Weird News of the Week

"TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese teen-ager was forced by his teacher to write an apology in blood after dozing in the classroom, the school's principal said Monday." and i thought my school was strict....

"A teenager dressed as pizza mascot Chuck E. Cheese was pelted with pizza and threatened with a beating by an angry parent who said the mascot wasn't paying enough attention to her child, police said."

"NEW ORLEANS (AP) - After seven months of constant, bark-like hiccups, a first-of-its-kind operation has returned normal life to a 50-year-old Texas man. Shane Shafer's speech is now a hoarse whisper - a side effect of the electronic device that cured him, one generally used to treat epilepsy and recently approved for major depression. But for the first time since November, he can eat. He can sleep. He no longer has to make himself gag to make the hiccups stop. He can talk without a bark-like hiccup every three to four seconds. " someone should make a movie out of this.... "Attack of the KILLER HICCUPS!"