And now for something completely different:

Police forces have stored almost 500 major body parts, including organs, unnecessarily without telling the families of victims, an official investigation has found.

The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) says the human tissue samples were from murder investigations or cases involving other suspicious deaths that date back as far as the 1960s.

An Acpo audit found that the 492 body parts retained by police forces in England and Wales included brains, hearts and limbs.

“Yes, I’d like an argument please.” “An argument? Wouldn’t you rather a nice kidney?”… [doink]

Shoot!

A Russian man had to be rescued by emergency workers from a rubbish chute where he had jumped to escape his girlfriend but ended up getting stuck after sliding three floors down, officials said Thursday.

“According to the 31-year-old victim, he jumped into the metal chute on the 8th floor to escape his girlfriend,” the emergency ministry branch in the oil-rich Tyumen region said on its website.

There’s a photo of the poor bugger:

We titter – but hoo lordy, that would be really no fun at all. Glad he’s alright.

Filed under “Headlines that say it all, really”:

After 15 hours of fist pumping, James Peterson felt the super glue holding his right hand closed begin to loosen.

That did not stop him from reaching his goal: 16 continuous hours in an effort to place his name in the Guinness World Records.

Fist pumping to the song Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen, Peterson stopped just after 3 a.m. Saturday at Manny’s Pub on Brown Street near the University of Akron.

Um, this song?

That’s funny.

Now: Obligatory fist pump photos.

First, the “I bellow like bull when I fist pump!” fist pump:

And who doesn’t love the “I talk to my fist pump when I fist pump” fist pump?

Beat that, Tiger Woods!

Pretty sure we saw this exact thing on an episode of Hee Haw! back in the day:

Out in Chicago, a wild man who was apparently in a desperate need of deodorant, stole a Bobcat tractor from a construction site and then drove it through the gates, window and wall of a store. He grabbed a couple cans of deodorant, a few gift cards for good measure and then left.

You know how it is: You finally score a date with the girl of your dreams, but the boss makes you work late, and you don’t have time to go home for a shower, and then you lose your wallet  – and the Bobcat’s right there! All gassed up and the key in it and everything! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT HIM TO DO?!?

The judge should definitely take these things into consideration!

Harley Davidson tracked down the owner in Japan:

The Japanese owner of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was washed out to sea in the tsunami last April says its discovery on a remote beach on the West Coast of B.C. last week is a miracle.

The owner Ikuo Yokoyama, a 29-year-old resident of the town of Yamamoto, in Miyagi Prefecture, was tracked down by a Harley-Davidson representative in Japan who saw the story, first reported by CBC News, in the media.

A company spokeperson told CBC News they are now hoping to pay for the return of the bike to Yokoyama and to see if they can restore it for him.

Things we learned today that we did not know yesterday: Harleys float. Weird.

There is of course, a dark underbelly to the story:

He said he lost his home and three family members in the tsunami and is now living in temporary accommodation. The motorcycle was being kept at his house in the back section of a cube van that he was using as a storage shed when the tsunami struck.

Good for Harley Davidson, and congratulations on getting the bike back, Ikuo Yokoyama.

Story found on Digg.

Very weird:

Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction. A Lamborghini stolen from celebrity chef Guy Fieri has been found a year after it first went missing. In case you need refreshing, the Lambo was pilfered by a thief who literally rappelled off the roof of a building in order to get access to the Italian Stallion.

It seems the perpetrator had a thing for stealthy operations – the vehicle turned up during an investigation that began after a motorcyclist wearing all black fired a gun into a parked car. The gunman was a 17-year-old boy, and Fieri’s car was located in a storage container in Point Richmond, California, along with the boy’s motorcycle and apparent evidence linking him to the shooting.

Just crazy. More here.

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