Shocking pictures of a granny chaining herself up in protest… chains supplied by the TV station.

Old news, but amusing: US Vice President Dick Cheney’s rider requires (amongst other things) TVs tuned to Fox News, and climate control at 68 degrees F.

Speared through the eye with a metal chairleg! Eugh. But the surgeons got it out. (Thanks Glenn)

Blind psychic tells the future by feeling people’s naked buttocks. Uh huh. I know this about my future: I’m not getting my future read by him. (Thanks Marie)

Britney shaves her head. OK, who reckons she’s the next Anna-Nicole Smith?

Phillip Kerkof of South Australia single-handedly wrestles and kills a 1.3 metre shark. Says his wife: “He’d had a few vodkas and wasn’t thinking straight.”

Man found dead in front of TV — he’d been there for a year. (Thanks Marie)

Harvey Norman store wanted to display a PS3, but couldn’t get one before release. So they displayed an XBox 360 with a cardboard cutout PS3 in front of it. (Thanks Pratap)

Cleopatra wasn’t much of a spunk after all, according to her image found on a coin. (Thanks Amanda)

Woman crashes car while drink-driving… outside the court where she was going for a hearing on a previous drink-driving charge.

A substantial number of voters in the November 2006 Victorian state election proclaimed they wanted to Vote for Pedro.

Model railway manufacturers get risque with their scenery figurines, providing copulating couples (people and animals) and one kit that has a brothel raid scene, with prostitutes, police and embarrassed businessmen.

Watch you don’t catch the wrong bus. Jaeyaena Beuraheng did in 1982, and ended up lost for 25 years, until she was found in a homeless shelter 1800 km from home.

Pauline Hanson, infamous for trying to make herself out to be all-Australian, and criticising immigrants from Asia and the Middle East, has a DNA test which shows she is in fact 9% Middle Eastern, 32% Southern European and 59% Northern European.

Man shot — mistaken for rat. (Thanks Debbie)

Done two years ago, but now seen throughout the world thanks to web satellite pictures: the phallus in the grass. (Thanks Marie)