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Robert Heinbaugh of Plainsville, Ohio, has the distinction of being the first person in the world to be shot by a lawn-mower… As he cut the grass one evening, he ran over a live bullet which went off and shot him in the foot. His wife saw the funny side and mowed the rest of the lawn herself.

Paramedics in Kennett, Missouri, rescued a man who’d got his member stuck in the washbasin plug-hole. He had been trying to change the light bulb above the sink when he slipped and fell, accidentally lodging himself in the plug-hole. The blow left his penis so bruised and swollen that he was unable to extract it. Eventually a neighbour called the police who smashed down the bathroom door despite the embarrassed man’s protestations that he did not want rescuing.

Darsun Yilmax from Damali on the Balck Sea was so distraught after being rejected by his neighbour’s daughter that he decided to kidnap her. Climbing a ladder to her room, he threw a blanket over the head of the sleeping figure in the bed and carried her downstairs to his waiting car. After whispering lovingly in her ear, he pulled back the blanket to find instead that it contained the girl’s 91-year-old grandmother.

In 1971, an object exhibited at a South Shields museum as a Roman coin was revealed to be a plastic token given away free by a soft drinks firm. The error was pointed out by a nine-year-old schoolgirl. The “R” which the museum had thought meant “Roma” in fact stood for “Robinsons”.

When the United States opened the Panama Canal in 1920, the Secretary of State invited Switzerland to send its navy. It was subsequently pointed out to the Secretary that land-locked Switzerland has no navy.

Los Angeles attorney Antonio Mendoza spent over three hours having his mobile phone removed from his rectum. During the delicate operation, his phone rang three times. After recovering at a trauma centre from his ordeal, Mendoza explained: “My dog drags the phone all over the house. he must have dragged it into the shower. I slipped on a tile, tripped against the dog and sat down right in the thing.”

A 30-year-old Colombian man trying to sneak through Paris airport customs in 2000 was found to have a boa constrictor in his pants.

When two service attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over cash to a drunken robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber went ahead and phoned the cops… who promptly arrested him.

Two Canadians looking to buy a quantity of cocaine in the Cayman Islands called the wrong number and ended up speaking to a police officer instead. The cops arranged a meet at which the pair were duly arrested.