Fishermen in the Philippines on Sunday threatened to launch a "fish strike" if the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo failed to stop the oil companies from raising and overpricing the prices of petroleum products in the country. "If fish strikes across the country are necessary to compel the Macapagal-Arroyo government and the oil mafia composed Petron, Shell and Caltex to stop, rollback and put an end to corporate practices of price manipulation and overpricing, then we will call our colleagues to go on a nationwide fish holiday," the fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas said in a press statement.

A 6-year-old boy nearly died of asphyxiation when he was found entangled in his family's Halloween spider web display. Cade Hampton's mother, Dawn, described finding her son trapped in the family's fake nylon-made spider web unable to breathe.

New York police have arrested a plus-size woman as a suspect in dozens of pickpocketing cases disguised as hugging. According to the officials, for the past decade Myra Castleberry, 48, has targeted dozens of drunken men as they came out of city's bars, fondled them as she secretly stole their wallets. Officials say Castleberry used the stolen credit cards within hours of the thefts.

Girl Scouts from three Saxonburg-area troops have reportedly helped a Cahill family to hang nearly 5,000 real painted eggs on a tree outside her home on Easter. Margaret Cahill, who hails from Saxonburg, has decorated their yard using real eggs for 50 years. According to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, whenever she uses an egg for eating she carefully pokes a 1/4" hole in the shell, extracts the interior and saves the shell.

Employees at the Evergreen Aviation Museum, Oregon were shell shocked when a man broke inside the museum and smashed the glass window to adorn a World War II military uniform on display. Gerald Joseph Lahey then assaulted two employees by punching and biting them on Monday. McMinnville police have booked transient Lahey into the Yamhill County Jail on two counts of fourth-degree assault and one count each of first-degree criminal mischief, second-degree burglary, third-degree robbery and resisting arrest.