Press release issued: Narnia walks out of WTO talks, citing pressure from US and EU delegates. Spokesperson Susan Aslan expresses outrage. A number of news outlets, including Forbes, picked up the story before realising it was a hoax. Obviously Forex Television still hasn’t realised.

Santa urged to leave the reindeer at home and take public transport. He replies that no bus route goes to every house in the world. (Let alone overnight at Christmas, one would imagine.)

It’s the Taiwanese Wiggles: Arthur, Anni, Captain Feathersword, Danny and Carlos! (via Ferrous)

Mistake 1: Sitting in the passenger seat, pulling the steering wheel as a drunken prank, causing a crash. Mistake 2: blogging about it while claiming to police that you don’t remember what happened.

Cows are being decapitated in Melbourne’s road tunnels when they poke their heads out of trucks, only to get them knocked-off by signs. Remind me not to drive behind cattle trucks… (Thanks Shell)

American Express offers gold Amex cards to Aborigines on work-for-the-dole schemes. Way to help the personal debt problem, guys.

But hey, in the States, they’re issuing credit cards to trees. (Thanks Amanda)

The government of Kazahkstan gets fed up with being the but of jokes via Ali G’s Borat character, and shuts down borat.kz.

Man on the way to Bondi (scene of recent riots) found with a riot-related pamphlet, but claims he was only carrying petrol on the bus because he was on his way to help a mate whose car had broken down. Yeah. Sure.

Hit-and-run driver turns out to be a 7-year-old. (Thanks MGS)

Just because Wikipedia is freely editable, doesn’t mean you should jump in and change it willy-nilly…

Speed camera operator gets a parking fine.

One cop uses his Taser on another after getting into an argument over whether they should stop patrolling to get a drink. (Thanks MGS)

Train driver caught taking nude picture of himself while driving. (Thanks Brian)

An email doing the rounds shows an incredibly elaborate Christmas lights display on a guy’s house. And Snopes says it’s real, created by a geek who obviously had too much time and money on his hands. The music is broadcast by low-power FM transmitter so as not to bug the neighbours. (Thanks Amanda)

The Catholic Church moves to phase out limbo, saying it was only ever a hypothesis. It’s not clear yet what will happen to babies and those born before Jesus, previously placed in limbo.

Cat flies by business class. (Thanks Amanda)

Move over, Myer Christmas Windows — a shopping mall in New Orleans has a post-Katrina display, complete with tarpaulins on roofs, hurricane debris, and “You loot, we shoot” grafitti. (Thanks MGS)