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German police successfully rescued a 91-year-old man who glued himself to his roof. Passerbys who saw the man near the roof's edge sounded the alarm,believing he was about to attempt suicide.But when the cops arrived,the man said he had been trying to re-tar the roof when he fell into the tar.'he was like a beetle on his back,with his arms and legs sprawled out and completely glued to the roof," said a police spokesman. "Due to his age,he couldn't free himself from his unfortunate situation."
A Chinese man is claiming to have a pet carp that answers to its own name.Fang Peng,of Guizhou province,says that for the last six years he and his family have been training the fish,"Submarine," to swim to the side of their fishing pond whenever its name is called.If fishermen try to capture his now-famous fish,Fang says,they will fail. Submarine,he says, is 'very smart,and never taked the bait of anglers.'
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Will and Jada Pinkett Smith claim they are no longer using toilet paper.The Hollwood power couple have had their Los Angeles home fitted with high-tech Japanese toilets that use jets of air and water to thoughly clean the user after flushing.'They're paper-free," said Will Smith,39."Whenever you sit on the toilet,somehow it hits the bull's-eye perfectly.It cleans and then dries you.It is just water.....and thenair.
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A Maryland woman is claiming that her dog saved her life by performing the Heimlich maneuver,Debbie Parkhurst,45,says she was choking on a chunk of apple when her pet golden retriever Toby appeared and put his paws on her shoulders.'He pushed me to the ground," said Parkhurst,"and once I was on my back he began jumping up and down on my chest,"dislodging the friut and allowing Parkhurst to draw breath. "i have no idea where he learned it from,"she added.
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Prince Charles is one of those people who talks during movies,reports In Touch.Actress Joely Richardson,star of cable hit Hip/Tuck, says she once sat next to the heir to the British throne at the premiere of one of her movies,and that Charles "just talked throughout the entire film" at normal conversational volume."They were nice,sweet things,said Ricjardson."He was like,Oh you look nice there,I was like "Thank You,thank you.Shhh!"
the love affair between a swan and a swan-shaped pedalboat has entered its second year,say German wildlife officials.The swan,nicknamed Petra,apparently fell in love with the novelty tourist boat on Germany's Lake Aasee last year,and there were fears she would freeze to death when her partner refused to fly south for the winter.fortunately a local zoo agreed to house the pair over the colder months,and this week they returned to the lake,where Petra continued to circle her "boyfriend"while gazing at him in rapt adoration.This arrangement could go on forever,"said zoo director joerg Alder.
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