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Since retiring as a plumber 32 years ago, Barney Smith has produced 677 fanciful toilet seats, which now pack the Toilet Seat Art Museum's
walls from floor to ceiling.
The paperless office might be dream, but the paperless toilet is a nightmare — and a reality for the last three decades for those caught short on Tokyo's subway system.
A Massachusetts man woke with a jolt in the parking lot next to his home after a stolen car plowed into his one-room house, pushing his double bed through the front wall.
Prisoners at a northern Oklahoma prison were locked in their cells after they beefed about a new, low fat "heart-healthy" menu by boycotting the cafeteria.
A woman who claims she lost the winning Mega Millions lottery ticket and is suing to block payment to the acknowledged winner said she was charged previously with credit card fraud and assault.
Cable TV made a West Bend man addicted to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy, he says. And he's threatening to sue the cable company.
Family physician Dr. Doug Farrago publishes the Placebo Journal, a bimonthly magazine he hopes will help doctors keep a sense of humor while battling what he calls the Medical Axis of Evil: drug companies, HMOs and medical malpractice insurers.
A publicity-shy Russian researcher who labors in near-seclusion may have solved one of mathematics' oldest and most abstruse problems, the Poincare Conjecture.
A security guard, who started work two weeks earlier after providing fictitious personal particulars, drove off an armoured van with some $1 million during a collection trip at a shopping centre recently.
British government scientists are evaluating new technology that allows identification by body odour, making it possible to trace criminals by their unique whiff.
A snowball fight is almost a rite of passage for students in Canada, but Toronto schools are moving to strengthen a ban on the practice they say is violent and dangerous.
Literally hundreds of readers informed me that in last week's column, "Some Things I Wonder About," my reference to a Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City was an urban legend and as such totally false.
A doctor forced a weakened George Harrison to autograph a guitar for the physician's teenage son two weeks before the ex-Beatle died of cancer, a lawsuit alleges.
A young Colombian thief hid in a parcel delivered to a wealthy home, but his planned burglary went wrong when suspicious security guards called in bomb disposal experts.
