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Tokyo thief caught with 450 pairs of high heels

Tokyo: A man arrested for stealing high-heel shoes from a Tokyo hostess club was found to have a total of 450 purloined pairs when his room was searched, Japanese police said. “I’ve felt pleasure in stealing high heels. I was not interested in brand-new products,” Sho Sato, 28, told investigators after he was arrested, according to Tokyo police. Sato, who is jobless and has no fixed residence, broke into the changing room of the hostess club in Tokyo’s glitzy Ginza district last November and stole 14 pairs of high heels and cosmetics, police said. They later confiscated some 450 pairs of high heels from a room he rented but the owners have yet to be identified. “The lockers at the club’s changing room were a treasure chest,” Sato was quoted as telling police.  

When shit exploded

A woman was badly burnt in a freak accident after a toilet in a bar in Barcelona exploded while she was using it, reports PTI from London.

The woman suffered second and third degree burns to her legs when the toilet she was sitting on exploded from underneath her in a bar in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. The blast was caused by the unhygienic conditions of the septic tank and the lack of ventilation in the lavatory, the Local reported.

When the woman switched on the light, a spark acted as a trigger for the methane gas which filled the toilet, according to the official police report.

When flatulence caused explosion

London : A farm shed in Rasdorf, Germany, burst into flames after a herd of 90 cows produced enough combustible methane gas from just their farts, says ANI. According to the local police, a static electric charge caused the gas to explode with flashes of flames, the Daily Star reported. Even though one cow can emit up to 500 litres of methane every day, fortunately, explosions due to cow flatulence is not frequent. 

Saudi man finds cigarette in wife's bag divorces her

Dubai : Marriage goes up in smoke! A Saudi man divorced his wife just three months after marriage when he found a cigarette in her bag.

The husband became furious after he discovered the cigarette and decided to divorce her despite her claims that she did not smoke and that the cigarette did not belong to her, The Gulf News reported.

The man from the southern Saudi city of Jizan has insisted on the divorce and attempts to have him change his mind over the issue, and to accept reconciliation have so far failed, as he argued that he was certain that the cigarette belonged to his wife, the paper reported.

Relatives from both sides intervened to amend the situation, but the stubborn husband insisted on getting divorce.

The wife has suffered from a nervous breakdown, sources said.

According to official figures, around 600,000 women smoke cigarettes in Saudi Arabia, making up one tenth of the total smoking population estimated at six million smokers.

The figure includes a significant proportion of expatriates and around 800,000 teenagers, mainly intermediate and high school students, the paper said. A Saudi judge last year ruled that women who suffered as a result of their husbands’ smoking were allowed to file for divorce.

US woman breastfeeds puppy to “save its life”

Washington:  In a bizarre incident, a woman in the US breastfed a new-born puppy in order to "save its life" when the pooch refused to be fed from a bottle or have canine formula. On her Facebook page, the woman from Colorado, posted a photo of her breastfeeding an orphaned four-day-old puppy and explaining her decision to do so. "I just felt like he just had an hour left. That's how weak he was, he wasn't moving and I just did it," the woman told news station 'KRDO-TV'. The puppy refused to drink from a bottle or take canine formula. "He just wasn't taking it. I didn't know what else to do, I was desperate and I just couldn't bear sitting there watching it die," the woman said. "I never thought I would ever do that, it was taboo to me as well," she said. "I did the right thing. That dog is alive because I took that initiative," she said. The puppy, now over a week old, is doing well. Veterinarian Dr Amber Williams said she would not recommend breast feeding a puppy. She said nutritionally, human milk isn't the best for other animals.

Woman stomach explodes after heavy splurging

Beijing: In a bizarre incident, the stomach of a Chinese woman who ate and drank too much, exploded while she was being operated on. The 58-year-old woman was hospitalised after she developed severe abdominal swelling due to excessive eating and drinking, state-run China News Service reported. During the operation, fire broke out when the gas burst out of her abdomen. The surgeons had to remove her entire stomach, the report quoted Wang Hao, a doctor at the Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital in Jiangsu province as saying. Wang said the incident occurred when the ethyl alcohol in the patient's stomach came in contact with the electric surgical knife. "Normally, people will stop eating when they feel full. However, drinking alcohol during a rich meal can make people ignore their body's signals, and they eat too much," he said.