Apparently not everyone appreciates the surprise of seeing their homes fully refurbished and redecorated with someone else's creative eye rather than their own. A German man was distraught to come home to his apartment after a weekend getaway to find his fridge replaced, walls repainted, windows cleaned, and new furniture installed.

In the ongoing list of strange auctions, the Wisconsin forest department is selling off a 100-foot fire lookout tower; opening the bidding up at just $1. The only catch is the state wants the tower moved off its land before it's put to any other use. According to full-time forest specialist and part-time tower salesman Gary Vander Wyst of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, taking the tower apart shouldn't be too much of a problem, "It goes pretty quick. It's like taking apart a set of Tinkertoys. "

A teacher at the Adwick Washington school in Adlington, South Yorks, is in hot water after a fuming parent complained that she photocopied the face of their five-year-old child during a class experiment. It was reported that the unidentified teacher were undertaking a "light and dark" experiment with her students and allowed other children to photocopy their hands.

A New York woman has some help getting around from her seeing eye horse. Ann Edie, 58, has been using her miniature horse as a guide horse since 2003. Panda is 29 inches tall and 120 pounds. Edie's seeing eye dog died after 10 years working for her and she tried out two other dogs before she learned about guide horses. Edie owns two other horses and thought it sounded like a good idea.

A shop in York, England, banned a 2-year-old boy from wearing a hood inside the store. Staff at the Monkton Road Store said Jay Cowper had to take off his jacket because the store has a strict "no hoods" policy. But the boy's grandfather, John Cowper, would not relent and just walked out of the store. It was freezing cold when the grandfather and grandson went to go shopping.