Are Gas Converted Cars All They Are Cracked Up To Be?

We are getting all of the hype for these wonderous, climate-changing cars, but a 50 year-old soon found out that smoking in a gas converted car is a bad idea. As he works for an energy-saving company, he decided to buy one of these liquid petroleum-powered cars privately on October 3rd and had it thoroughly check over twice by a garage.


"I was told you get a slight smell of gas when you fill up so thought nothing of it and wound the window down to freshen the air and put it back up again," he said."I fancied a fag so wound the window down again slightly and then lit up. I was doing about 30 mph and as I lit the cigarette there was an almighty explosion. The windows went out, the bonnet went up and the boot went up just as you see in the Hollywood movies. I was belted in and braked sharply. I can't remember this but I was told that I was directing traffic around the car whilst my suit jacket was still smoking. The fireball singed me on my face, hands and legs and melted my jacket lining and some of my shirt. I looked as if a firework had exploded in my face."


It is thought a leak in the pipe from the filler to the petrol tank allowed gas to seep into the car which ignited when he lit up. Firefighters believe the seats took the force of the explosion, allowing Mr Tidbury to walk away from the blast.


This smoker has now seen the light and he has got a target to quit this nasty habit before Christmas.

"Ello? Zis ees ze French president..."

Now, Sarah Palin has recieved a lot of bad comments recently, but this bulldog loving woman got fooled by the Canadian comedian Marc Antoine Audette who made her believe that she was talking to the French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Topics discussed ranged from the beauty of Mr Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni, to the prospect of a joint hunting trip. A spokesperson for the governer said that she was "mildly amused" by the prank. At one point during the phone call, aired three days before the US election, Mr Audette told Mrs Palin he could see her as president one day. Laughingly, the Republican candidate replied: "Maybe in eight years."

Mr Audette and fellow comedian Sebastien Trudel present a programme on the radio station CKOI Montreal. Calling themselves the Masked Avengers, the duo have in the past duped Nicolas Sarkozy himself, former French President Jacques Chirac, and the music star Britney Spears with prank phone calls.

If you want to hear the phone call or see more information on this story, go to this address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7704666.stm

Oh Dear What Can The Matter Be? One Man Is Found Glued To The Lavatory!

One unlucky man had to be taken to hospital with his toilet seat stuck to his seat. The 35 year-old man was using a public toilet cubicle in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands when he became stuck. It is thought that the glue was smeared on the seat by a prankster.

An ambulance crew and a rapid response vehicle rushed to the rather embarrassing scene, but unfortunately they could not release him on site so he had to be carted off to hospital with the toilet seat still attached to his behind.

An ambulance service spokesman said: "He appeared to be none the worse for his ordeal other than being understandably somewhat embarrassed." A spokesman later said: "With the help of a local authority and the fire and rescue service, the man was removed from the cubicle still attached to the stainless steel toilet,".

The toilet was later taken back to the public convenience and re-installed.

Hot-headed Duffy

After seeing the title of this post, you may think that Duffy has been really angry with someone/thing...but no, she is literally hot-headed as she sets her hair on fire while working backstage in the US.

She says "I was in the dressing room and I had music on and candles alight. She blew out the candle when it began to melt. I bent down, not realising it was still lit. Then the entire left side of my hair went up in flames. At that moment, Chris was walking down the corridor to say, Hi", said the Mercy singer, recalling her first meeting with Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin. "I hadn't met him before and the place stank of burning hair. Somebody came in and said, 'Is someone cooking chicken?'. I had black crumbs of hair all down me so I had to give it a chop and pin it back. It was really bad and properly embarrassing. Can you imagine if I had gone up in flames? Nightmare. I honestly saw my life flash before my eyes."

E-mail error ends up on road sign

Everybody knows that sometimes people translate things slightly wrong. In this case, they haven't mistranslated anything, but rather put the completely the wrong sentence.

Half of the sign is easy to understand as it is, obviously, in English. But when you translate the Welsh part into English, it reads: "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated." So that was what went up under the English version which barred lorries from a road near a supermarket.

Swansea Council became lost in translation when it was looking to halt heavy goods vehicles using a road near an Asda store in the Morriston area. All official road signs in Wales are bilingual, so the local authority e-mailed its in-house translation service for the Welsh version of: "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only". The reply duly came back and officials set the wheels in motion to create the large sign in both languages. The notice went up and all seemed well - until Welsh speakers began pointing out the embarrassing error.

Dancing Zombies Set World Record

We all have heard of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and we all know that it involves zombies. Well, on 31st October, 1,227 zombies all got their dancing shoes on and broke the record of the most people performing 'Thriller'.

The record was completed in Nottingham and this amount of people is a whopping 199 people more than just 3 days before, in Pennsylvania which had an impressive 1,028 dancers. Margaret Robinson, who helped arrange the event, said: "It has been fantastic, we have had a huge turnout, far better than we expected, you can't move for dancing zombies.We are all zombies tonight, we are all undead, I am covered in blood - very happy." In March, the city also claimed the record for a mass of 'Robin Hood's in which they had 1,119 costumed people gathered at the castle.

A Strange Guest

Over the years, we have had many strange things wash up on our shores. From mermaids to

whales, but this item pretty much tops them all. It is a 6ft tall Lego man, with a t-shirt with the slogan "No Real Than You Are" painted on the front and some words written in Dutch, with a fetching pair of red trousers.

It was discovered by Peter McNiven on a beach in Brighton as he was on his way to work on Wednesday 29th October. Mr McNiven said: "I just happened to stumble across him on Wednesday morning. I took a couple of pictures because it's not something you see every day. There's a lot of talk about him coming over from Holland to here, but there's no tide marks on him."

In August 2007 a giant Lego man, bearing a close resemblance to the Brighton figure, mysteriously appeared on Zandvoort beach in Holland. Neither of these Lego men have any explanation of how they got there.

The blue and yellow figure was pulled out of the sea and bore the same slogan "No Real Than You Are".