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A man plagued with years of parking fines for his two vans alarmed his neighbours and local officials after hoisting them off the road and onto his roof. Photos circulating on Taiwanese social media show the two vans on the roof, one of which appeared to be precariously balanced over the edge, Taiwa

Police officers resolved a "perfume miscommunication" after a man reported that he was threatened with a gun after complimenting a woman on her perfume. The man called police to a restaurant in Ontario, Canada and said he had tried to start a conversation with the woman by complimenting her perfume,

A lawyer who admitted to having an affair with a colleague under questioning from a stand-up comedian has gone viral on TikTok. Over 129,000 people have viewed the clip uploaded by comedian Jessica Kirson, which begins with her asking questions of a couple in the front row of her show.

A woman who brought 23 relatives to a blind date unsuccessfully sued her suitor after he refused to pay for at least half of the total bill. The 29-year-old man, identified only by his surname Liu, allegedly fled the restaurant in China's Zhejiang province when presented with the bill for 20,000 yua

New York City is suing car companies Hyundai and Kia after a viral TikTok trend demonstrated how easy their vehicles are to steal. The lawsuit alleges that Hyundai and Kia's failure to implement anti-theft measures "opened the floodgates to vehicle theft, crime sprees, reckless driving, and public h

A customer at a fast food restaurant got an unlikely surprise after biting into a hot dog and discovering a bag of cocaine, according to police. The woman spat out the bag after taking a bite and reported the incident to local police in Española, New Mexico, who confirmed it contained cocaine

An employer was entitled to sack a man who spent up to six hours of his daily eight-hour shift in the bathroom, a court has ruled. In one week, company records showed that the employee took 22 bathroom breaks ranging in length from 47 to 196 minutes.

The Bible has been banned from schools in one of the most religious parts of the US following complaints from parents about its sexual and violent content. A school district in Salt Lake City, Utah enacted the ban under a state law introduced at the behest of Christian legislators and used to ban a

Police in Detroit, Michigan are aiming to prevent internal information from being leaked to the media, an internal notice that was leaked to the media reveals. The communique, dated May 23 and titled "Releasing Information to News Outlets Without Proper Authority", warned that unauthorised distribut

An expired web address printed on hundreds of thousands of licence plates is now directing visitors to online casinos in the Philippines. Nearly 800,000 licence plates in the US state of Maryland with a unique design commemorating the War of 1812 feature the web address, WBAL-TV reports.

A man who allegedly robbed a shop wielding Nintendo's iconic 1980s Zapper as a weapon has been arrested. David Joseph Dalesandro, 25, allegedly painted the video game controller most strongly associated with Duck Hunt and threatened a shopkeeper with it.

A suspected drug dealer who jumped into a river to escape police was apprehended after slowly floating downstream for six hours. Michael Cortez, 31, jumped into the Cache la Poudre River in the US state of Colorado while pursued by police who identified him as a wanted man.

Darth Vader felt the light side of the law when a Chilean judge reduced his sentence from a lifetime frozen in carbonite to just 30 years. The Star Wars villain appeared in the dock in Chile's second city, Valparaíso, for a mock trial staged by real judges and lawyers as part of Chile's Herit

A council has been criticised for chopping down a number of "stunning" palm trees to discourage people from having sex underneath them. Plymouth City Council left a row of stumps along the famous Hoe because council officials were "regularly having to clean up sex and drug paraphernalia" in the area

The house where Adolf Hitler was born is to be repurposed as a human rights training centre for Austrian police officers. The redevelopment of the 17th century house in Braunau am Inn at a cost of €20 million will begin later this year after an expert committee rejected alternative proposals to