A "model pupil" has admitted baking a cannabis cake which put ten teachers in hospital.
Staff at the Herder Grammar School in Lueneburg in Germany thought it was a chocolate cake.
The sixth form student, not named for legal reasons, was arrested after an anonymous tip-off and has agreed to make a public apology in front of the whole school in order to escape prosecution.
Police who searched the student's home found traces of cannabis.
The 19-year-old, who is only a few weeks away from his final exams, said he had thought it was "a funny practical joke" - but now regretted it.
Horst Homburg, headmaster at the Herder school, said the student had previously only been known for his "impeccable behaviour" and was a "model pupil".
The teenager will not be prosecuted or expelled from school but he will have to carry out community service at a local hospital and pay a police fine.
Ten of the school's 65 teachers had to be taken to local hospital where doctors carried out drugs tests and confirmed that the teachers had consumed cannabis.
Pumpkin Fooka
Police arrested Malcolm Davidson, a 27 year-old white male resident of Wilmington, NC, in a pumpkin patch at 11:38pm Friday. Davidson will be charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, public indecency, and public intoxication at the County courthouse on Monday. The suspect allegedly stated that as he was passing a pumpkin patch, he decided to stop.
"You know, a pumpkin is soft and squishy inside, and there was no one around here for miles. At least I thought there wasn't," he stated in a phone interview from the County courthouse jail. Davidson went on to state that he pulled over to the side of the road, picked out pumpkin that he felt was appropriate to his purposes, cut a hole in it, and proceeded to satisfy his alleged "need".
"I guess I was just really into it, you know?" he commented with evident embarrassment. In the process, Davidson apparently failed to notice the Wilmington Municipal police car approaching and was unaware of his audience until officer Brenda Taylor approached him.
"It was an unusual situation, that's for sure." said officer Taylor. "I walked up to (Davidson) and he's...just working away at this pumpkin." Taylor went on to describe what happened when she approached Davidson. He just went up and said, 'Excuse me sir, but do you realize that you are screwing a pumpkin?'
He got real surprised as you'd expect and then looked me straight in the face and said,
"A pumpkin? Damn... is it midnight already?"
Thomas the cat offered gym membership
A cat is being bombarded with mail including credit card deals, gym offers and free internet surfing time.
Thomas the Tabby cat has been receiving mystery mail six years. But owner Mike Davies was astounded when an 18in tube came through the door on Monday addressed to Thomas Catt.
In it was a membership offer from a local gym, Esporta Health Club, including a poster of a human body headed with the words: "Thomas, this is what we'll do for you this year".
Mr Davies, 49, of Coombe Road, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, insisted he has never put his 11-year-old pet's name on any mailing list and is baffled and "quite amused" by his apparent popularity.
Though the overweight feline is on a special diet, Mr Davies said he said did not plan to take up the gym offer as there was no treadmill for cats there.
A spokeswoman for the gym said: "Esporta purchased the data record of Mr Thomas Catt from Consodata Lifestyle Register. It looks like somebody has clearly at some stage filled out details for their pet."
The pet's first piece of post was a credit card offer in 1998 addressed to just "Thomas" but since then "Catt" has been added as a surname, Mr Davies said.
Post has included an offer of a £250,000 loan, information about funeral plans, free internet surfing for 10 years and even a credit card offer from Goldfish. Mr Davies said: "He gets about six items a month and I think the postwoman is a bit fed up with it now."
White Man On The Moon.
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo project, it did some astronaut training on a Navajo Indian reservation.
One day, a Navajo elder and his son were herding sheep and came across the space crew. The old man, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question which his son translated. "What are these guys in the big suits doing?"
A member of the crew said they were practicing for their trip to the moon. The old man got all excited and asked if he could send a message to the moon with the astronauts.
Recognizing a promotional opportunity for the spin-doctors, the NASA folks found a tape recorder. After the old man recorded his message, they asked his son to translate it. He refused. So the NASA reps brought the tape to the reservation, where the rest of the tribe listened and laughed but refused to translate the elder's message to the moon.
Finally, the NASA crew called in an official government translator. He reported that the message said, "Watch out for these guys; they have come to steal your land."
Recollections of flying with Qantas.
The initial safety announcement:
"In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask and pull it over your face. If you have a small child travelling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are travelling with more than one small child, pick your favourite."
The first in-flight announcement:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants."
After a particularly bumpy landing:
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Perth. Please remain in your seats with your seat belts fastened while Captain Kangaroo bounces what's left of our aeroplane to the gate." This was followed by a voice from the cockpit saying, "Whoa, big fella. WHOA!"
And on arriving at the gate:
"Please be sure to take all your belongings. If you're going to leave anything, please make sure it's something we'd like to have."
Indian couple drive everywhere in reverse
An Indian taxi driver and his wife have become locally famous for driving everywhere in reverse.
Harpreet Devi, from Bhatinda, started driving backwards when his car got stuck in reverse gear and he had to drive 35 miles home.
He said: "After dropping off some students, I backed out the car a little and found the gear lever stuck on reverse.
"There was no way I could release it so I drove in reverse, all the way back home. It gave me the confidence that I could really do it. That incident became an inspiration for more."
He and his wife Krishna have now mastered the art of driving in reverse at speeds of up to 25mph on the highways and say they can navigate their car through heavy traffic.
Harpreet has been driving his taxi in reverse for the last two years and says he has covered around 7,500 miles, reports Asian News International
He now wants to drive his vehicle in reverse across India's border with Pakistan taking with him a message of peace and friendship.
The husband and wife are now known locally as the 'reverse couple'.
Judges won't ban 'Kinky Barbie'
A doll maker who was taken to court by toy giant Mattel after selling kinky versions of Barbie has won a preliminary ruling
British-based Susanne Pitt was prosecuted in New York for sale of a 'dungeon doll' made with the head of 'Superstar Barbie'.
Mattel said it infringed its copyright. But Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled in favour of the S&M doll because she found it wasn't "a market substitute for Barbie dolls."
"To the court's knowledge, there is no Mattel line of S&M Barbie," the judge said.
Pitt, who defended herself, offered the dungeon doll for sale on a Web site, which she closed down after Mattel launched its action last year.
She allegedly attached big breasted doll bodies of her own making to the head of Superstar Barbie and publicised the doll in a sexually explicit story on the Web site.
'Model pupil' baked cannabis cake for teachers