Restaurant reviewer found to be responsible for a restaurant’s bad fortunes after an unfavourable review that described a meal that “jangled like a car crash”. Read the original review here.

It might be turning into the cliched accident-prone American’s tour of Europe. First he loses his watch in Albania, then his car breaks down in Rome, before being found to be too big to drive through the gates at his destination. Unlike most tourists however, George Bush had a back-up limousine he could use, and secret service agents apparently grabbed his watch and put it somewhere safe. (Thanks Pratap)

The Pentagon once considered trying to engineer a weapon to make enemy soldiers gay. (Thanks Pratap again)

Man in wheelchair pushed along a road by a truck. (Thanks Debbie)

What did I predict about Bindi? A New York Times critic confessed to getting the “creeps” because Bindi “seems to be affecting childhood rather than experiencing it”.

Lots of people forwarded this over: Man in a wheelchair pushed by a semi-trailer at 50 mph for four miles.

London 2012 Olympics logo animation causes epilepsy attacks. (Thanks Pratap)

Health drink Boost Plus accused of giving a man a never-ending erection. (Thanks Brian)

Man eats corgi as a protest against fox-hunting. (It wasn’t specifically killed for purpose; it had died accidentally.) Apparently it tasted “really, really, really disgusting”.

It had to happen: Google Maps Street View reveals more than intended, including people in embarassing situations.

Robot to stand guard outside a Korean school, “to alert staff to attempts by outsiders to seduce students”. Hmmmmmm. Maybe it loses something in the translation — I’d love to know how they think it will detect that. They might call it a robot, but I bet it’s just a mobile remote-controlled camera.

Policeman conducting a firearms safety demonstration accidentally shoots a colleague. Whoops. That would be an example of what not to do. (Thanks Shell)

The Boyfriend Pillow… now on sale to Japanese single women… well, and a few men, I presume. (Thanks Amanda. And I might note at this point that Amanda’s surname is not Hugandkiss.)

David sent me a link to a story about the US national Spelling Bee, but I liked the story of the New Zealand girl better… her accent confounded the judges, who couldn’t tell if she was saying G or J. Lucky she didn’t get knocked out early over “colour” or something.