Mix-up at Netflix means Doctor Who DVDs got a scene from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre in them.

Documentary about the demise of The Bill and its conversion from cop show to soap. Says the actor of DCI Jack Meadows: “I’m the only person in Sun Hill who hasn’t been raped. I keep looking over my shoulder but it’s not happened yet.” (Should be online here in the next day or two.)

Chicago firefighter has plastic surgery so he looks like Bruce Willis.

87 year old man asked for ID to buy alcohol. (Thanks Marie)

Oh, tasteful: for the geek who has everything: USB humping dog. (Thanks Amanda)

Woman dies in water drinking contest. That DHMO is deadly stuff.

Objections to Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth lead to its banning from some school districts, because a parent objected to the film claiming the Earth is more than 14,000 years old, and didn’t show a biblical fire and brimstone end to civilisation if global warming takes its course.

Zoo Magazine announces the Un-Australian of the Year is Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, for comparing women to meat.

Man selling his entire life on eBay (thanks Marie)

Penguins suspected of being gay (thanks Amanda)

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie complains to his local council about loud music (thanks Pratap)

Shock! Horror! Web browser in Wii and PS3 consoles can access pr0n!

German motorist blindly follows sat nav system’s advice, and ends up on a railway track. (Thanks Debbie)

Visiting British professor wrestled to the ground and handcuffed… for jaywalking in Atlanta. (Thanks Amanda)

I knew an young lady who swallowed a spoon… (Thanks Glenn)

Kids around the world (well, Pakistan and the USA) have died while emulating the hanging of Saddam. Sigh.

Messiah the Cat gets his own credit card. (Thanks numerous people)

Taxi driver fined for driving at 420 mph. (Thanks Jessica)

Wesley Autrey, subway legend. And one of his rewards was free subway travel for a year — well I should think so too! (Thanks Charmaine)

Devout Christian claims Jesus has appeared on his laundry door. Why is it always devout Christians who claim this? And actually it looks more like Gandhi to me…

Merry Christmas! US retailer Best Buy made a US$43 million gain in revenue from gift cards bought 2+ years ago that had expired. Estimates in the USA show $4.8 billion worth of cards go unused every year.

Merry Christmas! Police called in to break-up a brawl at a carols service.

Tourist heading for Sydney, Australia, mistypes his destination into an online booking form and ends up in Sidney, Montana, USA instead. (Thanks Marie)

Woman sues foster agency after foster-son “enjoys” old pics of her nude (without realising who it was). (Thanks Dan)