According to Reuters, local police and newspapers have reported the defrocking of five Thai Buddhist monks after they got into a brawl with monks from a nearby temple. The Manager newspaper reported that the street fight came after years of antagonism between monks from the two temples who had often exchanged curses, insults and rude gestures as they collected alms on different sides of a road.

According to a report in The Orlando Sentinel, a woman known locally as "the butter lady" publically announced her plans to create a sculpture of Tiger Woods. Norma Lyon is a 75-year-old butter sculptor who lives on a dairy farm in near Toledo. She carves a full-size dairy cow out of butter at the Iowa State Fair each year - a local highlight for nearly five decades.

Commander Shahar Ayalon, serves as both traffic police chief and speaker to foreign delegations in Israel and abroad; the latter due to his near-perfect English. Somehow, he has found the time to compile a new tool that will prove invaluble to Israeli law enforcement: a Hebrew-English pocket-size dictionary.

In January, Larry Green was hit by a car as he returned home from a grocery store. When he was examined at the scene, paramedics and a medical examiner declared him dead and his body was taken to a morgue. Two hours after the accident, the same medical examiner discovered Green was in fact still alive. Green was hospitalized for two months after suffering a severe head injury, a broken leg, and several other injuries.

On Friday night, Preston Henn, owner of the popular South-Florida based Swap Shop, was tasered and arrested after tackling a Broward County Sheriff Office command staff member. Police were called to The Swap Shop after receiving several civil disturbance calls involving Henn, who was trying to get a vendor to leave the premises. When police tried to calm Henn down, he walked into his office and locked himself in. Twenty minutes later, Henn walked out and knocked over BSO District Chief George Jarboe.