WEIRD BUT TRUE
Sacre bleu!
A man in Mission Viejo, Calif., sued a restaurant chain after he says he found a condom in his French onion soup.
Zdenek Philip Hodousek says he wants the employees of the Claim Jumper restaurant to give DNA samples to see if they match what was found on the condom.
The restaurant says they don’t believe his claim.
***
Sometimes it’s in everybody’s interest to have God look the other way.
The Church of England is offering a 2-for-1 deal in which couples can get married and have their out-of-wedlock child baptized all at the same time.
The hope is that the deal will attract more people to the church and become active members.
Critics, of course, say it just encourages people to have sex before marriage.
***
We don’t know what Albany’s problem is, but at least these guys had an excuse.
A provincial parliament in India was brought to a standstill when a king cobra slithered onto the assembly floor.
It took several hours for wildlife experts, with the help of a sniffer dog, to capture the deadly snake.
***
Perhaps New York City Transit should look into this.
Employees of a rail line in Tokyo are required to have their smiles measured by a computer before they can start work.
“Smiling helps our interaction with passengers,” said Mitsue Endo, who works for the Keihin Railway Co.
***
The bride wore yellow and black.
Two Chinese beekeepers got married wearing nothing but a thick coat of bees.
Most of their pals kept their distance during the ceremony in Ning’an City in northern China.
“I have been working with bees for two decades, and it was the obvious choice for us for our big day,” Li Wenhua said.

