A man was sentenced last week to two years in prison for faking his death three times to beat drunk driving charges Peter C Gentry was first arrested in 1991 but an official looking death certificate sent to authorities said he had died in a Los Angeles auto crash and the case was dismissed In 1994 he was arrested again and sent in another death certificate A year later Gentry was again arrested and supposedly died this time of denzor hemorrhagic fever in Africa There is no such disease

An old couple had a son who was still living with his parents The parents were a little worried as the son was still unable to decide about his future career They decided to do a small test They took a ten-dollar bill a bible and a bottle of whiskey and put them on the front hall table and hid pretending they`re not home The father`s plan was: If our son takes the money he will be a businessman if he takes the bible he will be a priest - but if he takes the bottle of whiskey I`m afraid our son will be a drunkard

It started out as just a simple fender-bender but a couple of hours later the driver Chinnamma Sebastian 49 Philadelphia PA wound up in a hospital in critical condition with multiple injuries Sebastian stood in a grassy area near the location of the minor accident and watched as her car was hooked to the flatbed of a tow truck when suddenly the 1988 Mercedes went into reverse and rolled off The car ran over her and hit the tow truck driver who suffered minor injuries It finally stopped when it hit another tow truck

Singing hymns and praying for peace and luck thousands of Buddhists greeted a holy tooth believed to have belonged to Buddha when it arrived in Taiwan Monks in saffron robes escorted the tooth encased in a miniature golden pagoda off a flight from India Dozens of women prostated themselves and spread their long hair over a red carpet Others knelt in rows clasping their hands in front to express their reverence Buddhists say the tooth brings blessings for those who live where it is housed and keeps them from disaste

3-year-old Lateef Wise Philadelphia PA was left home alone last week At about 9:30 a m the frightened and crying boy pushed out the screen of an open window Then he fell from the apartment bounced off an air conditioner protruding from a second floor window and landed on a narrow amazingly got up began to cry and started strip of grass After hitting the ground Lateef walking around Lateef was later released from a local hospital with just a minor larceration The boy was left home alone due to a miscommunication between the parents

When a 24-year-old man showed up at a British hospital emergency room with chest pains doctors also heard a loud crunching sound each time his heart beat and felt air bubbles under his skin According to the British Medical Journal the patient disclosed that the day before he had blown up about 20 party balloons Doctors concluded that the man had burst some of the little air sacs in his lungs when he blew up the first balloon then inflated himself a little bit more each time he blew up another balloon His symptoms cleared up within 10 days

A newly appointed health minister of a northern state whose knowledge of English was somewhat elementary was on his first official visit to the largest hospital in the capital The Director of Medical Services took the minister round the operating theaters and general wards till they came to the women patients section This sir is the labour ward explained the director The minister stopped in his tracks and said firmly I will not visit this ward Don t you know we have a labour minister in the government? I must not trespass into his domain

Jawaharlal Nehru proved that a rich man can become the country s Prime Minister; Lal Bahadur Shastri proved that a poor man can become the Prime Minister; Indira Gandhi proved that a woman can become the Prime Minister; Morarji Desai proved that an old man can become the Prime Minister; Rajiv Gandhi proved that a young man can become the Prime Minister; I K Gujral proved that a gentleman can become the Prime Minister; Deve Gowda proved just about anybody can become the Prime Minister; Manmohan Singh has proved that India does not need a Prime Ministe

A newly appointed health minister of a northern state (guess which?) whose knowledge of English was somewhat elementary was on his first official visit to the largest hospital in the Capital The Director of Medical Services took the minister round the operating theatres and general wards till they came to the women patients section This sir is the labour ward explained the director The minister stopped in his tracks and said firmly I will not visit this ward Don t you know we have a labour minister in the government? I must not trespass into his domain

A major traffic jam was preventing people from moving forward A motorist shouted out wanting to know what was happening A guy from the front replied Well at the traffic crossing Laloo Yadav is sprawled across the road He is refusing to move from there But why? He has lost the elections and will now surely be convicted for corruption and will have to pay lakhs of Rupess as fines He is threatening to douse himself with kerosene and set himself on fire if people didn`t contribute with money to help him pay the fine So how much has been collected so far? Six litres

Fan of Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio David Blaine last year buried himself underwater in a plexiglass coffin for a week and survived Now he encased himself in a six-tonne block of ice and hoped to come out unscathed 58 hours later i e two and a half-day This was the toughest challenge for Blaine He would have to remain standing in the block in which his contour was shaped surviving only with a tube to suck water and oxygen He faced several threats which include frostbite and the possibility of falling asleep and touching the ice wall Passerby in New York called him crazy to risk his life

Jail officials in Linn County OR have banned underwear for male inmates explaining that it costs too much money to replace T-shirts and drawers which keep disappearing Sherrif Dave Burright said some items were flushed down the toilet resulting in a 200 bill to unclog the sewer lines Also this summer an inmate tried to hang himself with the elastic waistband from his briefs So far only one prisoner has complained claiming it is a constitutional right for inmates to have underwear according to Burright who noted I don`t remember Thomas Jefferson putting anything about underwear in the Constitution

George W Bush and Colin Powell are sitting in a bar A guy walks in and asks the barman Isn`t that Bush and Powell sitting over there? The barman says Yep that`s them So the guy walks over and says Wow this is a real honor What are you guys doing in here? Bush says We`re planning World War III And the guy says Really? What`s going to happen? Bush says Well we`re going to kill 140 million Iraqis and one intelligent blonde The guy exclaimed Intelligent blonde Why kill a blonde? Bush turns to Powell punches him on the shoulder and says See smart ass? I told you no one would worry about the 140 million Iraqis

In Lok Sabha a Congress MP during his speech told a story There was a father who gave 100 rupees to each of his 3 sons and asked them to buy things and fill up a room completely First son bought hay for Rs 100 but couldn t fill the room entirely Second son bought cotton for Rs 100 but couldn t fill the room entirely Third son bought a candle for Re 1/- and lit it up and the room was completely filled with light The MP added Our Prime Minister is like the third son From the day he has taken charge of his office our country is filled with the bright light of prosperity A voice from the backbench asked: Where is the remaining Rs 99?

A man whose son was crushed to death by a soda vending machine has filed a 500 000 wrongful-death lawsuit against the company that manufactured the machine The 27-year-old man apparently rocked the machine which fell pinning him against a wall and crushing his chest The father decided to sue after learning that his son`s death was not an isolated incident The penalty for jiggling a machine to get a quarter out or a free Coke shouldn`t be death said the man`s lawyer The US Consumer Product Safety Commission found that between 1978 and 1995 at least 37 deaths and 113 injuries resulted from falling vending machines which can weigh 1 000 pounds