Hale said the 57-pound calf is friendly, likes to drink milk from its mother and enjoys lapping up water by using both tongues. (via Local6/AP: “Three-Eyed, Double-Mouthed Calf In Good Health” [April 21, 2004])

Batman and Robin are apparently alive and well, fighting crime and doing good in the streets of… er… Whitley.

“An Oklahoma man went into a home improvement store looking for shrubs but left in an ambulance after being bitten by a rattlesnake, officials said on Wednesday.” (via Yahoo/Reuters: “Shopper Bitten by Rattlesnake” [April 15, 2004])

Although admittedly, the chances are pretty slim. “The caller to the Phoenix-area Taco Bell said he was a police officer and informed the manager there was a thief on the premises. Someone’s pocketbook was missing, the caller said, ordering that a female customer be detained and strip-searched in a back office. “But there was no […]

From The Guardian:

“The graffiti artist Banksy has managed to smuggle in his latest work, a dead rat in a glass-fronted box, into the Natural History Museum where it was exhibited on a wall for several hours.

Staff did not notice that the rat was out of place amid the museum’s usual fare of dinosaur bones and artefact from the animal kingdom.

The rat was stuffed and clad in wraparound sunglasses, scaled down to fit the top of its head, a rucksack on its back, and with a microphone in one paw.

A theatre group in Britain is putting together a play in which the star role will be played by a dead body. Not an actor portraying a dead body, but an actual, real dead body. It sounds wicked brilliant. The play is called “Dead: You Will Be” and is looking to examine society’s attitudes towards […]

“Frozen chickens and marijuana — a combination that put the driver of a tractor-trailer rig in jail.” Now there’s something you don’t hear every day. (via BoGlo: A pot in every chicken?)