A thief in Germany left a vital tip for local police when he broke into an office. The 15-year-old burglar left a slice of his finger which police used to track him down. He helped to facilitate the investigation process. A police spokesman said, "We usually find fingerprints at the crime scene, but it's not every day that thieves leave the original there too. "

A thief in Germany left a vital tip for local police when he broke into an office. The 15-year-old burglar left a slice of his finger which police used to track him down. He helped to facilitate the investigation process. A police spokesman said, "We usually find fingerprints at the crime scene, but it's not every day that thieves leave the original there too. "

California health officials began inspecting a local Subway food chain after a woman claimed she found the remnants of a half-inch human digit in her hoagie. Subway officials are also looking into the origin of the foreign object, hoping the claim is a hoax. The woman's claim in reminiscent of a particularly damaging accusation levied at a Wendy's franchise last year. That incident, the old finger in the chili scare, turned out to be a hoax, but it cost the food chain an estimated $2. 5 million in bad publicity and sales, a company spokesperson claimed.

A 57-year-old man from Wrexham, North Wales said he has the most boring job in Britain but he loves it. According to the Daily Mirror, Keith Jackson's job is to spend his whole day to watch a paint dry. He stares at the painted floor's surface for hours, and occasionally prodding it with his finger to see how fast it is drying.

The IgNobel, a humorous take on the Nobel prizes, was awarded to research work on stinky feet, a study on the sound of fingernails on a blackboard and a device that repels teen-agers with an annoying high-pitched hum to name a few. "The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine and technology," said Marc Abrahams, editor of the science humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research," which sponsors the awards.