WEIRD BUT TRUE
Some of India’s movie theaters have decided to play cupid.
For the first time in Bombay, three movie houses have each set aside a dozen seats, called “close-up corners,” for couples wishing to watch a film together.
The seats are designed for two people, with no armrests between them.
Public displays of affection are frowned upon in India and young couples rarely dare to even hold hands for fear of getting a bad name.
Police in Florida nabbed a suspected jewel thief but were unable to find the missing gems until the man got sick and had to be X-rayed.
Boca Raton cops found a 16-inch gold necklace studded with 83 diamonds, as well as two loose diamonds, in Mark Kennedy’s stomach.
Kennedy was charged with grand theft and was at a local hospital awaiting recovery of other diamonds, police said.
Cops said the necklace, valued at about $115,000, was retrieved from his rectum and will be washed before being resold.
A Canadian man was miraculously alive – although recuperating with a serious head injury – after using a pocketknife to fight off a vicious attack by a cougar.
When the big cat attacked him, 62-year-old David Parker was able to pull out his small folding knife and kill the wild beast.
Parker then walked a mile to get help from workers at a log-sorting plant in Port Alice, a small village about 200 miles outside Vancouver.
“The will to live was definitely in this person,” said Corporal Jeff Flindall of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Egyptian customs agents have seized 7,000 mummified lizards in the possession of a Syrian passenger.
Airport officials said Ahmed Mahmoud Salem was about to board a plane to the Jordanian capital of Amman when he was caught trying to smuggle the lizards in his suitcase.
Salem said he was going to mix them with honey to make an aphrodisiac potion.
Agents seized the lizards and allowed Salem to board the plane.


