Museum visitor trips over and smashes two Qing dynasty Chinese vases. Oops. (Thanks Chris)

This sounds like a plot from the Sopranos: two men hired to break the legs of a businessman decide to take guns instead of baseball bats. But the man survives because they shot him in bed, his doona cushioning the blast, but leaving him with a wound embedded with feathers.

Music teacher in Colorado in trouble for showing her students a bit of Faust, because parents claim it glorifies Satan. The teacher told a newspaper “…from what has been said about me, that I’m a Satan worshipper, my character, I can’t believe all of this. My intention was just to expose the kids to opera.” (Thanks NA)

American senators get a lesson in how Australian judges are appointed: not elected but appointed “for their skill, integrity and independence.”

Freak animal claims to British insurance companies (Thanks David)