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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - April 10, 2006 - Think your phone bill is high? A Malaysian man says he nearly fainted when he got $218 trillion phone bill, and yes, that's in U.S. The man, Yahaya Wahab, says he's been ordered to pay up within ten days or face prosecution. The New Straits Times reports the bill was for a line that was supposed to have been disconnected in January. The unhappy phone customer says he can't wait to face Telekom Malaysia in court, if the company follows through with its threat.

Proof that Guns don't kill people, Bugs do.... by Barry Jantz - San Diego County 4-5-2006 11:54 am From the Associated Press.... Live round on desk blows off part of hand VENTURA – A teacher who kept a 40mm round on his desk as a paperweight blew off part of his hand when he apparently used the object to try to squash a bug, authorities say. The 5-inch-long round, which Robert Colla had found while hunting years ago, exploded Monday while Colla was teaching 20 to 25 students at an adult education class. Part of Colla's right hand was severed...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A red-faced Australian nudist who tried to set fire to what he thought was a deadly funnel web spider's nest ended up with badly burned buttocks, emergency officials said Monday. The 56-year-old man was at a nudist colony near Bowral, about 60 miles southwest of Sydney, Sunday when he spotted what he believed to be a funnel web spider hole. Ambulance workers, including a helicopter crew, were called to the scene after the man poured petrol down the hole and then lit a match in an attempt to kill the offending arachnid. "The exploding gasoline fumes left...

(AP) The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia's toilet. Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet. Garcia's salmon-colored toilet was the subject of a legal battle before it was finally moved to Sonoma, to await shipment to a Canadian casino. It's unclear if the toilet was swiped by a wayward Deadhead or a thief remodeling a bathroom. Police have no suspects or leads. Henry Koltys bought Garcia's Marin County home for $1.39 million in 1997 and removed the toilet and other items he planned to...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Three men have been arrested on charges of performing castrations on apparently willing participants in a sadomasochistic "dungeon" in a rural house, authorities said Friday. "It's extremely bizarre," District Attorney Michael Bonfoey said in a telephone interview. "It's incredible the amount of ways that people can find to run afoul of the law." Sheriff's investigators said Richard Sciara, 61, Danny Reeves, 49, and Michael Mendez, 60, admitted performing at least eight surgeries, including castrations and testicle replacements, on six consenting clients over the past year. None of the three is licensed to practice medicine, officials said. The...

Regina, 77, and Lloyd Vogt, 80, retired farmers from Minnesota, had made a stop in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Socorro last week when they each had one of those oops! moments. They both went into Wal-Mart to browse, never running into each other in the vast super center. Lloyd came out before Regina did and hit the road for Tucumcari, the couple's destination that day. A thoughtful husband, Lloyd decided to let Regina sleep in. About 10 minutes later, Regina walked outside the Wal-Mart. Regina's plight was first noticed by Wal-Mart greeter Patricia Montoya, who saw her sitting on...

PALMDALE, Calif. -- This fast food bill was a real whopper. A man was charged more than $4,300 after placing his food order at a Burger King in California last week. The four burgers came to $4.33. The cashier entered the charge on George Beane's debit card, then mistakenly punched in the numbers again without erasing the original ones. That brought the bill to $4,334.33. The electronic charge drained a checking account and left Beane and his wife wondering how they'd pay their mortgage. But everything worked out. Burger King didn't charge the Beanes for their meal and the couple...

NEW DELHI, India -- A Muslim couple in India have been told by local Islamic leaders they must separate after the husband "divorced" his wife in his sleep, the Press Trust of India reported. Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had uttered the word "talaq", or divorce, three times in his sleep, according to the report published in newspapers today.When local Islamic leaders got to hear, they said Aftab's words constituted a divorce under an Islamic procedure known as "triple talaq". The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split.The religious leaders...

NEW YORK - A city street collapsed under a sports utility vehicle early Monday, leaving the vehicle nose down into a deep sinkhole that officials said was caused by a water main break. The driver of the SUV escaped without serious injuries but was taken to a hospital for treatment of shock, said Fire Department spokesman Brian Conlon.

A German taking a Ferrari for a test drive wrapped it round a lamppost when he tried to impress a pretty woman. Alphons Edberg, 33, from Hamburg, was driving a borrowed Ferrari 360 Modena which he was considering buying. But, according to police, the inexperienced driver lost control after putting his foot down to impress a pretty woman he had spotted. He crashed the powerful car into a tree, a road sign and a fence before finally wrapping it around a lamppost. The car was a write off and Edberg is in hospital being treated for head injuries.

MULTAN: People took to the street against a man, Manzoor Hussain Khokhar, who reportedly observed the funeral rites of a donkey on Thursday at Adda Bosan, a suburb of Multan and the native village of Livestock Minister Sikandar Hayat Bosan. The donkey had died on Wednesday. The mob staged a demonstration and attempted to attack the master of the donkey and his friends who, however, ran to save their lives. The demonstrators demanded an immediate arrest of the accused for observing funeral rites of a donkey. Manzoor Khokhar told reporters that his donkey died on Wednesday and he loved it...

Bay County sheriff's deputies made their first lewd and lascivious arrests of spring break. It started with a wet t-shirt contest that took place Tuesday night at Hammerhead Fred's bar on Thomas Drive. Investigators say the male DJs and customers used alcohol to help encourage the female participants to remove the t-shirts, expose themselves, and allow the audience to fondle them and bite their breasts. Capt. Rickie Ramie of the BCSO Special Investigations Unit explained, “They had taken a contest and basically there were females up there performing oral sex on one another, that was the original complaint. And we...

By MICHAEL W. KAHN, Associated Press Writer 27 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Commuters racing to catch the train typically forget things in the car — keys, wallets, briefcases. But a baby daughter? ADVERTISEMENT That's what happened Thursday just north of Washington, police say. "Dad forgot baby was in the car, parked the car, got on the Metro," said Lucille Baur, a spokeswoman for the Montgomery County, Md., Police Department. "I don't know exactly when he got the memory flash, but he was in D.C. when it was the horrible defining moment, 'Oh my goodness, I think I've left my child...

Court orders viagra treatment for impotent horse Posted on 22 Mar 2006 Court orders viagra treatment for impotent horse Sydney: A stallion in Germany has been prescribed a virility drug, as a means to temporarily cure its impotency. A court in the eastern town of Neuruppin has ordered viagra to be given to the horse after his new owner claimed he was impotent and refused to pay the full asking price. Vedor, the buyer of the horse paid just a 10th of the price of over 4,000 euros (6,700 dollars), claiming it had only one testicle and failed to get...

TULSA, Okla. - A Kansas man was arrested at a Tulsa strip club after police say his toddler son wandered from an unlocked car into the club over the weekend. Christopher Greg Killion, 31, was arrested Saturday on a complaint of "encouraging a minor child to be in need of supervision." He posted $500 bond and was released from the Tulsa Jail. The toddler told police that his father told him to stay in the car, and that if he left it, "monsters would eat him," reports indicate.

Man uses machete to chop off hand in front of Diet building A man almost completely severed his left hand with a machete in front of the National Diet Building on Tuesday, apparently to protest policies toward North Korea, police said. The 54-year-old man approached the front gates of the building by car, stepped out, silently placed his left hand against the hood of his car and swung the 40 centimeter blade down across his left wrist, according to Tokyo police official Hideyuki Yoshioka. The man, who identified himself as a member of a right-wing organization, then mumbled a few...

A couple who bought and renovated an 82-year-old house in Chevy Chase must tear it down because Montgomery County officials erred in approving the project. Marianne and Marc Duffy said the oversight was pointed out by some high-powered neighbors who pressured the officials into rescinding approval, which will force the Duffys into bankruptcy and to demolish their $725,000 home in the 3700 block of Thornapple Street. "Our neighbors complained, then county officials informed us that they issued our building permits in error and that we'd have to seek a variance," Mrs. Duffy said. "This is after a county official testified...

Before cops threw the book at him, Jakub Fik threw something unusual at them -- his penis. Fik, 33, cut off his own penis during a Northwest Side rampage Wednesday morning. When confronted by police, Fik hurled several knives and his severed organ at the officers, police said. Officers stunned him with a Taser and took him into custody. "We took him out without any serious injury, with the exception of his own," said Chicago Police Sgt. Edward Dolan of the 16th District. Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital reattached Fik's penis Wednesday, sources said. He was listed in good condition...

Talk about a wild night near Seguin. A cow came flying out of its trailer, sent DPS and police scrambling, and left two police cars going up in flames. "It was almost hard to believe," said Detective Sergeant Maureen Watson. She has been in law enforcement for 15 years, and says she "never had a day like this. I mean the best way to characterize this it, is it's bizarre. It's really really strange." It's strange because it started out with a truck towing cattle, and ended in fire. Watson told News 4 WOAI, "We believe the gate of the...

A Tennessee man faces kidnapping charges after police said Wednesday that he took a hitchhiker to a Robertsdale convenience store and forced him to eat pizza and drink wine at knifepoint. Timothy Lee Hagewood, 42, of Clarksville Tenn., was charged with second-degree kidnapping and resisting arrest after the incident Tuesday evening. Hagewood picked up Billy Watson, 35, of Jacksonville, Fla., somewhere along Interstate 10 in Mobile, according to Robertsdale Police Investigator Anthony Dobson. Watson entered Hagewood's Dodge pickup truck voluntarily and was apparently headed back to Florida. The victim told police Hagewood had driven around the Baldwin County area before...