A Texas man protested the proposed building of a mosque next to his property by holding pig races and selling sausages. About 100 people showed up to catch the races. Muslims are forbidden to eat pork. Craig Baker, 46, said he was defending his rights and his property.

Manchester United and Real Madrid soccer players get sold for millions of dollars, often enough to run a small country. But things are a little different in Romania, where star players are being swapped for utilities to run their small country.

The mayor of the western town of Lupeni in Romania is offering the top player of his second division football team in exchange for a gas pipeline, ananova. com reports. The report said that mayor Cornel Rasmerita, who is also the head of the Minerul football team disclosed that he is willing to sell his key goalkeeper Christian Belgradean to first division team Jiul for something his town needs.

Kevin Pugh of Cedar Bluff might have not thought of what a prank could cost him, and that too if the prank involved a 60 pound pig. The 20-year-old has been fined $279 for tossing a pig over the counter at the Holiday Inn Express in West Point and faces charges in the city court. According to West Point Police Lt. Danny McCaskill, the incident happened on Nov. 12 when walked into the hotel and threw the 60-pound pig over the counter.

A menagerie numbering to 86 animals was discovered by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals officials in a Fort Ord home. The owner had been trying to find homes for the 56 fish, six cats, six rats, five frogs, four geckos, three ferrets, two lovebirds, two lizards, one guinea pig and one dog. "We took our van. We really didn't know what we were getting into," said Judi Adams, humane investigation supervisor for the SPCA of Monterey County.