School district officials were left stunned when $250 worth of pay-by-view adult entertainment showed up on a February Cablevision bill. Authorities are now investigating who might have watched the pornographic movies at a school cable television box after business hours. One of the five cable boxes in the Board of Education building was used to order the films, which are priced between $4. 95 and $9. 95.

The Berlin Zoo's polar bear cub, Knut, has risen to fame ever since his picture appeared on Vanity Fair cover with Leonardo DiCaprio. The cub, which has his own line of souvenirs now, has nearly 15,000 people come to the zoo every day. The 4-month-old polar bear has stuffed toys selling in his name at the rate of 800 a day. Not only this, the amazingly adorable cub also has T-shirts, key chains, coffee mugs and other kitsch to his name in the market.

A 23-month-old toddler in Britain will never grow up. Alex Connerty, who is only 2ft 4in, is the only primordial dwarf in Britain and is fated to spend his adult life standing less than 3ft tall. Primordial dwarfism is a rare form of dwarfism that results in a smaller body size in all stages of life beginning from before birth. It is estimated that there are only 100 individuals in the world's history who have had the disorder, 40 of them in the U. S. It is unlikely that sufferers of primordial dwarfism will live past the age of 30.

Viewers of a news show broadcast in a Phoenix-area cable television station were shocked when their television screens started showing hard-core pornography for a few minutes instead of a regularly scheduled health show featuring former NBC News anchor, Tom Brokaw. KPPX-TV's cable provider Cox Communications was flooded with calls from anxious viewers Monday night who complained they saw scenes from a hard-core adult movie on their television screens.

You might want to think twice before you go around saving a damsel in distress, like one would-be Wisconsin knight knows now. James Van Iveren is facing criminal charges after he mistook the sound of a woman screaming for a rape in progress, and burst through his neighbor's door armed with a sword. According to a police affidavit, Van Iveren kicked open the door of an apartment without warning and pointed a sword at the owner, who was watching an adult DVD at the time.