On Tuesday, the annual Bulwer-Lytton literary parody prize went to an opening sentence containing a burrito, an angel and a shovel. Retired mechanical designer Jim Guigli of California was proclaimed winner of the contest, which challenges entrants to submit their worst opening sentence of an imaginary novel.

Tennis ace Maria Sharapove got more than what she expected at the Wimbledon tournament when un unexpected streaker did a nude cartwheel in center court. The streaker, a Dutch disc jockey by the name of Sander Lantinga, wore an outfit held together only with velcro and stripped down to his sneakers and black socks before committing the dirty deed.

Police in Florida are all smiles after arresting a woman for unlawfully selling and fitting customers with gold teeth caps in a dirty back room. Customers have been coming to the Blue Diamond Jewelry shop for a month to get "grills," or jewelry for their mouth. Often, customers got more than they paid for when they developed severe infections following the unlicensed procedures.

Two Australian miners who were freed after 14 days being trapped deep underground survived by drinking dirty run-off water, digging through rock and rubble with their bare hands, and joking about their fight for life, rescuers said. Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, walked free of the Beaconsfield Gold Mine on Tuesday after a cave-in on April 25 killed a third miner, Larry Knight.

You'll be embarrassed beyond your wildest imagination. That's what a box of x-rated fortune cookies mistakenly served at a fundraiser for a Brooklyn politician could have read. Instead, the messages were much more inappropriate. The cookies were stuffed with graphic messages that were ordered for a Chinese New Year event. The fundraiser was attended by some 700 guests but only about 80 were still there when the dirty cookies were opened.