The Girl Scouts will go to great lengths to get their cookie money. In Akron, Ohio, The Girl Scouts have filed 12 lawsuits to collect cookie money that buyers have yet to pay.

In an unusual call for assistance, police in the German city of Aachen received a call for help late on Wednesday from a woman who complained her husband was not fulfilling her sexual obligations. The couple had been sleeping in separate beds for several months without any physical intimacy. The 44-year-old woman woke her husband, 45, in the middle of the night and demanded he satisfy her needs.

A report by Ananova. com says that police in Koblenz, Germany, responding to a call that a child was left abandoned in an empty house, were shock to find a talking parrot instead. The article said an elderly lady dialed the number of the Koblenz police headquarters to report that an empty house in her neighborhood might have an abandoned child inside. She told police she can hear somebody screaming, "Mama, Mama," from inside the house.

A company is offering help to female motorists who are afraid of driving alone at night. The "Buddy on Demand" is a reusable blow-up man that fits in the glove compartment and plugs into the 12v outlet.

The people of Kerala in India's southwest are famed for turning fish into spicy feasts fit for gods, but last week the heavens turned provider as fish rained down on the village of Manna. When the clouds broke, villagers said they saw small, pencil-thin live fish falling from the sky.