Florida’s Atlantic University has found a way to communicate with its students head-on. It’s hanging university newsletters in campus restrooms – above urinals and on stall doors.

The reason – students at the West Palm Beach, Fla., school often ignore information sent to them in e-mails. But they can’t ignore the university toilet paper.

“Everyone goes to the bathroom. It’s right there. You have no other choice but to read it,” noted one student.

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A woman in Woodbury County, Iowa, found a bat drowned in the tea mug from which she had been sipping all day.

After local authorities were notified, brown bat was sent to a lab, where tests showed it was not rabid.

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An Illinois college student crawled out a frat-house window, lost his balance and fell three stories, despite the desperate efforts of his girlfriend to pull him back in.

The next day, Jonathan Platek didn’t remember the incident – he was sleepwalking when it happened.

But Platek, a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has painful proof it happened – he broke eight ribs.

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A rare Australian black swan has fallen in love with a plastic swan paddle boat.

The majestic bird showed up on Aasee Lake in Munich, Germany, a few months ago and quickly lost its heart to the foot-powered fake fowl. It circles its white plastic paramour, staring longingly at it, and puffs up its feathers protectively when anyone ventures too close.

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The Scottish Parliament’s TV system was blacked out after ads for porn channels started popping up on its 320 monitors.

Although adult channels – including Red Hot Wives, Playboy TV, and Spice Extreme – appeared as options, officials said they couldn’t be accessed.

But they ordered the system shut down to prevent free trailers for X-rated flicks from being shown.