Another Weird Year: Bizarre news stories from around the world

by HuwDavies (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  Fiction will never be able to compete with the bizarre nuggets of truth continually thrown up in the daily news. This bumper collection of the year's weirder gems, taken from news sources around the world, and organised into thematic chapters (Sex, Animals, Politics, Sport etc.),includes such tales as the chimpanzee who made crank phone calls, the chess game prematurely ended by a flying cow, and the airline pilot who had to borrow money from his passengers to refuel the plane. So forget the endless column inches on economic downturn, this is the real news and it tells you more about life on earth than you'd ever wish to know.

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.25

  From the slightly worrying to the barely believable, Another Weird Year 3 is the book that no one who is tired of the drudgery of everyday front page news can afford to be without. The stories are once more grouped by theme (Sex, Animals, Lawyers etc.) and include: The policeman who took 36 years to make his first arrest; a man who turned arsonist to avoid sex with his wife; and the birds who felt that migrating south under their own steam was too much effort by half and decided to go by car instead. It's all true - but you may find you're pinching yourself to believe it.