Police were startled to find a 13-year old boy in the driver's seat of a car stuck in the mud at a local park. The father was sitting in the passenger's seat, and both seemed to be drunk. The boy's 41-year old father explained to the police that he let his son drive the vehicle, as he had too much to drink and was incapable of operating the truck.

A distress signal supposedly send off by a ship was finally traced to a scrapyard in Belfast. According to a spokesman for Ofcom, the agency responsible for monitoring all radio broadcasts and for investigating cases of interference, the beacon was found in a mountain of scrapped fridges and TVs after the mayday was picked up by receivers on the Isle of Man.

A 70-year-old Colombian woman weighing 35 stones (490 pounds) needed the help of 70 firemen and Red Cross workers to move her from her home to a local hospital. Cementina Ortiz de Blanco has a medical condition that causes her body to retain liquids in enormous volumes, which is packing on the pounds. She is only able to move her arms and neck.

Police officers on Thursday nabbed a 55-year-old man who stole a packet of cheese from a local supermarket and then tried to elude arrest by using a cement mixer as his "getaway car. " "He was out on the job and suddenly got hungry, as honest workers sometimes do," said police spokesman in the eastern city of Chemnitz.

The Cambodian police took custody of a cow that caused a fatal traffic accident on Monday, the British media reported on Tuesday. According to Sky News, Pin Doman, the chief of a police station based on the outskirts of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, said he is holding a five-foot tall cow at his precinct after a 66-year-old motorcyclist crashed into the animal and died on Monday.