A US man smeared his own faeces onto his lawyer's face when he appeared in court.

Weusi McGowan - who was appearing in a San Diego courtroom during his home-invasion robbery trial - secretly took in a bag of excrement and after covering his attorney, he then threw it at jurors.

Two US burglars covered their faces with permanent marker thinking it would be a good disguise.

Suspects Matthew Allan McNelly, 23, and Joey Lee Miller, 20, were arrested after they tried to break into an apartment in Carroll, Iowa.

A Canadian man wearing a clown costume has crashed into a police car.

The 29-year-old male - who was wearing a brightly-coloured clown outfit - was driving erratically down the wrong side of a street in Vancouver, British Columbia when he smashed head-on into the parked emergency vehicle.

A Norweigian man was arrested for taping 24 reptiles to his body.

The unnamed 22 year old was stopped during a routine check by Kristiansand customs when he arrived of a ferry from Denmark and after discovering a tarantula in his bag, decided to give him a full body search.

A Canadian man is being investigated after winning the lottery five times.

Seguro Ndabene - who has already won $1 million twice, $100,000 and $50,000 - scooped $17 million in January but his biggest win is now being disputed.

A US man has pleaded to be given capital punishment because he thinks he will get treated better on death row.

Billy Joe Johnson - who is already serving a 45-year sentence for a previous killing - has been convicted of another murder but told the Californian court he had heard the facilities on Death Row were better than what he currently has.

A US junior hockey team were banned from an ice rink after engaging in a game of 'strip hockey'.

Members of the Idaho Junior Steelheads all shed a piece of uniform in practice every time they missed a shot, resulting in them being banished from Idaho Ice World in Boise for four days.