A London groom suffered a huge embarrassment when pals at his bachelor party spiked his drink with Viagra – shortly before they entered a steam room at a spa.

Red-faced Andrew Merry quickly felt a stirring and continually had to plunge himself into a cold bath to, uh, calm down.

“I began to wonder whether I really should be getting married,” said Merry, who was greatly relieved when his friends finally let him in on the joke.

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An Oregon pizza parlor has hired homeless people to promote its food, and is paying them in slices and soda.

“I think it’s a fair trade,” said Peter Schoeff, a 20-year-old vagrant who carries a sandwich board hawking Pizza Schmizza of Portland.

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Folks are kissing cows in West Virginia, but it’s not what you think.

A Morgantown church raised money for its youth group by asking residents to donate a few dollars by naming the people they’d most like to see pucker up with a bovine.

One of “the chosen,” Beverly Shumaker, settled on smooching with Sissy, a 3-year-old Hereford cow. “Believe it or not, it’s hard to find a cow to kiss,” she said.

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An alligator ripped off one of Helen Couto’s arms, but that hasn’t stopped her from playing golf.

The 72-year-old of North Chelmsford, Mass., woman was fitted with a prosthetic arm after a gator attacked her outside her Florida condo in February. She may not be Tiger Woods, but “I hit the ball and it [goes]. Isn’t that what counts?”

She bowls, too.

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OK, don’t read this one if you’re eating. We’re serious.

A 13-year-old Indian boy has started producing winged beetles in his urine after the eggs got into his body and hatched.

Medical experts in New Delhi found the insects after the youngster complained of pain in the groin area.

“Doctors were really surprised. There are eggs of the beetle in a fistula in his body and he is getting medical treatment to try to kill the eggs,” said Dr. Chittaranjan Maity. Bill Hoffmann, Wire Services