Firemen took more than a hour in freeing a three-year-old Harry Potter fanatic from a traffic cone he had place on his head so he could look like idol, a local paper reported Monday. According to the report, Charlie Thomas was playing with his sisters when he suddenly placed the cone on his head in his effort to impress his family thinking the traffic cone would make him look like Harry Potter under a wizard hat.

A teenage-girl just wanted to impress her mother by having the word "mum" tattooed on her back in Chinese letters. After the tattoo was completed, the girl found out that the symbols meant "Friend from hell. " A local paper said Charlene Williams, 19, only discovered something was wrong with her tattoo when a passing Chinese woman shouted at her, "Evil, evil, very bad. "

A series of ten-pound notes with blank print on the reverse are selling for $528 on eBay. According to a local paper, the Bank of England accidentally circulated up to 40 of the one-sided notes, although it clarifies the notes are still considered as legal tender.

Doctors in India have removed a 3-inch toothbrush lodged inside the nose of a 31-year old woman, a local paper reported. The report said that the housewife went to a hospital in Mumbai two months ago suffering from severe pain.

A man who hoped to land in the record book for netting what was thought to be the biggest salmon caught off British waters went home disappointed, because there was no scale to weigh his catch. According to a local paper, the giant fish measured 56 inches long, 50 inches round and could have been more than 64 lbs enough to break the 85-year old record set by Georgina Ballantyne in 1922 with a fish she hooked in Perthshire.