apparently mistaking him for a flightless feathered rival in the mating season...
> > Oeystein Froeysnes, 38, suffered broken ribs and punctured lungs when the six-foot six inch tall male bird kicked him as he entered a cage also containing two females in southern Norway.
> > "We heard that the ostrich is in its mating season. It probably saw him as a rival and attacked him," a neighbor said. Ostrich farms have sprung up in many nations in recent years and the giant birds are prized for their meat.
> > If you think that is odd...
> > PARIS - The once dormant Garden Gnome Liberation Front (GGLF) has sprung back to life, stealing around 20 gnomes during a night-time raid on a Paris exhibition.
> > The commands of this radical group read, "We demand ... that garden gnomes no longer be ridiculed and that they be released into their natural habitat..."
> > The GGLF vanished from the public eye in 1997 after a northern French court handed its ringleader a suspended prison sentence and find him for his part in the disappearance of around 150 gnomes.
> > The only suspected sighting of the organization since then was a mass suicide of gnomes at Briey in Sept '98, when 11 of them were found dangling by their necks under a bridge.
> > A nearby suicide note read, "When you read these few words we will no longer be part of your selfish world, where we serve merely as pretty decoration..."
> > Now for something a little gruesome...
> > It seems like Germans don't know what to do with their dead.
> > MUNICH - An elderly woman lived at home with her husband lying dead in bed for four months before he was found by police alerted by worried relatives.
> > Munich police said that the 76 year old man apparently died of natural causes back in December. His sister had finally turned to the police after the wife had repeatedly told her by telephone that he did not want to see visitors.
> > This gruesome find followed the discovery last month of an elderly couple and their dog in their Munich apartment weeks after they had died.
> > The woman died of a heart attack. Her husband - who was in a wheelchair - broke his neck coming to her aid. The dog died of starvation.
> > In 1988 a Hamburg man was found sitting in front of his television. He had been dead for 5 years!
> > Rob
> LOL! -::clears her throat::-I mean how sad.
About those last few, with the old dead bodies. I really don't know what to say about that. I'm speechless.