From a Greek nunnery turned
into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African
man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the pain off", the
world was full of weird news in 2007.

A
Moscow woman set fire to her ex-husband’s penis as he sat naked
watching TV and drinking vodka. The couple divorced three years ago but
continued to share a small flat. "I was burning like a torch," the
wounded ex-husband told Tvoi Den newspaper. "I don’t know what I did to
deserve this."

In
the German town of Kaiserslautern, police broke into a dark flat
expecting to find a corpse after neighbors complained of a nasty smell
seeping out into the hallway. But instead they found a tenant with very
smelly feet asleep in bed next to a pile of extremely foul-smelling
laundry.

British
artist Mark McGowan ate meatballs made from a dead corgi in a protest
against cruelty to animals. He said the dog, which had died of natural
causes, tasted terrible.

Criminals
filled odd news headlines around the world. In the US, two Colorado men
were accused of plotting to kill a man with rattlesnakes in a dispute
over a $60,000 poker debt.

It’s
a story out of the Wild West - there’s poker, rattlesnakes and unsavory
characters," said a Colorado investigation official.

A Zimbabwe man stole a bus because he needed transport to get his driving license.

A
German bus driver threw a 20-year-old off because he said she was too
sexy for his bus. "He opened the door and shouted ‘Your cleavage is
distracting me every time I look into my mirror and I can’t concentrate
on the traffic’," the woman said.

Climate
change also found its way into weird news. A Hummer owner in Russia’s
St. Petersburg gave activists the green light to pelt his oversized
vehicle with rotten eggs and tomatoes.

Every
story needs a happy ending and Bangkok delivered this one. A
76-year-old woman from southern Thailand got on the wrong bus 25 years
ago and got lost, ending up living as a beggar at the other end of the
country. But in 2007 she was finally reunited with her family.

Via China Daily