A Chesterton, Indiana, man is facing charges for possessing a venomous snake after his own pet Western Diamondback rattlesnake bit him on the finger. Robert Urbanski's snake bit him while he was handling it, and he was rescued by police and rescue personnel and taken to a hospital and then airlifted to the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. He could now be charged with illegal possession of poisonous snakes.

A high-tech gadget which was supposed to help him find his way while travelling, actually led an 80-year-old man into a pile of sand in Hamburg, Germany. Volker Heinmann said he bought his new satellite navigation system for his car and was following its instructions in the hope of finding a short cut and escape the traffic gridlock on the busy A24 near Hamburg.

A German driver followed a road under construction and crashed his Mercedes following his GPS Navigation system. The 80-year-old ignored several signs for construction. His vehicle ran into several barricades and eventually crashed into a pile of sand before the man's journey ended. The driver and his wife were able to walk away from the crash uninjured.

A 45-year-old tightrope walker has established a new world record by balancing on a cable car wire some 1,300 foot about the ground at an Alpine valley. German Falko Traber walked the distance of 500 foot on the 1. 6-inch thick cable car wire above the Saukser Valley in Austria.

Three teenage muggers from Hamburg, Germany are now in hospital after committing the mistake of trying to steal the mobile phone of a junior kick-boxing and karate champion. In his report to police, Pauli Borchardt, 17, said he was on his way home from a friend's house in Hamburg, when the three teenagers, all aged 17, blocked his path and demanded for his mobile phone.