INJECTION NOT SO LETHAL

The mother of a condemned US inmate who told an execution team”it don’t work” while while they struggled for more than a hour to inject him with lethal drugs, sued the head of Ohio’s prisons recently.

It took almost 90 minutes to carry out the execution of Joseph Clark last May. The federal lawsuit says the execution amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. In a separate lawsuit. 15 inmates are challenging the state’s lethal injection process, arguing it may cause prisoners to suffer.

WHAT THE?

A Missouri man has been arrested for possession of a hallucinogenic toad. Kansas police said David Theiss, 21 planned to get high by licking the Colorando river toads venom glands. He is accused of possessing a toad with the intention of using it as a hallucinogen. Theiss was released on bail, but the toad was kept in custody at a police crime lab.

BREAST WAY TO GET POINT ACROSS

Some Swedish woman are making waves by taking their tops off at public swimming pools in a protest against what they call gender biased rules on swim wear. About 40 woman have joined the network and staged topless protests in a least three cities. The fact that men could be bare-chested in public swimming pools, but woman couldn’t was a “concrete example of how woman have fewer rights than men”

STUNT RATTLES DRUNKEN MAN

Snake collector Matt Wilkinson of Portland stuck a 50cm rattler in his mouth to impress his ex-girlfriend. He was soon near death with a swollen tongue that blocked his throat, but doctors saved his life with a tracheotomy since they couldn’t get a breathing tube past his tongue. You can assume alcohol was involved, Wilkinson said. It happened at a barbecue with friends. Wilkinson had downed a six pack and tried to frighten his ex with the snake he’d picked up from a highway.

MAN WAKES IN AUTOPSY

A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after examiners began their autopsy. Carlos Camejo 33 was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face. “I woke up because the pain was unbearable” Camejo said. His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband’s body only to find him moved into the corridor- and alive!

PENIS POPS UP ON MENU

A Beijing restaurant is serving up penis platters to wealthy businessman who believe it enhancers virility. The Guolizhuang restaurant claims to be China’s only specialty penis emporium. From dog, donkey, sheep, horse, ox, seal even to the potent snake can be found on the menu. Dark shrivelled lumps, which look like liquorice allsorts, are a special treat apparently- reindeer, from Manchuria, washed down by a deer-blood and vodka cocktail. The gristly menu was dreamt up by a man called Mr Guo, now a retired octogenarian.

Apparently, penises are low in cholesterol and good for all sorts of ailments. But only for men, woman shouldn’t eat testicles. Discretion is assured as all the tables are in private rooms, some like their food served like sushi, but can be prepared anyway the customer wants it. Tiger penis is the most expensive dish on the menu, followed by bulls perineum.