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TORONTO -- Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy, 39, fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lauwers, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was “one of the best and brightest” members of the 200-man association.
EDMONTON -- A 21-year-old man who cut off his testicles with a pizza knife and flushed them down a toilet is in an Edmonton hospital in stable condition. The waiter at an Edmonton restaurant was apparently depressed over a personal relationship when he locked himself in a washroom at the pizzeria. He was taken to the hospital after the Wednesday evening incident. His testicles were not recovered.
LONDON -- Escape ploy a yellow shade of pale London: A British prisoner trying to escape from jail spent two days coloring his body with a fluorescent yellow felt pen to make his warders think that he had jaundice. The inmate was serving six years for armed robbery at Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight. He had hoped to be transferred to a hospital outside of the jail. The plan failed when a prison officer looked into his cell and saw the inmate coloring his face. ""He had carefully painted all of his body, even his private parts,"" one warder said.
JOHANNESBURG -- A South African man killed himself by putting a firecracker in his mouth, and lighting it. Police say Jacobus Kemp was found slumped in his van outside his parents' home in a town in North West province. His face was damaged beyond recognition. The 26-year-old man was depressed over his pending divorce.
ALBANY -- We know that a big turkey can make a dent in your wallet -- but a dent in your car? In Albany, New York police were called to a woman's home last night on a report of personal property damage. She told an officer that her ex-boyfriend had shown up at her house and the two had started arguing. The woman says the man threw a frozen turkey at the side of her car, doing one-thousand dollars worth damage.
EDMONTON -- Edmonton man has found out the hard way that timing is everything when you try to ""slip someone the tongue"". He was having an argument with his wife when he decided to plant a big wet kiss on her lips. She returned his affection by biting off a 6 cm (2.5 in) piece his tongue and flushing it down the toilet. 22-year-old Nicole Patricia Meadows is charged with aggravated #%&*@!ault. Doctors say the man will need therapy relearning how to speak and swallow.
CINCINNATI -- You can understand when people forget where they've put the car keys. It's easy to lose track of your sungl#%&*@!es. But Carolyn Hutchinson pushed the limits. Police in Cincinnati say she forgot she had stuffed a loaded gun into her underwear. Mind you, that's the underwear she was wearing. Hutchinson was playing bingo at a social hall Tuesday night when she went to the restroom, and the .25-caliber pistol fell out of her panties. Police say the gun fired when it hit the floor, wounding Hutchinson in the calf. She was treated for the wound at a hospital and released. And she's been charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
DETROIT -- A 24-year-old Detroit man needed 16 stitches on his penis after apparently shooting himself with a semi-automatic pistol while asleep. The man, whom police did not identify, was sleeping with a loaded pistol when the shooting occurred early Saturday morning. The man was alone in the house so he drove himself to the hospital, which then notified police. He told police he did not know how the semi-automatic pistol discharged.
ARGENTINA -- Police say thugs acting on the orders of a jilted Argentine nurse sliced off her boyfriend's penis with a kitchen knife. The 45-year-old woman allegedly told her boyfriend that if he left her, she would follow the example of Lorena Bobbitt, the Ecuadoran woman who cut off the penis of her rapist husband, American John Wayne Bobbitt, in 1994. The man managed to get help but his penis wasn't found until 10 hours later. Doctors say it was too late to reattach it.
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO -- A man cleaning a bird feeder on his balcony of his condominium apartment in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death, police said Monday. Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheeled chair Sunday when the accident occurred, said Inspector D'Arcy Honer of the Peel regional police. ""It appears the chair moved and he went over the balcony,"" Honer said. ""It's one of those freak accidents. No foul play is suspected.""
PICKERING, ONTARIO -- A Toronto-area man tried to kill himself by drowning himself in a toilet shortly after being arrested in Pickering. Durham Regional Police say the 31-year-old man tried to commit suicide three times after his arrest for #%&*@!ault. They say he first tried to hang himself, then repeatedly bashed his head against the brick walls of his cell, and finally shoved his head in the toilet. The man, who wasn't identified, was treated in hospital and returned to police custody. He was charged with #%&*@!ault after being arrested for attacking a man with a knife at a house and starting a fight at a local shopping centre.
CKNW-S, CKWX, VANCOUVER -- It may not be over for a Victoria man who shot his mouth off, and then his genitals. Police are considering weapons and drug charges against him when he gets out of the hospital. It happened in Vancouver after an argument in which the 20-year-old man pulled out a .357 Magnum revolver and threatened a few people. He then jammed it back in his pants, when it went off, blowing away his testicles and most of his penis. Police Constable Anne Drennan says it's ""very tragic,"" adding, ""Can you imagine?"" The incident occurred early Friday morning. Police recovered the gun in a garbage can, and say the victim had cocaine and heroin with him.