TAIPEI (Reuters) – It may take a strong stomach to eat curry or chocolate ice cream out of a toilet bowl, but a commode-themed restaurant in Taiwan does booming business serving up just that.

[via Reuters]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fishermen in northern Thailand have caught the biggest catfish on record — a 646-pound (293-kg) giant the size of a grizzly bear — and eaten it, the WWF and the National Geographic Society said on Wednesday.

[via Reuters]

The Chicago City Council has banned marijuana-flavored suckers and other candies after criticism they may tempt young children to experiment with drugs.

[via WebIndia123]

Not that it will totally stop it, but I surely can’t blame the city for their stance.

According to The Mirror, the words “Holy Ghost” will be dropped from religious lessons because they scare children, and the body and blood of Jesus Christ will not be described as Eucharist because it seems too cannibalistic.

[via NewKerala]

HAZARIBAGH: Can witches survive in India. Not if they hail from Palani village in Jharkhand. For here, those identified or suspected as witches are thrashed black and blue with the connivance of the local police.

[via newindpress.com]

Brian Hutto said contrary to some reports, neither he nor his brother had any bait in his pocket.

He said as they were walking to a sandbar, Craig felt a bump on his leg, and then the shark attacked.

Brian said he hit the shark repeatedly and tried to pull his brother away from its jaws.

The boys’ father waded into the water to help them, and together, the two managed to pull Craig away from the shark and get him to shore.

[via NewsChannel 5]

Next time I go to the beach I think I’ll be packing my diving knife.

For $10,000 and a brighter future for her son, Kari Smith on Wednesday became a real life pop-up ad for a virtual casino.

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“I really want to do this,” she said. “To everyone else, it seems like a stupid thing to do. To me, $10,000 is like $1 million. I only live once, and I’m doing it for my son.”

Brouse didn’t understand it, either.

In his 24 years, he’s turned away a lot of customers who want to get tattoos that can’t be covered up with clothing. He and his staff spent nearly seven hours Wednesday trying to talk Smith out of it.

Her resolve won out. The one thing Brouse could do with inch-tall letters in the prominent spot was to make them less so by keeping them as close to her hairline for those occasions when bangs or a hat might be the more appropriate message.

[via Deseret News & The Salt Lake Tribune]

What is wrong with people? I don’t think I’d do that for a billion dollars, let alone the chump change of ten grand. But I guess she always has a future in the carnival.

FARMLAND, Ind. — Seven women who usually gather to play cards plan to strip down for a calendar as part of the fight against plans to tear down Randolph County’s 128-year-old courthouse.

The women ranging in age from their early 70s to older than 90 will pose nude — with strategically placed miniature replicas of the courthouse in front of them — in the fund raiser for the Save the Courthouse Fund.

“I don’t know how we’re going to look, but we’re going to pose,” 85-year-old Garnita Amburn told The Star Press of Muncie for a story today.

[via The Indianapolis Star]

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Sure, the weather’s been rather tropical this week, but it’s still surprising to come across alligators in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

A Pennsylvania man says he spotted one Monday night while driving in Butler County, outside of Pittsburgh.

[via WFTV]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The mourning parents of a traffic accident victim who visited their son’s grave near Antwerp Friday evening were shocked to find the local gravediggers enjoying their annual barbecue at the graveyard.

Workers at the cemetery in Merksem had music playing and their children were running around near the graves, De Morgen newspaper said Wednesday.

[via Reuters]