Weird but true
Maybe this furry fiend has an all-you-can-eat buffet squirreled away somewhere.
Nature lover Paulette King keeps a chair in her Lisbon, Maine, garden for the obese squirrel she named “Chubby,” and puts food out for him every day.
“Sometimes he sits and eats for quite a while,” she said.
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An Alabama worker in the tiny town of Heflin found himself face to face with a topless woman — who attacked him.
No one knows why Anita Henderson Harris sneaked into a city storage facility last week, or why she went after the worker, who was able to get away and call cops after struggling with the naked-to-the-waist woman, who faces assault and other charges.
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Someone needs to give this shrink a head exam.
A California prison psychologist was so desperate to get her husband to agree to move out of their high-crime Sacramento neighborhood that she beat herself up and faked being raped, police said.
Laurie Ann Martinez cut her own lip, used sandpaper to damage her knuckles, had a friend punch her in the face, and urinated on herself to make the “attack” look convincing.
The scam unraveled when she blabbed about faking a crime at work.
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Leaping lizards!
Police in Cologne, Germany, had their hands full when 100 snakes, 70 tortoises and 20 frogs were smuggled into a hotel.
Three people were arrested for harboring the animals, which were taken to a local zoo.
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These classes aren’t for the faint of heart.
A new school in Germany’s oldest city is drawing crowds who want to learn what it’s really like to be a gladiator.
The gladiator school in Trier holds bouts in the city’s 2,000-year-old Roman arena and gives participants the chance to battle in a metallic outfit weighing 55 pounds.

